Countdown - All Eyes On Israel

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Friends Bible prophecy matters and Jesus said I hold you accountable to know that day and you didn't know it so now your peace is taken from you so when God's word says what it says we want to pay close attention to it and God gives us these things that we might be people who are at peace and that we know what's coming we don't have to worry and bite our nails like the rest of the world especially in times like these God wants to communicate to you is truth and you need to make a decision of what you're gonna listen to I hope you look at it this way if any of you have been in war combat what the first things that you do is you get intel intelligence on your enemy or for the mission and you know what the first thing is the first thing it is that you do you figure out how do you take out their communications I don't care how big the army is I don't care how big the nation is you want to you want to mess up take out communications by the way we're really good at that as as a nation as a war machine is that we usually go in a few days in advance and we always take out their communication systems do it by stealth nowadays you don't even need stealth United States and Israel both are pretty famous for just going going into a computer and sending information that completely disconnects the communications of the enemy when communications is not clear people get confused okay and that's what's listen that's what happens in war in you and I right here are at war it's not for any territory it's not for any booty or any loot or any glory it's for souls that's what we're living for you and I as believers we're living for the souls of men and women and boys and girls you see that's creepy not creepy at all listen we are Jesus's ambassadors is the Bible we're deployed all around the world as believers in the fact of the matter is this we're trying to share the gospel with people we're trying to communicate the truth and the enemy wants to mess that up constantly with false teaching false prophets false faith and to confuse someone's ability to come to the knowledge of Christ that Jesus is the way the truth in the life the enemy hates that Jesus died on the cross for our sins to set us free the enemy hates that that's why he floods you with allurements and lust and pride and desire it's those are not cute things are things that you can hold in your breast for a moment and not be burned they are demonically driven by a world of darkness invisible to our eyes that want to seek your soul and pull you into the pit why is that important that's how much Satan hates you and God you're the prize and thus Bible prophecy makes it's claims to us and it's awesome and comforting don't need to belabor it last time together we argue this that regarding what we know for sure is that the world now is being turned to all eyes on God people are waking up around the world at this time to consider God people are tuning in people are reading their Bibles the biggest download of Christian data as I've been telling you over and over again during the year 2020 has been the nation of Iran Persia gospel going all over the world billions of people reading Bible online what's up something's happening and God has delivered this opportunity at an age like this where technology can be used we're living in a miracle right now and I don't want you to miss the day of your visitation this is an epic moment you want to get on board you want to find out God what do you want to do next God please don't do it without me but you want to hit don't you want to pray that prayer God what are you going to do I don't care just don't do it without me don't you want that wouldn't it be bummer if God said well I would have used you but you didn't recognize the day of your visitation so I went down the street oh my goodness I break my heart and then we saw last time this did not go over big I could tell by the mail I got in the comments the second thing is what do we know for sure all eyes off America oh I'm just getting started listen you can't you can insult the God of heaven in the United States and expect them to hang around he's not a punching bag you can't throw him out of college you can't throw him out of core you can't throw him out of school you can't throw God out of the public square you can't throw God out of the textbooks and then expect them to send rain or to make our economy work it's not gonna happen he's patient he's been patient for decades but it is very evident times up the United States of America listen has been that stalwart friend of Israel in more ways than one and God blessed us as a nation when we stood for Israel but I want to make this very clear the prerequisite to blessing according to the Bible God says bless Israel and I'll bless you he said wouldn't you ask me to bless Israel yep I'm not saying everything Israel does is right God didn't ask us about that I'm not saying I'm not saying just you know just because somebody's Jewish that you're supposed to love on them like that I'm not saying that God makes it very clear that he says I will bless the nations that bless my people look you're not you're not sinless isn't it sweet to know that God would say I want I want you to be a blessing to my friend fill in your name I want you to be a blessing to fill in your name you say oh that's nice I like that well the same God says be a blessing to my people is or I've chosen them but God there are difficult people I know that's why I chose them did you know that that's what he says he says I chose them he said to them book a Deuteronomy he said don't think I picked you because you're better than anybody else he said I picked you because you're stubborn he said I picked you because you are stiff neck people you know what that means if he can save a Jew he can save a Jew right it's true I love the Jewish people they're fantastic if if you ever get in the conversation with the Jewish friends it's amazing because they'll argue with you for an hour and then at the end they'll say I believed everything you did I just wanted to listen to you argue your point they never stop and God says those are the ones that I'm gonna pick they're my chosen people they drive everybody else up the wall they will be instruments of my grace and my mercy and God picked them and you can't say anything about it I don't like it too bad he didn't ask you by the way there's a reason why the Jews are the most hated people on the planet because of God he picked them I think Satan hates them think about it God has promised and never lasting covenant with the Jewish people he has to keep it you think a little Satan can read the Bible if he can break that if he can mess that up then he thwarts the plan of God happily it ain't gonna happen but listen as as a nation as a nation we need to get back to God and I don't know what's going on in our country don't be fooled nobody else knows either that is both terrifying and maybe great but one of the things is this showed on the screen you guys in in the US the client of Christianity continues at a rapid pace that doesn't bother me don't let that bother you if you read the entire article by the way it is huge article it goes on to say that rapidly drastically membership from Baptist Southern Baptist Lutheran Methodist Catholic assembly of God Presbyterian they're all losing people that's not a bad thing that's not a bad thing because those entities are almost fully departed from the authoritative word of God they departed from the Bible why why wouldn't God call us people out God is saying to some churches or to the people in those churches hey come out and be separate from them can you believe that he does that Jesus said in the book of Revelation come out from among them don't hang out in a false church where Christ is not glorified his word is not taught and that you're not trained in the things of God that you might go out into the world and make a difference church is not a club it's not to meet any standards that the world sets down as what is acceptable and not acceptable the church is a living breathing entity deposited to us from heaven it was created by the Holy Spirit it was bought by the blood of Christ it doesn't beat some earthly or governmental requirements it is the church of the living God and now you can see in our age how the church will be pitted against godless governments and godless leaders we're rapidly moving toward that even at this time but it's a very powerful truth the third thing is this is where we pick it up the third thing is all eyes on Israel five times and are reading a moment ago you read the word Israel that is fascinating friends let me remind you reading the book of Ezekiel you're looking at a 25 26 hundred year old prophecy and you read it out loud I heard you say it you said it five times the name is real it's been in there since Ezekiel gave it or I should say God gave it to Ezekiel I can ask you to put your eyes to the screens in a moment to watch something but I want to set it up Israel you want to know why it's a big deal number one nation talked about in the Bible of course it's the only nation in the Bible only nation in the Bible where God has established with them an ever lasting covenant Israel Israel special it is the only nation in the world where the scripture tells us that listen listen that they will be a nation and then because of their rebellion against God they will not be a nation and they'll be thrust into exile because of their disobedience then the Bible tells us that just before Christ comes back listen just before Christ comes back he will regather his nation from all the corners of the earth listen back into their own land that's a funny thing because two thousand years later these people walking around the world they don't know that that's their own land they've never been there before so what God does he sets up the country so the people can move are you with me nobody's moving right now to Mars because it's not been set up for you to move to well God sets up Israel first so his people can move to it and they move to it coming or going home to home they've never been and they have and they do and they will what's going on and how could this have ever happened that a nation who was then wasn't becomes again what evidence do we have that God's word is true on this point put your eyes to the screen how do you respond to people who excel you in invention creativity and wealth do you envy them do you feel their success somehow diminishes you or do you admire what they've achieved and try to emulate it these questions sum up what I call the Israel tests in the 1880s European Jews settled in mandate Palestine and brought an agricultural miracle in that desolate territory then sparsely populated by a few score thousand Jews and a couple hundred thousand Arabs the Jewish settlers drained malaria swamps leached salt from the soils terrorists the barren hills and planted millions of trees they massively expanded the capacity of the land and enabled it to support a substantial Arab population in the two decades between 1921 and 1943 Jews quadrupled the number of enterprises multiplied the number of jobs by a factor of 10 and increased the level of capital investment a hundredfold far from displacing Arabs they provided the capital for a major expansion of Arab farms and enabled a seven-fold rise in Arab population by 1948 to a level of 1.35 million the largest in the long history of Palestine in other words the Arabs came to what would soon be the state of Israel because of the Jews by comparison trans Jordan now known as Jordan with the same geological endowment and four times the land but no Jews was able to sustain a population density only one tenth of the population density of Palestine crucial to Israel's accomplishments were world-leading technological advances in the recovery of water through desalinization drip irrigation and sewage recycling over the past 50 years Israel has increased its population tenfold its agricultural production 16fold and its industrial production 50fold while actually reducing net water consumption by 10 percent since 1948 this huge expansion of effective water resources enabled the land to support not only more Jews but also millions more Arabs today the state of Israel with its astonishing achievements in computer science and other high-tech fields distills both the genius of the Jews and the misdirected anger of the failed states that surround the great divide in the Middle East is not between Arab and Jew but between admiration of the achievement along with the desire to replicate it and envy accompanied by violent resentment people who admire success who pass the Israel test tend to be wealthy and peaceful people who reside achievement who fail the Israel test tend to become poorer and violent so again how do you respond to people who excel you in invention creativity and wealth do you envy them do you feel their success somehow diminishes you or do you admire what they've achieved and try to emulate it the Israel test is the central divide in the world today how you answer it as an individual and ultimately how we answer it as a nation as a test of our own will to triumph over enemies who hate us as they hate Israel for what is best within us I'm George Gilder a non Jew who has passed the Israel test all of that presentation secular scientific evidence of a nation the size of New Jersey being incredibly resourceful now granted there's tremendous trouble coming to the nation of Israel during the tribulation period the Bible talks about that too but it's the only nation on earth that God has a covenantal agreement with and if you doubt that look to the screen now this is kind of a quirky looking graphic but it's because the t-shirt had to be stretched out and that picture taken of it this is a t-shirt you can buy it says civilizations nations and empires that have tried to destroy the Jewish people nation ancient Egypt status gone Philistines nation status gone you haven't bumped into Philistine lately a Syrian Empire gone Babylonian Empire gone Persian Empire gone Greek Empire gone Roman Empire gone Byzantine Empire gone Crusader period gone Spanish Empire gone Nazi Germany gone Soviet Union gone Iran maybe tomorrow's news Iran you never go against Israel without going against the God of the Bible you need to know that you go against Israel and you're gonna get yourself in trouble how do we know Genesis chapter 12 verse 1 says now the Lord had said to Abram get out of your country imagine that he's just living his own life doesn't know nothing about nothing that God speaks to his name leave your country leave your family father's house and go to a land that I will show you I will make you a great nation I will bless you make your name great and you shall be a blessing here it is I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed all the families of the earth shall be blessed if we bless Abraham's descendants Bible says that his descendants are none other than the Hebrew people this is a this is a verse that the Bible lays out flat doesn't ask you for your opinion it doesn't apologize for it just says it you don't believe it that's okay but do some study as to how do nations fair when they go against Israel it doesn't go well this Jack Gibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported will you consider partnering with us through a special gift go to jackhids.com to learn more and stay connected