Israel: What's Next? - Part 2

Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. God is doing a work. I know it looks horrible right now, and according to the Bible, according to the scriptures, there's terrible days ahead that Israel will never cease to exist. God says so. You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. Psalm 14 verse 7. On that, the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion. When the Lord brings back the captivity of his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad. Israel. God is your Messiah. God is your salvation. By the way, that's true for everybody. But he started by revealing himself to Israel and he will finish by revealing himself to Israel. Genesis 22 18. In your seed descendants, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed because you have obeyed my voice. Psalm 22 verse 27. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord. That is interesting. All the ends of the world. That's non-Jews. Shall remember and turn to the Lord and all the families of the nations shall worship before me, before you, the Lord. Isaiah 49 verse 6. Indeed, he says, it is too small a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore and restore the preserved ones of Israel. Think about how, think, go after service today and find how many times Israel appears in your Bible or Palestine. I will also give you as a light to the Gentiles, Jack. It says Jack right there in small print, that you should be my salvation to the ends of the earth. They're going to fulfill that, by the way, during the seven-year tribulation period. They're going to fulfill that passage. The Jews will be a bunch of Billy grams and Paul the Apostles all wrapped up into one. Can you imagine? You're going to, man, there's going to be Jews running around telling the world the good news of that God saves. Can you imagine, can you imagine, can you imagine Paul the Apostle with the internet? What if Paul the Apostle had a Twitter page? Look what he did and he didn't have any of that. Isn't it amazing? The guy preached to the known world and he didn't have a plane. Can you imagine? Okay, here we go. Where are you going to preach to the ends of the earth? But that's what he did. Jesus never traveled more than 200 miles. Paul the Apostle, I forget the number, but it's in the thousands, in thousands of miles, 2000 years ago. Daniel 7 verse 14, then to him was given dominion. This is of the Messiah and glory and a kingdom that all people's nations and languages should serve him. This is what's coming people in the future. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall never pass away in his kingdom, the one which shall never be destroyed. That's the team I'm playing for. Isaiah 60, Isaiah 60, arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you for behold the darkness shall cover the earth and deep darkness the people, but the Lord will arise over you and his glory will be seen upon you. The Gentile shall come to your light. He's speaking about Israel and kings to the brightness of your rising. God is doing a work. I know it looks horrible right now and according to the Bible, according to the scriptures, there's terrible days ahead, but Israel will never cease to exist. God says so. Amos 9, 15 says, no matter what's going on in Israel, no matter how many people die, Israel will never again cease to be Israel. It may be brought under great attack, but it's never going to go away. Never. And Islam has got as huge disappointment coming. Now I'm not being funny. I believe God's going to use that to open up the eyes of Muslims. By the way, right now, listen, I've been on the phone all week. I've been talking to people in Israel. Listen, there are so many people, so many Jews that are talking now to their Christian, they're believing Jewish friends and family saying, tell us, tell us about Bible prophecy. Tell us about Yeshua. Tell us about, tell us again, Jews are coming to Christ. Listen, Islam, I know it doesn't feel like it. Islam is losing converts. More Muslims are coming to Christ than any other time in history. God has a name. YAH is his name. YAH way, salvation. Where's God in all these things? Psalm 2, verse 1. Why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together. Set themselves together against the Lord. There's his name. YAH and against, whoop, what? Against his what? Well, now listen, my Jewish friends, we got a problem now. This is King David talking to us. To counsel together against the Lord and his anointed. The one anointed is the word also translated Messiah or deliverer or we use the word Saviour. That implies in the Hebrew that the Lord is going to send to the earth first to Israel a Saviour. Just from the Psalm right here. Are you guys with me? Well, let's go on. Let us break their bonds and pieces and cast away their courts from us. That's what the crazies are saying. Verse 4, he who sits in the heaven shall laugh. The Lord shall hold them in derision. Then he shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure. Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree. The Lord has said to me, okay, stop. The Lord is the same one that's in verse 2 and the me is the same one that is the anointed. Y'all get that? Mark it down. It's not hard. You are my son. Today I have begotten or glorified you. Ask of me who? The Lord and I will give you who the anointed one, the nations for your inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession. Just file that away, my friends. If you're a Muslim, if you're Jewish or if you're a Christian, do not sure where you believe. File that away. This is serious. Hosea 514. Hosea 514, I will be like a lion to Israel, like a strong young lion to Judah. I will tear them to pieces. I will carry them off and no one will be left to rescue them. This is God speaking. Then I will return to my place until they admit their guilt to me, or in turn to me, for as soon as trouble comes, they will earnestly search for me. That's been lived out right now. You ever heard of the Holocaust? The book of Deuteronomy chapter 28 talks about the Holocaust. It didn't have to happen. But guess what? God says, you don't want me? Then I'll leave you alone to the desires of the world. I'm going to wait until you invite me back. Sound familiar, Christian? Jesus said, I stand at the door of your heart and I knock. Listen, if Jesus was a religion, he would knock the door down. He's not a religion. You open the door. I have to finish this. What's possibly next? I'm in a massive national pastor's thread, text thread, and I just simply said, last Sunday, I said, well, now would be a good time to keep your eye on Damascus. And everybody said, what in the world are you talking about? And I said, you go read Isaiah 17 and Jeremiah 49, and you tell me what's going on. And lo and behold, later this week, Israel had to bomb the runways of the airport at Damascus and Aleppo because Russia was flying in military arms to Tahran. And then Tahran was flying them from Iran over to Damascus and Aleppo to supply his beloved weapon tree. So Israel took out the runways so they couldn't continue to bring the armaments. Listen, what does the Bible say about this? Listen, Damascus has been one of the longest, oldest, continuously inhabited cities in the world and human existence. Damascus is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. It's been inhabited since its creation. Are you hearing me? It's never been abandoned. It's been attacked. It's been taken captive. But it's always had people there. So long, this is what I'm looking for. I wouldn't doubt at any time. Isaiah 171, the burdened against Damascus, behold Damascus will cease from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. Jeremiah 49, 26, goes on to say about it, therefore her young men, she'll fall in the streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that days as the Lord of hosts. Here it is. I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben Hadad. Ben Hadad is the leadership. The word ruinous heap means uninhabitable. Boy, that ought to just get you pumped. We don't wish the demise of anything, but Bible prophecy will happen. What in the world was King David talking about when he said, ready? Psalm 22, verse 16, for dogs, that's a word for Gentiles, have surrounded me. Notice, capital M, it's speaking about deity. Somebody is speaking, and they're important. It's either the Lord or the anointed one. The congregation of the wicked has enclosed me. This is David! They pierced my hands and my feet. They never pierced David's hands in his feet. Just think for a moment. Who in history's famous for having their hands in their feet pierced? What in the world was the prophet Isaiah talking about when he said, Isaiah 714, therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the Virgin shall conceive in Veresson, and you shall call his name Emmanuel. Do you know what Emmanuel means? God is among us. Isaiah 9, verse 6, for unto us a child is born. Who cares? Babies are born all the time. Unto us a son is given. Wait, what have we done now? Somebody donated a son. What do you mean? Well, let's find out. And the government will be upon his shoulder. His name will be called wonderful, counselor, mighty God. The word everlasting Father is, the one who governs time. The one that possesses and governs time. The Prince of Peace. Does that remind you of anybody? You guys, I'm reading from the Hebrew Scriptures. What in the world was Moses thinking about when in Deuteronomy 1815, he said, the Lord, your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren, him, you shall hear. What does that mean? Moses is saying someone's greater than I am is coming. What in the world was Jeremiah talking about when he said, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord will I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them out of the land to lead them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord, verse 33, but this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my law on their minds and write it on their hearts and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, but every man his brother is saying, no the Lord for they shall know me from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin. I will remember no more. Thus says the Lord who gives the Son for light by day the ordinance of the moon and the stars for the light by night who distributes the sea and its waves roaring. The Lord of hosts is his name. If those ordinance depart from me, says the Lord, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before me forever. In other words, it ain't going to happen. What in the world was Zechariah talking about in 9 verse 9? Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout O daughters of Jerusalem, behold, your King is coming to you. He is just having salvation lowly or humbled to the same name, two different counties, you know, like we have Paris, and then there's Paris. Notice your Bible says Epapatha. That means the one that is near Jerusalem. The one that has the tower of McDowell-Eder, where the priest would approve the sacrificial lands for the temple. Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, little villages everywhere, yet out of you shall come forth to me, the one who is to be ruler in Israel, who is going forth, are from old, from everlasting. Someone's going to be born in Bethlehem, who is eternal. And here's where we end, Proverbs 30, verse 4, Solomon. Who has ascended into heaven or descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fist? Who has bound the waters in a garment and who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name? His name is Yah. You know that, but no. What is his son's name if you know? I call this the everlasting Jew stopper. No, listen, I've used this on all of my Jewish friends. Some of the friends you know they're famous. I've used this verse to them and they go, let me check it in the Hebrew. Go right ahead. They go in the Hebrew. When guidance is on a bus in Jerusalem, this guy goes to me. It's stronger in the Hebrew, the English is weak. Can you believe that? Every Jew I know, I always say, hey, read Proverbs 30, verse 4, tell me what you think. Go ask your rabbi that one. Not one has ever come back to me yet. What is my name? It's Yah, Yahweh, Yahovah, we already know this. And then he turns right around and says, can you tell me my name? It's the same one that's in Psalm 2, Isaiah 7, Isaiah 9, on and on we go. He who watches over Israel, either slumbers or sleeps. Keep your eyes on the news, maybe if you can handle it. But by all means, have your Bibles open. This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast out reach opportunities are listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.