Hello and welcome to Z3 News.
I'm James Bailey and today is Wednesday, December 12, 2018.
Today's topic is Satan's five favorite lies about the Jewish people.
And the way I got started on this was listening to so many Christian,
quote-unquote, Christian voices out there claiming that the Jewish people are no
longer God's people and God's done with them and they don't stop there.
But they are launching daily, constant attacks against anyone who supports
modern-day Israel.
Now these Christians are clever in their attacks because they would never come out
and say that they're against the Jewish people.
They're just against modern Israel and the Jewish people taking possession of that
land.
And so they come out against what they call Zionism, which is the move to have
the Jewish people in possession of the land of their forefathers, the land of
Judea and Samaria, and especially the city of Jerusalem.
And you know, the Bible warns repeatedly about deception in the last days when the
disciples asked Jesus to tell them about the signs of his coming.
He repeatedly talked about false prophets.
And that's not just referring to the gift of prophecy, but false teachers,
liars, deceivers.
And one of the greatest, most central parts of God's end-time plans from the
Scriptures, regardless of what anyone thinks about it, from the Scriptures,
Israel and Jerusalem are at the very center of his plans for these last days.
Jesus is not coming back to New York or London or Rome.
He's coming back to Jerusalem.
And so people marvel at how this little tiny land and this little tiny people
group, it's only about 15 million Jewish people in the whole world.
You could fit them all smaller than the population of Florida.
But yet the whole world seems to be obsessed with hating them.
And whatever news is going on around this little stretch of land, this little
stretch of barren land, and people look at this and scratch their head.
And they wonder, who cares?
Why is everyone so concerned about Israel?
Why don't we hear about the Congo in Africa or other parts of the world?
We don't hear about those places, but yet Israel is daily making
international news headlines.
And it's because of what's happening behind the scenes in the unseen realm,
the realm of the Spirit.
And when we see the Scriptures telling us of God's plans and telling us of Satan's
schemes for these last days, then we can begin to understand why there is a
spiritual war centered right there.
And no coincidence that God brought salvation to the whole world through the
Jewish people in the land of Israel.
It's been central all throughout history, and it's going to be central all the way
until the end.
And so if you want to avoid being swept up in the deception that's coming,
Isaiah talked about gross darkness is going to cover the earth.
And then we have another warning from the Apostle Paul where he's telling there's
going to come, before the Lord returns, a great falling away from the faith.
And he describes it as people paying attention to deceitful spirits,
doctrines of demons.
And so we have to be aware of the schemes of the evil one to deceive us.
There are doctrines of demons.
There are deceitful spirits.
These are lying spirits.
And we're being bombarded with these lies on a regular basis.
And now Satan knows that we keep our guards up around certain sources,
and we tune them out, and he can't reach us through them.
And so what he does, and what he's always done throughout history, is he tries to
speak through our most trusted sources, our own Christian leaders.
And what I see happening is Christian voices are spreading lies about Israel,
about the Jewish people, and they give some lame reason to back it up.
And rather than dig into the Scriptures to check it out, the majority of people just
nod their head and say, oh, all right, I guess that's the way it is.
And if you're not careful, many Christians are going to find themselves fighting for
the wrong team.
And because Israel is such a central part of God's end-time plans, it's so important
as Christians to get on the right side of this issue and to be aware of the lies,
to be aware of the schemes of the devil, so that we are not fighting against God.
And so this requires us to know the Scriptures.
That's our defense, so that if we know the Scriptures, if we know the truth,
then when the lies come, we can immediately recognize it.
And so I've been amazed over these past few years as, you know, now we have such
access to information and a bombardment of all the Christian voices you want.
You can just get on the internet and find whatever you want.
But I've been amazed at seeing these constant attacks against Israel and
against the Jewish people.
And of course, they never claim to be against the Jewish people.
They claim to be against the Zionists who promote the Jewish people living in the
land of their forefathers.
But yet, in actuality, they are very subtly and very deceptively coming against
the Jewish people, discrediting God's plans, and causing confusion where people
are aligning themselves against God's people, against God's end-time plans,
and they're actually taking sides with the enemy.
And so this has bothered me, and I wanted to just really dig into this topic and
really see from the Scriptures.
Let me know myself.
Let me see it myself.
What does the Bible say about the Jewish people, about God's plans for them?
And as I dug into it, I was amazed at how crystal clear this topic is.
It's repeated multiple times.
I found 44 Scriptural proofs that God is not done with the Jewish people.
And I'm talking about the flesh and blood descendants of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob.
And I know that's going to rile some people up, and I can just hear them in
their minds saying, yeah, but, yeah, but this, whatever.
I'm talking about the Scriptures.
I'm talking about 44 Scriptural proofs that those people, those very people,
the flesh and blood descendants... I'm not talking about spiritual Israel right now.
I'm talking about flesh and blood Israel.
On this particular podcast, I'm going to focus on Satan's five favorite lies
against the Jewish people.
I'm not going to get into all those 44 Scriptural proofs, but I am going to do a
follow-up podcast where I'm not going to be able to share all of them in the
podcast, but I'll pick out some of them, and then I'll provide a link to a file
where you can download and study them further if you want to see them all.
But another reason I got started digging into this is a couple years back,
I'd had a dream.
I think it's been about three years ago.
I had a dream that showed me the end-time plans that God has for his people,
and I mean his Christian people.
I'm talking now his people in the spiritual sense, the born-again believers.
And it was a powerful dream, and as I sought God about it, I wrote it up,
and I was trying to understand what God wanted me to do with this.
And I was surprised that in my prayer time, I felt like God was showing me to go
and study the Scriptures on Israel.
And I was surprised because there was nothing about Israel in the dream.
It was all about the church.
So I'm thinking, what does that have to do with that?
But what he was showing me was that Israel, as revealed in the Scriptures,
and his plans for Israel, as revealed in the Scriptures, reveals his plans for the
church.
Because all throughout history, and even today, and all the way until the
time of the end, there are parallels between his plans for the Jewish people
and his plans for the Christian people.
And I want to share briefly one of my favorite, all-time favorite prophecies,
because it's already come to pass, it's already done in completion,
is this prophecy by Rabbi Judah Ben Samuel, which he gave back in the year
1217, so about 800 years ago.
And I like this, and I'm sharing it here because I think it's a great example of
showing how Israel is directly tied in with our future of those who followed the
Messiah, Jesus Christ, because Rabbi Judah Ben Samuel was shown the start date,
the starting event for the messianic end times, is when the Jewish nation,
the Jewish people, take possession of Jerusalem.
And so as a Christian, we're all interested in knowing when is our Savior
going to return?
He's promised to come back.
And here we have this amazing prophecy, which as I said, it's already been
fulfilled, because what he was telling us is a time is going to come when the
Ottoman Empire conquers Jerusalem.
And he said they're going to reign, rule over Jerusalem for eight jubilees,
which is 400 years.
That's already happened.
It's been fulfilled.
It came to pass exactly 300 years after the rabbi received the prophecy.
So he received it in 1217, but in 1517, the Ottomans conquered Jerusalem.
And just as he said, they ruled over it for 400 years, eight jubilees.
They lost possession when the British drove them out in 1917.
Now, another interesting parallel is in the year 1517, when the Ottomans took
Jerusalem, a Catholic priest living in Germany discovered from the scriptures,
from his own study of the scriptures, which were at the time only available in
Latin, so hardly anyone had access to the scriptures.
But he studied and found that they were contrary to the teachings of the Catholic
Church.
And he posted a list of 95 points, his 95 theses, challenging the authority
of the Pope and the Catholic Church by exposing their false teachings,
their unscriptural teachings.
And that was a declaration of war.
And so you see at the exact same time that you have this major shift going on in
Jerusalem with the Ottomans taking possession, you have this major shift,
the start of the Protestant Reformation in the church.
And the next part of Rabbi Judah ben Samuel's prophecy, he saw that afterwards,
when the Ottomans are driven out, Jerusalem would become a no man's land for
one jubilee, which is 50 years.
And that's exactly what happened in the year 1967.
So you have 50 years from 1917 to 1967, Jerusalem came into the possession of the
Jewish people.
And this is the event that he said would signify the beginning of the messianic end
time.
So there you see Israel, the events in Israel as markers, letting us know the
time, the messianic end times have started.
And that is huge because Jesus told us in Matthew 24, that the generation that sees
these things coming to pass will not all pass away until all these things are
fulfilled.
So that's why this prophecy of Rabbi Judah ben Samuel is so important to me.
I like the fact that everything he said would happen already happened.
It's already been fulfilled.
And I share that because I just want to point out that if we want to be aligned
with God, it's important that we be aligned with the most central part of his
plans for these last days.
And if we want to stay aligned with him, we have to understand what he says about
these things.
And that's why I want to cover these five, Satan's five favorite lies about the
Jewish people.
And you'll notice that when these attacks are launched, often against the Jewish
people, the people who are attacking will say, Oh, no, I'm not against the Jewish
people.
I'm just against the Zionists.
And it's very clever because what they're doing is giving themselves permission to
attack the Jewish people.
And so one of the five favorite lies is to say that God is done with them because
they're unrighteous.
They have homosexual parades in Tel Aviv.
Tel Aviv is one of the world's best known centers for homosexuality.
They have a huge homosexual population there.
And that's just one example.
But there's all sorts of examples that they point to of the unrighteousness of
the Jewish people.
And they say, well, therefore, surely God is is not going to be fighting
in behalf of these people.
So I'm going to go through the scriptures and show that that's not true on each of
these points.
So the second one is they say the Jewish people are not truly Jews because they're
only children of the flesh.
And the Bible has various scriptures where it talks about, you know, the true Jews
are children of the Spirit.
And that's true.
But I'm not talking about spiritual Jews here.
I'm talking about those children of the flesh.
And this is an area of so much confusion because the Bible talks about both the
children of the flesh and the children of the Spirit.
And we have to understand the context.
And if you just read the passage and look at the context of it, it's clear when it's
talking about the spiritual children of God and when it's talking about the
children of the flesh, it makes that clear.
And a third lie that I hear often is they'll say, well, those Jewish people
living in Israel today, those are not even Jews because they're not from the tribe of
Judah.
And I'm going to explain that.
There's scriptures clearly proving that that's not true.
And the fourth point is they say the Jewish people, it doesn't matter about
them today because the Bible says there's neither Jew nor Greek.
I'm going to go through that.
And then the final point is they say the Jewish people today are the synagogue of
Satan that Jesus talked about in Revelation.
That's not true either.
So I'm going to go through these points one by one.
And let's begin with the first one where the claim is made that God is done with
the Jewish people because they are unrighteous.
And when it comes to this topic of Zionism, the attackers will point to all
sorts of examples of how the Zionists are evil people, making up evil schemes that
hurt lots of people.
And they're exactly right.
That's the truth.
There are lots of evil people advancing this Zionist cause.
In fact, Satan himself has his eyes on Jerusalem because his plan, he wants to
exalt himself.
As it says in Isaiah, he says, I will ascend to heaven.
I will raise my throne above the stars of God.
I will sit on the Mount of Assembly in the recesses of the north.
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.
I will make myself like the Most High.
Satan wants to rule from Mount Zion.
He's seen that God has established his plans to rule from Jerusalem.
And so Satan wants to put himself in place of God, and he wants to occupy that place.
And this is the scheme of Satan that's revealed by the prophet Daniel in Daniel
chapter 9.
And we see there in Daniel 9.26, the angel Gabriel explains to Daniel that
there is coming the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, the destruction of the
sanctuary.
Now, Gabriel was not talking about the first temple because it had already been
destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar by this time because Daniel was already living in
Babylon.
The Jewish people were already living in exile from their land.
So he's talking about another temple, the second temple, which was built after
they returned to their land.
And he's letting Daniel know this temple, this second temple, is going to be
destroyed.
And he gives him a very important clue because he tells him the scheme of the
enemy all the way through to the end by telling him the people of the prince who
is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary.
And so today we have the benefit of hindsight to know that that prophecy was
fulfilled in 70 AD when Roman armies destroyed the temple and the city of
Jerusalem.
And so therefore we know the Romans are the people to watch.
That's a humongous important clue.
And Gabriel reveals to Daniel the people of the prince who is to come.
They're the ones who did this.
So now he's giving us another prophecy of one who is to come later, who will be
connected back to these same people who destroyed the temple and the sanctuary.
And I've heard all sorts of confusion on this topic where people will say,
well, it's not really the Romans because they had some people fighting within their
ranks that were from Syria and blah blah blah.
It was the Romans.
This is a historical fact.
The Romans, the Romans.
It's always been about the Romans.
And you can study it throughout history.
And I've been doing this.
But the Romans were the ones that sieged Jerusalem, that carried the spoils back to
Rome and built the Arch of Triumph as a celebration of their victory over
Jerusalem.
And so these are the people that we need to watch.
These are the people that if you study history throughout the centuries
consistently, it's these people, the Romans, who have persecuted the Jewish
people, exiled them, repeatedly attacked them and forced them to deny their faith,
tried to separate them from any past history connection to their God and their
faith.
And then when Jesus Christ came and Christians came along, it was those same
Roman people.
And you can study it all throughout history.
You can go on Wikipedia and read all day long about it.
These Roman people have destroyed the people of God throughout history.
And so this has been the scheme of Satan from the beginning throughout the
centuries.
And it should be no surprise that it's going to continue into the end.
As he says, the people of the prince who is to come, this prince who is to come,
will come with the full backing of Rome.
And that's why today we see these prophecies.
There are many people who are seeing the Pope is the one who will play the role of
the false prophet propping up their front man, the Antichrist.
And so there you have the full backing of Rome behind this man of sin, this coming
prince.
Now, if you really want to have your mind blown, which I've been having my mind
blown a lot lately, thank God, because I needed it, is I'm learning about
the connection between the history of the United States and the history of Rome's
influence over our nation.
And it is really amazing that this is happening and has been happening
throughout our history.
And it has been suppressed.
It has been buried.
It has been removed from our history books, even though many of our founding
fathers warned about it.
We haven't heard about it.
I mean, I went to school.
I graduated from high school.
I went to college.
I went to graduate school.
I took classes in history.
History was one of my favorite topics.
I took lots of classes in American history, and I walk around just scratching
my head in amazement like, what the heck?
All those years I have never heard this stuff before, but yet it's been there all
along.
And so getting back to Daniel chapter 9 in verse 26, Gabriel makes a reference to the
end.
He says, "...even to the end there will be war.
Desolations are determined." So repeatedly throughout Gabriel's explanation to
Daniel, he makes references to the end.
He's referring to the time of the end, and he's letting us know the schemes of
the evil one, that Satan has tried so hard to keep his schemes hidden.
He operates under cover of darkness.
But here we have Gabriel exposing him to the light so that we can see and we can
make the connection that at the time of the end, this one, this prince who is to
come, is going to make a firm covenant with the many.
He's going to make a covenant with the people of Israel because it's going to
enable them to begin to make sacrifices and grain offerings again, which means
they're going to have a place.
They're going to be able to restore their Old Testament traditions of offering
sacrifices in the temple.
So this is an amazing prophecy because in the one verse, he's telling us the second
temple is destroyed.
In the very next verse, he's talking about another temple, another place is going to
be provided where they're going to be able to have their grain offerings and
sacrifices renewed again.
And so there must be a third temple, a place for that to happen.
And so I'm bringing this up because those who attack the Jewish people today,
those who attack the Zionists claiming that they're unrighteous, I'm conceding
the point.
Yes, they are evil.
In fact, Satan, this passage in Daniel is telling us that Satan himself has his eyes
on Jerusalem.
Satan has his eyes on building the temple, deceiving the Jewish people into
rebuilding the temple, thinking that they're doing it for their own use so that
they can reinstitute their own practices of the past when all along the scheme of
Satan is to break his covenant, as it says in the same verse, that in the
middle of the week, see it's a seven year covenant, a week of years, seven years,
in the middle of the week, so after 42 months, three and a half years,
he's going to break his covenant and he's going to put a stop to sacrifice and
offerings.
And he's going to say, thank you guys very much for building this beautiful temple,
and I will now take it for my own self, and I will rule and establish my throne
here in the temple, and I will be God on Mount Zion, and I will rule over the earth
from here as the Almighty God.
And this is what Daniel, Gabriel explained to Daniel, this is the extreme
abomination, this is the peak climax moment of all sins.
We've just been ramping up, and now we're ramping up at an accelerated pace,
but this is the climax moment of sin upon the earth, the most blasphemous,
blasphemous, the most abominable thing that man does in his 6,000 years of human
history, and this is the trigger point from which all hell begins to break loose
as the wrath of God is poured out on this unrepentant generation.
And that's why Gabriel said that these abominations, these extreme abominations
of this one who is to come, will make desolate, even until complete destruction.
One that has been decreed, it's going to be poured out on this one who makes
desolate.
This act of abomination is going to bring God's wrath upon the world, and especially
upon this one.
But my point is, here you have the Antichrist himself promoting a deal to
enable the Jewish people to build their temple.
Now that's the ultimate act of Zionism.
That's a great example, I think, of how evil the Zionist movement can be.
Satan himself, the Antichrist himself, is behind it.
And so this gets tricky because here we have God's plans centering on Jerusalem,
and here we have Satan's schemes centering on Jerusalem.
Here we have evil people promoting Zionism.
You have the Rothschild family.
You have all sorts of evil scheming going on with people who have no regard for
human life.
In fact, many of these financial elite, there's evidence that a lot of them are
Satanic, Satan worshippers.
These are bad folks, but a lot of them are some of the biggest supporters of Zionism.
And so do we conclude that all of this is evil and we should not support the
restoration of Israel, the occupation of the land by the Jewish people,
and especially the city of Jerusalem?
No, not at all, because that's God's plan.
And God is so much greater than Satan that he's able to use Satan to accomplish even
his own purposes.
Just consider what happened when God sent his son into the world.
God knew ahead of time that Satan would have his people murder Jesus, crucify him
on the cross.
So there you have an example where God used Satan to accomplish his purpose,
because Satan made the biggest mistake he's ever made.
And it even tells us in 1 Corinthians 2.8 that if Satan would have known what he was
doing, he would never have crucified the Lord Jesus because it broke his power over
death.
Jesus took from him the keys of life and death that had been handed over to Satan
when Adam and Eve bowed their knee and obeyed the serpent.
And so for all that time, Satan had dominion.
He had legal rights to planet Earth to rule over it, but Satan lost that by his
mistake of killing Jesus.
And he wouldn't do it again if he had the chance.
That's what it says in the scriptures.
But God knew he would.
And so God, being so much greater and so much further ahead of Satan in his ability
to see and know what's happening, that he tricked Satan into falling into
the trap of killing Jesus.
And so the point is we have to know what God has said he's going to do.
And if God's plans are being fulfilled, even if they're being fulfilled through
Satanic people, it doesn't really matter because we can be on board with God and we
don't want to take sides against God just because these people are unrighteous.
And this is a humongous point that's been used against the Jewish people throughout
history, justifying murdering them in mass numbers because they are unrighteous.
They are the ones who crucified the Lord, even though it was the Roman soldiers who
carried out the execution.
It was the Jewish people who shouted, crucify him, his blood shall be on us and
on our children.
That's Matthew 27, 17 through 26.
Throughout history, the enemies of the Jewish people have used that as an excuse
to discredit them, to prove that God's finished with them and it's still
happening today.
You can go to a brand new broadcast today.
I'm sure someone will be doing it because it's every day.
It's a relentless barrage of attacks.
And this is their number one favorite justification for God being done with
these people.
And it's just not true because God's plans for the Jewish people have nothing to do
with their righteousness.
And that is very good news for them because if it was, they'd be in big
trouble.
But his plans are not based on them.
And he tells us repeatedly in scriptures, his plans are based on his faithfulness,
on his love for them.
And it's for his own namesake that he demonstrates his faithfulness to them.
And it's for the sake of his promises to their fathers because God wants everyone
throughout the world, all the nations to know that he is God.
He is faithful to his promises.
And he is able to fulfill his promises faithfully, as he said he would,
and promised that he would through a thousand generations in a way that only
God can do, and only God would do, and only a loving God would do.
And that's what God desires for people to hear, and to know, and to marvel,
and to see how contrary he is to the ways of this world.
Because in the world, you would say, away with them.
Be done with them.
They don't deserve it.
They deserve death.
Absolutely.
But then you have God and his heart filled with compassion for these people.
And he tells us repeatedly through the scriptures, this is what it's all about to
him.
This is a revelation of who he is to the world, so that the world would see,
who is this God who could possibly care for these people?
Look what they've done.
Look what they did to his son.
Look what they've done to his prophets.
Look what they're doing today.
Look at their unrighteousness in so many areas.
And yet God says, these are the people whom I have chosen.
And God has a plan to bring salvation to a remnant of these people.
And it's an amazing thing, because I found this prophecy that Moses gave to the
people of Israel before they entered the land.
They were just about to enter the land, the promised land.
They'd been wandering in the wilderness for 40 years.
Moses, by this time, already knew he wasn't going to be allowed to enter the
land.
But yet God gave him this most amazing prophecy, telling the people, these
people, these Jewish people, these people who came out of bondage in Egypt,
those are the ones, those people who wandered in the wilderness.
Moses said to them, you are going to go into the land.
You're going to take possession.
You're going to drive out the inhabitants.
God's going to give you victory.
God's going to prosper you.
God's going to multiply you and cause you to be fruitful in the land.
And after you've ruled in the land, and after you've secured the land,
the time is going to come where you're going to turn away from God.
You're going to turn and follow after false gods.
You're going to worship idols.
And when you do, you're going to lose the land, and you're going to be driven out.
But God wants you to know ahead of time.
And he lets them know ahead of time, despite all they've done to turn away from
him, even after they've lost everything.
He gives them hope.
He gives them encouragement.
He gives them a promise for their future.
See, God was not caught off guard.
He was not surprised by their failure.
He saw these things coming long before they happened.
It didn't surprise him.
He knew about their unrighteousness.
He knew what they were going to do.
But even then, he had a plan.
And his plan said, after all their suffering that they endured, that in the
last day, that's what it literally says, the last day, the end of days,
at that time, those who are the survivors of Israel, they're going to turn back to
the Lord with all their heart.
And they're going to listen to his voice.
And he's letting them know that their children are going to come back to him.
This is his plan.
This was his plan from the beginning.
This was his plan before they ever entered the promised land.
And he tells them, the reason is because you have a God who's a compassionate God.
And he says, your God is not going to fail you or destroy you or forget the promises
that he's made to your fathers.
And he goes on to tell them, the whole point is, has anyone ever known of a God
like that?
Surely anyone else would have long given up on them.
Surely God had every reason to.
But he's, that's the whole point.
He's revealing his compassion.
He's revealing his great love and his faithfulness.
He's revealing his character.
He wants the world to look and see.
Who is this?
Who is like this God?
There is no one.
And you can read this prophecy that Moses gave in Deuteronomy chapter 4.
And he tells them in verse 37, it's because of his love for their fathers
that he has chosen their descendants after them and has done these great things,
bringing them out of Egypt by his great power and driving out these nations that
occupied their land who were much stronger and greater than they were.
But yet he brought them into the land.
And all these things he's done because of his faithfulness had nothing to do with
them.
In fact, he counted on, he told them ahead of time, you're going to mess this whole
thing up.
But my plans are bigger than your failures.
It's bigger than your unrighteousness.
And I am not a God who gives up on his people, but promises even to a thousand
generations to remember my promises to your fathers.
And because of that, a thousand generations, that's longer than the span
of human history.
Even if you said a generation was only 20 years, that's 20,000 years.
We only have 6,000 years of man's dominion on the earth.
It's more than enough.
It's never going to end.
We'll never come to the end of his faithfulness.
That's just one scripture passage.
I have a long list of them.
Like I said, I have 44 scriptural proofs that God's not done with these people,
these flesh and blood descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
And just another example, because I want to point this out, that God did not choose
the greatest or the mightiest.
Look at the place that he chose for the land.
A desolate, barren strip of land.
This place called Zion, which refers to the land of Israel.
The word Zion means a parched, dry, thirsty place.
Now who in their right mind would want that kind of land?
That's the kind of place that you'd want to avoid at all costs.
But yet this is the place that God chose.
The unlovely, the unwanted, the despised, the least valued.
He purposely chose this place.
Of all the most beautiful places on the planet, of all the beautiful mountains and
valleys and waterfalls and forests and beautiful places on earth that he could
have chosen, he chooses this barren little strip of land and says, this is my land.
This is where I will bring forth my great plans of salvation for the world.
And for Zion's sake, his heart, his eyes, his attention, his love is drawn
to this place called Zion.
What in the world?
It doesn't even hardly make sense.
The land of Israel is smaller than the state of New Jersey.
It's tiny.
And they don't even occupy all of it.
And the land is, 55% of it is barren desert, virtually uninhabitable.
And yet we have this scripture in Zechariah 8 too, he says, I am exceedingly
zealous for Zion.
Yes, with great wrath, I'm zealous for her.
And so this is the whole point, is it's not about the land.
If it was about the land, there's nothing about the land to want.
It's not lovely.
So it's not about the land.
I believe God wants us to see beyond this barren wasteland and ask, you know,
why is the whole world so focused on that?
It doesn't even make sense, right?
Why is Satan so focused on that?
And all of the people that he's got riled up, the wrath of the world, the hatred of
the whole world directed at tiny Israel.
And that's the whole point.
I believe God wants us to be able to see beyond this land and recognize there's
something else going on.
He wants us to see him and he wants us to see his character through what his plans
are revealing to the whole world.
What God is after has nothing to do with the land.
It's all about the heart-to-heart relationship with the people.
And in this barren, dry, thirsty place called Zion, he's looking for a people who
thirst for him, who are not satisfied by anything this world has to offer.
Because we found out there's nothing in this world that satisfies our thirst,
that we must have him.
And that's why he says his eyes search throughout the whole earth, searching for
those whose heart is completely his.
That's what he's after.
And so God has chosen this place to reveal himself in the hopes that the people of
the world would see beyond the place and see him and see his heart and see his
plans and see all that he is doing throughout history to reveal who he is to
this lost world, this blinded world who cannot see him.
And in the same way, he's chosen these people, the Jewish people.
He could have chosen people great in numbers.
He chose this tiny group of people.
They've always been a very small number, but that's the people he chose.
And the scriptures tell us flat out the reason why he chose them.
He says, the Lord did not set his love on you or choose you because you're more in
number than any of the peoples, for you're the fewest of all peoples.
But it was because the Lord loved you, because the Lord loved you and kept the
oath, the promise, which he swore to your forefathers.
That's why he brought you out by a mighty hand, redeemed you from slavery in the
house of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, because he wants you to know that he is
God.
He is the faithful God who keeps his promises, and he keeps his loving kindness
to a thousandth generation, to those who love him and keep his commandments.
And so what we see here is Satan, his scheme against the Jewish people is
always to make it all about them, make it all about them, all about the
land.
And God is shifting the focus and saying, no, it never was about them.
It doesn't really matter whether they mess up or don't mess up because I knew about
it ahead of time.
And I told them in advance that before they ever turn away from me, that they're
going to do it.
But my plan is bigger than their failure.
And in the end, I will redeem a remnant of Israel.
I will redeem the children of those who turned their backs on me.
I will redeem a remnant of those flesh and blood descendants.
That is my plan, and it will not be moved because it was never based on them.
And I'm telling you, as I began to study these scriptures, it starts to impact you
because you start to see the heart of God.
You start to see his love and his compassion and what really motivates him
and why he's been doing these things throughout history and how foolish it is
for us to think that he's been caught off guard.
His plan has been derailed.
Those that he thought were his people are no longer his people because it didn't go
according to the way he wanted, because they rebelled, because they
crucified the Lord, whatever, that they're now disqualified, that they're no longer
anything to do with his plans.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
They are front and center.
Watch what God will do in these last days.
Watch what God will do in Israel.
Watch what he'll do through these Jewish people, regardless of their failures,
their shortcomings.
God is going to win a remnant.
He's going to save some of the children of Israel.
He's going to come back and he's going to fight in their behalf.
And that's why repeatedly throughout the scriptures you see God telling them in
advance, he knows ahead of time, you're going to screw up.
You're going to be exiled from your land.
But let me tell you, 150 years before Nebuchadnezzar exiled them into Babylon
and destroyed their temple, before they ever lost their land, he had Hosea telling
them, in the place where it is said to them, you are not my people, it will be
said to them, you are the sons of the living God.
God was encouraging them beforehand.
And that's totally contrary to what these voices are now telling us, that he's done
with them.
They're disqualified.
They blew it.
They did all of these bad things.
Repeatedly you see examples like this.
That's Hosea 110.
He's telling them, there's hope for you.
You haven't totally blown it.
Yes, you've paid dearly.
You've suffered terribly.
You've been exiled.
You lost your land.
Horrible things have happened that were never the will of God.
But look how God told them ahead of time.
There's hope for you.
You're going to return to me.
In the place where it was said, you're not my people, it will be said,
you are the sons of the living God.
And he did the same thing through the prophet Jeremiah.
Before they were exiled into Babylon, he had already shown Jeremiah.
It was already recorded.
Jeremiah had already written what God revealed, that their time of exile would
be 70 years.
Again, he's saying, you've blown it, but there's hope for you.
It's not over.
It's only going to be for 70 years and I'm going to restore you back to your land.
And Daniel, when he was in the land of Babylon, was able to calculate the time of
their return because he knew it would be 70 years.
And so what I'd like to ask these people who are claiming the Jewish people are now
disqualified because of their unrighteous... why weren't they
disqualified when they were exiled the first time?
How come God didn't give up on them then?
God did not give up on them after they were exiled the first time and he has not
changed.
He has not given up on them after they were exiled the second time.
Okay, so now I'm going to move on to point number two.
I took a long time on that one, but these others are much, much shorter.
Lie number two of Satan's five favorite lies is that the Jewish people are not
God's people because today there's neither Jew nor Greek.
Now they're quoting that from Galatians 3.26 through 29 and Colossians 3.9 through
11.
And if you look at those passages, that's a total misrepresentation of what
those passages are talking about because those passages are talking about the sons
of God who are walking in faith in Jesus Christ.
It's not talking about the flesh and blood descendants of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob who have rejected Jesus Christ.
These are two different groups and that's what we have to see constantly throughout
the scriptures.
We have to sort out the difference between physical Israel in the natural realm and
spiritual Israel which is those who are in Jesus Christ.
There's the true Jews according to the Spirit, those who have been grafted in
through Jesus Christ, and then there's those who are just of the flesh.
They're just flesh and blood descendants.
That does not mean they're saved.
They're not going to heaven.
The only way to heaven is, like Jesus said, I am the way, the truth,
and the life.
No man comes to the Father but through me.
That's why he told Nicodemus, you must be born again.
There's a spiritual birth on the inside that comes through knowing Jesus Christ.
And so these two passages are all clearly all about those who are walking in faith
in Jesus Christ.
I mean, verse 26 in Galatians 3, it starts, it says, for you, he's talking
to the believers, it's written to the church of the Galatians, right?
These are believers.
For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Okay, it's pretty specific.
For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourself with Christ.
Now for those people, he's saying, there is neither Jew nor Greek.
There is neither slave nor free man.
There is neither male nor female.
For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
In Christ Jesus, right?
So he's talking about Christians.
We are one.
The two groups become one.
It doesn't matter anymore.
Once you come to God, whether you're Jew or Gentile, we become one new man in
Christ Jesus.
And amazingly, we are grafted in those who belong to Christ.
Verse 29 says, we become, we are Abraham's descendants.
And the passage in Colossians is very similar.
And again, it's in the context, it says, but Christ is all in all.
He's talking about there's neither Greek nor Jew.
There's neither circumcised nor uncircumcised.
None of those things matter anymore.
Because we become joined together as one group of believers in Christ.
Now separately, if you're talking about those who are not in Christ, it does make
a difference whether you're a Jew or a Gentile, because of God's choice when he
chose to bring salvation to the world through the Jewish people.
And so it matters.
God chose the Jewish people to bring salvation.
They're held to a whole different level of accountability, because to whom ever much
is given, much is required.
And God has given much to them that other people in other places have not had.
And so that matters.
That affects everything in their relationship with God.
So flesh and blood does make a difference.
Their Jewish heritage does matter, because their forefathers were the heirs
to the promises of God.
And God has promised to remember because of his loving kindness to them.
And so, yes, it does make a difference.
They're the ones who were there that day when Moses prophesied.
You know, the church wasn't there.
These are the people that have been there all along.
They went through Egypt.
They went through the wilderness.
They went into the promised land.
They were exiled.
They were scattered throughout the earth.
And they've suffered terrible things, but God has not forgotten them.
And so there is a distinction between Jew and Gentile outside of Christ.
Neither one of them are born again, but yet there is a distinction made
because of what has been given to the Jewish people.
All right, so let's move on to lie number three in Satan's five favorite lies,
and that is that the Jewish people, they're not God's people because they're
only children of the flesh.
Okay, and that again gets into the confusion between the difference between
spiritual Jews and natural physical Jews.
Okay, so true, they're not born again.
They're not on their way to heaven unless they are spiritual Jews, unless they have
received Jesus Christ because he is the only way to salvation.
But to say that God has nothing to do with them because they're children of the
flesh, that's just not true.
And so there are passages of scripture that clearly identify the difference
between a true spiritual Jew and a flesh and blood natural physical Jew.
And that's where this argument comes from.
And in Romans 9, 6 through 8, Paul says, they're not all Israel who are descended
from Israel, nor are they all children because they're Abraham's descendants.
But through Isaac your descendants will be named.
And that is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God,
but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.
He's talking about spiritual, born-again children of God.
They're the only ones that are truly in the spirit, in the realm of eternity.
They're the only ones that are truly considered spiritual children of God,
because there is no other way than the way of salvation that he has made through his
son, his only son Jesus Christ.
But you know the scriptures tell us that the natural mind, you cannot understand
spiritual things with the natural mind, but it has to be revealed in the spiritual
realm.
God has to reveal it, and he only reveals it to those who humble themselves before
him, and repent of their sins, and commit themselves to follow him.
And then the veil is lifted, and they can see.
But there's confusion on this topic, just like when the Jewish leader Nicodemus
came to Jesus, and Jesus tried to explain it to him, the concept that you must be
born again.
And Nicodemus had no idea what he's talking about, because it's a spiritual
concept.
He's saying, how can a man enter again into his mother's womb?
Well, that's not what Jesus is talking about.
And so that's where a lot of this confusion comes in.
People find a passage talking about spiritual Jews, and say this disqualifies
and proves that God's done with the Jewish people today, and therefore we can align
ourselves against Israel, against the Jewish people, and justify it according to
the scriptures.
That's a total misinterpretation of the scriptures.
Okay, so the fourth lie that I've heard is Jewish people are not God's people because
they're not from the tribe of Judah.
And they say those people living in the land of Israel, they're not even Jews,
because they're not from Judah, and only Judah are the Jews.
Well, that's easily proven to be a lie based on the scriptures because Paul,
who's from the tribe of Benjamin, refers to himself as a Jew.
And Paul specifically mentioned that, his heritage from the tribe of Benjamin,
and referring to himself as a Jew in Acts 22 verse 3 and Romans 11 verse 1.
And if being from the tribe of Benjamin qualifies as being Jewish, then all the
tribes qualify as being Jewish.
There's nowhere in scripture that it tells us that only Judah is Jewish.
That's a lie.
It's used all the time to justify turning against the inhabitants of modern Israel.
Doesn't matter.
They're not Jews anyway.
They shouldn't be there.
They have no right to the land.
Blah, blah, blah.
Wrong.
Now, they're basing this argument on the idea that the Jewish people had been
divided in the past.
There was two separate kingdoms, and Judah divided from the other tribes,
but it was not a permanent division.
The prophet Jeremiah saw that in the last days the house of Judah is going to come
together and walk side by side with the house of Israel in the land God gave to
their fathers.
And that's Jeremiah 3 verse 17 and 18.
And today we're seeing the fulfillment of this prophecy as the Jewish people living
in the land of Israel are from all the various tribes.
And we see it again in the scriptures in Revelation chapter 7 where the Lord
reveals his plan to raise up 144,000 bond servants from each of the 12 tribes,
12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel.
Now, if only Judah was part of his plan, then why is it that there's 12,000 from
each of the 12 tribes?
Okay, now the tribe of Dan was purposely left out of the list and was replaced by
the tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph.
And the reason is because the Antichrist comes from Dan.
Dan turned their backs on God.
Dan rejected God's plan for their life.
Dan rejected the land that God allotted to them within Israel.
But for the other tribes, the 12 tribes all come together as one.
There is no distinction between Judah and the other tribes in the end.
And this is the plan of God for the Jewish people.
And finally, the fifth lie that Satan likes to tell is that they're not God's
people because they're the synagogue of Satan.
And they base this claim on the words of Jesus in Revelations chapter 2 and 3 when
he was speaking to the churches in Smyrna and the church in Philadelphia.
And he was exposing their hypocrisy in claiming to be Jews.
He says those who say they're Jews, but they're not.
They're a synagogue of Satan.
Well, you have to look at the context.
First of all, who is he talking to?
He's speaking to the churches, to the followers of Jesus Christ.
He's not speaking to the Jewish people who have rejected Jesus Christ as their
Messiah.
He's specifically speaking to Christians.
Christians who are spiritual Jews.
And he's pointing out that they're disqualified from being spiritual Jews
because they're failing to meet the requirements.
And this makes sense because if you're a natural Jew, according to the flesh,
you can't be disqualified because it was by birth.
You're a Jew.
You're a Jew by birth.
That's a totally different thing.
Jesus is talking about spiritual Jews who have to meet requirements, and those
requirements are revealed in their deeds.
Because the scriptures tell us, and this is a message that is not popular
in the church because it's all about the message that's popular in the church today
is all about grace, grace, grace with no accountability for your deeds.
But that's not what the Bible talks about.
In James chapter 2, it says that we're justified not by faith alone, but by our
deeds.
So we have to put action to our words.
We can't just talk the talk.
We have to walk the walk.
And that's why James later in chapter 2 says that faith without works is dead.
If you believe in your heart, you will act accordingly.
It won't be just limited to cheap words, but will be demonstrated so that God can
look and see.
This one is a true disciple.
He's a follower because look at how he acts.
Look at how he's changed his deeds.
And so Jesus was pointing out the hypocrisy of these believers in these
churches and saying, you claim to be my followers, but really you're followers of
Satan.
And this passage has not one thing to do with the flesh and blood descendants of
Abraham.
So it has nothing to do with disqualifying the flesh and blood descendants of Abraham
from being part of God's great plans for these last days.
Well, I'm going to stop here because I've already gone way longer than I thought I
would on this topic.
And as I mentioned at the beginning, I'm going to do a separate podcast and
share some of the scriptural proofs and provide a link to a list of 44 scriptural
proofs proving that God is not done with the flesh and blood descendants of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
I think it's very important that everyone who follows Jesus Christ should know his
word on this topic.
I think it's very important for his plans for these last days.
It's important for being able to spot the lies of the enemy that we know the
scriptures and as it is written in the word we understand his plans, his heart
for these people, and we're not easily deceived and led astray.
So we don't find ourselves taking sides against God's plans.
And also so we can see God's great plans, what he is going to be doing in these last
days in Israel, and how it can help us to understand his bigger picture plans for
his body of believers.
Because we have seen throughout history there are many parallels between the
Jewish people and the major events happening in Israel, physical Israel,
and the events happening in the church.
And I believe it's an important key because there are many scriptures telling
us what God's specific plans are for the Jewish people.
And by understanding these scriptures we can understand his plans for the church.
And that's ultimately I think what we're all interested in is how does this affect
our life and our future.
And it does, it's very relevant, it's very important.
And I'm seeing so many people who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ fighting and
taking sides against God and against God's plan.
There's so much deception.
So let's not be part of that.
So thanks for joining me today and I hope to be back again soon with another
program.
Until then, so long.