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You see, Israel has been fighting a war
now for almost 2 years. It's been a real
war of attrition that should have just
exhausted our nation. On one front in
Gaza, the other front in Lebanon with
the Syria, then Yemen with the Houthis.
In Israel, we were attacked by jihadists
in our own borders in Judea and Samaria.
And when we should have been exhausted
and just done in our economy and our
people, we've been in reserve duty.
Exactly. Then we go and take on Iran.
It's just unbelievable. It's like
they're the largest and most powerful
enemy of them all. And we establish
dominance in the first 24 hours. Every
military expert says what Israel
accomplished in that small window of
time is unprecedented in history. And
then comes America and puts on the final
nails on the nuclear plan and the coffin
and puts that to rest in an
unprecedented surprise attack where
Israel and America were totally
coordinated. It's like we experiencing
things that we've never experienced
before. And what's happening is a
miracle. There is no other way to
explain the power and the success of
this small outnumbered nation up against
impossible odds. We are a living
testimony that the God of Israel is with
the people of Israel. And our return to
the land of Israel is a part of biblical
destiny. And you can stand with us and
be blessed. You can choose to stand
against God and be cursed. But open your
eyes and see the miracles. open your
hearts and see Israel for who they are.
I mean, after the US strike in Iran,
Iran retaliated by firing another
barrage of missiles onto Israel. And
again, no one was killed. And check this
video out.
That is a picture of a direct hit of a
ballistic missile. And there was no one
in the building. There was no one there
because it just so happened that it had
no occupants because the strike hit with
a building that was under complete
renovation and all the people who lived
there were vacated the building leaving
it totally empty with tens of thousands
of apartment buildings in Tel Aviv. The
one missile that hit hit the one empty
building under renovation.
Statistically, rationally, what's
happening in Israel is simply not
possible. And at some point, you have to
open your eyes and realize that even
though God operates in these times,
hidden within nature, there is
supernatural protection, supernatural
blessing on Israel. And exposing that is
the whole purpose of this war. putting
up us up against impossible odds is
trying to make people wrap their mind
around what's going on because it
doesn't make any sense statistically or
rationally. There must be something
that's beyond the rational. There must
be something that's beyond statistics.
The way that I feel what's happening
inside Israel, imagine a slave in Egypt
before Moses arrived on the scene. He
had never seen God, never experienced
anything other than exile and slavery.
But he heard about the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob in his family tradition
probably. And maybe hoping but not
really knowing what to think. And after
200 plus years of slavery, like you
know, what could you expect of someone
like that? And then all of a sudden, he
starts seeing the 10 plagues. The Nile
becomes blood red. Frogs are everywhere.
One miracle through nature after
another. What that Israelite slave in
Egypt went through so long ago.
so many Israelis are going through right
now and it's really overwhelming.
Someone has
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if you have your head on straight, it's
obvious that the hand of God is on
Israel now, but so many people are
experiencing and witnessing the
supernatural and have to come to terms
with God all around them in their lives.
Living in Israel right now is just
overwhelming. It's humbling. It feels
historic. It feels like there's words
are not enough. Only praise and song can
express what's in the hearts of Israel
right now. And what's happening in
Israel is something. But something much
bigger is happening to the nations of
the world. It may not be as acute, but
the change is happening. Christians,
Muslims, atheists, everyone is watching
as the spotlight of world history is on
where? On Israel, of course. And we can
see it perfectly in this week's Torah
portion. It's something that's truly
deep in the Torah, but you can only
really appreciate it when you read the
Hebrew. This week's Torah portion was
schlak when the spies were sent into
Israel and returned with an evil report
about the land and they terrified and
demoralized the people to the point
where they no longer wanted to go into
the land of Israel. And after Caleb
encourages the Israelites saying, "No,
we can do it." The spies retort by
continuing their evil report about the
land in Numbers chapter 13 verse 31.
Here's what it says.
We are unable to go up against the
people for they are stronger than us.
Every single translation reads it just
like that. But notice how the word us is
highlighted because in Hebrew it says
mimemenu.
But the Hebrew verse is so deep and
explains everything that we need to know
about the God of Israel, the people of
Israel and the land of Israel. The word
us is mmenu.
But also in Hebrew, the same exact word
spells out muo, which means him.
So they're also saying we're unable to
go up against the people for they are
stronger than him, meaning God. And
right there is the great secret. The
people of Israel live a very unique
existence. Like today's war with Iran,
we live within a miracle, but that
existence is entirely within the natural
world. And the Israelites saw what
happened in Egypt, the splitting of the
sea, how they were sustained through the
desert, but that existence became the
natural normal way of being. They just
had mana coming from heaven every single
day. That just became normal for the
people that grew up like that in the
desert. That's just the way they got
their food, like picking an apple off a
tree. That's just the way it happened.
And right now when they saw the giants
and fortified cities, they naturally
said, "Listen, we can't go up against
these people. They're stronger than us.
That's just in the natural world in
which we live. It's statistically
impossible. It's not it's not going to
work." But being the chosen people of
God, we are representing his ways in the
world. What the Israelites are saying is
that the enemies of Israel are stronger.
Meno, stronger than him, stronger than
God. As a representative of God, when we
say they're stronger than us, what we're
saying is they're stronger than him.
What does the chosen people mean? It
means that our victory is his victory.
Our defeat and failure is his defeat and
failure. We are the witness of his
presence in the world and his
representatives of his sovereignty in
the world. This morning, I got a little
teareyed when I heard a clip from
President Donald Trump after the attack.
He thanks God and blesses Israel. Check
this out. There's never been a military
that could do what took place just a
little while ago. Tomorrow, General
Kaine, Secretary of Defense Pete Hexath
will have a press conference at 8:00
a.m. at the Pentagon. And I want to just
thank everybody and in particular God, I
want to just say we love you, God. And
we love our great military. Protect
them. God bless the Middle East. God
bless Israel. And God bless America.
Thank you very much. Right there, he's
not just giving credit to God in front
of the world. He's declaring love for
God in front of the world. Blessing
Israel in front of the whole world.
Well, right there, he just sealed the
fate of America and America will be
blessed. Pete Hexath, the Secretary of
Defense, gave a press conference right
after and he said, "We give glory to God
for his providence and continue to ask
for his protection.
This is the most public spiritual war in
history. It's a public showdown between
the God of Israel and the enemies of
Israel. America has sealed her blessing
for the whole world to see. And the
radical violent Shia Muslim world which
has been humiliated and taken down by
Israel and then finished off by America
in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.
That version of Islam that is hellbent
on jihad and against Israel has fallen
before the people of Israel in the land
of Israel. There's going to be a shift
now. When this war is over and Israel
stands victorious in our promised land,
it will force the violent jihad Muslim
world to reflect on their theology just
like replacement theology and
Christianity did after the six- day war.
Christian Zionism really took off in the
1970s because people realized all the
promises, all of the gifts, all of the
prophecies. It's happening to Israel and
they left their theology of replacement
theology. The Abraham Accords in the
Middle East, they're about to explode
and much of the Muslim world will reform
their views because God himself in
reality granted victory to the Jews.
Very soon we are going to wake up to a
new Middle East and a new peaceful
world. And we are charting a path toward
redemption. And our fellowship is
leading the way toward peace and
prosperity and biblically based
spirituality.
And
with that, I want to bless all of you.
Israel. That's our deepest desire is our
deepest purpose to be a blessing to the
world because mimemenu us is mimenu is
from him and god wants to bless all of
his children and at the end of this war
the whole world will be blessed through
Abraham. All right my friends happy
apocalypse as we will march toward our
redemption.
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