The Wisest Man's Advice for Dealing with Hard Times - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

but today i want to talk about how are we supposed to live through these times knowing that something is breaking through right now it's just getting crazier and crazier something is going to emerge out of this and if we have the eyes to see it we know that it's going to have to do with jerusalem it's going to have to do with the kingdom it's going to have to do with god it's going to have to do with all of the things that we've been waiting for and i've never lived through anything like this but you know who has lived through things like this the jewish people we've been through plagues viruses ghettos lockdowns hard times i mean now is the time to dig down into our collective wisdom and see how the torah guides us to live in times of absolute instability everyone needs a strategy for life and betting on the strategy of the bible that's not a bad idea so the first thing that i want to do if we're now taking the bible we're gonna be like all right this is our armor we're going out to battle now and how are we going out to it we have to contextualize everything what is the right mindset for looking at these turbulent times now a good friend of mine named zev came out to the farm he's an orthodox jew made aliyah he's a member of the fellowship he lives in israel with his wife and his kids i think they're watching this right now as they're having dinner but and i would say he's possibly one of the world's most knowledgeable people on king david and so obviously he loves our farm our center comes out as often as he can the last time he visited me he told me a story about king david's son solomon that has stayed with me ever since and the story is an ancient tale a midrash it's like refined life wisdom extracted out of the book of kohelet out of the book of ecclesiastes that king solomon wrote look at ecclesiastes chapter 3 verse 1 in the 1960s or 70s these verses became very very famous but i just want to look at them now in a new light everything has its season and there is a time for everything under the heavens a time to be born a time to die a time to plant and a time to uproot a time to kill in a time to heal a time to wreck and a time to build a time to weep and a time to laugh and so the the chapter continues on just with all of the different possibilities but what it's saying here is that everything in this world under heaven is a season everything has its season and what's happening now with all of the chaos and instability it's just a season it's gonna pass there'll be times to laugh and there'll be times to cry but in times of crying don't think that's all there is people get locked into depression because they see the current situation and they don't see a way out and they get swallowed up by sorrow by fears by what the future is oh my goodness this is the way it's going to be forever king solomon teaches us the look at the world and know everything is a season nothing lasts forever not the good and not the bad and so right now things look crazy this is just a season and if we know that salvation is right around the corner if you really know that you can withstand anything and this ancient judean tale of king solomon is like pure oil that's just been pressed out of his writings and so this is the story that i was told after solomon became king um he was obviously blessed with experiencing the entire spectrum of human living highs lows pressures joys pleasures pain everything and he knew that he would have high times and he would have low times and he asked his royal jeweler to make him a bracelet that he would wear on his arm at all time a constant reminder of how to live in the world and his bracelet would help him stay humble in times when he was high and hopeful in times when he was down and he knew that he was on the roller coaster of life and he wanted to design a personal reminder to help him in every scenario and after prayer and thought he came up with the design of a bracelet and solomon was the wisest of all men and he said three words will accompany me my whole life and these three words will be my reminder in high times and low times let's put it up on the screen [Music] this too shall pass if life is amazing now enjoy it soak it up live it up really just swallow it be satisfied and if you're having a good time ride that wave and enjoy every moment because that too shall pass enjoy every moment you have with your wife with your husband with your children with your friends with your loved ones because these days they're gonna pass life is tough corona politics uncertainty don't let it get you too down come ze avoir this too shall pass everything is a season and it feels like winter is coming and so let's stock up on some firewood let's make sure we keep warm but never forget that yes in the winter time spring is right around the corner and if you feel despair creeping in king solomon gave us this amazing eternal message of seasons this too shall pass and the wisdom of king solomon should be a blessing to all of us shalom my name is jeremy gempel a few months ago we started an online seminar teaching life-changing biblical wisdom revealed from the original hebrew and straight from the mountains of judea with global instability on the rise more and more people are turning to god realizing now they don't exactly know where to look for guidance the bible says the guidance will come from the land of israel what started as an online seminar has grown into a global fellowship with hundreds of members from over 30 countries we are participating in fulfilling prophecy as we learn the bible through the eyes of prophecy with a focus on what it's telling about us in our lives today what you will discover is that the wisdom transmitted thousands of years ago is speaking directly to us in our time right now instead of learning the bible as a religion it's the torah of israel the living guidance of god so please join us for our next online gathering and get access to the full 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