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If These Jews Were Not Recorded, No One Would Believe It · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  Trust me, watch this. Who is Jesus to you, cousin?
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  I don't know. OK.
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  I guess for me it's nothing. OK, so I'm a Jewish man and I
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  believe in Jesus. Am I?
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  Am I wrong? You are.
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  Yes, I'm a Jewish man, OK? I believe in Jesus.
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  Am I wrong? Yeah, can I read something you
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  from the from Taylene, from the Psalms?
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  I lift. Up my eyes to the mountains.
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  From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord.
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  Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor
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  sleep. The Lord watches over you.
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  The Lord will watch over your coming and going, both now and
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  forever. We're about to bring in an
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  absolutely insane prophecy into the equation.
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  But first, if you want to see more videos about the end times
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  when you open this app, please do subscribe.
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  Are you ready for it? The Bible prophecies that Jewish
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  people who are scattered across the four corners of the earth
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  will be gathered in Jerusalem. And get this, they will turn to
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  Christ. And you know something, I've got
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  a heap of Bible verses to prove it.
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  Romans 11 verses 25 to 26. Say, For I do not desire,
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  brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest
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  you should be wise in your own opinion.
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  That blindness in part has happened to Israel until the
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  fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
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  And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written.
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  The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away on
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  godliness from Jacob. You probably already know by now
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  that even though you and I may differ theologically on some
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  matters, I respect your views and you probably respect mine,
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  and we shouldn't divide over it. However, there is one teaching
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  in the church that greatly saddens my heart, and it's
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  called replacement theology. In its most basic form, it
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  essentially means that God is finished with Israel, that the
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  church has replaced the Jewish people and they have gained all
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  of the promises and all of the blessings that were meant to be
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  Israel's, but now the church has them instead.
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  Why? Because the people of Israel
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  rejected the Messiah, Jesus Christ.
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  Now listen to me. If you are a Gentile believer
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  like myself, I do believe that we are actually part of
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  spiritual Israel as the Scripture says.
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  For they are not all Israel who are of Israel.
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  No one can deny this, but the Bible is clear that God has
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  reserved special promises for the literal nation of Israel.
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  He promised that he would restore them.
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  He promised that he would give them a land.
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  He promised that he would give them a king from their own
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  people. And this king would rule over
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  them justly and wonderfully, and they would finally prosper and
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  know what it is to live in peace and safety.
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  And the fact is this guys, these promises are everywhere in the
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  Old Testament. So to say that God is finished
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  with Israel doesn't seem right to me because He is a faithful
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  God, He is a covenant keeping God, and I do believe he will
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  fulfill these promises to the Jews.
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  So I'm wondering if you can help me right now.
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  Do you think that God has castaway the people of Israel?
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  I mean, the question needs to be asked is why is it do they not
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  only reject Christianity but actually they might even hate
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  Christians? Some would say so then how could
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  it even be possible that they will one day turn to the Lord
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  Jesus Christ in faith? Well, you know exactly what I'm
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  going to say next. Every answer is in the Bible.
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  The Scripture says in Romans 11 verse 8, just as it is written.
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  God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that should not see
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  and ears that they should not hear to this very day.
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  So can you see what it's saying here?
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  In other words, temporarily there will be a partial
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  blindness. There'll be a lack of love
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  towards Christ in the Jewish people's hearts.
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  But this is not final. It's rather a chance for
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  Gentiles like you and me to be grafted into this vine and to
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  there in this salvation. So over to you.
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  Is the Scripture right or is it wrong?
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  Out of all the people you seek to share the gospel with, who
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  are the least receptive to our message?
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  Is it atheists? No.
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  Is it skeptics? No.
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  I think it's often the Jewish people.
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  Now, that doesn't mean that Jews aren't getting beautifully
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  converted right now. And I'm going to introduce you
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  to a Jew in a moment's time who loves the Lord Jesus Christ, and
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  he is going to blow your mind with his testimony.
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  But it does prove something else, that currently, as the
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  Bible says, there is only a remnant of Messianic Jews.
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  But that won't be the case during the Tribulation.
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  I can promise you this, even though as we speak the vast
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  majority of Israel is fast asleep to the things of Christ,
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  there will be a day when they will be wide awake to the
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  Messiah and they will shake the world with their missionary
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  efforts. One view that I personally hold
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  to is that the 144,000 mentioned in Revelation 7 is going to be
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  144,000 Jewish evangelists. So that will be 12,000 from the
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  12 tribes of Israel. And again, I believe that this
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  will cause a great spiritual awakening not just amongst the
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  Jews but among all the nations because the people are going to
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  see the two witnesses revived. They're going to see them doing
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  signs and crying out for repentance.
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  But not only that they will also see this 144,000 Jewish
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  missionaries going out into the world and spreading the good
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  news of Jesus Christ. The Bible says in Romans 11
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  verse 12. Now, if the fall is riches for
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  the world and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how
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  much more their fullness you've got to get this.
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  When Israel as a nation turns back to God, the whole world is
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  going to be enriched in a way that we have never seen before.
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  Oh, how glorious it will be when Jesus their Messiah returns to
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  rescue the Jews from the tribulation and then comes to
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  set up His Kingdom in Jerusalem on earth.
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  That is going to be a beautiful day when He reigns as their king
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  with them in their Holy Land for 1000 years.
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  By the way, if that's news to you, you need to check out this
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  video we made a couple of weeks ago that goes straight into this
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  subject in a lot of detail. But I hear exactly what you're
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  thinking right now. You're saying, Joe, you've left
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  me with even more questions than when you started.
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  So the first question, I guess that would be in your mind right
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  now is this. As we film this video, Israel is
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  in trouble and it's future looks very uncertain.
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  So does this fit anywhere into Bible prophecy?
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  Well, I find it fascinating that the Bible predicted in Luke 21
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  verse 24 and they will fall by the edge of the sword and will
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  be LED away captive into all the nations and Jerusalem will be
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  trampled by the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles are
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  fulfilled. Did you catch that?
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  The Gentile, the non Jewish people will tread and trample on
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  Jerusalem and they will have their time as if to say that
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  Jerusalem will be controlled and owned by the Gentiles for a
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  period of time. May I go deeper?
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  In 1967, Israel actually took Jerusalem back from the grip of
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  the Gentiles. But today if you switch on the
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  news, you'll see that Jerusalem is still very much searching for
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  peace. And none of us would be
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  surprised if we switched on the news tomorrow and we found out
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  that many countries had claimed Jerusalem for themselves.
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  Oh, and by the way, just to clarify for anyone who doesn't
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  know yet, anyone who is not Jewish is known as a Gentile in
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  scripture. So when we say the tiles held
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  onto Jerusalem, it's the non Jewish people who held onto this
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  city. So I wonder what goes through
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  your mind when you hear that? Because there's one thing you
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  must never forget. The Bible always comes true and
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  a day is coming when the times of the Gentiles are to be
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  fulfilled, when true peace with no disputes is coming to
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  Jerusalem, when the last Gentile is saved, when Jesus the
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  shepherd who leaves the 99 to go after that one sheep, when that
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  last person is saved it will all happen.
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  So somewhere out there there is one last non Jewish person who
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  needs to find Christ and when that person is brought into the
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  Kingdom, the end of the age will come and Jesus will return.
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  Now obviously we don't know when this will be, but just in case
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  it is round the corner I want to say that perhaps the last
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  Gentile to be saved is watching this video right now.
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  And if that's you, would you do us all a favour and come to
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  Jesus today so we can speed things up a little?
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  As much as you might think I'm joking, if you do want to know
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  more about becoming a Christian, please do stick around because a
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  friend of mine is going to tell you all about it in a moment's
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  time. But hey now, I actually believe
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  that most people have severely underestimated just how accurate
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  Bible prophecy really is. The Bible says in Deuteronomy 30
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  verses three to five, the Lord your God will bring you back
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  from captivity and have compassion on you, and gather
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  you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has
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  scattered you. If any of you are driven out of
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  the Father's parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God
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  will gather you. Then the Lord your God will
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  bring you into the land which your Father's possessed, and you
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  shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply
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  you more than your father's. Now do you remember what
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  historical event happened in 1948?
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  That's right, Israel was re established as a state making a
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  huge step into fulfilling this prophecy.
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  You see, just as we've read, God is going to bring all his people
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  back to their land, the land which belonged to Abraham, Isaac
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  and Jacob and their Christ is going to set up his millennial
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  Kingdom. All the Jews who've been
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  scattered across the face of the earth, they will return to
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  Israel. So when this happened, and in
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  1948, it really did seem like a partial fulfillment of this
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  prophecy, and it was proof that God has not forgotten the
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  Israelites. He is still faithful to Israel.
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  While Israel becoming a state in 1948 paved the way for Bible
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  prophecy, so did a much earlier event in 70 AD.
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  All historians alike will agree that Jerusalem was left desolate
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  and many Israelites were scattered across the world.
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  This also was predicted in the the Bible and it serves as a
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  prelude to the recovery of the Jews back to their promised
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  land. Because after the Roman siege of
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  Jerusalem in 70 AD, it's very likely right now there is a
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  Jewish community that is not far from where you live.
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  Why? Because they were scattered.
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  But God is going to bring them all back to Jerusalem one day.
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  OK, here's the answer you've all been waiting for.
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  Will all of Israel be saved? Just like it says in Romans 11
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  verse 20. Well some theologians believe
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  the answer is yes. They believe that literally
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  every Jew alive at that time or repent and trust in Christ
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  Jesus. And they use passages like
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  Zechariah 13 to justify this. It says, And it shall come to
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  pass in all the lands, says the Lord, that 2/3 in it shall be
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  cut off and die, but one third shall be left in it, and I will
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  bring the 1/3 through. The fire will refine them as
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  silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested.
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  They will call on my name and I will answer them.
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  I will say this is my people and each one of them will say the
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  Lord is my God. So these theologians reason that
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  if 2/3 of the Jewish population will perish, this last third
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  that are left will see this widespread destruction and like
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  gold, they will be refined like the fire.
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  Yes, this severe judgment, it will only leave a portion of
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  them alive, but that portion will be the remnant who has been
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  faithful to God in this period of the tribulation.
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  Now listen to me. Obviously we don't know how this
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  is going to happen, but when you switch on the news about Israel
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  today, it doesn't take much of an imagination to think how this
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  could be very possible. On the flip side, however, some
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  Christians think that this idea of all of Israel being saved
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  means that all of them will be sanctified.
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  This doesn't take away a person's free will.
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  No, each Jew individually will have to choose the Lord Jesus
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  Christ, and it just means generally that the nation of
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  Israel will be saved. But I'll let you look at the
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  passage and you decide for yourself what you think the
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  Scripture is saying. If you are a regular subscriber
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  to this channel at this point, you'll know that I normally
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  share the good news with you. But while I was scripting this
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  video, I believe the Lord gave me a change of gear, a new idea.
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  So instead of me telling you the good news like I normally do
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  about the Lord Jesus Christ, I'd like you to hear from a good
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  friend of mine called Ziggy. And Ziggy has an incredible
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  story of how he became a Jew for Jesus.
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  Shannon, my name is Ziggy. I'm Jewish and I believe in
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  Jesus. I grew up in a Jewish family.
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  Both my parents are Jewish. We grew up keeping kosher,
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  attending the local synagogue, and I had my bar mitzvah in
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  Israel. And when I was doing my PhD many
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  years later, I had a very good friend.
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  He wasn't Jewish and he wasn't Christian, but a couple of years
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  later he became a Christian and he invited me to his church to a
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  guest event service where I could, where I ended up hearing
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  about Jesus and end up reading one of the I Went accounts of
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  the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
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  And then I discovered the Jesus I never could have imagined.
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  I'm looking at the Jesus who could, who healed the sick,
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  raised the dead, who calmed the storm with the word.
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  And I thought to myself, maybe Jesus could be the Messiah that
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  we were talked about as children in the synagogue.
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  But then I thought, how can Jesus possibly be the Messiah
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  when the rabbis have been rejecting Jesus for the last
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  2000 years? And then someone challenged me
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  and said, how familiar are you with the prophecies in the
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  Hebrew Bible about the coming of the Messiah?
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  And at that point I started to read my Hebrew Bible and I began
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  to realise that Jesus hadn't just come to heal the sick and
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  raise the dead. He'd come to do something far
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  more incredible. He'd come to forgive sins.
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  And that's when I realised that the Son of God had come from
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  heaven to earth to die for my sins, taking the punishment that
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  I deserved. And I was forgiven not because
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  of anything I had done, but because of what Jesus had done.
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  And my question for you is, have you, how familiar are you with
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  the prophecies in the Hebrew Bible about the coming of the
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  Messiah? I.
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  Think we're supposed to take the story Passover personally
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  because each one of us needs to be redeemed.
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  But with no sacrifice, how is redemption impossible with no
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  Lamb of God? How once?
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  Nearly 2. 1000 years ago. The the Jewish.
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  Man named Johanna and we know him better with John the
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  Baptist. And you can imagine, you know
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  there he is in the water, John the Baptist.
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  He, he sees John the Baptist, he sees his cousin, he sees his
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  cousin, a Jewish man and he sees his cousin Yeshua, he sees
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  Jesus. And imagine John the Baptist is
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  in a loud voice. Behold the Lamb of God that
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  takes away the sins of the world.
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  That's how redemption, not through the blood of lamb, but
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  redemption through the blood of the Passover Lamb, the Lamb of
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  God, the Messiah, Jesus. We're all born into this world
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  and given life, and our lives are immersed.
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  In tears. We're all enslaved into the
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  bitterness of sin that separates us from a relationship with God
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  until someone tells us of the sweet Saviour, the one who came
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  to redeem us and make us his own.
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  He came as a once and for all sacrifice to take away the
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  bitter root from our lives and by His Spirit make us a new
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  creation because He is the Lamb of God.
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  Take away the sins. OK, three things super quick.
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  Number one, please look at my description to see the
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  fascinating video clips that I used in this video #2 if you're
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  new here, please subscribe. And #3 if you want to know more
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  about the end times, this video that you're watching now is just
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  one of a big long teaching series that I've been making for
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  two years. If you'd like to know more about
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  the millennial reign of Christ, for instance, click here.
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  God bless you all and thank you for watching.