Special Report with Pastor Dan Vachon： The Compelling Reason to Support Israel, Oct. 9, 2024
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Summary
Dan Vachon, National Pastor and Church Coordinator with Action for Canada, takes a look at a question that has been on our minds for the past year and a half. Why do we continue to support Israel? And why does it matter if we don't believe the Bible?
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Well, good evening, everyone. Today is Wednesday, October the 9th, and this is your weekly news
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update. Now, I know I don't look anything like the blonde you just saw in that photo,
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but that's an old photo. In Tanya's absence, I have the privilege of doing the weekly news
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update this week. And I am Dan Vachon, the National Pastor and Church Coordinator with
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Action for Canada. Now, if you are just coming on to this and you have not watched tonight's
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Empower Hour, I tell you, you missed a great show. We had a surprise with Tanya and our
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two chapter leaders from Windsor, Ontario, doing a live show from there, as well as a
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chapter leader from Ontario, provincial chapter leader from Ontario, as well as one from Winnipeg,
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Manitoba, giving an update on what has been happening with Action for Canada. Lots of
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exciting things. Now, tonight, I'm going to do things a little bit different than Tanya
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usually does. And what I want to do is I'm going to be addressing something that Action
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for Canada has been telling you or sharing with you that's very near and dear to us for
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the last year. And I'm going to be explaining it to you in detail because the questions have
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come up and, you know, it's become a little bit controversial. So I want to remind you that
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this particular week has been a commemoration from the October 7th attack in Israel a year
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ago. And the world watched in horror when Hamas breached the walls of Gaza into Israel and had
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that horrible attack. You know, 1,200 plus people murdered, killed, executed, over 200 hostages taken
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back into Gaza. And the world was really quick to condemn what Hamas has done, even criticizing Iran,
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knowing that they were backed by, that they were backing this whole thing. And it didn't take very
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long, however, for the world to begin to change its tune. And it's not uncommon now to see tens of
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thousands of people in the streets of Canada marching and protesting against Israel, against
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the Jewish nation and support of Palestine and Hamas. And so you got to think and wonder what has
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happened in this last year. Inaction for Canada has taken the standard and sharing with you that we
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firmly stand with and support Israel. Now, it's not that, you know, we think the Israelis are better
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looking than anyone else or they're more privileged or anything. But the thing I want to address to you
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tonight is why. Why did we take that stand and why do we remain committed to that stand? And the
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bottom line answer, and it's what I want to develop tonight, is because of the stand that God's Word
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shows us and how important it is. Now, before I get into the meat and potatoes of this, I want to just
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address a few things. Some of you may say, well, I don't believe the Bible, so it doesn't matter what
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you say. A couple of things I want to share with that. I've run into some people in the past, in my
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20 plus years of ministry, that have said, I don't believe the Bible, and have asked them, have you ever
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read the Bible? And almost unequivocally, the answers come back, well, no, not really. Well, maybe
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little parts of it, but I've heard about the Bible. So let me challenge you, if that's your position
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tonight, everything I'm going to say is based on what God's Word has to say. But if you're not going
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to believe God's Word because you've never read it, I want to challenge you. I believe these are the
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last days, as mentioned in the Bible, and I'm going to show you proof of that. This may be a good time
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for you to pick up a Bible and start to read to see what it says. The second thing is, it really doesn't
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matter whether you believe the Bible or not. You see, 3,500 plus years ago, God prophesied and
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shared with his people what would happen in the end days. And you can pick up a news report today,
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you can go online, and you can see exactly what God said 3,500 years ago, what happened is happening
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today. And we're talking about nations and countries being named, events happening. I mean,
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you could not make this stuff up. And so maybe if your position tonight is, I don't really know about
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the Bible, or I'm not sure, or I really don't believe the Bible, this would be a good time for
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you to reconsider that. Now, others of you may say, I don't believe in God. But again, world history
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does not dictate whether or not you believe in God or not. God has a plan, not only for his people,
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Israel, but for your life as well. Maybe you're at a point in your life that you're looking at the
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world and you're thinking, why am I really even here? Is there a purpose to my life? So I want to
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develop that tonight as well. But the other thing that I want to address tonight as well is, are we
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living in the last days? Is this the end of time? Or might we see a revival happen in the world at some
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point in time? So we're going to get right into this tonight. And I'm going to, I've got some notes
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here. I'm just going to bring up on the computer. But why does Action for Canada stand with and
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support Israel? It's something that we have been saying for a little over a year now. And the
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foundation, as I said, for what we believe as an organization is the Bible. You know, we protect
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faith, family, and freedom. And by faith, we begin with God's word. We are a Christian organization.
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So I'm going to share a lot of scriptures with you tonight, because that is the foundation of
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what we believe. In Genesis chapter 12, verses 1 to 7, God said to Abram. Now, his name was Abram
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before God changed it to Abraham. So if I just happen to say Abraham or Abram, it's the same,
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it's the same fella. It's the same person. The Lord said to Abram, go from your country,
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your people, your father's household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation.
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I will bless you. I will make your name great. And you will be a blessing. I will bless those who
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bless you. And whoever curses you, I will curse. And all peoples on the earth will be blessed through
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you. So Abram went out as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he
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set out from Haran. He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions that they had
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accumulated, and the people that they had acquired in Haran. And they set out for the land of Canaan.
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And they arrived there. Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh
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at Shechem. And at that time, the Canaanites were in the land. And the Lord appeared to Abram and said,
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to your offspring, I will give this land. So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared
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to him. Now, why did God single out Abram of all people? He lived in Ur of the Chaldees. And here's a
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man who, you know, God just because of his sovereignty chose a man. And he sent him on a journey to the land
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of Canaan, which is modern-day Israel. And God said to him, over 3,500 years ago, this land I will give to you.
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Now, that scripture goes on, and it actually gives geographical parameters and locations there. And so that
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was the promise that God made to him. You see, God is the author of history. And history also includes a people,
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a geographical place, a geographical place, and an eternal promise. Someone once said history really
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is his story. Now, in Genesis chapter 17, verse 8, the Lord says, the whole land of Canaan, where you
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now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you,
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and I will be their God. God made an eternal promise to Abraham, which became Abraham. And that
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promise has never been receded. Now, I need to say something here, because some people believe that
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because eventually the descendants of Abraham rejected God and disobeyed him, that God removed
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that promise and gave it to the modern-day church. And there are many churches now who may not
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maybe not so many, but there are some churches now that believe that, and it's called replacement
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theology. I don't want to confuse anyone, but they are basically saying that because Israel fell away
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from the Lord and disobeyed him, that those promises are no longer valid. But the Bible says that God is
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the same yesterday, today, tomorrow. God never changes. His promises are yes and amen. Now, in the history of
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Israel, they had 39 kings. And of all those kings, 10 and a half, good. Now, it was 11, but one of them
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started off good, but then turned off bad. And so they wane back and forth. And, you know, they followed
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after false gods. And so God allowed them to be invaded by enemy armies. And so then they cried out to God,
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and God rescued them. And so they weren't a perfect people. They never have been, and they never will
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be. And so some people now today say, well, the Jews that currently live in Israel, you know, they
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can't possibly be God's people because, look, they're atheists, and they don't live like believers.
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The promises that I'm going to read to you tonight don't have that disclaimer. The fact is,
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they are God's people, and God made a promise to them. God also told them if they would disobey him
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and serve after other gods, God would disperse them. And I'll read that scripture in a moment.
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But he also said that he would bring them back. So Canaan is a land that has been promised to
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Abraham and his descendants, Isaac and Jacob. So through years of obedience and disobedience,
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they saw the blessings of God come and go, depending on their faithfulness to him.
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In Jeremiah chapter 29, verse 14, speaking of Israel, the Lord says,
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I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather
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you from all the nations and places where I have banished you, declares the Lord, and will bring
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you back to the place from which I carried you into exile. The last exile happened in 8070 when the
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Emperor Titus marched through Jerusalem, and he literally ransacked Jerusalem, burnt down the
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temple, and made it illegal for Jews to even enter Jerusalem. Now, what has been happening since May 14,
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1948, when Israel became a nation again, is that the Jews have been returning to their homeland.
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You hear testimonies of them that have literally been living all over the world, feeling a tug in
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their heart, saying, we don't know what it is. We have roots where we are, somewhere in Poland or Russia,
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South Africa, or anywhere in Africa, North America, you know, South America, but they feel a tug of God
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to go back to their homeland. And they don't even have roots there, except that they are God's chosen
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people. I want to share an interesting story with you. My wife and I last year bought a film,
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I Am Israel. It's not a long film, probably only about 40 minutes. But there's a story of a Russian Jew
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who lived in Russia, whose livelihood was farming. And part of the farming that he did is he grew
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grapes, and he grew vineyards. And so he felt the tug to go back to Israel. He bought a piece of land,
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sight unseen, and his dream and goal was to plant vineyards there and export wine. Except when he got
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there, he realized the plot of land that he had bought was actually on the side of a hill, and it was
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all stone. And more than that, it wasn't just stone. Underneath a little bit of stone, it was solid
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rock. And so he thought, what am I going to do? And so a thought came to him, no doubt a thought from
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God himself. He hired somebody to drill some holes in the rock. And people in the surrounding area says,
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what are you doing? What are you crazy? Vineyards don't grow out of the rock. And he says, that's all I
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know what to do. Today, he is one of the leading exporters of wine in Israel, because God has blessed
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him. They say there are more Jews actually in Israel now than in anywhere else in the world. God says,
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I will be found by you and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations
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and places where I've banished you, declares the Lord. I got to emphasize this again. The reason why
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we support Israel is because God's word says what's going to happen in the last days. And it is actually
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happening. Never in the history of Israel, or never in the history of any nation, has a nation come back
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into existence after being dormant for 2,000 years. The Assyrians, the Hittites, the Hivites,
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the Amorites, etc. All of those nations have been wiped out of existence. Even the modern day Egyptians
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are not the same as the ones that were in existence back in Bible times. Ezekiel chapter 37, God gives a
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vision to the prophet where he takes him to a valley of dry bones. And he says, so man, can these bones
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live? And he says, I don't know. I don't think so. And when you look at the original Hebrew language,
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they're not just dry bones. They're bleached bones, meaning they've been out in the sun for a very long
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time. They're cracked and parched. And so he speaks to the bones and the bones rattle and they come back
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together. And then sinew and muscle and flesh appear to them, but there's no life. And God says to him,
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speak life to them, and they come back. And this is speaking of Israel coming back into a nation,
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which happened May 14, 1948. And for all those who say that the Jews in Israel today are not possibly
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the rightful heirs, but are occupiers because they are living in unbelief, God will someday bring them
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to a place of belief. It is in the works. It is in the word of God. And so we believe it. I don't have
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the time tonight to lead you through a 10-part Bible study, but it's all in God's word. And those who seek
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to destroy Israel today also need to remember the following scripture in Jeremiah 31, verses 31 to
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37. The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel
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and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took
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them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to
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them, declares the Lord. This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,
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declares the Lord. I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God
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and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbor or say to one another, know the Lord,
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because they will all know me from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. But for that
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to happen, they must first be brought back to their ancestral land. And it is happening. And it goes
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on. For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. Verse 35. This is
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what the Lord says. And Tanya read this scripture last week in the Empower Hour. He who appoints the sun
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to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves
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roar. The Lord Almighty is his name. Only if these decrees vanish from my sight, declares the Lord,
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will Israel ever cease being a nation before me. Boy, I wish the enemies of Israel could get to reading
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that verse and get it through their heads that Israel will always exist as a nation before God.
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And this is what the Lord says in verse 37. Only if the heavens can be measured and the foundations of
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the earth below be searched out, will I reject the descendants of Israel because of all they have
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done, declares the Lord. Action for Canada completely rejects this false teaching of replacement theology,
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as I mentioned. The church has its own sets of promises. As a matter of fact, when you read the
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book of Revelation, after John receives the message to the seven churches, Revelations chapter two and
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three, the church is nowhere mentioned in the book of Revelation. But in Daniel's vision of the 70
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weeks, and again, I don't have time for a 10-part Bible study, but God deals specifically with Israel
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to bring them back unto himself. And God, while God would revive his people, the enemy of God,
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the serpent or the dragon in Revelation chapter 12, would also revive Israel's most notorious enemy.
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Now, Kim, at the end of her power hour, read a verse that talked about David and Goliath.
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So you remember Goliath? Do you remember his roots? And what the enemy would do would bring an inversion
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of what God would do. God brought his people, the Jewish people, back to his land. But the enemy,
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that old devil, the serpent, the dragon, would also resurrect the old enemy of Israel. And that is the
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Philistines. Originating from the land surrounding and connecting to the Aegean Sea, this Mycenaean
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civilization would invade Egypt in the Bronze Age, and they would battle against Pharaoh's armies.
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The Egyptian inscriptions call these invading sea peoples, the Pulashti, or the people of the
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Peleset, or Pallusta, Pallusata. In Hebrew, they are called the Philistines, the plural for Philistines,
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a dweller in the region of Pileshet. Now, listen to where this is going. It's believed that from the
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Hebrew Philistines came the Greek word Philistinoi, and from the Greek Latin, from the Greek word,
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the Latin Philistinos, from which we get our English word, the Philistines. David and Goliath,
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remember that story? And back and forth for days, and the times to come, when God's people were
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faithful to God, they subdued the Philistines. But when they fell away from God and served other gods,
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God allowed the Philistines to rule over the Israelites. So the arch enemy of Israel,
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the inverter, tries to oppose and revert the promises of God. But listen to this. In Exodus 23,
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verses 31 to 33, God says, speaking of Israel, I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the
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Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. Did you catch anything important
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in that phrase? You've been hearing chants of, from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free.
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Again, our enemy, the serpent, the dragon, the inverter, changes that around. God says,
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I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River.
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Remember, I will give into your hands the people who live in that land, and you will drive them out
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before you. Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. Do not let them live in your land,
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or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare
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to you. Now, I don't have time to get into it too much tonight, but where exactly did these Philistines
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live? They live where Gaza is right now, in modern-day history, modern-day geography.
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In the days that the Philistines ruled over the Israelites, we're told in 1 Samuel 13, 19,
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not a blacksmith could be found in the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines had said,
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otherwise, the Hebrews will make swords or spears, and it's understood of iron. Isn't that interesting?
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Because we were moving that now, in that period of time, from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age.
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But listen to this. Today, the IDF has many multiple layers of defense. You've heard of the Iron Dome,
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which protects them against rockets. They also have the Iron Spade, which is their underground
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defense system, protecting them from the tunnels of Hamas and Hezbollah. They have the Iron Wall,
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which is the perimeter wall, which surrounds Gaza. They have the Iron Beam, which protects them
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against rockets, drones, and mortars. And on top of that, like this one, they've got David's Sling,
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which is to protect them against medium- to long-range missiles. Now, listen to what Jeremiah says in
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chapter 47, verses 47. For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, and to remove
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all survivors who could help Tyre and Sidon. Let me just pause there for a second. If you look at a
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map, Tyre and Sidon are currently located 12 miles north of the Israeli border in Lebanon.
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And who has been fighting against Israel for the last number of years since it became a nation?
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Well, maybe not quite that long, but Hezbollah. And where are they located? Right north of the border
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of Israel. It speaks of this right here. For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines,
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who live where? In Gaza, and to remove all survivors who could help Tyre and Sidon.
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Folks, this is God's word. This is in the Bible. And it is happening live today as this war is going on.
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The verse continues. The Lord is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coast of
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Kaphtor. Gaza will shave her head in mourning. Ashkelon will be silenced. You, remnant on the plain,
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how long will you cut yourselves? Alas, sword of the Lord, how long will you rest? Return to your
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sheep. Cease and be still. But how can it rest when the Lord has commanded it, when He has ordered it
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to attack Ashkelon and the coast? Now in Daniel chapter 10, and I told you, this is why we believe,
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this is why we fully support Israel and stand by them. God's word is so clear. In Daniel chapter 10,
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Daniel is given a vision which concerns a particular location, but it concerns the end of time,
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which concerns, I believe, our day and age. We are living in the end of time. It's a vision of the end
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of days, but it's an end time prophecy concerning Persia. Now, Daniel is told by the messenger angel,
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Daniel, as soon as you set up to pray for the interpretation, I was dispatched to you,
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but I was withheld by the prince of Persia. Who is Persia? Persia is Iran. There's a territorial
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evil spirit, even back in those days, fighting. Now you see, folks, whenever there's a war in heaven,
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there's a war on earth, right? And that's why the Lord instructed us to pray, your will be done on
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earth as it is in heaven. But the messenger to Daniel says, but Michael, the archangel, who is
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the archangel, the protector of Israel, was sent to help me, was sent to help the messenger to deliver
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the message, which again, is a message for the end times. And he was held back for three weeks.
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And then Michael went back to fight the Tsar Paras, the prince of Persia, which is in Iran.
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These last days, a great battle is fixing to happen. Ezekiel chapter 36 and 37 has happened.
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Next on the world stage is Ezekiel chapter 38 and 39. But I want to share something with you that
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should be very alarming and eye-opening. God has already given us a glimpse of Ezekiel chapter 38,
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which is a great war in which numerous nations shall come against and fight Israel. Could it be
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that some of those nations were involved in the October 7th massacre, 2023?
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It is and it has. And I'm going to share that with you. In Ezekiel 38 verses 7 to 9, it says,
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get ready, be prepared. You and all the hordes gathered about you and take command of them.
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After many days, you will be called to arms. In future years, you will invade a land that has
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recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel.
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Sound familiar? God's people have been regathered to the mountains of Israel,
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which had long been desolate for 2,000 years. As a matter of fact, archaeologists at the turn of the
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19th century went around and they couldn't even find where Jerusalem had been. It was so desolate.
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They had been brought out from the nations and now all of them live in safety. You and all your
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troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm, and you will be like a
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cloud covering the land. Now that's in Ezekiel 38. That's the great war. That's yet to happen.
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But there are countries named who will attack Israel. And I want to show you how every single one of
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those countries and nations already took part in the October 7th attack on Israel. Now it lists them
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by name. There is Gog, Magog, Meshek, Tubal, Haras, Cush, Fut, Gomer, and Togarmah. Again, I don't have
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time for a 10-part Bible study on this, so I'm just going to skip right to the chase. Cush is identified as
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Sudan. Fut is identified as Libya. Gog and her hordes, Magog, Meshek, Tubal, are ancient Anatolia,
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especially Turkey in Asia Minor. Paras is Paris in Arabic, it's Persis in Greek, and it's Iran in
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modern day times. All of these countries took part in the October 7th massacre attack as a
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preliminary to what will happen in Ezekiel chapter 38. Now, how would anyone know that
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3,500 years ago? It's impossible. As a matter of fact, those countries were in friendly terms.
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As a matter of fact, back in the early 90s, Iran was friendly toward Israel.
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This has never before happened in history. And just because of time, in the description of this
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recording, which will be posted in a couple of days, I have a number of articles that list all
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of these countries and how they were all complicit in smuggling arms, weapons, rockets to Gaza, even
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though there was an embargo against Gaza and sending weapons to them. It's very telling, my friends.
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It's very telling. This has never happened in the history of our times. Now, let's go to Iran for a
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second as we kind of begin to wrap this up here. Ephraim Raisi, also known as the Butcher of Iran,
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President of Iran. It's interesting that Ephraim is the Persian form of Abraham, the father of the
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promise. But it's interesting how our enemy, the inverter, switches that around. He, for the first time
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again in the history of known mankind, decided to launch a direct attack against Israel. On April the
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13th, 2024, Raisi, in a very daring move, sought to bring death to Israel from the sky. He rained a
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number of missiles, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, drones. They say it was the largest
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attack ever to happen upon Israel all at the same time. Now, many commanders, and we have
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contacts in Israel that we are in contact with, they say it was impossible for all of the Israeli
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defense systems, really to have brought all of those weapons down. Truly, it was a miracle of God.
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Mikhail, the archangel of God, supernaturally protecting Israel. And so, April 13th, 2024,
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Raisi sought to bring the death of Israel from the sky. Ten days later, on April the 23rd, 2024,
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Raisi gets on television, and he promotes or utters threats against Israel, saying,
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if Allah is willing, we will wipe Israel off face of the map. Now, very interesting thing happened.
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The Jews all over the world that celebrate Shabbat all read the same scripture at the same time,
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on the same day, all over the world. On that particular day, the Jews were all reading
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the same scripture, which was this, in Ezekiel 39, verse 4. This is so incredible.
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The Jews were all reading on the very same day that Raisi said, Allah willing, we will wipe Israel out.
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Remember, he had tried to destroy Israel from the sky. The Jews were reading on that same day,
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on the mountains of Israel, you will fall. Now, I know it says of Israel, but again,
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this is a forerunner to Ezekiel 38. Now, Leviticus 24, verse 16 says,
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anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord is to be put to death. What happened to Raisi?
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He gets on one of the three helicopters. He leaves his camp out of his own people on the border of
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Azerbaijan. And on the mountains, he is crashed and he dies. God takes a curse against his people
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very seriously. I want to remind you, God says, I will bless those who bless you and curse those
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who curse you. And what I want to do at this point, I have a very couple of short videos that
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I want to show you. Well, one of them is a minute. The other one is 10 minutes. I want to show you how
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God doesn't mince words in his word, how God takes his word very seriously, but how God takes the
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protection of his people very seriously. I'm going to show you, I'm going to get Terenzio to show you
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a one minute video. And then I'm going to make a commentary before we get to the next 10 minute
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video. Terenzio, if you have that first clip ready.
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What happened in that Turkish parliament hill, one of the ministers pronounces a curse on Israel
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and he drops dead. God takes cursing his people very seriously. God said to Abram,
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whoever blesses you, I will bless. And whoever curses you, I will curse. It doesn't get any more
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real than that. Why do we support Israel? Because God's word says that we are to bless Israel.
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It's not that they are a perfect people. It's not that they are a holy people. It's not that they are
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right. As a matter of fact, they have made so many mistakes. And it's not that we agree with
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their political positions on this, that, or the next thing. But it's that we stand on the word of
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God. If God says to bless Israel, then we bless Israel and we leave the results to him.
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The last clip is a 10 minute clip by Rabbi Jonathan Kahn, who is a Messianic Jew. That simply means he is
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a Jew who has come to know Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. The Jews in the days of Jesus
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rejected Jesus as their Messiah. He came as a suffering servant first time. He is coming very,
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very soon as the King of Kings. And friends, I want to remind you, if you've never read your Bible,
00:34:15.940
now is a good time to start. In the book of Revelation, it talks about a period of time so horrible.
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In the book of Matthew, Jesus says to his disciples, if God had not cut those days short,
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there would not be one person left alive on this earth. And when you read about what's about to
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happen on this earth, and some of the trumpets and seals and vile judgments that are about to hit
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this earth, where it talks about 25% of the world population dying in one fell swoop. In another place,
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a third of the world population died. And in another fell swoop, half the world population dying of what's
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left. I mean, it doesn't take you long to realize we are on that brink right now. The Bible says
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today is the day of salvation. And Jonathan Cahn brings it home. And so I'm just going to share this
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clip with you, and then we're just going to wrap it up. Renzo? There's another scripture that bears
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witness to the signs of the times. Revelation. Yet to happen on one side, but Revelation 12 speaks
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about the dragon, the enemy. And he's warring against a woman who's got 12 stars on her head,
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and she gives birth to Messiah. This is Israel. Only Israel gave birth to Messiah has the 12 stars.
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So the enemy hates Israel. That's why the world hates the Jewish people. Because the enemy knows
00:35:34.560
if he destroys Israel, he can stop the purposes of God. But he can't do that. But he's trying all the
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time. You know, it says that in Revelation, he spewed forth a flood to flood away, wipe away the
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woman. A flood of water. Well, you know, October 7th. You know, Hamas doesn't call it October 7th.
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You know what they call it? They have a code name. You know what they call it? The name is Operation
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Tufan in Arabic. You know what Tufan means? The flood, as in the flood of the dragon.
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There's something else. You know, when God speaks of the enemies of Israel that are going to come
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down in Ezekiel, they're going to come down on Israel. It says, you'll come like a storm on the
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land. Well, you know, the word Tufan means flood from Revelation, but it also means storm from Ezekiel.
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It's a shadow of what will be happening. Something else happened, which was a shadow. Signs of the times.
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In the wake of October 7th, something strange happened all over the world.
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A rage, hatred, fury, not against Hamas, but against Israel. It was as if it was like a blood
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feeding frenzy in the demonic realm. Because you'd expect the world, when an enemy attacks and
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kills fathers and children and mothers, you'd expect there to be sympathy. But they actually
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raged against Israel. And you can see, and not just in the Middle East, but in Europe and America.
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In Harvard University. And they chanted, from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free.
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They were chanting for the destruction of Israel. You see, but the enemy's fingerprints were all over
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it. Because you know where that comes from? The enemy's the one who takes things of God and he twists
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them around. You know where it comes from? It comes from the Bible. When God comes from the promise that
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God gave to Israel, giving the land to them, he says again and again, from the river to the sea,
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from the river to the sea, I have given you this land. So the enemy is all over this. It's written
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in the book of Revelation that the dragon, out of his mouth comes these spirits that go out into the
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world. They go out into the world. And they gather the whole world together against Israel at Armageddon.
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Well, you know, people say, well, how can that be? How can the nations come against, all the nations
00:37:54.220
against this little tiny land of Israel? Well, you've already seen the shadow of it. It all, you
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already saw it when the world erupted. That was the most widespread hatred of Israel in world history.
00:38:07.540
And you know what? Most young Americans are for Hamas. I said that. And they are also, you know,
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this, this, you want to see the future without, unless there's revival. Now I'm going to share one
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more, one more thing here, and then I'm going to bring this home to what do we do? One more thing,
00:38:24.540
one more mystery I mentioned in the dragon's prophecy. You know, in the Bible, there is something
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called, there, there is the colors of the apocalypse. And you see it when you look at the four horsemen,
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the first horse white for conquest, the second red for war, the third black for famine, and the last
00:38:44.780
one green, we call it the pale horse green for death. Well, you know what? When all these, these
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eruptions rage against Israel, which comes from the drag, it's the dragon's rage, all over the world,
00:38:57.040
the colors of the apocalypse started manifesting. How? They gathered together around a banner. The
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banner was the flag of Palestine. The flag of Palestine, other colors are white for the white
00:39:08.920
horse, red for the red horse, black for the black horse, and green for the green horse. And every
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nation that has those colors, it marks them as an enemy of Israel. We must know and not miss the signs
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of the times. What does all this tell you? I just gave you a taste. I want to do the best I could to give
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you a taste of some of these things and also how God reveals them. What does it tell you? It tells
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you that our God is real. Our God is mighty. And our times are in his hands. When he gives a word,
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he's going to keep it. When he gives a promise, his promise is true. It tells you that our God is on the
00:39:50.400
throne over everything. He's on the throne and he's got no intention of getting off of that throne.
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What does it tell you? He's got the whole world in his hands. He's got the whole wide world in his
00:40:01.320
hands. He's got you and me, baby, in his hands. He's got the whole world in his hands. The children
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of Issachar knew the times and what Israel should do. If we know the times, then we must know what to
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do. The last part that God led me in the newest, in the dragon's prophecy, is revealing the war that
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is against all of us. It's not just Israel. The dragon is against all of us because it says he went out
00:40:24.140
to make war against the rest of her children. Who are the rest of the children of Israel? It's you.
00:40:30.320
If you're born again, you're a child of Israel. You are a spiritual Israelite. And so in the last
00:40:37.260
days, he's going to come against Israel even more so to destroy them and he will come against the
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people of God. The enemy hates you. And in fact, not only that, if you're in the image of God,
00:40:49.480
God, which most of you are, he's been warring against you since you were conceived. He wants
00:40:55.920
to oppress you. He wants to, wants to addict you, wants to defile you, wants to turn you from God,
00:41:00.660
wants to discourage you, wants to paralyze you. He wants to do that. But you know, this is why it's
00:41:07.760
real important. You know, we got to remember what side we're on. See, if you're in a, if you're in a fight
00:41:13.580
and you don't know you're in a fight, you're not going to win. But if you're in a fight and you don't
00:41:17.060
know the power you have and who's with you also. If the world is growing increasingly dark with the
00:41:23.780
enemy, then we, the lights of God, have to grow increasingly bright for God. If the world is going
00:41:31.180
from bad to worse, it's time for us, the people of God, to go from good to great. In the book of
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Revelation, it's not just a dragon. It's something else. The lamb. The lamb is a dragon and a lamb. You
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see, evil always comes like a dragon. Tries to overwhelm you, intimidate you, terrorize
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you. And good comes like a lamb. It often seems the odds are against it. It seems like
00:41:54.800
the underdog is not going to win. It seems like if you're being overwhelmed, how am I
00:41:58.500
going to do this? And if you see, but you see a fight of a dragon and a lamb, most people
00:42:03.180
would put their bets on the dragon. But in the Bible, it's the lamb who wins against the
00:42:08.600
dragon. For in the end, it is the lamb who is victorious. It is the lamb who reigns. The
00:42:16.540
lamb is Messiah, Jesus, Yeshua, the King of Kings. You know, dragons are reptilian. They're
00:42:24.840
cold-blooded. You know, reptiles can, can go crazy, but they can't last. They have no endurance.
00:42:29.900
Evil cannot, will not win because it cannot win. Evil is cold-blooded. It can't go on. But
00:42:36.500
the lamb is warm-blooded. The good cannot lose. It cannot cease. It goes on forever. His
00:42:41.740
love endures forever. It does not fail. In the end, evil will perish. In the end, good
00:42:49.220
shall prevail. And so in the same dragon, the same vision of the dragon, Revelation 12, it
00:42:57.040
says, but, he warred against the rest of her children, but, it says, but, remember this,
00:43:02.160
they overcame him by the blood of the lamb. The word of the testimony, loving not their
00:43:08.320
lives. The word overcome there is the Greek word, nakao. Say it. Nakao. Nakao is an amazing
00:43:15.360
thing because it's, I mean, it's totally conquered, but it's of the future, but it's written in the
00:43:20.580
past tense. In other words, your victory is as good as done. You just have to fight. The
00:43:27.220
victory is as good as done. You got to remember, no matter what's happening in the world, no
00:43:31.040
matter what it tells you, you still are on the winning side, and you got to claim
00:43:34.560
that. You got to, you got to, you got to prevail. You got to proclaim that. The
00:43:39.260
victory is as good as done, but you can't have the victory if you don't fight. There's
00:43:43.140
no, you can't have a victory without a fight. Fight the good fight. Fight what God
00:43:47.240
said to you. Don't give up. Keep going. If you keep going, you win. For all who keep
00:43:53.400
going, win the fight. For despite public opinion, despite CNN, despite Hollywood, you are on
00:43:59.980
the winning side. You fight your good fight. And one last sign to tell you to encourage
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you about the signs of the times, not just of these times, but of all times on earth.
00:44:12.000
You see, for thousands of years, the dragon has tried to destroy the woman, the people
00:44:17.980
of Israel. And they seem to be the weakest people. They had no defense. They had no army.
00:44:23.700
They had no, they had all hell against them for thousands of years, against all odds, you
00:44:29.620
know. The pharaohs of Egypt tried to destroy them. Assyria tried to crush them. Babylon tried
00:44:36.540
to wipe them out. Rome tried to destroy them. Hitler tried to annihilate them. The Soviet Union
00:44:42.340
tried to crush them. The terrorists are trying to wipe them out. But, but, the pharaohs are gone.
00:44:50.880
Assyria is no more. Babylon has fallen. Rome has crumbled. Hitler has perished. The Soviet
00:44:57.520
Union has collapsed. The terrorists will not be. But, but, but, the nation of Israel lives.
00:45:03.140
I'm Yisrael high. The nation of Israel lives because the God of Israel lives. Because the
00:45:07.700
Messiah of Israel lives. Because Yeshua, Jesus of Israel lives. Because salvation of Israel
00:45:12.400
lives. And you who follow him, you shall live. You shall overcome. You shall prevail. You shall
00:45:18.240
be victorious. For greater is he in you that he was in the world. Greater is the lamb in
00:45:25.140
you that the dragon in the world. So arise, man of God. Arise, woman of God. Arise and
00:45:31.080
shine for your light has come. And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you in the name
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above every name. The name of Yeshua, Jesus, the light of the world, the glory of Israel,
00:45:42.460
and the lion of the tribe of Judah. Amen. Amen. God bless you. God bless you. I'll see you.
00:45:52.520
Wow. Love that man. Love his zeal. And I tell you, I am going to Jerusalem someday on a white horse,
00:46:01.040
as it says in Jerusalem, conquering with my Lord. When his feet touch the Mount of Olives,
00:46:06.640
and it shall split in two, and the river of life shall come from it. And tonight, you know, you may
00:46:12.460
be, this may be a lot of information for you to process, but you may be realizing in your life,
00:46:17.580
I don't know that I have that hope. I'm seeing how, you know, history is developing. Like you said,
00:46:24.820
Pastor Dan, in the Bible, you can't mistake it. The fact is God has had a plan for life for his
00:46:33.020
people, but also for you, no matter where you live. You know, we even had some folks from Africa
00:46:38.180
on our call tonight. So God, God knows everyone. God knows where you live. God knows your situation
00:46:43.740
and God made you. And so God has a perfect plan for your life. And God offers you peace and hope
00:46:52.560
and love and joy in your life. And so if you don't have that tonight, I just want to say a prayer.
00:46:59.460
And I want to encourage you, you know, if you are seeking help, to reach out to us, send us an email
00:47:05.320
at call2atactionforcanada.ca. And it will be referred to me if it's a prayer request or to our prayer team,
00:47:13.360
we would love to pray with you. So Heavenly Father, I want to thank you so much that so many
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thousands of years ago, you had these moments in history in mind. And you spoke to 40 different
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authors in three different languages, in three different continents about what would happen
00:47:37.880
in the end times. And anyone can look around at our world today and know we've got to be in the end
00:47:45.540
of the end times. The time is short. We have never seen such unprecedented evil in the world.
00:47:52.460
But what about each individual, Lord, that may be hearing this message tonight or today or whenever
00:47:58.180
they're listening to it? What about their situation? What about their family situation? What about their
00:48:04.340
marriage? What about their job situation? What about their personal economy? What about their personal
00:48:10.240
struggles? What about their mental health? What about those things that they are battling? Their
00:48:15.560
addiction? Their loss of hope? Where are they? And God, I want them to know that you really care.
00:48:23.280
And so my prayer is that you will reveal yourself to them in such a loving, tangible way, Lord, that they
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would surrender their life to you. And so, Father, I pray, Lord, that as we wrap this up,
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and for those of you that are listening, you may want to just reach out to God. And you may just want
00:48:42.680
to say something like, God, I need your help. I need a Savior. And I thank you for providing that Savior
00:48:50.380
in your Son, Jesus Christ. And it's written all throughout Scripture that you would send a Savior
00:48:58.060
because I can't do it to God. And so I surrender my life to Jesus. I repent of my sin. I totally
00:49:09.800
surrender my life to God. I want that hope that someday I will go to heaven. I can't do it on my
00:49:18.260
own. And so I am totally dependent on the salvation that is offered through Christ, as mentioned in
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God's Word. And Lord, if anyone said a prayer similar to that, and they really meant it, Lord, we know
00:49:33.440
that all of the angels in heaven rejoice when a sinner comes home. So, Lord, we thank you that we,
00:49:41.520
as an organization, have taken a stand to stand with Israel. And like I said, they are not perfect,
00:49:51.380
and we are certainly not perfect. But Lord, we know that someday that will be your dwelling place.
00:49:57.360
You're coming back to establish your capital there, and we will serve you from there. So we ask your
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blessing, Lord, on all these things in Jesus' name. Amen. So just before we go, I want to introduce
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our guest for next week. We have our good friend there from Quebec, Max Bernier. And I say that
00:50:20.040
because I'm a Frenchman from Quebec as well. But our good friend Max, we've actually hosted him here
00:50:25.220
in our church on the East Coast where I am. And Max is going to be speaking about fighting the good
00:50:30.300
fight despite the odds. God has a way. It's all in God's hands. And God knows our future. And so we
00:50:40.240
look forward to having you next week on the Empower Hour. A couple scripture verses I want to leave
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with you that I mentioned to you tonight. Fitting to see the map there. But again, the whole land of
00:50:52.060
Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, God said to Abraham, I will give as an everlasting
00:50:58.720
possession to you and your descendants after you, and I will be their God. Don't forget that promise.
00:51:06.700
And the next verse is found in Genesis 12, verse 3. Again, I've referenced this many times tonight.
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I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you, I will curse. And all peoples on earth
00:51:20.000
will be blessed through you. Friends, it's time to reconsider. Read the Bible, turn to God in prayer,
00:51:27.580
and support Israel. So on that note, I want to say thank you for joining with us tonight.
00:51:31.840
God bless you. God bless you. God bless Israel. And God bless Canada. Until next time.
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That's what I've got to say. Look at this crowd.
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I'm going to thank God and God alone for the ground that I'm standing on.
00:51:59.080
I'm going to thank our founding fathers for giving their lives and sacrificing so much
00:52:14.560
And I'm calling on you today. Don't put them to shame. Don't waste what they did.
00:52:36.200
We are going to be in every town and every city.
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And we are going to build communities within these communities of like-minded people who are
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actually going to care for one another again and love on each other and give each other
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their help when they're down. We are going to use the teams and the people
00:52:55.160
that build within chapters to support our businesses.
00:52:59.460
The government's actions are completely, 100% unlawful.
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You have a virtuous heart if you are here today pursuing freedom and righteousness.
00:53:26.420
God says he will turn the sins of evil people back on them.
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I take great comfort in that because I serve a mighty living God who has allowed us to go
00:53:46.800
through this season of discomfort because we as a nation have turned our backs on him.
00:53:59.820
I'm going to say God bless you and God bless Canada.