Goldie Ghamari - Iran in the Bible

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00:01:58.900 well good evening everyone merry christmas to everyone celebrating thank you

00:02:28.420 for joining me for the evening live stream of the Goldie show. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to

00:02:35.300 do my usual live stream at noon because it was a little bit busy. I do apologize.

00:02:43.240 It has been a pretty crazy week right now. But I did manage to get some time. So I figured,

00:02:51.640 you know, I would come on and you know, I'm wearing my my Christmas sweater.

00:02:55.360 um I I have a Christmas hat somewhere I was gonna wear it tonight but I couldn't find it so I

00:03:01.920 apologize so you'll just have to you know settle with with my Christmas sweater um and uh yeah so

00:03:10.220 we're just gonna get started um I just basically searched on YouTube so so the first video is

00:03:17.080 actually a suggestion from one of my channel members. His name is Juan. He actually sent this

00:03:26.160 video to me. No one can explain the biblical destiny of Iran on this timeline. And what's

00:03:33.000 really interesting is that when I did a YouTube search, I basically just searched Iran in the

00:03:38.460 Bible and this video popped up. And then this one as well, Iran in the Bible, the forgotten story.

00:03:45.180 So I haven't really watched either of them. I mean, I kind of started watching this one. I got about like 10 minutes in maybe. It seems pretty interesting. But I haven't watched either of them. But I figured, you know, it's the eve of Christmas Eve. So, you know, let's get into the festive spirit.

00:04:06.120 and um yeah i have i have no idea what what these two documentaries are going to talk about

00:04:14.000 um i probably won't really even be able to counter anything because we're kind of getting

00:04:20.020 um into the uh you know like biblical theological historical stuff so again this is like nothing to

00:04:28.860 do um with with modern um middle eastern politics or history but just something cool and interesting

00:04:37.200 and i figured you know we can get into the festive christmas spirit by um by watching these um videos

00:04:44.660 so um hager sent a super sticker thank you so much for i haven't even started the live stream and i'm

00:04:51.180 getting a super sticker thank you so much appreciate that i hope you enjoy the the live

00:04:55.920 stream tonight um elijah great job on the emily schrader show thank you um emily's actually a

00:05:03.160 good friend of mine like we we you know text all the time um i like she she actually sent it to me

00:05:10.440 when the video came out i haven't watched it yet because believe it or not i actually hate watching

00:05:15.860 myself on screen so i've actually never watched you know any of my videos like once i edit a video

00:05:24.020 and I upload it like that's it like I don't watch it I don't go back and replay so um yeah I've

00:05:30.340 gotten a lot of positive feedback about um that interview with Emily but I I haven't watched it

00:05:36.180 because I just I don't know for some reason I don't like watching myself on camera which is

00:05:40.800 strange because you would think as a politician right like I was a politician um for seven years

00:05:46.140 I was in politics for 10 years you know given that I would like you know I was on TV pretty

00:05:52.320 much constantly you think that i get used to it no like every interview that i did like i i would

00:05:58.300 never go back and watch the interview like i just can't it's very weird for me to to watch myself on

00:06:04.180 tv um i don't know i'm just very very critical i guess but um there you go modernia merry christmas

00:06:11.800 thank you for all your hard work thank you so much merry christmas to you and yours and um wishing

00:06:17.680 you all very, very, you know, Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy Yalda, if you celebrate,

00:06:23.800 um, and you know, happy holidays for everyone else and, you know, wishing you all the best

00:06:29.600 in the new year. Um, all right. Yeah. You know, I don't like hearing myself either. I feel like

00:06:37.120 I have a very weird sound, but I'm glad that you guys, um, get me. So, you know, Lionel, I don't,

00:06:44.460 I don't watch my own videos. I get other people to watch my videos and then critique me. So that's

00:06:49.440 what I usually end up doing. I'm like, just watch this video, give me your feedback. And then that's

00:06:54.860 how I kind of do it. Although, you know, I do edit my own videos. So like I do, I do watch myself

00:07:01.960 while I'm editing my videos, but like once the video's done and then it's uploaded, like that's

00:07:06.600 it. Like I'm, I'm done. Like I just, I just kind of, you know, I don't watch it anymore. Um, okay.

00:07:12.600 so let's get started with the first one so the first one is called no one can explain the biblical

00:07:19.840 destiny of iran on this timeline i feel like we're kind of getting into like conspiracy theory type

00:07:28.380 stuff but who knows i mean it's it's the eve of christmas eve um seems like a fun video you know

00:07:34.560 it has to do with iran it has to do with the bible christianity so you know let's um let's dive right

00:07:41.040 in we'll we'll take we'll take a break from the usual like deep you know deep deep level um 0.61

00:07:49.360 hardcore you know serious despondent like islamic terrorism stuff so

00:07:54.560 seems a little bit more light-hearted so i'm interested in seeing what goes on

00:07:58.400 all right let's get let's get started

00:08:02.880 no one can explain the prophecy watch very carefully because no one can explain the prophecy

00:08:09.920 on this timeline if you go on google and you search the ancient name for iran you will see

00:08:15.520 one answer persia but that's only half true because there is actually another name one that

00:08:21.360 holds a prophecy that the whole world forgot about you probably already know iran from the news but

00:08:27.760 so okay but persia is the greek persia is the greek name for iran um like in in persian the

00:08:36.720 the language that we speak we've never called it persia like there's no there's no equivalent word

00:08:43.280 for persia in farsi so it's always been like iran shah right so anyways i wonder i wonder i wonder

00:08:52.320 what the secret word is the secret name is for iran do you know where this country actually

00:08:57.760 comes from well our story goes way back to around 2400 bc and we are going to meet a man that you

00:09:04.400 have definitely heard of noah noah had three sons shem ham and japheth but here's where it gets

00:09:10.960 interesting his oldest son shem had a son called elam but elam wasn't just an ordinary kid because

00:09:17.520 in 2000 bc elam became the forefather of the elamites okay now guys that's where i'm from

00:09:24.880 that that's so that's the area that i was born in actually so like my my my ancestry and my lineage

00:09:31.680 literally goes back like 2 000 years to to elam like the city the city that i was born in afwas

00:09:38.920 um it was it was built like by the elamite empire so cool okay i'm digging this guys this is this

00:09:47.580 is like ancient history that's literally about me and my family pretty cool take a good look at this

00:09:53.340 the name elam actually means high in assyrian meaning the land was high up these highlands

00:09:59.920 weren't just some random hills they stretch for about a thousand miles all the way from near

00:10:04.560 babylon towards the mediterranean over time both the land and the people changed and grew the elamites

00:10:11.360 who started out a lot like the early sumerians eventually became part of what we now call iran

00:10:18.320 did you catch that in other words every time the bible talks about elam it's pointing directly to

00:10:24.480 the very beginnings of persia so make sure you remember that name because this timeline will

00:10:30.480 reveal a very surprising prophecy about the people of elam or should i that's me this guys i feel

00:10:40.080 kind of like okay so what this is like a prophecy about me like the people of elam like guys i'm not

00:10:46.960 even joking wait let me let me show something to you um i think i think i have a photo of this

00:10:52.960 somewhere. So let me see if I can find this. I know I have this photo somewhere.

00:11:13.040 I've uploaded it somewhere on my X profile.

00:11:18.800 who although you know actually you know what now that i'm now that i have access to my facebook

00:11:25.460 account again um i probably have the photo uploaded to my facebook in like a private

00:11:34.260 album i want to show you guys something pretty cool here give me a moment sorry um

00:11:41.200 wait, where is this? You know what? Nevermind. Um, I don't want to, I don't want to like

00:11:50.620 take away from the video. So, um, I'll just, I'll see if I can, I'll see if I can find the photo.

00:11:56.720 And then whenever I find the photo, um, I'll share it with you guys. But like, I actually

00:12:01.960 visited the ruins of Elam when I was younger and I was visiting Iran. So there's actually photos of

00:12:09.260 me visiting like the Elam empire, which is the precursor to the Persian empire. Like I was

00:12:18.480 literally born 60 kilometers away from the, there's a pyramid called Chorazambil. I don't know

00:12:29.300 if you're going to talk about it or not, but like literally I was, I was born like 60 kilometers away

00:12:34.260 from a pyramid um that's older than than the egyptian pyramids apparently so i'll see if i

00:12:41.140 can find the picture but uh yeah okay sorry i i hate to i sorry i interrupted i just got excited

00:12:46.420 because like this is literally a video about like where i was born and like my ancestors so

00:12:51.300 kind of cool okay all right let's go back i won't interrupt anymore i promise and we are going to

00:12:56.340 meet a man that you have definitely heard of noah noah had three sons shem ham and japheth but here's

00:13:03.360 it gets interesting his oldest son shem had a son called elam but elam wasn't just an ordinary kid

00:13:10.000 because in 2000 bc elam became the forefather of the elamites okay now take a good look at this

00:13:16.960 the name elam actually means high in assyrian meaning the land was high up these highlands

00:13:23.440 weren't just some random hills they stretch for about a thousand miles all the way from near

00:13:28.080 Babylon towards the Mediterranean. Over time both the land and the people changed and grew. The

00:13:34.380 Elamites who started out a lot like the early Sumerians eventually became part of what we now

00:13:40.040 call Iran. Did you catch that? In other words every time the Bible talks about Elam it's pointing

00:13:46.980 directly to the very beginnings of Persia. So make sure you remember that name because this timeline

00:13:53.720 will reveal a very surprising prophecy about the people of Elam,

00:13:58.120 or should I say, the people of Iran.

00:14:00.760 Let's jump forward 100 years to 1900 BC, 0.97

00:14:04.740 because something huge is about to shake the people of Elam.

00:14:07.760 The action kicks off during one of the Bible's earliest battles,

00:14:11.280 the rescue of Lot by Abraham.

00:14:13.960 Before you find out who wins, you need to see where it all happened.

00:14:17.340 This is the Valley of Siddam near the Dead Sea,

00:14:20.180 a place famously dotted with tar pits.

00:14:22.580 and these pits would become a nightmare for one group of soldiers here's how it went down five

00:14:28.820 kings from the jordan decided to rebel against cadelioma the king of elam he had ruled them for

00:14:34.940 12 years and cadelioma well he didn't take the rebellion lightly he called on his three key

00:14:41.040 allies and marched south into canaan elam was victorious so much so that its enemies

00:14:46.300 Okay, guys, sorry to interrupt. I found the photo. So this is from 2010 when I visited Iran. 2010 was literally the last time that I was able to go back and visit Iran because after that, that's when I started becoming very politically outspoken, speaking against the regime.

00:15:06.720 But 2010, I was still like, um, you know, uh, young kid. So here you go. Let me, let me show

00:15:13.900 this to you. Um, very, very quickly. So, ah, it's so cool. Okay. Where's my Facebook? There we go.

00:15:26.200 So this is me as, um, like, you know, what is it? 2010. So I would have been 25 here.

00:15:34.540 So this is me. That's the ruins of the pyramid. It's called Chogazambil. So there you can see it. So these are like the ruins of Elam here. Can you even see the inscriptions there? Right? These are all photos that I took myself when I visited.

00:16:00.580 um so like the the place is massive guys it's like it's massive i'll show you how big it is

00:16:10.280 actually so let me go back here so okay so there's me and what's interesting is that um so like you

00:16:16.900 know two thousand three thousand years ago like this was a this was um like a well so like there

00:16:23.340 was like water going in there and everything it's it's all dried out now and it's all um become

00:16:28.320 desert but two thousand three thousand years ago apparently this area was very very lush very you

00:16:34.960 know green lots of water things like that so there's me sitting on the steps of like the

00:16:41.520 bottom of the pyramid right so you can see like how big that is and then here is um here is like

00:16:50.320 the explanation so let me just read that for you so brick inscriptions more than 5 000 brick

00:16:56.320 inscriptions have been excavated at the site of Choqazambil. These inscriptions bear the name of

00:17:04.140 King Untash Napresha, 13th century BC, son of Humban something, king of Anshan and Susa.

00:17:16.540 According to the inscriptions, Untash Napresha founded the city of Dur Untash, modern Choqazambil,

00:17:24.040 and built a multi-level temple ziggurat for the gods in Shushinak and Napresha. Anyway, so

00:17:32.820 there you go. What else do we got here? So there's like, again, there's the ziggurat.

00:17:40.780 There's me. Of course, you know, it's occupied Iran, so you're forced to wear hijab. 0.89

00:17:46.680 That's me and my cousin. Temple of Napresha. This temple, which is located outside of the inner walls

00:17:53.660 on its northern edge belongs to one of the most important Elamit gods by the name of Naprisha.

00:18:00.300 See, so everything they're talking about Elam, I've literally been to Elam. I was born 60

00:18:06.520 kilometers away from Elam. There's me again in front of the ziggurat there. So all this used

00:18:16.420 to be water here, like all of this used to be water. And of course, it's all dried up now.

00:18:21.120 Okay. So this is what I meant. Like, do you see how big the place is? Like the place is literally

00:18:25.600 massive because like, there's me and like tiny little me. And then there's like the entire

00:18:31.040 temple. So it's, it's like a huge, huge place. Right. Um, there you go. All right. So that's

00:18:40.840 my little uh little um you know little intro to elam i've literally been to elam i've visited all

00:18:51.900 that stuff so and you know what it's really unfortunate i was gonna say it's really

00:18:56.060 unfortunate how the um islamic regime just like has the whole place in a state of disrepair like

00:19:00.720 this could have been a very very cool um historical like international tourist site 1.00

00:19:07.640 like the pyramids or whatever um but the islamic regime keeps everything in a state of disrepair 0.99

00:19:12.920 on purpose because they're just hoping that everything will be destroyed because they hate 0.98

00:19:18.960 everything pre-islam right so that's why it's like the place is literally in a desert there's like no 0.99

00:19:25.200 tourist center no public washrooms like nothing so um yeah it's it's just terrible what they do 1.00

00:19:33.340 But anyways, there's Elam.

00:19:35.080 There's Elam.

00:19:36.000 And you got like firsthand photos, I guess, of Elam.

00:19:40.760 The valley's tar pits swallowed some fleeing soldiers while the remaining ran for the hills.

00:19:46.160 As you can imagine, the king of Elam didn't stop there.

00:19:48.800 And so the rebellious cities were raided and the citizens were carried off. 0.93

00:19:53.480 Lot was one of them.

00:19:55.180 This is the part where the tables turned and not in a way that people expected.

00:19:59.540 Abraham, another famous man from the Bible, decided that he and his 318 trained men from his household would not sit around.

00:20:07.900 So he pursued the victorious king's north all the way past Dan and launched a night ambush.

00:20:13.580 By God's guidance alone, Abraham routed Kurdaloma's forces, recovering Lot, the other captives, and all the stolen goods. 0.77

00:20:23.220 I was so taken aback the first time I saw this. 0.94

00:20:26.180 because straight after the battle, Abraham meets Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the

00:20:32.100 Most High God. Melchizedek blesses Abraham, offers him bread and wine, and makes it clear that it

00:20:38.260 was God who had delivered Abraham's enemies into his hands. This is not a detail we can just skip

00:20:43.160 past because it was a beautiful picture of another high priest, a king who had come thousands of

00:20:48.340 years later, and who would also tell all those who trust in him to share in his supper, the bread and

00:20:53.660 wine. And we do this to remember the death that he died for us. I suppose what I'm really trying

00:20:58.460 to say here is that Melchizedek was a sneak peek that points to the eternal king of kings, 0.59

00:21:04.060 the God-man Jesus Christ. In 559 BC, our story takes a dramatic turn. Enter Cyrus II, later

00:21:12.760 called Cyrus the Great. We pick up straight after Babylon had destroyed Jerusalem. It is here where 0.72

00:21:18.100 we find Cyrus is now leading the Persians. Next, he married the daughter of the Median king Astyages. 0.91

00:21:24.320 This literally united the Persian tribes and other Iranian peoples. You would think his father-in-law

00:21:30.360 would be happy, but not King Astyages. No, he saw him as a problem. And unbelievably, he was right.

00:21:37.620 In a clever campaign, Cyrus defeated Astyages and even convinced some of his troops to join him. 0.96

00:21:43.440 and you thought your family had drama by 550 bc the median empire was gone and the persian empire

00:21:50.560 was born but here's the part most historians forget to mention the bible had predicted cyrus's

00:21:56.240 rise at least 150 years before he was born isaiah calls him shepherd and anointed saying he would

00:22:04.160 conquer nations and rebuild jerusalem and even the temple i believe the most unreal part of this

00:22:10.240 prediction, though, is the fact that Cyrus is specifically named in Isaiah 44, verse 28.

00:22:17.060 Even Cyrus himself is said to have read these words and to have been amazed by the accuracy

00:22:21.820 of scripture. But what do you think? Do you think God was clearly guiding history using a king to

00:22:28.120 fulfill a plan he'd written centuries earlier? Or do you think it's all just one big coincidence?

00:22:34.000 One thing cannot be denied. Cyrus didn't stop after uniting Persia. He went on to crush the

00:22:39.840 Lydians in the west. And then he turned his eyes towards Babylon, the most incredible city anyone

00:22:45.180 had ever seen. Imagine this scenario, walls so tall that they make you feel like an ant. These

00:22:50.880 walls are over 90 meters high and they're broad enough for chariots to race along the top. They

00:22:55.740 have bronze gates gleaming in the sun and towers that even touch the clouds. Are you imagining

00:23:01.280 this right now? Because even the elusive Euphrates River flowed right through the middle, keeping the

00:23:07.100 city rich and alive. However, inside these grand walls, pride ruled as much as any king. One night

00:23:14.520 while King Belshazzar was throwing a wild feast, whilst he was drinking from cups that were stolen

00:23:19.340 from God's temple in Jerusalem, an unexplainable hand appeared out of nowhere and wrote glowing

00:23:25.100 words across the wall. Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin. It sounds almost unbelievable, but it really

00:23:32.900 happen but what made matters even worse is that no one knew what it meant until daniel was brought

00:23:39.060 in he explained that babylon's time was up and that god would give the kingdom to the medes and

00:23:44.500 persians that very night as the party roared on the prophecy came true cyrus's troops had made an

00:23:51.280 incredibly calculating move they had quietly diverted the euphrates river lowering its water

00:23:57.000 until they could sneak right under the city walls through the riverbed normally those huge inner

00:24:02.920 gates of bronze and iron would have stopped them cold but on that night unusually they had left them

00:24:10.360 wolfie conservative uh hi goldie just want to wish you merry christmas have a safe one

00:24:16.920 nsw rushed through more hate speech laws can't talk islam jews mass immigration oh my gosh wow

00:24:25.240 uh well first of all merry christmas to you and yours wishing you all very very merry christmas

00:24:30.760 happy holidays all the best in the new year um really sorry about what's going on in australia

00:24:37.720 it's kind of messed up it's like um like i'm still trying to wrap my mind around it right 0.94

00:24:45.000 like you have a bunch of islamic terrorists who um mass murder australian jews and then in response

00:24:53.080 the australian government wants to restrict gun laws and you know impose like hate speech laws 0.98

00:25:01.640 it's it's absolutely ridiculous what's going on um it's um it's an upside down world unfortunately

00:25:08.040 it's really really messed up but um yeah i i will definitely make videos about that in the future

00:25:14.200 for sure because um it's just it's mind-boggling it's mind-boggling so yeah but keep up the good

00:25:22.120 fight wide open the soldiers slipped in without even breaking a fingernail and before dawn

00:25:29.640 babylon had fallen exactly as god said it would but hey now i can hear exactly what you're thinking

00:25:36.600 joe is this the ancient prophecy that most people don't know about no it's not this one came from

00:25:42.800 isaiah and it was written about 200 years earlier than belshazzar's party in this prophecy that

00:25:48.580 we're talking about. It predicted that God would break in pieces the gates of brass and cut through

00:25:54.020 the bars of iron. And it even describes how the loins of the king would tremble. And guess what?

00:26:00.180 That's exactly what happened. Belshazzar was removed, Darius the Mede took charge under Cyrus's 0.79

00:26:05.420 new empire, and Daniel found favor once again, serving near the top of the kingdom. Not long

00:26:11.520 after the dust had settled, in around 539 BC, Daniel faced one of his most unforgettable moments

00:26:18.440 of life, the lion's den. Under the new Medo-Persian rule, jealous officials tricked Darius into signing

00:26:24.900 a law that banned prayer for anyone except the king. Daniel, being Daniel, kept praying anyway,

00:26:31.400 and so what happened? He was thrown into the den of lions. But God shut their mouth, and that night

00:26:37.060 he showed the whole Persian court that the living God of Israel ruled over every empire, over every

00:26:42.720 creature even lions and that no one should mess with a man of God. Now I do want you to pay close 0.55

00:26:49.360 attention because Babylon the city that once mocked God and crushed his people was now finished. So 0.97

00:26:55.240 let's just pause on that for a second because through this Iranian man God was setting his 0.86

00:27:00.780 people free just as he promised to do long ago. Don't forget that fact because it will leave you 1.00

00:27:06.320 speechless when you see the powerful plot twist later on this timeline. But right now listen to

00:27:12.200 this. Though Babylon now lies in ruins, the Bible tells us of another Babylon yet to come. It talks

00:27:18.920 about it in the last book of the Bible, Revelation. Just like the first Babylon, this one too will 1.00

00:27:24.500 fall. So my friend, I can assure you of one thing, no empire, no matter how powerful, no matter how

00:27:30.540 great there is a man on this world, no matter how famous, none of them can stand forever. None of

00:27:35.600 them can stand against God's plans. So that is why you would be very wise to stand in the light of

00:27:41.800 lord jesus christ right now before the darkness of babylon rises up again by the way if you doubt

00:27:48.360 the bible's reliability fix your eyes on this archaeological discovery this clay artifact is

00:27:54.360 known as cyrus's cylinder it's super old it's dated to 538 bc making this football sized artifact

00:28:01.880 2 560 years old so what makes this clay tube so special anyway well it's what it says on it that

00:28:09.080 turns heads covered by ancient arcadian writing it states that cyrus declares that the conquered

00:28:15.480 peoples by the babylonians are now free to return to their lands free to rebuild their temples

00:28:21.640 free to worship their own god you do realize how massive this is empires never freed their captives

00:28:28.600 it was unheard of but cyrus did but if you thought that was special wait until you hear this the bible

00:28:34.440 also records a near identical decree but it's addressed to the jews in ezra chapter one verses

00:28:40.840 two to three cyrus wright someone asked me why i'm not talking that's because i'm literally what

00:28:47.400 i'm watching a documentary and i'm learning like what do you want me to say like do you want random

00:28:53.480 commercial interruptions or something i mean um if you were here at the beginning of the live stream

00:28:58.440 I spoke for about a good 10, 15 minutes. I even showed photos of me visiting Elam back in 2010.

00:29:07.400 So where were you for that? So, I mean, I don't know what you want me to say. Like, what am I

00:29:12.480 supposed to say to this? I'm like, oh, yeah, OK, cool. Interesting. You just want me to pause

00:29:15.640 randomly and be like, yes, I agree. And then, no, I'm watching a documentary. And if I have

00:29:21.280 something to say, I'll say it. But I mean, what do you want me to just like play random commercials

00:29:27.380 in the middle i don't understand so like i'm just i'm fascinated by this topic all right here's my

00:29:33.780 little rant so there you go thus says cyrus king of persia the lord the god of heaven has given me

00:29:42.980 all the god now i lost my train of thought and i have to go back a few minutes to like catch up

00:29:49.460 again all right 2 560 years old so what makes this clay tube so special anyway well it's what

00:29:58.260 it says on it that turns heads covered by ancient arcadian writing it states that cyrus declares

00:30:05.300 that the conquered peoples by the babylonians are now free to return to their lands free to rebuild

00:30:11.220 their temples free to worship their own god you do realize how massive this is that's the cyrus

00:30:18.260 cylinder right like guys that's that's this emoji here that i have so for the channel members this

00:30:25.620 this emoji here um that's basically the cyrus cylinder and the cyrus cylinder is essentially

00:30:34.500 um the first manifestation of human rights and freedom of religion um so what's interesting

00:30:42.580 about this is that this isn't this isn't just like a biblical story this is literally um in

00:30:49.620 in my history as an iranian right so um aside from the bible this is like literally persian history

00:30:58.340 um iranian history so that's kind of cool empires never freed their captives it was unheard of but

00:31:07.540 Cyrus did. But if you thought that was special, wait until you hear this. The Bible also records

00:31:12.920 a near identical decree, but it's addressed to the Jews. In Ezra chapter 1 verses 2 to 3, Cyrus

00:31:19.480 writes, thus says Cyrus, king of Persia, the Lord, the God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms

00:31:25.560 of the earth and has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem. Guys, that's not just tolerance

00:31:31.680 from a Persian king, but rather a man acknowledging that the God of Israel is the real boss.

00:31:37.540 okay okay i know how much you guys love archaeology so get a load of this under cyrus's command the

00:31:43.860 exiles began their long journey home by 538 bc the first wave finally arrived in jerusalem and

00:31:51.620 step by step they started to rebuild the temple this is the very structure that would later be

00:31:56.500 known as the second temple centuries have passed and yet we still have remains of it today there's

00:32:02.580 the robinson's arch jutting out over the western wall the massive stones of the temple mount

00:32:07.460 itself ritual baths the remnants of the holder gates and even the trumpeting stone where priests

00:32:13.700 once announced their festivals this was all only possible because god used the iranian king cyrus

00:32:20.260 to fulfill his plans and that is exactly why this persian end times prophecy that very few know

00:32:26.020 about makes total sense but at the same time it doesn't make sense at all i was really okay

00:32:34.020 what do you guys think this like persian or iranian end times prophecy is like let me know

00:32:41.620 let me give me your guess i have no idea what this end times prophecy is but um let me know

00:32:48.100 struck by the next period of our timeline in around 525 bc persia had gone from a small

00:32:54.660 regional power to one of the biggest empires in the world and daniel living in the courts of

00:32:59.860 babylon and later persia got visions from the lord that predicted all of this with a scary accuracy

00:33:06.900 do you know what one of the most striking visions was in daniel chapter 7 to 8 daniel saw four

00:33:12.420 unexpected creatures rising from chaotic waters one of these creatures was a huge bear it was

00:33:18.660 raised on one side and that was supposed to symbolize persia that lean it showed that persia

00:33:24.420 would rule over its neighbor, the Medes. Daniel also saw three ribs in the bear's mouth. Those

00:33:30.840 were Persia's major conquests, Lydia, Babylon, and Egypt. So come on now, what do you think? What do

00:33:37.300 you think went down after Daniel saw this? Well, you're not wrong. Persia crushed Lydia in Asia

00:33:42.480 Minor, took Babylon in 539 BC, and under Cabeuses II marched across Sinai to defeat Egypt's Pharaoh

00:33:50.980 at Pellaeusium. Simply put, Daniel's vision wasn't just imagination, it was a preview of real history.

00:33:59.300 May I go deeper? Daniel saw another creature, a ram with two horns. One horn was longer than the

00:34:05.640 other, changing in every direction. What was this ram meant to represent? It was the kings of the

00:34:11.160 Medes and Persia, unstoppable in their conquests. The taller horn hinted that Persia would rule over 0.96

00:34:17.040 the Medes. But just then, Daniel sees something else. A swift goat suddenly appears from the west,

00:34:22.660 striking the ram with a single horn. You see, that goat wasn't just any animal, it symbolized

00:34:28.980 Greece under Alexander the Great, showing how even the mighty Persian Empire, unstoppable as it

00:34:35.060 seemed, would be overpowered by a new force sweeping in from the west. And then a leopard

00:34:41.180 appears. Fast, ruthless, with four wings and four heads. At first it doesn't make any sense until

00:34:47.620 nearly two centuries later when Alexander the Great arrives. It's 333 BC and this young Macedonian

00:34:54.940 king moves faster than anyone before him. At Issus the Persians led by King Darius III collapse in

00:35:01.220 chaos. Darius flees leaving his family behind and they eventually got taken away by Alexander.

00:35:07.360 Two years later, in 331 BC, the final strike lands at Gorgamila, completing the Persian Empire's fall.

00:35:15.680 Finally comes the fourth and last beast in Daniel's vision.

00:35:19.580 This is by far the scariest.

00:35:21.780 Unlike any kingdom before, it has iron teeth, claws and strength that crushes everything in its path.

00:35:28.140 And when you look at the timeline of world history, it's obvious which beast is being represented here.

00:35:33.900 Rome.

00:35:34.380 a kingdom so powerful and so ruthless it would rule the world for centuries and you know exactly 0.98

00:35:40.080 what i'm talking about because the world under roman rule was the world that jesus lived in 0.89

00:35:44.920 when he walked on earth and in the end it was roman soldiers who nailed him to a cross and yet

00:35:50.800 that wasn't rome's doing it was all part of god's plan all along on that cross jesus took our place

00:35:57.920 carrying our sin our wrongdoing so that you and i can be forgiven and free just a little diversion

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00:36:26.660 Alright, last time I checked, this was one of the world's biggest ziggurats.

00:36:31.260 and it's found in susa the capital of persia and it is here in this city that it would become the 1.00

00:36:38.140 so susa is shush dar oh my gosh like i literally have family in shush dar

00:36:45.020 i'm from shush dar like i'm from that whole area so cool stage for one of the world's

00:36:50.220 most unexpected miracles you and i have arrived in the book of esther at a time when persia is

00:36:56.300 at its peak yes ancient iran has just become the largest empire the world has ever seen stretching

00:37:02.380 from india to ethiopia that's an impressive span of 3 000 miles but i wonder if anyone else is

00:37:08.540 asking where are we on the timeline now well it's around 480 bc nearly 60 years after cyrus first

00:37:15.580 freed the jewish exiles to return home some have gone back to jerusalem to rebuild the temple but

00:37:21.180 but many decided to stay behind in Persia.

00:37:23.700 That's where our story unfolds.

00:37:25.740 The king on the throne is King Xerxes I,

00:37:28.600 known in the Bible as Asheruerus.

00:37:30.760 He was ruling from 486 to 465 BC.

00:37:35.380 History tells us he's the same ruler

00:37:37.560 who launched massive wars against Greece

00:37:39.800 and who lived in incredible luxury at his palace in Susa,

00:37:43.320 which is what we now know to be modern-day Iran.

00:37:45.920 My friend, it all begins with a scandal at the royal feast.

00:37:49.860 Xerxes calls for his queen, Vashti, to show off her beauty before the other nobles.

00:37:55.160 She is totally embarrassed and refuses.

00:37:58.120 So in a rage, he removes her from her crown.

00:38:01.100 The king is now single and looking to mingle.

00:38:04.200 And so he calls for a nationwide search for a new queen.

00:38:07.520 And as you can...

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00:39:19.940 of things. But thank you for the support. I really appreciate that means a lot to me. And again,

00:39:26.980 for those of you who are joining in for the first time, and I see a lot of you in the chat,

00:39:32.660 in the YouTube chat, who are saying, you know, it's your first time in the live stream,

00:39:35.820 and you just found me today, you just subbed. Welcome. Thank you so much for for being here.

00:39:40.680 Just want to let you guys know my evening live streams, like the one that's happening right now is usually more chill. It's less focused on like modern day politics and Islamic terrorism and things like that. It's just more an opportunity for me to watch documentaries that I find interesting and, you know, people join in and we kind of watch it together.

00:40:02.540 So, of course, in honor of, you know, it being the eve of Christmas Eve, I'm playing a couple of documentaries about Iran in the Bible.

00:40:16.100 So, you know, kind of keeping it kind of keeping it sort of on topic, you know, because it's still sort of Middle Eastern.

00:40:21.860 But, you know, it's more lighthearted.

00:40:24.040 It's not all like death and destruction and gloom and despair.

00:40:27.680 That's, you know, pretty much every other every other day of the week.

00:40:32.220 So I figured for, you know, Christmas Eve, we can do something a little bit more lighthearted, a little bit more Christmassy, but also, you know, interesting as well.

00:40:41.640 Will, God bless. Merry Christmas. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas to you, too.

00:40:45.820 Wishing you all the best, you know, in the holiday season and in the new year.

00:40:53.160 I am going to be making a short video tomorrow.

00:40:57.000 since you guys are here on the live stream, you know, I'll give you the, you know, sneak, sneak

00:41:01.760 preview. Um, so I'm going to be posting a short video tomorrow, um, about the birth of Jesus

00:41:08.680 Christ and how the three wise men were Persian. They were actually Zoroastrian priests. They were

00:41:15.360 magi. So I will be making a short video about that in honor of all of my Christian friends,

00:41:22.380 followers and supporters um mordred exit signs they're on the way out uh i i think so too i

00:41:30.260 think so too i mean all we can do is is pray and um and you know just support support the people

00:41:38.720 of iran um in their fight to overthrow the islamic dictatorship and and reclaim the country

00:41:44.340 probably imagine from what we already know about this guy beauty was the number one requirement

00:41:51.740 Among the many beautiful women brought to the palace, there was a young Jewish woman named 0.99

00:41:57.340 Hadassah, known by her Persian name as Esther. She's been raised by her cousin Mordecai,

00:42:03.080 who serves under the king's gate. And interestingly, archaeology even mentions a Persian official

00:42:08.240 named Marduka, possibly the very same Mordecai. Funnily enough, the woman of God Esther wins the 0.84

00:42:14.980 beauty contest and is chosen as queen. Meanwhile, trouble brews in the shadows.

00:42:20.560 A royal advisor named Haman plots to destroy all the Jews across the Persian Empire. 0.62

00:42:26.520 He's manipulative, he's proud and unhelpfully close to the king's ear.

00:42:31.140 When Mordecai learns of the plan, he sends a message to Esther.

00:42:34.860 You're in this palace for a reason and maybe this is your moment.

00:42:39.180 The tension is brutal.

00:42:40.640 If Esther speaks up without being summoned, she could be dealt with suddenly.

00:42:44.820 But if she stays silent, her people will die.

00:42:48.100 so she bravely risks everything and walks into the throne room uninvited. Esther breathed a sigh

00:42:54.760 of relief when the king held out his golden scepter. This was a symbol of mercy and acceptance.

00:43:01.440 Before we discover what happens next just remember this that moment is a really beautiful picture

00:43:06.900 of Jesus. He is our golden scepter. He is the one who bridges the gap between God and us because he

00:43:13.820 became the substitute for our sin on the cross we can now come boldly before the king of heaven

00:43:19.580 and enjoy fellowship with our creator but there is a catch and it's only if you and i like esther

00:43:25.980 will take the first step and approach the king for help and for salvation okay so esther has done

00:43:32.340 just that she's asked for help and she's exposed haman's plot the king is furious and has haman

00:43:38.860 put on the very gallows that he built for mordecai the jews are saved and in fact this act of courage

00:43:44.700 is still remembered today in the jewish festival of purim celebrated every spring when i first

00:43:50.860 started this study i was really surprised because there is something very remarkable that happens

00:43:56.220 all of this action happens inside of a persian court in what is now the heart of what we call

00:44:01.900 iran so can you also see how iran keeps recurring again and again in the bible well in a moment's

00:44:08.220 time we are going to see how the world will end with Iran with a very famous end times prophecy

00:44:13.320 and then I'll show you one that's not so famous. It's 450 BC. Persia is still the superpower of 0.64

00:44:21.060 the world. The same empire that once crowned Queen Esther now rules from the palace at Susa,

00:44:26.400 deep in modern day Iran. Hey, let's meet another Jewish servant who changed the world. He's called 0.99

00:44:31.680 Nehemiah. Nehemiah was a cupbearer to King Artaxerxes I, who reigned from 465 to 424 BC.

00:44:40.860 Now, a cupbearer wasn't just a waiter. He was one of the king's most trusted officials,

00:44:45.920 close enough to taste the royal wine before the king did, just in case someone tried to

00:44:50.120 tamper with it before it reached royalty's lips. What would you do if you were in his shoes?

00:44:55.640 One day, Nehemiah hears devastating news.

00:44:59.180 Jerusalem, his people's city, still lies in ruins.

00:45:02.760 The temple had been rebuilt decades earlier

00:45:05.260 under Zerubbabel and Ezra.

00:45:07.240 But the city walls, they were now rubble,

00:45:10.420 defenseless, a ghost of its former city.

00:45:13.420 If you've never tried prayer,

00:45:14.700 may I challenge you to try it?

00:45:16.140 Because big things happen when we pray big prayers.

00:45:19.700 And this prayer was what emboldened Nehemiah

00:45:22.220 to ask permission from the most powerful man on earth

00:45:24.800 to rebuild the city walls.

00:45:26.580 You probably already know that the king said yes.

00:45:29.080 So let's travel to 445 BC

00:45:31.780 because it is here where we will see Nehemiah

00:45:34.480 setting out across the desert

00:45:36.140 from the royal court of Persia

00:45:38.060 to the broken streets of Jerusalem.

00:45:40.280 Picture this, enemies threatening him from every side,

00:45:43.000 but he doesn't give up.

00:45:44.100 No, instead he organizes builders, families,

00:45:46.960 even priests to grab tools in one hand

00:45:49.000 and protective devices in the other.

00:45:51.140 Are you imagining this right now?

00:45:52.520 Because astoundingly, in just 52 days, the wall rises again.

00:45:58.400 Between you and me, this isn't just a legend written in a book.

00:46:01.640 Archaeologists have literally found it.

00:46:03.820 In Jerusalem's ancient city, near the step stone structure,

00:46:07.360 researchers uncovered a massive wall, 19 feet thick, built directly over earlier ruins.

00:46:14.480 The pottery fragments around it date precisely to the Persian period,

00:46:18.040 and the construction looks rushed, just as Nehemiah described.

00:46:21.020 it even matches the sections built by Shalon mentioned in Nehemiah 3 verses 15 to 16. So again

00:46:28.660 I'll ask you can you see this pattern repeating throughout the history of Iran? Well I'm going to 1.00

00:46:33.300 choose my words very carefully but think about it. A Persian king funds the restoration of a Jewish 0.85

00:46:38.900 city hundreds of miles away. In other words the empire of Iran plays a direct role in rebuilding

00:46:45.360 Jerusalem story and that is why their biblical destiny is even more fascinating later on. There

00:46:52.540 is an even more famous example of this and it happened centuries later in 4 BC. Persia is about

00:46:58.120 to play a key part in the announcement of the coming of the Messiah. In Matthew 2 the Magi aka 0.98

00:47:05.060 the wise men from the east traveled to Jerusalem following a star asking where is this newborn king

00:47:11.200 of the jews okay it's mega important that we don't forget that their nationality isn't directly

00:47:17.640 mentioned for evidence points to the ancient lands of the medo persian empire modern day iran and

00:47:24.280 these men scholars of astronomy and did i not just tell you the three wise men are persian

00:47:30.120 they were zoroastrian magi i just said that and i said i'm gonna make a video about it tomorrow so

00:47:38.000 So there you go. There you go. The three wise men. The three wise men were Persian. Zoroastrians.

00:47:45.400 Prophecy likely studied Daniel's writings, including the 70 weeks prophecy. And if you're 0.94

00:47:51.420 a Bible student, you'll know that it outlined the timeline of the Messiah's arrival. Again,

00:47:56.560 my friend, we cannot say for certain that's what guided them. But we do know that they

00:48:00.740 recognized the significance of the star and they journeyed across deserts bearing gift of gold,

00:48:06.000 frankincense and myrrh each symbolically representing christ's kingship divinity and

00:48:12.480 final sacrificial mission of dying upon a cross for the sins of the world okay i know exactly what

00:48:19.200 some of you are thinking you're saying joe i bet the unheard of prophecy you've been hyping up for

00:48:25.040 this entire video is this one well i'm afraid you'd actually be wrong kind of in the book of

00:48:32.000 of Ezekiel written around 580 BC, the prophet describes a war unlike any other. In this war,

00:48:39.060 a coalition of nations rises from the uttermost north. And who are they led by? Well, it's by a

00:48:45.860 mysterious figure named Gog from the land of Magog. His armies sweep towards Israel and among the 0.85

00:48:52.840 nations with him, one name stands out even today, Persia, modern day Iran. Guys, to really grasp 0.98

00:49:00.120 this, we have to go back to Genesis and back to Noah again. Noah's son Japheth had descendants

00:49:05.880 named Magog, Meshach and Tubal. Ancient records trace their migrations northward across the

00:49:12.360 Caucasus mountains into the vast plains that would one day become Russia. So it's time we fast

00:49:17.940 forward to Ezekiel's time. Babylon is still a powerhouse. Persia is just emerging and Israel 0.63

00:49:23.240 is living in exile. Yet Ezekiel sees far beyond his own century. He describes a leader, Gog,

00:49:30.120 the chief of Meshech and Chubal,

00:49:32.880 who would come from the far north 0.78

00:49:34.840 to invade a restored Israel in the last days. 0.53

00:49:38.420 The Hebrew phrase literally means

00:49:40.280 the uttermost parts of the north.

00:49:42.880 From Jerusalem's point of view, 0.89

00:49:44.380 there's only one nation 0.58

00:49:45.560 that fits that description perfectly, Russia. 0.52

00:49:48.540 Now, I'm not gonna say anything else on this

00:49:50.480 because some of you know,

00:49:51.440 I did a deep dive into ancient history

00:49:53.520 on why I do believe this is Russia in a previous video.

00:49:57.060 But I will also say this, I could be wrong.

00:49:59.580 and some of you I know strongly disagree with this viewpoint.

00:50:03.120 Anyway, whether you believe it's Russia or not, this is fact now. 0.93

00:50:06.780 Next to Russia is Persia or Iran,

00:50:09.500 and they are directly named in Ezekiel 38 verse 5.

00:50:13.500 Alongside them, Kush, which many of us know to be the modern day Ethiopia,

00:50:18.120 and Putt is Libya,

00:50:19.500 whilst Gomer many believe is to be linked to early German tribes.

00:50:24.180 And Beth Togomar is well known to be ancient Turkey and Asia Minor.

00:50:28.360 This is a pretty unusual alliance, part Middle Eastern, part European and part African

00:50:35.020 and yet all marching towards Israel.

00:50:38.060 Now according to our timeline, this prophecy was written 2,600 years ago

00:50:43.400 and yet the alliances we see today, Russia's partnership with Iran

00:50:47.940 and then there's this cooperation with Turkey and even influence spreading across Africa.

00:50:53.360 It mirrors what we've heard in the Bible with an uncanny precision.

00:50:57.560 But I believe that's nothing compared to the way that the world currently views Israel

00:51:02.180 I won't say any more on this apart from this

00:51:04.900 Can you think of another country that all the nations of the world are watching

00:51:09.080 And are openly unifying against

00:51:11.820 Just like the Bible predicted would happen in the last days

00:51:15.460 Comment below if you think I'm reaching here

00:51:17.380 Because again I'll say I could be very wrong about this

00:51:20.200 And these are just my interpretations on these subjects

00:51:23.540 Alright, if all of that made you think outside of the box

00:51:26.740 wait until you see this. Why did I say no one can explain this timeline? And why do I think very few

00:51:33.680 know about this hidden bible prophecy about Iran? Well this is why. Iran is a nation that once saved 0.81

00:51:40.260 Israel. It later betrayed Israel and one day it will be saved by Israel's God. Let me break it

00:51:46.620 down step by step. As we follow the biblical thread you've got Cyrus the Great freeing the

00:51:51.420 Jews in 539 BC. Darius I supporting the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple. Artaxerxes granting

00:51:59.640 Nehemiah permission and resources to rebuild Jerusalem's walls. And even the Magi from Persia 0.96

00:52:06.240 honoring Jesus centuries later. A remarkable pattern of Persia appearing again and again

00:52:12.760 as a surprising deliverer of God's people. Persia begins as a deliverer, becomes a worshipper with

00:52:18.860 magi and then becomes an enemy and then finally somehow ends up sorry i just had to pause here so

00:52:27.100 um i want to go back and pay and listen to that part again but batman says the three wise men

00:52:33.500 are also canonized saints really i i did not know that oh my gosh

00:52:40.220 What do you write this down?

00:52:50.220 Wow, I had no idea. So it's January 6. And it's Feast of the Epiphany.

00:52:58.220 That is so cool. Wow, thank you so much for sharing. I literally had no clue.

00:53:06.800 I'm going to look into, I will definitely add that to my video tomorrow

00:53:12.320 when I speak about the three wise men.

00:53:14.540 Thank you for sharing, Batman.

00:53:15.900 That was really helpful.

00:53:16.920 Okay, I want to go back a little bit here.

00:53:21.500 Let's go back just a tiny bit.

00:53:23.240 Okay. 0.66

00:53:24.780 The Great, freeing the Jews in 539 BC.

00:53:29.300 Darius I supporting the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple.

00:53:33.000 Artaxerxes granting Nehemiah permission and resources to rebuild Jerusalem's walls

00:53:38.660 and even the Magi from Persia honoring Jesus centuries later.

00:53:44.020 A remarkable pattern of Persia appearing again and again as a surprising deliverer of God's people.

00:53:51.000 Persia begins as a deliverer, becomes a worshipper with the Magi and then becomes an enemy

00:53:56.000 and then finally somehow ends up as a redeemed people. 0.70

00:54:00.000 A four-act divine irony written across millennia in the pages of the Bible.

00:54:06.060 Cyrus is even called by the name in Isaiah 45, long before he's born, as my anointed one,

00:54:12.300 the man who would set the captives free, and he does.

00:54:15.580 Centuries later, the Magi from Persia bow down before God incarnate, 0.75

00:54:19.660 showing that the empire that once released God's people now worships him. 0.93

00:54:24.280 And then history turns.

00:54:25.520 Persia, modern-day Iran, reappears in a prophecy as part of the Northern Alliance in Ezekiel 38 and 39 0.69

00:54:33.600 Standing with Gog against Israel 0.95

00:54:36.200 The very nation that once delivered God's people becomes part of the force that tries to destroy them 0.99

00:54:42.200 Isn't that a huge plot twist?

00:54:44.420 But wait, there's more

00:54:45.820 Remember how I told you that there seems to be a special place in God's heart for the people of Iran?

00:54:51.020 Well, here's the proof in the prophecy that no one seems to talk about

00:54:55.300 in the last days I will restore the fortunes of Elam showing that Iran is not doomed forever

00:55:02.280 it will be humbled yes but then restored I wonder what goes to your mind when you hear that

00:55:08.320 because Zechariah 14 verse 16 echoes this vision the survivors of the nations that march to

00:55:15.320 Jerusalem will come back to celebrate and worship the king and I think that means Elam itself this

00:55:22.440 nation that was once consumed by fury will now be filled with praise. Let me

00:55:27.340 let you into a secret. I also have a special love for Iranians ever since we

00:55:32.220 first started to do a Farsi Bible study at our church because the Lord kept

00:55:36.420 sending Iranians to our church who wanted to learn more about Jesus. Above 0.79

00:55:41.040 all if you are a Christian you too should start remembering Iran in your

00:55:45.520 prayers because if I was to ask you which country in the world right now has

00:55:49.560 seen the most converts in the last 10 years, what would you say? Well, the answer is actually Iran.

00:55:56.880 Despite intense circumstances, Iran has experienced one of the most remarkable

00:56:01.480 Christian revivals in modern day history. Estimates suggest that between 800,000 and

00:56:07.620 3 million Iranians have converted to Christianity in recent years. This growth is huge, especially 0.91

00:56:14.280 considering that in 1979 there was believed to only be 500 christians in the entire country

00:56:21.480 and get this reports even indicate that 2 000 iranians every day are turning to the lord jesus

00:56:28.600 christ in repentance and faith so over to you how do you untangle all of this then because the

00:56:34.600 destiny of iran isn't just national it's also personal for you and me what god does for iran

00:56:41.000 he does for every believer. He takes what's opposing him and he makes it holy. He redeems

00:56:46.340 what's rebelled and restores what was lost. The same pattern runs through the gospel. We were

00:56:52.540 once enemies to God, yet Romans 5 says, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Judgment

00:57:00.920 became mercy and wrath turned into grace. That's why this timeline matters. Even a nation that was

00:57:07.520 destined for judgment isn't beyond redemption. Cyrus opened the gates of Babylon to free God's

00:57:13.780 people and centuries later Jesus opened the gates of death when he rose from the dead to free all

00:57:19.760 people who will trust in him. At the very end of the world when the nations gather in worship

00:57:25.260 I do believe one of them that will stand there humbled and restored will be Iran singing to the

00:57:31.360 same king the Magi once knelt before. So if you remember one thing, remember this. No nation, 0.68

00:57:37.400 no country, and no heart is too far gone for God's love and for his restoration. But hey now,

00:57:43.560 if you're still saying to me, Joe, I just don't understand how Russia could possibly fit into

00:57:48.800 Bible prophecy. Well, you should probably check out this video here. All right, so, um, wow.

00:57:55.580 wow that was really nice you know what's interesting i actually made a video yesterday

00:58:02.380 where i explained how christianity is the fastest growing religion in occupied iran and

00:58:11.580 zoroastrianism is the second fastest growing religion um in occupied iran so you know

00:58:18.840 zoroastrianism is is the original original religion and so you know all of those people

00:58:24.620 that are mentioned in the Bible, you know, Cyrus the Great, the three wise men, they're all

00:58:29.900 Zoroastrian. So even the three wise men that apparently are canonized as saints, they were 0.63

00:58:38.420 Zoroastrian too. And yeah, so Christianity is the fastest growing religion and Zoroastrianism

00:58:46.280 is the second fastest. And, you know, there's always been a connection between Christianity,

00:58:53.240 Zoroastrianism and Judaism. So what a, what a very nice way to end that video. Um, very,

00:59:00.660 very nice way. Oh, wow. Okay. So we have a message here from Sam love and support you as an ex

00:59:08.600 Iranian Muslim converted to Christianity 24 years ago. Wow. You know, I know a lot of Iranians who

00:59:16.820 have converted to Christianity. And, you know, part of the reason is because, you know,

00:59:25.100 living under an Islamic dictatorship, no, Iran doesn't have any Druze, no. But, you know, 0.89

00:59:32.260 living under an Islamic dictatorship, Iranians have pretty much, they pretty much know what 0.67

00:59:37.560 Sharia law is like, you know, we're all taught the Quran. It's, you know, it's not a nice book, 1.00

00:59:48.380 let's put it that way. It doesn't really talk about love or understanding or anything like

00:59:54.520 that. And so, you know, less than 20% of Iranians today identify as Muslim. The vast majority are

01:00:02.760 definitely, I would say, atheist or agnostic because Iranians are just done with religion 1.00

01:00:10.540 in general. But there is a growing population of Iranians who are secretly converting to

01:00:19.660 Christianity. So Christianity, again, is the fastest growing. Zoroastrianism is the second 0.83

01:00:25.620 fastest growing. But I would say at least 50% of Iranians are pretty much like just agnostic or 0.90

01:00:32.320 atheist. Like they're just, they're just sick and tired of, of religion. And part of that is because 1.00

01:00:38.060 of the, I guess the, the, the trauma from dealing with Sharia law. Um, they just, you know, want 1.00

01:00:47.900 nothing, nothing to do with it whatsoever. Um, wow. Juan, thank you so much for, um, recommending

01:00:55.980 that video. I know you recommended that, that video to me a while ago. Um, I hadn't gone around

01:01:02.140 to watching it until tonight so i'm kind of glad that i saved it for the eve before christmas eve

01:01:11.020 um i have i have one more video if you guys are interested honestly like there's a lot of people

01:01:18.300 watching tonight um not that i'm complaining like i'm grateful to to have all of you here

01:01:23.740 but i'll be honest i didn't think that tonight's topic would have this much interest from from

01:01:31.660 people. Cause you know, usually I focus on, on politics and terrorism and things like that,

01:01:36.940 but, um, I'm, I'm, I'm glad that you guys are finding interest in, in these videos. So, okay,

01:01:46.160 I will, I'll play the second one. I'll play the second video. Um, wait, we have, we have a super

01:01:51.580 chat here. So Dorman says my Indian Parsi friends would be so happy to know about the resurgence

01:01:58.560 of their ancestral religion in Iran?

01:02:02.700 Yeah, absolutely, tell them. 0.88

01:02:04.360 It's great news for sure.

01:02:08.080 Okay, so here's, let me just share again the first video.

01:02:15.480 Share screen.

01:02:19.420 Okay, so.

01:02:28.560 Jas P. Buck, love your channel and the knowledge you share. I've watched so much of your content

01:02:34.880 and have one question. What is your religion or are you atheist or agnostic?

01:02:42.240 Guys, everyone asks me my religion. You know, I do think religion is private. That's between

01:02:48.480 you and your God, but I'm definitely not atheist or agnostic. I do believe in God.

01:02:55.840 If I had to pick a religion that I identify the most with, and the one that I, you know, follow the tenets of, that would be Zoroastrianism, because I believe in the main motto of Zoroastrianism, which is good thoughts, good words, and good deeds.

01:03:20.080 So that's what I most identify with. However, there are a lot of elements within Christianity

01:03:29.560 and Judaism that are very similar to Zoroastrianism. And so that's why I have a lot of 0.99

01:03:36.980 respect and love for both Christianity and Judaism. And I also think it's really interesting

01:03:43.260 how the three religions are very much intertwined um in in their history right so for example um

01:03:52.060 you know the fact that the three wise men were zoroastrian priests and they went to um honor

01:03:59.100 the birth of jesus christ like um like i believe in all of that right i believe in all of that

01:04:06.380 um i respect all that um but if i had to like pick a religion i would say i identify most with

01:04:13.260 Zoroastrianism. I hope that answers your question. I don't normally talk about my personal religion,

01:04:20.560 but there you go. But again, what's interesting is I still have... I'm wearing a Christmas sweater.

01:04:32.660 I couldn't find my Santa hat, which is why I'm not wearing that tonight. But my family,

01:04:38.860 we do Christmas dinners, even though we're not Christian. Um, like we, we have like Christmas

01:04:44.500 trees set up and stuff. So yeah, like I just, I, I, I love, um, I love Christian celebrations.

01:04:52.460 I think Christian celebrations are based on light and love and rebirth. And so, um, it's,

01:04:58.960 it's very beautiful. So yeah. Okay. Let's go to, so, so let me show you. So this was the first

01:05:04.960 video that we just watched here um it was called no one can explain the biblical destiny of iran

01:05:11.920 on this timeline um so the second one we're gonna watch is called iran in the bible the forgotten

01:05:20.240 story. Um, all right, here we go. I'm going to remove this one.

01:05:33.840 Oh, um, it does. I respect it and your view. Thank you for sharing. And I can see that you

01:05:41.840 do care. Thank you. Thank you for that. You know, what's interesting is that I think it was, um,

01:05:46.240 like early Christian scholars recognized that Zoroastrianism is actually the first

01:05:54.540 monotheistic religion, right? So it's, it's not an Abrahamic religion, but it's like,

01:06:01.820 it is a monotheistic religion. And, you know, it has the concept of, you know, good versus evil,

01:06:09.020 light versus dark and even the word paradise paradise um that comes from from the persian

01:06:16.980 language like the whole concept of of paradise also exists in in the zoroastrian faith as well

01:06:24.680 so i just think that's interesting do you know me i am iran i am persia we are an ancient people

01:06:36.840 We're not Arabs, as many think.

01:06:42.840 That's true.

01:06:45.840 For centuries, Iran was known as Persia.

01:06:49.840 We became the largest empire the world had ever seen.

01:06:54.840 But part of our story is often forgotten.

01:07:06.840 Some of our greatness has faded from memory.

01:07:12.340 Yet, the prophets and writers of the Bible like Daniel, Isaiah, and Ezra remember our story.

01:07:21.140 And what's surprising is that the Hebrew Bible speaks of Persia as chosen by God,

01:07:28.100 chosen for the good and for the blessing of all people.

01:07:36.840 Thank you.

01:08:06.840 people became one of the favored people groups of the Persian Empire.

01:08:12.960 And perhaps most surprising of all is how the Hebrew Bible describes in intricate detail

01:08:18.480 how both Persia and the Jewish people helped to fulfill an astonishing promise God made

01:08:24.040 to Abraham. 0.91

01:08:36.840 The Lord said to Abram, Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father's house, to the land that I will show you. 0.84

01:08:47.580 I will make your name great, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you. 0.82

01:08:54.340 According to the Hebrew Bible, for the promise to Abraham to be fulfilled, both Persian and Jewish histories had to intersect.

01:09:02.580 And they did.

01:09:03.560 One of the most interesting things about the history of the Persian Empire is its links with other cultures.

01:09:10.180 In particular, we know that the histories of the Persian Empire and of the Bible are deeply interlinked.

01:09:16.920 We can see events, people, and places that appear both in our sources for ancient Persia and in the Bible.

01:09:25.180 I have taught ancient history, including Persian history, for many years.

01:09:31.540 and I brought all of these archaeological, biblical, and classical sources together

01:09:37.880 to present a narrative of the ancient Persians and their interaction both with the Greeks and with the Hebrews.

01:09:48.320 The Persian Empire was certainly the largest empire that the world had ever seen in a global perspective.

01:09:55.000 Before the time of Persia, no one else had managed to bring together lands from the Mediterranean

01:10:00.160 to the Black Sea, all the way to the Indus River Valley

01:10:03.820 into a single political union.

01:10:06.540 Persia's empire included not only the country of Iran today,

01:10:10.160 but Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, and many more.

01:10:23.520 um so alex alexander says i think the the revolution was an arab take over the persian

01:10:31.900 people my hope is that the people rise up and restore their royalty thank you so much and yeah

01:10:37.300 you know in fact many of the many of the people involved with the islamic um dictatorship that

01:10:42.660 took over the country were not in fact iranian um yasser arafat and the palestinians you know i

01:10:49.380 only say Palestinian and air quote, cause there's no such thing as Palestine, but Yasser Arafat

01:10:54.900 and the Gazans played a huge role in that. There was a lot of them involved. Um, Hassan Nasrallah

01:11:00.680 and all of like the, the Arab terrorists from Lebanon who eventually became Hezbollah. They 0.83

01:11:06.740 were involved. There were a lot of Iraqis from Najaf who were involved. Um, there were definitely

01:11:12.640 pakistanis khomeini himself his father was from india so yeah unfortunately um a lot of the people

01:11:19.840 involved um in in taking over iran are not even iranian and to this day like at least half of the

01:11:26.800 islamic dictatorship they're not even iranian um they just view iran as an atm and they have been 0.56

01:11:33.680 occupying the iranian people and that's why they don't care about us that's why there's nothing 0.91

01:11:38.640 Iranian about them. They basically see Iran as a prize for Islam. And they use the resources that 0.93

01:11:46.580 should be going to the Iranian people. They use it to fund their Islamic terrorism and jihad around 1.00

01:11:52.760 the world. That's why they don't like us Iranians, because they don't like the fact that we speak out 0.99

01:11:58.220 about it. I mean, even our flag, like, like, that's the actual flag of Iran, the lion and sun

01:12:03.260 flag. When the Islamic dictatorship took over, they replaced our flag with like this ugly, 0.83

01:12:09.680 disgusting flag with like a crab in the middle. You know, it's like Allah in the middle looks 0.99

01:12:15.020 like a crab. And then, you know, it says Allah Akbar. By the way, Allah Akbar is Arabic, 0.91

01:12:21.700 right? Like we're Iranian, we speak Persian. So even our flag is the flag of the Arab colonizers

01:12:29.440 because we don't speak Arabic, we speak Persian. 0.60

01:12:34.260 So, but yeah, you're absolutely right.

01:12:35.820 And thank you for the support.

01:12:36.920 Thank you for the support.

01:12:37.880 Appreciate that.

01:12:46.400 The city of Persepolis became the greatest city

01:12:50.020 in the Persian Empire.

01:12:52.360 I've been there too.

01:12:55.160 Persepolis is an amazing site.

01:12:57.280 It includes a complex of palaces, audience halls, fortifications, and other buildings,

01:13:04.440 all built on a huge platform, four times as large as the Acropolis,

01:13:09.640 carved on the lower slopes of a mountain.

01:13:13.500 The Apadana, or the audience hall, is the most remarkable building, perhaps, of all.

01:13:19.920 It's been estimated that an audience of 10,000 people from all over the empire could have come there.

01:13:27.280 And in the staircases there are remarkable sculptures, originally painted no doubt, of

01:13:36.860 delegations from 23 nations bringing gifts to the Persian king.

01:13:43.720 Persepolis is a place where many different histories come together.

01:13:48.700 The Bible is an extremely important source for understanding the Persian Empire from

01:13:53.580 the perspective of one particular people within that empire.

01:13:58.980 And while it's not a historical source in the sense that we would think of histories,

01:14:03.460 it certainly preserves a great deal of historical information and a very important perspective.

01:14:08.900 And for that reason, it's an invaluable resource for studying the Persian Empire and its relations

01:14:14.380 with the Jewish people.

01:14:22.080 The Bible contains 240 references related to Iran or Persia.

01:14:27.860 The name Persia and Persians are found 33 times in six books of the Hebrew Bible.

01:14:34.420 Cyrus, Persia's first king, is named 19 times.

01:14:39.120 Persia's king Darius is listed 15 times.

01:14:43.720 Persia's king Ahasuerus, also called Xerxes, is found 12 times.

01:14:50.120 Can I just point something out?

01:14:51.440 so in in the persian language xerxes is pronounced so i don't know for to the other iranians in in

01:15:02.160 the youtube chat i've always wondered like how did they get xerxes from hashaya if anyone can

01:15:08.880 answer that question for me i would love to know because xerxes and hashaya you know like cyrus is

01:15:15.760 kurosh okay fine um darius is dariush right so you have cyrus kurosh darius dariush but then you

01:15:25.520 have xerxes and xerxes is so i just i don't i don't get the to the xerxes thing if anyone knows let me

01:15:34.240 know persia's king artaxerxes is listed 13 times other persian people and places are found another

01:15:44.160 a hundred and forty eight times most people including most iranians are not aware of the

01:15:51.040 fact that the history of iran and the history of the bible intersect at profound levels throughout

01:15:59.600 the centuries and it would take over a thousand years before god's promise to abraham would

01:16:06.800 intersects Persian history.

01:16:16.820 Okay, so I see that the consensus from the Iranians in the YouTube chat is that 0.99

01:16:22.740 Greeks couldn't pronounce kh, which I guess makes sense. And then also it was just like 1.00

01:16:32.140 pronunciation thing so okay oh yeah someone says egypt was it chemit or chem i i don't know much

01:16:40.940 about well no i i know about ancient egypt but i don't know enough to know whether it was

01:16:45.180 chemit or chem um but okay so i guess the consensus from from the iranians in the

01:16:50.700 youtube chat is that it was just like a pronunciation pronunciation thing okay good to know

01:17:02.780 while living in jerusalem the prophet isaiah gave an unusual prophecy

01:17:08.460 a prophecy that specifically identified the name cyrus persia's first king many years before he

01:17:15.020 was born now isaiah lived about 700 bc and cyrus does not come onto the scene until

01:17:23.500 roughly speaking 150 years later isaiah the prophet remarkably predicted that the lord would use

01:17:32.620 a future king of the persians named cyrus who he calls the anointed one thus says the lord to

01:17:41.740 cyrus is anointed whom i have taken by the right hand to subdue nations before him i will go before

01:17:49.740 you and make the rough places smooth i have also called you by your name i have given you a title

01:17:56.460 of honor though you have not known me this phrase anointed one is extremely important it means

01:18:05.100 messiah and is typically connected to kings when isaiah calls cyrus the messiah there's no ritual

01:18:16.940 behind it a flask of oil wasn't poured over his head but it's a metaphorical use meaning that

01:18:23.740 this is a person who god is going to use for a special purpose in his plan this is the only time

01:18:31.260 in the scriptures where a non-israelite is called the messiah of god the anointed of god

01:18:38.860 oh oh guys okay so we have a greek person in the chat and here's the explanation so this is

01:18:43.740 interesting um it's not true that greeks can't pronounce oh no wait they retracted their message

01:18:54.140 maybe it's wrong okay all right i'll i'll hold off then

01:19:01.260 I'll hold off then because they retracted their message.

01:19:04.480 Okay, so jury's still out if Greek people can pronounce or not.

01:19:09.500 Some people say they can't.

01:19:10.880 Some people say they can't.

01:19:12.400 If someone is Greek, let me know.

01:19:13.820 Or if someone speaks Greek, let me know. 1.00

01:19:15.300 I don't think Greek people can, though. 1.00

01:19:18.480 I've been to Greece. 1.00

01:19:19.460 I have a lot of Greek fans.

01:19:20.980 I've never heard them pronounce.

01:19:28.960 Or maybe I'm wrong.

01:19:29.980 I don't know.

01:19:30.500 it's a uh cyrus they can okay they can they can okay so so it seems like it was like a latin

01:19:37.940 letter mispronunciation thing okay makes sense i was just i was just curious well the messiah

01:19:46.400 but also the shepherd now uh shepherd is actually a very frequently used image throughout the ancient

01:19:56.920 aries for kings it is i the lord who says of cyrus he is my shepherd and he will perform all my desire

01:20:09.240 and god calls cyrus his shepherd for a reason the shepherd responsibility is just to watch

01:20:16.200 to feed to take care to nurture to lead and that's what cyrus did cyrus did that in line

01:20:23.480 with god's planning that god wanted to keep that promise i say i think it's kind of i just want

01:20:29.080 to point out i think it's kind of cool how this documentary is featuring um iranian christians

01:20:35.000 right because iranian christians can bring kind of both the the historical iranian side plus the

01:20:44.040 you know biblical references together and explain it so i i think that's actually really cool um

01:20:52.760 seeing iranian christians speaking about this considers cyrus someone who is chosen to guide

01:21:03.640 and to lead the peoples of the world and specifically even his own people the jews

01:21:11.960 and no one could have imagined how king cyrus would help to fulfill the thousand-year-old

01:21:17.880 promise to Abraham, to become a blessing to the world.

01:21:24.200 Today in Iran, the tomb of Cyrus still stands as a marker in history.

01:21:29.820 The outstanding monument of Pasar Gouda, which is still quite intact, is the tomb of Cyrus

01:21:35.260 himself made out of white limestone that extends about 35 feet in height.

01:21:42.460 When Cyrus became the king of Persia, Babylon was the dominant world power.

01:21:48.280 Babylon's capital was located in what is today modern Iraq.

01:21:54.220 Early in the 500s BC, the ruling dynasty of Babylon had conquered the Jewish people and

01:21:59.980 deported them back to the city of Babylon.

01:22:02.800 And that's where they were, in exile, when Cyrus came to Babylon in 539 BC.

01:22:17.440 According to the Hebrew Bible, there were spiritual reasons why the Jewish descendants

01:22:21.360 of Abraham were deported to Babylon.

01:22:25.420 Abraham's descendants, Israel, was called to be a light to the nations.

01:22:30.520 is they were to love god in such a way and obey him that god would shower his blessings upon them

01:22:39.400 and then the nations of the world would see this and be attracted to this god and in this way in

01:22:49.400 the old testament god's people were to reach the nations but of course the story of the

01:23:00.520 Old Testament is, unfortunately, too much of God's people not acting in the way that they should

01:23:07.040 and becoming an obstacle to people being drawn to the true God.

01:23:14.800 The prophet Jeremiah spoke concerning all the people of Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem as follows.

01:23:22.060 until this very day 23 years the word of the lord has come to me and i have spoken to you

01:23:30.000 time and time again but you have not obeyed the lord sent all his servants the prophets to you

01:23:36.940 time and time again but you have not obeyed or even paid attention he announced turn each of

01:23:44.820 you from your evil way of life and from your evil deeds do not follow other gods to serve them and

01:23:51.740 to worship them but you would not obey me therefore this is what the Lord of 0.91

01:23:57.920 hosts says I am going to send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon 1.00

01:24:04.300 this whole land will become a desolate ruin and these nations will serve the 0.98

01:24:10.160 king of Babylon for 70 years Nebuchadnezzar was the greatest of the 0.99

01:24:15.180 neo-Babylonian kings began ruling in 605 BC according to the first chapter of the

01:24:21.020 companion wasn't guys wasn't the spaceship in the matrix also called the nebuchadnezzar

01:24:29.580 does anyone remember that

01:24:35.820 i think i think the spaceship was also okay it was all right so okay so i'm not i'm not wrong on

01:24:42.860 that okay all right just want to make sure nebuchadnezzar attacked jerusalem in his first

01:24:49.420 year we don't have any direct confirmation of that attack but we do have confirmation of his

01:24:56.540 yeah the home base was called zion yeah i i thought that was really cool it's like there

01:25:01.020 were a lot of biblical references in the matrix for sure second attack in 597 bc and of his third

01:25:08.540 attack in 587 or 586 bc during which he destroyed the temple of solomon well daniel and his fellow

01:25:19.180 comrades were among those who were deported by Nebuchadnezzar.

01:25:25.340 The prophet Daniel was only a teenager when he was exiled to Babylon.

01:25:30.940 Daniel may have wondered what would now happen to God's promise to Abraham to bless the world

01:25:36.380 through his people. Covering hundreds of miles, the deportation would have taken the Jewish people

01:25:43.980 about five months they traveled north on the international trade route past the city of

01:25:50.540 damascus and around the top of the fertile crescent then into the tigris and euphrates river basin

01:25:57.260 in the direction of babylon beside the rivers of babylon we sat and wept as we thought of jerusalem

01:26:05.980 We put away our harps, hanging them on the branches of poplar trees.

01:26:20.900 After almost 70 years of exile in Babylon, the elderly prophet Daniel read words from the prophet Jeremiah that caused Daniel to think again about Jerusalem.

01:26:30.960 I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet

01:26:37.560 that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be 70.

01:26:44.920 Jeremiah's prophecy about Jerusalem gave Daniel hope.

01:26:50.280 For this is what the Lord says,

01:26:52.880 When 70 years for Babylon are complete,

01:26:55.520 i will attend to you and will confirm my promise concerning you to restore you to this place

01:27:02.020 for i know the plans i have for you this is the lord's declaration plan okay i just want to i just

01:27:10.580 want to respond to a quick comment so i think someone said please move to the u.s so we can

01:27:15.540 claim you as ours thank you so much guys you have no idea how many like angry comments i get from

01:27:23.300 Americans under my videos, whether like it's, it's on Instagram or Facebook or, um, or like

01:27:31.820 YouTube where people are like, why don't you have the American flag? And I'm just like, because I'm

01:27:38.560 Canadian, like, sorry, like, you know, there's, there's, there's my Canadian flag, but, um,

01:27:45.660 yeah, like, so, so the reason I don't have the American flag is because I'm not American. It

01:27:52.160 just be kind of weird for me to have the American flag not being American. But yeah, I get like a

01:27:58.220 lot of like, I call them I call them happy angry. It's like people who are supportive, but then

01:28:05.500 they're angry. And they're like, Where's your American flag? And I'm just like, I'm Canadian.

01:28:10.900 Sorry. Right. I think it's kind of funny, though. But I love America. I love Americans.

01:28:17.440 um amazing country do not give up your right to bear arms just do not give it up so important so

01:28:23.780 important to to have that ends for your welfare not for disaster to give you a future and a hope

01:28:31.700 so daniel began to pray so i daniel turned my attention to the lord god to seek him by prayer

01:28:42.460 and petitions with fasting sackcloth and ashes i prayed to the lord my god and confessed

01:28:50.300 we have sinned done wrong acted wickedly rebelled and turned away from your commands and ordinances

01:28:59.180 we have not listened to your servants the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings

01:29:04.700 leaders fathers and all the people of the land

01:29:08.540 Lord here Lord forgive Lord listen and act

01:29:16.460 But how

01:29:18.200 How would a return home be possible under the mighty grip of the Babylonian Empire? 0.61

01:29:24.800 According to the Hebrew Bible King Cyrus called the anointed and the Messiah of God would change everything 0.73

01:29:30.880 everything. Cyrus was a remarkable military conqueror starting from a very sorry guys I just 0.93

01:29:37.200 wanted to say really quickly um the YouTube chat is just it is uh very very busy tonight not that

01:29:45.720 I'm complaining I'm definitely enjoying um I'm trying to read all of your comments um I'm not

01:29:52.640 able to answer all of your comments because I'm also trying to watch the documentary so I'm doing

01:29:56.900 both but i just want to say i am seeing all your comments and i just want to say welcome to everyone

01:30:02.740 from all around the world you know i've seen people um mention um thailand uh mexico

01:30:10.820 denmark germany uk united states um all over i think i saw someone mentioned like hawaii

01:30:19.140 um so yeah aloha welcome hello guten tag um hola and of course to everyone from iran

01:30:35.140 oh oh scotland okay okay guys all right i let's let's do it let's do a quick commercial break i'll

01:30:41.540 read out all the countries so we have um australia south africa scotland nigeria usa australia

01:30:51.300 finland um usa las vegas that's not a country but that's fine brez maine oh alaska um i see the south

01:31:02.740 African flag. And then Iran, of course, Bamdia, Florida, Uzu. Can we arm bears? That's up to you

01:31:12.300 guys. Should Iran be renamed back to Persia? No. Iran, like Iran is the original name of the

01:31:18.260 country. I'm going to make a video about that, but Iran has nothing to do with Islam. So people

01:31:22.960 think that Iran is like an Islamic thing. It's not. Iran is the original name of the country.

01:31:27.800 um persia is the greek word for iran so we uh we iranians we prefer iran um okay i see uk london

01:31:36.140 nigeria australia nyc oh comifornia oh yeah you guys have an issue there um his order on

01:31:42.820 alaska ecuador interesting ecuador okay wow global goldie oh colombia whoa guys there's

01:31:55.180 people from all the oh my gosh okay people from all around the world okay i'm gonna i'm gonna go

01:32:01.180 through all this so columbia israel san diego california oklahoma nigeria um philippines

01:32:11.180 patagonia wait where's where's patagonia where's patagonia where's that oh it's a geographical

01:32:20.300 region in southern south america that spans parts of argentina and chile it includes southern portion

01:32:29.500 of the andes mount wow oh so patagonia that's like that's like the tip that's like the tip of

01:32:37.980 of south america oh my gosh super cool wow welcome welcome isn't isn't patagonia like the place where

01:32:47.100 it's like right at the tip of um it's right at the tip of south america and then that's where

01:32:51.740 all the penguins are right like the penguins from um antarctica go up to like the tip of of

01:32:59.500 of south america super cool okay puerto rico ireland canadian england greetings from scotland

01:33:07.900 uh slava boleyn canada canada ontario yay ontario um i have my ontario flag here as well so i know

01:33:18.380 it's not in the frame but there's my ontario flag it's not the union jack it's not the union jack

01:33:23.900 it's the flag of ontario so there you go that's the shout out to all my uh ontarians as well

01:33:30.780 okay let's continue persian jew oh my favorite kind of jew just gonna say i you know i i love

01:33:39.980 all jews but persian jews you know a little bit biased there so amazing um mexico arizona new

01:33:49.980 jersey missouri indonesia oh wow indonesia welcome arizona texas alaska legoland oh estonia

01:34:00.620 wow egypt very cool welcome from egypt new york sweden indonesia michiganistan ky what's ky

01:34:13.740 kentucky is ky kentucky i think it is split moon fiji oh wow fiji oh my gosh okay fiji tennessee

01:34:23.660 ohio edinburgh new mexico canada maryland transylvania india america fiji i see a target

01:34:34.500 frankfurt germany oh i was in i was in frankfurt in in the summer beautiful city

01:34:38.720 wow the oh israel amazing okay wait let me go back here all right i missed i missed sorry let

01:34:47.320 me go back sorry guys i said i said i would read i said i would read all of your comments so i'm

01:34:52.540 going to, I'm going to read all of your comments. It's gonna be very long commercial break. Um,

01:34:57.120 Israel, Ashkelon, Australia, Philippines, biggest Christian powerhouse in Eastern Asia.

01:35:03.660 Very cool. Edinburgh, Scotland, Louisiana, um, Kau, Hawaii. Um,

01:35:13.060 oh my gosh. All right. There's like a jihadi in the chat. Let me like

01:35:19.800 than that person. All right. Um, who else? Uh, Puerto Rico, Louisiana.

01:35:27.020 Uh, you peak Eskimo. Did I pronounce that property? Did I announce that properly? You 1.00

01:35:32.340 peak Eskimo. Welcome. Oh my gosh. That's fantastic. Um, Michigan right across the 0.88

01:35:38.200 lake. GA what's GA is that Georgia, New York, Canadian forces based Borden, Ontario, Canada.

01:35:45.800 Thank you for your service to the country. Honey lace cookie. A lot of respect for our men and

01:35:54.060 women in uniform. Manchester, England. I see India. Astlan? Where's that? Is that a place?

01:36:04.160 oh oh the mythical legendary homeland of the aztec people wow okay okay wow very cool

01:36:16.560 all right um fiji chile hawaii new mexico but living in ecuador ghana oh very cool from ghana

01:36:27.880 Welcome. New England, South America, New Zealand, Southern Argentina, Argentina, Chile,

01:36:35.680 Missouri, London, another Oklahoma, Lapland, New York State, South Central Texas.

01:36:47.880 What's Lapland? I don't know what Lapland is.

01:36:50.760 oh it's it's a vast subarctic region in northern europe spanning parts of finland sweden norway

01:36:59.640 and russia oh wow very cool oh guys i'm like i'm learning so much here

01:37:06.120 whitby very oh whitby gotta love whippy um philippines love that okay so philippines

01:37:15.760 um tijuana bc mexico germany tierra del fuego florida new york new york vamos bariloche it's

01:37:28.480 bariloche oh argentina okay okay so argentina um edinburgh scotland

01:37:37.840 cape horn usa finland albertan love alberta please don't separate i know i know you guys

01:37:51.740 are dealing with some issues but don't separate from the rest of us we love alberta um antarctica

01:37:56.320 indiana state massachusetts acadia um socal maryland michigan connecticut north carolina

01:38:07.480 Illinois, Saskatoon, Canada. Why don't I have a business email for funders? I'll set something

01:38:15.460 up. I know I've been falling behind on like the business side of things. I will set it all up.

01:38:20.060 I promise. Okay. Colorado, Zimbabwe. Omid, you're right. The whole world is united against Islamic

01:38:27.380 terrorism and jihad. I love that. Oh my gosh. Okay. Zimbabwe, Brampton, Kentucky, Long Island, 1.00

01:38:35.700 Kentucky Marshall Islands East Coast KY is Kentucky okay guys see I'm like I'm just keeping

01:38:41.640 this is why I literally can't like respond to all of the comments because if I was gonna like

01:38:46.800 read every single comment and respond we'd never get it but I promised you I would read

01:38:51.600 all the countries so I will do that okay Marshall Islands East Coast um wait I have to go up here

01:39:00.340 now sorry sometimes like sometimes this is weird like i'm reading something and then like the chat

01:39:07.060 will just like go all the way to the bottom so that i have to like scroll up um here we go okay

01:39:15.940 marjaba jamila uk indiana san diego oh quebec quebec welcome bienvenue bienvenue quebec

01:39:26.020 um edinburgh scotland toronto canada love that pennsylvania maryland um texas south carolina

01:39:34.600 north korea yeah i don't think you're from north korea oh my gosh new jersey washington dc but

01:39:42.520 parents grandparents are from italy japan angola and the andos mountains indiana qatar joking yeah

01:39:48.800 Okay. I mean, sure. I mean, I, I, I have no issue with, with people in Qatar, um, Southern

01:39:55.340 California, Tehran, please be safe in Tehran, Iran, Texas, Auckland, New Zealand,

01:40:05.040 edin edin edinberg did i not pronounce it edinberg um jibouti nevada frankfurt cape verde new york

01:40:19.140 carson city nevada ohio oregon california alberta infidel love that um mashhad oh very cool you're

01:40:30.980 from mashad okay be safe out in mashad virginia oh someone's from north pole guys maybe we have

01:40:37.060 santa in the chat maybe santa's in the chat up there from the north pole ghana amazing um rome

01:40:43.840 italy darud from vancouver new york southern california oh sarawak malaysia westphalia germany

01:40:51.620 wyoming um israel south of thailand agartha shambhala where's where's shambhala wait

01:41:05.380 is that

01:41:09.700 shambhala no idea what that is

01:41:13.060 north dakota quebec from the north pole coptic agent egyptian pray for us praying for all the

01:41:22.980 coptic egyptians i know how much you guys are being persecuted thoughts and prayers are with

01:41:28.880 you for sure pennsylvania um toronto canada virginia spain um wazushik on onigum toronto

01:41:39.480 Quebec, Jerusalem, Sweden. Why did you say Legoland like that? Legoland's not a place.

01:41:50.360 Okay, now you guys are making it up. Third planet from the sun, dark side of the moon,

01:41:55.000 Finland, Virginia, Saint Nowhere du plus creux, Quebec. Guten Tag. Okay, I love your content.

01:42:04.220 all right aurelia very cool vancouver aurelia guys aurelia has the best butter pecan ice cream

01:42:11.580 in the world new zealand finland hawaii hispania texas toronto canada samoa wow samoa australia

01:42:21.820 Disneyland, Toronto, Indonesia, Biafra, India, Indiana, Romania, Montreal, Vermont,

01:42:35.860 Russia. I love Russians. Listen, I have no issue with Russians. I love Russians. Guys,

01:42:43.180 I have to be very clear about this. When I'm criticizing a government, I'm criticizing the

01:42:49.020 government. I'm not criticizing the people. I criticize the Islamic dictatorship, which is

01:42:54.340 technically the Iranian government all the time. So I have a lot of Russian friends. Russian people

01:43:02.400 are amazing people. I think that's one of the things. Talking about politics for some reason

01:43:11.440 has become so toxic that when you're talking about the government or the policies, sometimes

01:43:18.080 people think that you're talking about the people. You're literally not, right? Literally not. That's

01:43:23.280 why I always make a distinction. I have a lot of Russian friends. So, привет! Привет! Welcome

01:43:29.620 from Russia. I love that. Austin, Texas, Las Vegas, California. Okay. Wisconsin. Oh, Greece, Athens.

01:43:42.460 Okay. All right. Okay. Barry. North Gore. Oh my gosh. Did I see North Gore? Oh, I miss North

01:43:57.200 Gore. Oh, welcome from North Gore. My people, my people. I miss North Gore. Oh man. North

01:44:10.240 Gore is the best. North Gore is literally one of my favorite places on the planet is, is North

01:44:16.120 Gore. Um, Alberta, Canada, poor credit, Mississauga, Philadelphia. All right. Okay. Texas.

01:44:22.780 Okay. So I've, I've, I've tried to read as many as I can. Um, I'll try to get through a bit more,

01:44:27.480 but I do want to get back to, um, the show, um, so we can finish watching, but guys, like,

01:44:34.440 thank you. So I will go through all the comments and I'll read them without saying all the names

01:44:38.920 out loud honestly i'm flabbergasted um i didn't realize that there would be so many people from

01:44:43.480 all around the world like i'm still seeing like people are typing in there's south vietnam um

01:44:49.240 wow like alabama i love this wow guys we're we're global this is like a global movement thank you

01:44:55.880 so much for being here all thank you for for joining me for this so um to everyone celebrating

01:45:02.520 christmas merry christmas oh thank you so much all right okay let's let's get back to to the live

01:45:09.960 stream now and thank you for all the kind comments i appreciate that i hope you're enjoying the

01:45:15.400 live stream very small kingdom in what is today southern oh wait you know what i apologize there

01:45:20.920 were a couple of super chats and i forgot to um share them so let me just go through that um so

01:45:28.520 chat smith thank you for the comment about our right to bear arms so many are so lost about what

01:45:34.600 is really behind that agenda enjoying the history yeah 100 do not give up your right to bear arms i

01:45:39.960 mean look what's happening in australia it's messed up you have like this crazy terrorist attack right 0.50

01:45:45.640 like these islamic jihadis come in they open fire on people they murder innocent people and then how 0.98

01:45:51.720 does the government respond instead of like targeting the islamists and targeting the 0.96

01:45:57.160 jihadis that they've imported into australia they're instead like tightening gun laws as if

01:46:03.080 like as if the problem is guns maybe maybe if people had the right to bear arms in australia

01:46:10.280 they could have stopped the terrorist attacks sooner right i mean i don't know just the thought

01:46:15.960 plus i mean anyone who's going to commit an illegal activity like 99 of the time it doesn't

01:46:21.480 happen with legally purchased guns so right i mean i mean look at like the terrorist plot that

01:46:27.800 was just foiled in the uk right the terrorist plot that was just foiled in the uk was because that

01:46:33.480 jihadi was planning on importing ak-47s into the country illegally so how is tightening gun laws 0.99

01:46:44.120 gonna have any impact on what criminals do it's it's literally the stupidest policy that i've 1.00

01:46:50.040 ever heard of and i say that as a former politician like it's just such an idiotic thing to do um 0.99

01:46:56.840 ryan brown researched the visions of nicholas von resenberg who was gifted with visions from god 0.64

01:47:04.280 over 100 years ago it describes events from before and after world okay interesting um i will look

01:47:11.960 into that. Okay. And then the major says politics are now toxic because there's no actual middle

01:47:28.680 ground anymore because one side will not negotiate or negotiates in bad faith. You are 100% correct

01:47:37.040 on that. Absolutely, absolutely. And that's one of the reasons that I'm considered a far-right

01:47:46.500 white nationalist, even though I'm literally center. I'm not white and I'm an immigrant.

01:47:54.660 And yet somehow I'm like a xenophobic, far-right white nationalist supremacist. Make it make sense,

01:48:01.980 right it's just it's it's become so toxic in in politics these days um all right okay let's

01:48:08.700 continue ron he rapidly expanded as far west as what is today turkey uh out okay i completely

01:48:15.180 forgot what he was talking about so i'm gonna go back a little bit now so that i can like

01:48:19.580 remind myself which part of the documentary we were at we have sinned done wrong acted wickedly

01:48:26.060 rebelled, and turned away from your commands and ordinances.

01:48:30.860 We have not listened to your servants, the prophets,

01:48:33.820 who spoke in your name to our kings, leaders, fathers,

01:48:37.980 and all the people of the land.

01:48:40.460 Lord, hear.

01:48:42.060 Lord, forgive. 0.91

01:48:43.980 Lord, listen and act."

01:48:48.380 But how?

01:48:50.140 How would a return home be possible under the mighty grip 1.00

01:48:53.820 of the babylonian empire according to the hebrew bible king cyrus called the anointed 1.00

01:49:00.220 and the messiah of god would change everything okay just a quick pause so um

01:49:08.620 jab's book says when their truthful real world teaching that most of the people agree with it

01:49:16.540 It unites people like what we see here with people from all over the world.

01:49:22.000 Also, Jasbook is a play on my full name.

01:49:25.840 Jason is my full name.

01:49:26.900 Very cool.

01:49:27.880 And you know what?

01:49:28.280 You do make a very good point.

01:49:29.900 I mean, it's just so nice to see how all of you from all around the world are here.

01:49:38.620 And we're all united.

01:49:40.880 And you make a very good point there.

01:49:42.800 Honestly, like I'm just, I'm super humbled by, by everyone's support.

01:49:47.100 And I'm really enjoying reading all of your comments in, in the live chat, in the live

01:49:54.220 stream chat today on YouTube.

01:49:55.500 So it's, it's been a lot of fun.

01:49:58.300 I couldn't think of a more fun way to spend the Eve before Christmas Eve and just kind

01:50:04.000 of like wind down from, from, from the long day that I've, that I've had today.

01:50:08.300 So I'm really enjoying this.

01:50:10.220 Thank you so much, guys.

01:50:13.640 Cyrus was a remarkable military conqueror, starting from a very small kingdom in what

01:50:17.600 is today southern Iran.

01:50:19.520 He rapidly expanded as far west as what is today Turkey, out into Central Asia, and perhaps

01:50:25.080 most importantly into Mesopotamia, where he captured Babylon, maybe the most important

01:50:30.280 city in the world at that time in 539 B.C.

01:50:42.560 After conquering Babylon, Cyrus issued a decree, a decree that completely changed the way kings

01:50:48.360 rule conquered peoples, and that foreign policy would begin to open the way for God's promise

01:50:55.640 of blessing to the world to be fulfilled.

01:50:59.780 One of the most important textual finds in all of ancient archeology was the Cyrus cylinder.

01:51:07.320 The Cyrus Cylinder is a football-sized clay object that was found in Babylon in the 1870s,

01:51:13.660 and it records a decree issued by Cyrus of Persia upon his taking the city of Babylon in 539, 538 B.C.

01:51:22.860 This is a barrel-shaped clay cylinder written in Akkadian, that is, in the ancient city.

01:51:28.820 So for the paid members on YouTube, that's the random emoji that you see, the cylinder emoji.

01:51:37.320 Um, that's, that's the Cyrus cylinder. That's what's being talked about right now here.

01:51:43.640 ...language that was discovered by a man called Hormuz Rassam, who worked for the British Museum

01:51:50.560 in the city of Babylon. And we know that the Persians, especially under Cyrus, allowed captives

01:51:59.860 to go back and this proclaims a different policy from that pursued by the assyrians and babylonians 0.64

01:52:08.740 before who had transported populations from one place to another but did not allow them to return

01:52:18.340 so the cyrus cylinder is a very important document because it shows us how the persians are able to

01:52:24.020 successfully appealed to local customs and traditions in order to gain support for and

01:52:30.100 allegiance to their rule cyrus was very successful in using a traditional format this kind of

01:52:37.860 inscription to proclaim that he respected the gods of babylon that he would allow people who had been

01:52:42.900 exiled or deported to return to their homes and that he would restore gods back to their original

01:52:48.820 places cyrus was the first king in history that allowed the people that he had conquered

01:52:55.540 to worship god in the ways that they wanted to today you can visit the united nations building

01:53:01.700 in new york and see a copy of the cyrus cylinder which is actually a replica of the original in the

01:53:07.220 british museum today in the bible it talks about how cyrus gives permission for the jews to return

01:53:16.420 to Jerusalem and commissions them to rebuild the temple.

01:53:24.900 My wife is listening and is curious what your faith is. So I identify most closely with

01:53:34.580 Zoroastrianism. So if I was going to pick a faith, I would say Zoroastrianism, good thoughts,

01:53:41.940 good words good deeds um you can see the the the fra bahar pendant there and also um on my necklace

01:53:51.860 so yeah that's that's what i would say i um identify with with the most and this is an amazing

01:54:00.980 and important thing and part of god's plan this is what king cyrus of persia says the lord

01:54:07.860 and by the way like all the persians that are mentioned in the bible including the three wise

01:54:14.180 men were all zoroastrians so there you go fun little fact there god of heaven has given me

01:54:20.420 all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build him a house at jerusalem in judah

01:54:26.820 whoever is among his people may his god be with him and may he go to jerusalem

01:54:31.700 in judah and build the house of the lord the god of israel the god who is in jerusalem king cyrus

01:54:38.740 also brought out the articles of the lord's house that nebuchadnezzar had taken from jerusalem and

01:54:43.700 had placed in the house of his gods king cyrus of persia had them brought out under the supervision

01:54:49.860 of mithradath the treasurer who counted them out to shesh bazar the prince of judah the gold and

01:54:56.580 silver articles totaled 5400 shesh bazar brought all of them when the exiles went up from babylon

01:55:03.940 to jerusalem the fact

01:55:10.180 oh my gosh um is there a possible global global islamic attack on i mean i would hope not i would

01:55:19.060 hope not um but i have a feeling that i mean security and law enforcement around the world

01:55:28.900 are probably on like triple quadruple duty right now right because like in the last week

01:55:35.220 we've seen um so many islamic terrorist attacks foiled and then you know we saw that horrific

01:55:41.780 terrorist attack at bondi beach so um i don't know i would i would hope there isn't but i mean

01:55:52.760 didn't wasn't there like more attacks on christmas markets today or something but i mean i have no

01:55:58.780 idea like i just um i mean i'm praying for everyone to stay safe but i mean i i just

01:56:06.100 what do you expect will happen when your governments import people who hate you

01:56:14.000 into your countries, right? I mean, it's just like one terror plot after the other that's being

01:56:21.040 foiled. Um, and it's just, it's, it's horrific to, to see what's going on. So, I mean, I would hope

01:56:29.100 not, I would hope there's something happening. Um, but I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I

01:56:35.340 I just I get my information from where you guys get your information from, which is just, you know, the news or X or whatever.

01:56:44.180 So, yeah, but I would just say be safe, everyone.

01:56:49.040 Just be safe out there because you never know.

01:56:51.740 It's scary times right now, unfortunately. 0.75

01:56:55.600 That God uses Iran and Persia basically to take care of the captives of Israel,

01:57:03.940 Not just to bless a nation, but to make that nation a blessing to all nations,

01:57:09.360 all people on earth, is a great fact to be remembered.

01:57:12.660 Even today in the 21st century, it's reported that 70% of the population of the world

01:57:18.340 live in countries where they do not have freedom of religion or freedom of worship.

01:57:23.040 But in Cyrus, the great Persian king, we encounter a very open-minded, tolerant king

01:57:29.520 who allowed the people that he had conquered to worship God in the ways that they wanted.

01:57:35.540 So Cyrus actually is a king who installed freedom of religion and freedom of worship.

01:57:42.200 This is, we're talking about 2,500 years ago.

01:57:45.720 The prophet Isaiah not only wrote about Cyrus as a Messiah of God,

01:57:59.880 but also about a future Messiah who would be more than just a man.

01:58:06.040 For a child will be born for us, a son will be given to us,

01:58:10.440 and the government will be on his shoulders.

01:58:12.980 he will be named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,

01:58:18.580 Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

01:58:23.680 And the passage talks about how his kingdom

01:58:25.980 will be an eternal kingdom.

01:58:27.500 And it just dawned on me that this son who is to come,

01:58:30.600 this child who is to be born,

01:58:32.480 who according to Isaiah 7, 14 will be born of a virgin

01:58:36.180 and he will be called Emmanuel God with us.

01:58:38.800 This son is not just one prophet

01:58:40.620 in the long line of prophets.

01:58:42.980 um so possum the cat asks have you ever listened to golda my ear speak yes i have and um you know

01:58:53.580 there's that famous quote from her about um what is it something like there will be peace um when

01:59:01.140 the palestinians learn to love life more than death or something like that um is that is that

01:59:08.400 the quote? Or is it the one where it's either that or it's like about like laying down arm arms,

01:59:22.080 right? So I've heard her speak before. Like she is a very, very smart woman. Very, very,

01:59:33.940 very brave. And, uh, I have a lot of, a lot of respect for her. Like she knew what was going on

01:59:41.440 and, um, yeah, like good, good for her. A lot of respect for her. Um, okay. Um, next super

01:59:51.980 comment. So Roko says, hi, Goldie. My comments seem bizarre, but I have to sidestep to avoid UK

01:59:59.080 online policing. If you keep the light on the silent persecution of Christian practices in the

02:00:05.740 UK by the left and Islam, I'll back you with gold. Thank you so much for that. You don't need to back 0.93

02:00:13.740 me with gold or anything. I do plan on making a lot more videos about that. Let me see how that

02:00:24.160 that video is what it's like, I know I made one video today. And part of the reason that I made

02:00:30.440 it is because I know that it's difficult to speak about these things in the UK. Because of like

02:00:38.220 online hate speech or something. Honestly, like with with the way with the way things are going

02:00:43.840 in Canada, I might have to like escape to the US pretty soon. Because Canada is going down the same

02:00:51.180 route as, um, as the UK, but I will continue, um, speaking out about the persecution on Christian

02:01:01.340 practices a hundred percent because yeah, they can like, they can silence you guys, but they can't

02:01:08.200 really come after me. So yeah, you can count on me to continue speaking out a hundred percent for

02:01:13.200 sure. Um, I'll be doing that. Like I'm, I'm, I'm guys, I just started my YouTube channel

02:01:19.200 three weeks ago, sorry, three months ago, less than three months ago. But I only really started

02:01:25.920 making my short videos two weeks ago. So my short video clips, like the Goldie Unfiltered

02:01:33.840 playlist, that's still new. And I'm just, I'm thrilled that it's getting a lot of support and

02:01:41.220 a lot of interest. So I literally have like see all these pages of notes and stuff. So I'm like

02:01:50.380 literally just writing down I still have to like, I still have to put it all into a document. But

02:01:56.040 I will, I will be making a lot like, I'm trying to make two videos a day because that's pretty

02:02:02.560 much all I can handle like time wise, because I also do live streams. I don't think I could do

02:02:10.360 three videos a day and the problem is that you know I have like a schedule and I'm like okay

02:02:17.040 I'm gonna do this today and then I wake up and it's just like a headline of like another terrorist

02:02:23.280 attack or like another foiled jihad plan so it's like I don't know to any of like the jihadis who

02:02:30.320 are watching can you just like give me give me a break like can you guys just like slow down for

02:02:35.740 at least a week so that i can at least catch up with my videos before we hear about like another

02:02:41.740 foiled terrorist attack like just i don't know can you just tone down on the jihad just a little bit

02:02:48.780 because it's getting it's getting you know really frustrating um and annoying of course but roco

02:02:55.020 i will continue 100 and and i get the message message received loud and clear thank you for

02:03:00.620 that. W Sky X ABC. Zoroastrianism predates Judaism and Christianity. Many Judeo-Christian ideas like

02:03:11.900 angels, judgment, heaven, and hell show Persian influence. That is true. I have seen documentaries 1.00

02:03:18.700 about that. So that's one of the reasons that early Christian scholars had a lot of respect

02:03:25.900 for zoroastrianism and wrote about how zoroastrianism is um the um you know oldest monotheistic

02:03:35.660 um religion so thank you for sharing that i appreciate that this son is going to be mighty

02:03:41.500 god and he will establish an eternal kingdom god used that king cyrus and the events around him

02:03:48.940 and the future kings in the land of Persia to fulfill his absolute promise

02:03:55.820 that there will be the Messiah, Christ, the Messiah,

02:04:00.820 to come on earth and being basically the savior of the world.

02:04:07.920 Guys, I can't come to America and run for office because I'm not American.

02:04:12.580 I would love to, but I can't do it because you have to be an American citizen

02:04:17.320 to run for office in, in the United States. So, um, I can't do it, but I'm sure you guys will find

02:04:23.820 some amazing politicians to, to run to the person who said that I'm a Zionist puppet. Um, I'm not

02:04:42.100 a zionist puppet i'm the zionist myself so don't insult me by calling me a puppet i'm i'm a zionist 0.99

02:04:50.240 um 100 i don't need to be a puppet to like guys i mean like like this is how stupid these people 0.98

02:04:57.920 are we're literally watching documentaries about iran in the bible and every single documentary 0.97

02:05:04.420 is literally talking about how cyrus the great freed the jews from their babylonian enslavement

02:05:10.220 took them back to the promised land

02:05:11.920 and helped them rebuild the second temple, right?

02:05:14.080 Like that's literally in my history as an Iranian, right? 1.00

02:05:19.660 This is why Iranians support Israel

02:05:22.960 because we have a shared heritage

02:05:25.780 that goes back thousands of years.

02:05:28.920 And then these jihadis come in

02:05:30.560 with their like, you know, made up religion 0.96

02:05:32.460 that they invented 1400 years ago.

02:05:34.980 And then they're like calling us Zionists

02:05:37.240 as if it's a bad thing.

02:05:38.420 Like it's just... 1.00

02:05:40.220 I don't know, like, the stupidity of these people just sometimes leaves me speechless. 1.00

02:05:56.740 Eugene, so there's Muslims near your area, not common. Two mosques in Anchor. Wow, they've even, 1.00

02:06:05.080 oh my god look they've even conquered alaska there are two mosques in anchorage alaska interesting

02:06:13.400 yeah i don't know i mean you should ask them how many uh churches exist in saudi arabia

02:06:27.800 interesting

02:06:28.360 and it was jesus who described his purpose for living the son of man did not come to be served

02:06:38.720 but oh sorry we saw another one um possum the cat i enjoy your show very much thank you thank

02:06:44.660 you so much appreciate that i'm glad you're enjoying um this evening's this evening's show

02:06:49.720 tonight.

02:07:19.720 upon him and by his stripes we are healed all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned

02:07:27.720 every one to his own way and the lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all that message that

02:07:35.960 was given to abraham preserved throughout the history by intervention of different nations

02:07:43.400 including the persians fulfilled in the person of jesus christ in the bosom of the israelite

02:07:50.120 family prepared the road and the the hearts and melted many hearts throughout the history

02:07:56.680 and now that nation the persian nations and the arabs and the elamites and the church and the

02:08:02.280 chinese and all nations are blessed today the message is simple that promise that was given

02:08:10.440 to Abraham is for every tribe, every nation.

02:08:21.680 A few weeks after the death and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah, as his disciples were

02:08:28.260 gathered in Jerusalem, the Bible tells us that the Spirit of God fell on them.

02:08:34.520 The Spirit of God burst the church in the New Testament times.

02:08:39.220 The Bible tells us that people had come from all over the world to celebrate the Jewish

02:08:44.300 feast in Jerusalem.

02:08:46.140 But many people might not realize that the first three people groups that are mentioned

02:08:50.540 in Acts chapter 2 verse 9, Parthians, Medes and Elamites are people groups from Iran.

02:08:57.980 Iranian people were present in Jerusalem.

02:09:00.980 Whether they were Jews who had lived in the Persian Empire since the time of the exile

02:09:05.940 or the God-fearing people, Iranians that had come to faith in the true God

02:09:10.240 because of their contacts with the Jewish community. 0.68

02:09:13.460 Nevertheless, 1.00

02:09:15.140 Oh, I'm so sorry.

02:09:17.780 So Jane says, you missed my city.

02:09:20.280 I'm from Mossadonia.

02:09:22.780 Also, you should try putting pomegranate pods in your bubbly.

02:09:27.840 It's like bubbly palm bobo.

02:09:31.060 Actually, you know something?

02:09:31.840 you just you now reminded me that I have pomegranate in the fridge that I should probably

02:09:37.840 come bring and and eat my pomegranate so thank you for reminding me I'll be right back with my

02:09:43.960 pomegranate Iranian people were there in Jerusalem Iranians were filled with the spirit of God and

02:09:50.660 we believe that when Iranians went back to their home countries they took the message of the good

02:09:55.520 news of jesus the messiah to their own people we look at church history hundreds of years later

02:10:02.440 the iranians took the gospel the good news of jesus to china through the silk road in fact

02:10:09.220 the chinese people called christianity the persian religion because they had heard the gospel from

02:10:16.160 persian christians persian followers of christ so i am very proud i feel very honored as an

02:10:23.400 Iranian follower of Jesus, that God has used the people of Iran in a significant way to

02:10:30.040 bring hope and healing to the nations.

02:10:37.040 I think a Persian rug can be a beautiful symbol of how God is at work in history, how God

02:10:42.840 is at work in our lives.

02:10:45.220 When you look at a rug, one side of it can look very rough.

02:10:49.080 knots the threads that the back side of a rug might not look very beautiful but you have faith

02:10:56.040 that the other side of the rug there is a glorious beautiful pattern rich with different colors and

02:11:03.320 textures i believe that's how we need to look at how god is at work in the world it might look very

02:11:09.320 messy from our side of history right now but we have faith that this god who whose purpose is to

02:11:17.400 bless the nations this god whose purpose is to establish the shalom the peace the kingdom of

02:11:25.160 jesus that he is actually making a beautiful story one day the patterns will make sense

02:11:33.720 one day we will see the glory of god's work in our life just the way we see and enjoy the glory

02:11:41.160 of a person. Wow.

02:11:54.480 That was really nice.

02:11:55.640 I really enjoyed that.

02:11:57.320 And it was nice to get the perspective of Iranian Christians.

02:12:05.680 So that was that was fantastic. 1.00

02:12:08.520 That was a blind watch for me.

02:12:10.160 And I actually really, really, really enjoyed that.

02:12:12.200 So if anyone wants to watch that one on their own, let me pull it up here so you guys can see which video file it is.

02:12:24.940 So I basically just went to YouTube and I just searched Iran in the Bible.

02:12:34.180 And I played the first two.

02:12:36.660 So I played this video here.

02:12:38.440 That was the first one.

02:12:39.340 And then the one that we just watched was Iran and the Bible, the forgotten story presented by our Daily Bread film.

02:12:47.920 So this was this video actually has like almost six million views, which is really, really interesting.

02:12:54.560 So there you go.

02:12:58.160 All right, everyone.

02:12:58.860 I just wanted to thank you all for joining me tonight for this impromptu Eve before Christmas

02:13:08.440 Eve live stream. I didn't realize there would be this much interest in watching videos about

02:13:16.920 Iran and the Bible and about religion type stuff. So I'm glad that you all enjoyed it.

02:13:25.760 I, you know, I figured this would be sort of a nice uplifting break from, you know, the usual Islamic terrorism and jihad and, you know, death and destruction that we talk about. 0.96

02:13:37.980 Still sort of related to, you know, Iran and the Middle East. 0.91

02:13:41.400 But yeah, this was this was really nice.

02:13:44.400 I'll see if I can I'll see if I can find to, you know, maybe try to do maybe more of these sorts of videos if you guys are interested.

02:13:53.320 But I don't want to stray too far from the main topic, which is, of course, Islamic terrorism and jihad and politics in the Middle East.

02:14:03.720 So thank you, everyone, for joining me.

02:14:06.920 I'm not going to be doing any live streams tomorrow because tomorrow is the day before Christmas.

02:14:13.540 And I probably probably won't do anything on Christmas.

02:14:16.680 I'm not sure.

02:14:18.280 But I will be sharing a video tomorrow, like I said, for all those of you who are here,

02:14:24.300 you get to know in advance. So I will be making a video tomorrow about the three wise men and how

02:14:30.400 they were Zoroastrian. And, you know, talking is actually one of the reasons that I even watched

02:14:36.980 these two videos tonight is because I wanted to talk a little bit about, you know, the connection

02:14:42.940 between Iran, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and Christianity in honor of Christmas. And of

02:14:49.140 course, the three wise men honoring the birth of Jesus Christ. So there you go. Thank you everyone

02:14:55.860 for joining. I really appreciate you all. Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating. Happy Hanukkah

02:15:03.160 to everyone who just finished celebrating. Happy Yalda, happy Chile to everyone who was celebrating

02:15:10.000 that. For the rest of you, happy holidays, wishing you all the best in the new year.

02:15:16.840 And as always,

02:15:40.000 Thank you.

02:16:10.000 Thank you.

02:16:40.000 Thank you.

02:17:10.000 Thank you.

02:17:40.000 We'll be right back.

Goldie Ghamari - December 24, 2025

Iran in the Bible

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