The NXR Podcast - BONUS EPISODE - How Should Christians View Israel？

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00:00:29.500 All right. Welcome back. This is Right Response Ministries. I am Pastor Joel Webb and your host.

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00:01:01.800 the guys from Haunted Cosmos. We're going to have Brian Sauve and Ben Garrett coming on the show

00:01:07.280 all the way from Ogden, Utah. And we're going to be talking about, well, Ben and I, about a month

00:01:12.020 or two ago, we talked about Watchers, Fallen Angels, Nephilim, the whole nine yards. But we're

00:01:17.320 going to continue that conversation and kind of go from Nephilim to Giants. And we're going to talk

00:01:20.900 about like giant classifications, like, all right, 12 foot tall giants, but what about 30 foot tall

00:01:27.080 giants? What about Amos? What about as tall as cedars? You know, those kinds of things. Did they

00:01:30.900 have special abilities? Did they learn this from their fallen angel fathers? These kinds of things

00:01:35.340 and more, Incredibly Unhinged. That's going to be tomorrow, 2 p.m., Theology Applied, joined by

00:01:40.640 the co-host of Haunted Cosmos. But without further ado, today, what we're going to be discussing

00:01:46.020 is Israel. We're going to talk about the current events in Israel. Certainly we are praying for

00:01:51.640 civilians in Israel as they are currently under attack. We're going to talk about Hamas,

00:01:56.380 talk about Iran, Palestine. We'll talk about Israel. We'll talk about them as a nation state.

00:02:01.620 We're going to talk about also some of the spiritual and theological implications. So we

00:02:06.520 also want to discuss dispensationalism. We want to discuss pre-mill dispensational eschatology.

00:02:13.480 We want to talk about physical promises for Israel, do any of those still continue, and

00:02:18.360 even spiritual promises for Israel.

00:02:20.500 And most notably, we're going to go into some of the terrain, that dark, shadowy place where

00:02:25.960 we're not supposed to enter, namely Romans chapter 11.

00:02:28.980 And to do all this, because I don't feel quite qualified to do it by myself, I have invited

00:02:34.880 a dear friend, Andrew Isker.

00:02:37.440 Pastor Andrew Isker, welcome to the show.

00:02:40.220 Yes, thank you.

00:02:41.240 Thank you so much for having me.

00:02:42.900 Absolutely.

00:02:43.480 Tell our audience real quick, just who are you?

00:02:46.260 Tell them about your book.

00:02:47.120 Tell them about your church, whole nine yards.

00:02:49.320 Yeah, I am a pastor in a small town in rural Minnesota,

00:02:55.860 Waseka, Minnesota, my hometown.

00:02:57.540 I am pastoring a 4th Street Evangelical Church,

00:03:01.200 a small little church in this tiny little town.

00:03:04.380 And I, despite not being a big, giant church

00:03:08.620 with tons of influence and things like that,

00:03:10.720 the Lord has allowed me to be able to write things that people want to hear and do podcast,

00:03:18.220 things like this. And so for whatever reason, because the Lord is blessing me, I get to write

00:03:23.940 books. And one of my books that I've put out is The Boniface Option with Gab Press. And that just

00:03:32.600 came out this year. Last year, Andrew Torben and I wrote a book on Christian nationalism titled

00:03:38.180 christian nationalism and uh uh that uh that also did very well and it it uh in in that book we

00:03:45.780 discuss some of the stuff that you want to talk about here you know today and um and so yeah i uh

00:03:52.600 i've i've gotten to um do a lot of cool stuff in the last couple years and and yeah the lord has

00:03:58.680 really blessed a lot of the work we've done awesome yeah it's been a blessing to me the

00:04:02.560 boniface option you and i it's worth noting uh we're going to go ahead and have a third guy

00:04:07.540 join us for this endeavor, but A.D. Robles is going to be joining us. And so this week,

00:04:11.920 I'm going to be at Fight, Laugh, Feast. I'm going to be doing a panel with Stephen Wolfe and Doug

00:04:15.660 Wilson on Christian nationalism. But the following week, no, the next week after that, so I guess

00:04:21.880 two and a half weeks from now, you and A.D. are both going to come out and we're going to be

00:04:25.840 talking about your book and we're doing a special recording project. So for all of our listeners,

00:04:29.500 it's going to be a few months in the making because what we're going to do is we're going

00:04:32.540 to produce it with high quality in post on the back end. So we're going to record it,

00:04:37.200 but it's going to be in-house.

00:04:38.280 Instead of virtually, we're actually flying in

00:04:40.280 Andrew Isker and Aidy Robles and myself,

00:04:42.820 the three of us, we're going to set up in the studio

00:04:44.760 and we're going to have like an eight-part series.

00:04:47.320 So not just one episode, but eight episodes,

00:04:49.960 a whole season dedicated to the Boniface option,

00:04:52.600 getting into the weeds, practical, tangible ways.

00:04:55.600 How do we destroy Trash World,

00:04:58.040 chop down Thor's oak?

00:05:00.500 And then how do we, out of the ashes,

00:05:02.760 rebuild Chrysidom?

00:05:04.020 And so we're going to be doing that

00:05:04.880 and then producing it really well.

00:05:06.200 it's something that we've never done as a ministry before, but we're trying to make this

00:05:09.780 special project and see how it goes. So I'm super excited about that. But yeah, aside from that,

00:05:17.040 let's go ahead and get into today's topic. We're going to be talking about Israel. And I feel like

00:05:21.360 I want to get into the theology because one thing that we want to cover is how should Christians,

00:05:27.660 especially Christians on the other side of the world, right? We're not in the Middle East. There

00:05:31.740 are Christians in the Middle East. God bless them. Our prayers are with them for protection,

00:05:35.020 all these things. But as Christians in America, predominantly our listener base is in America,

00:05:40.160 how should we view Israel? How does God view Israel? What does his word say about Israel?

00:05:45.180 But before we get to that, that I think is vital. We've got to cover it. But I think we'd be remiss

00:05:50.740 if we don't just right out of the gate deal with some of the current events going on. So Andrew,

00:05:56.620 can you maybe just, I don't know, a synopsis, catch us up to speed over the weekend? I mean,

00:06:01.640 these are historic things happening right now. The dispensationalists are getting excited.

00:06:05.920 Yeah, they are. It was, I believe, the 50th anniversary on Saturday was the 50th anniversary

00:06:12.520 of the Yom Kippur War. And, you know, apparently Hamas, you know, the terrorist organization

00:06:21.320 in Palestine and Gaza, took the opportunity to launch a series of widespread attacks. I mean,

00:06:30.500 I'm sure most people have already seen some of these things and some of the news already, but they – and it's hard because how do you know all the things that you're seeing on TV or online are legit?

00:06:42.400 You never really fully can know is this real or not, but very, very brutal, barbaric attacks that they launched, killed women and children, entered into like bunkers and executed people,

00:06:58.340 took all sorts of people, prisoners, especially women. Apparently there's something like 50 or 60

00:07:04.660 female Israeli soldiers who were taken captive. And just extremely brutal stuff. There was

00:07:13.800 apparently for some reason, a rave party for peace right on the border of Israel and Gaza

00:07:22.140 that they assaulted. You can see the video of these guys coming in gliders, like a video game

00:07:27.700 almost. And they took all these, they killed people and presumably did horrific things to

00:07:35.420 the women. And all of it seems to be that they want to provoke a response from Israel, which

00:07:43.000 they're assumedly going to get. Apparently the Israelis are going to send a thousand troops

00:07:49.860 into the Gaza Strip and attack the place. And they've already launched airstrikes and things

00:07:55.120 like that. And so it's, um, it seems to be pretty consequential. It seems like it's, it's a large,

00:08:02.040 large event that it isn't just, you know, the random kind of terror attacks that, that periodically

00:08:06.680 happen, uh, in that area. It seems much, much bigger than that. Um, and, and the backstory of

00:08:12.980 it too, is that, um, especially during the Trump administration, there were, um, major peace,

00:08:20.240 uh, accords that were reached between, um, Israel and all of these, you know, Gulf states,

00:08:27.420 Saudi Arabia, Qatar, uh, UAE. And, um, these were, these were a pretty big deal. And, um,

00:08:35.380 a lot of it is they, they want to achieve a certain rapprochement with, with, um, with these 0.51

00:08:43.000 Gulf states, because then they're a buffer against Iran that they're, those are basically the two

00:08:47.160 Poles in the Middle East or the Saudis on the one hand and the Iranians on the other. And if 0.73

00:08:53.540 they're in good with Israel and of course the United States, then they achieve a certain level 0.91

00:09:01.440 of security against Iran. And so what these attacks seem to be, if there's any deeper underlying

00:09:08.460 reason for them, it's to destroy that peace. You already see statements from the Saudis and Qatar

00:09:15.900 um and i believe egypt that have condemned israel in the midst of being attacked it seems it seems

00:09:22.020 bizarre it's like well they basically are like ah you deserved it and and so it seems to be that

00:09:29.000 they're achieving the goal especially if they they go in and force and just level gaza that the all 0.63

00:09:35.040 of these arabs arab states that they were on very good terms with they're not going to be anymore 0.53

00:09:40.820 And so there's deeper geopolitical stuff in all of this that is behind the scenes. 0.99

00:09:49.520 And it's uncertain that in the past, they've been able to go into Gaza and lay waste to this place fairly easily.

00:09:57.500 You have a modern military going up against people that are not very well armed.

00:10:01.680 Sometimes they just have rocks, right?

00:10:03.220 But if there are, you know, loads of weapons that have been funneled into Gaza because, you know, American weapons have been, you know, just left lying around, you know, in Afghanistan and in Ukraine, then it might be a much more difficult task for the Israelis to go in like they have in the past. 0.52

00:10:28.320 So, right. So, so going forward, yeah, it's going to be going to be pretty dicey. Yeah.

00:10:34.660 Thank you. That's super helpful. So with all that being said for the listener, you know,

00:10:37.840 my understanding, right. I feel like I'm going to be helpful in this conversation in a Michael

00:10:42.400 Scott sort of way. Right. So like, explain it to me like I'm five, you know, like what is a surplus?

00:10:47.700 You know, but from my understanding, you know, and, and doing some research and trying to

00:10:51.700 understand what's going on. One of the things that this is not like some full militia,

00:10:56.560 this was guerrilla warfare they were going this was civilians uh in terms of the israelis they

00:11:02.500 were going into individual uh civilians homes and and just as far as what we can tell and just

00:11:08.780 shooting like a elderly couple in their bed as they're sleeping you know yeah things like that

00:11:14.000 or yeah and so terrible terrible things uh that that have been taking place um absolutely we

00:11:20.260 believe that uh that israel has a right and responsibility to their citizens to uh defend

00:11:25.980 physical life. And so you and I, we have certain views on this topic theologically.

00:11:33.180 But here's the deal that I think I just want to say as a disclaimer right out the gate.

00:11:39.060 Israel, you know, 75 years ago, whether or not there should have been the nation state of Israel

00:11:45.200 established 75 years ago in the Middle East and all these, putting that question aside for a

00:11:55.960 And so you have people, whether these people are synonymous with biblical Jews of the Old

00:12:02.280 Testament, which you and I, we'd have some serious pushback on that, and we'll get to

00:12:06.400 that in a moment.

00:12:07.400 But regardless, what we do know for sure is that they're people.

00:12:10.880 They're made in the image of God.

00:12:12.320 They have an innate value and dignity.

00:12:15.900 Life is worthy of defense, and it is a nation.

00:12:20.480 It is a sovereign nation state that does exist in God's providence.

00:12:24.240 He allowed it to take place, and these are image-bearing people, and from what we can tell, being brutally slaughtered.

00:12:31.160 And the only reason we offer any of those descriptives of apparently or allegedly, it's not to say this isn't happening.

00:12:37.500 We're not labeling this propaganda, but we are just acknowledging that we—I mean, right now, so much of the regime is this war machine.

00:12:46.680 And it's just foolish for us to get fooled 15 minutes ago and then fall for the same thing.

00:12:53.060 So we want to have compassion and we don't want to be just conspiracist for the heck of it.

00:13:01.320 But we also do want to have a holy suspicion and recognizing that some of the stuff that came out with Ukraine and Russia in the final analysis was just absolute propaganda, right?

00:13:10.620 Like the ghost of Kiev, you know, or whatever.

00:13:13.240 Like there were certain things it's like, oh, well, that actually did not happen.

00:13:17.420 So we're not saying nothing happened, but we're just saying we want to be careful.

00:13:22.280 I'm reminded, you know, of the Summer of Love 2020, you know, the Kenosha riots.

00:13:26.980 And there's all, you know, there's so many things.

00:13:28.880 And even before that, like, hands up, don't shoot is a myth.

00:13:32.440 Never happened.

00:13:33.620 You know what I mean?

00:13:34.160 And so many of us fell for that.

00:13:36.060 And I think Christians are particularly susceptible because of all of Christ's commands about compassion and loving our neighbor.

00:13:43.580 And so we see these kinds of things.

00:13:45.880 And immediately, you know, you're emotionally drawn into it.

00:13:49.800 And I think that's a good instinct in a lot of ways.

00:13:51.840 But we don't want to subtract that.

00:13:53.880 We simply want to add to it discernment and wisdom and temperance.

00:13:58.520 And so as we're talking about these things, both Andrew and I are fully on board that 0.94

00:14:04.020 there is something crazy going down right now in Israel, that Hamas is, that they're 0.96

00:14:08.800 Islamic terrorists. 0.97

00:14:10.200 These are not good guys. 1.00

00:14:12.020 And that the Israeli people are created in the image of God and that it appears as though 0.87

00:14:18.560 at least several have been brutally murdered and Israel is within its rights to defend its

00:14:24.760 national citizens. Wouldn't it be awesome if America would do the same? But that's kind of

00:14:30.840 the lay of the land. And then from that, we want to get into Romans 11, the theology, how should

00:14:36.300 Christians view Israel? But also the larger world stage, and you alluded to it, Andrew, but getting

00:14:43.720 beyond just the skirmish that's happening currently, what are the implications globally

00:14:49.800 for the United States of America? Or could China come in? How big could this get? But before we get

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00:16:24.920 All right, so Pastor Andrew, how big could this thing get?

00:16:28.040 oh you know it's it's hard to say like making prognostications is of course you know impossible 0.60

00:16:34.460 to know exactly and and anytime you make them and it's always it can look somewhat foolish you know

00:16:41.460 in retrospect um but i mean there's there's a whole bunch of different potentialities of

00:16:47.020 of outcomes um you know it i mean the wild card is the united states and the biden administration

00:16:55.940 and the, you know, the whole regime, um, it certainly seems like the, you know, the Bush

00:17:01.640 era neocons are, are champing at the bit to, to do something. Uh, you see guys like Lindsey Graham

00:17:07.440 say, Oh, we need to attack Iran now. And people like, um, you know, Nikki Haley, people like that

00:17:12.800 who are, um, you know, wanting the United States to engage in, in warfare in the middle East.

00:17:19.060 And that, that, you know, you can't discount that, that possibility. Um, I mean, of course they 0.80

00:17:24.700 brought um they've brought an aircraft carrier you know right into the eastern mediterranean

00:17:29.200 a carrier group and and that presents a question of like well and they have blood us that's yeah

00:17:35.240 yeah yeah biden yeah they uh yeah i try not to differ it's hard because it's like yeah that's

00:17:40.200 my country uh but uh but i i i somewhat disassociate the leadership of uh the regime

00:17:46.580 from us you know but um but yeah for clarity's sake yeah um the and that's the the gerald ford

00:17:54.520 it's the largest aircraft right yeah it's largest aircraft carrier in the fleet as far as i know

00:17:58.700 and and you know even that it i look at that and it's like well you know hezbollah has anti-ship

00:18:04.780 missiles and it doesn't you know it's it's just like the show of force it's like it's not like

00:18:09.500 the they're going to run you know carrier-based operations against the gaza strip you you would

00:18:14.880 imagine and so it's it's if anything it presents a vulnerability to the to the regime where it's

00:18:20.240 like here's this big giant expensive, you know, multi-billion dollar ship. And, you know, Hezbollah 0.89

00:18:26.080 is aligned with, with the Palestinians and they have anti-ship missiles and they've sunk ships

00:18:31.280 in the Mediterranean before. And so it's like, why are they doing this and putting this big 0.79

00:18:35.900 giant target out for them to hit? And so it's like, you don't want to get too conspiratorial,

00:18:40.980 but it's like, are they asking it to get sunk, you know, to bring the United States into a larger

00:18:44.820 conflict um but you know where things could go it's hard to say i mean if if uh the israelis go

00:18:51.960 into gaza and and you know level the place and it's it's quick and it's done with um it it's

00:18:59.920 something that probably will be forgotten you know a few months down the road and uh for the sake of

00:19:05.540 like the geopolitics and and for our country and for us um you almost hope that that it's resolved

00:19:11.160 quickly in that manner, even though obviously thousands of people are going to be, almost 0.97

00:19:18.400 certainly now at this point, going to be killed and including not just Muslims in Gaza, but

00:19:25.640 there are also many Christians there as well. 0.81

00:19:29.080 And so all of it is just horrific that this terrorist group attacks and they know Israel's

00:19:36.600 response is what it's going to be. And they, they do it knowing they're going to provoke that

00:19:41.960 response and cause the deaths of, of, you know, thousands or tens of thousands of innocent people

00:19:48.480 on their own side. And, and so all of it is just, is brutal and awful. And it's, it's difficult to

00:19:55.420 talk about when you think about it, especially now when everybody, including these people in

00:19:59.920 like dire poverty still have iPhones and they're, you know, they're, they're filming everything.

00:20:04.680 You see it, you see it in a way that in the past where it would just be like CNN's cameras or whatever the TV news crews could show us.

00:20:11.700 Now it's, we see everything.

00:20:13.740 We have access to all of it.

00:20:14.700 I mean, it's similar with like the Ukraine war where there's, there's video that, that comes out where we can see things that are happening that we wouldn't have even 10 years ago.

00:20:24.040 So it's the realities of, and the brutality of, of this warfare is, is much more visceral now.

00:20:30.560 But if it doesn't – if the Israelis go in and it's not easy for them and the Palestinians have much more – far greater access to high-tech weaponry and they're able to fight and hold the Israelis off and it is this brutal slugfest, then you could see conflict widening and opening up.

00:20:52.700 And perhaps Gulf states now entering a conflict and becoming something like the Six Days War, where now they're fighting actual nation states on top of the Palestinians that are nearby.

00:21:04.440 And the wider it gets and the more embroiled it gets, the higher likelihood the United States becomes involved in some – we're already involved in one sense, but in a much more dynamic way.

00:21:15.780 Right. Thank you.

00:21:16.580 um so we we know that you know at least from 20 years ago and just our involvement in the

00:21:23.540 middle east or or even you know money or accounts that we've unfroze even recently with iran and

00:21:30.200 things like that that's um we know that there's in that sense there has been financial support

00:21:34.960 and there has been equipment and things like that that's been you know sold on the black market and

00:21:38.920 these are things that we know have happened at least um in past years is is you know is as long

00:21:44.580 as 20 years ago and as recent as much more recent, just a few years ago. Do we have any

00:21:52.280 definitive knowledge at this point in regards to more recent things like our complete abandonment

00:21:59.760 and the pathetic withdrawal in Afghanistan? And of course, our funding of Ukraine, where there's

00:22:06.640 no accountability. It's not like these things are accounted for. So Zelensky says, I need another

00:22:12.900 billion you know and then we say absolutely let's make it three you know and then um you know and

00:22:18.280 then and then he he buys a bunch of stuff you know and when i say stuff i mean like like bombs that

00:22:23.560 go boom and it and easily could say okay we needed you know we bought 100 bombs because the u.s just

00:22:30.460 gave us a blank check and we needed 70 and we're going to sell 30 and who buys those who so my

00:22:35.720 question is we know that the decisions of our involvement the west involvement in the past

00:22:42.580 have have have played out poorly and and simply arming um militia in the middle east uh for

00:22:49.960 towards nefarious ends have some of our recent decisions namely i'm thinking afghanistan ukraine

00:22:55.660 do we have any definitive proof at this point that that hamas may actually have some of those

00:23:01.940 weapons and equipment i mean there's there's been all sorts of speculation along the those lines i

00:23:07.240 mean there isn't i mean apparently this morning there was something that the russians put out that

00:23:11.440 that, that claimed that the Ukrainians have sold weapons. And of course the other side says the

00:23:16.980 same thing that the Russians are selling Ukrainian weapons. So it's, it's hard to know, you know,

00:23:21.720 one way or the other, like, like you said earlier, all of the, you know, so much of this stuff is,

00:23:26.600 it's so nebulous and foggy. It's, it's hard to know the truth in, in real time as things unfold,

00:23:33.680 you don't really know until we have much further down the road. But at least stands to reason that,

00:23:39.780 yeah, you leave billions of dollars worth of weaponry in Afghanistan and the Taliban has it

00:23:45.580 and they can do whatever they want with it. They can sell it to whoever they want to the highest

00:23:49.860 bidder. And the same thing with Ukraine where there are hundreds of billions of dollars worth

00:23:56.580 of weapons, very high tech weapons. And people are like, well, they're going to use all of them

00:24:01.200 against the Russians. And it's like, I don't think you quite appreciate just how corrupt

00:24:07.560 Eastern Europe is, and in particular Ukraine, where it's like, yeah, maybe they'll use nine 0.91

00:24:13.620 out of every 10, but that 10th one, some general or some apparatchik in the Zelensky regime

00:24:19.160 is skimming off the top and can make a lot of money. And so that's how things operate over

00:24:25.540 there and in Russia too. And so, yeah, all of these weapons can easily get funneled who knows

00:24:32.640 where. And that's been the criticism of American operations in Ukraine for the last two years.

00:24:37.560 is, uh, we're handing out all these weapons. How it's not like every time you shoot a Russian tank,

00:24:43.620 you know, there's a receipt that goes back to the Pentagon and says, all right, we use this

00:24:47.620 against the Russians. Here's the proof. Right. So you have no way of knowing, right? That's,

00:24:52.560 that's the, it's the big question mark is all of these weapons are out there and they're just

00:24:56.980 unleashed and they're unleashed on a people who are incredibly corrupt and like to skim off the

00:25:02.980 top. And so, and this is, I mean, this, this has been part of, you know, warfare for millennia is

00:25:09.020 people steal from the supplies, right? That's what, that's what they do. And so, so I think

00:25:15.540 it would be foolish to, to think that that isn't happening at all. Absolutely. That they're very

00:25:20.720 disciplined to know that of course not. And so is it possible that they end up with, with Hamas 0.77

00:25:25.940 in Palestine? You know, certainly it is. Cause I mean, look, look at all, like all the weapons 0.97

00:25:31.220 that they've used heretofore, you know, rockets and so forth, it's supposed to be this totally

00:25:35.760 sealed off place where they can't get anything in. And they've got thousands of rockets that

00:25:40.200 get imported in there somehow. So why wouldn't, um, you know, man pads, these anti-tank missiles

00:25:46.540 and things like that. There was a, there was a video and it's hard to say again, like,

00:25:49.660 how do you know if these videos are legit or real, or if they're from a video game even, right.

00:25:54.520 Um, but there was this video of, of Palestinians shooting down an Israeli helicopter, uh, using,

00:25:59.420 anti-aircraft missiles. And it's like, well, where did they get those? The Taliban, Ukraine, 0.72

00:26:03.680 who knows, right? But if they are armed with some high-tech weaponry, and even just with drones, 0.92

00:26:11.840 I mean, Iran makes all of the, or not all of, but many of the drones that the Russians use. 0.56

00:26:16.480 And so does Hezbollah have those? Do they smuggle them into Gaza to be able to use against Israeli

00:26:24.180 tanks. It's hard to say what's going to happen. I mean, here we are sitting two days afterward

00:26:31.720 when they're about to launch this massive operation. And so we don't know. It could be

00:26:37.900 over before it starts, or it could go on for a long time. It's hard to say. And at a minimum,

00:26:47.000 um, um, what, what seems most likely is that the United States, um, you know, the regime that

00:26:53.960 rules over us, um, wants to be involved in, in this conflict to, to, to some degree, you know,

00:27:01.040 it's hard to say exactly what, um, and with an election coming up, um, they want, you know,

00:27:08.080 obviously want to use whatever they can to maintain their hold on power. And so the easiest

00:27:15.140 way to do that is with war uh that's that's just known everyone knows that if you if you want to

00:27:19.940 hold power you know if you go if you send your nation to war then then it's easy to consolidate

00:27:24.820 domestically yeah let's so let's talk about that for a moment because you know like so the other

00:27:30.780 day i was at costco with my family right and um and i noticed you know there was a massive increase

00:27:37.200 even here in texas of uh some some mask wearing and i was thinking you know i'm going to get a

00:27:42.600 jumpstart in october right so i'm being i'm being really fiscally wise here i'm going to get a

00:27:47.240 jumpstart on uh decorations for christmas but i realized that everybody else was already decorating

00:27:52.280 for election season you know like here i am way behind you know so um but um but so so yeah sure

00:28:00.160 we'll roll out you know like we'll that that one trick pony of covid you know uh right on schedule

00:28:04.760 but a lot of people won't fall for that now sadly a lot of people will they'll be like hey you

00:28:09.280 tricked me. And then somebody will do the same trick and be like, oh, okay. And so sadly, a lot

00:28:13.680 of people really are that foolish. A lot of Christians even are really that foolish. But 1.00

00:28:19.320 by God's grace, I'd like to think that not as many would fall for it. And so you're going to

00:28:23.900 need something more than that to draw election day out to election month to election season and

00:28:29.020 harvesting ballots and the whole nine yards. And so that something could be, well, okay,

00:28:33.540 we can replay COVID. But in addition, we could also sprinkle in a little bit of

00:28:38.920 World War III. That might do the trick. Now, with that being said, you and I were talking 0.86

00:28:45.700 offline and it was really helpful because I was wondering, but how does war help the current

00:28:51.820 administration stay in power? I can see how COVID can say, well, you can't, you're going to have to

00:28:58.140 vote remotely, mail-in ballots and all this kind of stuff. But how does war on the other side of

00:29:03.680 the planet mind you specifically how does that help rig potentially we're not saying this is

00:29:09.720 gonna but potentially rig an election and you you answered that question for me and i found it really

00:29:14.160 helpful and again this is speculation but yeah yeah and who knows we could again we could we 1.00

00:29:19.580 could you know you play this video back you know a year from now and oh sure look at these idiots 0.99

00:29:24.340 they thought this was gonna happen right well but it won't be it won't be that bad i'd like to think 0.97

00:29:28.060 it'll be better than y2k but but uh yeah but it won't be that bad because let the let the listener

00:29:34.560 understand i use the words we are speculating we're naming it we're not these are not prophecies

00:29:39.720 we're not saying this will happen this is we're simply saying this is something that could happen

00:29:44.480 and discerning christians should be simply aware yeah that's what i'm saying yeah so we're not

00:29:49.480 making any any prophecies yeah yeah we're not saying this is definitely gonna happen uh which

00:29:54.420 some christians do they they literally like and this is this is going to this is what i predicted

00:29:58.860 14 years ago like and at that point a verse from the minor prophets to try to justify it right so

00:30:06.020 we're not doing that we're just saying it's possible yeah yeah and so i i think you know

00:30:10.660 so say say the situation boils over and that the calls to attack iran um um begin to be

00:30:21.080 gain widespread acceptance, right? So one of the things is that it's clear, I think incontrovertible

00:30:32.200 that the Iranians, they're aligned with Hezbollah and Gaza, that they support to one degree or

00:30:39.600 another these operations. And the segment of neocons in the GOP want that, they've wanted

00:30:49.160 that war to happen um since george w bush was president right since he gives his speech at the

00:30:54.480 state of the union and says iraq iran north korea right well excuse me the um they've wanted iran

00:31:02.400 forever you know you have the picture of benjamin netanyahu with the like clip art version of a of a

00:31:07.960 bomb at the un and saying they're gonna get it any any minute now and that's like 20 years ago

00:31:13.120 they still haven't gotten it. But they've wanted to attack them for decades. And this could be

00:31:21.780 the thing where they finally get to do that. And whatever degree the US wants to be involved in

00:31:29.860 that, they're going to be involved in it to one degree or another, almost certainly. And so if

00:31:35.860 there's an attack, if it's just aerial bombardment, right, there's no invasion, it's just bombing 0.65

00:31:40.580 Iran. It's still, um, puts the United States on this war footing. And there would like right now,

00:31:47.080 um, the U S military, I mean, for, for year after year has fallen behind its recruiting goals by

00:31:54.160 like 20 or 25%. And the number of, of active duty infantry men, like the actual guys with guns that

00:32:01.540 will go fight is, is like, you know, a hundred thousand, right. Maybe, maybe more depending on

00:32:07.840 how you calculate it uh but but not not anywhere near the strength of the u.s army really at any

00:32:13.980 point um and so in order to fight a massive conflict right if there's going to be one and

00:32:20.680 also you have to keep in mind like the ukraine war still going on they're running out of men

00:32:24.920 and and are they going to try to put put american troops in there or nato troops in there um uh do

00:32:30.480 what do the chinese do they want taiwan and they would maybe sense american weakness or

00:32:36.120 overextension in other parts of the world. And then do you have to defend that place too? And

00:32:40.240 there was a paper that came out, I think it was last week or two weeks ago from the Army War

00:32:44.640 College about both Ukraine and Taiwan saying that if the United States had to defend Taiwan

00:32:53.860 militarily, they would lose 3,600 men a day. And the current force status is such that they don't

00:33:00.560 have enough people, enough men to sustain losses like that. And so you would have, their conclusion

00:33:06.660 is you would have to have conscription. You'd have to have a draft. And so like you add a draft

00:33:10.820 to our entire, you know, political chaos that we currently have. And then what, what also happens

00:33:17.080 at wartime, like we haven't undergone anything like this in our lifetimes, but what happens is

00:33:24.000 there are massive restrictions on the populace, right? So, you know, during World War II,

00:33:29.320 There's rationing. I mean, there could be, I mean, just when you, like you mentioned, going to Costco, right? You just look at the prices, right? If there's, if you're having to pay for a war on the other side of the planet that, and, and massive military buildup to bring it about, right? There's going to be even more inflation. And so all of these things will be thrown into chaos. They're, they're, you know, maybe we'd be popular unrest over a draft, things like that. Like you could see how the road that this could go down if it unravels like this.

00:33:57.360 um and so in order to you know maintain control maintain power they they do things just as

00:34:02.620 restrictive as lockdowns and maybe they would even do lockdowns like well we're at war we did

00:34:06.860 we did everyone to stay home right that is and and you could see people they wouldn't get fooled by

00:34:12.020 by covid but they could be like oh we are at war and we have enemies and we better we better just

00:34:17.400 stay inside our house or or whatever they would do maybe whatever you know restriction of civil

00:34:22.480 liberties that they would bring about, uh, it's certainly conceivable, right. That, that things

00:34:27.340 like this would happen over the next year. So that's, that's the thing. And, and on top of it

00:34:32.580 is you have, you know, the American, like the, the left side of the aisle of the body politic 0.60

00:34:39.300 in America, uh, other than the very far left, um, is just bloodthirsty for any war that the regime

00:34:45.680 puts on the table. They'll be like, yep, go kill them. They're bad. Um, and so they're, 0.99

00:34:50.600 they're on board with whatever but on the right side especially like the the trump voter the mega

00:34:55.660 voter their their their instincts are very much to be anti-war they want america to be out of

00:35:00.600 these foreign entanglements but at the same time if you bring in israel they all believe

00:35:07.740 they're all influenced by various strains of dispensationalism and they think well this these

00:35:12.460 are god's chosen holy people and we we have a duty as christians to defend them that's right

00:35:17.020 Your average Trump voter is a big fan of Schofield.

00:35:23.900 Yeah, absolutely.

00:35:25.580 They've never heard his name before.

00:35:27.260 That's right.

00:35:27.680 But it's just they've grown up.

00:35:28.820 It's like a fish passing another fish in the ocean and saying, man, the water sure is nice today.

00:35:33.240 What's water?

00:35:34.180 But that's dispensationalism.

00:35:36.520 And your average Trump guy, and we're not saying they're not Christian.

00:35:39.640 Like God looks at the outward appearance.

00:35:41.640 God sees the heart.

00:35:42.480 And perfect theology is not a prerequisite for salvation.

00:35:46.320 And so a lot of these people are regenerate. They're salt of the earth, blue-collar people

00:35:50.600 who love the Lord, and they love them some Trump also, but they're wrong. They are wrong.

00:35:55.680 And they don't know any better.

00:35:56.920 And they don't know any better. But when they... You're right. Their overall instinct is,

00:36:02.200 let's actually put America first. That is a Trumpian kind of... So America first, except

00:36:08.740 the one exception would be, but what about God's chosen people? And so that's what we need to get 0.95

00:36:14.220 to now. So I think we're ready. That's a perfect segue to go into the theology of dispensationalism

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00:38:21.560 All right, so let's talk about it, Pastor Andrew. I think we're ready. Romans 11,

00:38:26.260 and dispensationalism the whole nine yard is you know israel god's chosen people

00:38:32.060 what how should christians think about israel today yeah um so i guess where do we where do

00:38:40.560 we want to begin with that you know i had a uh a tweet uh i had a tweet the other day that was

00:38:45.300 you know i guess controversial it wasn't controversial to me uh but i i just i flat

00:38:50.520 said that this nation that exists, the people that call those Jews today, the nation of Israel

00:38:59.780 and so forth, that Christians should understand that these are not the same people that the

00:39:05.840 Old Testament calls Jews because those people, the Jews in the Old Testament, they were in

00:39:15.820 a covenant with God in the old covenant. And that old covenant no longer exists. It doesn't exist,

00:39:23.860 at least in the same way. It's, it's superseded by the new covenant and the, you know, the apostle

00:39:28.800 Paul extremely clear in both Romans and the book of Galatians that all those, all the promises to

00:39:36.620 Abraham belong to those of the faith of Abraham only, only to those who believe that that those

00:39:43.340 promises no longer apply to these people and i think you know at least most reformed christians

00:39:48.240 they they get that right they understand okay yep those promises those belong to christians

00:39:53.040 right both jew and gentile in in the old old covenant paradigm um those belong to those of

00:40:00.200 the faith of abraham those who believe in that the physical problem like the physical promises

00:40:06.600 were for abraham's physical seed his his actual uh blood descendants but there are spiritual

00:40:12.180 promises that are not for children according to the flesh, but children according to the promise,

00:40:16.580 those according to the Spirit. And you're right, your typical Reformed, within the Reformed

00:40:20.260 tradition, your typical Reformed evangelical Christian is going to be supersessionism,

00:40:26.780 the fulfillment theology. They're going to say the church is the fulfillment, is the final,

00:40:32.000 truest spiritual fulfillment of Israel. And so they're going to say, no, there's no more land

00:40:36.780 promises. God fulfilled that. And it's interesting, we just finished the book of Joshua, and it's so

00:40:42.400 interesting. We got to Joshua chapter 23 and it says, and everything that I spoke through my

00:40:46.640 servant Moses came to pass, that you inhabited all of the land, all these promises are fulfilled.

00:40:53.040 And then there are some new promises for the rebuilding of the temple, but then those things

00:40:56.440 come to pass with Nehemiah and with Ezra. And so these things have come to pass. But for the average

00:41:02.420 the average reformed christian my understanding um is is that we believe that there's not a

00:41:08.240 current promise these were promises and it's not that god changed his mind he behold i in the lord

00:41:13.440 i changeth not uh these are promises it's not that god changes mind but but god actually fulfilled

00:41:18.480 these promises they've been fulfilled he brought them uh to pass and and and so god fulfilled his

00:41:24.120 end of of the covenant uh with these land promises and so those are not continuing they're in our

00:41:29.500 past, not in our future. So those aren't continuing today. That's that preterist hermeneutic. Preterist

00:41:36.780 just means past. And so these prophecies in the Old Testament were in the future of the immediate

00:41:42.620 audience, the Jews that were being written to, but they're not in our future. They're in our past 1.00

00:41:47.980 with the land promises. But then when we get to like Romans chapter 11, even within the post

00:41:53.120 millennial, so I'm thinking of like David Chilton and some of these guys, the average post-millennial

00:41:56.900 reformed covenant theology rather than dispensationalism would say, okay, the land

00:42:03.360 promises are done. And again, that doesn't mean that Israel can't be there and they have to,

00:42:07.520 you know, like what's done is done. They're there. They're there. But it does mean that there's not

00:42:13.060 a divine land right in 2023. So we're going to talk about Israel as a nation state the same way

00:42:18.980 we would about Brazil or any other nation. But most, again, reformed post-millennial guys would 0.59

00:42:24.940 say, okay, that's in terms of the physical promises, but there are still these spiritual

00:42:29.440 promises, and not just for spiritual Israel, all of Abraham's descendants by faith, those who trust

00:42:36.280 Christ, Christians, but there's actually spiritual promises still for ethnic Israel, according to

00:42:42.580 Romans 11. And that would be David Chilton, that would be guys that we love, like Doug Wilson,

00:42:47.680 right? He would hold to that? Yeah, a lot of Reformed people hold to that,

00:42:52.080 um, to the, to the view that there still is this eschatological purpose for the descendants of

00:42:58.840 Abraham, right. On into the future. Um, and you know, my, my view is different than that. There's,

00:43:06.420 there's, there are other views, um, uh, of Romans 11. And, um, one, you know, one of the,

00:43:12.680 the main things to keep in mind is that Paul is, is writing Romans. He's writing it while the old

00:43:19.660 covenant and the new covenant are overlapping. So the old covenant is still, during the time

00:43:27.000 of the apostles, it's still in operation, right? There still is a temple. They're still doing

00:43:30.900 sacrifices. And this is the main point of the book of Hebrews is like the Judaizers are attacking 0.99

00:43:37.520 the church, saying you need to go back to the old covenant in order to really be saved. And

00:43:42.120 the book of Hebrews is saying, no, do not go back. That place is going to get destroyed and there's

00:43:49.040 not going to be any sacrifice for sins left. Do not abandon Jesus and go back there. That's the

00:43:55.540 entire point. And so you read the book of Hebrews now, it's not relevant in the same way that it

00:44:01.920 was relevant to the original audience of the book of Hebrews, because there is no temple. There is

00:44:06.580 no Israel to return to. There is no old covenant to return to. There's no threat in the same way. 0.60

00:44:13.840 Now we can apply it in, in, to our situation and so forth. And that's, you know, good preachers do that. But it's not, it's not the exact same anymore. And, and so if you read Romans in the same vein, right, Paul is, is concerned about his kinsmen according to the flesh, all of these, all of these people in the old covenant that don't understand that their entire purpose for existence, right?

00:44:40.500 I mean, just thinking about it, um, biblically over, over the whole course of the Bible,

00:44:44.480 like, why does Israel exist? Why, why do the Jews exist? Why, why does this old covenant exist?

00:44:50.040 It's to bring about the seed, right? To bring about the promised seed from all the way back

00:44:55.620 in Genesis chapter three, that is their raison d'etre. That's their reason for being. And he

00:45:01.520 came he's here right it's jesus right and so um at that point right jesus comes and he's the true

00:45:10.720 israel he's the true israelite and so now um both jew and gentile need to be incorporated into him

00:45:17.220 to receive these promises and and in 70 ad right that the old covenant comes to a complete close

00:45:24.500 it's done the temple's destroyed it's never going to be rebuilt sorry dispensationalists that are

00:45:29.520 pining for a third temple. It's not going to happen. And it it's destroyed. The old covenant

00:45:35.640 is not coming back. There's nothing to go back to. There are those, those promises are done,

00:45:40.560 right? These it's, it's over. And so you read Romans 11 with that in mind, right? That the

00:45:47.460 old Testament or the old covenant is about to come to its close. And Paul is saying right before it

00:45:53.300 does, there is, there is going to be all Israel is going to be saved, right? All of the, all of

00:45:59.320 the Israelites, this faithful remnant that God has reserved, they're going to be brought in before

00:46:04.440 the end comes, right? That's what Paul is talking about. And many reformed people that have the

00:46:08.120 other view, they're thinking way off thousands of years into the future. But the preterist view

00:46:14.340 of Romans 11 is that, no, that also already happened, that thousands of Jews were converted

00:46:19.580 before Jerusalem fell. So let me stop you. So that's super helpful, but let me stop you and

00:46:25.600 just ask you know clarifying questions along the way so one yep uh when do you think the book of

00:46:30.420 romans was written um you probably there's it's hard to say i'm thinking 55 um my way off 50 i

00:46:39.140 mean they're they're different views uh between 55 and 62 ad okay yeah and then and then would

00:46:45.100 you be among those i i think this is my position i'm still studying some on it but i lean towards

00:46:49.900 right now i believe i definitely think hebrews was pre-8070 i think revelation was pre-8070 not

00:46:56.260 by much i think that one was right on the heels you know by maybe a year or two um but i i think

00:47:01.780 at this point i i've pretty much settled that i i believe that every single new testament book of

00:47:05.740 the bible was pre-8070 yeah yeah i would i would agree okay and so uh romans because that's what

00:47:11.980 we're discussing right now romans 9 through 11 particularly 11 we think that that one was not

00:47:16.180 like a 80-69 kind of situation, but more of like a, this is, you know, we've got a good 10-15 years

00:47:22.140 to go. Yeah, something like that, yeah. Okay, and then with that, I'm thinking of, you know,

00:47:26.960 the Apostle Paul, you know, one of the things he says in Romans 11, and elsewhere also, he mentions

00:47:31.440 that part of, you know, he says, I'll no longer go to the Jews, and again, he's speaking in this

00:47:35.880 context of ethnic Jews, according to the flesh, I'm no longer going to go to them, I love them, 0.99

00:47:40.080 I'd be willing to go to hell, cut off, for the sake of my kinsmen, you know, and so he loves them, 1.00

00:47:44.860 but he's, I'm not going to go to them anymore because they're not listening. They've rejected 0.78

00:47:48.960 Christ and they're rejecting me. And so he's this apostle appointed to the Gentiles, but part of his 0.95

00:47:54.300 hope and aim is that he loves the Gentiles and wants to see their own eternal heavenly good come

00:47:59.780 about through his gospel preaching ministry, but also as a happy bonus that as he ministers among 0.65

00:48:05.240 the Gentiles, that the Jews might be provoked to a godly sense of jealousy, that they would see

00:48:10.260 their God actually blessing, you know, like I think of like Hosea, you know, like those who

00:48:18.120 are not my people will be called my people, you know? And so they would see this and say,

00:48:21.980 wait a second, that was ours. What have we done? You know, and that I, you know, I was thinking

00:48:27.220 about this the other day, it almost seems as though in 80s, so then Paul does it, he shifts 0.93

00:48:31.080 gears and you see even in the book of Acts, the epicenter shifts from Peter and the Jewish

00:48:35.720 apostles, in the center being Jerusalem, and then about Acts 15, literally like clockwork,

00:48:41.080 halfway through, it shifts from Peter in Jerusalem to Paul in Antioch, and it shifts to primarily

00:48:46.260 ministry among Gentiles, and then we've got Paul with a good, just from his writing of Romans,

00:48:52.200 and not all the ministry he's already done before that among the Gentiles, so a good couple of

00:48:56.180 decades, two, three decades, ministering among the Gentiles, again, in this interim period,

00:49:01.140 right so you the inauguration of the new covenant that's uh would you date that at

00:49:05.200 pentecost or the resurrection uh yes um perfect great both so so you know so so there we have

00:49:13.080 amen so there we have the beginning of the new covenant and then and then we have the rolling

00:49:17.340 up like a garment the completion like at that point the old covenant is um in every theological

00:49:22.860 sense done but there is still that's you know there is still this overhang um and and so and

00:49:29.400 And so then, you know, but then God in his providence, he sees fit that there's a finality

00:49:34.400 of completion to the old covenant in 87.

00:49:37.980 So you have a 40 year, give or take, interim period.

00:49:41.120 And during that time, that's when Paul's writing about halfway in between there, maybe on the 0.97

00:49:45.940 latter second half, but halfway in between this 40 year long, a whole generation in Jewish 0.80

00:49:50.780 terms of where Paul is saying, okay, forget the Jews. 1.00

00:49:55.200 I love them, but they won't listen. 1.00

00:49:57.180 They rejected Christ.

00:49:58.920 They're rejecting me. 1.00

00:50:00.160 I'm going to go to the Gentiles. 1.00

00:50:01.740 And as God pours out his blessing among the Gentiles 0.98

00:50:05.140 and gathers in the fullness of Gentiles in the known world at the time, 0.92

00:50:08.940 and that that actually happened,

00:50:10.100 there was a fullness of the Gentiles streaming in to Christ in faith

00:50:15.020 through the ministry of Paul and other ministers.

00:50:18.440 And that actually, we're saying, you're saying, 0.78

00:50:20.900 that that actually did provoke the Jews, 0.56

00:50:23.340 especially when AD 70 hit. 0.92

00:50:25.680 Because Jesus said, this generation won't pass away.

00:50:27.880 in a literal sense, not just this type of generation, but these people, some of you will

00:50:32.860 die, but there will be many of you still living where you see me come on the clouds. And that's

00:50:37.260 not cherubim, baby angels playing harps, but like clouds being judgment language. Think Joel chapter

00:50:43.460 two, billows of smoke. And so boom, you've got Titus, the sacking of the temple, not one stone,

00:50:50.060 the greatest prophecy arguably ever made by Christ himself, not one stone. And I think of this,

00:50:56.280 Tell me if you think I'm off here, but I think of the Roman soldier who, after Jesus died, he's going, he's breaking the legs of the criminals on either side of Jesus, and he comes to the Christ, and instead of breaking his legs, he realizes he's already dead, and he pierces his side with a spear and outflow the stream of water and blood, and he says, surely, this was the Son of God.

00:51:17.340 And I'm just imagining Jews, and again, speaking ethnically, ethnic Jews in 80, 70, Christ spiritually coming.

00:51:24.340 He's seated in his glorified body at the right hand of the Father, ascended, but a spiritual parousia, a coming of Christ on the clouds.

00:51:32.940 Josephus even said dozens of eyewitnesses that saw like silhouettes, like chariots of fire in the clouds and smoke from all the rubble.

00:51:40.540 Jewish people actually bearing eyewitness to seeing this event. 0.83

00:51:43.960 And I'm thinking, like, this Roman guy pierces Jesus' side and says, oh, man, we done messed up, A.A. Ron. 0.75

00:51:49.880 Like, this was the Son of God. 0.87

00:51:51.980 And I'm thinking, if this is the same generation 40 years later, they heard from Jesus' own mouth this prophecy,

00:51:57.920 and Paul has been already ministering among the Gentiles for a good 15, 20, 25, 30 years.

00:52:03.680 God's pouring out his blessing there.

00:52:05.520 The blessing has been drying up for a couple decades among the Jews because of the rejection of Christ and his apostles. 0.96

00:52:11.500 and then the the cherry on top the sprinkles on top is is they start seeing chariots go back and 0.91

00:52:18.480 forth silhouettes like shadows in the clouds the temple exactly like jesus said not one stone left

00:52:24.180 on top of it and i'm thinking i bet you a lot of those guys said like the roman soldier did 40

00:52:29.840 years prior they probably said oh we done messed up surely this was the son of god and probably

00:52:34.620 came to faith yeah and yeah i agree and even before that like as you know it took you know

00:52:41.360 the rebellion started in like 80, 66 or 67. Like it, it,

00:52:45.020 it took several years for, 1.00

00:52:46.660 for the Romans to make their way down and devastate the place.

00:52:49.940 And so as this is unfolding and developing and the apostles are still

00:52:54.660 ministering and preaching, or at least the, the, the churches,

00:52:57.720 many of them are dead at this point. And the spirit is at work in these

00:53:03.020 churches and among the Gentiles and they're seeing it.

00:53:05.680 And then the back of their heads, they have to think, Oh, this,

00:53:09.260 this prophet jesus said this was going to happen exactly and we need to repent you know like and

00:53:16.500 so i i think that's that's that's how it it sets up right in throughout the whole new testament you

00:53:21.340 see this and it's it's one of those things where you have like the theological liberals that where

00:53:27.800 they look at the parousia passages in the new testament and the the imminence language and it's 0.99

00:53:34.220 like well these dumb uh stupid people they thought jesus was going to come back and he didn't 0.99

00:53:39.420 and therefore that's what atheists say everything yeah exactly that's what christopher hitchens 1.00

00:53:44.160 literally said with doug wilson right yeah with the debate and and he was he wasn't prepared for

00:53:49.020 it because doug is actually post-millennial it's like actually there's a really simple answer to

00:53:53.240 that it did come back yeah he did come back uh he did come he's taken it back and he has no idea

00:53:57.980 what to say at that point and really as post-millennials i think the best position is we

00:54:01.500 need to understand comings plural perusias that like that uh every time someone's converted it

00:54:07.060 is christ coming yeah it is christ coming that the ministry of the uh the ministry of the holy

00:54:12.280 spirit indwelling the person the believer now um because of the indwelling ministry of the holy

00:54:17.320 spirit who lives to exude the spirit of the risen christ christ is still in the glorified sense he

00:54:22.120 is seated at the right hand of god the father almighty but the spirit of the risen christ

00:54:26.920 through the ministry, indwelling ministry of the Holy Spirit, comes to the person. So we can

00:54:31.620 theologically accurately say, Jesus is in my heart. That's a true statement. And so every time,

00:54:38.080 my point is, that's just one example of just in conversion alone, salvation. Every time someone's

00:54:41.920 born again, Jesus comes. It's a parousia. It is the coming. So we have Jesus coming in the incarnation. 1.00

00:54:47.860 We have Jesus, his comings in salvation, in conversion. We had his coming in AD 70. And

00:54:55.700 We're not hyper-preterist. We believe he will come again in the physical glorified flesh for the final culmination of all human history, the resurrection of the dead, both the wicked and the righteous, and that's still in our future.

00:55:10.620 But that's pretty much all that's in our future. There's a lot that's in our past.

00:55:15.140 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I 100% agree. And some of it too is I think people, they don't recognize the coming of the Lord in wrath. And you see this all throughout the Old Testament when God comes in judgment, right? The day of the Lord comes to Jerusalem in 586 BC, right? And that's presented by the prophets as the coming of the Lord.

00:55:39.000 And so it isn't like, oh, you're using this slippery metaphorical language to try to shoehorn this in.

00:55:47.560 It's like, no, this is biblical language.

00:55:49.080 This is how God has spoken about his coming is he came, but it was Nebuchadnezzar that he sent, just as Jesus sent Titus to come and destroy Jerusalem.

00:56:03.080 There are individual comings in conversion, but you're saying there are also corporate comings, but still geographically centered.

00:56:11.000 Like in a sense, I'm thinking even the three men that appeared to Abraham and one of them, the angel of the Lord, coming in regards to the judgment of Sodom.

00:56:19.440 So there's a coming that is, we would say that's a theophany, that's Christ, like the fourth man in the furnace with Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego.

00:56:29.240 So Christ has come many, many times, but when we look at the end of Revelation, we would

00:56:36.880 say this coming, it's in the flesh, and it's also global.

00:56:43.040 It's a universal coming.

00:56:45.300 But that's what's so helpful when you look at some of the post-millennial, partial preterist

00:56:50.200 interpretations of Matthew 24, the Olivet Discourse, is why is Jesus telling people to run?

00:56:56.040 because if we're talking about the end,

00:56:58.940 his final coming that's a global universal coming,

00:57:01.160 there's nowhere to run.

00:57:02.520 There is nowhere to run.

00:57:03.720 But when Jesus is talking about Matthew 24,

00:57:06.360 he's saying when this happens,

00:57:08.420 don't go back and get your cloak.

00:57:10.040 Well, why?

00:57:10.940 Because you need to be quick.

00:57:12.480 Well, why be quick?

00:57:13.320 It seems like it's futile.

00:57:15.260 No, if you're quick enough,

00:57:16.480 you actually could escape it

00:57:17.900 because it's a local, regional judgment.

00:57:21.300 And here's the tragedy,

00:57:23.060 and this is part of our larger conversation here

00:57:25.380 with dispensationalism, but part of the tragedy, as you know, Andrew, you and I both know,

00:57:29.440 there were so many Christians, dispensational Christians, who were, again, salt of the earth,

00:57:33.440 wonderful people, love the Lord, but because they've been wrongly educated in this particular

00:57:39.080 subject, Jesus also says, what are those who have children or are with child in those days?

00:57:45.340 And he's talking about this local judgment that's going to happen in a place and time in 8070 for

00:57:50.860 Israel. But if you read that as something that's being in our future, and you think it's a future 0.58

00:57:56.680 that's going to happen next Thursday, and you saw the news this past Saturday, and you're a well-meaning

00:58:02.340 Christian woman who's 25 and just got married, you literally might be tempted with your husband

00:58:06.720 to think, you know what, we probably shouldn't have kids. Better not have kids. Yeah, better 0.98

00:58:11.140 not have kids. And the same thing with like Paul in 1 Corinthians 7, where it's like, you know,

00:58:16.320 because of the coming distress well what is what is that you know where he says you know maybe you

00:58:21.100 shouldn't marry and have kids because of the coming distress and people apply it the same way

00:58:25.320 and they think well you know the end times are coming and i better not have kids um right and

00:58:30.080 so you see this play out and this is what's happened um largely and in you know conservative

00:58:37.440 evangelicalism is these fears of the end times being around the corner causes people to to

00:58:43.600 operate in this way um and it it's yeah it's it bears um really awful fruit and and so i'm very

00:58:52.020 thankful for the inconsistent uh dispensationalists that uh that still have kids and and uh and still

00:58:58.040 building the kingdom of god yeah that's right and there are a lot of them praise god there there are

00:59:02.260 some pre-mill dispensational guys who man they like they're fighting and some and sometimes i'll

00:59:08.240 just be honest and confess sometimes they're fighting better than post-mill guys because

00:59:11.580 post-mill guys will they'll be hopeful but here's the the sneak how they get sneaky they say uh we're

00:59:16.880 gonna win it's not just christ winning despite a losing church it's christ winning through his

00:59:21.140 body the church that's gonna happen in 50 000 years yeah you know what i mean and and they

00:59:26.420 don't do anything you know it's the yeah it's the meme where it's like i mean yeah and i i've said

00:59:30.540 this before like it's the meme of you know step one step two step three question mark step four

00:59:36.660 profit. And it's like, that's, that's a lot of the, the post-millennial, you know, attitude from,

00:59:42.120 from many is, well, I could just sit on my hands. I don't have to do anything. Really. The most

00:59:46.740 important thing is worship. And I'm a pastor. I care deeply about worship and worship being

00:59:51.580 faithful, but that's like one step. There are other steps that we have to take. We have to do

00:59:56.940 things. We have to operate. Yeah. We would say it's the most important. We would say it's the

01:00:00.320 tip of the spear. Like the planting churches, that is the beachhead. That's Normandy. That's

01:00:04.980 We would say it is the most important, but it's not the only thing.

01:00:09.040 So the first thing that I did when I moved to Texas was plant a church.

01:00:12.320 Next thing we're working on doing, school.

01:00:14.800 Other things that we're doing, men are running for local office and starting businesses,

01:00:18.780 and we're popping out babies. 1.00

01:00:20.380 And when I say we, I mean the women are doing that. 1.00

01:00:22.920 But we don't just preach the gospel.

01:00:27.680 And people, man, they take that and they run with that and they misrepresent.

01:00:31.120 It's here.

01:00:31.780 It's never, ever, ever anything less than preaching the gospel.

01:00:35.600 It can't be less.

01:00:37.580 Yeah, that's the foundational thing, but it's not the, we just do that and then stop.

01:00:42.120 The gospel has fruit.

01:00:43.460 The gospel has fruit.

01:00:44.560 Precisely.

01:00:45.240 It does.

01:00:45.760 Absolutely.

01:00:46.000 Okay, so we've talked about the, you know, so there are no more land promises for Israel.

01:00:50.560 And we've talked about that Jesus really did come in AD 70, just like he said he did.

01:00:55.200 And it's not a global coming.

01:00:56.360 he didn't come in the flesh but he spiritually came to a local region um and he came on cloud

01:01:02.580 signifying judgment and we're still awaiting a final coming of the glorify christ coming um in

01:01:08.580 a global sense to all the earth but there is a sense in which christ did come and that was the

01:01:13.400 finality the finishing of this old covenant so this intermediate period between the new covenant

01:01:18.740 has begun the old covenant is winding down well now the old covenant is completely done

01:01:22.760 there is no covenant and titus is destroying the temple he's destroying now you know this more than

01:01:29.160 me tell me if i'm wrong but he's destroying the the records even birth records and lineage yes so

01:01:34.640 all the all the stuff that you would need in order to restart it right you need i mean you need in

01:01:39.760 order to have your judaism and the old covenant you need to have high priest and there's no there's

01:01:45.120 no way you can recover any of those things i mean that's the other thing too is like if you if you

01:01:49.640 wanted it you couldn't do it even if you wanted it um you need to have you need to have a high

01:01:54.620 priest that's descended from zadok and of course the irony too in the second temple period is that

01:02:00.080 none of the high priests were descended from zadok they were they're brought in by the hasmonians and

01:02:05.060 so they're you know they're they don't have a legitimate high priest anyway and this is part 0.58

01:02:10.600 of i think what um is incurring all this judgment on this this generation this perverse generation

01:02:16.680 that jesus talks about and and and it's it's interesting you know i just preached on on acts

01:02:22.440 chapter two this last sunday and peter picks up that same language in his speech at pentecost

01:02:28.300 where he's preaching to the jews and saying you killed jesus you killed him you did this and

01:02:34.700 they're all cut to the heart and this jesus whom you crucify yeah he was sent for you he was sent

01:02:40.560 to the lost sheep of israel and you killed him and and they all like well what can we do now 0.82

01:02:45.080 And you can imagine being in their shoes thinking, well, he's just going to come destroy us now.

01:02:51.480 What do we do?

01:02:52.060 And he says, repent and be baptized, and you'll receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, the same Holy Spirit that's just poured out on Peter.

01:02:59.300 And then Luke says that he said a whole bunch of other stuff that we're not told.

01:03:04.580 But the thing that Luke records is escape this perverse generation.

01:03:09.200 He picks up the exact same language as Jesus used repeatedly in the Gospels, saying that there's something unique about that particular generation, that they were extremely wicked, that – I mean, Jesus would talk about this, and he says the men from Sodom, right, the worst place in the Bible, they'll rise up in – yeah, they would have repented, and they will rise up at the resurrection. 0.65

01:03:30.960 No, Nineveh. The men of Nineveh will rise up, right? 0.90

01:03:33.220 Both. He uses both. 0.99

01:03:33.800 Oh, he says both. You're right.

01:03:35.140 Sodom and Nineveh. 0.60

01:03:35.820 Wow.

01:03:36.040 but he says about like they'll rise up and condemn you condemn this generation because

01:03:40.780 you're so wicked and um and as and why well because jesus appears to them and they reject him

01:03:47.380 right god himself appears and they said we don't want you and he appears not just he doesn't just 0.96

01:03:52.080 show up but he proves it with signs and wonders no not good enough right what are you tired and

01:03:57.520 sidon right for the miracles that i've been performing had been performed in sodom and

01:04:02.600 more they would have repented they would have repented like yeah yeah and so it's it's it's

01:04:07.540 also interesting uh yeah sorry to interrupt you there joel uh no go ahead the um right the sign

01:04:13.000 of jonah that jesus talks about isn't just merely that he's going to be in the grave for three days

01:04:17.520 and three nights like jonah's in the belly of the beast sign of jonah is i mean you look at the

01:04:22.820 context of the book of jonah the reason jonah doesn't want to go to nineveh is because he

01:04:27.980 knows that God is going to save the Ninevites, even though the only message is, hey, in 40 days,

01:04:33.420 you're going to get nuked, right? He knows that you're a gracious God, you're relenting. And why

01:04:37.100 are you sending me to these people? Because Jonah knows the book of Deuteronomy. He knows the

01:04:41.520 promises in Deuteronomy that God is going to go to other nations. And that's how you know that he

01:04:48.320 is done with Israel and he is going to send you into exile and destroy you. And that's why Jonah 0.81

01:04:52.840 wouldn't go, right? That's why, not because, you know, not because he was worried about getting

01:04:57.020 hit by fish or whatever veggie tail says right but because but because he knows that this is bad

01:05:02.780 for israel it's bad for his people because god's so he's trying to like weasel out of god's judgment

01:05:07.840 coming on yeah i just preached jonah one two weeks ago and i said the same thing is jonah jonah did

01:05:13.740 not uh refuse to go to nineveh because he was afraid they would not listen and therefore uh

01:05:19.820 harm him they were afraid that they would uh that they would listen and that jonah knew that god

01:05:26.160 has a soft spot for repentance. And he literally says, is this not, Jonah chapter 4, is this not

01:05:32.180 what I told you when I was yet in my own country, why I made haste to go to Tarshish?

01:05:38.020 I knew you to be a gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love, and he says,

01:05:43.440 and relenting in sending disaster. And so he's like, I didn't want to go to Nineveh because,

01:05:49.740 not because they might not listen to my message of repentance and turn on the messenger and kill 0.85

01:05:54.420 me, no, I was afraid they would listen to my message of repentance, and that they would

01:05:58.780 repent, and that you would forgive them, and that that would be a further sign of judgment

01:06:03.500 on Israel, because here's Nineveh, which is a capital city of Israel, Assyria, it's at

01:06:09.700 war, they're already ramping up, and this is in fulfillment of Isaiah's prior prophecies,

01:06:15.600 which Jonah knows, and so Isaiah said, this is going to happen, and Jonah was like a peacetime

01:06:20.440 prophet, one of the only ones where he's like, he prophesied the expansion of the borders

01:06:24.880 of, you know, from here to there.

01:06:26.300 And it happened.

01:06:27.240 And so, you know, and so people are really excited. 0.69

01:06:29.400 Like Israel's kind of, it feels like a heyday, you know, but you still have this looming

01:06:33.700 prior prophecies of Isaiah overshadowing Israel.

01:06:37.360 And then all of a sudden Jonah with his own eyes sees the pre-invasion attacks of Assyria

01:06:42.760 to the north coming down into the kingdom of the northern kingdoms of Israel where Jonah

01:06:47.820 lived and Gath Heffer.

01:06:48.780 uh heifer and he's like no no no no no no you know and i can only imagine him being like couldn't

01:06:55.200 this happen like once once you know in a generation after me this you're gonna yeah it's gonna happen

01:07:00.060 now so yeah there's a lot going on with jonah yeah and so yeah so when when jesus is invoking

01:07:05.140 jonah and the sign of jonah he's not just talking about um being in the whale uh or and he's not

01:07:11.800 just talking about um you know going to nineveh this wicked city and them repenting and and 0.69

01:07:17.740 condemning israel he's he's saying the the exact same process is going to play out with that 0.99

01:07:23.140 perverse generation of israel that he is going to go to a nation to the gentiles to the nation that 0.97

01:07:29.580 it's that doesn't know him and he's going to forgive them they're going to repent and that's 0.99

01:07:34.640 a sign that the the promises of deuteronomy that are still applicable right um god brings them back

01:07:40.800 like they played out those promises of deuteronomy they're going to be exiled and kicked out of the

01:07:44.640 and vomited out of the land. Those are still valid for Israel in Jesus' generation. And so 0.98

01:07:52.300 Jesus is saying that this last couple chapters of Deuteronomy, these curses and exile and death

01:08:00.000 and destruction, that's going to come to you. That's going to happen. And that's always the

01:08:05.100 other thing when people are like, no, the old covenant still exists in some aspect in some way.

01:08:09.640 And it's like, well, it's, it's a conditional covenant. It isn't, it isn't, um, yep. You're

01:08:16.320 always going to have this land forever. No matter what you do, right. No matter what you do,

01:08:21.760 you're always going to have it. Um, it's no, you need to follow my law. You need to not commit

01:08:26.280 idolatry. You need to not, you know, kill my son when I send him, um, and, and then kill, 0.99

01:08:31.940 um, try to kill the Holy spirit and the apostles when, when they come, um, like that, that's what 0.96

01:08:37.400 happened right they they did those things they committed this idolatry there's the worst 0.97

01:08:42.040 generation that israel ever had is what jesus is saying and judgment came right and even in that 0.97

01:08:48.000 even in that god is gracious to this faithful remnant that he draws out of israel and incorporates

01:08:54.340 into his church right that's that's what's happening in the new testament that god is

01:08:59.160 gracious to these people and you know he forgives them for i mean that's what's happening when

01:09:04.120 at pentecost when peter preaches the the sin against the son that was forgiven

01:09:08.780 but for the 40 years right they're sinning against the holy spirit and that ultimately was not

01:09:15.980 forgiven and how was it not forgiven israel is destroyed the temple is destroyed the whole 0.73

01:09:20.700 the whole that generation and you know that was it it was done right so that's what that means

01:09:26.700 too like whenever any anytime anyone's confused about well did i sin against the holy spirit the

01:09:31.420 unforgivable sin. And it's like, it's like, well, no, that's, that's about that. That's

01:09:36.120 what's happening there. Yeah. Good job on that. That's really helpful. So with that, you know,

01:09:41.860 I'm going to be teaching the book of Ezra soon. My idea was I was going to teach Joshua and all

01:09:46.640 the relevancies and stuff, you know, taking the land. So we're, you know, drawing out some of

01:09:51.460 the applications of the founding of America and those kinds of things. Not that the book is

01:09:55.300 explicitly about that, but drawing out some of the relevant, you know, applicable things.

01:09:58.520 You're going to draw all the haters from that.

01:10:00.580 Right, I know.

01:10:01.360 So we finished Joshua, and there were plenty of haters.

01:10:04.540 Not my local, my local church is just wonderful.

01:10:07.560 That's just some of the best people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.

01:10:10.500 But online, plenty of haters.

01:10:12.120 But then Ezra, I'm thinking, well, that's really relevant.

01:10:15.040 You know, not just like the founding of America, but rebuilding the rubble.

01:10:18.180 And now as I'm preparing for that, though, you know, one of the things that I just, you know, I couldn't ignore was just, you know, in Ezra, it talks about, you know, this project of rebuilding.

01:10:28.520 the temple and rebuilding Jerusalem, but there's a criteria, and I'm thinking about, you know,

01:10:33.620 behold, I am the Lord, I changeth not, you know, so that you, the sons of Jacob, are not consumed,

01:10:37.620 same yesterday, today, and forever, his immutable standards, his law is not arbitrary, you know,

01:10:41.940 I'm thinking of all these things, and especially in the Old Testament, right, because, you know,

01:10:46.380 Ezra, it's, you know, so anyways, all that being said, there's, there is a criteria, there's so

01:10:52.640 many people that when all of a sudden they're funded to go back and rebuild the temple in

01:10:57.340 jerusalem um all these people want to be a part of it you know and and understandably so there's

01:11:02.200 an excitement and buzz in the air and tragically many of them are sent away and they're sent away

01:11:07.140 because they can't prove their lineage they don't have uh the the birth certificates they don't have

01:11:12.980 the documented proof to be able to prove that there actually is israel according to the flesh

01:11:18.400 ethnic israel and and for those um that aren't able to say we are actually ethnic israel and

01:11:24.300 it's documented it's not like well i feel like a jew you know it's like no like i actually you

01:11:28.720 know what i mean like yeah um yeah and and sadly so a lot of them are sent away and only those who

01:11:33.860 could prove their lineage are able to rebuild the temple and i was just thinking about that and just

01:11:38.620 thinking like if that's the standard and god's immutable in his standard and he's the same

01:11:44.480 yesterday today and forever more he never changes who would be able to rebuild the temple today even

01:11:50.260 if dispensationalism was true even if it was true and the temple mountain is secured and there's

01:11:54.700 this project to rebuild the temple who would be able to in the days of ezra you know a ton of

01:12:00.140 people were sent away because they couldn't prove it today 2 000 years removed from the the you know

01:12:05.880 and they were already getting off track during the generation of of israel at the time of christ

01:12:10.220 which is why there's such severe judgment so you're already like like a couple you know a few

01:12:15.100 centuries way off track even at the time of christ then you've got 2 000 years later and and

01:12:20.120 then talmudic judaism doesn't even come in until you know like third fourth century and you've got

01:12:24.240 this like 200 something years of just this gap and you don't know who like seriously by god's

01:12:29.920 standard by god's standard who would be allowed to build the temple today yeah that's exactly

01:12:36.140 exactly that's a great that's exactly it exactly it nobody you know i mean maybe they would say

01:12:42.260 well we can do dna tests and that'll be good enough but it's like that's not that's not what

01:12:47.000 the standard was uh you know like you can't you can't you can't prove your even what would a dna

01:12:52.900 test prove like how would what what would that you know like when somebody says i'm irish

01:12:58.880 right we're not like we're not denying that there are groups of people but when if if somebody says

01:13:05.060 i'm irish a lot of times what they mean is no no dude like my my grandparents grew up in ireland

01:13:11.480 you know it's like oh it's like well i have red hair i can see a picture of them standing by this

01:13:17.040 you know structure in iris you know what i mean like they're not like that's different the person's

01:13:21.180 not saying i am pure blood irish for the last 2 000 years yeah so like when somebody says i'm

01:13:26.300 from scotland it could be for the last 200 years but 2 000 years is a really long time and it's

01:13:32.060 very difficult to track yeah yeah a hundred percent no it is and and and it's the other

01:13:37.820 difficulty is that, you know, how do you, how do you isolate it? You know, how do you isolate it

01:13:42.680 based on, because you, you have all sorts of people who have, you know, various gradations

01:13:47.720 of, of, you know, descend, you know, uh, descent from Abraham that is not, is not from Jacob,

01:13:54.300 you know? So how, I mean, so all of these things, it's, it's, it's so convoluted and, and, and such

01:13:59.060 a mess and it's just tough. Yeah. And so it's, it's, yeah, it is. And, and so I look at it and

01:14:05.420 it's like, no, these are not like, you need to, you need to think about it biblically. Like these

01:14:09.680 are not the same people that the Bible is talking about, right? These are not, they're not under the

01:14:14.980 same, they're not under the same promises and covenant that God has made. And so you can't

01:14:20.240 look at it like, oh, some aspects of the old covenant are retained in, in some mysterious way

01:14:27.580 and they're being kept off to the side. Um, no, they, they're a nation like, like any other,

01:14:33.720 like you say, like Brazil or Uganda or whatever.

01:14:37.600 They're a nation that needs to repent and believe

01:14:41.300 and submit to Jesus.

01:14:42.380 And we love them.

01:14:44.160 And we love them by calling them to repentance 1.00

01:14:47.060 just like we would any other Gentile nation. 1.00

01:14:49.860 But I love that you brought,

01:14:50.700 that's so helpful to bring covenant into it

01:14:52.780 because we talked about the ethnic aspect

01:14:54.360 and to play the devil's advocate,

01:14:55.940 as I've had conversations with friends

01:14:57.820 and things like that,

01:14:58.520 we're working through these things

01:14:59.780 and studying these things

01:15:00.700 and guys like James B. Jordan,

01:15:02.320 you know, but then alongside David Chilton and hearing both views and, and, and recognizing

01:15:06.520 both are, are, I think, reasonable positions that a Christian could hold.

01:15:10.280 Absolutely.

01:15:10.720 But, you know, and, and so, but as I, you know, studying through it with some of the

01:15:14.180 men in my church and just looking at some of these things and trying to be objective,

01:15:17.280 you know, we, we think like, well, okay, you know, you've got Rahab in the, in the genealogy

01:15:21.460 of Jesus and you've got Ruth.

01:15:23.060 But, but again, it's just like, okay, but, but if Rahab enters in, then boom, all of 0.87

01:15:27.220 a sudden her, you know, her children are 50% Jewish, you know, and then, but, but a few 0.87

01:15:31.020 generations later, we're back up to 98.6%, you know? And then here comes, you know, Ruth and

01:15:36.240 it's like, okay, now we're down to like 48 something, you know, but then it's multiple

01:15:39.280 generations again. And then you hit Jesus. It's like, Jesus is 99.3% Jewish. All right. The dude's

01:15:44.460 a Jew. I'm good with that. You know, that's like 99.3% Jew. Okay. But that's not what we're talking 1.00

01:15:50.200 about. We're not talking about, you know, because people use that as an example to say, well,

01:15:53.940 Jesus had Gentiles even in his lineage, you know, and like, and he's the root of Jesse. And it's 0.77

01:15:58.340 But we're not talking about two Gentiles over the course of, like, 1,500 years. 0.84

01:16:06.640 Yeah. 0.91

01:16:07.300 Yeah.

01:16:07.440 You know what I mean?

01:16:11.360 Yeah. 0.80

01:16:11.700 We're not talking 1,500 years pure Jewish bloodline with the exception of two Gentiles.

01:16:17.980 We're talking 2,000 years where nobody, which we don't even know.

01:16:24.180 You know what I mean?

01:16:24.680 And so that's just radically different.

01:16:26.840 Yeah.

01:16:26.940 And on top of that, like you have, like the law is set up that way where, you know, different, different peoples that you, for, you know, X number of generations, you're, you're outside of the assembly until, um, until like the fourth or fifth generation or the 10th generation in, in, in other cases.

01:16:44.820 And so, um, but then you're incorporated in, right.

01:16:48.860 Then you're, then you are treated as though you're 100%. 0.74

01:16:52.820 You are a Jew. 0.98

01:16:54.160 A Jew. 1.00

01:16:54.760 Yeah, yeah, exactly. 0.87

01:16:55.400 So, or 100% Israelite, depending on, you know, which part of the covenant, you know, which time frame you're in. And so anyway, like it, the law deals with all of that, right? It deals with all those things all and, you know.

01:17:25.400 can anybody hear him on the stream or we just completely frozen right now

01:17:33.640 all right then i'm just going to pick back up until we can get andrew back so

01:17:38.140 that's the ethnic side but what i wanted to bring up that andrew was alluding to is also

01:17:43.640 the covenantal side because it's not just the issue of blood but there's also the issue of

01:17:48.020 covenant and this is i think one of the simplest ways that i could say that would be helpful for

01:17:51.540 the listener. Again, this was James B. Jordan. I was reading him on this particular topic. Andrew's

01:17:58.120 hopping back in. But one of the things that I read is it's probably a somewhat helpful comparison

01:18:03.260 when we think of today's Judaism, namely Talmudic Judaism, to compare that. Today's Talmudic

01:18:10.300 Judaism is to Old Testament Judaism in the same way that Mormonism is to Christianity. I'll say 0.98

01:18:16.800 that again. Today's Talmudic Judaism is to Old Testament Judaism, biblical Judaism, in the same 0.98

01:18:25.120 way that Mormonism is to Christianity. And what I mean by that is that it's not as though Jews 0.92

01:18:31.600 today simply have the Torah, which would be the Old Testament that both Christians hold as well,

01:18:37.600 the sacred scripture, but that there's another book that's been written in order to function

01:18:43.660 as a lens in interpreting the Old Testament, the Torah. So you have the Torah, but then you have

01:18:49.340 this, the Talmud, you know, and in the same way that a Mormon would say, oh yeah, we're Christian

01:18:53.960 too, you know? And on that point, even dispensational Christians, we're going to be

01:18:58.500 real quick to say, no, sir, no, you're not. You're Mormon. There's a difference. You're not Christian

01:19:03.040 because you have the Book of Mormon and the Book of Mormon is being placed over the New Testament, 0.94

01:19:09.060 over the Bible as a lens that reinterprets and ultimately twists and perverts the Bible.

01:19:17.140 So the Book of Mormon isn't really in addition to the Bible. It actually cancels out the Bible.

01:19:23.200 So too, the Talmud, it functions in a way that reinterprets and twists and cancels out

01:19:30.580 the Torah, the Old Testament. And so when we speak of Jews today, not even from an ethnic sense,

01:19:36.820 We've already covered that, but now talking about Jews today in a covenantal sense, Talmudic

01:19:41.860 Judaism is to biblical Old Testament Judaism in the same way that Mormonism is to Christianity.

01:19:49.080 That is to say, no relation, no relation, meaning not that it's not a covenant. 0.52

01:19:55.080 It can still be covenantal, but it is another covenant. 0.92

01:19:58.560 It's not a covenant with Yahweh as the Jews had in the Old Testament, but when it comes 0.51

01:20:03.720 to talmudic judaism i would say that it is a covenant in biblical terms it is a covenant with 0.92

01:20:09.320 satan it is a covenant with beelzebub it is a demonic covenant that talmudic judaism is it is

01:20:16.540 a doctrine of demons it is not christian and it's also not old testament judaism it's simply not

01:20:23.900 and so again uh that doesn't mean that this is you know the worst people on the planet just like 0.91

01:20:29.200 Islam is a Christian heresy. 0.99

01:20:31.480 So what do we do with Muslims? 1.00

01:20:35.560 Do we go and say, well, you guys are close enough? 1.00

01:20:38.620 You know, like, no, we go to them.

01:20:40.020 We say, you believe in a doctrine of demons. 0.97

01:20:43.140 The Quran is a doctrine of demons. 0.98

01:20:45.560 And you must repent of your false doctrine 0.99

01:20:48.340 and you must repent of your sin

01:20:49.840 and you must believe upon the gospel

01:20:51.480 of the Lord Jesus Christ.

01:20:53.120 And so too, we would say to Jews today,

01:20:55.840 Talmudic Jews, we would say, 1.00

01:20:57.400 it's a doctrine of demons. 1.00

01:20:58.840 it's a false gospel it's it's it's it's a heresy and and you must repent of your false doctrine

01:21:05.520 repent of your sin and believe upon the lord jesus christ and there is a covenant there but it's not

01:21:10.240 the covenant that abraham had this is a whole other covenant it's not a covenant with god and

01:21:16.100 it's not the covenant that abraham had this is a separate covenant so at the ethnic level and at

01:21:21.160 the covenantal level we we've got to recognize that there's a massive gap here that the lord

01:21:26.620 in his providence. And according to his sovereign will and plan in 80, 70, he wrapped things up.

01:21:32.920 There was finality. He closed the old covenant. He wrapped it up. He ended it. And what we have

01:21:39.260 going on today is not that. There's still people made in the image of God with dignity that we

01:21:45.760 should love, that we should preach the gospel to, but there are no land promises. And I think that

01:21:52.880 it at least has to be held as a permissible view. I'm not even saying it's right, but I think it at

01:21:59.600 least needs to be viewed within the realm of Christian orthodoxy as a permissible view that

01:22:05.200 Romans 11, even in the spiritual sense of Israel being gathered into Christ, was fulfilled in a

01:22:12.100 preterist mentality in AD 70. And that now it's simply the promise of life from the dead that

01:22:19.540 Israel has been brought in, and now it's just life from the dead that we have all the nations

01:22:25.560 coming to Christ and that Israel should be counted as simply one of those nations, not special, 0.93

01:22:30.980 not different. So I think that has to at least be considered a permissible view. David Chilton,

01:22:36.940 that Romans 11 in the spiritual sense is still in our future, fine. A lot of great brothers hold

01:22:42.400 that view, but also the preterist view that not only the land promises fulfilled, but the spiritual

01:22:47.540 promises as well. I think that we have to at least be able to say that without being called

01:22:54.840 anti-Semitic. We have to at least be able to say that without saying, I have no hatred in my heart,

01:22:59.920 I want to preach the gospel to all people, but I just think that this is a viable theological view

01:23:08.240 within Christian orthodoxy. So, Andrew, I know that you got dropped. I've been trying to complete

01:23:14.600 our conversation. So I don't know how much of it you heard, but basically I was just shifting from,

01:23:20.580 okay, we talked about ethnic, we talked about Ezra, we talked about rebuilding the temple,

01:23:24.440 but then I was just trying to switch it to, okay, but what about those who say, okay, well,

01:23:28.240 the bloodline is not really what matters because of what you cited earlier. You've got plenty of

01:23:33.020 people who weren't in the bloodline in Old Testament Israel. And so you're making it about

01:23:38.400 blood and saying you can't track it. Well, who cares? That's not the issue. Anyways, it's really

01:23:42.860 about covenant and so what i was trying to do is start that conversation but just saying well but

01:23:47.340 even at the covenant level isn't this a completely other covenant this is another covenant right yeah

01:23:54.720 as far as uh the old covenant and the new covenant or no i'm saying as far as whatever covenant there

01:24:00.940 is among talmudic judaism oh i i would say that that that's not the covenant that god established

01:24:06.460 with abraham so you can call it covenantal and i because i would say that that islam is covenantal

01:24:11.680 but I would say there are covenants with God, but there are also covenants with demons. 0.62

01:24:15.680 Did you hear that? I said there are covenants with God, but there are also covenants with demons.

01:24:21.020 That it is covenantal, but it's not a covenant that we saw in the Old Testament. It looks like

01:24:26.640 you're not able to hear me. Hello, testing, testing, check, check, check. He's desperately

01:24:31.140 trying, folks, but he may not be able to hop on. Can you hear me? You got me? Hello. Let's give it

01:24:38.660 a couple seconds here. Testing, testing, testing. Check, check, check. Nope, he's gone. All right,

01:24:45.060 so anyways, that's the big idea, both at the level of ethnicity and at the level of covenant.

01:24:52.480 We just have to recognize this is separate. This is separate. These are people created in the image

01:24:58.120 of God. So back to the attacks of Hamas and all these things, atrocious, sinister, evil, we condemn

01:25:04.340 them, praying for protection, praying for safety. Can you hear me now, Andrew? Again, yeah, sorry

01:25:10.580 about that. Okay, all right, well then, yeah, let's just, we want to land the plane now here.

01:25:14.420 I was just trying to shift gears from ethnicity to the issue of covenant. Yeah. So for guys who

01:25:20.820 would say, well, okay, yeah, you know, it's not the same bloodline, but it never really was about

01:25:24.680 blood, you know, in the Old Testament, and it's still, you know, this is still Israel according

01:25:29.640 to covenant. And I think, I would say, well, this is a covenant, but it's a completely separate 0.87

01:25:35.160 covenant. And it's not a covenant with Yahweh. It's not the Abrahamic covenant. This is, I think

01:25:40.660 that this is a covenant with demons. What I would say about, you know, Islam, for instance, I would 1.00

01:25:46.080 say that there is a covenant of sorts, but that's not a covenant with God. That is, it's false. It's 1.00

01:25:52.600 wrong yeah i would agree i think uh i think you're exactly right that it's not this same covenant

01:25:58.660 it's it's a different one right if there even is one right it's it's some quasi covenantal

01:26:06.380 arrangement but it is not um it's it's not the same one that god made right because they're

01:26:12.260 they're not operating the same circumstances not operating the same way and so and and and

01:26:16.240 are they worshiping the same god well no because that god is triune and he's revealed himself

01:26:21.560 to the world um as as the triangle he's revealed the son you know hebrews talks about the last days

01:26:27.460 he's spoken to us by his son right and so that's that's where the covenant is that's where god is

01:26:33.600 that's where where belief and faith is and so that's you're exactly right there is no you know

01:26:38.840 kind of sort of covenant hanging out out there outside of where god is um so yeah that's how we

01:26:46.300 have to understand it that these are not the same people when you're reading the bible and you read

01:26:50.320 about moses and abraham and david right that those that's our heritage because we're the sons of

01:26:56.980 faith right it's not it's not the sons according to the flesh that get to claim them so that's

01:27:03.980 that's imperative that we understand that yep all right any final thoughts like so bringing it back

01:27:10.440 to you know the the that's what i was trying to do and we kept trying you know missing you trying

01:27:14.600 to pick you back up i was trying to finally land the plane so all these things being said so now

01:27:18.780 we got the current event piece, we got the theological piece, but now landing back on

01:27:23.480 the current event. So now let's take the theology and apply it to the current event. I was just

01:27:27.680 saying that, you know, with these guerrilla warfare and attacks from Hamas and Islamic 0.86

01:27:31.960 terrorists, it's atrocious. It's sinister. We are praying for the protection of people made

01:27:37.660 in the image of God. We're praying that Hamas stops. We're praying that Israel, whatever response

01:27:42.240 they have, they have a right to defend their own, but that it would be reasoned and it would be

01:27:45.380 ethical, with a response that they wouldn't use it as an excuse to overreact. We're praying for

01:27:50.120 the rest of the world, our country included, that it would de-escalate and that it wouldn't be,

01:27:54.500 that the West wouldn't constantly be getting involved more than it needs to on the other

01:28:01.100 side of the planet. So as Christians, in light of everything we've said about a biblical lens

01:28:08.800 and viewing those in Israel today that this is not the biblical Jews,

01:28:16.480 but these are people created in the image of God.

01:28:18.520 It is a nation state.

01:28:19.660 It has sovereign borders.

01:28:20.700 It has the right to self-defense.

01:28:22.460 There's no hatred in our hearts or anything like that.

01:28:25.000 What would you say, bringing it back to the current event of what's happening right now,

01:28:29.040 how should we pray?

01:28:30.120 How should we think?

01:28:31.340 How should we encourage one another as Christians?

01:28:35.860 Yeah, I think, I mean, it's something where if we take out the dispensational element, right, and this idea that, no, this is the special, holy, chosen land that we need to be praying for.

01:28:48.820 We need to pray for the peace of Jerusalem because those are God's people.

01:28:51.380 If we just take that out of the equation and you look at it like, I mean, you look at anything else, any other military conflict where innocent people are being killed, that's how we should look at it.

01:29:03.600 where we want there to be peace we wouldn't want innocent people being killed we don't want war we

01:29:07.920 want we don't want destruction uh we want and we see two groups of people uh largely i mean there

01:29:14.240 are palestinian christians but it's predominantly muslim right we see two two groups that don't know

01:29:20.720 the lord jesus christ and these are these are people that need to become christians and if

01:29:25.360 there's ever going to be permanent lasting peace in that region it will come via the gospel of

01:29:30.240 of jesus christ amen ultimately amen that's great all right um real quick where can people find your

01:29:37.040 book boniface option yeah uh just go to bonifaceoption.com uh you'll be able to find it there

01:29:42.700 or you can search for it on on amazon uh we also have it in the gab store i believe um but uh but

01:29:49.940 those are those are the best places to find it and uh yeah hopefully hopefully you'll enjoy the

01:29:54.880 discussion we're gonna have uh and it'll be in person so we don't have to worry about my internet

01:29:58.960 being attacked um it'll be great i don't want to be a conspiracy theorist but i i do find it

01:30:05.640 convenient yeah give her the conversation we're having today yeah the regime attacked

01:30:10.960 my internet because they don't want this to get out that's exactly right that's what that's what

01:30:16.220 you always have to say whether it's true or not i feel like i think of like cross-politic you know

01:30:20.380 it's like we got you know we got canceled from this and we need rally and support and then

01:30:24.280 sometimes i'm like but but but did you or did you just you know did you like oh actually we just

01:30:30.520 lost this file it wasn't deleted you know a lot of guys you know sometimes it's like it's like

01:30:36.140 we're under attack conservatives will be like we're under attack and it's like no i think it's

01:30:39.720 because you're all boomers when it comes to your tech tech you know all right anyways but andrew

01:30:46.800 thanks so much and i can't wait to see you in a couple weeks and you guys please keep us in your

01:30:50.620 prayers because we want to produce a really practical, helpful conversation, especially

01:30:55.500 for young men. Young men are angry, rightfully so, and we want to give them not just platitudes,

01:30:59.940 but things that we can actually do to have a future for our children and our grandchildren. 0.99

01:31:04.480 So thanks for tuning in and we'll see you guys again next time.

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