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Now the devil's nightmare. Welcome back to another episode of It's Time to Man Up. Part two, walking in the footsteps of Jesus. Robbie Dilmore is with me today in studio. Hopefully, you caught part one last week, and you're going to want to just dial into part two today.
We're going to talk about the Holy Land and his experience, he and his lovely bride, Tammy, and just some of the things that they experienced on their first trip ever to the Holy Land. Welcome back to part two, Robin. How fun. I love this.
Well, you are just, you're the master of the microphone, is what you are. And so you make my job really easy. But, okay, so we left off talking about the Sea of Galilee and where your guide took you kind of right to the spot where Jesus calmed the storm. And if you want to just pick it up from there and just finish with that shit. Yeah, you know, it was really neat because we had Mark Blitz, who wrote God's Daytimer and that kind of thing.
And he had a lot of connections in Israel because. With all the rabbis and things. And we're not talking about Jewish people. These are not Christians by any means. Our tour guide was a Messianic Jew, but every night these actual Orthodoxy are wearing the prayer shawls and the human certainly.
practicing Orthodox rabbis. Yeah. And They blew my mind because they lectured us every night. We'd have a good long hour long, and they would take us through the scriptures of how God is fulfilling in Israel. What he had prophesied about bringing the Jews back from all corners of the earth.
And he, one of them, one of the first ones, he had this whole thing that Mark Twain had written when he came to Israel in 1860 and talked about how desolate it was.
So, let me pause right there, real quick, because a lot of people don't know. Like, some may not even be familiar with that name, Mark Twain, but. Famous author. Right. Biblical moment of even him going to Israel.
Right. If you can even picture, wait, because that's like, what, mid-1800s or right now? Yeah, 1860. He had written Mark Twain. I mean, he had written Tom Sawyer and he wrote Huck Finn, those two projects.
Probably his most famous book.
Okay, so for those who don't know, so Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Mark Twain, author Mark Twain.
So 1860, I mean, right at the time of the Civil War here in America, too, right? And interesting. And he wrote. And they had it all, you know, where you could read his quotes directly, but so I'm quoting a quote that I. But essentially, they would go 10 days without seeing a person.
And that they were completely abandoned Bedouin. All they would see was tents. And of course, you know, all the ruins that we're seeing were excavated because of all the earthquakes and things that happened. You know, the dirt covered them up. Nobody cared, whatever.
There weren't people there because the land was essentially desolate, right? It was having its Sabbath rest. That Israel didn't give it. And so it's getting it, you know, over all these years. And then they, you know, if you're a little bit familiar with there was a Zionist movement that started around the turn of the century.
And There was a call for the Jews to begin to come back in Israel long before they became a nation in 1947. This is something that began to go on. And in fact, I have, and I guess it's worth telling this story. I have a dear friend, Nadav Sharir, whose grandfather. Um Founded one of the kibbutz.
It was one of the ways that they were organizing Israel back when they began to fill the land. They would have these farms that were called the kibbutz, where it was sort of like a communism thing where they all compared all. did the same thing. His great-grandfather was living in Yugoslavia and they were trying to get him to come. Yeah.
you know, live in the kibbutz and whatever because they knew that The Nazis were coming, da da da da, like you need to get out of Dodge. And so he comes to Israel, true story. And when he gets there, he can't find his brands at cigarettes. And he gets all frustrated. He gets on the boat, goes back to Yugoslavia, gets off the boat in Yugoslavia, the train in Yugoslavia, they load him onto the train to go to Auschwitz.
Hmm. Uh I remember when I first heard that story, I couldn't tell Nadog, he was Jewish, but I was like, dude. I mean You were supposed to go back. I mean, God is. Yeah.
I never saw World War II as orchestrating so much of what we are now seeing in Israel because they began to fill the land. Right. And what this. Rabbi and every rabbi we talked to had a similar message. That if you look in Psalm 126, it talks about awakening of the dreamer.
And how the Gentiles were supposed to awaken them. And that, interestingly, they will tell you that when they came to 1947, that Israel wasn't founded as a Jewish state, but as a secular state to some extent, because there weren't all that many Jews there. They were still coming in from all corners of the earth. And there were a lot of Jews that weren't practicing Jews, they were Jewish in heritage, and they were fleeing the. You know The Holocaust and all that kind of stuff, that they didn't want the anti-Semitism, but they weren't necessarily.
following their faith. Right, 60, 70 years, whatever you want to call it, is where we are right now, they have literally been coming. From all by droves. From everywhere. From Europe, from Africa, from all these different places.
And so now he's, you know, what they'll tell you is: man, you know. We have horrible traffic in Israel. Pray God. Praise God. There are more, you know, because we went from this time where there was no people in Israel to like they're totally repopulating the land.
And there was, there's always been kind of a smattering of Jews. E even when it You know, even after Rome seized it, you know, back in 70 AD and all the way through the centuries, even as other empires, you know, took it over, you know, the Ottomans and everyone else, right? And without going too deep in the weeds on history there, but there's always been a smattering of Jews, but the numbers that have that the Lord has brought back together now are just again back to the prophecy being fulfilled.
So they're seeing it, these Orthodox rabbits. Oh my gosh, he had a book, and I promise you, there were 70 or 80. Prophecies that they took us through that talked about the Jews coming back into the land and what that would look like. And really, if you look in just in Zephaniah chapter 3, like, oh my gosh, and read the end of Zephaniah chapter 3, and you'll see that the Gentiles. Are going to come in and say, look what God has done for Israel.
And as they do, you know, it's setting up the time of the Messiah. It's setting up that the Messiah is going to come from their standpoint. He's coming back from our standpoint. But interestingly, the way they were talking, which shocked me, was like, okay, I don't believe Jesus is the Messiah. But the Messiah is coming back and if that's him great Yeah.
He's back. Like that was their attitude. Like it's okay. We love you guys. You guys are supposed to help awaken us and you're rejoicing the fact that God has done good things in Israel.
You too are fulfilling prophecy. One of them put it this way: He said, You know, when the guys were walking through the Red Sea, do you think they looked at each other and they go, Hey, man, you know, we're going to be in the Bible? Yeah. Yeah, like we're part of the story.
Well, guess what? As we go to Israel right now, or as we pray for Israel, as we take part in blessing Israel, Or lead somebody to Christ, we're part of the story. We're in the Bible. And then the stuff is happening, and it's happening in real time. We're helping to fulfill.
Prophecy thus becoming a A part of the story. Isn't that cool? Wow. That was pretty amazing.
So, yeah, we got that every night, and I couldn't believe how many of them had the same tune they were singing. Out of Isaiah 56, which Jesus used, I don't know how many times when he was clearing the temple, both times, he said, My father's house will be a house of prayer for all nations. And these rabbis now again, they're not New Testament scholars, they're telling you that my father's house will be a house of prayer for all nations. And they're wanting us we were so beyond welcome there. again they haven't had many tourists because of the war and all that's going on.
And so us Coming in when bombs are literally falling in Tel Aviv, you know, or whatever, you know. They weren't armed when they hit the ground, but nonetheless, you know, they thought this was just like, man, you guys came. You guys are showing something. You could really see or feel their excitement about you coming to Israel. And speaking of his return, not to get too deep in the weeds, you know, for those who maybe aren't Bible scholars or maybe don't even know a whole lot about this, but, you know, certainly you read the book of Revelation, you can certainly get.
deeper into uh a deeper understanding of of what is p What is happening here sometime in the future. But you got to see the opportunity, you said, to see the red heifer, and we know that's going to be a part of the sacrifice setting up. The return and all all of that, right? That had to be an incredible experience too. Absolutely.
And I think that was we were one of the first. Groups to ever see the red heifers that that recently come into Israel, and those red heifers are significant. Let me try to explain, if it take a minute to do it, because I think it's worthwhile. That I think most of us know that the Jews have not been sacrificing animals since 70 AD and the temple was undone. And part of the reason of that is that in order to do animal sacrifices, you have to have a clean priest.
Like, he has to be clean before he does that. And in order to be clean, he has to be cleansed by the ashes of a red heifer, which is a beautiful picture of Christ in so many ways, because a red heifer, unlike other sacrifices, is a sacrifice that kind of goes out ahead of time. And so, as they sacrifice a red heifer, which requires a clean priest, They use its ashes to continue to cleanse people for years to come. And so there's only been nine red heifers in the history of the world. And the Jews will tell you that the tenth red heifer will bring in the period of the end.
Like a spotless, like spotless for the artist. This red heifer has so many qualifications to be a red heifer. Right. In a sense, Jesus was the spotless lamb. And purebred and has to not have one white fur in it.
Like it's it's spectacular what you got to be to be a red heifer from a kosher standpoint. And so this idea that they found this farmer who specifically in Texas who went about trying to, from all he learned, to breed red heifers. And sure enough, they have four of them. And and and They have been Past certain parts of the about to be declared kosher, and at that point in time, since they still have some ashes from the ninth red heifer, they can cleanse one rabbi. But that rabbi got to be cleansed before he can cleanse, before he can sacrifice another red heifer.
And so. You know, the fact that these red heifers exist, that they would be the 10th in history, is a gigantic issue. And the fact that the Jews are still practicing this to understand it is an amazing thing. And they've also purchased the land on the Mount of Olives, which is hugely significant. We may hopefully have time to talk about the Mount of Olives.
But nonetheless, We saw them, they brought us in, we got to see them. You know, they have to be two to three years old and all these different things. Certain qualifications. And where they are blows me away. Here's where they are.
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You're listening to the truth network and truthnetwork.com. That's pretty amazing. And the Mount of Olives, of course, as you mentioned, so much history. And I mean, you know, upon his return, right, and where he sets foot. Yeah, I got to tell this: this is the most beautiful thing.
Like, and where God came from me is Mark Blitz, again, wonderful author, studier of scripture. Everybody needs to hear this. This will be worth listening to the episode right here.
Okay, so we're standing on the top of Mount Olives, and he's explaining.
Now a lot of people think that Um you know, Gotha's here and Gotha's there, whatever. But he says, you know, that... The Romans, when they executed somebody, would normally execute them either where the crime was committed or where they were arrested or someplace that was publicly visible so everybody see don't do this, right? Yep. and the Mount of Olives fits all of the above.
So his opinion is, number one, very, very likely that Jesus was crucified on the Mount of Olives, which is, by the way, the Garden of Gethsemane is on the Mount of Olives, so it's just lower than the top of the Mount of Olives, likely where he was crucified. And if you stand on the Mount of Olives, which is, by the way, less than a half a mile from the Temple Dome. Right? And so when you're you're picturing Jesus on the cross on the Mount of Olives there, he would have been able to actually see through the golden gate, the golden gate beat leading right straight to where he could have seen Yeah. Essentially, the part of the temple where the Holy of Holies was.
Now if you picture this scene for a minute, on that day it was Passover. And it was a Friday. Right, the day before Shabbat.
So all the Jews. Would be sacrificing their lambs that day on Passover, but they had to be ready to celebrate the Sabbath or Shabbat on Saturday. And it's part of the reason why they hurried up to want to break Jesus' legs.
Okay, so Jesus is up there on the Mountain of Olives. And they are going to sacrifice that day 250,000 lambs based on what Josephus would tell them of the number of Jews that were there on that particular day. Sabbath on that particular Good Friday as we know it. 250,000 lambs.
Now, 250,000 lambs, if they just had a quart of blood, would give you somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 gallons of blood.
Okay, so take 100,000 gallons of blood. What are you going to do with all that? With Atross? And that blood would go down into these big cisterns, and you saw them if you walked through. The old city, you saw where the cisterns were, and those cisterns were already full of about, you know.
10,000 gallons of water because They knew that they had to flush this blood out of the temple. And what time would they do that? Right? Because they would need to finish up all the lamb sacrifices before sundown. And so at approximately three o'clock, the ninth hour, this is approximately the same time that that Roman centurion was taking that lance and sticking it into Jesus' side.
they would have given the word, and at that moment Well over a hundred thousand, a hundred and fifty thousand gallons of water and blood would have been flushed out of the temple. Yeah. Rushing down into the field of blood, which we know is the reason it was called that. The water and the blood was coming out of Jesus's side. And the father who's Right?
He he His h he's at the temple was so You can imagine the distress of what he'd been through with his son for those last. Nine hours and He rent his garment. The temple curtain, right? Like Jacob rent his garment when he lost his, when he thought that Joseph had been killed by the animal. You know, God rent his garment, and that temple curtain tore in two.
And you just picture the scene of all that went on right that moment. And if you're not standing there on the Mount of Olives and you can still see where the golden gate is, in other words, you're standing there looking at it, and he's explaining this to you like you don't have a God moment again. Your wick is wet, or there's a big problem here. Like, man, what are you talking about? Like, oh, what a picture of what has happened there.
But when you stand it on the Mount of Olives, you realize, where is he coming back? His feet are land right there and split it open right there. Yeah, I didn't know that the Mount of Olives is actually taller than the Temple Mount.
So when you're standing on the Mount of Olives, you're looking down on it. And the other thing that grabbed me while we're in Jerusalem was: if you're in the Garden of Gethsemane, and I know you've been there. that you can see Jesus had to see them coming. Like you're standing above where that, you know, they're coming down through the Kidron Valley right there. Right.
And you know that those torches were lit. And he's like, boys, it's time.
Well, yeah, in fact, he says it right to the ego, the time has come, or how, you know, however exactly he said it. But basically, yeah, he.
So yeah, he saw saw him coming and Wow. And I'm sure, like me, you had a chance. You know, they gave us an hour or so to just pray in the gardening seminar, just to spend time. uh reflecting of what that night Must have men and the olive trees that are old as baseball, you know, that are in there. It's quite the experience.
It's it's something. And and it's you know, the Garden of Gethsemane, the the the what the what the what the olive like the squeezing of the olive. Right, the pressing of the olive to get the oil out of it, and then really what the olive represents too, the oil represents, right? They use it for lighting the lamp, he's the light of the world, right? The anointing is for healing, anointing, he's the anointing king of kings, and and and and they use the oil for healing, right?
And he's the great healer. And so, if you think about all that, tie all that in, and you think about the anguish he was under that night before when the Bible describes it as him sweating drops of blood, so he's essentially bleeding from the inside out, right. From the inside out. It wasn't because of a laceration why he was bleeding. It was because of the pressure, right, of what he was about to face.
I sometimes, I don't know about you, Robbie, I sometimes, as I've pondered it and more recently heard a real description of the night before. that perhaps That was more. Painful and more, there was more anguish there almost through that emotion. his through his emotions than the actual physical uh crucifixion itself. Maybe hard for some to wrap their head around.
Maybe, wait, what? Yeah, they're all beyond. And I think I'm 100% in agreement with you from a standpoint of the physical. But the thing I can't get over and never will, hopefully, is. For God to turn his back, in other words, here's a connection he has had.
FRETERNITY Right. Right. You know, I love with whatever my limited ability to love is. You know, I loved my father, and I know you loved your father with this unbelievable love. To have my father turn his back totally on me with the intention of turning his back on me because I am covered in the shame of Robbie Dilmore and Nikita Kohler or whoever else you want to talk about.
And I know some of the shenanigans. And he took on all. All that, that moment. And dad turned his back. And there he was.
My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? He he wasn't just telling people that Scripture was being fulfilled. He he he was fulfilling it. He was fulfilling it. He was experiencing it.
And Yeah, n uh nothing that I think any of us will ever Fully wrap our head around or fully comprehend. And what, one last, before we run out of time, one last Highlight for you and Taylor. I'll see if I can do that. I think I do too because I don't want to miss this one. We were blessed to go to the outermost again, realize there's a war on, and we went to the outermost outpost.
If you go to Judah, you have never seen desert until you've been in the Judean desert or near the Dead Sea. And Nikita knows what I'm talking about: like, dude, how did Jesus go 40 days without water? You got to be kidding me. You can't go 40 minutes without water. It is hot, it is dry, and there's no plants there, there's no animals, there's no nothing, there's nothing.
Yeah. Furthest outpost in Judah because they're trying to repopulate, re-bring the area back. And this is in occupied West Bank.
Okay, so these people are getting shot at.
So we're out here with these rabbis, and this guy is in the IDF.
So he's dressed in green. He's got an automatic weapon, and we're hearing guns shoot in the background. Like I'm standing there, like, isn't that troublesome to everybody? Like, here are these guns going off? By God.
And this guy says, well, you know, they sent me out here because they said, you know, we need to get an outpost out here and we need to start growing things in the desert. And he said, I'm not a farmer. And they said, man, just put the seed in the ground, put water, watch what happens. And so you look at the ground. I could show you a picture.
Like, you could not possibly grow anything in that ground. If you see the unbelievable orchard and the green grass of the fields that he has there, it just literally blew my mind. And it's exactly what they say. Once you put water to this ground, it is so fruitful, it's unbelievable. And that God allowed us to go there and see that and see the courage of these people of how they are doing what God told them to multiply, you know, to do what they're doing in that land is a beautiful thing.
The other thing I don't want to not talk about is one of the funnest things Tammy got to do and I got to do is Hezekiah's tunnel. which is He cut through that solid This limestone, this most amazing engineering feat of almost a half a mile. that he cut through solid limestone to protect the water source that comes into Jerusalem. It comes from the Gihon Spring. It goes to the Pool of Siloam.
And Amazingly, they started at both ends. Right? And met in the middle, you know. And met in the middle somehow, amazingly, you know, order of a quarter of a mile of digging through the rock solid rock. And now you can walk through this and the water of the Guihon Spring is still flowing.
All these years later. Thousands of years later. Thousands of years later, and to shorten this as much as I can, the Gihan comes from the word Jordan. And Jordan, as you may know, is where Jesus descended, and then the Spirit descended on him because it means to descend, because the water is going down from the highest point to the Dead Sea, which is the lowest point on the earth. And so as we get low, With God, it's like that, that time.
Tunnel that's in the dark. You have to use your flashlights to go through it. It's like in the secret place, if we can get low, the water of the word will flow to us. And the spiritual ramifications of that tunnel have blessed me so much since my return. I can't tell you.
It's like a spring that continues to flow in my heart of His Word, of reflection on that trip to Jerusalem that really made an impact. Again, you can't explain it. But everybody ought to go through that tunnel. You feel like Indiana Jones. Just have to.
Go experience it. It's kind of like I say about man camp all the time. Hey, I can tell you about it, and maybe even some things you might do while you're there. But more than anything, it's just something you have to experience. And God's going to come after you.
Same thing at man camp is that. You know, when God comes after you and you know you got that word from the Lord or you know you had that experience from God, you know, that's the stuff that really changes your life, it changes your faith, it gives you hope and joy and excitement about what's coming. And of course, you mentioned the Jordan, and we're about out of time, but I know you and Tammy got. Baptized in the Jordan, so you got to experience that. And, you know, again, if you've never been over to the Holy Land, uh, and it's been a desire of yours, um, God leads you and directs you over there.
Hopefully, something Robbie has said over part one and/or part two will inspire you to at least put it on your bucket list and/or go ahead and make the trip because it will be, I can assure you.
Well, worth it. Hey, maybe one day I'll host a trip and you could go with the Russian Nightmare. Oh, I'd love to go with you, Jean. And Robbie Dilmore, the Christian car guy, and the Russian Nightmare tag teaming for Jesus. And Robbie, thank you for sharing.
And again, I know you just scratched the surface on your experience over there, but I can just tell the excitement in your voice and the things that you got to see. Isn't it amazing? Robbie, I'll kind of conclude it this way.
Someone described it once as when you were a kid, they had those little pop-up books. Right. Like you turn each page, and the little castle pops up, or whatever, right? And so it kind of brings the story in that particular book to life. And someone once said to me, When you open your Bible after you've been, after you've walked the streets of Jerusalem, sailed the Sea of Galilee, and walked through Hezekiah's water tunnel.
After you've done those things, it's a pop-up. You open up the Bible, and now you don't have to wonder what those things are like. You actually wonder. witnessed what those things were like. First-hand experience, right?
Last word. Oh, yeah.
Well, the idea, right, is to pursue God with a tremendous thirst. And You know, that experience, and I hope you get a chance to pray about, you know, God, is there a way for me to go somehow? You will feel like God will. God will meet you in ways that will surprise you, but it will be him coming after you. That's what I'll say at the end.
Like, man, he came after me through the whole thing. I can't say, oh, Robbie, you were so, you know, devoted that you were going to get it. No, no, he came after me the whole way, and that's the real gift.
So, you consider that. We'll keep you posted if I put a tour group together. I'll certainly keep you posted here on the man up show. Robbie Dilmore, Christian Car Guy, Kingdom Pursuits. Check him out.
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