Revival in the Old Testament

It is Thoroughly Jewish Thursday.

Let's do it. Thoroughly Jewish Thursday. Really interesting to share with you.

Having to do with Hebrew Israelites and the upcoming debate scheduled for March 23rd with the leader of the Saqqari group of Hebrew Israelites. Eager to share that with you. It's kind of funny. And an interesting little story. Yeah, it's not exactly Thoroughly Jewish Thursday, but I want to tell it to you because it ties in with our encouraging you to be healthy, well, etc. So that's where we're going to start. We're going to start with revival in the Old Testament. There are seasons in the Old Testament that are well-known seasons of national repentance and reformation, and books that treat revival will commonly speak of these as revival in the Old Testament. So the revival under Hezekiah, the revival under Josiah, you have a revival under Asa, where the nation would turn back to God, where there would be national repentance. And this happens in Judah.

You really don't see it in northern Israel. You have some movement under Jehu, but you don't have a national revival movement in a full sense like you have under King Asa, King Hezekiah, King Josiah. So there's national repentance. There's turning back to God. There's turning away from idols, from immorality, from injustice. There's rebuilding or repairing of the temple.

There's this earnest call for everyone to seek God. And some of the some of the moves had a deeper impact on the nation. Some were more led by the king, and many followed. But with the king dying, the people fell back away. But we point to these as examples of revival in the Old Testament.

I want to look at one that's more of a personal revival, and there's a lot that we can learn from it. And this is in Genesis chapter 35. Genesis chapter 35. And there we read about Jacob and his family.

So here's what it says. Genesis 35 beginning in verse 1. God said to Jacob, Yaakov in Hebrew, arise, go up to Bethel, Bethel in Hebrew, and remain there, and build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau. So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, rid yourselves of the alien gods in your midst, purify yourselves, and change your clothes. Come let us go up to Bethel, and I will build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone. They gave to Jacob all the alien gods that they had, the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob burned them under the terebinth that was near Shechem.

So here's what's really fascinating. Number one, Jacob encountered God in Bethel. That's why he named it Bethel, Bet El, House of God, in Genesis 28.

He was fleeing from Esau even though he had stolen his brother's blessing for being the firstborn and previously conned him out of his birthright. Still, God was with Jacob despite his sin. Now of course, Jacob pays for his sin dearly and has all kinds of deceitful things done back to him. He does reap what he sows, but there's part of him that was very much God-oriented, looking to God, fearing God, loving God, in part that was very carnal.

Some of us can relate to that. So Jacob meets with God, he encounters him. You know, angels going up and down the staircase or the ladder, encounters them there, names the place, Bethel. He says, surely Yahweh is in this place. So now God says, go back there.

So let's spiritualize this for a moment. Go back to your first love. Go back to your first encounter. Go back to when you first met God and your life was changed. Go back to that place of encounter where suddenly everything changed and all you wanted was God and you turned away from sin. You became very conscious of things in your life. You thought they were fine, but now realize they were displeased. And go back, implying you're not there now, implying backsliding city. And we talked yesterday about the Church of Ephesus addressed in Revelation 2, how they were Orthodox, how they were hardworking, how they had the right doctrines and beliefs and practices, and yet they had left their first love and received an extreme rebuke from Yeshua, from Jesus. So, so, same thing here.

Go back to that place of encounter. And then he says to his family, get rid of the foreign gods, the alien gods in your midst. So, first question, how did Jacob allow this to happen? He knew they were there.

He didn't say, and if you have any idols. No, he knew they were there. And then how is it that his family is supposed to be fearing Yahweh, God-fearing family, accumulated these things? So, it's an indication that backsliding had sinned in. It's an indication that compromise had sinned in. It's an indication that things that were displeasing to God became normal, became run of the mill, became par for the course, to use different idioms. So, it's just an interesting thing when you encounter God afresh, when God speaks.

Maybe the word jumps off the page is at you. Maybe you're in the midst of outpouring of the Spirit. You thought everything was good.

Everything was cool. God was happy with this and not displeased with this. And then the fire falls.

The light shines. The word comes from us. Oh my God. I'm sinning against God. I've been in compromise. I thought this whole thing was fine. A lot of what we feel is absence of conviction is simply hardness of heart. You know, when people will say, I once heard somebody say they were around all these nude Christians and it was perfectly fine.

There was nothing to it whatsoever. It was just, you know, you have to be carnal to think there's anything the matter with it. Well, that's not holiness.

That's hardness. That's a person becoming so desensitized to things that should be hidden and covered. You know, just like people will strut around beaches claiming to be Christians in the skimpiest bathing suits, leaving almost nothing to the imagination, just setting themselves up as objects of lust and people looking at them. In other words, they're setting themselves up to be gazed at and gawked at and there's barely anything covered. And they say, oh no, I'm good with it.

God's good with it. No, it's just your heart got hard. You just got used to the thing.

You know, you treat your spouse a certain way, certain way, nasty and always short and impatient and yelling and raising your voice and just no control of your temper. It's like, hey, life's hard. Don't put me under more pressure.

I got enough pressure. Don't judge me. And then you encounter God. What have I been doing?

I've been a wretch. It could well be that Isaiah was already involved in prophetic ministry when he had his encounter with God in Isaiah 6. If it was his first encounter, his calling, it's strategically placed in Isaiah 6 to give you the impression that he's already been prophesying when this happened. Either way, you don't expect the prophet Isaiah, this man of God, to say, woe is me. Woe is me.

I'm undone. My eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts. I'm a man of unclean lips. I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. And my eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts. He could have felt perfectly fine going to the temple in Jerusalem to worship God.

He could have felt perfectly fine. And then he encounters God. Oh, my God.

No. Oh, my God. Also, if you think of what happened with King Josiah, he already knew something was wrong. He already knew that there was grave sin in Israel, idolatry and temple prostitution and other things. He knew that. But it wasn't until the word was discovered, whether it's the whole five books of Moses, whether it's part of that or a book of Deuteronomy, different speculation, we simply do not know for sure.

But the curses in Deuteronomy are definitely part of it. He begins reading this and goes, oh, no, it's much worse than I thought. Have you ever had that? You go to the doctor, you know, Doc, something's not right. Something's not right. Maybe I strained the muscle here or maybe I got some kind of fever or, you know, just something here.

Maybe I strep throat. And then doctors, oh, no, actually, it's much worse. You have this. That's what happens in times of revival and outpouring. The light shines and we become aware of the darkness in our soul, the darkness in our lives, the compromise in our lives.

And what does that produce? Does that produce condemnation? Only if we run from it.

Only if we harden our hearts and run from it. God's purpose in revealing our sin is to draw us to him. God's purpose in revealing our sin is not to push us away, but to get us running to him. In the words of the classic Rock of Ages song by Augustus Toplady, foul, I to the fount and fly, wash me, Savior, or I die. So God comes to Jacob and says, go back to Bethel. Does God say to him, get rid of the idols? Does God say to him, cleanse yourselves? And what does God actually say, right? It just tells him, go back to Bethel, right? Genesis, the 35th chapter and the first verse. The Lord said to him, get up, go up to Bethel and go back there and just make an altar there to the God that appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Jacob. Just look at the Hebrew. So Jacob immediately knew when God said go back to Bethel, change had to come. Look at it like this. Look at it in a totally physical analogy that you're totally out of shape and you get a call, hey, your team needs you back.

Okay, I got to get in shape. God says, go back, go back and notice. Not only does Jacob realize, okay, we've got to repent, we've got to turn. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you. Go worship him, go honor him. This is also part of what happens in revival. Revival will always bring us back to the temple. Revival will always bring us back to the altar. Revival will always bring us back to a place of worship, adoration.

Many great hymns and songs and choruses are written out of times of revival because there's a fresh worship encounter. Go back and worship God. And friends, many of you hear the Spirit saying that to you these very days.

Go back, go back. And as you do, don't feel condemned because you've been away so long. Don't feel hopeless because you become so compromised.

Don't feel like it's too late because you wasted too many years. When God's inviting you back, it's not to condemn you, it's to bless you. When he's inviting you back, he's granting you repentance.

He's not pushing you away. The devil, your own mind, may lie to you, may condemn you, but when God's calling you back, he's calling you back to bless you, not to curse you. Go back to Bethel.

Maybe that's a word for some of you here. Maybe it's a time for personal revival in your life, just like with Jacob and his family. Okay, I'm going to tell you an interesting personal story on the other side of the break right here on the Line of Fire. Don't go anywhere. We've got an important word from our sponsor Trivita standing with us to help blanket the nation with the Line of Fire message.

We will be right back. Dr. Michael Brown. Get on the Line of Fire by calling 866-34-TRUTH. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown.

In his presence is fullness of joy. It is thoroughly Jewish Thursday. If you've got a Jewish-related question of any kind, give me a call. 866-34-87884.

That is the number to call. Okay, so just a quick personal story that ties in with a little Trivita testimony from my prayer warrior friend Rui that shared that. He just shared it with me personally, but Trivita said, well, we've got to share this with others. What a neat testimony. So, you know that God transformed my life a little over eight and a half years ago from a lifelong unhealthy eater, not a glutton, but a lifelong unhealthy eater who weighed as much as 275 pounds to a super healthy eating only, I mean radically healthy eating only for eight and a half years without exception by God's grace. So 180, 185 pounds right in there, you know, and just thriving, loving it, being blessed.

And for me, it's a gift from God that he intervened in my life so that I could be here for you, so I could run my race even better to glorify the Lord, so I could be here for Nancy and our kids and our grandkids, so I could be here to reach out to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And hopefully as the years go on, you know, the more wisdom you have, the more knowledge you have, the more understanding you have, the more energy also. Wouldn't that be great to have energy to share it with others, right?

So it's just been a blessing and I encourage you to, for me it was overnight, one radical step because the back and forth, back and forth never worked over the years and then God helped, God intervened, he did it, I take no credit, he did it. For you it may be incremental, stop here, give up this, get rid of this, add this in, healthy. Anyway, so I do pretty intense workouts, right? And you know, CrossFit type workouts and other things and really push hard and can do well, do well with people who work out regular.

I'm almost 68 but by God's grace in good shape. The only thing at the beginning of the season when it starts to get really hot, Nancy may be outside doing landscaping work or kind of grunt work just for hours getting the garden ready and things and I'll come out just to help out carry heavy things around and if it's really hot, the first few days I have to stop quick. It's like hey, I just feel a little faint and then I get used to the heat and then I'm great.

So I'm doing these heavy workouts but just when I'm in the intense heat, sometimes it gets to me a little bit and I have to get used to it and once I'm acclimated, I'm great. Okay, so I'm over, finished the trip last week in Kona Hawaii, the YWAM base there in Kona and we were having meetings, basically three meetings a day. The final morning finished up and then afternoon was free so they've got like a CrossFit type gym. They've got this amazing campus, 100 acres there in Kona, just extraordinary and a gorgeous setting.

What a great place and spiritual atmosphere is the best part about it of all. So they've got this they've got this outdoor gym and there was a coach that was going to work with me and another guy that really fit was going to work out and Brandon was traveling with me, executive assistant, he was he was going to join in, he's in good shape. So I said hey give me a fitness test, let's give me a conditioning test. Now the thing I didn't calculate was it was really humid. It was only like high mid to high 70s but it was really humid.

So I knock out the whole workout, we went from a conditioning workout to a strength workout and pull-ups and different things incorporated. It was great. It wasn't bad at all. It was great. Kept up with the other guys.

I mean they were stronger but you know we all did great. Finished it and so we're just chatting. The guy says okay let's get up and do some stretches and I think you know I feel a little funny. I think I just want to sit and next thing I realized oh no the humidity. I didn't because I felt great doing the workout. I was fine and totally fine. I felt afterwards that the coach thought that he didn't push me hard enough.

He felt bad he didn't push me hard enough so but you know he doesn't know what shape I'm in or anything right. So I realized okay I don't feel well. Now I've never thrown up during a workout or after.

I've worked out with plenty of people who have thrown up but that never happened. So I feel okay I feel a little sick to my stomach. Maybe it's the bathroom I could use and so they showed me it over there and these port-a-potties I thought oh that's like it I don't know I can get so I start walking I realize I'm about to faint. So I sit down on the ground and guy helps me over there and then I'm fine totally fine within seconds absolutely totally fine.

I felt funny about it. I was a little embarrassed like okay it wasn't the workout it was the humidity and you weren't used to it. All right so go forward a few days I've hit some workouts since I've been home. So I did this really heavy workout in my garage got a home gym in my garage and once again I didn't calculate that it's getting warm right now outside was in the high 70s and and towards the end I thought okay I'm I'm pushing it now it was a very heavy workout I'm pushing it I'm feeling it however however before the workout I used the two supplements that my buddy Ru was talking about I used nitric oxide and myo health which is amino acids and if you hit a really heavy workout then the amino acids you take after to replenish it. I drank my glass of amino acids myo health and I was instantly normal I was it was instantly replenished I thought yeah that's what I need next time I'm in Hawaii and it's cold the rest of where I am but I'm there in the middle of the heat humidity I hit a workout just bring that with me. So anyway it was just funny because it happened today and I thought yeah I got to share that with you.

So remember there's a special number to get a free sample of nitric oxide and then order the nitric oxide myo health get the free 10 habits of wellness book so you can call this number 800-811-9628 800-811-9628 and just say hey I'm interested in this or what would you recommend and remember 100% of your first order 100% goes to get the line of fire around the country if it's easier just go to triveda.com and use the code BROWN25 but yeah I'm a living witness I'm a living witness these things are really excellent supplements not substitutes for healthy living right great supplements so 800-811-9628 you can call or triveda.com use the code BROWN25. All right let us take some calls and then I'm going to go back to some more old testament texts about revival and a fun Hebrew Israelite update. Okay we go to Kenneth in Tampa Bay Florida welcome to the line of fire. Yeah we met one time down at Teresh David. Oh you know Kenneth hang on one second don't go anywhere I apologize I'm going to get your call on the other side of the break my profound apologies we have shifted our clock a little actually cut out one minute of advertising time reduced one minute of advertising time during the show but then we're ending slightly earlier so we're about to expand onto new stations we changed the clock so I'm used to the old one I would have had plenty of time to take your question but sir I apologize for being rude stay right there on the other side of the break I'm going to go right back to calls I'm going to look at a few more old testament texts about revival give you that Hebrew Israelite update and friends God is moving not just in the church around the world not just stirring in the world God's moving among the lost sheep of the house of Israel we're seeing some beautiful wonderful things taking place groups being reached that could be so hard to reach the Holy Spirit is at work the Holy Spirit is reaching out and touching people be encouraged that the day will come Zechariah 12 10 where God says that he will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem sometimes translated spirit of grace and supplication they'll look to me whom they've pierced and they'll mourn over him the one that they pierced this is going to be the mass recognition by the lost sheep of the house of Israel that the one that they thought was the cause of their pain the one that they thought was the cause of so much suffering the one that they thought was a deceiver of the nation was actually Mashiach was actually messiah was actually Moshe the savior goel the redeemer eyes will be opened but before that day many eyes will be opened as the Holy Spirit is poured out so be encouraged God is at work we're looking to get more and more of our materials out in Hebrew many of our materials now are being disseminated in Hebrew orally and verbally online good things are happening we'll be right back this is how we rise up it's the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get on the line of fire by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown and welcome back to thoroughly Jewish Thursday Michael Brown here all right we go back to the phones officially now Kenneth and Tampa Bay Florida thanks for calling all right so we made a choice David one time nice to talk to you yes uh talk to you also about my wife when she was going through cancer treatment you prayed with me and uh when she was in hospice and so forth anyway uh well she was a long time in person that worked with the you know social worker coming out of college and uh was uh trying to help girls get the babies settled and they didn't have abortion back in the 70s really so the he started doing adoptions all over the world and god bless her she was always for always for anti-abortion tried to get everybody elected that promised to end abortion and obviously it never happened yeah we don't not happen yeah i'm in florida we keep working we keep making efforts but but yeah your wife left and i would just see behind oh go ahead i was just listening to a debate with you with a rabbi who came in at the last minute like five years ago yep and he just said he made a statement i just don't believe that jesus was resurrected and a man came up and i don't know if you remember as he said that is as offensive to me as me telling you i just don't believe in the holocaust i don't just remember that debate yeah well well yeah let me let me say this kenneth um i would i would make a real exception between those two things in in other words a real distinction i would make a distinction between those two statements kenneth number number one the holocaust is something that happened in recent memory there are survivors of the holocaust who are alive today we have massive documentation on every level historical documentation photo documentation video documentation oral testimonies and recorded documentation the population i mean just endless verification of the holocaust the nazis kept meticulous records and on and on and on and on so it's tremendously offensive to deny that because you're spitting in the face of evidence and doing something that ultimately is is very anti-semitic because other things like that normally don't get denied and there's hardly anything like that in terms of that scale that's happened in in recent memory when it comes to the resurrection of jesus obviously it's something we believe with all of our hearts and we feel absolutely sure is true however however it's 2 000 years ago it's not like you have video testimony and you have you hear photographs of as it's you know a series of pictures as it's happening or there are people who are physically alive today who were there when it happened so yes i believe an overwhelmingly strong case can be made for the resurrection but when i came to faith i came to faith because jesus changed my life not because i had intellectual proof of a resurrection so no i i don't find it offensive at all when someone doesn't believe in the resurrection i don't find it offensive at all when they don't believe in god i find it sad or i i find it unfortunate but no i don't find that offensive so i i would definitely take exception to that hey kenneth thank you for thank you for raising that i appreciate it very much eight six six three four truth let's go over to robert in texas welcome to the line of fire yeah dr brand i called in about a month and a half ago about psalm 11962 and also paul's uh in acts it says at midnight he was in jail and they were singing praises to the lord and anyway was that a typical midnight for paul was he just being obedient to someone uh some uh some 1962 right yeah it's a great it's a great question number one we do not have record of a fixed tradition at that point that that religious jews would get up at midnight and praise god we don't have record of that you know we we know for sure that phylacteries were used filling the the prayer boxes on on on the hand and on uh on on the arm and on the head you know we know certain things we know certain prayers seem to have been fixed at that time we don't know that for sure and it could well be that acts is just giving us a picture at the deepest darkest ugliest time in in the midst of a dungeon after being severely flogged they're praising god and it's the middle of the night however it's possible that for paul and others it was a tradition that that's that that's what they did it's it's possible and the fact he's singing hymns now they're adding in worship of jesus to this and praising of the lord to whatever they would have done as as jews to this day there are some religious jews going to sleep much earlier in the night who will get up at midnight to sing praises or some will get up at midnight to recite lamentations over the destruction of the temple but it's not a universal custom like getting up like getting up at a certain time each day saying certain prayers in a certain order so it's possible but we don't have any proof of it so it's an interesting question but we don't have proof where we can say for sure that was a practice or that's what paul used to do we simply don't know yeah is there any any uh evidence how about some 119 164 seven times a day i'll rise up is there any thing on that right some some jews have done that made it a habit to make sure that there are seven different times that that they specifically praise and bless god through the day however what has been mandated follows the example of daniel six where daniel prayed three times a day so a traditional jew will pray early in the morning and then uh later in the afternoon and then early evening there will be three distinct prayer times in the day for a traditional jewish person so if if you live in a traditional jewish area work stops at those times and jewish men at work will be praying together or if they're at the synagogue they'll be praying together if they're doing studies together they take a break then and pray together so that's been implemented of course the traditional jew robert claims that that daniel was following jewish tradition and daniel sticks following an unwritten oral law logic tells you it's the exact opposite of that the jewish tradition based itself on daniel's prayer habits so some distinctly make sure that there's seven times in a day of praising god but the custom is the three prayer times a day with multiple other prayers legislated within that hey thank you for the questions much appreciate it eight six six three four truth let's go to michael in san diego welcome to the line of fire hi uh my question is about was there a very clear and consensus uh establishment about the expectations of the coming jewish messiah and what were some of the ones they got right and wrong for example daniel 70 said because the 483 years until the messiah he cut off and both of those things they just did the math should have been very clear but they completely missed that isaiah says that he'll become uh the messiah will be called mighty god isaiah 43 says i am the lord your king but they didn't seem to get the connection that the messiah would also be right so so to answer the question michael number one at the time of jesus there were different jewish expectations about the messiah we have them recorded in ditzy scrolls some are reflected in the pseudographical literature literature written between old and new testament attributed to different ancient authors we have them as they develop in rabbinic literature written several hundred years later but some of the traditions going back to that time so there were expectations of a king who would rule and reign and who would liberate israel from her enemies so certainly at the second coming those things will be realized there were expectations that there would be a rule a a davidic messiah a royal messiah and then an ironic messiah a priestly messiah their expectations that and the priestly messiah didn't have the emphasis on suffering but just as much on doing priestly work uh and and carrying on the legacy of of aaron is another anointed leader there are expectations of an end time prophet so you have some expectations of king and priest and prophet of course jesus fulfills them all in his own self but things that we look at now and say we're so clear about a suffering messiah we're not as clear on the other side of the cross there are scholars who believe that the messiah that there were ancient jewish texts about a suffering messiah but those texts are greatly disputed so we cannot say for certain that there is a jewish expectation of a suffering messiah when it comes to daniel's prophecy it does seem very clear that god's plan of redemption in a very real way has has to come to some fulfillment or culmination before the second temple was destroyed but whether there's one messiah or two messiah just means anointed one you know there's debate about that it's it's easy to see that jewish people could have said all right there's a time frame which is obviously culminating now when the temple's destroyed they didn't know it was going to be destroyed but once it's destroyed they look back right they look back and realize okay this was a time frame when messiah was supposed to come there was a lot of expectation that messiah was about to come in the jewish world at that time but there was not a clear understanding of his suffering of his death of his resurrection when it happened he then pointed back to the scriptures and said look look it's written about me and the disciples and the disciples oh there it is like you say michael it seems so clear in retrospect for sure the traditions that developed over the centuries got locked in with several key things my monities really articulated it kind of laid it out in a codified way in in the 12th century in this mission of torah but according to my monities there are several key things that will help us recognize the messiah for example regathering of the jewish exiles for example rebuilding the temple destroying the wicket bringing israel into universal obedience to god establishing peace on the earth that the one who does these things will be recognized as messiah so many of things that messiah will do on his return and his second coming are things that jews expect that he will that messiah will do for the first time and then there are traditions about messiah son of joseph who suffers and dies before the great uh in the great final war and and then followed by messiah son of david those are other jewish traditions what's interesting though is that the only one who can do part two and can set up his kingdom on the earth and destroy the wicked and regather the exiles and rebuild the temple the only one who can do all those is the same one who did part one because part one had to be completed before the destruction of the temple all right hey michael thank you very much for the call check out my website real messiah dot com if you've got the ask dr brown app ask dr brown ministries app if you don't have it download it now ask dr brown ministries ask dr brown ministries download the app and just scroll down to real messiah i mean you scroll down to real messiah check it out it's all jewish outreach debates you can watch answers to lots of questions or just go to real messiah dot com all right we'll be right back tell you a funny story and then some more scriptures stay right here it's the line of fire with your host dr michael brown get on the line of fire by calling eight six six three four truth here again is dr michael brown welcome back to thoroughly jewish thursday so friends i've got a debate scheduled in london we still haven't locked in the location the organizers there the muslim organizers are working on it for march 20th so conference with chosen people god willing march 18th in london march 19th in manchester then the debate is muhammad prophesied in the bible for monday march 20th in the evening so as soon as we have details location all our friends in uk will let you know and then of course you'll be able to watch live stream online that's the plan so even though to me the subject is so obvious that the answer is no he's not prophesied in the hebrew bible unless you say he's among false prophets that are mentioned um i still prepare very very seriously in the same way debating a leader in sakari hebrew israelites the whole idea this 12 tribe chart is accurate and shows that where the different 12 tribes are around the world to me is utterly absolutely ridiculous nonetheless i prepare seriously and and i'm sure uh both opponents will be seriously prepared so i want to glorify the lord i want to help people see the truth i know always that there are so people so locked into what they believe that they're unable to hear anything to the contrary it can happen to anyone you're part of a cult your group you're you're so in it so indoctrinated that you literally can't hear what others are saying and you will miss hear what they're saying i've actually sat with people and quoted scripture to them some in hebrew sometimes in english but they've learned it a certain way that they're they're they'll quote it back to me wrongly it's like no no look they'll divide the words differently it's like wow you actually can't see this and then when they finally see they get angry at me and walk away so a colleague sent me a link to look at and it's a gentleman had called in a hebrew delight leader had called in and asked me some questions just casual conversation i'm trying to win a debate just answering his questions going back and forth a little bit and he posted that on his website so someone just wanted me to look at the comments which i normally don't do or have time to do but i thought you gotta be kidding me that's wild you know you could hear fear and brown's voice at this point though what he are you serious you know i was being friendly with the caller just interacting with him in a friendly way but there's there's not a stitch of anything that was raised that presents any issue or problem or anything like that it's it's almost like you know you're having a birthday party for your kid and everyone's laughing it's like you could see how depressed they were there it's like wow how could people misread things that deeply but it just burdens me all the more to pray for hearts to open and look if you're some racist and you believe black americans are inferior human beings that the kindest most compassionate most articulate most learned most gifted black american can talk to you and you think man out of that person's it's trash conversely you could be a racist that that so hates whites or what's the hebrews like you eat a mic devil oh by the way i can easily demolish the idea that that that edam was white okay that he's allegedly white in the father of the white devils whatever it is it's easy but that's that's that's a whole other subject but anyway you can look at me you have such hatred that i could i could say two plus two is four and hebrew israeli could say two plus two is 11 and they'll say look at that you smash you smash that white devil so racism is blinding racism is blinding you could be an anti-semite you could be a jew who hates asias or whatever it is you could be a misogynist that looks down at women and and this stuff so pollutes our thinking that we're literally unable to think clearly and you'll watch us say oh man bro's really trembling his boots like wow wow that's just mind-boggling so when i see this i don't get mad at people i feel bad for them i feel terrible for them and then i think all right lord how can i help them what can i bring how can the truth be presented clearly enough that'll open even their eyes obviously if i can open their eyes i can open the eyes of someone in the middle someone searching someone questioning but how can i get to the real hardcore that's always a goal for me the hardcore ones that that are so entrenched is there some seed of doubt that can be planted because they're not on the side of truth some something that can be said that'll open their heart and their mind that's the goal so pray that a spirit of truth will prevail so that debate scheduled for thursday night march 23rd hosted by barian tv youtube channel and starting i know somewhere 7 38 in the evening something like that 7 30 or 8 in the evening we'll we'll have details for you a couple more scriptures on revival in the old testament before we're done here today let's go over to have a cook have a cook chapter three and verse two it's it's a classic revival verse it's one of the most famous verses uh it starts off charles finney's lectures on the revivals of religion you find it there right at the beginning so he says adonai shamati shimaha literally lord i've heard the report about you i've heard about your fame i've heard about your renown it was i heard about what you did in the past the great things you did in the past but they're not happening today that so revival is needed when you're always talking about what god did in the past what god did in the past because it's not happening in the same way today lord i i stand in awe of your work i literally fear your work the things you've done are are awesome i stand in awe of your work of your deeds and then it's this prayer but care of shanim literally in the midst of the years bring them back to life renew them in these years king james revive them in the midst of the years um and and then it says yeah so make them known in the midst of the years so in a time of wrath remember mercy this is a great revival text because number one it says the great things god did in the past but they're not happening today why not today why not our age why is it read about the welsh revival here the first great awakening there what god's doing in china what god's doing in africa what what about here what about now that's a great prayer of revival and it's it's something that is often birthed revival because lord we keep hearing about the past but what about now people are dying without you today for those that don't know my newest book we're sending out copies got a few more to sign and send out why so many christians have left the faith the whole deconstruction movement people are getting pulled away people are getting plucked off people are people are falling away left and right and and why and well they weren't really saved well we maybe we'll talk about that more next week does everyone who leave can we say they weren't really saved but the fact of the matter is people are falling away people a whole generation is gone and many of them never encountered god for themselves never encountered god so and that's in the book too the need to encounter god afresh so we heard about what you did in the past we stand in all of your deeds in the midst of the years revive it bring it back do it again make it alive again don't let it be something we just talk about every generation in israel every generation in the church must have its own encounter with god and and then make them known these years and even though in the midst of wrath and anger remember mercy revival comes when things are very intense revival comes when things are very difficult revival comes when things are very dark and it is in a time like that god's spirit is poured out isn't that the state of america today isn't this the perfect time for god to be moving as he is all over the nation just talk to it to a dear colleague i've been a helping mentor in his life but a solid mature man of god with a steady move taking place in his church and really revival fires spreading from there it's happening all over america it's happening in different parts of the world of course different parts of the world's been happening for years lord why not here why not now your church your family your community lord why not here why not now revive your work in the midst of your years and then psalm 85 the the psalmist goes back through history and lord you favored us you were kind you were gracious you forgave our sins but we're in a mess again we're in a mess again god we have mercy again we have mercy again psalm 85 verse 6 will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you yes yes that that's that's a heart and soul revival god comes and restoration forgiveness the joy comes back hey friends one thing i love about signing and sending out our new books i don't receive a dime i don't get a dime of royalties everything that comes in goes straight to our ministry outreach to help us reach more and more people so this is like a collector's item so you're giving an extra donation to get it it's it's our gift to you to say thank you and then we're getting the message of the book out you're helping spread the message of the line of fire so to order your signed numbered copy we're still sending these out call 800-538-5275 800-538-5275 one more time 800-5385-ASK and get as many copies as you want we'll sign them to as many people as you want our joy to send these out the book releases to the general public march 7th so you'll still get these in advance of that and in advance of that and again every down that comes in goes right back to our ministry outreach so thanks for standing with us thanks for your participation thanks for helping reach the lost sheep of the house of israel together you can also go to our website ask director brown askdrbrown.org just click on shop and you'll see the special order for the signed numbered pre-ordered copies in fact since the show's over i'm going back over to my desk to sign a few more oh and we posted on instagram dr michael brown on instagram dr michael brown on instagram we put a lot of fun videos up there my pre-book signing hand and wrist and forearm workout just to have a little fun there so those are posted for you and friends be encouraged no matter what is going on in your life be encouraged in god's presence is fullness of joy he can put joy and faith and hope in your heart even an all-star and i'm here to help infuse your friends faith and truth and courage come on let's do it let's glorify god together