Welcome to Prophecy Today. I'm Jimmy Young Jr. Along with my brother Rick, we examine current events in the light of God's prophetic word. God has an overall prophetic program that we often subdivide into three distinct plans: a plan for Israel, a plan for the church, and a plan for the Gentile nations. All three of which center around the Jewish people.
Israel is truly God's timepiece of history and prophecy. And as you know, on our program, we have broadcast partners that we talk to as we examine current events in the light of God's prophetic. Word, and if God has a plan for the Jewish people, these are the nations that are involved in that plan in the future. Rick on our program today: Ken Timmerman, David Dolan, Israel Medad, and Meno Kalishir in Jerusalem. We've got a lot to cover, so let's get started with our first Ken Timmerman.
Well, that's right, Jimmy. I have Ken Timmerman with us. He's our expert on geopolitical affairs. He's an author and an analyst. You can find out more about him, the books he's written, things he does by going to his website at KenTimmerman dot com.
Ken, thanks for being with us today. Thanks for having me on, Rick. It's always a pleasure.
Well, Ken, let's start our look around the world today by talking about a place that I know you know very well because you live there part of the year, and that is France, where there has been major unrest. Thousands of people arrested. Could you tell us what's going on?
Well, Rick, one thing I can tell you with a great deal of confidence is these riots in France have very little to do with the schools. They might have started with the schools, and kids were upset over classroom conditions and. Rats and buildings falling down, and politically correct teachers. But very, very quickly, the riots were taken over by the far left party run by Jean Luc Mélenchon. He's a former communist and anti semite.
He's invited all of the Muslim radicals in France to join these demonstrations.
So now what you've got is this red green alliance out in the streets, and French riots police trying to control. Them and here's the thing about Medungshon Rick that I think is important for our listeners to understand. This is a man who's declared he's running for president. The elections are next May, May of 2027, and he is hoping that he will be the person who defends the Republican side of France, the vast majority of Frenchmen who reject the far right. This is what Chirac did in 2002.
So he's hoping that he a Communist can rally all of those other people who do not like the far right. I think that's not going to work. It's not going to happen. He is more radical than Marine Le Pen by far, and those elections are too far away. He is peaking way ahead of time.
President Trump got it pretty quickly. He he wrote on Truth Social earlier this week. What's happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn't about schools. This is about Islam wanting to take over a once great country, and I think that pretty much sums it up.
Well, can you talk about how it started about funding? And I know that the French government is having funding issues itself. They have a very generous welfare program, to say the least. But like you said, the trigger, the spark to this, has been that Muslim immigration that has challenged really the national cohesion and the national identity of France, hasn't it? It has, and and you have you know Muslims coming in.
Maintaining their culture, maintaining their religion, they are essentially jihadis operating in the West. And sometimes these are second and third generation Muslims. The parents may have come here to work, but the children of the Muslim immigrants are not here to work. Forty percent of them, at least, are on the welfare rolls. You have one Moroccan researcher who recently penned an analysis saying that the West faces two different.
Kinds of Islam. It's the jihadi Islam, which is what we are facing in the West, and then normal Islam, which is what still operates in the Middle East. And the irony is, is that the Muslim countries, the Muslim countries, are more moderate than the Islam that we are facing, and that is trying to take over countries like France and Germany and Britain.
Well, in a speech that can't be ignored, with all of this going on, Secretary of State Marco Rubio talked about how the West is kind of reaching an inflection point. It's certainly related to this, isn't it? We have reached an inflection point, Rick. That speech of his in Athens, by the way, with a backdrop of the Parthenon, was absolutely spectacular. If our listeners haven't had a chance to read it or to look at it, I really suggest you look at the whole thing.
It's an amazing speech. He talked about what makes us. Great in the West, and he talks about how we in the United States actually grew out of ancient Greek culture. Their pursuit of excellence was the very principle of man's existence. He said, "It's an amazing speech." He says, "Today, too often these days, and here I'm quoting: We build downwards.
We design our standards to ensure that no one will lose. We preoccupy ourselves more with the comfort of the worst than the potential of the best." We hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average, the ordinary, the mediocre. Absolutely amazing speech, and he says we need to do what the men who built the Parthenon did. They built upwards. They held that the highest and most noble aspiration in life was to surpass all others, to strive to be the best in all things.
Whereas, you know, we've made prosperity a source of guilt, and we no longer believe we deserve or earned our greatness. You should all read the speech, Rick. It's really amazing. I call it Western Civ 101. Certainly, was an impressive speech.
Well, let's move from Europe and let's talk about the Middle East. The conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis continue. Can you give us an update there? The Houthis have stepped up their attacks all week long. On Thursday, they launched ballistic missiles on the airport in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
They threatened to close Saudi airspace. They also hit the Saudi Aramco refinery, a huge refinery in the outskirts of Riyadh.
Some schools and businesses were told to shelter in place. Pretty amazing, really. The U.S. Embassy in Jordan issued a travel advisory to Americans on Friday, telling them basically just monitors the situation closely.
So I think the the Americans in the region are have a fairly stiff spine. The EU issued a much sterner warning. Their aviation safety agency recommended airlines not operate within portions of Saudi airspace because. Because of the Houthi attacks on Riyadh Airport, so the Europeans, as usual, have weaker knees than we do. The Saudis convened almost immediately, Rick, that these attacks took place.
Their new security pact with Turkey and Pakistan—they're calling it the Mecca Pact. They had an emergency meeting in Riyadh earlier this week to trigger that support, and there now reports that the Pakistanis have actually flown military equipment to Aden in southern Yemen, and they've sent troops. Into Saudi Arabia itself, so this is a situation that could quickly spiral out of control. The Saudis are hoping to launch a massive counterattack against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. They have begun those operations already, but we don't know how it's going to play out.
This is escalating very rapidly again with Iranian support to the Houthis. Let's not forget that.
Well, I want to talk about Iran in just a second, but a quick follow-up there: Turkey is a NATO member Pakistan is a nuclear armed state. Those three coming to Saudi Arabia's defense, the escalation. What are the dangers that that escalation could bring?
Well, I think on the contrary, they will bring a bit more stability. Both the Pakistanis and the Turks have quite accomplished military establishments and leaderships. They have much more experience than the Saudis do, and I think they will. Helped Saudis to launch a more effective counterstrike. I certainly don't see the the Pakistanis bringing their nuclear arsenal into play at all, but they will bring their military expertise.
You mentioned Iran, President Trump considering maybe new action there. Can you tell us what's going on in Iran?
Well, we're told, Rick, that the president met with his security cabinet last weekend at Camp David. That the Pentagon presented a new plan for three days of strikes on Iran, after the president had rejected five earlier Pentagon plans.
Now, is this true or not true? I don't know. It came from the New York Times, Rick, and from Axios, and both of these media are far left media. They have been the beneficiaries. If you wish, of leaks from the deep state inside the White House, and that might surprise some of our listeners.
But this is why the president banned CNN from the White House not too long ago, and the New York Times, because with their White House press passes, they got access to the old Executive Office Building next door.
Now, that houses 1,500 White House staff, including the Vice President. Who has an office suite there? I've been to that a number of times. It looks like J.D. Vance may be a leaker, so this is leaked information.
Information to probably deter the president from taking action. Is it true? Is it not true? Were there really five previous plans? I don't know, but it's certainly true that the president has not launched major operations against Iran and appears not to want to until after the midterms.
One final story I want to get your thought on, Ken. There's a report of a leak at a Russian laboratory. A disease, a plague, they called it, getting out. Can you talk about this and whether or not we should be concerned about it?
Well, what happened was a 28-year-old lab worker apparently broke a test tube with something in it, and we're told pneumonic played, and she died almost immediately. The Russians put 60 people in quarantine. They put another 200 under observation for over a week, which is more than the time it would need to incubate. This was a disease that incubates in 24 hours. They had no positive test results.
No. Else was infected, but look, Rick. The United States has long believed that Russia has a biological weapons program at this and other laboratories. They were working on some of the most deadly viruses and germs in the history of the world. The U.S.
is also working on those germs and viruses. We have not weaponized the the the material. We don't know if the Russians have weaponized material. Do we trust the Russians to tell us the? Truth, of course not, but I have to say this.
I have to say this in all fairness. The Russians immediately responded and told the world about the lab leak. They immediately said that they were putting these people in quarantine and others under observation. Just contrast that to how the Chinese acted once they understood they had a problem with a lab in Wuhan. They covered it up for three three months.
Rick, they waited until the entire world was infected. Here, at least, the Russians have been. Relatively transparent. And certainly, the memory of COVID lingers large in that story.
Well, Ken, as always, we appreciate your insight looking at what is going on around the world. Thanks so much. Look forward to talking to you again soon. Thanks so much, Rick. God bless.
Great job as always, Ken. And two stories that I'm keeping my eyes on: Russia and how it's getting involved with Iran and backing Iran, and of course the Mecca Pack. We've got to take a break, and when we come back, our Middle East news update with David Dolan, right here on Prophecy Today Weekend. Oh, oh, I'm Ruth Kramer with Mission Network News. Youth protests in France over the last week were sparked by school conditions, but it's exploded into widespread unrest.
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Well, this is the portion of the program we call it our Middle East News Update. We look at news coming out of the Middle East in general, but Israel in particular. To do that, we have with us journalist Dave Dolan. Dave, thanks for being with us today. Glad to be with you, Rick.
Well, Dave. Typically, you give us an update. What has happened this week in Israel? I know that was dominated by the third anniversary of October seventh. Can you tell us what happened?
Well, that's right, Rick. That was really the main focus of the week. Wednesday, of course, was the actual Gregorian calendar, Western calendar date of the October seventh invasion and massacre. Twelve hundred plus people. Killed mostly Israelis, and of course, around 250 taken hostage, and many of those not returning.
It began in the morning with a very, very somber commemoration at the Nova Festival site. Rick, I believe you've been there. It has, of course, elevated pictures of all of the victims of the atrocities that took place there. And it was especially moving because the female that was kidnapped on a motorcycle and was filmed and shown around the world screaming as they took her away. She survived and she spoke for the first time, and it was her first time back to the site, so that was very emotional.
And then there, in the evening, there was the main ceremony in Tel Aviv at the Arcone Park, and tens of thousands of people. And the both events were different than the previous two anniversaries, Rick. In that, there were no more thank God hostages being held. That of course was the focus of both the first and second anniversaries, and you know demonstrations calling for their release and all of that. And thankfully.
Soon after the second anniversary, President Trump was able to arrange the final deal that saw the release of the hostages. But Rick, we had an intelligence report on Friday that was quoted in the Israeli press that said that the Hamas movement feels emboldened that they've survived now three years. That they still control only 30, 35 percent of the Gaza Strip, but that they still control the main cities and Gaza City in that. And the report warns that they think they will come back out of this. That report was apparently given by the intelligence agencies to the prime minister and others.
There were also protests on Wednesday against Prime Minister Netanyahu. Of course, he was the prime minister on the day of that terrible. Attack and massacre, and some outside of his home, and other government ministers as well. And then, Rick, we also had more news about the attempted attack the week before the attempted hijacking of the Fly Dubai flight. On Friday, the UAE's attorney general released a full summary of the interrogations that they've been conducting with Israeli and Saudi participation of Hamam al Hamami.
Who was the Omani terrorist that nearly brought down the plane? He in detail explained what he was planning to do. Rick, it was indeed a planned attack on Bangurian Airport, the main terminal. He said he'd been there twice before this year on other flights, or in recent years, planning this. He said he was inspired in 2017 while in Melbourne, Australia, studying to be a pilot.
And he went there because he was radicalized. I should say there in Australia, but he was inspired to become a pilot because of nine eleven.
So it was always his intention, he said, to do something like this. The relief in Israel, Rick, was that there is so far no connection to Iran, meaning, of course, that Israel doesn't have to respond. To that, and the leader said, as I mentioned last week, there would be a major response if Iran was, in fact, shown to be connected to it. But we had Friday, Rick, also the chief of staff warned that there could still be a major clash with Iran in the coming weeks before the elections scheduled for October 27th. He said, in fact, that the elections might need to be postponed if that happens.
And that was after he was briefed by the Pentagon on a apparently, according to media reports, a three-day U.S. campaign being planned against Iran in the next couple weeks. Even though the president said, I think on Thursday, that there wouldn't be any action before the U.S. election, which of course is after the Israeli one. The Israelis are apparently anticipating that there might be, and of course, Iran itself can just start.
A war at any time by well on Friday they again attacked the Revolutionary Guards' ship in the Persian Gulf etc.
So everything's still on edge in that way. But again, a lot of Thanksgiving and Rick that this week Rick the feast during the week that we didn't have hundreds of funerals, hundreds of funerals and attack on the airport. Like they're doing now in Saudi Arabia.
So, Thanksgiving this weekend, but everyone again remains on full alert. Three years later, the war, the overall war, is not only not over, but really it has expanded to the entire region.
Well, it certainly has. It continues to expand, and as you talk about October seventh, we remember that fateful day, the horrific atrocities that happened then, and then, as you said, they were able to avoid this terrible attack. Like you said, hundreds of funerals, hundreds of deaths. If this fly Dubai attack had come to fruition, and you know, this just emphasizes the fact that Israel is. Constantly under attack, it constantly has to be on guard, and that's a political reality and a spiritual reality as well, isn't it?
It absolutely is. You know, they're in the middle of enemies all around them that are threatening them, and this this terrorist was a Sunni Muslim. Radicalized in Australia, of all places. I've been in Melbourne, and there is a strong Muslim community there, and it has some pretty radical leaders. There's also a strong Jewish community there, but you know the Shiites are there, the Sunnis are there, Hezbollah's still there.
Hamas is still around, and the Houthis are attacking Saudi Arabia. Turkey's getting directly involved now. Pakistan's getting directly involved. Aid to the Saudis is increasing from other countries, etc.
So it's a right mess. But Israel's in the center of it. But Rick, I have to say, it wouldn't have probably destroyed. The terminal building, because that new terminal that was built about fifteen, twenty years ago—I've forgotten when exactly—but you may, you may know better. You fly in, is very hardened, very hardened, and it was the end of the flight, so it wouldn't have been full of fuel.
So hopefully, it wouldn't have killed an additional hundreds of people, but who knows? And just the thought that that could have happened, just the determination of this terrorist to do that, and again the many acts of God, the many acts, including I mentioned last week the Australian couple that were on board.
Well, it turns out the multi-millionaires, well known, turns out they had the only phones. On the plane that worked, because they have Australian cell phones and they were not blocked in Saudi Arabia, but the Israeli ones were, and they kindly passed them around to everyone to call their families and friends and say that we're okay. But what a traumatic week that was! And again, reliving October 7th is always difficult, but it was easier this year because nobody's being held hostage, and there's a hope at least. That this thing can be resolved peacefully and hopefully fairly soon, but the upcoming elections will play a big role in that as well.
I'm sure, Rick. They certainly will, and we'll talk about that maybe after the break. But before I do that, one last question: Navi Pillay, I believe I'm saying that right. She's the head of a UN commission that has accused Israel of genocide. She won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Now, this is looked at as a slap in the face, and we've talked about it before. This accusation of Israel committing genocide, which is disproved in every way possible. Possible when you look at the facts on the ground and this war, this accusation of genocide is a modern-day blood libel, and this is just a slap in the face.
Something we've come to expect from the UN towards Israel. Yes, and it's just such a lie, Rick. I mean, again, I was there in 2005 when Israel in August. Finally, pulled everything out of Gaza. Even though Jews have lived there, it's in the Bible that Jews were in Gaza.
This is thousands of years ago, and there was a modern Jewish community in Gaza City until about a hundred years ago when they were pushed out, as they were in Hebron and other places. Israel said goodbye. Have your little state there now, Palestinians. You got two million people. You've got a port.
We'll help you build an airport, which they started to do, if you'll recall, before Hamas took over in 2007, killed the PA officials there, took it all over, and you know Israel was forced 20 years later to go back in because of this horrendous. Attack upon them? Did they initiate that? Did they want that? No, the Jewish people do not want to see their Arab cousins slaughtered and destroyed.
They want to see them be peaceful and just settle down. Except that there is a Jewish state there. But they understand by now that radical Islam believes that there cannot ever be a Jewish state. That is against the Quran, and so the jihad, the holy war, is not going to end from their side. David, we got to take a break, but I do want you to come back, and because I think this upcoming election is very important for the United States.
We see radical Islam around the world, and it is something that I think a lot of people are concerned about the United States of America. Would you come back in the next half hour? And Israel Madad is coming to talk to us about the three-year anniversary. Of October seventh, Israeli elections and anti-Semitism as it continues to roar its ugly head. That all ahead right here on Prophecy Today Weekend.
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David Dolan's coming back in just a second, and Israel Madad will be closing out the rest of this half hour. But you know, with early voting starting, this is a an election year. Christians are called to be respectful, law-abiding citizens who submit to governing authorities, pay taxes, and pray for leaders while prioritizing. Ultimate obedience to God, and when civil laws directly conflict with divine commandments, yes, that becomes an issue for a lot of us. Core biblical principles, divinely ordained authority passages like Romans thirteen one to seven and First Peter chapter two verses thirteen to fourteen teach that human government is established by God to punish evil, reward good, and maintain social order, and of course.
Our civic duty: believers are instructed to pay taxes, respect public officials, and live peaceably lives as a testimony of their faith, regardless of whether the leaders are just or unjust. And then, of course, we're asked to pray for our leaders. First Timothy two one and two urges Christians to pray for kings, and all in authority, so that society may remain quiet, peaceful. And open to the gospel.
Well, we asked David Dolan to come back with us and to talk a little bit about the upcoming elections, not only in Israel but also in the United States. Rick, let's bring back David Dolan.
Well, that's right, Jimmy. Dave Dolan has agreed to come back because I have a timely conversation I'd like to have with him. Dave, thanks for coming back with us today. It's a blessing, Rick.
Well, David, we've talked about the Israeli elections. They're coming up in just about two weeks, and then, of course, in November we have elections here in the United States as well. And I thought this would be a good time to talk about us as believers, us as Christians. When we develop a Christian worldview based on our study of the Scripture, and our biblical worldview is also a prophetic worldview because those two are intertwined. If you could, could you help?
Our listeners talk about how we should vote, how we should determine who to vote for, and why it is so important to vote.
Well, Rick, one of the leading issues, as we said, it wasn't the case during the last midterm elections, or really for some years. One of the leading issues is Israel, and pretty much every candidate in this election in the United States has been forced, whether they want to or not. To take a public stand or answer some tough questions on Israel, because precisely because we now have a growing section of the Democratic Party that is clearly calling for not only stopping aid to Israel or slowing it down or you know something like that, but from the river to the sea. Palestine will be free.
So the destruction of Israel entirely—that is the position of a number of Democratic senatorial candidates this year. It's not the position of any Republicans that I know of, and in fact, almost all of them do support Israel's continued existence, and usually quite strongly. And many of them. Are also born again Christians. On the other side, the Democratic side, there's a handful.
Senator Coombs, there's a handful, but not many.
So, if you're thinking about Israel, if you're thinking about where the person stands on their own personal faith, then I would say you're going to vote towards the right, and that's of course true with a lot of other issues. But those are two major issues.
Now, in regards to Israel, many people, some listening, I'm sure, will say, "Well, that's a political statement. That's not a a biblical thing. That's not something we should, you know, consider." But it is. If you don't believe that the Bible said the Jews would be returned by their God to their land in the last days from the four corners of the earth, Isaiah. Jeremiah, Ezekiel, we could go on.
It's all over the place, and of course, Yeshua, Jesus, said, you know, when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, in the end, then flee from the city.
Well, who's he talking to? He says, hope it isn't on the Sabbath. Jews will be back. Jews will be in Jerusalem in the last days.
So, if you believe the Bible. Then your position on that topic should be fairly clear, I would think. And just morally, we've been talking about, you know, the difference between what is essentially a death cult. The radical Islamic view of a Jewish state is it must be destroyed entirely because it challenges the veracity of Islam's claim to be the final revelation of truth, as it states. Quite clearly in the Quran to be the case, they believe, and it does state that.
So, Rick, you know those are issues, but others, of course, the economy and other things that are very important. But I would say, in terms of the world, national security, and where it's going, and and those sorts of things, that I would vote Republican. Let's put it that way. But I I don't say that that's the case in every case. There might be individuals that are questionable.
In fact, we've had several Republican candidates either pull out or nearly pull out because of moral charges and. One who was said to be harassing the daughter of a Republican senator in Ohio.
So you know, there's some candidates I wouldn't recommend that for. But you know, and I think just pray. Everybody should pray and listen and check it out. And I do think it's our duty, and particularly if you're in a state. That is, frankly, up for grabs.
That will make a difference as to who controls the Senate, who controls the Congress. There are states like the one I grew up in, Idaho, is thoroughly Republican. Rick, about 65, 70 percent of the people there. The same with Wyoming next door, and there's a few others like that out west and in the Midwest. But most of the states are up for grabs, and especially in those states.
I think everybody should go and have a say, and we're grateful to be living in a democracy. We don't know how long it's going to last. Signs all over the place that it's fading, at the very least, and people are trying to destroy it, both from outside and, sadly now, from inside. If you look at this socialist party platform, it's nothing less than the destruction of the United States.
So, any of those candidates, clearly. Should not be sitting in our Congress or Senate, but we know some are going to be sitting in the Congress. There already are some, and they'll be joining them. Maybe 10 to 15 people. They're predicting.
Well said, David. And of course, as you talk about this, my mind goes back. I'm a strong proponent of having a Christian worldview and voting with that Christian worldview. But my mind goes back to a message that my pastor did one time, and he's like, "Listen, by all means, vote. We need to be voting." But whether you vote Republican or whether you vote Democrat, that is not what's going to save us.
We are believers. We are Christians. We vote our Christian world view, but we don't trust in Republicans. We don't trust in Democrats. We trust in the saving grace and the saving power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and that's where our hope lies, isn't it?
It absolutely is, and you know the Bible itself says that. Our citizenship is in heaven. We're citizens of the United States. Those of us that are, I know that you have many listeners on the internet, all over the world, Australia and Europe and Israel and all over the place. But those that are Americans, we're citizens of the country, but it's not our ultimate home, and it's not, like you said, going to change the ultimate course of history.
The role that God has planned for America. Your late father, such a, a brilliant documentary on how the presidents have been shaping America and the world for the last days and leading up to that, and that'll happen either way. But still, still, you know, it makes a difference for our daily lives. And we do have the freedom to vote, and let's face it: in many countries, if they're allowed to vote, it's a total sham. Like it is in Russia, like it is in Iran, like it was in Venezuela, in so many places around the world.
China: there's no real elections there.
So we do have that privilege, and I think we need to guard it, and thank God for it. But all the while remembering. Our citizenship is up with the Lord in heaven. Very well said, Dave Dolan, for prophecy today with some timely advice as we look forward to the upcoming elections. Dave, thanks so much.
You're welcome, Rick. God bless. Great job, David. Thank you so much. And you know, we did that video, presidents, politics, and prophecy, because God used.
We believe the last eight or nine world leaders, since Jimmy Carter until President Trump today, and who's ever in the future, He's used them to advance the narrative of Bible prophecy. And I like what David said. You know, empires have fallen, and throughout history, throughout Gentile history. We see God revealed as sovereign. He's always sovereign.
He has a plan. He has judged each empire in His time. The rebellion of the Gentile kingdoms described in Psalm two will conclude at the second coming of Christ. And in dealing with Gentile nations, God has saved and will continue to save some individuals, giving the Gentiles a time of special blessing in the body of Christ and the church. In this present age, and that is so true when you think about it.
God has a program that we're in right now, but He also has a program still for the Jewish people. And you've heard us say it before when we're talking about voting: three things—the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage, and how a politician stands on the nation of Israel.
Well, Rick, let's bring in Israel Madad to continue this conversation.
Well, that's right, Jimmy. We Have Yisroel Madad with us. Winky Madad is what we call him because that's his nickname. He's the former mayor of Shilo. He lives in the area of Judea and Samaria in Israel.
Winky, thanks for being with us today, and thank you again for inviting me on.
Well, Winky, the nation of Israel and Jewish people around the world observed the third anniversary of the October seventh attacks. Those horrific atrocities that took place on that fateful day. Can you talk about what that was like in Israel?
Well, it was a somber day. It was quiet, as you know. There was a lot of airtime, both on television and and radio, on memorial or remembrance. Stays like the Holocaust Day or the Remember Day for fallen soldiers, and so you know you get a lot of the stories, got a lot of the films and elements of it. Of course, it's a different story three years afterwards.
All the hostages, hostages are home. Most of the military angle of responding to Hamas is in a positive note. It's not finished, of course, but it's less than it was. Much more, of course, than it was one and two years ago. On the other hand, though, Israelis listen to foreign media, either to learn English from the BBC or the CNN, or simply because it's on the television or whatever it is, and they see and they hear all these demonstrations and all these aspects of.
Complete disregard for the loss of life, beyond any sort of political. I'm not going to get into who's right and who's wrong at this point because everybody, between you and me and everybody listening, knows who was right. But I'm talking about, in principle, people. Too many people cannot bring themselves to separate humanity. And in terms of civilians being attacked, murdered, burnt in their houses, and worse, and any sort of political conflict you have, and we we saw that two years ago when people were ripping the hostage stickers off of walls and off of poles, stuff like that—complete disregard for any morality and value of human life—and it's still with us.
And and that's what makes the third day even more somber. That we haven't yet broken through people who are ideologically committed to eliminating the state of Israel, to championing the resistance, which you and I know is terror, and it it's disheartening to a certain extent.
Well, I want to talk a little bit more about that antisemitism and that sentiment that goes on throughout the world. But before I do that, we know that the Middle East has changed since October seventh. What's happened to Hezbollah in the north, of course, in Gaza, and then what's going on in Iran right now? The power dynamics have shifted. Seems like Israel has become stronger because their strength has been exhibited.
But I want to ask you specifically in Israel: How has Israel? Change the body politic. There sentiment among people. How has Israel changed since October seventh?
Well, I'm going to surprise you and say, in in minor ways, Israeli society is very conservative, with a small C. If you're left, you're left. If you're right, you're right. If you're religious, you're religious. There's very little movement between what I would call camps.
Or sides of the political spectrum.
So, therefore, for example, on October seventh, there was a blocking of the road by the so-called Kaplan Street people, who are dead set against Bibi Netanyahu and anything. And instead of saying the seventh of ten, the seventh of the month of October, they. Put up a sign, twenty seventh of ten, which of course is election day. In other words, they allowed themselves to use the memorial day for the the invasion in order to play politics. And by them, it's okay.
You see that you'll talk to them, and they'll justify anything. If any right winger or any middle of the road would would do something similar, they'd say you're exploiting an issue. There's a phrase in Hebrew: "Dancing on the blood." In other words, exploiting someone's misfortune in order to advance a political gain, and that's still with us. And one other example. Two and a half or three weeks ago, there's a big break in the story.
I think maybe even we mentioned on the program about was Bibi warned through the United Arab Emirates that something was going to happen, and it was like for a whole week it was up in the headlines, and everybody was talking about it. Bibi failed, Bibi ignored, Bibi did this, and then last week. The guy who actually passed on the message from Yahya Sinwar to the Emirates, right, Sufian Abu Zada, says, "Oh no, we were talking about the hostage situation, and the message only till the end of September. It had nothing to do with October or an invasion.
So we got angry at each other over nothing because someone rushed into print." Without checking the sources enough, or between you and me and our listeners, he lied because he was anti-Bibi, and that's the type of thing we get here. I'm going to suggest to you, as my last remark, that in certain cases, it's the same thing in United States to a certain extent. Either you like the guy or you hate the guy, and that's it. Nothing else will matter. Prime Minister Netanyahu as Israelis Trump.
I think we've mentioned that analogy before, and it is very true.
Well, let's talk about the politics of this then. And October seventh looms large in the upcoming elections, which are not very far away. And whether it's the fact that of Israeli security or placing blame for what happened on October seventh, it definitely is going to play a part. Can you talk about what's going on in the elections and maybe how October seventh, a three-year Anniversary, how that's playing into the elections right now.
Well, the stature of Bibi Netanyahu among his faithful and those who have voted for in the past is one of the main issues. Israelis want a strong prime minister. They want someone who can get up in the United Nations and talk English. They want someone who will make the decision to bomb Iran. And they will overlook his foibles, because every human being, and especially every politician, is not your best friend always, and that is his advantage.
On the other hand, you have a coalition that of a hydra, six heads. There's a Bennett. There's a Leopied. There's a Ya'ir Golan, there's a Vigdor Lieberman, and and on and on. Who and of course Gadi Eisenkot, who are trying to overtake him.
In my opinion, Mr. Netanyahu is not yet unleashed the material he has on Gadi Eisenkot. And I want to get a little bit particular here, and I I request the audience's attention for another minute. One of the main failures on October seventh, getting back to October seventh, was not only was the fact that the army was unprepared, did not expect any invasion at all, and thought of Hamas as deterred or economically engaged with itself, but the previous commanders in chief, one of which was Gadi Eisenkot. Cut back the army severely, in terms of armored corps and other elements and numbers of brigades, because of that attitude, and we have not attacked yet.
Those on the right, Mr. Eisenkot, for being part of that shrinkage. Can I use the word of Israeli IDF power, and that is indicative. Of the future of the next four years is Israel prepared to go to war or to confront diplomatic pressure from the EU or from other countries with a man who has proven himself relatively weak when it comes to I don't even I don't want to use the word politics policy if I can use it that way in approach to Israel's enemies. And we haven't yet seen the last two weeks coming up of Israel's election campaign.
We certainly haven't, and we're going to put a link to an article that you wrote for the Jerusalem Post, an opinion piece in which you do talk about Prime Minister Netanyahu and his role, and and basically say stop holding only one man accountable for October seventh because it is much more complicated than that.
Well, the ironic thing about October seventh and the worst day, this worst single day in Jewish history since the Holocaust, is that it has turned much of the world against Israel. I could see, and the Jewish people. I could give you two examples. One is the Green Party making a point in England to say that Zionism is racism. Of course, a lot of things coming through from England against Israel, against the Jewish people, and of course, New York Mayor Mammadani being accused of not being anti-Israel enough.
The sentiment around the world against the Jewish people. Could you talk about how? This unfortunate response to October seventh for so many people was to turn against the Jewish people.
Well, I'm going to be a little bit blunt here with you. I don't think anti-Zionism can infiltrate college campuses, trade unions, teachers' unions, etc., etc. Without a little bit of anti-Semitism, it doesn't go. Anti-Zionism by itself cannot stand. You need an emotional attachment to your anti-Zionism, and when you don't like Jews, it helps.
So that, as you said, Mamdani, right, was attacked in in New York this week by the extreme left for not being anti-Zionist enough, as you said. And another aspect of it, we mentioned the Green Party. We'll leave that alone for a second. Let's go to the Netherlands. The Netherlands now is banning goods coming from Judea and Samaria.
Now, are you going to open up suitcases like you're going to do for drugs or something like that? Do you know where every single product is made? Do you know if Jews only made that product, or maybe Arabs from so-called Palestine also earn their living from being in Jewish factories and making whatever is being made? Are Jewish babies and children being brought into the Netherlands if they were born in Judea, Samaria, or conceived in Judea and Samaria? Will they be banned?
In other words. How ridiculous can your ideological or political stance be that these things are happening? Don't you realize that it's getting out of hand? It doesn't make sense anymore.
So, I think I've said before, there's an irrationality that has taken hold of too many people. Whether they're getting it from the college professors who are being funded by Qatar. Grants and academic studies and whatever you have it, or is it, as you see, perhaps from Candace Owens, some sort of religious weirdness that has overtaken her? You know, use of Satan, use of all sorts of medieval types of anti-Semitism that long that used to be long gone, and Israel has become a convenient chariot. If I can use that image for feeling good, quote unquote, with your hatred of Jews, and that's what people in that camp have to, you know, come to terms with.
Well, if I can paraphrase that just very quickly here, you're saying that maybe. October seventh, and then the Israeli response in a way to try to protect themselves, to try to eliminate the threat of Hamas, which is a very real, documented threat. The response of the international community and the way they are coming after Israel—it didn't create their hatred of Jewish people. It just revealed it. Is that what you are saying?
Yes. In one word, yes. I mean, look. Genocide, starvation, famine, lack of humanitarian aid being put—all these are lies. We have the records.
You have the pictures. You see Hamas, on the other hand, stealing all the humanitarian goods. You see a lot of pictures of very heavy-weighted Gazans sitting around, and there's another. There's a fellow on X called Ismin. Ismin, who always takes pictures of restaurants and shawarma shops in Gaza, you know, with everybody eating very nicely, these things are demonstratively false.
But what are they like? They're like blood libels. They're like poisoning the wells of you know a couple of hundred years ago. It's the same pattern. That's that's my attitude.
That's my thinking on the on the thing, and I I put it to the audience to consider: is that possible? Winky Madad coming to us from his home in Judea and Samaria to talk about October seventh, the aftermath, and what's going on in Israel right now. Winky, as always, we appreciate your insight. Appreciate you coming to us, sharing your wisdom. Look forward to talking to you again soon.
Thank you very much. And one more thing. I hope when people take air flights, everything turns out safely. Amen to that. Winky Madad for prophecy today.
Thanks so much. Bye bye. You know, Rick and Winky, I can't help but think in the last seventy-five years we've had days of that we would say would be days of infamy, which would be December seventh, nineteen forty-one, May fourteenth, nineteen forty-eight, and then of course nine eleven, when really Pandora's box was opened about the Islamic world, and then moving towards October. Seventh, twenty twenty three, are times when the the narrative of Bible prophecy was moved forward, and we want to thank you for taking the time today, Israel, to to to show that to us. And I hope everybody understands.
My father would love to interview Israel Madad, Winky Madad, and I think there's so much information for us. We're living in a time. I say it again. That we've never lived in before, and with everything that's coming up before us, we can't help but see that the rapture of the church can't be far away. Because again, we're seeing things that are going to take place in the future after the rapture of the church happening today.
Well, we got to take a break when we come back. Our legacy series with Dr. Jimmy DeYoung right here on Prophecy Today Weekend. Welcome back to Prophecy. Today, I'm Jimmy DeYoung Jr.
Along with my brother Rick, we examine current events in the light of God's prophetic word. Rick, the last half hour, even before that, with Ken Timmerman, David Dolan, Israel Madad, just explaining to us how Israel is dealing with the years after October seventh is so very important, and how we as world believers, because this program's listened to all around the world, how we are to find out, how we are to live our lives, how we are to study God's word to understand the times in which. We're living, Rick. If somebody wanted to find out more information and even see some of the DVDs that I mentioned on the program today, where would they go?
Well, that's right, Jimmy. If you would like to get this series, or we've got other series, we've got books, we've got PDFs, we've got CDs, DVDs, we've got all kinds of information. We've got a bookstore. You can find all of this stuff at prophecytoday.com. You can also listen to some of our other materials that we have put out throughout the year, and you can go read our devotionals.
We strongly encourage you to do that as we look at prophecy all the way from Genesis to. Revelation throughout the Bible, going book by book, and of course, if you would like to support our ministry, we always appreciate that. We are a listener-supported ministry, and we appreciate all that you do. Thanks so much for being involved with prophecy today. We look forward to serving you in the future.
Well, today on our Legacy series, we're going to continue our study in Alpha and Omega. Last week in our Bible study, we saw that human languages did play a key role in the establishment. Of the nations of our world that happened forty-five hundred years ago, after the worldwide flood of Noah's day, confused the one language spoken by everyone on the earth, making many languages as the way that he would have everybody spread across the whole earth to follow his command to Noah that they may be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Noah's grandsons would raise their families, teach them a new language, and move to somewhere. On the earth to establish a nation.
This week we want to find out where Noah's grandsons went and what the nations they founded would be called today. This will help us to know which nations will be the key players in the end of days. And you'll remember that Noah's son Jepeth had at least five sons, and their names were Megog, Mishach, Gomer, and Targarma. We can know where these boys went and established a nation, and in fact, we can know the names of these nations.
So please turn your Bible to Genesis chapter ten, Doctor Jimmy DeYoung and the Legacy Series.
Now notice the next verse, verse six, and the sons of Ham. By the way, you know where Magog went to live? He took his family north of the Caspian and Black Sea. That's what we know as modern day Russia today. Mishak Tubal, Gomer, and Togarma.
Oh, they stayed south of the Caspian and Black Sea. That's the area we know as modern-day Turkey. If you go to Turkey, I've been there a number of times doing television programs in the Seven Churches, and also in Istanbul. I picked up an ancient Turkish map on one of my visits there, and Turkey in biblical times was divided into four parts: Meshek, Tubal, Gomer, Tegarma. And so that's where they went to live, south of the Caspian and Black Sea.
And so we see prophecy doesn't start in the book of Ezekiel, the book of Nahum, the book of Obadiah, the book of Revelation. It starts in the book of Genesis, here in verse six. And the sons of Ham. This will be the second son, Cush, Mizraim, Put. Let me tell you who they are today.
Cush. He went to the area that we know today as Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan. They have to have extra biblical studies, and there are books, there are resource materials that will assist you in this. Mizraim, well, that is the Hebrew name for Egypt. Put, well, that's Libya of today.
By the way, friends, this helps us to understand. Listen, Ishmael did not father the Arab world. Ishmael fathered one nation. Genesis seventeen twenty, and I will make Ishmael the father of one nation. Genesis twenty five eighteen, he went to a place described in that passage of scripture as Arabia.
He established Saudi Arabia. Eighty third chapter of Psalms, I think it's verse six says the Ishmaelites; those would be the Saudi Arabian people. Ismael did not father the Arab world. He fathered one nation. Let me prove that very easily for you.
In chapter sixteen of the book of Genesis, it talks about Seriye not being able to have children, so she gave her handmaiden to Abram in order that he might be able to have a son. And that handmaiden's name was Hagar, an Egyptian handmaiden. Is there a medical doctor in the house? Hold your hand up just a second. Medical doctor, right here.
May I ask you a question? Can a son father his mother?
Okay, we got the absolute authority speaking here. A son cannot father his mother. How do you think Egypt came into existence? If Ishmael was the father of the Arab world, because his mother was an Egyptian. Pay attention to what the word says.
I'm talking here about a group of nations. Do you hear what I said? Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Egypt—they're all Arab countries. Guess what? They were around 500 years before Ishmael ever came on the scene.
He's over in the 16th chapter of the Book of Genesis. Abraham wasn't even on the scene when this all happened.
So Ishmael did not father the Arab world. Neither did Abraham. Father the Arab, we use a lot of bad terminology. We got to be biblical. Abraham is not the father of all the Arabs.
Let's continue to read verse eight. And Cush begot Nimrod. He began to be mighty one on the earth. That's who I wanted to introduce to you. I want to introduce to you the king and his kingdom.
The king and his kingdom. This king will have a protégé. Who's going to be as Nimrod was forty five hundred years ago after the flood? One of the major players in the end times. His protégé will be a major player in that time called the tribulation, the seven year period of time between the rapture of the church and the second coming of Jesus Christ.
In this seven year period of time, sixteen chapters in the book of Revelation with description of all the details. We will see. Nimrod and the kingdom he established—the major players for these—we'll explain as we go through.
So hang on. Nimrod—I just shown you his ancestry. He comes from Noah through Ham, through Cush, and he's a great grandson of Noah. See, Ham's the son, Cush the grandson, Nimrod the great grandson. And he comes on the scene.
What an unbelievable, excellent ancestry! Nimrod comes on the scene. Let me show you his aggressiveness. Verse nine. Verse nine.
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Where it is said, even as Nimrod, the mighty hunter before the Lord.
Now, I've got to be honest with you, folks. That has been a very difficult passage in years past for me to understand. Why would God include with His Scripture here information about the recreational activities of the guy named Nimrod? He was a hunter.
So what? Why is that written in Scripture? All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable.
So I had to figure it out. What is it? I think I finally figured it out. You know, when you think about hunting today, is Nimrod? Does he go out and shoot turkeys, or is he a duck hunter?
Or maybe he's a deer hunter, but what made Nimrod a mighty hunter? Let me tell you what I think he hunted. And by the way, I was just at the Creation Museum just out of Cincinnati, Ken Ham's Creation Museum. If you've never been there, you've got to go. They have a person there in a display that agrees basically with what I'm saying.
I believe Nimrod hunted down and killed. Most of the dinosaurs, a Harvard University professor has just written a major paper on that exact theme: that the dinosaurs were wiped out by people hunting them down. And I believe that's what the book is talking about when it says Nimrod's a mighty hunter before the Lord. How do you think he got all of humankind, all of the world's population, to follow him? Don't you remember before the flood, dinosaurs were vegetarians?
After the flood, they were meat eaters. And when the flood is over and these people start to populate and re-populate the earth, they had to deal with these dinosaurs, these major giant creatures. You know the dinosaurs were on the ark, do you not? Of course, they were on the ark. Two of every kind went on the ark.
Now, let me just tell you this: I seriously believe Nimrod. The mighty hunter before the Lord took care of the dinosaurs. You know where Nimrod and everybody went? They went towards the desert. The mountains of Ararat was a cold, wintry style of season, even during the summer.
So they went to. How do I know that?
Well, look over here in verse ten. I've just showed you his aggressiveness. Let me show you his ambition and where he's going to go. Verse ten and the beginning of his kingdom.
Now, notice what that means, folks. This is a kingdom that's set up. The first one was set up in the Garden of Eden, Genesis chapter one, which we know was the city of Jerusalem. That's a major city in the end times. The second one was set up at Babel.
It's right here. It says the beginning of his kingdom was Babel on the shores of the Euphrates River in the lands of Shinar. The two river cities. That's the Tigris and Euphrates, and on the shores of the Euphrates River, in what we know as modern-day Iraq, Nimrod's ambition was to become a king of a kingdom, and that is a prototype for what's going to happen in the end times. Let me say this: Nimrod, Nimrod had a very interesting rise to power, but he had a religious portfolio as well.
Because he didn't like what God had told him to do, he was going against what God told him to do. Look at verse eleven. Excuse me, chapter eleven, verse four. Look at chapter eleven, verse four. He goes to Babel.
He establishes this city. God said to be fruitful, multiply, and repeople the earth. Verse four. And they said, "Go to, let us build us a city." That's his kingdom. Notice what he says.
Let us build us a city. But then notice what he says: and a tower whose top may reach into heaven. Let us make us a name, lest we be scattered upon the face of the whole earth. What did Nimrod do? Nimrod went and he established a religion.
He had a religious portfolio. He understood as a great hunter. I can gather them together, but I've got to keep them together. And what'll do that? Religion.
So he establishes a religion. What does he say? Let us build us a tower whose top may reach into heaven. I want you to know the truth. That's the last place he wanted to go—truly into heaven.
But he was setting up a religious. The obelisk, this tower that he's building, is a symbol of religion. Notice what he says after that. And let us make us a name, lest we be scattered upon the face of the earth.
Now that's not talking about being popular. Who's he going to be popular in front of? I mean, there is nobody else in the world. They're all living at Babylon, so it's not talking about popularity. It's talking about a religion.
Let us make us a name. We don't like the name Jehovah God. We're going to call him Marduk, the Babylonian god. Let us make us a name. Lest we be scattered upon the face of the earth, Jehovah God wants us to scatter.
We'll get us a God who will do what we dictate for Him to do. Lest we be scattered upon the whole earth, extra biblical. Information. My source is Dr. John Walburg, the late Dr.
John Walburg, who was president of Dallas Theological Seminary, chancellor, and one of the great scholars, biblical scholars, as it relates to Bible prophecy. In his commentary on the Book of Revelation in chapter 17, he deals with this issue. Here is what happened: Nimrod had a wife. They got married. Her name was Semyremus.
So Nimrod and Simeiramus, husband and wife, had a child. His name was Tammuz. In light of developing this religious portfolio, Nimrod brings his family, had a family connection into it, and he brings Simeiramus and Tammuz to be the co-recipients of worship, a mother-son cult. Established 4,500 years ago as a religion.
Now, one of them, Sumerimus, is not mentioned by name. She's mentioned by title in the Bible. Her son, Tammuz, the son of the mother's son cult, is mentioned by name. Indeed, the title of the mother of the mother son cult, the false religion started at Babylon 4,500 years ago, is found in the Bible. Also, the name of the son of this cult is mentioned in the Scriptures.
This information that we receive from a study of God's Word on this matter. Helps us to determine the prophetic truth that can be found in the book of Revelation, chapter seventeen, is the prophecy of a worldwide false religion that will be prominent in the first half of the seven-year tribulation period that takes place right after the rapture of the church. Dr. Jimmy D Young and the Legacy Series. We've got to take a break, and when we come back, Pastor in Jerusalem, Middle Calishir, right here on Prophecy.
Today weekend. I'm Liz Kramer with Mission Network News. On Wednesday, a Russian court sentenced 70-year-old South Korean missionary Park Tae-young to nearly six years in a correctional colony on immigration-related charges. Park was arrested in January, a week before her flight home to Korea. She'd spent 30 years in children's evangelism in Russia.
The Voice of the Martyrs Korea's Eric Foley says of the court hearing: More than 75 percent of the questions. Related to her religious activity, in a court purportedly focused on immigration charges, she had to answer questions like, "What is the Great Commission? What does your organization teach? Do you think your religion is better than other people's religion?" Even behind bars, though, Missionary Park is still sharing the gospel. Pray for a successful appeal and for Park to sense God's comfort.
And it's inevitable.
Someone you love will one day hurt you deeply. Whether the harm was intentional or not, your response is what matters. You could choose to forgive, hard as it may be. Or you can hold on to anger and bitterness," said for USA's Dean Vandermeij says. People that hold on to sin and hurt and pain, their bodies get affected.
So all you have to do is read Psalm 38 to find out what happens to your body when you hide sin. King David suffering immensely, spiritually, emotionally, and physically because he hid sin. That is a spiritual warfare issue. Ironically, your pastor may not be able to help you. There's two things that the seminaries do not.
Train in. They do not train in spiritual warfare, and they do not teach identity in Christ. But the Bible still has the answers. Most importantly, it offers freedom. If you need help letting go, we'll connect you with Next Steps at MissionNews.org.
Thanks for listening to Mission Network News, a service of One Way Ministries. This November, join believers globally in prayer for the Hindu world. Bibles for the World is offering a free 15-day Hindu World Prayer Guide. Get your copy for free by clicking the banner at Mission. News.
dot org. I'm Thomas Quaymer. Welcome back to Prophecy today. I'm Jimmy DeYoung Jr. Along with Rick, we examine current events in the light of God's prophetic word.
Rick, we've decided to bring on Meno Kaleshier to find out how things are going in the church three years after October seventh.
Well, that's right, Jimmy. I have a good friend of yours and mine, a good friend of our families, Menno Callisheer, the church at the Jerusalem Assembly House of Redemption. Menno, as always, we love to talk to you. Love it when you're on the program. Thanks for being with us today.
Well, thank you again, good to see you again, Menno. Great to have you on the program again. And how is the church doing three years after October seventh? Our church. I mean, we we praise God and thank God each day.
We know our duty as believers is to proclaim the word, to proclaim the gospel, to deal with sharing the good news for the salvation of people. This is our job. Our job is to love one another, to take care of one another, to disciple people, to be closer to Christ. That's our job, and nothing has changed, whether a war or without a war. As a church, some of our people are in reserve duty right now, picking literally my son.
He's right on the Syrian border. That's his third time since October 7, 2023, and he has five kids. My daughter finished 11 months, but this is really the average picture of many families. And as a church, we are also citizens, and whatever need to be given to Sizel, we give to Sizel, and we suffer that as well. There are some families who are believers whom lost their kids.
It's really not a joke, and we pray for them that God will continue to comfort them. We seek peace, but we seek the peace that only God can give, eternal one.
So this is the current situation. Are we enjoying a relatively quiet time? Absolutely, yes. It allows us to do more, to be more in freedom, and to do things. But peace, as you may think, that okay, all the soldiers back at home, and flowers everywhere, and no more enemies, and so on.
Really, this is not a real thing. Not until Jesus will return. I want to talk a little bit and get your comments on things, not only from your your experience as an Israeli citizen, but as a pastor and a prophecy teacher and a student of the Bible. The war has certainly created a lot of animosity towards the nation of Israel. People are saying, which which I don't think is with merit, but people are saying that there was a genocide that Israel is perpetuating a genocide, and it's either creating.
Or probably more likely, revealed a lot of anti-Semitism, anti-Jewishness, anti-Israel sentiment all around the world. Could you talk about this? How it makes you feel there in the land, and maybe you can give us your thoughts politically, but also what you see prophetically about this anti-Semitism. First of all, there is no genocide in Yemen. Millions of children are in starvation because of the Houthis.
Anyone cares about it? In Nigeria, Islam forces are butchering Christians. Anyone cares about it? The fact that so many people decide right now, "Oops, we hate Israel," it's only because they always hated Israel, and that's it. The reason that so many churches, even those who call themselves Christians, suddenly are holding hatred against against Israel.
Or become anti-Semitic, is because it truly revealed that they study theology from CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC, from the media, and not from the Bible. The moment you really drink and eat from the Bible, you see, you see the truth in a better way. You can recognize a lie. That's the issue.
So the fact that right now so many people decide to take Their position with Hamas simply reveals what they always had inside—nothing more than that.
Well, I talked about that antisemitism, and here in the United States, we see that coming from all all ends of the political spectrum, both left and right. And one of the things that they are using, on top of this claim of genocide, and on top of this claim that Israel is being unfair, they are also saying that Israel and the the IDF, the government of Israel, the Jewish people, that they persecute Christians, that Christians are under. Persecution in the Middle East, and I thought when I heard that.
Now I know what I think about that, and I spent a lot of time in Israel, did missions trips in Israel, many different things. But I thought, when who better to talk about that than a Christian pastor in Jerusalem? Can you talk a little bit about the quote-unquote persecution of Christians in Israel?
Well, thank you for this option to do truly. Let's let's say what persecution is, and let's really have the spectrum of persecution. Does religious Jewish people love evangelistic Israeli believers in Jesus? No, they are not. They prefer that we will not deal with evangelism.
Do they shoot us in the street? The answer is no. Is any even one believer in Jesus since 1948? In jail because he was evangelizing. The answer is not.
So let's put things in the right perspective. Let's do that. Where all the people like us? When I speak in the street loudly about Jesus, are people happy about it? The answer is no.
But can I be sure to return back home safely? Ninety-nine point nine percent yes. That's in Israel.
Okay. I'm not saying that the situation is perfect. But when we speak about prosecution, let's compare it to what happened in Muslim countries, in Iran, in China, in other places.
Okay, there, people's life is in jeopardy. There, in China or in Iran or in Jordan or in any other place, if you go to the street and speak about Jesus, if you think that you'll just get a kick, you are wrong. You will get a kick in your brains.
So really, I'm not saying that the situation in Israel is perfect. That I do not pray and wish it will be better. But let's compare things and put things in the right perspective. Israel, compared to the countries around us, it's ideal. Everything is relative.
It's ideal.
So again, we have a democracy. Yes, this democratic, not perfect. I wish we'll have even better, but compared to all the countries in the Middle East, we're better than all of them put together. Minoo, how can we pray for you and the church there in the land of Israel? Continue to pray for us that we will simply see things always from God's perspective and fulfill God's dear command to us in all cost.
Just like this, I know that we may pay price for that. But just pray for us to be day by day closer to Christ, like Him. Minocalos here, Pastor Andrew, some great admonition for all of us. As we have heard the things on the program today, we can't help but say that the rapture of the church is not far away. Let's keep looking up until.
Thank you so much for joining us today. This is Jay Johnson inviting you to join us again next week for more of prophecy today.
