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866-34-TRUTH. What a week. What a week.
Regardless of how you feel about any of this, it was certainly, we could all agree, it was a historic week. We've never seen anything quite like this in our nation and really in the world. And it has been an exciting time to watch. And I love civics. I'm fascinated by it.
I'm fascinated by all the things that have made America. And it was really quite compelling to watch it all unfold out. I think everybody was feeling a little bit breathless after all this. You feel kind of glad it's over.
And I think that now that we have a definitive result here, where there's not this nail-biter or this close call election, we're all able to kind of catch our breath and move on. A lot of people are really struggling. And they're uncertain. And they're in a little bit of hysteria.
Some of them are. You've got late night talk show hosts going on television and crying. Which is sad, but not for the reasons maybe that they think and they're crying for. I saw somebody had posted on social media, marked myself safe from crying on television today.
They're crying when the camera's not going. Is this a show? And you have to ask yourself a lot of that.
How much of this thing was just a show and they knew it? I saw a clip of Joe Biden talking about it on August 11th, that if Trump gets elected, the next day, our democracy's going to end. He's an existential threat to America, to our democracy. And you heard all the things that Hitler's this and this and so forth.
And you've got all that kind of stuff going on. And then he comes out the day after the election and said, we're going to be okay. And I said, wait, wait, wait. Didn't you just say that the guy that was an existential threat to the country is going to put us all in chains? I mean, he's just in concentration camps and internment camps and all that kind of stuff.
And now it's all going to be okay. And don't you hate that? Don't you just wish that people could just say what they mean, mean what they say, don't say it mean?
But sadly, we're not there. And rhetoric like that is what inflames people and keeps people agitated. It's a lot of money off of agitating the general public and others. And they're not limited to the media, which by the way, I don't think we distrust the news media enough in this country because they're the ones that are culpable for so much of this stuff out there. But it's certainly not limited to them. We see that, even sadly, in our churches, where people get people all agitated.
They get them worked up. And I was thinking about what I was going to say today, coming on the program, and I've got Peter's pile of paper here. And I've got a lot of things to talk about on this topic. But I thought, what is it that we're all wanting? What is it that we're all needing? Whether we're believers in Christ or not, what is everybody wanting?
Is there a common thread? And I want to throw something out to you and see what you think. By the way, the number is 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884. I think it could be found in this one hymn. And I'm going to go to the caregiver keyboard.
You know I do a show for caregivers every week. And I have the keyboard hooked up, and there's this one hymn that I think speaks to what we really want in our core needs as human beings, what drives us. See if you know this hymn.
You know that one? You know, the composer of that hymn was a lady named, I believe, Phoebe Cates. And she went to her friend and said, I've got this hymn.
And it's written in kind of a weird time signature, 98, which is not easy. And she had this thing and she said, do you have a text that will go with this hymn? And her friend said, absolutely. And in 15 minutes they had written, blessed assurance, Jesus is mine.
And that hymn writer was Fanny Crosby, who was blind, been blind since she was a kid, one year old. And I thought about assurance. That's what we're really needing, isn't it?
We're all wanting that. And you've got so many that are opposed to Trump, they're so terrified of what he's going to do. I mean, to the point, I think some of them are legitimately terrified. Some of them just make this stuff up because he gets some ratings. You know, I really honestly don't think that Trump is going to arrest Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, even though they are convinced of it, or at least they want to convince others of it.
I really don't think that's on the agenda. But most of us deal with such uncertainty in our life. And assurance is at the core of the Christian faith. This is what God clearly identifies in scripture over and over and over. But do we take him at his word on this?
Do we believe that he really is with us, no matter what? Somebody asked Fanny Crosby, said, how can you believe in Jesus when he's let you be blind? And she said, oh, you don't understand.
The next face I see will be his. My wife's missing both legs. She's had the same question asked, how can you trust God with all this? She said, the next time I feel the ground under my feet, it'll be in the presence of Jesus. My friends, that's assurance. That is true assurance.
Not insurance, that's usher. We have insurance against going to hell because of that, but we have assurance of God's great provision and love. And that he's sovereign and that he is who he says he is. Now, the question we have, the challenge we have, can we share this with the world in need more effectively?
Can we help push away all the rhetoric that goes on and speak to the core need? If you'll notice, Jesus did not debate with the psychosis or the surface worries. He always saw the core need. That's what God does.
He sees what's going on in the heart and his spirit in us can give us that same wisdom. If we know our scriptures, if we understand these precepts, we're called to be salt and light to a world that desperately needs it. Right now, our country needs it. You up for the call? You ready to do it? I think we should. I think we're ready.
Let's do it together. This is Peter Rosenberg with Truth Talk Live. We'll be right back. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad to have you with us.
866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884 if you want to weigh in on it. By the way, this is National Caregiver Awareness Month. Did you know that? National Caregiver Awareness Month. Whole month to talk about caregivers.
The government recognizes a month to talk about caregivers. But our Savior recognizes us every day because I learned this over the years in my four decades of caring for my wife and people used to say, Well, Jesus understands. Trust Jesus.
He understands. And I looked through all of scripture and I didn't see anywhere in scripture where it showed a man taking care of his wife, missing both legs, 86 surgeries over four decades with hundreds of doctors and a dozen hospitals. I didn't see any of that. And then I stepped back further from scripture and looked at the whole of scripture. And what I saw was Christ is the bridegroom. We are the bride. And what I came to understand is I have a Savior who's in love with a very wounded bride.
Just like I am. And He understands in ways that I can't possibly fathom. And that's very comforting to me. So He recognizes caregivers all the time.
But I am glad that we're recognizing them this month. I saw that at Madison Square Garden, Trump was going to initiate some text credits for those who take care of people. Maybe that's you right now. And maybe you're taking care of aging parents or you've got a special needs child or you've got a spouse like mine. My spouse was injured in a traumatic accident. Maybe you're in a relationship with somebody with mental illness. Maybe you're in a relationship with somebody with drug addiction or alcoholism. Whatever the chronic impairment, there's always a caregiver. And I want you to know, I recognize you.
But our Savior recognizes you even more. Okay? And I've got some things at my website for you if you want to know. PeterRosenberger.com. There's a caregiver 911 button right there. And I've got a special message for you. I've got it picked out of one of my podcasts that I think would be a good place for you to start. My book is called A Minute for Caregivers.
You can get the audio book, you can get the e-book, or you can just get the print book. You can go out to my Substack page, caregiver.substack.com. And I have a monthly, a weekly thing I do from my book, The Minute for Caregivers.
They're just one minute chapters. And I put that out every Monday. It's free.
You don't have to pay for that at all. And so, please, do not try to do this by yourself. And by the way, while you're out at my site, there is a company that has gotten involved with us, with our work, and it's called Peelaways. And I love these products. These are sheets that you could put on the bed. It's just a fitted sheet, not the top sheet, just the fitted sheet. But they've got built-in liners, layers like Chuck's, like they have in the hospital.
And if there's a problem, you don't have to spend, tear the whole bed apart at night, you just peel that layer off, you've got a dry layer underneath. It's an amazing product. And you can get them on a subscription.
If you mention my name, you get a special discount on it. So that's out at my website, too, PeterRosenberger.com. And then you can go into the Peter recommends and just take a look. Because, let me tell you something, caregivers will tell you, there's a lot of laundry involved in being a caregiver. There just is. But this is a product that I know is going to help.
I tested it myself. I mean, I didn't like start spilling stuff on them or anything, but I slept on them. And they're very comfortable. And Gracie said the same thing.
They're very comfortable. And it really solves the problem. And they got it all the way to infant size for little cribs, king size, whatever size you need if you're taking care of somebody. And it's not just for incontinence and things like that. Sometimes things just spill. And it's just a pain to deal with.
If you've got somebody who has motion control with their hands and you just can't hold a drink very well, and it just spills or wound care, whatever. Don't try to wrestle with all this in the middle of the night when you're tired and you're already grumpy. Do this.
You just, if perforated, just peel it off, go back to sleep. How about that? That's pretty easy. Back to what we talked about in the last block there. Romans 14. Therefore, let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of the brother.
I know I am persuaded that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it's unclean. What can we learn from this principle after this week of election? I mean, what can we learn from this? We don't have to be hard on people. We don't want to be a stumbling block. If somebody's got a problem with something, it's okay for them to have a problem with it. We can still care for them.
We don't have to enable them. We don't have to indulge that, but we don't have to castigate them either. And one of the things we don't want to do is start legislating where God has not. And that's a problem that happens oftentimes in Christianity. In churches, we somehow feel like we've got, okay, this is what we think is right.
You know, for example, dancing. Some people believe dancing is a sin. Well, Scripture doesn't say that. In fact, it says quite the opposite. But these people are committed to this as dancing is a sin. That's the whole predicate of the movie Footloose.
But what happened is when you take it a step further and legislate, okay, now nobody can dance. We think it's wrong. We're going to call you out. You're going to say you're sinning if you're doing this. That is speaking for God. God didn't say that, and we're not allowed to do that. That's wrong, and that needs to be confronted. But we're also, Paul admonishes very strongly, do not cause another to sin against his own conscience.
If he thinks this is wrong for him, and he didn't want to do this, and he doesn't want to go dancing, do not try to entice him to do so. Let him be where he's going to be, as unto the Lord. That same principle, I think we could apply here. There are a lot of people we're looking at on one side of this issue or the other. And it's easy to mock, impugn. I mean, we all are guilty of that.
But does that really help? And I've got to tell you, I've been watching a lot of the stuff on social media. There are a lot of people just in great distress over this. And they are convinced that internment camps are going to be built. They've believed the lies that have been promulgated. Well, what do we do with those folks?
Do we just mock them or cast them aside? Or do we go back to what I talked about, which is the core need? Assurance. Assurance.
Can we give them a greater assurance so that no matter who's the President of the United States, that they're calm and assured in this? You know what happens to caregivers the day after an election? We're still caregivers. We still got to do our job. My wife's needs do not stop simply because the election's over. Thanksgiving Day is not a holiday for caregivers.
Last Christmas we were in the hospital. You follow the point? Life goes on. People are unsettled in their spirits. Let's settle them. Let's settle them with the great news of the Gospel. Can we not point them to it with clarity? And how are we going to do that if we don't know the Gospel? We don't need to go over there and bludgeon them with it.
We go over there and model it. We speak into their heartache and distress. What did Jesus say? Come unto me, all you who are weary and heavy laden. By what? I'm heavy laden.
I've been a caregiver for four decades for a woman with severe disabilities. Jesus said, come unto him. For what? What is he going to do? I'm still doing the job. What has changed? And what has changed is that unswerving confidence that he who began a good work in me is faithful to complete it to the day of Christ Jesus. Can I tell that to someone else? Yes, I can. Can I say it with convictions?
Oh, yes, I can. Blessed assurance. That's what this world needs to hear from all of us.
Will you do it with me? That is Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberg.
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866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884. Did you see what's going on over in Amsterdam after the soccer match, and there were just these violent protesters chasing down Israeli fans and to the point where now Netanyahu is trying to get more security, and I think they're sending evacuation aircraft to get these people out of there. This thing in Israel and what's going on with Hamas October 7th, the anniversary of just last month, there's a lot of turmoil going on, and Trump has his hands full going into this. Now, there's been some signaling that there's going to be some conversation, and I imagine there's going to be some very stern conversation from Trump, and we certainly need to pray for this to end.
This is horrific, but what's going on here? Why so much? Israel is basically the size of New Jersey, okay? We're not talking a very big place. If you cut Alabama in half lengthwise, that's basically the size of Israel, roughly. We're not talking about a huge amount of land, and yet it stays in the news all the time that it has since 1948, the nation of Israel, but long before that with the Jews.
Why? What's going on? And so I asked Galen Williams to come onto the program, Explore God's Heart for Israel, and she goes through a biblical journey of understanding these things. Why is this relevant? Is this ethnic Israel? Is there a spiritual issue?
Is there a difference? What's going on with all this? And so I wanted to hear her thoughts on this. So, Galen, welcome to the program, and I appreciate you being here with us. Thank you so much.
It's great to be with you today. I would imagine it's difficult to write a book on this topic because the news happens so fast. How do you keep a book? How do you stay up with the news when you're writing a book? Well, honestly, my book is about what is God's heart and what does God have to say in Scripture, and how does it relate today and in the future. But the focus is not on keeping up with everything that's going on, because, yeah, like you said, that's not a book. That needs to be a blog or something that's continually ongoing.
That's a post on X. Yeah, it's something other than a book. Well, what got you into this first? And I want to hear your thoughts on this. Well, I had always wanted to go to Israel and finally got to go in 1999, but only for six days, because I was in Jordan training missionaries from all over the Middle East on relationships. And then I wanted to go back, and the Lord didn't open up the door again until 2016, where I was there for 40 days with a group of 11 people. But when I was there, I knew... You're supposed to say 40 days and 40 nights. Oh, well, 40 days and 40 nights. Okay, I'm sorry.
I forgot the nights. But when I was there, I knew that I would be living there as much as I could, which at this point, until I figure out how to get a long-term residency or visa, it's just not more than half time. So that's what I did for quite a few years. Right now, though, God has had me not going back to Israel because His assignment for me is helping Christians to understand God's heart for Israel, because there is so much misunderstanding, and people are just, like, not understanding, what do we do with this whole war? And, you know, is it true that Israel is the bad guy?
Like, the media wants to make them out. So, you know, there's just a lot of questions, and like I said, my heart is looking at what is God's heart. And what have you discovered? Oh, actually, there were some big surprises as I was going through and studying the Scripture. When I wrote this book, I wrote it as a Bible study, because I don't want to just give all my great wisdom.
And I did interview a bunch of people, but I wanted people to really dig into what God's Word says. But a couple of the surprises that I found that actually are very relevant for today, the first one was in Genesis 12.3, where we've all quoted this, that God says, I'll bless those who bless you, and I'll curse anyone who curses you. Well, what I didn't realize until I started studying for this book is that it's the same word for blessed there.
I will bless those who bless you. But it's two completely different words for curse. So where God will curse, that is to bitterly curse. So God will bitterly curse those who curse Israel and the Jews. And the second word for curse means to take lightly, to despise or disregard. So I had to repent, even as I'm living in Israel and writing this book about Israel, because I never openly cursed. I mean, most of us have not cursed Israel. But taken this way to take them lightly to despise or just disregard, to ignore them.
So I had to repent for that. And I think it's really important for people to understand that. And even like with America, sometimes we are standing with Israel, but sometimes we're disregarding them. We're taking them lightly, whether it's as a nation or with our leadership. And God has a very powerful thing to say.
We don't want him to bitterly curse us as individuals, our family, or our nation. So that was the first surprise. Well, that's quite an understanding.
And I would imagine that did cause great concentration. As I listened to you think about it, I thought, you know, have we lightly regarded or dismissed and things such as that? There's no other explanation for Israel being on the front page of every publication every day other than there is something much more significant going on.
I mean, you don't see any other country like that except Israel. And you have to think, there's something going on here. Well, what other surprises did you find? Well, the other major surprise was from Jeremiah 32. It's the only thing that God says he does with his whole heart and his whole soul.
And I don't want to put you on the spot to ask if you know what it is, because most of us don't know, and I didn't know what it is. But Jeremiah 32, 41 says, I will rejoice in doing them, the Jews, good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness with all my heart and all my soul. And this is talking about what's the modern word is aliyah, which means to go up or to go up to God, but it's used for Jews returning to Israel as their homeland. And earlier in the chapter, God talks about why he had to scatter them.
And it was because of their sin and because they disobeyed God. But that was not his heart. That's not what he wanted. He wants them in the land. He promised this land in Genesis over and over, he promised that, the land to them.
And it's actually much bigger than what Israel is right now. But another surprise with this aliyah, which is the Jews going back to Israel, is that God didn't just say this one time. When he says something one time, it's pretty important, right? If he says something twice, it's really important. He talks about aliyah, not with that term, but with the concept of them coming back. Over 60 times, I would say that's probably pretty important to God. And so that's, right now, that's part of what I'm involved with, is praying into that, but then also being involved on some different teams, and helping the Jews return to Israel, because even though there's the war going on, that is really the safest place for them in the world.
And from the start of the war, we've seen a huge, and I don't even know the statistics now, it's like in the hundreds of percent of increase in anti-Semitism around the world, but including in America. And so another surprise was in Jeremiah 16, where it talks about that... Well, I'll tell you what, hold that thought, hold that surprise for the next block there. That'll be a cliffhanger, as we've got to go to a break.
We're up against a hard break. This is Peter Rosenberger, this is Truth Talk Live. We're talking with Galen Williams. Her book is titled, Explore God's Heart for Israel. Nothing could be more relevant right now than what's going on. We're going to hear more from her when we come back. Don't go away. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad that you are with us. 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884.
PeterRosenberger.com, PeterRosenberger.com. By the way, we need legs. We need legs.
What does that mean? Well, we have a prosthetic limb outreach that we do after my wife gave up both of her legs. She wanted to put prosthetic legs on her fellow amputees and point them to Christ, and that's what we've been doing for almost 20 years. And part of that is we recycle prosthetic limbs.
We've got a great program that we've worked with, CoreCivic. They're out of Nashville. We lived there for 35 years.
We live in Montana now. And they have faith-based programs in their prison. They run correctional facilities all over the country, and they have a lot of faith-based programs which really help with recidivism because that's where lives can really be transformed. And one of those faith-based programs they have is Standing with Hope, which is what my wife started all those years ago while laying in the hospital a week after surgery. And it was an extraordinary vision, and inmates help us disassemble used prosthetic limbs until they got involved 11 years ago.
Gosh, it's 13 years ago. I was sitting out in our garage and doing this, and then on cold days I'd go in by the fire, and I'd have legs everywhere, and I'd disassemble so we could reuse the foot, the knee, the pile on the screws, the adapters, all those kinds of things. And it was pretty extraordinary work. Of course, our den looked a little weird with feet and legs everywhere, but we can reuse that. We buy the new stuff that we can't reuse, and we make a brand new acrylic resin socket onsite in West Africa. We have teams there that work, and we partner with them, and it's an extraordinary ministry. It's the gift that keeps on walking, but if you know somebody who's passed away, a loved one that was an amputee that passed away, or a kid that's outgrown a prosthesis, we always need pediatric parts.
You just go to PeterRosenberger.com, look under the prosthetics area, and you'll see what you can do, and we'd love for you to get involved with this. It's truly the gift that keeps on walking. So thank you for that at PeterRosenberger.com. We're talking with Galen Williams, and her new book is titled Explore God's Heart for Israel. We're talking about surprises she learned when she delved into Scripture.
Well, what does God have to say about Israel? And she was getting ready. We left her on a cliffhanger. She's going to give us the second surprise she learned. The first one was the word curse.
When God says, I'll curse those who curse you, two different words for curse, and it was God bringing a bitter curse against people who even just dismiss Israel, we think of them and don't take them as seriously as God does or ask us to. And the second surprise was in Jeremiah, so tell us about that, Galen. Okay, well, the second surprise, what I had shared earlier, was what God does with his whole heart and his whole soul in Jeremiah 32, 41, where he's bringing the Jews back to the land and planting them there in faithfulness. Now, this could be part B of the second surprise, but because it is also about Aliyah, which is the Jews going back to Israel, and it's in Jeremiah 16, 15 and 16. Well, the end of 15 talks about how God says, I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers.
So it's like what he gave to starting off with Abraham to begin with. But then verse 16 says, behold, I'm sending many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them, and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks. So right now, and in recent years, God has been like sending fishers to help the Jews get back to the land. So it's gathering them, helping them to see that they need to be back in the land. And it's amazing, people are moving back, even despite the war.
There's been well over 30,000 that have made Aliyah, becoming citizens. But he says that first he's sending the fishers, and he's been doing that, but afterwards he'll send for hunters. And hunters, this is like the anti-Semitism. This was, Hitler was a hunter, and there's been many other hunters, and even just like what happened in Amsterdam yesterday, or was it, I don't know about the timing. In the last 24 hours, yeah.
Yes, those are hunters. They were standing there ready to hunt them, to kill them or hurt the Jews. And so God told us that that was going to happen. And it's only getting worse, and it will continue to get worse. So it's something that we can do when we know Jews is to encourage them to consider making Aliyah, consider getting their citizenship in Israel, because eventually it is going to get worse here in America and other places. Well, I think we've gotten a reprieve partially, at least from the federal level. We had too much passive behavior coming from the White House under the Biden administration, and I look at our college campuses and so forth that erupted and all these things, and I don't think that the Trump administration is going to tolerate that.
But we're always one election away from this thing descending into chaos, and that's the difference we have here. And so we've got to pray, we've got to stand up and not be afraid to say anything that is necessary to stem this tide. You know, we're not going to solve the problem. It's a spiritual problem. We're not fighting against flesh and blood. We're fighting against the principality.
But we have a responsibility to stand up. If people want to find this book, what's the best way to do that, Galen? Well, they can go on Amazon and look for Explore God's Heart for Israel, or you can go on my website, relationshipresources.org. But an even better way is I am giving away a free resource kit on God's Heart for Israel, and it's just at God'sHeart.info, no apostrophe, just God'sHeart.info. And one of the things I have in there is a list of all those over 60 scriptures on Aliyah, but there's also a 21-day devotional study and prayer guide on Aliyah, so to help people to understand that more. And then from there you can get the book. So that's free to everyone.
There's also some other, there's lots of other things that they'll get in there, but those are two of the main things. Well, last thoughts before I let you go here. Churchill said the further back you look, the further forward you can see, you've looked back pretty far.
You've gone all the way back to Genesis. What are you thinking that you may be seeing in the near future that we may be seeing unfolding in the near future? Oh, my goodness, only God really knows, but it certainly seems like we're getting very close to the end times. Now, granted, back in the 70s, my pastor used to always talk that he was sure that we were in the end times, so that's why I'm not going to say we are in the end times, but it certainly looks like it. And, I mean, everyone coming against Israel, that's part of what we know is going to be coming. So, yeah, we need to be prepared. Well, we're certainly 24 hours closer to the end times than we were yesterday.
Yes. And I think look up for our redemption draweth nigh. Well, Galen, I do appreciate you being on the program today. Thank you so much for taking the time. And give out your website one more time.
RelationshipResources.org or God'sHeart.info is specifically to get that resource kit. Thank you so much again for sharing that with us. I do appreciate the time, and we look forward to having you on. There's certainly not going to be any shortage of information going on about Israel in the news. I don't see that happening until we establish this kingdom on this earth.
So we look forward to that. Listen, we're about out of time. This is Peter Rosenberger, and we've enjoyed the time here with you today, but I want to leave you with this today. We have such unsettledness in our culture, such unsettledness in our world, but we don't have influence over anything, but just basically in our little spheres. But in our little spheres, we can offer the light of Christ, and people are hurting.
People are struggling. And we've had a contentious season of politics, really has been this way for about eight or nine years. I don't know that that's going to change a whole lot, but we can change, and we don't have to be blown this way or that way. We can be steadfast in proclaiming the gospel. But we can't do that unless we know it, unless we understand it.
We're bearing witness to what we've experienced. There's too many people that know rehearsed lines about Christianity. What we need in this culture, what the world is in dire need of are people that can speak with clarity to the sin-filled, broken world that we live in with the shining gospel of Christ. Study your scriptures. Get in a Bible study.
Push yourself to learn, okay? Truth Talk Live is not just a program that comes on the Truth Network Monday through Friday. Truth Talk Live is a way of life.
Are we doing this everywhere we go? Speaking with that kind of clarity. That's my prayer. That's my hope. This is Peter Roseburger.
