The Cup of Israel Tribe 2024-10-06 Automatically transcribed. Where this and the recording disagree, the recording is the record. ---- Welcome to Tribe's podcast. Hey, we just wanna say thank you for making this message a part of your week. Our prayer is that these messages will inspire you to make the name of Jesus famous in your life and to the uttermost bounds of the earth. If you're ever in Jackson Hole, we'd love for you to visit our Tribe fam in person. To learn more about us, you can find us online or at Facebook by searching tribejh.com. Welcome to Tribe's podcast. Hey, we just wanna say thank you for making this message a part of your week. Our prayer is that these messages will inspire you to make the name of Jesus famous in your life and to the uttermost bounds of the earth. If you're ever in Jackson Hole, we'd love for you to visit our tribe fam in person. To learn more about us, you can find us online or at Facebook by searching tribejh.com. Today's conversation, if you are taking notes, we're kind of on the theme of cups, but I've titled this morning's conversation the cup of Israel. So if you're taking notes, you can write the title of this morning's conversation, the cup of Israel. And if you are if you're brand new to tribe Hey, Tim. Admittedly, this is a a unique venue. And one of the things that we like to play into with the uniqueness of this venue is it's really easy for us to have a conversation. Whether you're sitting all the way in the back row like you're a lot tight to morning, or you're squeezed in here at front row, venue lends itself to being more of a conversation. And we call that the VIP section where Carla is in the back. Carla, good morning. So, we would invite you to just be a part of this conversation. It's kind of like we're in a living room, but there's a lot of us in this living room. And so let's lean to get into the conversational feel and the family vibe that we have together this morning. What that means is I want to hear from you is As you can be sitting all the way in the back row, and I'll stick it to hear you just fine. If you have your Bible with you this morning, let's turn to Zechariah chapter 12. And for some context, let's go ahead and we're going to we'll take turns. We'll read. We don't have the mic to pass around this morning because we can all hear you just fine. And the livestream will pick it up. But let's turn to Zechariah 12. And if you're like, I don't know where the book of Zechariah is, every Bible that you have in your lap has a table of contents in it. And so you can just open up the table of contents, find the books of Zechariah, and then turn to that page. In my bible, I have that will help you, it's on page seven seventy one. What's that number? Four fourteen sixty. Yes, order. Zechariah chapter 12. And why don't we take turns to read all of Zechariah chapter 12. And as we get through a couple of different places in Zechariah, some of these verses, some of these little passages may stand out to you as being familiar. Well, I think maybe we've talked about this before. But the goal is for us to get the full picture of all of Zechariah chapter 12. And so whoever would like to start reading, would you please go forward. Mike's titled future deliverance of Jerusalem. This message concerning the fate of Israel came from the Lord. This message is from the Lord who stretched out the heavens, laid the foundations of beer, and formed the human spirit. I believe Jerusalem is like an intoxic human drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah. On that day, I will eat Jerusalem an immovable rock so that all the nations will gather against it to try to move it, that they will only rip themselves. That's in 3rd Floor. So on that day, says the Lord, I will cause every horse to panic and every rider to lose his nerve. I will watch over the people of Judah, but I will blind the horses of her enemies. And the clans of Judah will say to themselves, the people of Jerusalem have found strength in the Lord Almighty, their God. Let me to us. On that day, Lake McLean's tuna. From the VIP planets of Judah like a plain that sets a wood pile of lathe, like a burning torch among the shelves of grain. They will burn up all the neighboring nations right and left while the people living in Jerusalem remain secure. The Lord will give victory to the rest of Judah first before Jerusalem so that the people of Jerusalem and the royal line of David will not have greater honor than the rest of Judah. On that day, the Lord will defend the people of Jerusalem. The weakest among them will be mightiest in rebirth, and the royal descendants will be like God, like the angel of the Lord who goes before them. For on that day, I will begin to destroy all nations that come against Jerusalem. Thank you. And I will quorum spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me who may have pierced or mourn for him and for our only son. They will grieve bitterly for him and for what firstborn son who has died. The sorrow and mourning in Jerusalem on that day will be to write the great mourning for Einadvert, on the Mount in the Valley Of Megiddo. All Israel will mourn each clan by itself and with the husbands separate from their wives. The clan of David will warn alone at Asgull, the clan of Nathan, the clan of Levi, and the clan of Yeah. Each of the surviving clans from Judah will warn separately and with the husband separate from their wives. Okay. To get the most out of any passage that we read Go ahead. Thank you. That we read this whole chapter, it's important to consider a couple of things. We talked about this story. Who's writing? Who is he writing to? And in what context is he writing? Like, what time period? And so I don't have I don't have an expectation of you to know this, but just general broad stroke terms. What do you know about the person of Zacharias? What do we know about him as an author? Being a prophet. He's a prophet, yep. And they are up. The prophets are broken into two categories of prophets. What's one of the two categories? Minor. Minor profits and then the Major profits. Great. So what category would Zapparoo fit into? Major or minor? He's a minor prophet. Why is he a minor prophet? Well, records that he was only about five foot three. Oh, we'll say she's cheery. I show that. Nancy, I didn't even get a smirk at him. Thank you, Lee, though. Okay. It's like three pages. She's. I just think the orthopedic shoes I got might really help. That's not good shoe. But I stand corrected. That's like one. That's all the goodies. Really a crinkled nose from Steve. King of the dead Jews. I don't need any blood. Alright. Okay, so we know that Zechariah was a minor prophet. Great. Anything else we know about Zechariah? How about how about this? How about the genre of books that he wrote? Genre of of this particular book. Eschatological. Which is a fancy term for times. End times. Yep. So that could be one. I would say that's a subcategory of a bigger overarching category. You'll when somebody says, you'll be like, oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Of course. But, yes, you are right, Amanda. I'm hearing right in the introduction. Said Zachary Reichardt was his her prophets of Isaiah. Woah. Well, that is great little piece of information that helps us. And did you know that there's more information in the bible about Jesus's second coming than his first. Okay. I'm looking for the big literary genre. It is eschatological. It is about the messiah. Sagittapi. Prophecy. Prophecy. Yes. You're exactly right. So this book would fit into literary genre that we know of as prophecy. So, when we read Zechariah, the way that we get the most out of this book is by thinking through our our drawer of reader glasses, which our family is like it's, like, growing in probably what's the and you're like, okay. These okay. These are my prophecy glasses. So as you read the book of Zechariah, it's important to understand what genre. So we know that Zechariah was a minor prophet. We know that he wrote the he wasn't sitting down and be like, Tim, I'd like to write in the literary style and theme of prophecy. He's just writing what the Lord puts on his heart. What he sees in the spirit, if you will. And it happens to be prophecy. Now how about what time period or so, and yes, you can look in your introduction. What time period was Zachariah writing in? Not necessarily a date, but like, what was going on while Zachariah was writing these work? What do you know of? And yes, Google can help you. But she knows what. So, this was actually the So they've been, yeah, exiled for their naughtiness and and, idol worship. And then the Lord and Sedalia has kept his province even though it's years later, and they got to return back to Jerusalem. I think it's around five twenty BC. No. 05/13? Yeah. It? Oh, wait. It's 05/20. Yeah. Suddenly, everybody's a bible cigar. I love it. A very squealty. In, bit tempered, then solemnered, simple if they destroy, everyone is in exile, and they came back and they were, like, hatching, beamed up, redoing. And here's something that's interesting about Zechariah. It is a remnant that returns from exile in Babylon. They have been in Babylonian captivity for about seventy years. A remnant is coming back. A second temple is being built. Its lesser physical glory was nothing compared to its glory under King Solomon, the temple that was built. But the people are trying to regain traction in Israel and in Jerusalem, the time when they needed encouragement and exhortation and comfort and strength for that time period. But what does God decide he wants Zechariah to talk about instead? And you said it earlier. A future time of the Messiah. This is a really important preliminary takeaway for us. Many of you have ever found yourself in the midst of a situation where you need comfort, strength, wisdom, direction, and you go to the Lord like, help me with this. And then God says, oh, actually, let's talk about this. And it's seemingly completely unrelated to what it is that you're going through and what it is that you need. Has anybody ever experienced that? Yes. We literally have a a historical example. Israel is just trying to, like, find their feet again. And God's like, I wanna talk to you about something way, way, way in the future. Now when we read biblical prophecy, here's something else that's important for us to know as we read biblical prophecy. Who it's written to and who is it for? It was written to Jews in that day. It was written to Jews for a coming generation in the future, unknown to them at this time. And it's written for us today to get a lot of spiritual and practical nutritional value out of. And here's one of the things to consider with prophecy which makes it a challenging genre of literature to read is that there are multiple layers of truth and there are multiple layers of fulfillment. And when you hear somebody speak in such a way as that has already been fulfilled and is not relevant for us today, be careful. There is a chance that it has literally been fulfilled and we're like, wow, cool, check that box. But you have to remember that when looking at the genres of prophecy and there are, you can look through all of the 66 books in the Bible and you probably, if you were to guess which book is historical narrative, which book is, I heard Convers say earlier, Poet, which book is prophecy? You probably would do a pretty good job of like guessing, oh, this is a book of Although, books like the book of Jeremiah has some historical narrative because Jeremiah is like this happened, and then this happened, and this happened, and then I went and cried, and then I prayed, and then I saw this. And it's like prophecy and historical narrative. So, like, you have to have, like, one lens of each. But when looking at the genre of prophecy, it's important to keep in mind that there could have been a fulfillment. There is a current unfolding and fulfillment, but then and also future fulfillment. And we've seen this in great like fictional works and in movies, foreshadowing and types and shadows. And so when we look at the book of Zechariah, we can see some partial fulfillments, we can see some types and shadows that are intended to prepare and design our hearts and calibrate our minds so that when we see a literal fulfillment, we will be able to stand like Peter in the second chapter of Acts on the day of Pentecost when people said, look at these guys, they're drunk. And Peter is able to stand up and say, they're not drunk. It's ten in the morning. This that you see is that that the prophet Joel spoke about. And then he quotes Joel chapter two. We want to be like Peter so that when we see events unfolding in the world around us, we will be able to say, this that you're seeking out here in the world is that that the Lord has been preparing us for in his word. Are you with me so far? I knew that you would be. So with that in mind, now let's just go down all the way into Zechariah chapter 12. And we just read all of Zechariah chapter 12. The next question is, to whom is this passage for, meaning for to which generation is this passage? Go ahead. Yeah, I feel strongly that it's for us. This evening at the time that we live in is, you know, with what's going on in the world in Israel, it's very encouraging. It helps us understand, Okay, I can get it based on on what is. So as you read as specifically Zechariah chapter 12, because that's what we're talking about. As you see it, you're able to overlay Zechariah chapter 12 carefully and consider overlaying it on today's events. And your takeaway is that it gives you peace and confidence. Yes. Not that long ago. Felt. I think it's both the end. Okay. And the people that team would that were rebuilding the temple at the time. Building very strong. Okay. Alright. Which is which fits perfectly with what I said earlier about prophecy, that it can have multiple layers with multiple fulfillments. Yep. And I know that you're not just saying that as a safe answer. It's both for the past, well, and the present, and the future. Just get all the faces cut. Ado, what else do you see about to whom this generation this passage is written for or to? And do you have any clues in the text about to whom Zechariah is writing? Perhaps this I'll check verse 10 written to the non Messianic Jews at the time when the war's return. Leninism. Okay. Yeah. That's great. I will pour out a spirit of grace prayer. So well, this would be a really fun work studying. Somebody might be able to, like, crank it up really quickly. But in chapter 12, how many times is a phrase used on that day? Now when you read on that day, that should cause a little alarm in your head to go off. So what in that day? What? End times. Second. End times, and specifically, did you say second coming? The second coming of Jesus. That is exactly right. It's known by a lot of different phrases. On that day, in that day, the great day, late day terrible day. It a bunch of different flavors to it, but the basic recipe is whenever you see in that day, you know that there is a strong likelihood that the author intends for us to cast our gaze to, as maybe our regret should say, end times or the second coming or the second advent of Jesus. So this is written to the generation that's alive when that happens. All right. That is a beautiful summary that you framed as the question. Yes. David will know people. I'll just say it one more time because I think it's really valuable and it helps us to move forward in our conversation. So, he's speaking to the people, the generation that are alive when that happens is what I mean. On that day. Because people that will see that on that day. Yes. So, Joy, you are right. It is it was written for the exiles that had recently returned from captivity in Babylon to strengthen, encourage, and comfort them. And a greater or more vivid fulfillment of Zechariah chapter 12 is to yet be unfolding for us. So bottom line, when we read Zechariah chapter 12, it's for a day in the future. Yes. I have a question. Yes. Just end of this chapter 12 and from first 12 down to the end, thy tongues, just right there it says, the wives will be by themselves. Why is that emphasizing the beauty? Oh, that's that's great. Can does somebody have any thoughts or insight into that? I couldn't hear. Oh, okay. Question is, Zechariah chapter 12, it is mentioned several times that the women will be separate from the men. And this is where our Gentile brains get hung up. I don't understand. But a Jew, what war, if you've ever been to the Wailing Wall or the Western Wall in Jerusalem, you're like, yep. Makes sense. So what? Warning the king and Yeah. Yeah. Worn and captain mourn separately. Yeah. Men and women, according to Jewish faith and tradition, they mourn separately. And if you were to go to the Western Mall at Jerusalem, there's half for the men and another section for the women. And so this is a an indication of formal, deep, sincere, contrite, heavy duty mourning? Looks like a good question. That's a fantastic question. It's interesting to note that directly before that, like, verse 11 is the, like, the great wine of the Haddad Ramon in the plane of Medigo, where it's like that is a full cultural as a people group type of mourning. And then you look at also, it goes deeper and 12 through the end, gets into that, like, mourning. That's why it talks about that separation. Corporate national mourning all the way down to tribes, families, and individuals that when verse 10 unfolds, it will penetrate the hearts of the people nationally, religiously, the way down to an individual. For example, recently did The United States experience a devastating hurricane? Yes. Are we in The United States? Yes. Did we experience it? No. But I like what you're pointing out, Connor, is that from the biggest macro all the way down to individuals, they will look upon one whom they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as for an old son. Okay. Let's look at verse two and three. This is what I'd like us to focus on. And we talked about this several times. Let's try here. Verse two. I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations staggered when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah. And then verse three, on that day, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All of the nations will gather against it to try to move it, but they will only curse themselves. How about from this passage, and it's up here on the screen. I'm not necessarily looking for you to draw any kind of deep spiritual conclusions yet, but how about just some observations that you notice about the text? Listen. Oh, there's that. There's that preacher. There are so many fun idiosyncrasies of the TNC. The ice in the It's all the slides. You're can you use your dog? You keep touching the nose. Or If I knew you. Be down about this, not about that. Right. No. I just say we should try it off. It is easy. Pretty stylish. Happy to just sit here and trim it. I'm praying. Yes. It's kind of obscure, but when I think, or when I see a movable rod, I just immediately think of in Jerusalem, Jaw Open Rock, because that's such a special spot. Again, probably if you're not relevant, but I because that's where they believe that Abraham almost sacrificed Isaac. And then the Muslims believe that's where, we all but not with lessened of, you know, so it's like a very spiritual, special spot. So, that's what I think of. The words like, man, that's my rock. I'll do it. Okay. So let me help to explain and clarify what you just said. So you said the Of The Rock. The Dome Of Rock is a structure on top of what would be considered by many people to be, the the flat level courtyard area where the temple once stood. The Temple Mount, some people think he could say is. On the Temple Mount, that is a holy Jewish site, there is a building with a dome on it that was constructed by Muslims that enshrines inside a big rock, like a big boulder. And so they call it the Dome Of The Rock. So what you're not saying is the dome of the rock is the immovable rock, but what you're seeing is the rock inside the dome of the rock. That's what it means to you, Right? Yes? Okay. Hard to learn. So not the building on top, then before I realize it's the big boulder, but the big boulder. And really, the big boulder, all you can see is just kind of the top of it. You you go inside and you're like so much character to give something that other people are putting value on. And he's like, I'm gonna do what I've been to. I'm going to do. And then he eventually shows to see, you know. I love it. What else do you see? These two verses show the street of Jerusalem. Okay. And how in what way would you see? Well, being happy, he said, and make them so strong that people are to hurt themselves when they try to come against. And that the street of Jerusalem wakes up the animal to defend itself. Okay. What stands out to me is those words intoxicating threat. I think that in saying that, he's trying to say what he really jealous and then watchers and just blackening and talk. I don't know what it is. Mean, Hebrew, but we're not really stood up to you from the elders. Now would be a good time to consider, just like you said, Lee, overlay what we read in the Bible with events that we see unfolding in the world around us. So, we gave an opportunity. The significance of the immovable rust is Jerusalem will not be destroyed, period. It will not be. So that's encouraging for me this season and time, but I'm sure it was encouraging to the Hebrews at that time when Zechariah spoke that Jerusalem, it ain't going away no matter what. What about the Jews reading this in sixty nine AD, the year before Rome sapped Jerusalem and literally razed the temple and Jerusalem? We have to, we have to hold these things in a little bit of tension because it's prudent and wise. But tell me more about Jerusalem. Are you talking about the city? Are you talking about the idea? Are you talking about the people? To me, it's like, okay, the buildings are destroyed, so what? Okay, it's the Spirit, for lack of a better term. Sure. It's the Spirit of Jerusalem. That's the power. It's something, I don't know, flirting from heaven. I don't know. But whatever it does, it isn't going to go right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I like it. Thanks. What else? I see contrast, both similarities between the way Jerusalem is being stripe here in the way. And she that's husband strived after rock, faints, a rock who was stumbling that, you know, the dead minds hurt himself, harmed. Well, I get snow peens for this, but honey, by anybody. Son, that's let's let's let's let's look at that. She says, I see a similarity between Jerusalem and Jesus. That in the same way that that God made Jesus like an immovable rock that the dirty devil tried to kick out of the way but only ended up throwing his own back out. Exactly. How striking happened? Yeah. Do we have any bible verses that you can look up that supports that? Well, how about when Jesus said, you know, you can tear this place down within three days. Oh, no. Restore it. There's gotta be some significance there or some relationship. I love it. I love it. Which which goes back to, and is a hyperlink to what to your answer, the question that I asked about what and who is Jerusalem. Oh, yeah. That it's bigger, Jerusalem is bigger than the geographical boundaries of a city. Correct. There's more to this idea or theme of Jerusalem than just a place with a zip code. And could there be a significance to that geographical location that's like the Lord said, God said, this is mine forever. Whether there's a building there or not, it's it's mine. It's mine. The geography. I heard somebody once say that God is a territorial being. That that there are defined boundaries of heaven. There are defined boundaries spoken of about the New Jerusalem. There are areas, terrestrial areas on planet Earth that he has put his finger on and said this is mine. Yeah. I'll be merrier. I want to I want to I want to stay grounded in scripture because although that we historically at the foundation of our nation committed this nation as one nation under God. I want to confine our conversation to biblical scriptural base because I don't see America in the Bible at all. Yeah. I think that I think that we can, and sometimes perhaps not, stretch beyond the bounds of of scripture that that we can be like, why? I I must see The United States in there. Speaking, there is a time in Ezekiel, maybe '38 or '39, where this man of lawlessness sets his sight on Israel and The Holy Land and the people of the covenant. But it says that hits from Parshish, which is basically like like west, west, west, come against him and say, not so fast. Could that be a naval blockade from The United States that deter him? I don't know. But I just want I want us to be careful. We as a nation, a founding of our nation, said, Lord, we give you this land in our hearts. God's like, that is so awesome. I love you. I'll bless you. And she has great amazing things for us as a nation still. For the purpose of our conversation, I wanna try to stay confined to the text. Yeah. But he has clearly put his finger on Israel and Jerusalem. My people, my holy mountain, my city, the city where my name was. Now let's overlay what we're reading in all of Zechariah 12 and specifically verse two and three over Purnitans that we see unfolding today. What parallels or connections do you see your case you make? We already see how tourism is like an intoxicating drink. Everybody it's a real contentious topic everywhere across the world for Southeast Asia. Like, why would that be? You know? And everybody wants that land for some reason as well. Mhmm. So, I mean, I think people just have this feeling of some source that they want Israel. Yeah. Well, even since the formation of it, like, officially being, like, the nation of Israel, like, historically, there's been so many people, like, I'm with the He said, like, try to go. But since it was, like, I mean, the first week, you know, like, that it was an actual, like, okay. This is your place. Like, we've seen it besieged and all sorts of RVs all around coming after it. Perhaps the most highly contested piece of dirt Yep. On this planet of ours. And I don't know. Richard and Jacob having been there this time about this time last year Exactly. Time last year. Could sense and seal the tension of being pulled by a lot of different nations, cultures, and peoples and histories wanting to claim it. And and I would say too, like, when I look at verse two and I see Jerusalem and Judah, in my brain, that just signals that it's talking about Jerusalem, but it's also talking about the people. Right. Judah to me represents the people. And and we see historically the people, the Jewish people consistently being targeted for no reason. Like, even before they simply than that they are Right. Jewish. Right. Even before they had land. So we're talking now about them as because it's the land, but it was before they even had the land. Mhmm. Yeah. So it's been through our history. And as I read all of Zechariah 12, the warning is to those people who are against the Jews because God will not stand for that. He will. So you better be careful if you're not for the Jews. Brian, you know, when during this time, there was Israel and Judah. There was like, I ended that Mhmm. Back together. So Ron came in, conquered the northern shell. So is this Judah the land? Is this Israel and Judah ripping south? So so according to the allotment from Moses from the coming of Sinai, the different tribes got their allotment of legion. So Judah, the tribe of Judah, had a section like you get Lincoln County. Ain't that true thing? You know? So I think that's part of what you're referring to. But the northern and southern kingdoms, Lord, really never unified again as tribes until the the United Nations recognized and established the nation of Israel. And when you read Jerusalem and Judah, I think you might not have heard it too well, I think Gretchen beautifully pointed out that there's a geographical spot, the land, Israel, and the people of Judah. I don't know if that helped to Good to change. Yeah. Jerusalem, the capital of Judah. So they're at the same rate. So that that's why I was Iraq. They're not north. Jerusalem was in the land of allotment given to the tribe of Judah? Yes. I also I see a lot of peace perverse in verse three right now. Like, we live in such a where we're seeing the nation coming against Israel and we try to move it, know, just being drunk like that intoxicating drink. But but they will only drink themselves. And so in a time where we could get spiral into anxiety about what's going on over there and start to think, oh, what is about to now? We have this promise that if we really believe the Bible, then they're only gonna hurt those up. There are people that get hurt. It's not that nobody's hurting, but but just in, like, big picture, you know, now we can be assured that God is their own control, that he will protect, you know, the people on the land, and that, when we find ourselves spinning out in anxiety about how that's gonna affect everything, we can actually be at peace and know we already know the energy. Right. Boss. Just out of crazy lies. Well, I'll go to the tribe. Pretty sure. Yeah. I'm just maybe it's yours. All of that persecution, everything is behind them. If we're talking about today, there's already, you know, a a light ahead. Well, it I mean, because I'm looking at the end picture, not in going to the end times to the end which because all men and you know, it's not just Jew. It's Gentile. It's up here. In rare But I just kind of feel like all the things that have happened to the Jews from day one are sort of done and over with and more moving towards something much greater, whichever I come to live and I verse I'll let it. Ask ask my friend Jacob or Sherry that live in Vet Cheyenne or Embargo, they do dry humpy. Right now, like, little stitches and, yeah, like, how do you do it right now? Like, it's getting brighter, They they certainly wouldn't. And we can see in big picture. Big picture from the text, can read in Jeremiah chapter 30 or 31 that there is a time coming known by the Jews as a time of Jacob's trouble. As Gentiles and Christians, we understand that from Luke 21 and Matthew chapter 24 as a time of tribulation. Seven in book of Daniel talks about the man of lawlessness will make a covenant with the people. And then Daniel says, like in his cryptic way, times, a certain times, and a half a times, but then halfway through that, we'll break it. There will be a peace accord made with Israel that will last about that's inked down in paper for seven years. Half way through, as part of a provision maybe a third temple will be rebuilt, I don't know. Half way through, the temple sacrifices will be stopped and there will be a more intense wave of persecution against Israel unlike has ever happened and unfolded in the history of persecution against Israel. To make the holocaust look like a walk in the park, that was only 6,000,000 Jews across Europe. That's still yet to come. That is still yet to come. God will use that for the chastisement of Israel and the exposing of the hearts and attitudes of the nations of the world, of their attitude towards Israel. Think of this intoxicating dream almost like a a truth serum. Everyone must drink from the cup of Israel. It is a stone in all of our pep. Will it provoke you to rage, inadequacy, or trying to delete Israel? Now they had their chance. Or does it cause a change in your heart? Well, it says, I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah. On that day, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All of the nations will gather against to try to move it, but they will ultimately hurt themselves. When we overlay that today, who attacked Israel on October 7? Hamas. Hamas. Terrorist group based out of the Gaza Strip who also has a political faction to their terrorist organization because the Palestinians living in Gaza ever since 1946 when the nation of Israel was created, what about the Palestinians? What about the Palestinians? We want our own place. We want our place. Our own place there was given to them the West Bank and the Gaza Strip under Israeli supervision and through suicide bombings, stabbings of civilians, bombings of Sbarro pizza places, continuous raids on Israeli citizens. We want our own state. We want our own state. We want our own state. Israel said, okay, fine. Unilaterally, unilaterally pulled out of Gaza in 2005. Here you go. Hamas, a terrorist organization, seized control and rewarded Israel by pulling out in 2005 with more bombings, border attacks, terrorist activity, and we see the single biggest terrorist battle in 2007, most of a year ago, had it. Yes, what did I just say? 2007. Oh, yes, there's a fact. 10/07/2003, Prayshur, thank you. Biggest terrorist attack from Hamas. Coming to remove the the rock of Israel from the river to the sea. Palestine will be free. Push the nation of Israel into the ocean, and then we'll be free. Ephesians, just silly enough, the what they called the mission for October 7 was the name of the Dome Of The Rock. Al Aqsa, Day of Freedom. And Al Aqsa is the mosque, not the Dome Of The Rock, but a mosque situated right near there. Exactly right. So what happened to Hamas as a result of their terrorist attack on citizens of Israel. What was the end result of Hamas? We got hurt. They were literally ground into dust. And just to add to that, even Hamas, Hezbollah, and and the Fouthis, Israel is, like you said, grinding them into dust, but ultimately, this destroying is free Iran. That because they're they're the source of all of this and yeah. So so it is commonly known that Hamas fights Israel as a proxy Yes. For the country of the Iranian regime. Yep. Hamas has been reduced to dust at the unfortunate cost of some collateral damage of Palestinians. Wreck. Regrets. Heartbreaking. So it is Hamas who chooses to set up their mortars and their rockets in schools. They have a basement, hospitals, on the balconies of homes, in parks where embedded within the citizens of the nation or of the people of of Gaza. Hamas tries to remove Jerusalem, and they throw their back out in the midst of okay. So let me ask you this. What happened October 8? October 7, Hamas attacked Israel. What happened October 8? Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets into murdered Israel. As thinking that while they are being distracted and the nation of Israel is focused on Gaza and in Southern Israel, Hezbollah thought this is our chance and they just took a big old drink causing them to become intoxicated thinking that now is their chance with their enemy being distracted. They could attack and take out Israel. How successful has Hosfullah from Lebanon been? No. Not. I think the greatest illustration of verse three is last week, Iran launched hundreds of missiles into Israel. And who was hurt? One One Palestinian. Israel is fighting a a seven front war right now. You don't see this necessarily on Baghdad, and the Sikhsim. They're fighting Hamas in the South, Hezbollah to the North. They're fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen. Do you know that the United States Navy just this week sent guided missiles to take out strategic targets in Yemen? The United States Navy is landing missiles in Yemen to keep seaports open in the Gulf Of Akaban. Yemen has launched missiles against Israel. They're fighting, Syria, Iraq. We talked that Hezbollah was an honor. Iran. And then the the seventh front of this seven front war is the avalanche, the flood of anti Semitic propaganda against Israel. Everyone must drink from the cup. The question is what effect and impact does it have on you? Does does drinking from the cup of Israel cause you to be more sober? Or does it cause you to reel my drunkenness and to lose your footing? Remember when the soldiers came to to arrest Jesus in the Garden Of Gethsemane God. In the Gospel of John. And they they said, Where's this Jesus? Jesus stepped on and said, I am ze. And it says, They just fell down. I can just picture like, you know, like moving special attack. Good stuff, stuff, stuff. Kid lost their footing. I would say too, like, being over there, and I would encourage anybody to go, like, sitting here thinking about intro about everyone's going is a different feeling than being there. And when you're there there's this heaviness of there's just a spiritual heaviness like I've never felt before in my life. When you're there you have all these people praying in this one place Arabs, Jews and they really only have three people. Have Arabs, Jews and Christians is what they consider their group. Okay so if you're not Christian from America you're an Arab or you're a Jew you know that's really their sex but for the most part there's this heaviness that I've never felt before. And should you feel that heaviness, you do start to it's almost like a drunken feeling. It's almost like, even for me as a Christian, having these same beliefs about Israel, it was still hard for me to process. I had a lot of emotions and feelings about Israel being there. And it's like some was anger, some was disappointment, some was regret. And so it's easy to sit here and think about it, but when you're there and realize what they're going through and being in that region, which has definitely has some spiritual significance, just being in that land has spiritual significance. But feeling the emotions and they weren't all good emotions. There was some negative emotions against Israel being in Israel. I don't know why. That heaviness that came on through the spiritual forces and the battles that's going on there spiritually that we don't understand here in America. It's a different feeling. It's a different thing. So I guess it's one thing to look at it as from a brand point of view, like we see these different countries coming against Israel. But when you're there, you understand it's pressure from all sides. It's the whole grain is like pushing against Israel, you know, and you feel it spiritually, feel it in the air when you're there. So I would encourage you to go there if you ever get a chance and you can and just feel it. We'll try to book a new win in 2025. We'll go. Great. We'll go. Yeah. We'll go up to next. We'll probably we'll roll out details in January. We'll go on 2025. Torrent, a couple of quick takeaways as we start to land the plane. There will be a real power, the the most vibrant fulfillment of Zachariah chapter 12 on that day, which means when Jesus returns. When Jesus returns, the nation of Israel will recognize him as their Messiah. I believe because he will descend back to planet earth in a similar manner that God descended on Mount Sinai. Every Jew understands and remembers the story of God coming down to visit with Moses and the people of Israel on Mount Sinai. I believe that Jesus will return to planet earth within our generation in a similar manner that will be unmistakable. And he will then lead an army to liberate Israel, to rescue refugees that have been out in the desert seeking asylum. Maybe in the wilderness of Jordan, Rauphetra. They they call it the land of Edom back in the bible. Yes. And then he will lead those people to retake with mean, it's kinda hard to imagine, but just trying to paint some accurate F sixteen, F thirty five grand years, a burped, tangents, men and women, and millions of saints who've resurrected bodies, I don't know what that's gonna be like to retake the city of Jerusalem where the Antichrist has set up the abomination that causes desolation in the temple. It will defeat the antichrist and his armies. And on that day, verse six, I'll make the claims of Judah like a flame that sets a woodpile ablaze, like a burning torch on bombshells of rain. They will burn up all the neighboring nations right and left while the people living in Jerusalem remain secure. I will give victory to the rest of Judah before Jerusalem so that the people of Jerusalem and the oil of David will not have greater honor than the rest of Judah. On that day, the Lord will defend the people of Jerusalem. The weakest among you will be as mighty as King David, that there will be a retaking as Jesus leads, recent captives in his thing to retake the city of Jerusalem. And once the city of Jerusalem has been retaken and, and everybody's, and Israelis are done beating their chests, and we're like, we did it, we did it. They're gonna look back at the commander of the liberating forces of this man, Jesus who has returned to me like, My my gosh, you're more than just a brilliant ground force commander. You're more than a, oh god, you are asleep. And they will collectively have a a memory of the ones that make you pierce. And be like, Bye. Then they stagger and breathe, but then more. To land the plane, the goal of today's conversation is to fill our hearts with hope. I know that whatever it is that you may be going through right now, today, it could seem as though this topic of conversation really far just to remove, like how does that help me find a job by the end of October? Right? How does this help me climb out of debt that I'm in? How does this help knowing this? Does this help to repair my marriage? Like, like, I understand that you're going through very real and practical things right now. But in the same way that Zechariah was speaking to the remnant that had returned from Israel and were looking for hope and comfort. And God said, well here's what I want to talk about. In a similar way, bring whatever it is that you're going through to him and listen to his heart speak to you about what's on his mind to your heart, Israel, and a coming day of freedom, redemption, vindication, and a season where we will just as you said that you didn't celebrate and be at peace and be be at the light at the end of the tunnel. Amen. And in fact, God has a really quirky annual family tradition where he invites his people, his family, to go camping for a week. Where they can set aside all of the stuff and the things and the busyness and go camping with Him, like literally camping with Him where we can rest and rejoice in His goodness and in his provision and in his promise that he's gonna make everything work out and that all we need is just him. When you're camping, Nancy, you don't have your bedroom, you know, your pediatric plus napstress. What's it called? Contemporary masks, just get to the like, like part of the beauty of camping is you just strip down to this simplicity. And so Jews know that God, family tradition of the Lord as Sukkot, and last year our tribe really celebrated Sukkot by going camping for a whole week. And that holiday fell from like a Sunday to a Friday. This year it falls on like a Wednesday through next Wednesday. So, do you have that that picture on that calendar? You can see here Wednesday, October 16, calendar Saturday at Zainzema. No, that's October. October. So like coming up really soon. Yeah. It's coming up really soon. We are going to, as a tribe family, for anybody that can, we're going to go camping for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then Saturday night we break camp and come home. And here's what a lot of people did last year. They, if you have a camper, you can park in there. We have a tent, you can set it up, or if you're a kid in your band or whatever, people would just come come down to where we're camping after work, and then just we'd be together. Some people had to get up early to go and work. Some people could stay like that old time, like Clay loved it, you know, just stayed out there a couple of times with his little kids server and many stuff. How don't you miss this one? Oh you miss this one. Eventually he had standing down. Oh well. Next week, next week we'll give you better instructions about where we're going to be, but last year we were up Little Granite Creek. This year we'll also be up Little Granite Creek. There's little to no sales from this up there, as you probably know, but if you can come each night, if you can come for like, like all of those days, probably what we'll do is set up a camp down there, and then during the day we have appointments and meetings and things, we go do our working. But then we'll come back down in the evening, we'll have dinner together, whatever you're bringing down to cook, and I'm like, see how you all every night, but I certainly might have some European eats. We'll try and and breakfast, and then come back up to your normal work. And we'll talk a little bit more about this next week. But when do you read when you read Zechariah chapter 12, and especially verse two, verse three. We talk about sober October. This is a month to pray deeply of sobriety, to have a double head on your shoulders about what's unfolding in Israel, to know to not be thrown off by a false narrative that will cause you to stagger and reel and fall down, but to be sober on God's truth. What does he say about Israel? What does he say about the land? What does he say about the people? That though the land perhaps could trouble and suffer, his finger is still on it, and there's something about the land and the people and his covenant that he would never forsake. And knowing that, we can anticipate and look forward to Sukkot, which is when we get to dwell with him in simplicity and in completeness. So no matter what you're going through, if it feels like you are under attack on multiple different fronts, Hold your ground. Hold your breath. It's the enemy that will throw his back out. So, Lord, help us. Yes. Help us to think rightly about Israel. Help us to to think rightly about your truth. No matter what we're going through, help us to to have a supernatural understanding that your finger is on our lives. May that any rocket lobbed against us will just fall into the sea, keep fall on unpopulation areas. We thank you that your spirit hovers over our lives like an iron dome protecting us. I really Comfort us in the very just where we're going to, and, Lord, we pray specifically for Israel. We will protect the people of Israel, Cookers. Will you get the wisdom and prudence? And, ultimately, that that they would have their eyes open to look upon one of their heads pierced. Heal their blindness, heal their brokenness. And, Lord, we pray for the remaining hostages that are still being held in captivity. They're being used as human shields to protect leader of Hamas Semler somewhere in total. Be with them. Protect. We pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Stand up, and I'll pray for you. Lord Jesus, I command a blessing. Hold our triumphant family. Give us a great week. Fill our freezers full of meat. Look at what you said. Fill. Help us to enjoy this beautiful fall weather. We pray in Jesus' name, the strong Son of God. And everybody said it. Amen. Amen. It's fine. Stay sober. I love you very much. You have a great piece of her.