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That's to the middle. If you could, that would really help the ushers get more people in. We've got people in the overflow now, and, uh, there are still more people coming. So that would be a great, great, uh, help for sure.
So, uh, tonight, we want to, uh, thank you for coming here tonight. We know that you didn't have to come here, even though I begged you to come, but you came, thank God, of your own accord. And we want to thank the audience that's viewing live. This is one of our, one of our, uh, really a unique, uh, live broadcast, uh, on the Real Life Network because our sermons are normally done live on Sundays and Wednesdays. But this is the first special event where we're having our Real Life Network, uh, subscribers joining us from all around the world right now on that, on the Real Life Network. So we are grateful and we want to say hi to all of you.
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So again, I want to welcome all of you, uh, who are here tonight, both physically and that are joining us on the broadcast. And, uh, grateful for those that are even making their way to the overflow, uh, area tonight. A little bit of housekeeping rules, uh, that we need to make mention of tonight. And having said that, and that I have your attention right now, it's necessary for me, uh, to make, uh, the following announcement before tonight gets started. And it is this, and I quote: "As required by the various legal councils retained by Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, the following announcement is required and must be made public as a matter of record. It is a federal crime to disrupt a religious worship service in any way that is deemed a hindrance or does threaten the protection afforded by the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment protecting the freedom to exercise religion. Anyone seeking to violate the law during this service will be removed, arrested, and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. It is Calvary, it is Calvary Chapel Chino Hills' desire, not our responsibility, to let all independent be made aware that there are local, county, state, and federal law enforcement officers and agents that are present for tonight in the, in, in this service to defend your freedom to gather and to worship." So we appreciate that.
So my brief words for this evening to get it started is simply this: that we've gathered to stand with Israel. And contrary to the news, and contrary to what is on, uh, the feeds and the, the media, the 15c TikTok, uh, clips that appear to be taking the world by storm, we all need to take a deep breath and realize something that, uh, a lie, uh, travels around the world twice, Mark Twain said, before the truth gets its shoes on. And I want you to think about that tonight. Uh, tragically, there's so many young people who have fallen victim to their news source being TikTok and Shorts. And so they form their opinion, they begin to protest, and they begin to say things or wave a flag, uh, or, or get into the streets, not, not even knowing exactly what they're doing. Because when asked, "What are you doing this for?" they can't describe or define why they are standing in opposition to the existence of Israel. And yet, we have certain nations in this world today like Iran, uh, that are saying that they will not stop until Israel ceases to exist. Well, according to the Bible, Iran is going to someday vanish. But according to the Bible, the God that established Israel said in the Book of Amos that once He brings her back into her own land in the last days, she will never again be uprooted. So that's the word of the Lord. And we need to remember that. It also says a lot about a people group that cannot eat or sleep or live or breathe without thinking of the destruction of the Jew and of Israel. That is a very sick and, and demented situation. And I'm being nice, it's most likely demonic. But anti-Semitism is something that is throughout the scriptures. And for the record, I just want everybody to look at history. No nation on Earth that went up against Israel is in existence today. Think of that. Those despots and rulers that sought to remove a Jew from the Earth, they're now gone. And there's a reason for that, friends.
But today, as we look around at our world, we see what Solomon said is so true. There's nothing new under the sun. And as we look at the strange dialogue that we're hearing today, I wasn't alive in the '40s. I may be old, but I'm not that old. I, I didn't see all the news that my dad saw and those that lived in the late '30s when the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism. That once that horrific story played out, people con, uh, uh, conveniently forget that Hitler's death toll was north of 11 million people. We most often think about the Jewish loss of life. A lot of people forget that Hitler killed over one and a half million homosexuals. Do you know that? And, and the rest were people that were either Germans or not who did not believe in Hitler's agenda. But the world sat by and watched as evil had its day. We must not sit idle. We cannot be silent. We will refuse to be silent because silence is agreement. And we will not do that.
There is a bond. There's a bond between the United States and Israel that is unrivaled by any other country or countries in the world. Number one is this: that Israel is the only nation created by a sovereign act of God. The second is this: Our Pilgrim Fathers looked to the God, they said, of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they prayed to the Lord that He might be generous to us, the colonies, as He kept Israel, that He might give birth to this nation. The bond between the United States and Israel is because we worship the same God. And that is an ongoing revelation in our countries and in the world around us. But let's be sure of this very thing: the United States is not a replacement for the nation of Israel. In fact, without the nation of Israel, there would not be a United States. That can be proven in history.
And so, before I say anything else, we're going to have a time of offering our love and our adoration to our God. And when we quickly put this night together, the first name out of the gate was, of course, Marty Goetz. Marty Goetz has been around the world blessing, blessing believers and leading us in incredible worship. And Marty is one of those remarkable, anointed, not only musicians. That's not enough. He's a mus, mus, mu, musician. Nary, try to say that fast. Gosh, I sounded like Joe Biden there for a minute. He could have done it better than me. Like a missionary, a musary has been Marty Goetz to the world. So church, let's stand and give a warm welcome to Marty Goetz tonight.
Thank you. But God bless you. Well, while you're standing, why don't we sing together just to begin? Sing with me, "How Great Our God." Sing with me, "How Great Our God." All will see how great, how great is our God. How great is our God. Sing with me, "How Great Our God." Oh, we'll see how great, how, how great is our [Music] God. The splendor of the King, clothed in majesty. Let all the Earth rejoice. Let all the Earth rejoice. He wraps himself in dark to hide, and trembles at His voice. Trembles at His voice. How great is our God. Sing with me, "How Great Our God." Oh, we'll see how great, how great is our God. How great. One more time. How great is our God. Sing with me, "How Great Our God." Oh, see how great, how great is our God. And age to age He stands. Time is in His hand. Beginning and the end. Beginning and the end. The Godhead being one. Father, Spirit, Son. The Lion and the Lamb. Lion and the Lamb. How great is our God. Sing with me, "How Great Our God." Oh, we'll see how great, how great is our God. And in Hebrew, God, Elohim. [Music] Elohim. Let's hear you sing. [Music] That Elohim, name above all names. The name above all names. Worthy of all praise. And our hearts will sing, "How Great Is Our God." Yes, He is the name above all names. Worthy of all praise. And our hearts will sing, "How Great Is Our God." [Music] How Great Is Our God. Sing with me, "How Great Our God." Oh, we'll see how great, how great is our God. You're the name above all names. Lord, You're the name. Oh, You are worthy of all praise. And our hearts will sing, "How Great Is Our God." You're the name above all names. You're the [Applause] [Music] name. Oh, and our hearts will sing, "How Great Is Our God." Once again, in Hebrew. [Music] Elohim. How great. Sing with me, "How Great." Oh, we'll see how great, how great. So then sings my soul. Then sings my soul. My sing, "How Great Is Our God." How great, how great are You, Lord? How great Thou art. Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee. How great Thou art. How great Thou. How great Thou art. How great Thou. [Music] [Applause] He is my defense. I shall not be moved. He is my defense. I shall not be moved. Can you sing with me on that? He is my defense. I shall not be moved. He is my defense. I shall not be moved. Psalm 62. Oh, Lord God of Israel, You are the God of all nations. For Your good news is to the people of Israel first, and then to the nations. But You alone are God. As we say, Shama Israel. And for tonight, we say, Adonai Eloheinu Melech Ha'olam. For tonight, that's how we're going to sing it for this special evening. And I'd love you to sing the chorus with me. And if you'd like to, when we get to it, clap your hands. And if you want to clap in Hebrew, it's from right to left. I don't know if you knew that, but I'm sure Pastor Jack has taught you that. My soul wait thou only, only upon God. For from, from Him is my. My soul wait thou only, only upon God. For from Him is [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] my. That's it. Make a joyful noise unto the only God. He is my defense. I shall not be moved. He is my defense. I shall not be moved. Yeshua, He is in my defense. I shall not be moved. He is in my defense. I shall not be. Beautiful. My Messiah. Only He, only is my rock. He's the horn of my salvation. You know, our Lord, our Lord, only He, only is our rock. He's the horn of our [Music] [Applause] [Music] salvation. So we think, He is my defense. I shall not be moved. He is my defense. I shall not be moved. Yes, He is in my defense. I shall not be moved. He is in my defense. I shall not be [Music] moved. You are my defense. [Music] Lord, we sing, You are my defense. I, I shall not be moved. You are my defense. I shall not be moved. You are our defense. You are our defense. We shall not be moved. You are our defense. We shall not be moved. Three times a day, the Jewish people say this. I said it growing up in Cleveland, Ohio. Never believing what's a nice Jewish boy like you doing at Calvary Chapel in Chino's Hill, Chino Hills? But praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Lord, thank you for Chuck Smith and his love for Israel. Thank you for Pastor Jack, the pastors of Calvary Chapel all over the world. Amen. [Music] [Applause] Hallelujah. We sing, Shama. [Music] Israel. [Applause] Adonai. [Music] Oh, Lord, You are our defense and we shall not be moved. You are our defense. We shall not. Oh, yes, You are our defense. We shall not be moved. You are our defense. We shall not be moved. Let's sing for Israel. You are their defense. Oh, yes, You are their defense. They shall not be moved. You are their defense. They shall not be moved. Yes, You are their defense. They shall not be moved. You are their defense. They shall not be moved. He is my defense. There shall not be moved. He is in my defense. I shall not be moved. No, shall not be moved. No, shall not be moved. No, we shall not [Applause] [Music] be. And you may be seated for us a moment. I'm here with my beautiful wife, Jennifer. Uh, Jennifer Yaffy from New Jersey. See, I said I was born in Cleveland, but she was born in the Holy Land. She was born in New York City. So she's the, she's the real deal among us. But we are really going to hear from some, uh, authentic folks that are in the fight. And Jenny and I are just so, just so blessed to be asked to be part of this. First, uh, awareness I had of this new land of Israel was through a show that my parents used to listen to, a record. And, uh, Jenny thought it might be a nice song to sing, just because it's a, it's a great anthem, so to speak, about the early days of Israel. You know, we see now, a lot of you, a lot of you, uh, have been alive. Israel has been alive as long as you have been alive, or you've been, Israel has existed in your lifetime. But it was not always so. It, like, only came into being a few years before I was born, back in 19. Pastor Jack said he's old. I'm really old. But, uh, you get, get the feeling of this song is kind of like the sound of the pioneers of that land and what they thought of it. So if you, with your indulgence, I'd like to sing this song called "Milk and Honey" because, after all, Israel, according to the scriptures, is the land of milk and [Music] honey. This is the land of milk and honey. This is the land of sun and song. And this is a world of good and plenty. Humble and proud and young and strong. And this is the place where the hopes of the homeless and the dreams of the lost combine. Oh, this is the land that heaven blessed. And this lovely land is mine. One more time. Yes, this is the land of milk and honey. This is the land of sun and song. And this is a world of good and plenty. Humble and proud and young and strong. And this is the place where the hopes of the homeless and the dreams of the lost [Music] combine. This is the land that heaven blessed. And this lovely land is [Music] mine. So what if the earth is dry and barren? What if the morning sun is mean to us? This is a state of mind we live in. And we want it green, and so it's green to us. For when you have wonderful plans for tomorrow, somehow even today looks fine. So what if it's rock and dust and sand? This lovely land is mine. When you have wonderful plans for tomorrow, somehow even today looks fine. So what if it's rock and dust and sand? This lovely land is mine. Oh, yes, this is the place where the hopes of the homeless have and the dreams of the lost combine. So this is the land that heaven blessed. And this lovely land is mine. This lovely land is mine. [Music] Let's just finish with this prayer. This is a prayer. You know, Yeshua gave an indication about His return as Messiah for those who believe in Yeshua. Now, there's all kinds of different interpretations, but from my point of view, the Messiah is coming for His people, Israel. That's who He's coming for. And He's coming for everyone else that believes in the God of Israel, correct? So, what is His calling for us as believers? We are to be watchmen on His walls. We are to be intercessors. That's what this night is all about. You are standing on the walls of Jerusalem, so to speak. You are standing on her walls. You're giving God no rest until He makes Jerusalem, Jerusalem a praise in this Earth. Amen. Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how Yeshua cried. How I long to gather you to me. Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Messiah wept for you. So should should we not be weeping [Music] too? For Zion's sake, I will not keep silence. For Zion's sake, I'll not hold my peace. For Zion's sake, for Jerusalem, I will not rest. I will not rest. I've said, "Watchmen on your walls, oh Jerusalem. They shall never, never hold their peace." Oh, day and night, all you who call upon the Lord, call upon the Lord. For Zion's sake. Can you pray that and sing that with me? For Zion's sake, I will not keep silence. For Zion's sake, I'll not hold my peace. For Zion's sake, for Jerusalem, I will not rest. I will not rest. Lord, make us watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem, and we will never, never hold our peace, day or night. Oh, we who call upon You, Lord, we'll take no rest. Rest. We'll give You no rest till You make Jerusalem a praise in the Earth, a praise in the Earth. For Zion's sake, I will not keep silence. For Zion's sake, I'll not hold my peace. For Zion's sake, for [Music] Jerusalem, I will not rest. I will not rest. I will not rest. Oh, we, we, we will not rest. We will not [Music] rest. [Applause] Well, God bless you all. Thank you, Pastor Jack. Marty, you're awesome. We love you. Awesome. So great. So great. Can be seated. Before I introduce our special guest for tonight, I want to remind all of you that God has promised to bless those who bless Israel. In Genesis 12:3, the Lord said of Israel, "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse, and all peoples on Earth will be blessed through you." God spoke there unto Abraham. And Abraham, of course, being the father of Israel. Secondly, we know from scripture that as Christians, we owe a great debt to the Jewish people for their preservation of the scriptures for over 3,000 years. Think about that. The Bible that you have tonight, that you love, you cherish, you study, came to us through the stewardship of those of the Old Testament. The scholars that, in preserving the word, so reverent was the word of God to those ancient scholars that their process of honoring the word and transcribing the word bears the test of not only time tonight, but of all elements of scrutiny. The Bible in its original language is flawless, perfect, inspired, word of God breathed. Bible. We're thankful for the Jews that preserved the word. Think of that. And I'm not going to mention all the other stuff, by the way, is how if it comes to winning Nobel Prizes, it's, it's the Jews. What's with that, right? Inventions, your, your cell phones, your computers, on and on it goes. There a people that God said, "I've chosen you." And He reminded them, by the way, just to keep them humble, in the book of Deuteronomy, He said, "Don't think I've chosen you because you're special than anybody else on Earth. He said, I actually chose you because you're very stubborn." And God said, "Yet I'll save you." That's, that brings hope to all of the rest of us, right? But we are endeared to the Hebrew prophets who told us who to look for regarding the coming of the Messiah. In fact, Paul, Saul of Tarsus, Paul the Apostle, as we know him, in Romans 15:27, says, "For if the Gentiles have been partakers of God's spiritual blessings toward the Jews, then it is our duty to minister to them in material things." And Jesus said Himself, "Salvation is of the Jews." Think of that. Where did God first reveal salvation, according to His ancient prophets, to the Jews? According to the word of God, Romans chapter 3:2, the Bible tells us that for you and I, we have been recipients of God communicating the word, the oracles of God, through the Jewish people. And tonight, you know, most of us in this room, not all of us, but most of us in, in this room are Gentiles of skin. We're Gentiles of skin. I, I join in with the scriptures and what Rabbi Paul said, that there are those who, who are circumcised in the flesh, but they don't worship God. But that God is looking for hearts that are circumcised, not with the circumcision of men's hands, but with the circumcision of God's hand, and the cutting away of the unbelieving heart, the love of God, the forgiveness of God. And my favorite prophet in the Old Testament is Isaiah. In fact, for, for my Jewish friends who are viewing right now, who may be here right now, what you may not know is that the prophet Isaiah is the most, most quoted prophet in the New Testament by the Jewish authors. The Jewish authors of the New Testament quote Isaiah more than any other prophet. I find it fantastic and awesome that Jesus Himself quoted Deuteronomy more than any other book of the Bible. What does that mean? Well, it means this: In Isaiah chapter 49, the Bible says, "Is it too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept? I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the Earth." My hope tonight is in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I may be a Gentile on the outside, there's nothing I can do about that, but on the inside, I worship the God of the Jews. On my ring, it says, "Your people shall be my people, Your God my God." And I thank God that in His grace and His abundance, the gospel first went to Jerusalem, to Israel, and then to the uttermost parts of the Earth. And for that, I'm very thankful.
So tonight, we are honored this evening to have with us the Consul General of Israel. His background is extensive. Born in Bethan in Northern Israel, a place that many of us have visited, by the way. He served in the Israeli Defense Force and the Golani Brigade. That is an amazing group. We know we have visited with them in the past. Graduated from Bar-Ilan University and earned his Master's in Communications at Fordham University of New York. Israel Bar was appointed General Counsel of Israel for the Pacific region in May of 2023. He is the founder and CEO of Baron Strategies. Consulate General, also, of course, of Israel. He has been a close confidant and advisor to many influential politicians in Israel and is often consulted for insight and understanding. He has led a global campaign and advised non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations in the fields of telecommunications, finance, and energy. Mr. Barar is a regular contributor on Israel's most popular news channels, but tonight we have him to ourselves. Give a warm welcome to the Consul General of Israel, Israel Barar.
Dear friends, it is wonderful to be here with such a joyful gathering of believers. I stand here representing the State of Israel at its darkest time in its modern history. On October 7th, our nation was forever changed as the people of Israel awoke on Simchat Torah, a holiday celebrating the Holy Bible. Hamas infiltrated our border and unleashed a reign of terror unlike anything the world has ever seen. It was the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Hamas slaughtered our families in the most brutal ways imaginable. Holocaust survivors were gunned down in their homes. Whole families killed and burned. Women raped and then murdered in cold blood. Babies beheaded, and one baby burned alive in an oven. And hundreds more young people were murdered, but at a music festival for peace. The atrocities that Hamas committed against Israel proves again, this is not about territory. This is about terrorism, antisemitic terrorism, global terrorism. And make no mistake, Iran is the architect. Hamas is the proxy. Iran provides the funding. Iran provides the training. And Iran provides the hate. Iran wants to drag us all back to the caliphate of the 7th century with the overriding goal to kill all Jews and annihilate Israel. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is a battle of good versus evil. To continue its train of terror, Hamas took 240 hostages to Gaza. Men, women, children, the elderly, and even babies were taken captive. And trust me when I say, we are determined to bring all of our hostages home. Every waking moment, the hostages are foremost in our hearts and in our minds. We will not relent. We will not stop until we return them to their families. And when will we learn from history? When dictators and madmen vow to destroy you, believe them. Believe what they are saying. In 1939, we couldn't fight back. In 2023, we can, and we are. We will destroy ammunition. We will find every bunker and hand down every terrorist. Hamas will be destroyed. As it says, I brought my Bible, as it says in Amos chapter 1, verse 7: "I will send fire into the wall of Gaza, and it will consume its palaces." That's exactly what's going on now in Gaza. And when Israel dismantles the terrorist regime on its border, America will be safer, the world will be safer. And when we restart our military operations, we'll do everything in our power to minimize any civilian casualties, keeping our moral compass intact. Let me share with you one example: Shifa Hospital in Gaza. We knew the danger. We knew that it was being used as a Hamas command center. And yet, we brought in incubators for newborn babies at the risk of our, of our soldiers' lives. Hamas kills and kidnaps babies. We risk our lives to save babies. [Applause] Hamas believes it can win over God's prophecy and its fulfillment. They believe it. They seek to destroy us and to make a liar of our prophets. But they will never win. We know they will never win. Nobody can win against the Bible. As it says in [Music] Hosea, "Elohim, I will plant them in their land, and no longer shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them," says the Lord your God. Zionism is the story of prophecy fulfillment. And Zechariah proclaimed, "Thus says the Lord of hosts: I will save my people from the land of the East and West. I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be faithful and righteous to them as their God." In this house of believers, we know the prophecies are now being fulfilled. We can see prophecy all around us. The gleaming of the city of Jerusalem, the ingathering of the exiles. And believe, Israel will remain strong and will prevail in this war against evil. And we will do it with you, our Christian friends. And we are dependent on you in this dark hour. All of you in this room, our faithful allies. And Pastor Jack, you are a legend among the Israel community. I'm proud to call you, in Hebrew, a brother and a friend. And we need our Christian friends now more than ever. Unfortunately, rallies for brutality fill the streets of every nation. Israel's enemies are everywhere. They are distorting the truth, lying about our people, and our soldiers, and our nation. But we have no fear. We know we are guarded by the God of Israel, who promises not to slumber or sleep. We know with friends like you as watchmen on the tower, truth and justice will prevail. Just a few weeks ago, I was in Washington at the largest Israel rally in U.S. history. Hundreds of thousands of people from all backgrounds and faiths declaring their support for the Jewish homeland. I saw a battalion of lovers of Israel. While I was there, I visited Congress. I met Congressman. I saw the support of the American nation and of the American people as our greatest ally. I want to thank the American government for immediately deploying carriers to the region to deter Hezbollah, a move that saved thousands of Israeli and American lives. We are now living in a historic moment in Jewish life and the life of Israel. And I ask you to take action. I call upon you to expand the ranks of the battalion of lovers of Zion. We must amplify the command for Zion's sake. We cannot be silent. If there was, if there was ever a time not to be silent, the time is now. And at least those who understand that anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are the same fruit from the from the same poisonous tree of Jew hatred. And at least those who stand boldly and proudly for Israel. And at least those not willing to accept anything less than zero tolerance for anti-anti-Semitism. And at least those who pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they shall prosper. Those who love thee. This moment is a dark and difficult moment. But in the midst of this darkness, there are rays of light. The light is seen in Israel's unity and in Israel's humanity. We see that light in our brave soldiers who fight fearlessly. And we see that light in our friendship with the Christian world, such as you, who have stood proudly alongside us, shoulder to shoulder, proclaiming truth, no matter the cost. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your care and for your prayers and for your strength and your faith. Let me assure you, the people of Israel see you. The people of Israel feel the love and the support, and it lifts and strengthens and protects them. And we need it. And they need it back home. And now, join me in the three most important words of our lifetime. I've noticed that you know Hebrew, so let's do it together. Am Yisrael Chai. The people of Israel live. Second time. Am Yisrael Chai. The people of Israel live. Thank you for this evening. Thank you, Pastor Jack. Thank you all for your [Applause] support. My brother, beautiful. We're going to pray soon, but not yet. We have now the opportunity to go live. He has, uh, gotten up very early. I feel for him. But, um, many of you will recognize Daniel Cohen. He, yep. So he, um, as an award-winning journalist in Los Angeles and now Middle East correspondent for Newsmax. Daniel and his precious family have been dear friends of this church. Daniel and I have the opportunity to text each other several times a week now with all that's going on. I love this guy. I love his passion. Um, and he loves you. So Daniel, we're going to just go live now to wherever you're at in Israel. Let us know. There he is. Yy y. Hey everybody. Hey, Pastor Jack. I just need a second. It's moving. Wow. Consul General saying, "Am Yisrael Chai." Man, it really, right to my heart. And you're, you're a really gracious welcome to me and to your church and to everybody there. I'm, uh, my heart is touched. It's an honor to be with you here tonight. And yeah, like I said, Jack, it's early in the morning here in Israel. I'm in the Tel Aviv area, 10 hours ahead of you. But it's an honor and it's my pleasure. So, first, let me tell everybody, hi. A little bit about me. Jewish believer in Yeshua, Jesus. Three, I'm an American-Israeli. I'm the grandson of a Holocaust survivor. And I am the Jerusalem correspondent for Newsmax. Now, if that sounds like a lot of boxes to check and you're trying to figure how that works out, let me just tell you, people here, I'm a bit of an anomaly as a Jewish believer in Yeshua. So people really can't figure me out. And, and I'm okay with that. One thing that I get a lot from people is that you can't be Jewish and believe in Jesus. And I remind them that Jesus is Jewish, and that I believe He, He is who He said He is, Messiah. Two Jewish parents, four Jewish grandparents, and I'm 100% Jewish. So let me give everybody a little backstory. It's important for context. Three years ago, God plucked our family out of our comfortable Southern California life and planted us here in Israel. And the reason at first was for our children to meet their great-grandmother, my grandma, who is an Auschwitz survivor. And I have to tell you, this was a miracle. God literally, the, the blue sky and the Red Sea to bring us here in the height of the pandemic. The country was locked down, the airport was, was closed. They let us come when they weren't letting Israelis in the country. God gave my wife and I a promise that He was sending us to Israel. And it didn't make sense, but over time, it became clear that God was planting our family in a new post here in the land. And we've been walking by faith and just trusting in Him ever since. We saw pretty quickly the geopolitical tension that, you know, exists. The occasional rocket fire. Yes, this is not new. What's happening, well, wait, let me take that back. There was rocket fire. We've seen terrorist fire rockets from Gaza. We've seen the terror groups, you know, trying to, from Lebanon, right? Hezbollah. October 7th was different. Everything changed. Yes, for the last 55 days, my family, my wife, my kids, my, my boy, my two girls, 11, 9, and six-year-old, have been living in a war zone. And most of those days are, uh, under rocket fire, running to and from bomb shelters. The red siren, there's an app on our phones that goes off. We know when the rockets are incoming. As a journalist trying to cover these stories, I, I watched Iron Dome picking off rockets as I'm standing there doing live reports for Newsmax. And if I'm having to run for cover, I know my wife is having to run for cover. So we call, "Hey, are you okay? Are you okay?" "Yes, we're okay." It's, uh, it's normal. It's, uh, it's abnormal. But people here have gotten used to it, and shouldn't, and shouldn't have to. The first days of this war were really frightening. I mean, we, we didn't know if Hezbollah from the north was going to join in the rocket fire from Hamas in the South, the Houthis and neighboring Syria. I mean, Israel, as you know, is, Jack, you teach so beautifully, but it's hemmed in by enemies on all sides. And my wife and I were, we were on our faces praying. I mean, praying like we've never prayed before, praying for peace, praying for direction, praying for understanding, for clarity. And sometimes it was just like, just trying to get a deep breath. Our friends and our family, they wanted us to leave. Gave us a peace to stay. And ultimately, we realized that the best place for us to be is in this, in God's will. And even if that didn't make sense to the rest of the world, and to make sense to the world, that's what we decided. And that's what we've been doing. And I've had the opportunity to share incredibly powerful stories here from the land for the last 55 days. Our three beautiful children have been sleeping in our bedroom with the door locked. They sleep on camping mattresses, you know, on the floor. 55 days, everybody. But yeah, I know. But they're, they're scared. I mean, they're frightened. And we understand it. I mean, we can't shield them from everything that's going on around us here. It is everywhere. It's in your face all the time. There are three hostages from this neighborhood that I'm talking to you from right now, whose faces and names are plastered all over the city. Kids see that. They have questions. The kids' teachers, coaches, our friends, there are parents that have been deployed. They've had to leave their families. The IDF has called up 300,000 people to protect this country because Israel's house was invaded. And so here's what I want you to recognize, okay? First and foremost, this is a spiritual battle. The spirits and principalities are pure evil. Evil manifest in the terrorists who are doing Satan's work. I mean, demonic forces that have been attacking God's people over the millennia, the centuries. And God's plans cannot be stopped. [Applause] Depending, you may have also this out already too, but there's a huge war on information and really an assault on the truth. Thank God that He positioned me here for such a time as this, just like Esther, to be a watchman on the walls of Jerusalem. I was one of the journalists invited to a closed press viewing of the unedited raw footage of the massacres on October 7th. My wife and I prayed about going or not. You know, really letting those images in the eyes, the window to the soul, right? And do I, I have kids. I know what they did to kids. Do I want to see that? Can my heart, can I handle that? Right? Even as I think about what I saw now, I'll never shake some of that. But as a journalist, as a Jew, as a grandson of a Holocaust survivor, I felt a duty that I needed to be there. And as prepared as I thought I was, I've seen some things as a reporter, you see things, right? But this, it was impossible to be ready for this. It was sickening, uh, demonic, disturbing. They showed no mercy. Um, no one deserved to die the way they did. And this may be upsetting to you, but you know, the Army didn't even want to show us. They, the, the Israeli Army, before they showed us this 43-minute video, said, "We, we don't want anyone to have to see this, but we're showing you because people don't believe it." And a friend of mine who's high up at the IDF said, "Dan, we, we didn't even show you the worst." You may find this upsetting, but after they did all the things, and let me tell you, it happened, it's true. All this, I'm not going to go through the laundry list, you know, but they urinated and defecated on dead bodies of the Israelis, of the Jewish people that they had just slain. And they wore video cameras. They wore, they wore GoPros. They wanted to invite the world in to see, at the, to glorify the atrocity. How do you capture that in words? How do you describe that? And people, intelligent people, refused to believe it happened, accused me of making it up. Watch the live shot, it's on my Instagram right after I, you can't. They said it was, uh, AI. They said I was acting. Some of my reports have been censored, no explanation. But I'm determined to continue just telling the truth. That's the job that God wants for me here. So, for weeks, I've been posted in a place called Hostage Square in the heart of Tel Aviv. Hundreds of family members, desperate to know how their loved ones are doing. They have people that have been taken, ripped out of their beds. October 7th, Saturday morning, Simchat Torah, which is the day that Jewish people celebrate God giving the Torah, right? It was a holiday. And people that don't know if their loved ones are alive or dead. Babies that were taken, were they getting their diaper changed? Were they getting formula fed? Who knows? Can you imagine the psychological terror that that would do to you if that's your family or your loved one? They just, they would sit there holding signs and just wanting to share their story, anybody, anyone that would listen, like, "Please help." I've sat with these people as they cried, as tears just rolled down their face, and this righteous anger would just come out of them. We are close friends in this community with a family who had five loved ones, five kidnapped by Hamas. And praise God, this week, just a few days ago, two of the children in this particular family, they were released. Their father is in captivity right now in Gaza. But two of their loved ones were murdered. It was an 80-year-old woman with a heart condition and a 13-year-old girl who had special needs. That's who Hamas killed. So I'm taking my position right now, and I'm taking my place here, no matter the cost. And I'm touched by all of you. What does it look like to stand with Israel? I can tell you firsthand, people's hearts here have been ripped, ripped. And as painful as it is, we are seeing Jewish people come to faith. The veil is lifting. Hearts are softening. We need the church to stand with Israel. We need the church to harness the power of the Holy Spirit and stand in the gap, intercede now, never before. We need the church to exercise her spiritual gift, intercessors. Pray. Get on your face and pray for strategic victory. Pray for supernatural protection for the soldiers here. For a spiritual awakening to continue, that the people here would seek the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And for comfort. And keep it up because this is a marathon. This is going to be a long battle. I know firsthand a soldier in Gaza right now who had an angelic encounter last week. There was a miracle story. A soldier was shot, and he had a small book of Psalms in his uniform pocket that stopped the bullet. I mean, wow. Google it. Look it up. It's incredible. There are stories that are coming out. I would encourage you, ask the Lord today where He wants to put you in this fight for Israel. Ask Him today how He can use you. He may send your family to the Middle East, probably not like mine, but He may do something even greater. And all that takes on your part is saying yes. Just say yes. Say yes. Whatever the Lord puts on your heart, "Yes, Lord." God can't move parked cars. Say yes. And just watch and see what God does. And lastly, I'll say this: There is opportunity right now for the church to love the Jewish people in a radical way. To break the stereotypes that, that the church, that Jewish people believe the church is anti-Semitic, that you're just trying to convert them from Judaism. You can be Jewish and believe in Yeshua. You can. It's not a conversion. You have an opportunity right now to love the people of Israel, to love the Jewish friends and your neighbors, people at school, at work, in your life. Those people, I promise you, on the outside, they may look okay, but, mhm, they're not okay. Anybody with a connection to this land, deep down, they're not, they're not okay. They need to be comforted, and they need to see, and they need to experience the radical love of Jesus. And you can be that. You can be the hands and feet. You can do that. Amen. So I would just encourage you, go love, love those people in your life. Love them boldly. Just love. Just love them. Let the Holy Spirit do what the Holy Spirit does best in the hearts of men. Amen. Jack, as I, as I send it back to you, I just want to say, you know, one other thing. Today is November 29th. In 1947, today was the day that the UN approved the partition plan to create two states, to create a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Israelis, the Zionists, in that moment, the Jews accepted. They said yes, and created this prosperous, wonderful nation. Right? And the Arabs didn't. And we can see they've been at war ever since. But that decision in 1947, the partition plan, today, November 29th, 1947, was huge in the creation of Israel. 1948. I was at the Knesset today in Jerusalem, and there was a prayer, just solidarity event as well. Speaker, Speaker Mike Johnson has prayed a beautiful prayer. But the prayers of a righteous man are powerful and effective. They are powerful and effective. So I would just tell you, remember, it's a spiritual battle. And pray. You know, as a Cohen, the Kohanim, they were, their duty was to pray a blessing over the, over Israel, the sons of Aaron. And so, Jack, I want to pray the Aaronic blessing, Number Six, for you in Hebrew, and I'm going to send it back to you, okay? And if everybody, if you want to extend a hand, extend a hand toward Jack or toward the stage or not, but I'm just going to say, Shalom, Shalom, Shalom. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you.
You may the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace and give you his Shalom. Amen. Love you, love you, love you, Daniel. Wonderful. We're going to close in prayer, and to lead us in prayer is a lover of Israel. She's known for that. She's the CEO and president of Concerned Women for America. She's a nationally recognized author on cultural issues, children's issues, women's issues, named as one of the top four most powerful, outspoken pro-life females. She's a Newsmax contributor. She's been recognized as among the 100 most influential evangelicals in America. She stands with the Israeli Alliance Alliance Foundation as one of the top 50 Christians in standing for Israel. Penny Nance is a leader on the issues of pro-life messaging and policy. She has appeared on all of the news channels that you all know. She's been a featured in numerous, uh, time, uh, publication or, uh, one that contributes to the New York Times, the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. And Nancy served on President Trump's Life Advisory Council and was blessed to work in and out of the White House. And so Nancy is going to lead us, or Penny is going to lead us in prayer tonight. And that means if you stand in prayer, if you kneel, if you want to get on your face, do it. But she's a woman of prayer. She is a fighter. I met her, I think it was at a Trump Gathering. I was on President Trump's Faith Advisory Team. She was on the Life Advisory Team, but, um, just a woman who brings heaven down in prayer. So give a warm welcome to Penny Nance.
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Shalom, shalom. You may be seated. I'm going to get you back up though in just a minute. You know, uh, I've heard a lot from people recently wondering, where are the women in this country? The fact that Israeli women were beaten, that they were raped, they were gang-raped, they were murdered, and where are the feminist groups? But let me just tell you tonight that Concerned Women for America and our Young Women for America leaders and the women of faith around this country and in this room are standing for [Applause] Israel. Concerned Women for America are women like you, and many of you are our members, by the way, who are standing for the truth. There's not your truth and my truth. There is the truth in the public square, and we will not back down. And this is our moment to speak. You know, as an is on the move, God is working. I am seeing miracles. And by the way, none of this is a surprise to God. He knew this moment was going to come. He's looked through the ages to this very moment. And I'm seeing things happen like, who knew a no-name congressman from Louisiana was going to be elected Speaker of the [Applause] House? My staff asked me when he was elected, "Do you have a picture of you and Mike Johnson?" And I know Mike Johnson. I'm like, "No, I never knew I needed a picture with Mike Johnson." I mean, he's one of, you know, 545 members, but he's a great man, and he is a godly man. And it is nothing short of a miracle that he was elected speaker. Now, joining me tonight is Marlo Tucker, who's our state director from California. If you stand up real quickly. And also, um, Faith Ozen, who's also our Young Women for America leader from California, from this area, and she's a member of your church, actually. We have 250. You saw just a few of these Young Women for America chapters around this country. You know, when this all happened, we said immediately to our Young Women for America leaders, "Go to the Israel rallies." Because of course, we're seeing horrific anti-Semitism breaking loose on college campuses. And we're like, "Sure, like, immediately the other people are going to stand up." Nope. Our young women said to us, "There aren't any." And we said, "Well, we're going to fix that." So you saw a few, just a few of the rallies we've done. At least 10 already, and more to come, because we're going to stand for the truth on college campuses all over this country, and we are going to speak truth in the public square and stand for Israel. So, support for Israel was one of our key issues that CWA added, um, in 2013. And we have seven core issues. Of course, we're well known for the life issue. We stood on the steps of the Supreme Court for the overturn of Roe v. Wade. It's a moment we will never, ever forget. My father was a pastor from Appalachia for 51 years, and he passed two years ago, three years ago now. And, uh, in memory of him, because he's the person who taught me to respect life, and that God knit us together in our mother's womb, and we're fearfully and wonderfully made, regardless of where we come from, or our cognitive ability, or our physical ability, or our socioeconomic status, God loves us and he made us, and we must protect that. So I wore his ring around, because he'd already passed away, around my neck on a gold chain to remember him. But I also have to feel like at this moment, he's one of those clouds of witnesses that are leaning forward, because he also taught me to love Israel. And I've always loved Israel. I was raised to love Israel and understand Genesis, understand the Abrahamic Covenant, right? To understand those who love Israel, support Israel, he will bless them that bless thee, he will curse them that curse thee, and all the world will be blessed by you. And Pastor Jack talked about that. And we've seen that. Anybody that's had a PET scan that came from Israel, so many of the things we're able to do in agriculture came from Israel, all the things, the technology that we have came from Israel. And they just want to exist. There's 55 majority Muslim nations in this world, and one Jewish state. But this all changed a little bit for me when, when in 2013, I took my first trip to Israel. I was a guest of an organization called APAC. And when I was there, we saw, of course, the religious sites, and we met, went to the Knesset, and met members of the Knesset, which is their Congress, and saw amazing things and understood the real geopolitical issues around Israel. Well, one of the things we did is we went to Yad Vashem. Many of you may have been to the Holocaust Museum in, in Washington D.C., and you should go if you haven't. But if you can go to Israel and go to Yad Vashem, you need to do it. And you start out, and you walk into the museum, and you walk across a bridge coming from the outside into the building. It's beautiful and bright and white. And you walk over some, uh, a bridge that has a noise. And I'm, you know, I'm just kind of talking, and all of a sudden I'm like, "What is that noise?" And they said, "It replicates the sound of the trains taking prisoners to Auschwitz." And so through sight and sound, you understand what really happened in the Holocaust. You see the joyful faces of Nazi soldiers as they murdered Jews. You understand. You see the shoes, you see the pictures. And then when you're done with that, you leave, and you go to another area, and it's the Children's Memorial. And you walk in, it's like almost underground, and you enter in a cylindrical room, and in the middle of that room is one candle. But that candle, in your completely dark cylinder room, is reflected by thousands of tiny mirrors, and it looks like stars. And by the way, a candle is the traditional way that Jews mourn death. But also in that room are pictures of children who died in the Holocaust. In fact, 1.5 million babies, children died in the Holocaust. And as you stand there and you walk through the room looking into the faces of these children, you hear their names and their ages and their countries of origin. So it sounds like this. And these are real names: Maria Kaczka, age 10, Denmark. Edith Frank, aged 12, Germany. Gregory Schei, age three, Austria. And on and on and on it goes. Into, you would go for over 50 hours if you stood there long enough before it gets to the end of 1.5 million children. And when you walk out of that room, you come back into the light, and you see a sign that says, "The road to Auschwitz was paved with apathy." Think about that. As we collect ourselves outside this horrific testimony, until what happens, we understand that the Christian Church didn't stand up. We weren't there. And of course, there's some notable differences. You go to the Righteous Among the Nations, the, the beautiful trees also on the property, and you learn about amazing people who for no personal gain risked everything to do the right thing, to protect the Jews. And of course, many of us know Corrie ten Boom, right? She's one of those. And so you get to the end of that, and there's a lot to think about. So in my experience, I left Yad Vashem, and we were going to Masada on my tour. And I hadn't been feeling well. And the tour guide asked me, "You're, you're dehydrated. I want you to stay behind." And I said, "Okay." And so I stayed in the cafeteria, but I was really, you know, there was a lot going on in my head, and I was really processing. And, uh, maybe noting it, a Jewish woman ended up sitting by me and striking up a conversation, the way strangers do. And she said to me, "Are you here on a tour?" And I said, "Yes, I'm here on a tour." And she said, "What have you been learning?" And I said, "I just came from Yad Vashem." And the question that is tugging at my heart and nagging at my heart is, if I had been alive between the years of 1938 and 1945, if I were in Nazi-occupied Europe, what would I have done? What would I have done knowing that if I took Jews and hid them in my home, which is the right thing to do, I could go to the camps? And I kind of decided, and I thought about it, and I said, "You know, I think maybe I could do it." But then I remembered I have children. And if you bring some, you hide Jews, you all go, your children go with you. What would I do? And the woman said to me, "Don't, don't you think I see you have a cross on? Don't you think that your God would give you the grace to do the right thing?" And I said, "Well, yes, but it's not his character that's in doubt, it's mine, right?" And she said, "You know, I don't think you're asking yourself the right question. The right question to ask, because you will never be able to figure out what you would have done back then. The question to ask is, what will you do now? What will you do today?" And I'm asking you that question: What will you do now? Because the goal of Hamas and terrorists and Iran is there to be Holocaust 2.0. There's no question. Matthew 25:40 says, "Truly I say unto you, as you did unto the least of these my brethren, you did to me." What are we going to do? As unto Christ, we are called to this moment. I'm not sure why people didn't see it before, but we see it. We know. So here we are. In 2005, at, at the end of the second intifada, Israel withdrew from Gaza unilaterally, giving them the whole thing. They even dug up their dead and took everyone out. And not everybody wanted to go because Jews had been there for decades, but they made them leave. But it wasn't enough. And then, of course, we know that the ceasefire officially ended because Hamas broke it on October 7th. And guess what? It took about 10 minutes for the world to turn and blame the Jews. The worst atrocities that I have maybe seen in my lifetime that I actually knew details about, and so did everyone else, and immediately, in about 10 minutes, it was Israelis that were blamed. College campuses exploded in violence in the days after the Hamas attack. In Australia, a video was taken of people chanting, "Gas the Jews." In LA, a man was screaming, "Kill the Jews," and he tried to break into a family's home. At Coral, the Jewish Center received bomb threats, and students were threatened by mobs. In Indianapolis, a woman tried to drive her car into what she believed was a Jewish school. Students in New York have been forced to hide in their library because they were fear, in fear of mobs. Teachers have been threatened for attending a pro-Israel rally. Acts of anti-Semitic violence have risen more than 100% in the two, in two months, just in the last two months. It's now "Never Again" is now. C.S. Lewis said, "There's no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan." And this is one of those moments. So are you ready to fight for Israel? We're going to put on our armor, and we're going to fight in the spiritual realm for Israel tonight. So stand with me if you would. Let's call out Angel armies. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you prayer points, and I'm going to give you a few minutes to enter into corporate prayer, silently or even out loud. Pray with all your heart for Israel. You can stand, you can kneel at your seat, however you feel led at this moment. Pour your heart out for Israel. So, first, I want to ask you to pray for peace for Israel. Psalm 122:6-8 says, "Pray for peace for Jerusalem. May they be secure who love you. Peace be within your walls and security within your towers." "For my brothers and companions' sake, I say to you, peace be with you." Jesus cried over Jerusalem. He saw through the ages, not just for spiritual reckoning, but also for what we have seen, the pilgrims, the Holocaust, all of this. So if you'll join me now, quietly, let's pray for peace in Jerusalem.
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Dear Lord, our heart breaks for what breaks yours. Dear God, we pray for your people. Father, we pray for protection. We pray for leadership. We pray that you will have a great anointing at this time for the Israeli people. And God, we pray that they are able to wipe out Hamas. Lord, we know that you, your heart is with them, and so is ours. We pray this in your name.
Next, we're going to a time of prayer for the victims of Hamas. And I'm going to show you a picture. I'm just going to tell you a quick couple of stories that I want, just want you to know about in order to sort of have a frame of reference. This is Abigail Adar. She turned four in captivity. Her story is that she lives in a beautiful little kibbutz called Nir Oz, right on the border of Gaza. Which, by the way, these aren't the right-wingers living in this kibbutz, right? These are the people who want peace and a two-state solution and open borders. I mean, these are the people who were living in peace and harmony. And on that fateful morning, little Abigail was out on the street with her father. And while she was gone, her Hamas terrorists came in. Her brother and her sister, ages six and 10, were there, and their mother put them in the safe room. And then he murdered her. He did not kill the children, but they had to wait for 14 hours without food, without water, with their mother's dead body to be rescued. And when they saw that their mother was dead and he had left the house, they ran out to the street looking for their father. And they saw their father holding little Abigail. She was three. And they saw a Hamas fighter shoot him and murder him while he was holding Abigail, and he fell over on top of her. So they thought she was dead too. So they ran back into their safe room, as they'd been trained to do by their mother, took their phone, and texted family members that lived further away. But she wasn't dead. She wiggled out from underneath her father's dead body, covered in his blood, and went next door to the neighbor's house. These are people that live in community. She knew these people. And as we all would, they took her in, took her into their safe room. And the father, being a good man, went out to try to defend the kibbutz. And while he was out, they were all kidnapped: his wife, his children, his three children, and Abigail. We've prayed for Abigail. You saw her picture in the videos. We've prayed all over this country for Abigail. But I can just tell you, praise the Lord, she's come [Applause] home. But their story doesn't end there, because she's come home as an orphan with no parents, in a long road ahead of her to recover. I want to show you another picture of the Bibas family. That's little Kfir, who's 10 months old, and Ariel, who's four, and his two parents. They lived in another kibbutz, and they were taken. But this time, there's not a happy ending. We're looking for that baby. There's been word that because they play psychological games, we don't know. But there's been word that they were murdered. We don't know. The IDF is still looking. But God can do anything. God knew ahead of time that we were going to be praying here tonight, right? I believe in retrospective prayers. God's above time. And so there's about 150 people still, still in captivity. These are elderly people, some of them are Holocaust survivors. These are young men, and these are women and babies. So join me right now in prayer. And let me say before I begin, that in, we've been taking, we've been, one of the most deeply honoring things I've ever gotten to do in my entire life is we were asked to take families of these, these captives, American families. And by the way, Abigail is American. And connect them with members of Congress. And by the way, we have 24 hours to do it. But Concerned Women for America, we know what we're doing, and God made a way. And we brought them to seven women senators in one day. All together, to a one crying and thanking them and pledging their support. And then that was Cindy Hyde-Smith put that together for us, senator from Mississippi. Pray for her. And then Kathy McMorris Rodgers, who's a dear sister in Christ and an incredible prayer warrior, brought together 15 House women members, Democrats and Republicans. And I literally sat across the table from Debbie Wasserman Schultz and nodded along with what she said. That was a miracle. There was not a dry eye because we all know, and we looked at the pictures, pictures of little Abigail, and we said, "Remember this face when this war gets messier and messier and messier, and they continue to blame the Jews. Remember when you have no respect for life, and you use people for as human shields, innocents die." And so I prayed over those women, over those families, this verse is from the Nevi'im, from their book, Jeremiah 31:15-16: "Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more. Thus says the Lord: Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work, declares the Lord, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy." Let's pray this right now over the [Music] [Music] captives.
Dear Lord Jesus, we lift up the captives. We lift them up now as those that are still imprisoned. And God, men, women, and children, I pray that you will bring your Angel armies around them, that not one hair on their head will be touched. And if it is, that that person will be struck dead in front of everyone. God, you are powerful. You have a flaming sword of justice, and we pray that you bring it and protect these little ones. And God, for baby Kfir, 10 months old, God, I pray that you will deliver him. And God, if he is dead, I pray for your justice to follow. Lord, I pray for the victims as they come back, women who've been assaulted, children who've been assaulted, families that are broken, coming home to dead loved ones and broken lives. God, do a miracle. Do a miracle for them and show us how we each can help. We pray in Jesus' name.
You know, I, uh, I was also invited to come to the Israeli Embassy and watch the 46-minute film that the IDF cobbled together. And as he said, it wasn't even necessarily the worst from the GoPro cams on the bodies of Hamas, from the dashboard cams, from the cell phones of the victims. Cobbled together something that I can only describe as 46 minutes looking into the pit of hell. I have never, ever been able to conceive of such evil. But what I was shaken by, almost as much, is the joy with which these evil terrorists did their evil deeds, the way they perpetrated their evil deeds with joy. We even have the cell phone footage, and I heard it, of a Hamas terrorist calling from the cell phone of a dead woman to brag to his parents that he'd murdered 10 Jews. His, his son, with their own hands. He bragged to them, "Put Mommy on the phone." It's like he won a Grammy. And they were proud. They praised Allah for it. That is satanic. It is absolutely out of the pit of hell. And the people that face that head-on right now are the young IDF soldiers, and, and other countries, Americans in supporting roles, but going into the battle are, are young men and women who, who are 18 years old. They serve in the IDF before they go to college, which makes me start to think about our colleges. They need something. They're different people. And these are the young people that are going in, fighting complete and total evil. So let's pray for them tonight. Let's lift them up for protection before the Lord. Isaiah 62:1 says, "For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her salvation a burning torch." Let's pray for that burning [Music] torch.
Dear heavenly Father, these young men and women who are well-trained, but also someone's children, kind of like our children. God, we pray for them. We pray for their older commanders who are making very hard decisions, and every decision means lives. God, protect them. God, I pray that not one more young IDF person will die. I pray, God, that you will protect them with, again, with Angel armies surrounding them. Go forward in front of them and beat back Satan. God, Father, we pray. Amen.
I want to pray for innocent Palestinians, because we know in every conflict, the people that are hurt the worst are the innocent. Hamas has no respect for life. They take great pride in using their own children as human shields. There are a thousand Christians right now in Gaza hiding in churches, and we're working hard to get them out because they're afraid they're going to be slaughtered next. And guess what? They will be. So we want to pray right now for the innocents. Let's pray for Christians. Let's pray for innocent children, people who want out, who want to be protected, but have evil leadership, which a nation weeps and groans when they have unrighteous leaders. So let's pray now. "Truly I say unto you, as you did in the least of these my brethren, you did to me." So God, we offer a cup of water for the least of these. Let's pray.
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Dear God, you see every little life. You love children. You love innocents. You love them meek. Lord, will you protect them? Will you pull them away from the places that are in danger? Will you help them heed the warnings that the Israelis give when they say they're going to bomb a building that they know they have innocents in? Will you stop Hamas from not allowing them to leave? Will you allow them to go where they're safe? Father, and just go before them. And God, for our Christian brothers and sisters, Lord, I pray for, um, Joel Rosenberg and others that are trying to move them into other and safer places. Make a way, God. And also, Lord, make sure that in that net, that none slip through that are of evil, that only your people are freed and taken to the West Bank or wherever you have them to go.
And finally, let's pray for our nation. So many things, so many things. Who knew that you barely scratched below the surface and outpourings of evil, poisonous anti-Semitism was I alone at being naive at that? We're dealing in a country that sexual nihilism is rampant. Men, the fact that there's men and women are in question in some people's minds, confusion of young minds is being, people are being profited. People are profiting from it. We've killed about 60 million babies in abortion. We're not caring for our elderly in some cases, and people love self more than God. That's how you know it's then times, right? You know all the things that I saw in that 46 minutes of hell, all of that is a $700 flight away from here, or perhaps a trip across the Rio Grande. We need to prepare. Pray for our country to return to God, and we need to pray for protection for America. And as I said, God's not surprised. He's putting his people in place, and he's got you here now. This is your time. This is your moment to stand, to act, to pray, to advocate, to educate. This is our time to come forward. So join me in prayer for the United States.
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Dear heavenly Father, we come before you tonight asking for one more chance for America. God, we pray that people's hearts will return to you. God, we pray as a church that we will be the, the essence of Christ, that when we simply walk into the room, that people can feel the Holy Spirit and know that we are your people. Lord, help us to speak words of love, words of wisdom, words of truth. Lord, help us to advocate for what's true and good and pure. God, I pray for the safety of America. Lord, I pray that you will withhold any ability for terrorists to do their evil deeds and hurt innocents on our shores. God, I pray that you will give our leaders wisdom to be one step ahead, always one step ahead. God, I pray for our members of Congress. God, I pray specifically for Mike Johnson. God, I pray that you will protect him and his family, and that the many things that have been happening to him and his family, that will be stopped. It will cease at this moment. Yes, Lord, that you will protect them bodily, spiritually, in every single way. Father, that you again will empower him to stand for truth. God, I pray for the Senate. I pray for Chuck Schumer. Yes, God, I pray that you'll help him to continue to stand for Israel. And I pray for wisdom for our leaders to cut off the funding that is, is going from Iran to these ideological evil people, either in our universities, the Hamas terrorists, Hezbollah, all of those. God, that you will stop it. Lord, God, give us way, give us strategies and wisdom. God, I pray that above all, as your people, that we will stand for you, that we will say, "Never again. Never again. Not on our watch." God, we will stand before you with our bodies, if needed, to protect the innocent and the weak. God, we are called in your name to care for the least of these. Lord, and tonight we commit, we recommit anew, that tonight, going forward, we will pray, we will act, we will advocate, we will educate, and we will vote, and we will stand for truth. We ask this in Jesus' precious name. Amen.
Thank you. Amen. Thank you. It's a great honor to be with you all tonight. God bless. Thank you. Awesome. God bless you. We end with this. Daniel said it perfectly. If you were listening to him, he said that for a Jew to come to Messiah is not conversion. Think about that for a moment. For us as Gentiles to come to Christ, that's conversion. The Jew, all they need to do is to wake up to their scriptures. You see, we've been grafted in. The Bible says the Gentile has been invited in to what is known as the Commonwealth of Israel. That's why God came. Imagine, as a Jew, Jesus was born in Bethlehem. He had to be. Jesus presented himself as King in Jerusalem. He had to do that. He was born of a virgin. That had to happen. He had to be rejected and crucified between two murderous thieves. That had to happen. He had to have his beard plucked out of his face, according to Isaiah chapter 50. That had to happen. He had to ride into Jerusalem and weep over Jerusalem on the back of a little donkey that no one had ever ridden upon before. That had to happen. He had to suffer the nails being put through his hands and his feet. That had to happen. He had to be the Son of God. That had to happen. Everything I just told you is in the Old Testament scriptures. I've mentioned nothing about the New. The God of salvation is the God of Israel. Israel exists today, a second time, as a nation. Christ said this would happen before the end of the world, that before he would return, Israel would exist again, and he, God, would come to Jerusalem. Amen. That's why Jerusalem is always on the brink of being besieged. And Satan knows that to thwart that, in his eyes, is to kill every Jew and to destroy the nation, thus preventing Christ from coming back. It's not going to work. Trust, trust the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and trust the one who said, "I am the one who ascended, and I am the one that is descended. I am the Creator. I'm the one that holds the wind in his fist and the hollow of the seas and the fold of his robe. That is my name. And what is the name of my son, if you can tell me?" Proverbs had to say that a thousand years before Jesus was ever born. See, our faith is founded upon fact, my friend. So, Lord, I pray that you would bless all these that are here tonight, those that have been with us on the broadcast. And we pray that, Lord, yes, you would come even this night for us. And as your word tells us that you could come at any moment, while at the same time, Father, we pray for such a great salvation. We give you our lives tonight. We trust in you, you who are mighty to save. We pray in Yeshua's name. And all of God's people said, amen.
Marty, you want to close us with a song? God bless you. We'll stay for just a moment longer. Tikvah means hope. It says, "As long as the hearts of the Jewish people still sing, as long as their eyes look to the east to Zion, their hope is not lost. Their dream is fulfilled of a place, a safe place, a land of their own, the land of Zion, the land of Jerusalem, the land of Israel and Jerusalem." I think we have the words. Can bring them up for us if you know it, please sing it with me.
Call Lord.
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May the Lord, may the Lord bless and keep you. May his grace and his face shine upon you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace and give you [Music] peace. [Music] Shalom. The assembly. Shalom. This is the way you shall be blessed from day to day. He be your rest. Lord, be our rest. May the Lord, may the Lord bless and keep you. May his grace and his face shine upon you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Be your shalom and give you peace. Lord, watch over everyone as they go. Thank you for these watchmen on your walls. Thank you for these believers in you. Thank you for your children, for your people, your people who love your people, who say, "Your people shall be my people, and your God shall be my God." And as we are all in one accord in the Lord together, may he give you peace, be shalom. And Lord, bless this place and our Pastor Jack and all the people who helped put this night together. Let's thank them for this. Thank you, Lord. May he give you peace. Lord, you are our [Music] peace. [Applause] [Music] Go in peace. Shalom, everyone. God bless you and keep you in the name of Yeshua. Amen. [Music]