But I told you some time ago that I'd like to do this, and so I don't want to take a whole lot of time, but I do think it's extremely important. It's important prophetically. We're talking about the land of Israel. The more we hear it coming up, I think it's important that we understand why that we support Israel the way we do, not just in our prayers, but in our country. That land is God's, and so he has mentioned it so many times in the Bible, over 170-something times it's specifically referenced. and I'm going to spare you and not read you all those. It's about nine or ten pages. You better be thankful my printer didn't work tonight because I'm going to have to preach from my phone because my printer wouldn't work. So, Michael, if you would take us to that, I'm going to have to switch back and forth and give Michael the names of the files that I'm going to use to go through this, so you just bear with us. We're going to have to switch back and forth on some of these things. Let's see if we can get this working. The one that says on? Hey, looky there. All right, it's going to be tough. Some of these, like I said, some of these I've just pulled off the internet and I've tried to weed through. There's so many opinions on everything that we're going to face. And I'll be honest with you, disputed among some of the best people. And so I try to just get the most biblically accurate representations to use because I think it's going to be extremely hard for you if you don't have some kind of visual in your mind about this land. So we'll do our best, okay? You just pray, the Lord will help me. If you'll turn with me in your Bible, let's start in the Word of God and then we'll move around somewhat. and I'll try to go slow and it's going to be kind of more teaching like I guess talking about these things but it's extremely important and so God promised some land to a man and we'll go back and look at that but it's referenced if you remember as we went through And we were dealing with, in the book of Hebrews, if you'll remember how that in, let me just start reading verse number 10, God is not unrighteous, forget your work and labor of love, Hebrews chapter six. I forget the work and labor of love which you have showed towards his name and that you have ministered to the saints and do minister. And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end. That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham, Because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, saying, surely, blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying, I will multiply thee. And so after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. That by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil. Whither the forerunner is for us entered even Jesus made a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. So as we came across that portion of scripture there, We went back and I'll read you some of these. If you wanna turn to them, you certainly can. But there is certainly back in Genesis, if you wanna turn to Genesis 15, you could probably find me there. And we'll catch up there with you shortly. But I wanted to start back from the very beginning, okay? So we're not gonna go into this much. Michael, you're probably gonna have to switch. Well, stay right there. That way you won't switch back and forth, but you're probably gonna switch to one. So here we have just a world map. Now, the reason I started with this is because we have to go back to the very beginning. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, right? And so God, out of his, loving kindness, mercy, and grace created the heavens and the earth. And he put a man to dwell there and live on this earth. And with that man, the Bible said, God walked with him in the cool of the day. And so we've got to remember in the beginning, it starts with a relationship between God and man. And at the end of days, God is once again gonna walk in the cool of the day with mankind. His feet are gonna stand again on the Mount of Olives and from Jerusalem, He is gonna rule and reign with a rod of iron. Now, you can allegorize that and categorize that and do whatever you want to with it, but I believe in the literal interpretation of the word of God, and if he said he's coming again, he's coming again. And if he said his feet are gonna stand somewhere, you can count on his feet standing there. And if Job said that he was gonna stand there, then I believe he's gonna stand there in the latter day upon the earth. So, What's important about this land, I wish I could, I may post it for you, but Dr. John Phillips does a great sermon and he deals with how that sin didn't begin on earth, right? Rebellion against God started in heaven. But God chose earth and God chose a tiny little place in the middle of that earth to wipe away the sins of the world. To deal with all sin for eternity, God chose to make a little bitty land in the middle of that little land that he made. God determined that he would come and wrap himself in a robe of flesh and die for the sins of the world and be buried and raised again. And God said that little land was His, and it's important to God, and it ought to be important to us. Now I'm getting excited. It's not Spain. It's over here, okay? I'm getting excited. There we have Egypt, Saudi Arabia, right there, smack dab in the middle of our little map. We can put two hands on it. Right there, the little place named Israel. Now, I chose to show this first because in the beginning, there's so many various, there's so many various beliefs here. I'll just give you mine because I don't think it matters too much. I'm not quite sure that I believe in Pangaea. This idea that that there was just one blob of land. Go to that map, Michael, let's see. I think it's about the last picture. Here we go, right here. See this? And then the tectonic plates, y'all remembering all this? We don't wanna have science class here today. But they believed that at one time, all the continents were connected, didn't they? And then over billions and billions of years, Better watch that gap theory stuff. I don't believe in billions of years, do you? Believe in a young earth. But they believe all these continents split off sometime, you know, the flood and this and that and the polar reversals in the ocean and blah, blah, blah. But they forget one thing. Ken Ham believes that now. He's a pretty sharp guy, smarter than me. But there's another man, y'all know him, I'm not gonna mention him because he's not done right for a while. But think about this. All this stuff's connected anyway, only difference is there's water on top of some of it. So I'm just giving you my opinion. I believe when God made it, it looked just like that. Now, I'm not saying they haven't shifted the half, you know, but I don't believe in millions of years from here to here, okay? But in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And in my opinion, the earth looked just like that. Now, that ain't gonna make you go to heaven or not, but I think I chose to start with the other map, because that's what I believe it looked like when God made it. Now, obviously not flat, go on with that flat earth stuff now. It's the circle of the earth. All right, calm down. So, all right, go back to our map here, Michael. So in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and God gave us, God gave this land, and in that land, God also put a garden, didn't he? according to the Bible, well we oughta turn to some of this. But most of us on Wednesday night, most of you know your Bible, and you oughta be able to follow me okay. I'm not gonna say anything that's gonna be outlandish or anything. So, now God put the garden, see what kind of picture, I've got it in there, Michael. Let's see if I can find it. Yeah, it's in there. You see Garden of Eden? Start with the first one, we'll go to the second one. Because everything you do, there's two different opinions from people. This drove me crazy, fellas. I thought everybody believed the same thing. Okay. Well, yeah, he can zoom in far. Now I'll go back to another map, I'm gonna show you, this will be easier to see. But according to most people that we would trust, they would put the garden somewhere along the Euphrates River. Now that's important to us because that's in the promised land. You say, why doesn't this matter? It doesn't matter, I just like to see it all work out. I want you to think about it now. God was walking on the earth before Calvary. God was a spirit. How was God walking? By the manifestation of himself in the person that always manifests. I believe it was Christ walking in the... And Christ was walking with the... Let's put it this way. The sun was walking with Adam. The godhead was walking with Adam in the cold of the day. Where were their feet walking? In the midst of a land. Right? And so God, most people kind of believe, and I'll show you in a better map so you can see it. Not that it matters to you, but it matters to me because I got excited about thinking about this. I got to thinking about God stepping foot on a piece of property that he promised Abraham. And you know whose feet are walking in it before Abraham gets there? Melchizedek's walking up and down that land. You know where Salem is? Salem's Jerusalem. That's where Melchizedek was walking in the midst of the promised land. Oh, yeah. Isn't that just what made you want to kick your heels up? Man, you are going to walk in that land with him one day. I don't have to go on a holy land tour. I'm going to walk in that land when I come back with him. Amen. Hallelujah. But most people, again, not that this matters, but I want to follow logically on this land that's very important, that started out, God said in the beginning, let me read this verse to you. Here's what God had to say about this land. He said, well, of course we know Psalm 24, the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein, right? Now here's what the Bible said also, which covenant he made with Abraham and his oath unto Isaac and confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting covenant saying unto thee, will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance when they were but a few men in number, yea, very few and strangers. So he told the same group that he's gonna give the land to in Leviticus, the land shall not be sold forever, for the land is mine. You hear that? Who owns that land? The Palestinians? Do the Jews owe that land? God owns that land. And he said, I'm gonna put you in there, I'm gonna give you that land, but you're a sojourner in that land with me. He's got another land. But listen to me now. He said, that land shall be sold. The land's mine. Your strangers and sojourners in the land with me. Now, so this land that God made, who was walking in the garden with Adam in the cool of the day, in the person of Christ, his feet were in this land. Now we'll get a better picture. Go to the next picture. See if it backs up in it. Not at all. Is that, yeah, I probably did that so you could see it better. See the Euphrates River, that picture you just saw, was really more likely up here. After the flood, this encroached on up. Either way, here's the Euphrates River. You come on down through here, you've got Lebanon and all that, and you've got the land of Israel down here along the Mediterranean Sea. But this whole land, see down here, you see Egypt over here? Just pretend with me. From there all the way over to the Euphrates. From the river Nile, from the river of Egypt, all the way to the river Euphrates. God gave it to Abraham. Now there's other people living in it. Iraq, this whole area is Mesopotamia. Remember when God calls Abraham out of the Ur of the Chaldees? Most people put Ur further down here. I think it's up here. But again, I gotta disagree with everybody. So God's promised this land. The guard was here, God was walking in this land, and then Adam sinned in the garden, right? Genesis 2, God gives you the Euphrates, He gives a definition of some rivers and some places of where the garden was in Genesis 2. But Adam sins in the, well, No, Eve sinned, and then he listened to her, right? No, man sinned and fell. God kicked him out of the garden, didn't he? Okay, so from there, when God kicks him out of the land, I'm just trying to follow this thing through with you so that we can get up to, I want to get up to the more modern times, because I think it's important that we need to know which side we're on and we need to know why. It's important in my opinion. And so the land first belongs to God. And I want to give you this verse. You might want to remember this verse and why else I think this is important. It's important prophetically. It's important prophetically. Is it just an allegory? Is it just something that, or is it talking about a physical land where he's gonna stay? And it's important prophetically. It's important when you think about judgment, Joel chapter three. You can go there if you want, but I'm just gonna read it to you, I've got it. In those days, in verse number one, and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance. My people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land. God said he's got a bone to pick with some people. I'm gonna have it, I tell you what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna deal with some people and they're gonna receive judgment from me because they took my people and scattered them off my land and then they divided up my land. Now that's pretty important. God does not say anything not near as much, of course we know the earth is the Lord, he owns it all, but there's not near that personal ownership and judgment that falls on a place like it does here in the promised land. That is God's land, he owned it, and we better stay out of God's business when it comes to this land. And if God said he wanted to give it to Abraham, I'd tell you what I'd do if I lived there, I'd get up and find somewhere else to go. Because God, it used to, people had that kind of fear, but they don't now. They don't fear God anymore, but they will. God's gonna take all of them and he's gonna bring them down in judgment because they divided, they spoiled his inheritance and divided up his land, according to Joel. Now, zoom back on out, Michael, on that other, so we can just follow along with me here. So, God's gonna walk again on land he once walked on. We're gonna be there walking with him. Here's where it started. It started, you got that world map, Michael? I think that was that last picture. You can zoom in a little bit there. Right here, most of you can kinda see it, I hope. I've got some better pictures. I don't try to get to here in just a minute That'll help us see what we're gonna hit next. So if you'll remember if you'll remember with me Adam Who Adam gave birth? Adam and Eve had a son that sounds much better Hey these people online it might believe that they think man can get pregnant You gotta be so specific now. Adam had a son, right? And so Adam had a son whose name was Seth. Seth had a son whose name was Noah, right? Okay, Noah had a son whose name was Ham. Right, you remember? And see if you see the table of nations there. Let me see if I can find that. That'll be the next place we're gonna go. I'll try to go a little faster here. I may not, it may be in that other, it may be in that other, yeah, it's in there. Oh, it's not near as good, but it'll be all right. You see Table of Nations, Michael? Yeah, that's gonna be hard for you to see, I'm sorry. You can zoom in if you want to. Same as we saw there a minute ago, here's Egypt. Here's Sinai, or Sinai Peninsula here. Here's the Jordan River. Israel, you see Jericho? This is Mesopotamia. Here's the Euphrates. Remember we talked about the Garden of Eden being over in here? Hey, Nimrod, you remember Babylon, the Tower of Babel? God kicked them people out of there, didn't he? All that's here in Mesopotamia. All right, if we're right, Noah's over here somewhere, okay? That's the best I know to tell you, because you'll go crazy if you get like me and try to really find out, because nobody knows. I don't think God wants us to know, probably, down to that specific. But Noah's definitely over here somewhere, okay? Noah has a son whose name is Ham, okay? Now we know what happened in Noah's day, right? God said it was gonna flood. God said it was gonna rain. Everybody mocked Noah, right? And Noah believed God. And to the saving of his house, the Bible said, Noah built the ark. The whole earth, boy, you should have read some of the nuts I was reading. They said it just flooded over here. The whole earth flooded. All right? God flooded the whole earth. And can I tell you something? God's not unjust to do that. I believe there were children that died in that flood. Do you? None of them innocent. Nobody's innocent. because the man fell in the garden, he's a sinner. And so don't judge God for that. I think you and I better be worried about him judging us. And God judged the whole earth and except no one in his family, right? So if you'll remember, we go and we have a, Oh, I gotta go faster than this. So if you'll remember, Noah has Ham, you remember Ham? All right, so who is Ham's offspring? Canaan is one of Ham's offspring. Remember when the Bible said cursed be Canaan? You remember somebody that uncovered their father's nakedness, you remember that? What if we, boy, we gotta maybe turn to that, but I don't, you could turn to Genesis 9. I wanna get on through this a little faster, get to some other things. Because there's just so much of this that we may not be able to pin down to certain places, but to pinpoint exactly. But knowing overall where God chose to deal with sin and squash all rebellion, God chose this little place right here. And he's gonna fix it all. In the time of the restitution of all things, God's going to make everything wrong right. Every person that didn't receive the love of the truth and whosoever's name's not found in the Lamb's book of life is going to be sent to hell to suffer forever and forever. The devil's going to be backed up. He's going to be cast in the lake. God's going to deal with it all. It's all going to be fixed. God's going to make it right. But if you remember Genesis chapter number nine, and we have Noah began to be a husband and plant a vineyard. He drank wine of the wine. He was drunk and uncovered with a tent. And look at verse number 22. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon their shoulders and went backward and covered the necklace of their father. And their faces were backward and they saw not their father's necks. And Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done to him. And he said, cursed be Canaan. A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, blessed of the Lord God of Shem. and Canaan shall be his servant, right? Pretty easy to follow. Now, Abraham is of Shem, right? You know who, you follow Ham and you follow Canaan, you know where we get the Canaanites? The Canaanites are right here. When Noah's sons go to populate the earth, you wanna guess with me where Canaan and his family end up settling? Pretty easy to figure out, isn't it? And there's a map, that map shows if you go turn to, I forget the scripture now, just in the next chapter, Genesis 10 and verses number 15 through 19, you'll see the tribes that are listed under Canaan and they settled right here. Modern day Israel, we'll see that in just a minute. But this is the promised land. I'm gonna reference it that. You'll hear some people call it Palestine. That word, you know that word's in your Bible. But it don't mean what people mean it when they say it today. Palestine is a name the Romans made. The Romans named it Palestine. They did that because they hated the Jews. The Jews rebelled against them three different times. They lost so much life. They had so much upheaval and problems in the land that the Jews called. They finally kicked them all out, did everything they could to kill every one of them, wipe their temples out. They wanted to do a Hitler on them. The Romans did, and so much so, they didn't want this to be called Jerusalem anymore. They didn't want it to be called Israel. They didn't want it to be called anything. So they chose the name Palestine. The Romans gave it that name. People, you'll hear them say that all the time. I don't like using that name, because that's Israel's land. In fact, there's people right here like Jordan that's living on God's land that he gave to Abraham. Iraq, part of Iraq today is living on God's land. That ain't Palestine, that's God's land. But that's what most people call it nowadays. So anyway, we got sidetracked. So here comes Noah and his family and they split off. If you back up out of that, it might even show. I may have another one, Michael. Not that it's interesting, because I think it's probably not. But, all right, so when we start reading these verses here in just a minute, and you come, Noah, Canaan comes out and settles in here. One thing that God tells when he tells Abraham that the Canaanites in the land, you remember that? And you've heard people's preach on the journey to Canaan, living in Canaan land, you ever heard that song before? That's come to reference the promised land. And so, anyway, so Abraham, when God, so who's in the land that, who's in this promised land right here is these Canaanites. Now, I've done about as much studying as a person ought to waste his life with on this matter of the Palestinians. I've gone back and read the DNA reports. They've got like 30% of their DNA is Jewish. They've got a large portion of these Palestinians have European blood in them. That's from the Ottomans when they came over. But anyway, so I don't know, but there's a pretty good consistence that the Palestinians today that are fighting, murdering, and killing Jews, they're a bunch of barbarous people. You're a monster to support those people. Our country's lost its mind to allow people to march up and down the street with a flag and talk about, all them people wanna do is kill Jews. They had land promised to them. They had land given to them. They're a crooked, wicked, evil bunch. And anybody that you know that's on the side of the Palestinians, I'd pray they get saved. They ain't like us. There ain't no way you can have a heart like that. God said, I'll bless them that bless thee. Right? And I don't know about you, but I'm blessed with faithful Abraham. Are you not blessed with faithful Abraham? They ain't my people. I can tell you who is though, Abraham is. So here they come, they're down here now, they're in that land. Now, Abraham, oh, you wanna see, let's see if I got it. Would it help if we take just a minute, because I've got so many verses, it's going to take us. Do you see these, Michael, that are labeled promised land? There's three of them. We need that. Boy, that's going to be a hard one. You can try to zoom in. You can pretty much easily find these. I can read some of these to you, some of these verses. There are many, many verses that will, from Numbers to Genesis to, go back to that last one you was on there. That one's kind of hard to see, but you kind of can if you look. So look with me, you see, okay, you see Saudi Arabia here, Iraq, Egypt, are you able at all to see Israel at all where it is now? Where my little finger, okay, right there, Michael. Okay, this is, well, no, that's about right. In 67, Israel's got all this down in here. So can you see this outline at all, that little land of Israel? That's about all they inhabit today. That's all they got. If you back up now and look at this red, this is what God said they owned. See that? This all belongs to the Jew. Every bit of this belongs to Israel. And all they've got left is a tiny little dot left over in here. A little old guy that the son of God's gonna be born here. That's pretty important, isn't it? It's important. So the man said, and I don't know, but it may be about right, that God promised to Abraham almost 300,000 square miles. The most they have ever inhabited is 30,000. So they've not inhabited hardly a bit of the land that God promised them. All right, so, all right, just stay on that map. Let's see. Probably more up here, maybe. But Abraham is now called out of the early Chaldeans. Now, most people are gonna put, I think I've got that picture thrown up there, Michael. Let's see. It says map journey of Abraham. give us a little bit because we don't have time to go too much of this. I meant to move faster through some of this. Do you see that at all, Michael? Okay, you can stop right there. Same thing, Egypt down here, Nile River, Red Sea, okay, and then you see Ur, Right there. Now that's the common place that most people put Abraham. This whole area is Mesopotamia, right here in the Ur of the Chaldees. This is where most people say that Abraham came from and traveled. When God called him out of that land and said, get thee into a land that I'm gonna show you and I'm gonna make you a great nation. Oh, I wish we could read all them verses. I may read them to you. So many verses God said, I'm gonna make a promise to you. You just get up to a land that I'm gonna take you to where you're gonna live forever. I'm gonna make you a great nation. I'm gonna bless you and multiply you. God just randomly for no reason whatsoever made a promise to a man named Abraham. God made you a promise for no reason whatsoever. God gave you a land, didn't he? God made you a promise. God was gonna multiply you and bless you. God's made us some great precious promises now. Now, let's not fuss about it, but there's a good chance, okay, or the Chaldeans, well, the Chaldeans ended up down here, but they didn't start down here. The Chaldeans started up here. I think it's up here because the land is beyond Euphrates. That ain't beyond Euphrates, but this would be. from Israel's point of view. So anyway, it doesn't matter. Abraham called out the Ur of Chaldees, here comes Abraham. You following him? Abraham comes down through here, and Abraham's been told that Canaanites in the land, and Abraham is separated from Lot in Genesis, and God promises to Abraham when he's separated from Lot, I wonder where I put that verse. I need to read you all these verses. Here's what God said to Abraham. Oh, gonna be so hard for me to find it. But let me give you this. And the Lord said unto Abraham after that lot was, yeah, this is it. I thought it was chapter 14, Genesis 13. Verse 14, the Lord said unto Abraham after that lot was separated from him, lift up now thine eyes and look from the place where thou art northward and southward and eastward and westward for all the land which thou seest to thee will I give it. Now that's a physical land, isn't it people? He didn't say, I mean, you have to do some real gymnastics to make that mean anything else other than what Abraham's eyeballs could see. He wasn't caught up. whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell into the third heavens. He was standing on a mountain looking over and when lot was separated from him and he said, I want you to stand there and I want you to look east, I want you to look west, I want you to look north and I want you to look south as far as your eye can see. I'm gonna give you everything you can see Abraham. Is that what God said he'd do? And then we wanna play a game like, well, it don't really matter, just quit fighting. That's what the British did. You wanna know why? That they ain't got a country hardly left? That was the biggest mess. You couldn't pay me a million dollars a year to go there. They're getting overrun by Muslims in the UK. The British lost their country, and in the process of losing their country, because they turned their back on God and God's people. They had control over this land at one time. And they didn't do the Jews right, I can tell you that. So, all right, so here's Abraham. Abraham's just a lost man. He's not a Jew, right? He's just a lost man. And God made a promise to him. And what little faith he had, he just trusted God somehow and just followed God along the way with the little bit of faith he had in him. And then all of a sudden, God reveals himself to him, so does the devil. And Abraham believes on God, gets saved, we'd say, right? And God confirms his promise to him, confirms his promise to Isaac, confirms a promise to Joseph. All along the history of the Jewish people in your King James Bible is God reiterating a purpose that I promise you I'm going to give you this land that I promised to your fathers. Now why would God waste his time with that? So it doesn't really matter, it's just all spiritual. All that matters is that we get saved and we go to heaven. Well, yes, it does matter. I'm not a Jew. I'm not personally too concerned about who's living there other than the fact that God said something and it better mean something to me. I better have a heart and wanna see these Jews get saved. I better pray for the peace of that place. I better pray for the peace of those people. Right? I know some people don't believe this, but that's all right. You love me anyway. But right here is a group of people that God called out of the world, gave them a land, and it pictures the church beautifully. And so gave them this land, made promises to them. Abraham's here in no time and takes off down to Egypt, doesn't he? He ain't doing the best, but see how you do. And boy, I've got his journey somewhere in there, Michael, but I don't know if we'd be able to find him. But it shows all of them where he comes down and goes back up and all that he goes through in that land, but let's not do that, okay? So, All right, so we go from Abraham, we've got the Canaanites, and we see how that all came down, and now Abraham's in the land, the Canaanites are already there. There's gonna be a battle that's gonna ensue, and let's try to follow it through. So Abraham begets Isaac, Isaac begets Jacob, Jacob begets Joseph, who's sold into slavery? Joseph, Joseph now, his brothers sold him into slavery. Where'd they sell him to? They sold him into Egypt. So now Abraham was called out, had a land here, gives birth to Isaac, Isaac, Jacob, Jacob, Joseph, and all down through all the families here in the land that God promised them. Well, then his wicked brothers sell Joseph into slavery, into Egypt, right? You remember? You follow me? I know it's Wednesday night, I'm almost done. I was hoping to get half done with it. And so... And so Joseph's spoken by his brothers. And if you'll just briefly let me borrow your memory. Well, at the end of the thing, Joseph tells his family to come, right? So Joseph brings his family to Egypt. All of them come. Now, some people say some of them stay. I don't know. I guess they're smarter people than us. I don't know. God didn't put it in there, so I don't know. All that I know is all of his family, including his dad, remember? They all came and joined Rich, Joseph, and Egypt. Now, my memory serves me right. They're there 400 years. And best of my knowledge, there's not a Jew left, and let's call it Israel, because that's what it is. There's not a Jew left. So if you'll remember, how do we get to 12 tribes of Israel? Remember? So there's not a Jew left. The whole family's down here for 400 years. Until they're multiplying so great that the next king that's there is a king that does not remember Joseph. Remember the Bible saying that? So he turns on the Jews and fears them because there's so many of them, they're multiplying like crazy. God's blessing them in that sense. And he's afraid of them and he enslaves them. They don't remember Joseph. And so now the Jewish people who could have been in a land here because of sin were exiled into Egypt by their own choice. What put them down into Egypt? What made them slaves to a cruel taskmaster? Somebody's sin then. Somebody's jealousy, the sin of those brothers to do wicked to their brother, and now here we are. Now, you're not saying that people's sins don't affect any. Adam's sin affected somebody. Canaan's sin affected somebody. Abraham's sin affected somebody. And Joseph's brother's sin affected somebody. Now you got a whole nation of people under a cruel taskmaster because somebody loves sin. And God hears the cries of his people. Oh yeah, he tells Moses, he said, you need to tell them that I've heard their cry. They're crying to God. God hears them. God calls Moses. Now you remember, he's so afraid of them, all the baby boys are drowned, remember? They're killing them. But somebody loved little old Moses, didn't they? Boy, we don't have time for you. I've already used my time. Somebody, so now we got, now these Jews, they were in a land God gave them. Now they're not there. Now they're in Egypt where they shouldn't be. And they're under cruel taskmasters and they're losing their families. The boys are being murdered because they don't want them to continue to grow the nation. But somebody hid theirs, didn't they? And Moses was raised. And so God tells Moses, you remember Moses when he murdered a man? You might like, think Moses is perfect. God makes sure we know nobody is but his son. Moses, God calls Moses, tells Moses, Moses, I can't do that. You're going to have to send somebody with me. I can't talk good. Well, I don't need you to talk, you can kill people, can't you? No, I'm just kidding. He didn't have him kill nobody. So, all right, so we got to stop this myth. All right, so God calls Moses now and doesn't have to. This part gets me. We talked about the prodigal son. You think he just came to himself by himself? I don't. I tell you this much, them Jews didn't get out by themselves either. They got themselves in, but they couldn't get out. I've seen a lot of Christians get themselves in and they can't get out. Lost people can get their self in, but they can't get out. You don't have to cry to somebody. God will send you a deliverer. I can kick my right shoe off and hit you for that. That just thrills me. God sent a deliverer. I cried out, got myself in sin, but I couldn't get out. And I cried unto God, and he sent a deliverer, hallelujah. And he hears their cry, sends Moses to deliver them. And he said, Moses, just tell them I am that I am. Isn't it wonderful God just don't, just tell them, I'll tell you what, you just go down there, and you just tell them you're speaking for me. God tells, Jesus tells him that in the New Testament, you remember? Anyway, let's go on. So Moses goes up there, you remember the story, and finally Pharaoh's like, get out of here. He hardens himself to God, and then God hardens him. And then he finally says, get out. Now, we're gonna stop. Michael, do we have, ha, we do. We got Exodus. Let's see if it's the right Exodus. All right. I'll tell you what, we're going to stop right here, but get us Exodus 1. Is that the right one? Yeah, this is the right one. All right, now don't fuss with me. Here's where the Jew is when God delivers them. They're here in Egypt. Commonly, a lot of people believe that they cross the Red Sea up here. Most maps you see will show you that. I gotta disagree with everything. I told you that, remember? If you read and you go to any guys that you trust, I guarantee you they're gonna put the Red Sea crossing down here at this beach. I guarantee you. It is way too shallow up here to have a biblical account of when God said that he split them waters. It's shallow marsh area, every bit of this up in here. And all of them have them crossing. To try to make it work, you gotta plug it all together. You gotta plug the wilderness in. You gotta plug the wilderness in here. You gotta plug in Mount Sinai. And they'll put Mount Sinai over here. Now I'm not gonna fuss with anybody, but here's what happens next, okay? We're gonna stop. God wants his people in this land, doesn't he? Now, we might at the end of this take this and so you got this stuff in your mind and understand something. Most of us preachers believe this is the spirit-filled life. What I'm talking about, getting up out of Egypt, being delivered from Pharaoh, God wanted that Jew in that land right there. That's where he wanted it. God's got a purpose for your life and only one place is gonna satisfy for him for you to be. And that is full of the Holy Spirit of God in Canaan land. And no Christian belongs nowhere else. You may think you're doing all right over here. You might think you're doing okay here, but you're not where God wants you to be. God will work things in your life and you'll be miserable till you get to Canaan. God delivers them. Pillar of fire by day, by night, cloud by day. Well, we gotta go home. I'm just now getting excited. He didn't have to do that. They shouldn't have never been down here. Wasn't God's job to get them safely back up there. But because he loves them. because he made a promise to them, though they're unfaithful, and that's why they're down here, God faithfully. And I'll tell you something, and I hope it don't encourage you to sin, but you'll never be happy while you're living down here. You might be saved, you might go to heaven, but you'll never know really the life God intends for you so long as you're living in Egypt. And God loved these people so much. Loved them so much, he led them by the hand all the way along this journey. Remember K-Barnea? So here they come, traveling down through here. Oh, they have found things here you wouldn't believe. You ought to study where they really cross. You'll get six answers. Good luck, you'll spend about two days on it. See this beach right here, Nuweiba, N-U-W-E-I-B-A, that's where I believe they cross. But you might probably know better. Here they come, God's delivered them, send them back up here, now here they go. You remember what happens next? Remember what happened when we gotta have the wilderness of sin, remember? You remember how that Moses, I'm gonna tell you why Moses didn't go, because Moses took God's glory. When he smoked that rock, God, Moses, when he talked to the people, you go back and read the account of it, Moses took credit for bringing water out of that rock. That's what I think the main reason was. Now, there's more to it, but that's what I think the main reason was. God wouldn't let him go in the land. Now, anyway, all them people, only the ones under what, 20? Is it 20? End up going? Oh, the older crowd, because they wouldn't believe God, they just wander around in the wilderness. How long? 40 years. I've seen many a Christian spend 40 years wandering around and never get nowhere. Miserably wandering in a wilderness, they don't ever get nowhere. The wilderness of sin. God's got a place for every Christian. See, this is picturing that for us. That ain't my land. I'm not all that concerned with my personal. I'm not wanting that for me and my family. I got a better land than that. But this does speak to me spiritually. We're spiritual, not physical. Remember, they're physical people. They were condemned to that. He said, a wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a son. What should I say? Am I gonna get back in my mother's womb and get born again? Do you remember how them people, it's all they could see. Touch and handle, blessed is he who's not seen. That's you. Oh, I better not do that to your eyes. So, all right, we gotta stop and go home. But here's where we're stopping, just so we remember. All right, we're stopping with Moses, the exodus from Egypt. God's sending them back to the land that he promised Abraham. God's sending them back. But they come short. They come short. God's not gonna let them go, but some of them are going. They said, no spies in the land, you remember? But there's another crowd that's gonna go. One man's 80 something, he said, give me this mountain where in the Lord promised. I've been wandering around long enough. Cause somebody's sin. Well, I'm sorry, God. I wanted to do so much more and get us closer. I'm gonna let you go tonight, but this will end here. We'll pick back up and we'll pick back up when they do get to go in. and uh... they do get to entertain and they'll be back in the land and they will trace it on out and uh... try to get up to modern day and i want us to i want to have an idea of why uh... because i'm not and i want to come back and we'll give you reasons why this is so important at little that little area right there is so important And you better watch them Jews, you better watch God's land, if you're worried about, if you're worried about His coming, and I know there's people talking about all these other signs and things, I understand that, but we're not seeking after a sign, but God's timetable is those people in that land, as far as His coming, right? So just keep an eye on that, and I think we oughta, I think it's important, because we oughta throw our weight behind any man who's gonna stand for them Jews. I think we ought to have a burden to try to reach them. Don't you? One man said he had such a burden for me, he said, I wish myself were cursed. I'm often ashamed. We ain't got, but I think maybe two missionaries that are trying to reach the Jewish people. Ain't that many out there. That's what I'm saying. I'm not saying that on us. I don't know of any more. I'd support them. But I only know of two, three. And we support them. We're going to stand together. You want to have a song, Brother Reed? Miss Jessica, if you want to come, we'll have a song. Let you stand, and we'll let you go home tonight. But somebody may need to come. And I'll try to have this a little better organized next time. But Lord, we love you. Thank you for the many promises we have. You made a promise to Abraham. And where it's helping me, God, is watching all that you have gone through, everything that you accomplish and do, to be faithful to a promise that you made. Abraham might have been just as happy to settle in North America somewhere. But it didn't matter what made him happy. You made him a promise, and you promised the land, and you have been faithful. And so, Lord, it encourages me to know you've made me promises. You've shook this earth to give that little old Jew, give him his own land. Make a people out of a people that were not a people. All that you've done, Lord, you've promised us never to leave or forsake us. I wonder just what under heaven you'd move and shake. just to stay faithful to a struggling saint of God. Boy, you're so good, Lord. Thank you for being faithful to me. Thank you for loving us. In Jesus' name, amen. If you need to come, you can come. We'll sing one verse, let you go home, all right? Brother Reed's gonna sing. You sing along if you want to.