Well, if you remember, we kind of taken a little bit of a detour here, just something that the Lord put on my heart that I felt was important that he wanted us to do. And over 174 times it's been mentioned in your Bible and about the land that God has promised unto his people. So you'll have a hard time convincing me that God did not, that God had a man move into this land and it not be important in judging every person that was already in the land. He said, destroy every person there, every living thing, kill it. They were cursed people, cursed of Canaan. And the judgment of God fell upon them people. And God promised this land and mentions it over and over in the Bible that he's given a physical land right here. People want to say it doesn't matter anymore. Well, we've got a land that's fairer than day, another land on the other side. Well, that's true, right? For me and you. I wasn't promised this land necessarily. Now I'm going to be there because I'm blessed with faithful Abraham. But God promised Abraham that he would give him this land. Now, I don't know if it's still on there, but I can kind of draw it out. What was promised Abraham goes all the way down and all the way over, right? You remember that picture? Won't make Michael go there. And so we began to talk about, we talked about Ham, we talked about Noah. Well, first of all, God owns that, there it is. You see it there? That's what God has promised to Abraham. Now here's all they got today. That little stretch. But all this belongs to God and God gave it to Abraham. The Jews own all that. Now, a lot of people don't like that. A lot of leftists don't like that. A lot of conservatives don't like it. But so you and me that know the Bible, God owns the land and I think I'm gonna listen to God with who's supposed to live there. He didn't say nothing about who's promised this. He didn't say nothing about who's promised to be down here. He didn't say he cared who lived here. But he does care who's there. 66 books in your Bible and the majority, overwhelming majority of your Old Testament has to do with Abraham, his descendants and that land right there. It's very important. God has no will for the Jewish people anywhere outside of that land. There's not an excuse for one Jew to be up here mingling with the world. Not one excuse for one Jew to run and be over here at any time. God wants them people right here. And they're never happy over here, and they're never happy over here, and they're never happy over here. They'll only find peace in the will of God and that's for them to be right here. And me and you, spiritually speaking, every Christian, God has a will for them. And they'll never have peace in this world. They'll never know joy like they ought to know it. They'll never know what they're supposed to know when walking with God and the love of God anywhere over here, anywhere over here, anywhere over here. God spiritually wants every Christian to dwell together in that land right there. Now I'm talking spiritually, right? So you're never gonna be happy on this side of the sea. You're never gonna be happy. God wants you in that land. And so many times we settle for over here somewhere. God don't want that. God wants whatever enemy's gotta be conquered in front of you, just put one foot in front of the other, little Christian, and head for that land. God saves you over here, just put one foot in another, start walking towards God. Let God lead you into a land. Spiritually speaking, God wants every Christian to be filled with the Spirit, and that's the Spirit-filled life. Most people preach it that way, I tend to agree with that. But what we're talking about here is what has consumed our media, it's consumed our politics, this tiny little piece of stretch of land right here. And I felt like it was important, I'm gonna tell you why I feel like it's important, because one day God's gonna put hooks in the jaws of the people of the East, Russia, the whole crowd is gonna be encamped about and ready to attack that little old Jew right there. And God is gonna destroy every enemy that comes against them, right? And so it's important that we know because so goes Israel, so goes this land and its people, so goes our world. You can be worried about Canada's tariffs if you want to. And all the people ought to be worried about that probably is people that make liquor. And I hope they don't ever buy it again. Puts all our liquor people out of business. Wouldn't bother me. Jack Daniels ought to go out of business. They ought to do it because people get saved, but I'll take a tariff. All right, so no sympathy for me. You've been killing people and wrecking families for years in this country. Sayonara, Jack. Don't care about none of them. I hope they don't drink another drop. Then Canadians can sit up there and drink themselves oblivion for all I care. Just shut ours down. Well, that wasn't very nice. I shouldn't have said that. All right, let's move on. Be all upset about what's going on in the UK, and we ought to be. They're being overrun. Islamified is what they're being. But what's kind of drowned it out, some of that's what's been drowning some of this out, is now you've got some movement right down here in this little part right here that borders with Egypt. There's a little strip there called Gaza. Now, if you'll remember, and we'll go to it, the West Bank's up here. Israel occupies that to this day. The UN's condemned them, says they shouldn't be there. I say they ought to be everywhere in that little red circle there. God don't care about the UN. But this little tiny strip right here called Gaza, And there's some Arabs that live there, and they have done nothing but murder and slaughter innocent people. They're murderous people. Hey, listen, these people don't even want them. Neither do these people. These people have some that came out of the West Bank, and they're trying to take over their country. They're starting wars in Jordan trying to take it over. Listen to what's gonna happen. So now you've got a situation because of that little tiny strip right here that Israel agreed they can have it. Listen, Israel done took all this over and agreed to give it up. Gave Gaza to the Palestinian, and they own it and live in it and inhabit it and all they did was launch rockets and on October 7th went in there and murdered and raped innocent people, slaughtered them. They're vicious people. And I think Israel's about had enough. Now listen, this is important because what happens right here is gonna affect what these people do. And what these people do and these people, this whole area, Well, Israel has got a friend right here in this country. And I have a feeling if we're still standing here for at least a while, we're gonna defend them. World War III may not be Ukraine, you may see it right here. Even before the Lord comes. Or should I say before the rapture. Because I won't be here for the wars some people ought to worry about. So it's important that you and I know at least have a good understanding about why we stand the way that we stand for those people. Now there's a certain group of people who have come about of late, most of your charismatic groups, a lot of charismatic groups are this way, but certainly your Calvinist type groups are this way. They don't believe anymore that God cares for Israel anymore. that the church has now replaced the Jewish people. So they don't care whether we support Israel. They don't care whether we support the Jew. They think the church has taken its place and replaced Israel. Now, I don't know where they get that. I think it's wrong and highly misguided. But that's not the purpose of us doing this tonight. Most of us in here don't believe that. We believe that God made a promise to Abraham about a physical land. Now don't you think that if that applied to me at all, so you mean to tell me the thousands and thousands of lives that have been lost and the blood that has been shed to get the Jewish people in that land, which God authorized, by the way, was just a picture, a type? God went before them and slaughtered whole cities for nothing? Just because of what? Why would God do that if that was just a picture? And that didn't matter. The whole lot of explaining to do in the Bible. We're gonna read in Joshua. You turn to Joshua and meet me there. What's Joshua gonna say? Give me this mountain. The Lord promised me a mountain. I've been wondering about in this wilderness since the time of Moses, and I'm as strong today as I was then, and I got promised a land, and I'm going to get it. Now, if that was just symbolic, there's been a lot of innocent lives lost that we need to explain. So here's how much I know. God has not said one thing to me or to you about going to that land. You know where he told us to go? Into all the world and preach the gospel. Why? Because one day he's gonna come and get us and he's gonna take us to our heavenly land, which we have been promised. We know nothing about going in here and killing people so that me and you could go dwell right here, right? But there's a certain people who were promised that. And again, I say, if your argument is that that was all spiritual, you've got a lot of the Old Testament to explain to me why God killed a bunch of people in a land to put a Jew in there, to put Abraham in there. Why did he do any of that? It makes no sense. So, And I don't wanna get into all that, because there's a long list of why people believe in all that stuff, okay? And so we don't believe that, so there's no point in doing that. But here's what me and you do believe. God promised this land right here to the Jewish people. And this world began here, and as far as we know, this earth, it's gonna end here. God's gonna set this whole thing on fire. However, he's coming back here in the last days, and his feet are gonna stand here upon the earth. Now, I wanna move on, so get us, Michael, into that picture you had, the exodus coming up out of, coming out of Egypt. It's where we left last time. Let me see if I can find it here. I know it's a little... Let's see. Yeah, that's it. Remember we talked about the crossing of the Red Sea and how we believe it's down here when Moses came out? Remember Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph? Joseph has now been sold into Egypt. His family comes. They all grow up here in Egypt. until a king comes along that doesn't remember Joseph and he starts killing because they're multiplying so quickly, remember? And then Moses is spared and God uses Moses to deliver his people out of Egypt. All right, so then we follow this little trail down through here to the crossing of the Red Sea. We come across the Mount Sinai, and then we've got basically the Jewish people, the Jew refuses to do what God's told them to do. You remember? Murmured and complained, and what did they do? Remember, we went through it in Hebrews. Don't provoke God, don't tempt God like the children of Israel did in the wilderness. They hardened their self and they provoke God to wrath against them. because they refuse to do what God told them to do. Now, Christian, I'm gonna tell you we're no different. When God saves me and you out of Egypt, there's one place we're headed. Nobody's free to go on down here and do what they want to. You're in the hands of the Lord now, and God's got a will for your life, and it's the will of God for every person to be spirit-filled, right? And God's gonna see to it that you do it, or you'll die miserable in the wilderness. I don't believe it's any different for the Christian. And so God said, you're going into my land, that's where I'm gonna take you. I'm surprised he did after all the rebellion. But he did. And so, but anyway, they refused to go in. Moses did what Moses did. They were cursed and they wandered in the wilderness. Now they come to Mount Nebo and there Moses dies. That's where we pretty much have left off, right? So from, let's read in Joshua and let's pick up in Joshua in chapter 14. Well, we could read that. in chapter 2, but go to chapter 14. Let's just start there because we're not going to have enough time. We're wanting to just trace this land through Joshua chapter number 14. Let me just read you this. I think it's encouraging to me. Now, you've got to remember something, but I don't want to take time to preach this, but I think this will help you. If nothing else, you can read this. If you're a saved person and you're not spirit-filled, this kind of thing helps me. So the children of Judah, coming to Joshua and Gilgal, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, said unto him, Thou knowest a thing that the Lord said unto Moses, the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh Barnea. Forty years old was I when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. And I brought him word again as it was in my heart. Nevertheless, my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the Lord my God. And Moses swear on that day, saying, surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance. Boy, that's something, isn't it? There we go with that land again. His feet are on it. His feet ain't walking in heaven, people. walking on a physical land right here. Right? So, it should have been, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord thy God. And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these 40 and 5 years, even since the Lord spake his word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness. And now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. That makes me tired just to read it. And yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war. I like this guy, do you? Both to go out and to come in. That's something. He said, I'll go out to war and fight everybody and I'll come back just as strong as I was when I went out. Kind of a strong man. Boy, we need some strong men, don't we? Now, therefore, give me this mountain whereof the Lord spake in that day. For thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there and that the cities were great and fenced. If so, be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said. A lot of people fear the spirit-filled life because it's not a life of ease. It's not going to heaven. That can't be heaven because there's Canaanites there. There's no Canaanites in heaven. There's Canaanites in the Spirit-filled life. You're gonna fight battles. God never meant for me and you to breathe oxygen down here on this earth and just settle around somewhere and not fight no battle. We're people of war. We're supposed to be fighting spiritual battles. And we can only do that being in the land that we're supposed to be in, right? And letting God direct us in fighting for us. A lot of times, a lot of us think we're really doing something. We're fighting over here. We're fighting in the flesh. God's gonna defeat these enemies. You're fighting the wrong battle. Lord's with you but he ain't fighting your battles. Better get in the will of God. People out there, they're running around doing their own thing and thinking they're doing God's service and they're not in the will of God. God's only gonna fight the battles that he wants to fight. He's gonna use you to fight them. You don't use God to fight your own. That's what a lot of people do. and wonder why God won't bless it. I'll tell you why he won't bless it, because you're not surrendered to his lordship. He's the one in charge. Right? So Caleb says, give me this mountain. I want this mountain. God promised me a mountain, and I aim to get it. And if God'll go with me, I'll conquer the people. And so he does, God goes with him, Joshua blesses him, gives to Caleb, the son of Jephthah, Hebron for an inheritance and Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb. And so if you will follow along with me now, as we go through this next part, Michael, I'll have to give you the, the places that we want to go, but I think we'll be able to manage. So that's where we are. All right? During Joshua's day, we've got the children of Israel now going back into the land, and they're going to conquer this land. And God's going to fight their battle. God tells them everywhere they put their foot, they're going to win. Is that what the Bible said? And you know what gets all of us? God will want us to do something and we'll see something that, oh, if I do that, I'm gonna have to fight this battle. No, you're not, God's gonna fight it. If you're going to do what God told you to do, God's gonna remove the enemies. David didn't kill Goliath, God did. Goliath fell forward. You don't get hit in the head from the front and fall forward. God hit him in the back of the head with something. All right, well, I don't know about that, but God's the one that killed him, didn't he? All right, so I wanna encourage you now, you better get in line with God. So many people get so discouraged because they're trying to get God to go along with them. Well, I've had it in my heart to do this. Well, if God didn't put it in your heart to do it, then you're wasting your time. And God's not gonna join you in some battle you wanna fight. And they stay miserable as Christians because they're out here. God told you to be faithful to the house of God. You'll fight battles on Sunday and Wednesday night? You shouldn't be in. You ought to be in church. God ain't gonna help you fight back. Do you see the relation here? Spiritual, not physical. So the children of Israel are going in. God's gonna bless them. Do you see the 12 tribes? You see a picture of the 12 tribes? Just give us an idea of what, I know this kind of may be boring to a lot of people. So just so we can see how the 12 tribes in that same area, just zoomed in a little bit, you see Philistia here, it's the Philistines, Gaza's down in here. All right, on down further, but those Philistines owned more of that. So here you got Reuben and Gad and Manasseh, do y'all see all that? Okay, so the 12 tribes of Israel are given the inheritance, and here's where they begin to settle, right? We've come out of Egypt. Moses has let them out. The ones who didn't want to trust God by faith died in the wilderness, and now you've got those that are of faith, which is Joshua, going to lead them into the land. and they get into the land and the land split according to the way that Joshua and the children of Israel, God promised them. And so here's what you've got now. That's the 12 tribes of Israel, all right? So that gets us through that time. And then if you will think with me, we won't go here, but if you'll think with me after Joshua passes away, then you enter into the time of when the judges ruled. Do you remember that? Going through the Judges, Gideon, all the time of the Judges, when the Judges rule. All right, and the last of those, if you'll remember when we started in 1 Samuel, we started looking at Saul. If you'll remember as we, all right, so we've come full swing here. We've come out of Egypt. We've come into the promised land. The children of Israel are where God wants them to be. He's fighting their battles and they're winning the land and they're settling in where God wants them to be, battling the whole time. And so they're united right now, okay? Joshua dies, the time of the judge's rule. All right, that ends with a man named Samuel. You remember Samuel? Okay, Samuel's the last one. They should have just stuck with Samuel. But you remember what they did? They're in there now. They're surrounded by people that all have kings. They want them a king. Y'all remember? All right, you want a king, God said, I give you my servant. He was the last of the judge, prophets, priests that they should have had before Jesus. That's the way God wanted to rule. God wants to rule, he don't want a king to rule. God wants to rule, and he wants to rule it through a spiritual person, and God didn't set up a kingship. God is the king. They got a king. But the problem is with this king, it's the same problem a lot of people have today. They don't wanna serve him by faith. They had to serve him by faith, it's always been by faith. And they didn't wanna serve him by faith, they wanted somebody they could see. Somebody strong and mighty in battle, that's who they wanted. Well, they had one. But it takes faith to live like that. You gotta trust God. And they wanted a king. So, God does what? Gives them what they want. And who becomes the first king? Saul. Do we have that? We'll try to move a little faster. I think I put that. Let me see if I have Saul. Just go to David and Solomon or King David. It may be under one of those. I wish that was zoomed out more. Look at the one that says King David. See if that looks any better. That don't look any better. Well, y'all have to forgive me. Well, let's zoom out here just a little bit. Do you see this darker kind of purple here? This blue outline, this would be Mesopotamia. This blue outline all the way down, that's the original promised land. Okay, this purple right here is David's kingdom. This is what David accomplished. So Saul gets in there, Saul wins some battles, if you'll remember shortly, Saul does some decent in the beginning, and then he loses sight of God and goes to chasing his tail trying to kill David, you remember? Accomplishes really nothing, or very little, I guess I would say. Go back to that other picture, we might see it a little better. Now, for some reason, it's too zoomed in. I've messed up, so you'll have to forgive me. Probably easier to go back to that other picture. But anyway, so when we get from Saul, then we have King David, right? David goes to battle, and because he's a man of war, David starts fighting and winning all these battles, going up through here, conquering all these areas, just like God promised that he would do for Joshua. He confirmed it all the way through, right? And so where David went, David was given great victories, and he establishes a rule, and now King David is ruling over the kingdom, right? So if you, we need to go faster than this. So you go from David, let's go to Solomon and we can just pretty much stay there cause it doesn't change much as far as under Solomon. And then if you'll remember shortly thereafter, the kingdom is divided in two, the North and the South. Y'all with me? Let me try to find that just to get you an idea. It's not that important, but okay. You see one that says two kingdoms? Ah, there we go. All right, so you've got Israel and you got Judah, right? So when we, we're trying to just take a crash history. on the history of this land. And when we get to this point here, things start getting really, there's a lot of sin. There's a lot of mixing with the people. They weren't to take strange wives. They were not doing, what do we know about Solomon? Wisest man on earth outside of Jesus. And the dumbest at the same time. Right? Because he didn't believe God. He didn't listen to God. And strange women took his heart away from God. He married a bunch of wives that he shouldn't have married. And like one preacher said, who wants that many mother-in-laws? So you know he was crazy. So, oh, come on, don't get mad. So, north, south, now, In the midst of all this, God intended for the people of Israel when he sent them in here and destroyed these Canaanites and all this crowd that was in the land, it was because of the sins that they committed, right? It defiled the land and God wanted that land clean. That's his land, he's gonna be there, his son's gonna be born there. I don't want no dirty delivery room for my grandkids, you. God's son's gonna be born here. And so they go in and they start conquering all those heathens out of the land. And then when they get in there, instead of staying faithful to God, they become just like them. They start intermingling with them. Now, that's why I say, you can be spirit-filled and you can be right in the middle of the will of God, And that's why I'm careful about people that preach this one time crossing over the river and into the land spiritually. Because they preach it like that's to solve all, fix all for the rest of your life. The problem is when they crossed in and they went in, they still sinned, got in trouble, and lost God. So you gotta be careful not to seek some kind of magical, spiritual, emotional moment with God to do some kind of magical genie-in-the-bottle kind of thing for you and then think you're never gonna have trouble again. That's misleading to people. You can be filled with the Spirit and you better wake up and be filled every single day and you better be filled tomorrow, you better be filled in the afternoon, tomorrow night and in the morning. Because there's enemies when you're in the middle of the will of God and God wants you to stay holy. He wants these people to be holy. And they're not. They defile the land with their own sin. And it's even greater for them because they know better. And God says you've played the harlot. You remember that? You committed adultery on God. We got any adulterers in here? Anybody playing the harlot with God? God don't take too lightly to that. I wouldn't defile God's land, would you? What land you talking about there? Well, I'm talking about your body. That's a spirit-filled life, isn't it? I'm just saying, be careful. I believe in a spirit-filled life. But I think some people have presented it as some kind of second blessing that you get somehow more of God than anybody else gets. And I think that's dangerous. And I think it's misleading. And I think they teach people to go get something when God said, wait on something. Stay in the will of God, do what God said to do. And it's something that we deny ourselves and wait on, not go capture. Right? The type is not perfect, but it is a type of the spirit-filled life. So now the North and the South are now split. The nation of Israel is divided into two. All right, leave that picture there for now. And let me just take a few minutes here and kind of finish up. So at this point now, turn to 2 Kings and we can kind of stop in the midst of this, but keep that picture up there. It'd probably be the best. And then we may have time for one more. If you turn to 2 Kings, well, I'll give you the verses. I'm not sure we need to take time to read all this, but I want you to be biblically. If you wanna read what I'm gonna explain here in just a minute, you can go back tonight and read these. Man, if we read them, we're gonna find so much we need to talk about, and we don't have time for that, okay? So 2 Kings 15, and now what's going to happen is the Assyrians are gonna come against Israel. I know I did this. Let's see if we got it in there, Michael. Do you see the Assyrians? I'm worried about this quality of this picture, but it did a really good job. See if you can zoom in on us there. That's the best I can do for you guys. You see Egypt? This is the Sinai here. Here's the little land of Israel, Saudi Arabia. You see where we're at here? All right. Now we've got this uprising and there's a picture of where this starts, but we won't go through all that. So the Assyrian empire is beginning to grow now, okay? God is gonna use them to come against his own people and judge them for what they've been doing. So the Israelite, the Jewish people are in the land, they own the land, they're deeded the land by God, God promised them the land, they've earned the land by their military victories, but their sin is destroying them of everything God meant for them. So the Assyrians are now gonna come down out of the Mesopotamia, and the Assyrians are gonna come down against the nation of Israel. Remember, Judah's here, okay? So the Assyrians are gonna come down in your Bible, in 2 Kings, I'll give you 2 Kings 15, verse number 29, you'll see it. All the land of Naphtali, you can read it, Hosea the son of Elah. So you read it on your own time, we gotta go. But the Assyrians come down, they defeat Israel, and they lead them away and take them away captive, okay? Now, during this time period, the Assyrian Empire, there's uprisings of Jews, it took time. They wanted that Jew out of that land. They just can't get them out. They're gonna mostly do it, and they leave one priest alive, and he ruins a whole lot of them, tells them about God. Anyway, so they come down against the northern king, against Israel here, they come down, and then so they win, of course, they win the battle, and they start carrying them away into captivity, okay? They take people, certain people from Babylon. You see Babylonia here? All right, the Assyrians take people from this city, send the Jewish people out. They've been trying this for centuries. They send the Jewish people out. Well, I wish we could go to all the times. We could go how many times? Here's what's amazing. What we're gonna start going through, this is the first time, most of the time that we've seen, they left on their own. Remember, Joseph gets sold, they went into Egypt. Abraham went into Egypt because of a famine. This is gonna be the first time that they're conquered and thrown off the land God promised them. And it never stops. They're trying to do it today. If you think that the Palestinian people want a little stretch of land called Gaza and they're gonna be happy when that's over, you're insane. You need to quit smoking pot. Because they had Gaza and they chose to murder, they choked alive little babies. They're monstrous people. So, They come down, and they want to get rid of them. Well, they can't do it, and they keep having problems with them. So then they start sending their people over here, and I think in an attempt to try to breed them out and resettle the land. And that's when I was telling you about that priest that got left alive, and he starts teaching them. Now they mix up the people from Babylon, they mix up the religion, they get it all mixed up, and here in Samaria, and they get the Samaritans. That's how you get the Samaritan people. That's why in Jesus' time, they wouldn't even walk through unless the sand of those Samaritans would get on their sandals. The Jewish people didn't really have a lot for the Samaritan. But they knew something about God. They just mixed it all in with their own God. So, all right, so the Assyrians come down. Now, from 2 Kings on through, say, chapter 19, boy, we could go on through. We've got to go quick. Hezekiah rises up under Sennacherib. You could go to Numbers 21, 2 Kings 17, 24 through 41. 2 Kings 18.13 through 19.36, okay? And you'll have to read that for yourself. But he manages to keep Judah pretty safe during the time of the Assyrians, okay? Judah remains largely safe, okay? The Assyrians are gonna push and push and push. And they've made it, Judah has made a pact here with some Egyptians. to defend them. So the Egyptians try to ride in and save Judah from the Assyrians and they lose the battle too. But they managed to stay pretty safe during the time of the Assyrians. Now, go to the next one, you'll see Babylon. But They've done gotten rid of this whole, the Northern tribes. See, yeah, zoom in on that, you can kinda. All right, so now, okay, remember that last picture of the Assyrians. They made a pact, Judah makes a pact with Egypt, Egypt comes in, they can't win, but they do manage to stay it off long enough that Judah remains still ruling during the Assyrian empire. Well, then the Assyrians have a problem because the Babylonian empire is starting to rise. Y'all remember Babylon? They're about to go into exile. You remember when we went through Nehemiah? Okay, so now the Babylonian Empire comes in, and they go to war with the Assyrians, they conquer Nineveh, and you could go read this in 2 Kings 23. And so what's odd to me is during this time, now the Egyptians, you gotta think about something with these, people don't change much. Would you agree to that? The enemy hasn't even tried to really change his tactics against you that he used with Eve and Adam in the garden. People don't change much. The Egyptians were just there trying to help Judah for whatever reason. Well, then somewhere in that, and I've not found out where and how, Egypt makes a pact with the Assyrians. So Egypt's now friends with the Assyrians, and so Babylon comes against the Assyrians, and the Egyptians try to defend the Assyrians. The Egyptians have been problems in this thing all along, they're problems now. And I'm worried about them trying to poke their head up and say they're gonna help, and they're gonna take care of the Gaza Strip. I don't like that, because they're two-faced. They're crooked. Egypt is. And they don't care no more about these Jews than any other Muslim cares about them. So, I don't know who needs to do it. I think you need to leave Israel alone, let them do it themselves, and just give them the tools to do it with, and we need to stay out of it. Because if they'll battle, God will go with them, and God will kill every one of them. They already lost that. They won that in 67, 10 to one. They didn't have one airplane. There was a man who stole an airplane. Well, I wish we could go into that and took it to them. All right, we're not gonna get to it, I'm rambling now. All right, so Babylon comes in, takes care of Judah. Carries the children of Israel out. and into captivity. After beating the Assyrians, the Babylonians defeat Egypt and they are now defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, Jehoiakim. Again, you can just go in from 2 Kings and go on to chapter 24. Chapter 25, you'll see Zedekiah rebels. He's conquered there in Jerusalem and taken to Babylon. All the Jews are in exile, except for evidently some people say a few. I don't know how many went with Jeremiah. You remember Jeremiah, the weeping prophet? Went with him down into Egypt. But they're all in exile at this point. Look at Psalm 137 and let's stop. This would be a good place to stop. Now, if you'll sit back and think about your life when you started out as a Christian, does it not spiritually resemble the Jewish people? Just ups and downs. God winning victories for you, God making promises to you, you're on fire for God, you're gaining ground, you're doing well spiritually, and then you get sidetracked and messed up in something, and God has to allow some sifting in your life and judgment in your life to get you to turn back around? I've never understood human nature like that. Such a great faithful God that we have that loves us and has done all this for us. And then we just continually, He has to, I don't even, He don't even enjoy it. No more than you enjoy punishing your children, but He's faithful enough to keep us on the right track. Thank God. This is where you get Psalm 137. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive required of us a song. And they that wasted us required of us mirth saying, sing us one of the songs of Zion. And how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? You remember that? All that happened. Babylon comes against the people of God, carries them away into captivity. And as they're traveling back, the Babylonians are mocking them. Sing us those silly songs about your God. They're not even Muslim. They're just heathens. And worship all kinds of gods. I mean, you wouldn't believe the sacrifices they make to God. Babylon's a filthy, filthy place. And so, and they're mocking them. How can we sing the songs of God? And they're weeping as they hang their harps and traveling that lonesome journey on into a land where they don't want to go. But you know what got them sent here? is having this here. They had Babylon in their heart and God just sent them where they deserved to go. You and me, we better keep ourselves unspotted from the world. We better stay clean and we better get out of sin. We better quit fooling around with little things that we think don't matter or God just might run me and you out. You don't think God would let it happen? If it gets you to look up and conform you to Jesus, he'll do it. If you're gonna be spirit-filled and you're gonna go to this land and you're gonna stay in this land, you're gonna have to do it and keep yourself unspotted from the world. You're gonna have to be holy. You're gonna have to be harmless, undefiled. You're gonna have to live right, honor God, worship God. That's who God wants in that land. Right? Spiritually now, don't forget that. So, all right, we gotta stop. This is where it gets, Little, so we gotta stop. Yeah, we gotta stop. Don't even put another map up, because if we do, we'll do some more. Let's not do that. When we come back, so now it's a good stopping point. As we're tracing this land through, who's in this land now? Thieves and robbers. Jews aren't here. So they're in the land. Here's my point. If people, there's archeological, historical, biblical, all kinds of evidences that point to and prove to the whole world that the Jewish people belong in the land of Israel. That's not Palestine, that's the promised land. and it was promised to the Jew and they belong there. They conquered it from the Canaanites. And then you say, well, yeah, well, then the Babylonians deserve it because they conquered them. We're not done with the story. You're gonna see the most recent evidence. I'm talking about not even biblical, just the most common decency, human decency. Jews belong in that land right there, not the Arabs, not Palestinians. So that's important. We are doing all we can as Christians to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. They still have people. They just recently had two more bombs. A big knife attack, somebody just going through, stabbing people. I don't know how you could side with a group of people that would take a mother and her two little children and cut their heads off, strangle them to death. How could you be on that side? I mean, you gotta be doing some serious drugs to be on that side. Or be so deceived in religion. That land belongs to Israel. And so now what we've got, though, where we've come to now in our Bible, they're in exile, and the Persians are gonna come in. Now, somebody's gonna give them a chance to go back, isn't he? They're going back to the land. But we can't do that tonight. Let's stop, okay? You stand with me. I know this is a little bit odd, but I feel like it's important to cover. And I want you young people especially to know, you get into college, you go to school somewhere, don't you let a bunch of over-educated, unintelligent, deceived quacks tell you that anybody deserves to be right there other than the Jew. because they are wrong. And God still cares for the Jewish people. They're still His people. They're still the apple of His eye. Even those that have not by faith yet received it. You have to say that. They'll take verses like, well, they're not all of Israel. I understand and believe all that, but you'd have to throw Romans 11, just rip it out of your Bible and burn it. Cause they're gonna turn to him one day and they're gonna see him. And all Israel shall be saved. If I was Israel in that, I'm not saved yet? What do I need saved from? I'm born again. I'm in the church. I'm the body of Christ. I don't need saved. I don't need to see him to be saved. I already saw him 17 years ago. I'll be saved forever. That verse can't even apply to me. It's crazy. Anyway, well, Lord, we love you tonight. Thank you for your Bible. Thank you for just being so faithful. You've shown your faithfulness to the people of God. When we read our Bible, there's nothing that screams any louder your faithfulness and your mercy. than your dealings with the Jewish people. So thank you for that. We do pray for the peace to Jerusalem. Pray for wisdom for all those involved in this matter and the Gaza Strip and what the Jewish people have to endure and go through. I do pray, Lord, for laborers into that harvest. We need more men that will take the gospel to the Jewish people because they are not saved. And they need to see Jesus, a scale nationally. Scales are upon their eyes, but individually, there are those that by faith that can be saved. So please raise up laborers. We do pray that you would help those that have been mentioned tonight, and certainly anybody that needs to be saved. We pray for them, that they come to the knowledge of the truth. In Jesus' name, amen. If you need to come, read or sing a verse, then we'll be dismissed.