Romans (Session 16) Israel's History - Present

well we are in session 16 of our review of the book of romans and you can regard this session sort of as a addenda or an insert to bridge between chapters 10 and 11. we're going to spend some time this session essentially to review the history of israel put in perspective both its past its present and its as a preamble to our study of its future in the next session so we're going to look at israel history and i'll call it the present tense you may recall that we've been through the book of romans first eight chapters are doctrinal on various topics sin salvation sanctification and romans 9 to 11 are the three chapters on israel israel past present future in our previous session we reviewed israel's predicament of the present in the sense that she was chosen by god and yet she she uh failed she stumbled she she stumbled over the stumbling block himself so we're going in the next session to talk about israel's future but i thought it would be useful before we as you go from chapter 10 to 11 to at least refresh our memory a little bit on the history of israel and i'm drawing for this from a number of our previous studies we have a very extensive study of the middle east called the roots of war and many of these things will be except from that and some of our other briefings so many of you have a deep experience with our our materials you may find some of this material new and some of it may be a surprise so we're going next time talk about israel future but uh if god is so skilled at sovereign election as we emphasized in chapter eight whom he elects he predestinates to be conformed what about israel is the question that's sort of the lurking question behind these last few chapters paul uses israel as an example of how god deals that's why we're studying it so intensely this these chapters will tell us a great deal about the nature of god it isn't just our interest in israel directly it's it's it's lessons israel was chosen we discovered chapter nine but although they were chosen they blew it we want to understand how they blew it so that we don't blow it too they rejected the messiah among other things and there is a heresy in the church that we're trying to highlight for your own study most churches are immersed in a heresy over this very point they believe a view that says god is all through with israel they have no future that's literally what they teach that israel forfeit our promises that god made to her those promises now belong to the church it takes a great deal of allegorizing allegory is a license to invent by the way it literally is you always interpret by the literals illuminate by the by the allegories not the other way around we need to study and discern the distinctives between israel and church i urge you in your bible studies to be be sensitive to the differences between israel and the church they have different origins and different destinies i'm not going to badger this more other than just to make you sensitive to it see the very bizarre belief emerged in the fourth and fifth century became the primary doctrine of the christian church that had tragic consequences for the jew it justified all kinds of astonishingly horrid persecutions of the jews the christ killers they called him they were the christ killers if you want to blame someone for the crucifixion christ blame me it's my fault my sins that put them on the cross now the reformation did a lot of wonderful things in satiriology but it did nothing to stop the anti-semitic beliefs and that confusion in the church about israel is what led to the holocaust in europe and that's been well documented this same confusion is emerging again and will lead to the next holocaust that's the reality the first holocaust killed one jew out of every three the next holocaust will kill two out of three according to zechariah 13 verses 8 and 9. i didn't say that zechariah did and the roots of this next holocaust will be the same as before the anti-semitism within the church itself when i say church here i mean the organized church obviously when the church became anti-semitic it obviously was tragic for the jew it was also tragic for the christian because we lost our jewish roots most christians have no idea what the old testament is all about just a matter of first of all basic literacy here's interestingly put your finger in the bible at genesis 12 and then put your other finger in acts chapter 2 and pick it up pick up your bible from genesis 12 to acts 2 and what's between your fingers is all about israel think about it yet most people have no idea about the concept of israel that is in the sense that is a key instrument the key instrument of god's plan of redemption okay why is all this so important because of the summary the purpose strategy and triumph of all history jesus said oh jerusalem jerusalem now that kills the prophets and stones then which are sent unto thee how often i would have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathered chickens that was the purpose of all history that was the climax of all history but you would not behold your house is left to you desolate forever no we're going to discover in the next chapter of romans when that's going to end his blindness was decreed upon israel until a certain point in time and we'll study that in our next session but the triumphal history of course is when jesus says i say unto you ye shall not see me henceforth until ye shall say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the lord the good news is that restoration is coming and they will be restored so chapter 9 was israel's past chapter 10 israel's present chapter 11 israel's future there are two agendas to this entire section israel has a future god has a future plan for them we're going to learn about all of that understand the points paul is making relative the existence of israel that affects all of us every one of these things affects every one of us israel present rejected and why you know we talk we did a special study on the middle east called roots of war and when you talk about the middle east you can't help but think of macbeth's famous scene act four scene one double double toil and trouble fire burn and cauldron bubble remember the witches stirring that in the famous shakespearean play well what kind of call we're talking about well you take the countries that make up the middle east and dump them in this cauldron and they all blame all their plight on israel which is ridiculous of course absolutely absurd there's been all kinds of wars that israel has nothing to do with but they create this belief and we'll talk about some of the strange ways they do that israel most of you recognize this flag or officially adopted in 48 first introduced in 1891 not earlier than that by the way it was used uh in ancient history but for many different purposes the six-point star of david is an ancient jewish symbol but blue and white stripes of course the levitical colors but israel when did israel begin some would say genesis 3 15 the for the seat of the woman and so forth well that's that's that's a defendable argument and the summary of that woman in that sense is in revelation 12. others would argue that it started in genesis 12 the call of abraham then you can defend that but clearly the scripture says that israel went down to egypt as a family and came out as a nation they were born at the exodus according to exodus chapter 4. now if we start looking at the chronology of the nation in 14 roughly something in the neighborhood of 1500 bc i'm using usher's dates here some scholars would quibble with a few of them but they're widely accepted as at least a frame of reference but the birth of nations sometime in roughly 1500 bc they went to captivity as a family out of the nation and it was about 1445 or so that the congress conquested the promised land under joshua was accomplished you're getting up to about 1100 when saul was appointed as the first king for samuel 10. and it's not that many years later that day 1048 that david captures jerusalem from the jebusites and about rough normally a thousand deal dealing around numbers that's when solomon dedicates the first temple in jerusalem at the feast of tabernacles ii chronicles 6 7. about 974 we have the civil war that divides kingdom into two houses the house of israel to the north and uh house of judah to the south and uh they have many different dynasties up north they go from bad to worse down south they generally go downhill there's a couple of exceptions about three or four of those kings that are not bad but basically it's also declined but all one dynasty the dynasty of david we get to uh 721 the northern house calling themselves israel was defeated by a syrian and and and totally exiled they weren't taking captivity in the tradition in a aggregated sense they were taken to slavery and distributed throughout the assyrian empire assyria had a policy of co-mingling they would take other captives and put them in this country and take their in order to break down any sense of national identity and they succeeded in doing that and so it the house northern house disappears from history at that point there is a spiritual sense in which the two houses will be rejoined in the millennium we have evidences of that in scripture well the big event occurs in 607 when pharaoh necco of egypt big power at the time was defeated by this young son of nabapulazer god named nebuchadnezzar son of the king great general very effective he defeated pharaoh neko at the battle of kashmesh in 607 roughly and then in 606 on his way home he lays siege to the city of jerusalem and the uh on behalf of his city state called babylon and he succeeds in that siege and takes daniel's three friends captive and puts a vassal king in charge because he's learned during the siege that his father's died he is now king of babylon so he goes home and take over the throne and uh 597 we have this well they have a vassal king put in charge who gets who's listening to the false prophets and uh there's and and decides that where god's chosen people he rebels again he doesn't listen to the true prophets who are saying nebuchadnezzar is god's instrument of judgment you yield to him that he got on an ego trip he leads a rebellion nebuchadnezzar has he and a couple of allies put a second siege take 10 000 more deported including ezekiel himself jeremiah is still in jerusalem but ezekiel gets now joins in a sense daniel in babylon and again zedekiah is put in charge another vassal king is putting charge instead he also gets on an ego trip ultimately and 19 years after the first one first siege he also tries to rebel but um nebuchadnezzar not only puts him down he levels the city both ezekiel and babylon all jeremiah and jerusalem are preaching saying yield nebuchadnezzar if you don't god is going to destroy the city of jerusalem and they don't listen and so jerusalem finally falls in the third siege and the temple is destroyed there's some very interesting each one of these sieges is a key prophetic trigger point for some other prophecies but we won't go into all that here 5 39 big deal persia conquers babylon and cyrus discovers a letter written to him by name in the book of ezekiel daniel shows it to him when he makes his grand entrance he's so impressed it's a matter of history that he releases the jewish captives to go back and build their temple give them financial incentives to do so and that's the first regathering then uh of the jews back to their homeland and isaiah 11 11 points out it's the second regathering that'll be the big one that's the one we're seeing going on right now but the first one was back there in the days of cyrus the great well they try to go back and build their temple not their city they didn't have that authority they had this already built a temple they don't get very far because they can't protect themselves so as the years go by finally nehemiah finds himself in a position he's the actual the wine tester he's the the the wine taster and the cup bearer to the king king artaxerxes longimanus and he's in great favor with him so he takes advantage of that to gain from him the authority to rebuild the wall and rebuild the city and with that authority he goes and the book of ezra is the troubling time to try to build the temple without that authority and they don't get very far but nehemiah gets the decree to rebuild the city and that's a trigger point for the the uh famous prophecy that gabriel gave daniel in daniel chapter nine and you really want to understand the seventy weeks prophecy the last four verses of daniel 9 because if you understand that everything else ties together well the uh the uh it is until 3 32 that the alexander the great um conquers the persians phenomenal young leader incredible gifts but he uh conquers the persians and that begins the hellenistic rule of judea and if if that brings you down to this as they succeed and alexander dies four of his key generals divide the empire but the one that we watch for biblical reasons is in 1960 in a 19 in 167 bc antarcticus iv attack is epiphanies he called himself ransacks jerusalem but he does a whole series of things he makes reading the torah the jewish scriptures punishable by death if parents circumcise their children they get killed and then one of his climactic acts is he sets up the abomination of desolation in the temple he actually puts an a a an idol in the holiest spot only a spot on the planet earth and it's important to understand the abomination of desolation the abomination is any idol worship but the the ultimate one is putting an idol in the most holy spirit on the planet earth which is not just in jerusalem in the temple it's in the holy holies and that triggers the mecca being revolt in 167 by the time three years go by the the maccabees as they call themselves were they re captured the temple and they rebuilt the they rededicated it fabricating everything that had been profaned and that event is what's worship to or celebrated this to this day is hanukkah it's even mentioned in the new testament in john 10 22 interestingly enough because it's important and write the holy spirit do that it's important for us to understand that because you need to understand that in order to understand the milestone that jesus predicts that's coming in the future so the the maccabees finally succeed the family name is hasmonean so the hezmanian dynasty then rules in jerusalem about 142 and they rule until the romans finally take over for under pompeii all the way to 63. there's still bc now and the parthians there's a rival empire to the east called the parthians and they conquered judea from the romans in for about three years they conquered in bc40 and they carried all the way to bc 37 when that herod when herod is appointed king of jerusalem it's too risky to he he's in rome it's too risky to go there but when they finally throw off the parthians control of that area herod then can he's he's on shaky ground when he goes there um to be acting as the roman appointed king and he tries to popularize himself by building expanding the temple and a lot of building projects and so forth the government leaders all never never hesitate to spend your money to spread their good will you know so um that brings you to a reference here roughly the birth of christ is about four or two um bc depending on what authorities you look at there's a lot of debate about that and we'll get into that here there is an event though that occurs about 7 a.d that you want to be aware of caesar augustus appoints caponeus procurator in judea he removes the judicial authority from judea they no longer have the right for capital punishment that will become very important to understand when you get to the crucifixion of christ they needed roman authority but if there's an event that occurred about 7 a.d that's recorded in josephus and elsewhere that the when they lost the right to when capone took away their right to administer capital punishment the priests put on sackcloth and ashes and marched around let's see i think i have slides on all this yeah see in genesis 49 10 there's jacob predicted he says that scepter shall not depart from judah the tribe of judah nor a law giver from between his feet until shiloh come now shiloh is recognized as as a rabbinic allusion to the messiah that the scepter shall not depart from judah until she will come and to him shall the gathering of the people be well the scepter the word mean refers to the tribal identity and the right to apply and enforce mosaic laws to adjudicate capital punishment jewish gladiato and even during their 70-year captivity in babylon the tribes retained their tribal identity they regained their own logistics and judges and so forth the word shiloh really it means who is right it is and the separation department do it until he comes to whom it belongs is what it really means in the hebrew and it's understood by the early rabbis and the talmudic authorities as referring to the messiah and that's in a bunch of the targums uncles jonathan you shall army the jerusalem talmud targum herod the great dies herod antipater had been murdered herod archelaus whose appointed ethnic by caesar augustus broadly rejected dethroned the saul and josephus camponius was appointed procurator the legal power of the sanhedrin was immediately restricted and the adjudication of capital cases lost and this was normal jewish policy you'll find this in another works of jesus wars that the jews 2.8 in antiquities it describes this after the death of procreator festus when albinius was about to succeed him the high priest ananias considered a favorable opportunity to assemble the sanhedrin he therefore caused james the brother of jesus interesting illusion here in josephus who is called jesus who is called christ and several others who appear before this hastily assembled council and pronounced upon them the sentence of death by stoning all the wise men the strict observers of law were in jerusalem expressed their dis disappropriation of this act they didn't have the right to do that is the point some even went to albinis himself who had departed to alexandria to bring this breach of the law under his observation to inform that iranians had acted illegally in assembling the sanhedrin without the roman authority get the picture they're no longer running things so the priests officially mourned they went around they marched around the city in sackcloth wailing woe unto us for the scepter is departed from judah and the messiah has not come the priests actually thought that the word of god had been broken that's the point that's recorded in the record in the histories they believed the word of god had failed they were unaware there was a young boy growing up in a carpenter shop in nazareth at that time he presented himself as the messiah the king on the very day that had been predicted previously by the angel gabriel five centuries earlier that's what daniel 9 is all about anyway getting back to israel about 20 bc and eric begins this big reconstruction from about 28 to 32 is the ministry of jesus crucifixion under herod antipas the tragedy of all history as described in matthew 23 that's one way of describing it that's the way meryl gibson did a movie the passion describing it's a tragedy that's really not true it's really an achievement every detail was planned before the foundation of the world but in any case because they didn't accept him when he came national blindness is decreed in luke 19 verse 40 and following and we'll deal with that when we get to romans 11. the destruct jesus himself predicts the destruction of jerusalem some 38 years later this generation will not pass away in one generation 38 years now it comes and that starts the diaspora as it's called the outpouring that became an idiom in our language the wandering jew became a proverb for almost 2000 years anyway they so we got the from 37 to 41 the roman emperor caligula attempts to have his image established in the temple just like antax epiphany did that's what he he gave petronius the general in charge orders to put his statute in the holy of holies petronius realized if he did that there'd be an uproar so he didn't do it caligula when he discovers he didn't do it sends orders for him to be killed but then caligula dies and by a mix-up at sea the message of his death arrives before the message of his ex execution and when he dies all bets are off it's interesting how the lord interferes to keep that from happening that would have been the abomination of desolation no it's yet future from 66 to 73 you have the jewish revolt against the romans which leads of course to the fall of jerusalem itself in 70 a.d masada and all of that the fall of jerusalem is about 70 a.d second temple was destroyed by titus and so forth it's interesting that the falling of the temple is not mentioned in any of the gospels or the epistles you'd think it would be for apologetic arguments there's all kinds of reasons that would have been very meaningful why wasn't mentioned very simply it's a proof that the new testament documents preceded 70 a.d by 10 20 years at least in some cases so they're written before 66 a.d there's also other evidences i won't go through all that here and uh 73 was the last stand at masada you most know you know the story in 1890 the council of yabny is uh redefines judaism the jews have a real problem the temple's gone the torah says there's no without the shedding of blood there's no remission of sins there's no place to shed blood that's effective and so they got a problem and so they redefine judaism into a works oriented do good kind of an uh program and that's all start that definition gets started in 80 90 and gets modified as the talmud gets published a few centuries later but 132 a.d declares himself as the messiah and he has a revolt he successfully destroys the roman 12th legion something they never really recovered from and he begins trying to rebuild the temple but it doesn't last long it takes the romans about three years to get their act together and they finally crush the barkokpa revolt but what comes as a result of this emperor hadrian at that time decides there's no way they can rule this troublesome land as long as there's any jewish presence there so he orders the city of jerusalem totally plowed under and builds a roman city on top of that and so uh aila capitalina it was the name of the city um and it was hadrian's middle name and his capital was built on the ruins but the interesting thing was the temp a temple of jupiter was built over the site of the jewish temple and we think we know where that is and it's not where the dome of the rock is anyway the names uh he names they they deliberately named the region the after the philistines the way to do that in latin was to call him palestinia that was the latin term for the philistines they're deliberately trying to eradicate any evidence of jewish presence and when with that roman name of palestine get sticks of course with the british and uh the the jerusalem boast was called the palestine post until the state was finally formed and so forth but when you use the word palestine using the name of their enemy by given to them by their enemies you get to the third then well into the fourth century by now constantine has taken over and he legalizes christianity throughout the roman empire he doesn't declare the state religion that's his second successor after him does that but he does make it legal it was illegal up until then but he realized over half the world was slaves and most of them were christians in the caves hiding he was a very shrewd maneuver for lots of reasons he not only legalizes christianity that was popular for lots of reasons but he also declared one day a week as a day of worship he had three different groups of sun worshipper in his empire and so by he he felt he was unifying the empire by doing all that and administratively it was very effective for him and he also is fed up with rome so he moves the capital of the world to byzantium and renames it constantinople and over a thousand years later it'll be run over by the muslims and they rename it istanbul as it is today well it's the second successor after constantine theodosius that makes christianity the state religion of the entire roman empire big disaster of course because now you've got state appointed pastors and no no no regenerates or very few probably um but by about 570 another event occurs muhammad is born in mecca and the rise of islam begins syria fell 634 jerusalem 637 egypt 638 persian 640 north african 689 spain 7-11 this was all stopped at tourist france in 732 we'll come to that in a minute anyway the persian sac jerusalem 614 the byzantines recaptured jerusalem then jerusalem's conquered by khalif omar and that's when the dome of the rock presumably was built the muslim domination of jerusalem begins it's interesting that they had domination of that for over a thousand years and let jerusalem turn to rubble it never was their capital that's interesting by 732 the big event occurs in europe charles mattel defeats the moors the the muslims at tourist france that arrests the incursion of islam into europe and it was interesting here avi lip can talk about this because a jew he's always hated crusaders for obvious reasons crusaders went through having contests of how many jewish babies you can get on a sword and that sort of thing so they're they're there all kinds of horror stories but he also realized when he was visiting some of his roots in spain is that charles martel if it hadn't been for him they all would have been speaking arabic that israel that europe almost fell to islam it was the crusaders that kept it from happening to which avi realized that the jew owes them a debt well finally the opposite dynasty of baghdad sees the control of jerusalem egyptian-based dynasty re conquers jerusalem all the synagogues and churches are destroyed it's about 9.50 now the the cell jokes conquer palestine persecuting both jews and christians it's interesting that islam enemies is they call their enemies the people of the book i mean jews and christians and i think we'll both be glad to sign up to that one any day mama luke's ruled from cairo in 1291 jerusalem becomes a city of exile for all kinds of dangerous criminals and disfavored officials that's that was kairos that was kaira's you know place anyway um the ottoman empire succeeds the mamluk empire so jerusalem is in turkish hands then for the next four centuries now realize during all this time jerusalem is not a capital of any of the islamic interests that are in charge different different groups are in charge different muslim groups but never making it a capital damascus sometimes cairo other times and so forth but in the the walls the walls that you see there now if you visit were built by solomon the magnificent in the 16th century actually 1537 on and i love this in 1544 the muslim authorities they seal the golden gate because they hear that the jews believe the messiah is going to go through that gate so they sealed to make sure the messiah couldn't get through there i got news for them they'd be at the wrong gate but even so that's another thing okay and then we have the first crusade roughly 1100 if in round figures to jerusalem crusaders lay sage to jerusalem we capture the city for a little while wholesale massacre of almost 40 000 jews and muslims crusaders declared jerusalem the capital of their latin kingdom notice it's interesting it's the enemies of islam that make it a capital not them it brings you about 1187 when the muslims finally recapture jerusalem under saladin who encourages the jews and christians to settle in jerusalem and help him fight the latin crusaders i think that's kind of interesting he recruits the jews the christians to settle there and help him fight these crazy crusaders solomon finally dies the heirs battle each other germany brokers a deal to return all of jerusalem except the temple mount to crusader control but by 12 if just a couple years later crusaders are expelled from jerusalem by mercenaries hired by the egyptian sultan and mama looks ruled from cairo jerusalem becomes a city of exile for dangerous criminals and his favorite officials and in 1516 the ottoman empire succeeds the mamaluk empire so you got the turks succeeding the egyptians if you will and it's in turkish hands for the next 400 years and the walls of jerusalem rebuilt under solomon the magnificent as i think i mentioned that one and uh i guess i got a repeater don't i and napoleon just before 1800 moves against the ottoman empire from the egyptian front but he stopped before he reaches jerusalem now in 1860 the mishkan hashanah that's the first jewish neighborhood built outside the jerusalem walls when you visit jerusalem is a very conspicuous windmill that's commemorates this and so this is up until then they it was getting cramped because they are all the traditional view is to be within the walls for protection by the time you get to 1860 that's an absolute concept they're beginning to obviously live outside the walls and you have to realize when you read ezekiel he never saw a city you know an unwalled village that was just unthinkable that's common today of course in 1881 you got that's in russia the pogroms start uh waking awakening the jewish identity and uh so we're getting into the late 19th century and a number of events start to indicate that the regatting is going to begin in 1882 there's the publication of leo pinkster's auto emancipation calling for the establishment of a jewish state and this began the first wave of zionist immigration to palestine but that's it's it's a few years later it's 1894 is the key a key event occurs there is a kangaroo court as i would call it in france an officer by the name of alfred dreyfus who happens to be jewish is framed as a traitor and put on trial found guilty and it becomes a national uproar a famous author emilio zolly zola published a thing called i accuse and it gets big big publicity but a guy man in the theodore herzog's watching all this this this this uh ridiculous the charade of a trial and uh recognizes that it's just a symptom of french anti-semitism and he begins to realize that there's no hope for the jew until they have their own country so the the the conspicuousness of this and incidentally years many years years later alfred dreyfus is found not guilty this is all you really that's long after all the damage is done but but anyway the point is this prompts emotion in this prompts theater rehearsal to write a book called der eudenstadt which is in the the jewish state he publishes this it becomes a manifesto for the jews to start pushing for their own homeland and in the year later he convenes the first zionist congress in basil switzerland these are big milestones to the jewish community and uh in 1915 just before during world war one there's a the zion mule corps of british army was organized the first jewish fighting unit but in 1916 a secret agreement is signed the sykes-picot agreement assigned by britain france and russia and the psycho sex pico agreement was a secret agreement between britain and france primarily agreeing to divide between them the lands of their enemy the ottoman empire once the war ends the war hasn't ended yet but they could see it coming so once the war ends they're going to divide the roman empire actually the ottoman empire between themselves and among its terms was the establishment of an arab state know in southern palestine whatever that means what's the impact of all this the arabs of course when they learn of all this it was secret at first they're incensed that britain had decided instead to engineer its own rule over all palestine through the league of nations and see britain ruled palestine essentially is a colony all the way until 1948. so something else you need to know in world war one there was a very serious shortage of ammunition because part of what they need to create tnt is natural acetone but all the sources for natural acetone had been dried up so david lloyd george the prime minister of england advertised extensively for someone to produce a formula for synthetic acetone and it was developed by dr weitzman and he later becomes first you know one of the first presidents of israel anyway and the resulting availability of gunpowder because of what he did turned the tide of the war and this was widely recognized and that's why the occasion the publication of what's not the famed balfour declaration so we have in 1917 this famous document a short note really just from the foreign secretary a.j balfour to lord rothschild one of britain's most prominent jews stating that quote his majesty's government view with favor the establishment palestine of a national homeland for the jewish people that will later be abrogated by a white paper but the point it became a major mandate document in the eyes of the jews and it does it helps speed jewish immigration to the holy land and it's regarded as a formative national document by the israelis but this together with the sykes pago agreement laid the foundation for the current conflict in the middle east interestingly enough some other things that will come up here in a minute the versailles peace conference of course wilson argues for self-determination of peoples there's the jewish arab accord jews claim the jewish homeland in palestine the arabs claim arab state from iraq to yemen incidentally when they defined their jewish state they exclude palestine i think that's interesting they didn't see that as theirs then then we get to the san remo conference in 1920 that granted britain the mandate over palestine with the aim of encouraging immigration and the settlement of jews and the establishment jewish homeland however the british officials instigate arab riots in palestine the writers demand an end to jewish immigration and the incorporation of palestine to syria and obviously we're starting to get into the 20s we're beginning to realize that oil is important so that's a factor behind the scenes here and so along this way vladimir jabotinski founds the hagenah the jewish self-defensive force which will later become of course the idf and now in 1921 this is i'm a great supporter winston churchill marvelous guy but he makes one gigantic blunder the british decide to install abdullah in trans jordan he creates this country on paper and some other things are going i'll bring you up here in a minute let's talk a little about jordan you need to understand this background for prophecy reasons the hashemite kingdom of jordan is not an ancient kingdom it's rather a european creation of 1946 by winston churchill and uh if you take a look at the middle east this whole central region over here was supposed to be was mandated by the league of nations and others to be a jewish homeland ultimately but the british foreign office takes a chunk of that ground that which is east of the jordan river and creates out of thin air a nation called transjordan that's the that's the region we're talking about now prior to world war one the areas of ammon moab and edom using the biblical names had previously just been populated by unaffiliated bedouin tribes mobile you know itinerant tribes during the war when the british and the allies were fighting the germans in the ottoman turks a a british officer t.e lawrence organized his widely publicized arab revolt it's mostly a propaganda ploy it's more an invention of the british foreign office than it is actual progress they capitalized on this for reasons general allenby is ultimately victorious in the middle east and so the league of nations awarded the british a mandate on april 25th 1920 which was to endure all the way until 19 may 14th of 1948 a mandate to preserve peace in the area in 1921 an aggressive young man named abdullah son of sharif hussein of mecca in arabia in other words he's an arabian moved into the land east of the jordan river with his troops the british colonial secretary recognized abdullah as the emir of transjordan they made that up by the way it didn't exist before abdullah then consolidates control with this british trained arab legion so it's all a propaganda thing the the in 1946 after abdullah's crown king of trans jordan now since 1999 his great-grandson abdul ii is the current king in 1948 jordan joined the attack against israel in his war of independence and successfully fought the haganah and held the west bank but in 67 the so-called six-day war they again joined egypt in the six-day war but they lost it all in 1998 previously having reputed any rights to the west bank jordan signed a peace treaty with israel at camp david this one has been a real one a serious one now why am i getting into that because there's a very interesting exception in the scripture in daniel chapter 11 verse 41 speaking of the antichrist it says he shall enter also into the glorious land i assume that's israel and many countries shall be overthrown but these shall escape out of his hand even edom moab and the chief of the children of ammon what does this mean have no idea but it's fascinating to realize that for some strange reason this region that we now know as jordan escapes the thumb of the antichrist we don't know why we speculate that it may be to provide a refuge in petra but that's speculation let's continue this list the two legions ratify the british mandate over palestine with the aim of building a jewish national home but churchill white paper creates trans jordan taking 78 percent of the land allocated for the british mandate so if you want a palestinian state churchill created it for you it's called jordan it literally stole the land from that which the league of nations had set aside for israel seventy-eight percent of it well listen when vladimir zionist revisionism for forerunner of the herout political party in the modern good party there's riots in the 20s 29 the other big riots massacre of jews and hebron suffered and arabs demand an end to jewish immigration the arabs continue to scream and britain accommodates the arabs in 1930 they actually produce a white paper which limits jewish immigration to palestine in direct contravention to what they the mandate that they were given by the league of nations then in 33 another event occurs that got all our attention thanks to churchill hitler comes to power in germany and he passed the nuremberg laws what are they they became one of his party's infamous uh uh it was after one of their big rallies the laws provided for the legal framework for stripping jews of all their rights as human beings it's astonishing to to read that framework the first of which is titled the law for safeguarding human blood and honor the laws and their successors paved the way for departing the jews and ultimately for death camps of the holocaust what's the impact murder of six million european jews and the inability of most of the survivors to return home even after germany was defeated in 1945 but the good news is many people would argue that if it wasn't for this you wouldn't have a jewish state today it took the guilt of this mess and and the sympathy of the world to get the state formed is the argument that advanced by some but meanwhile of course the violence continues to get prompted by the arabs in palestine arab writers murder 500 jews and thousands of arabs demanding an end to jewish immigration the arab nationalist movement's riot to stop jewish homeland palestine they throw their support behind hitler the arabs throw their support behind hitler everybody forgets that today but uh the appeal for the 1937 appeal commission asserts that the jewish national home cannot be built in palestine it recommends it reparation palestine into a tiny jewish state five percent of the total area and the arabs state in the remainder it's rejected by both the arabs and the jews britain halts jewish immigration of alzheimer's condemning millions of european jews to the holocaust there's 37 1937 and america participated in this relegating these boatloads of people to the death camps 1938 munich conference that betrayed the checks i wanna i want us to get into the sudetenland story we'll come back to that in a minute in 38 we have the munich conference in 1939 he overruns czechoslovakia and that announces an end to jewish national home uh uh and knowing immigration for five years and so forth now and then hitler then invades poland and world war ii as we know it begins i want us if you haven't ever studied this pay attention to what happened in czechoslovakia because it's a fascinating case study in human affairs hegel is famous for saying history teaches us that man learns nothing from history and here's a good example czechoslovakia had a major strategic barrier they had 800 000 armed regular army that's a powerful arm even by today's standards they had a highly efficient arms industry czechoslovakia did and they had the sudeten mountains which were an a formidable barrier politically militarily protecting their heartland prague was the capital get that picture their fortifications were regarded as impregnable that's the sudetenland the heartland of czechoslovakia that has a sufficient arms industry and all the rest of it they also enjoyed the protection of the western powers france had 100 divisions larger than germany britain and russia also guaranteed protection of czechoslovakia that's the picture that's the setup you got it so far germany has got a problem germany is fancies couldn't deal with that so they adopted a propaganda solution the sudetenland happened to have 3 million germans among it and seven million others the germans are a minority but there are about three million these aren't displaced germans they just happen to have some german roots okay sudetenland was a prosperous democracy there was full civil rights to everybody okay no one's abused yet really there's a a puppet political leadership called the sedate and free corps they fabricated a czech terror program of the sudeten germans this is a puppet of the nazis but they fabricate terror on the sudeten germans you got the picture so far okay william shearer whose classic book the rise and fall of the third reich is if you're interested in all in the history of the world or not it's a definitive study of the nazi rise and fall of nazi germany as of course mine he says thus the plight of the german minority in czechoslovakia was merely a pretext for cooking up a stew in a land he coveted hitler coveted undermining it confusing and misleading its friends and concealing his real purpose to destroy the czechoslovak state and grab its territories the leaders of france and great britain did not grasp this all through the spring and summer indeed almost to the end prime minister chamberlain the france of britain and premier dalladiere of france apparently sincerely believed along with most of the rest of the world that all hitler wanted was justice for his kinsfolk in czechoslovakia so hitler's instigating terror things on the germans to have something to complain about that's all checklist slovakia's fault we're not taking care of them see this is what's called the reversal of causality to turn it around and paint it backwards the intransigent checks according to the press were the obstacle to peace because they're not giving in to hitler's demands the czechs were precipitating a crisis to prevent the breakup of their state is the story the choice between war and peace was in their hands whose hands the czechs hands this petty segment of europe is harassing the human race was the call suddenly the checks are the bad guys there's a small minority of germans that are being assaulted by a terror group and all the propaganda is blaming czechoslovakia for not dealing with that and it becomes the cause celeb it gets worse it gets worse the argument is the western power should force the czechs to relinquish the occupied territories czechoslovakia is somehow painted as inappropriately inappropriately occupying this that really belongs to these germans hey they're a minority in the first place and they they're not the ones screaming hitler from outside is screaming they're manufacturing a point of view in 1937 1938 the czechs were pressured by leading western powers to meet the sudeten demands western press laments this checks disregard for peace in europe injustice of not allowing the sudan land to be returned to germany hey wait a minute never was part of germany it's not part of germany it's the core land of czechoslovakia that's lost in everybody the british envoy demands the czechs remodel foreign relations to assure freedom from aggressive action against their neighbors they want to have check take checks take action to keep the checks from hurting their not hurting their neighbors september 18th of 1938 the british and the french determined that checks must accede to hitler's demand for the peace of europe for the maintenance of peace and the safety of czechoslovakia's vital interests you've got to be kidding it's their vital interest they're forcing them to hand over they want an international guarantee of the new boundaries and if not they would fight hitler alone wait a minute these are the people british and france that are treaty bound to protect czechoslovakia they're using their abrogation that treaty as a threat that's called extortion it's all up to the checks now according to velcro this is caught by the bill chamberlain well that's the setup the sting the hysteria amounts shuttle diplomacy increases minutes before the september 28 deadline hitler agrees to chamberlain's proposal for a peace conference the munich conference britain and france plead with hitler for 11 hours to take the sudetenland peacefully please take this without war then he finally after 11 hours reluctantly agrees he finally gives in to these demands that he engineered in the first place chamberlain and dalai deer were praised cheered and thanked for having traded land for peace land for peace that sound familiar to you somewhere never he he came back and his famous quote that will ring through eternity my friends i believe it is peace in our time the prime minister of czechoslovakia says we have been basely betrayed he understood no one else did thessalonians 5 3 when they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail about a woman with child and they shall not escape phase two september 30 1938 the czech army withdraws from the sudetenland the german ant annexes it followed by more demands violence and oppression continues march 15 1939 the nazi war machine rolls through the rest of czechoslovakia that arms industry those strategic mountains the whole routine are now in hitler's hands something he could never have won militarily didn't have the muscle the western powers did nothing their assurances to czechoslovakia meant zero why am i going through this so much do you see a pattern here israel also is a small democracy with a powerful army and defensive terrain the golan heights have the same role there that the sudeten mountains did for the sudetenland direct seizure unthinkable now they tried a few times always lose pressure from the west ah that's achievable because the media are prostitutes reversal of causality astonishingly effective the israel's somehow the cause of all the terrorism i got it on fox news the other day you know that that the israel succeeds israel had wiped out some terrorist leader and the even they say the supposed terrorists now come on you know who's doing the terrorism when you go through an airport they're not looking for an israeli bomb reversal of a causality assault and effective through a managed press and an illiterate electorate the press is our prostitutes the politicians are one step one step removed for that and the electorate and generally the average person you know what's the biggest problem is it ignorance or apathy's i don't know and i don't care okay well let's continue back to the world war uh uh two days the mufti that was appointed by britain relocates himself to berlin that tells you something about his sympathies meets with hitler announces the intention of creating a fascist arab state agitates for the destruction of world jewry instigates terrorism against arab moderates also notice that instigates terrorism yasser arafat later yasser arafat murdered more arabs than he has jews because his game is to keep them keep them extremist if you're trying to be a moderate arab you don't have a chance your enemy is the plo okay then the not the nazi conference at one's a and decides on the destruction of all jews in europe that's their policy this tells you it's satanic you know this is more than just a somehow an exploitable resource or something no this is this is satanic clearly if you look what's really going on islam it's satanic they do things that are not even in their own best interests and tell you something else is driving us demonic anyway 44 we have the british brigade part of british forces fights alongside the allies they make a name for itself that counts for something and then world war ii finally ends liberation of the death camps where six million jews died arabs are still demanding a end to jewish immigration and the so-called illegal smuggling of holocaust survivors in palestine by the jews all kinds of underground actions of course a friend of our fam a friend of ours uh was proud of the fact that he bombed the king david hotel et cetera the urgon bob is the jingling david hotel famous thing 46 well finally in 47 british says enough already they can't handle it anymore they announced their withdrawal the united nations announces a partition in the jewish arab jewish arab states the partition is facing a jewish crisis refugee crisis and mass immigration it could no longer control britain exceeded to revelation resolution 181 of the newly founded u.n which also called for the partition of rich ruled palestine into separate jewish and arab states with jerusalem as a separate and administered by the united nations that was their concept what was the impact the palestinian jews approved the plan astonishingly enough but the palestinian arabs and the neighboring arabs states rejected it abible was famous for counting nine times when there's a walk away from various tables there's always the arabs that walked away he said they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity and attention turns to violence and they and british goes to withdraw the dead sea scrolls happened to be discovered about that time and uh so finally 48 you have the invasion of the air forces are aimed at preventing the establishment of the jewish state the declaration of independence by david ben-gurion citing ezekiel as his authority names the new jewish homeland israel he's the first prime minister and the british mandate you know as it expires the jews just declares their state and the u.s and the ussr interestingly together where the quickly recognized it which i thought was that's that's it i can't think of u.s in those days u.s and america agreeing on anything palestinian arabs joined by five neighboring states launched a war that i can be everybody thought sure they just walk over five countries thousands of times larger than israel going to walk over there no they didn't and meanwhile some 700 000 palestinian arabs fled from their lands encouraged by their own palestinian neighbors the jews pleaded for them to stay promised them citizenship now they they left they create the the refugee problem is created by them by the end of that war of course it will expand its borders i love the t-shirt she says attack us again we need the real estate you know egypt occupied the gaza strip jordan occupied the west bank of east jerusalem including the old city and the huge population of palestinian arabs had fled and they would ultimately become radicalized in the squalor of the refugee camps the people that are keeping those camps are the palestinian neighbors there's no reason they can't absorb some of those they don't it's a it's a political football playing in the hands of the plo frankly strange strange inversion going on here then of course you finally have their war of independence as we talked about five armies and so forth okay we have 800 000 jews expelled from arab countries fleed to israel and are absorbed by the way 650 000 arabs flee from israel and are confined to refugee camps what's wrong with this picture nasa arafat of the husseini clan begins organized the palestinian radicals in cairo recruits a number of these wild guys from the for the plo and there's terrorist raids so we have to go through all of this the israeli army adopts policy of reprisals which the only thing they understand then we get to the sinai campaign kamal abdel nasser nationalizes the suez canal and blocks israeli shipping israel captures the sinai from egypt not the last time by the way and terrorist bases in gaza dismantled u.s u.s the soviet pressure forced israel to withdraw from the sinai without a peace treaty and get this dwight eisenhower guarantees protection of israeli shipping a few years later when they call for that protection believe it or not the record shows we couldn't find the paperwork now you can't believe that stuff until you look at you see it in the documentation 64 the plo is founded i want you to notice the day that the year that the plo is founded 1964 what does it stand for the palestinian liberation organization this is before 1967 this is when they had what they call the west bank this is before they had what they claim they're after is what they had then no they were formed to get the whole thing they're calling for israel's destruction totally they've never struck in that from their documents and the campaign of terror attacks escalates as it just goes on and uh so plo adopt a charter sending out its claim to all the land once ruled by britain as palestine not ruled by them they never has been a palestinian state or even a palestinian people palestinian people are the jews and again it's this inversion thing that's so so astonishingly effective to an illiterate press and so anyway on it goes and the the the charter of the plo uh codified its ideology and rationalizes violent tactics and the radical language became a major stumbling block after the australian peace process which began in 1993 has never been revised they say they were canceled they in fact have not they re they haven't done that at all they claim they have they haven't and so and egypt floods the sinai with troops blockades the israeli shipping and the 67 the american guarantee to protect israel fails to take effect and it literally record they couldn't find the paper they placed it you know they literally through diplomatic channels placed a call and couldn't find the paperwork six day war then and i was at the ford motor company executive dining on those days i can remember vividly that nobody there expected that to last much i i had reason to believe that they had nuclear war nuclear weapons and i always wondered what would happen if we went seven days after six days they'd established themselves israel defeats the combined forces of egypt syria iraq and jordan captures the sinai in gaza judea samaria and the golan heights and israel is reunited and the jewish settlements in eastern jerusalem judy and samaria were re-established i don't know why they didn't just annex at all 67 the u.n steps right in to fix all this two u.n security documents 242 and 338 called for our sides to renounce the acquisition of territory by war why why they didn't start it they also asked for a solution to this palestinian refugee problem i'd ask the palestinians about that anyway in respect of sovereignty and independence of the others so these resolutions rallied international sentiment against israel to keep the territory 167 war the west bank east jerusalem the gaza strip honey so that's been the bone of the throat see it's interesting the main impact the main detriment to priests in the middle east is the u.n it's astonishing to see that again and again i'll come back to that in a minute then we of course the yom kippur war by the way it's really interesting to visit cairo you remember the yom kippur kippur war ariel sharon circled the entire egyptian third army they were like they were in effect totally outflanked right it was the intervention of um oh what's his name i'm throwing a blank our administrative state at the time uh shuttles diplomacy forcing that forcing us to stop and give it all back um he wrote the book because thank you kissinger i had a senior moment there yes henry kissinger forced them to unwind and when you go through cairo you see the monuments celebrating their victory in the 1973 war they were wiped out they were they lost but they don't know it you see the the whole thing is to give them some kind of pride and so uh it you have to see it to believe it as you go through and visit if you visit egypt we get 78 yards you get the the king david the camp david accords and uh so monochromagen enters u.s brokered talks and ultimately a peace treaty between the two most powerful states in the middle east egypt and israel it held it uh held fast but the the relationships between the states were still strained sadat was ultimately assassinated largely because of camp david and the attempt to draw the palestinians jordan in syria and the talks failed so then we have the annexation and claims israel passed two key laws in the 80s the first named all of jerusalem including east jerusalem the old city as israel's eternal capital jerusalem is the capital of israel but even the u.s hasn't got the guts to do what the congress has instructed the administration to do which is put our embassy there but we won't do that the second annex the golan heights which is kept from syrian 67. and so these moves by the right-wing government enraged the arabs of course and made future talks more difficult the israeli moves argue these are vital to security and their identity and most of the world including the us still maintains its embassies in tel aviv because we do if we would do what we should do and put our embassies in the capital it would be a statement then we have the 93 so-called peace accords years of secret contacts between led israel and pilot into a complex formula agreed by both sides the secret context wasn't by israel and plo it's by everybody else meddling here and after uh so the larger issues by the way the major issues we're not dealt with jerusalem statehood and refugees we're all put off until the final status talks that's stupid we deal we agree on the small points we leave the the main issues unresolved and that's when we have rabin and arafat and the famous handshake on the white house lawn what a travesty and uh like sadat rabin's paid with his life and of course the accords have proved impossible to implement the the the arab side has done zero not one of the commitments they made have been kept and of course the fundamental problem the problem is not the borders of israel it's the very existence of israel the size is not really the issue anyway and we go through the israel jordan peace treaty i mentioned that to you already we don't have to get into that detail here and uh that caused trouble for king hussein because his kingdom has a palestinian majority but uh at least as a second arab state to officially recognize israel egypt and and jordan have it paved the way for others and keep also talks moving then we have the so-called interim agreement which really has very little effect i don't have to go through all this here in our time here but it all bogged down over complexities and have run and the politics are just irresistible and uh so we have the y river agreement which there again uh extremists continue to try to upset the elections and um violence in the early in the term of prime minister benjamin netanyahu virtually shut down the process for several years so the y river memorandum revived it with u.s president bill clinton mediating the new disputes between the parties the plo meanwhile was going broke in tunis until clinton got that revitalized for them israel pledged to resume land handovers palestinians vowed to step up security measures and everybody fell victim to recriminations and so it all gets stalled again and the last one in our list here is the meeting in egypt and again very ambitious plan agreement or not and it would all unravel not important to get the details because it was all for nothing two thousand camp david two and that also is uh trying to form clinton trying to find form a legacy something before office and so israel for the first time offered part of east jerusalem as a palestinian capital plus most of the west bank stupid move but they offered it they often literally put like 98 percent of what they were asking for on the table who do you think walked away arafat did he found something he didn't like and he walked away so the fear of camp david ii he wrote a domestic political support for barack he resigned in december 2000 called for fresh elections and his political decline harold the rise of ariel sharon lakut party and you know where that's all gone so there's more of these talks again nothing really seriously concluding especially why arafat was alive that was a tragedy for the arabs as well as the jews because he had no interest in the welfare of the arabs he was interested in his own agenda and so all kinds of talks nothing really happening let me give you one fact to finish this all up the united nations up until 1990 which has happened to be the data that i have collated here there were 175 security council resolutions passed by the united nations security council up until 1990. of the 175 97 were directed against israel now the fact they even involve israel is astonishing because there's a lot of there's a lot of countries a lot of problems before the u.n besides israel but 55 of the resolutions they passed had to do with israel all were anti-israel all of them were anti-israel well that's the security council what about the general assembly they published 690 resolutions 429 were directed against israel 62 percent do you understand what this is telling you do you understand why israel does not get excited when the un's going to offer to broker some borders or what have you that's a joke it's a pathetic joke well so much for our quick skim through here romans 9 was israel past romans 10 as israel today and so we thought would be appropriate in order to get to romans 11. our next session will be on israel's future and so i encourage you to read romans chapter 11 which is going to deal with a lot of events that are on our horizon that are going to impact every one of us here so let's stand for a closing word of prayer

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