Does God Still Stand With Israel? | Nissim Black Answers Christian Comments with Scripture

So today's episode is going to be different. This isn't just one about news or about politics, about commentary. This one is about the truth. We're living in a world today that's drowning in lies. There's lies about Israel. There's lies about God's people. And there's lies about who we should follow and who we should actually trust. And it's not just coming from the radical left. It's coming from even people on the right, so-called woke right. and even voices that call themselves religious who are very confusing and they're confusing millions of people with halftruths with uh contradictions compromised character. So today I'm answering your comments directly. Yes, on the last episode a lot of you left comments a lot of the Christians left comments and I'm going to answer you. It was not only Christians. There were Jews. There were seekers. Whoever you are, you've been writing in asking real questions, wrestling with scripture, wrestling with the Torah, wrestling with history. And I want to respond not with politics, not with popularity, but with facts, with the Torah, the prophets, and with compassion. This is an episode about discernment, about knowing who's really with God and who's just using his name for influence. It's about learning how to separate the truth from the noise. Because if you don't know God, you won't recognize who's really on his side. So, I'm asking all of you to buckle up. This episode 16, we're about to go deep. [Music] Wait, before you get back to the show, I just want to let you know that we have launched Nissimblack. All you have to do is go online, order yourself one of these amazing mugs, God is king, with a matching t-shirt. We have a whole plethora of different shirts that are all about representing God wherever you go. As believers in the one true God of Israel, it is our duty not to hide, not to back down, not to shy away from expressing our faith wherever it is that we go. 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And this is something that, God willing, if it uh pans out very well, then I would love to continue doing things like this. Uh I just want to make sure that everybody knows that they heard. Uh I I really believe I'm one of those guys that even when there's thousands, I go through every single comment uh that I can. Uh there have been some videos that have exploded. So I'm not going to lie and say I've been through every single comment on some of those. But usually, you know, 6 700 800 comments or something like that. I, you know, I pretty much go through over a course of a week. And so letting everybody know you're heard. Even if I didn't use your comment right now or address you right now in this moment, you were definitely heard and everybody is being heard. Um, another thing is us really thinking about this and I want to talk about this closer to the end, but I want to get us thinking why are we having this conversation when we're talking about the nations of the world, specifically even Christians supporting Israel? Why is this conversation so loud right now? I mean, some of you are going to tell me it's obvious because of the war that's going on in Gaza and the world's uh and the support from Israel is actually waning. But when you start to dig deeper in this, who got us talking, who who who brought this conversation? I'm not saying that there hasn't been people who's been on the fence about Israel from, you know, from the Christian world for for many years, but now these guys are platformed. They got a voice all of a sudden. And as I've said before, I think the prophets were very clear that one of the signs at least that we start to look for is when people start to turn and when the world at large starts to turn itself towards the Jewish people and with all the different claims and nonsense and rhetoric that's been coming from all these different nations of the world, which absolutely make no sense. Completely double standard. Another double standard. And I was just thinking about this the other day. It's like, you know, in Nazi Germany, Jews were slaughtered because they weren't white enough, right? They weren't a part of the the Aryan nation or the Aryan race. They weren't white enough. They didn't fit into what Hitler Yamakimo, may his name be erased, thought should be of a human race. And because they were not white enough, they were slaughtered. Here we go fast forwarding to today. They're too white. There's white colonizers. They're European. They don't get to be Jewish anymore. Oh, these are the real people. Are they not the real people? I just people need to really understand that the the question of whether or not this is these are the real people is contradicting. And I'm not going to go through all the verses. If you want to watch the last episode, listen to the last episode if you're listening to this. but is undermining the fact that God's prophecies are coming true to our very eyes. Now, for those of you who are of the replacement theology, which we'll probably talk about a lot today, for you and for those, yes, we have every reason in the world to find some other reason why we're all watching the hand of God move. And you will for sure, forever come up with an excuse for why that's not actually happening. right? That the that the the land in itself which is responding as God said is responding to the people coming home and it's including everybody. I thought about this actually cuz it's one of the one of the truth. I actually didn't get this person. I want to find their comment. If I don't if you're watching the video of this then I'm going to put up the person's name because I didn't get to address this comment. But there was a person I believe he was Jewish. I thought I saw a Jewish name who who mentioned that even in the 1700s even I could go back to the 1500s right invas up north I think uh how do you say I think a seafood I forget how you actually say in English in the north in the upper Galilee region the arizol you know umak Ashkanazi you had uh you had the compile Er, you to say author of the Shanar, the code of Jewish law of Ysef Caroakura Ashkanazi, which is uh the AR, the father of Kabala, all the way to the students of the Balshimtov, who was the founder of the kid movement. And all these people were here in the land building up the land in the 1700s, 1500s. there were Jews already back here in Israel. Okay. Now there is truth and a lot of where the disagreement happens um I guess I say some of the infighting here as far as Jews are concerned is when these Zionists came from Europe. You know, there was obviously some discrepancy because a lot of them were not Torah observants and in fact a lot of them wanted to uproot religion from the land itself and the idea to form a state that did not have religion. So that's where a lot of these arguments go back and forth. And the reason why I'm actually mentioning this is because Jews have been here and the actual return of this exile which is very I guess to some degree is a little bit different than when Jews returned from the Babylonian exile from the time of Nebuchadnezzar after Nebuchadnezzar and after the Persian Persian was ruling and at the command of or at least at the permission of Cyrus Karish to go and build up your shalim to go back to the waste places and to begin to building where there the predominant movement the people the the the the movement who went back to go and build up that before that second second temple era were Jews who by and large were not religious weren't against religion they just didn't know any better they didn't have such a Torah knowledge it wasn't until Ezra came to helped build after Nhema or Nehemiah had come back. Ezra comes many years later and reinvigorates the spiritual revival of the Jewish people. But it wasn't until that that the Torah finds its proper place in the land of Israel as opposed to where here you have really the religious Jews who came here first and started to build up the land. But what's interesting is there's a major influx that with even these guys being Zionist even though I don't agree and I said how I feel about feel about a Jewish secular government governing the land of Israel irregardless of that what I want you to notice is that as I mentioned before the budding of the land this reaction this cause and effect of Jews coming not only there by the nation by By the time that the state was actually formed and Jews were actually being uh ethnically cleansed from all the surrounding Arab nations and coming back along with that influx of together both those religious not religious returning here to the land the land in part responds to that by giving forth its fruit and its yield. So one of the ways I thought about this that we can we can understand this is that if we are to look at the relationship between a husband and wife, right? The Jewish people are the bride of God on Mount Si. We stood at the wedding canopy. We made a contract with him. What we would call a ketuba, marriage certificate between us and God. This is the Torah, right? and we were called to be faithful to him. Time goes on in the relationship. The Jewish people are not as faithful. The bride is not as faithful to her husband, the king. So he sends many messages to his wife to tell she's not being faithful. And he says that I'm going to separate myself from you for some time. You have to live outside the house. You have to sleep on the couch. She got to leave outside the house and and for some time we will be separated. But in the future we will reconcile our differences and I'm going to bring you back home. And when you come back home it's going to be a sign for everybody around you that I love you when when I bring you flowers. when the flowers are given to you i.e. the vegetation of the land. Right? So God brings forth the flowers, the fruits, the vegetation in a direct response to the Jewish people coming back to this land. So this is what we are seeing. This aligns itself with the prophets. In order to believe in a replacement theology, you have to be saying that no, God completely divorced them. Completely divorced them. And it's a major issue. And it's these people and it's the woke right, all of these people that have us in this conversation right now, which I don't think it's unproductive. I think it's very productive to be able to have this conversation. But this is what has us having this conversation right now about whether or not there should be support or not support. And that also it it made me think about Genesis in the book of Genesis brace sheet right God commands Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree. He commanded Adam actually not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Adam listens to his wife and he eats. Usually our wives give us bad good advice not bad advice but okay in this case he got some bad advice from his wife. He eats of the tree. Then the spirit of God comes in the presence of God is walking about through the garden, whatever that means. And God calls him Adam. Adam says, "I'm here." He says, "I was embarrassed because I was naked. I was unclothed." And God says over to Adam, "Who told you that you didn't have unclothe? Who told you that you were naked?" Adam's in trouble now cuz he realizes this is not a thought that I had before. Something or someone, some snake has come in and corrupted me. And now I'm thinking about things that I never would have thought about before. And I think that that's one of the the ways that we could look at what's actually taking place here today when we look at what's going on in the world. When we look at how the nations of the world specifically like I've been talking to or addressing to uh not only my fellow Jews but also to Christians on this particular matter about what does it look like and what does the Bible actually say about supporting the state of Israel. Regardless if you are a Jew or a non-Jew, what does the prophets actually say? What should we be looking forward to? >> My name is Dr. Inad Green. I'm a licensed clinical psychologist. I'm a mother of children with dyslexia and the founder and executive director of Kolkare, a nonprofit organization that supports children struggling with dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities. I started caller about 12 years ago after making aliyah and realizing that children with dyslexia fall through the cracks in the educational system. >> There's a war of kids who have challenges with their learning dyslexia. These are kids that are already falling through the cracks and the war has only made it worse. There's not a lot of organizations that are out there on the front line like Coor. Before my son came to Corore, he would sit in a classroom. He wouldn't understand anything um in English and in Hebrew. His friends were progressing around him. They were reading books. He used to just sit there daydreaming and struggling. And he came home and he used to say he hates school and he doesn't want to go and he used to fight learning. And since Carer, he's realized that he can learn. I've been here part of this learning center for about seven years and I've been feeling the impact. We work with kids countrywide. Whatever kids feel about themselves as learners, they really feel about themselves as members of the community. >> So I'm imploring you all, my audience, to help Cooray, please help this organization continue to do their holy work. [Music] So in light of that, we know that there have been snakes. There have been snakes primarily those of us who are familiar with those snakes that are on the right or pretend to be on the right. And the reason why they're snakes is because they pretend and profess to be religious, to be those who walk after the way of God. But ultimately, that's not necessarily what we're seeing from these people. Okay. So, with all of that, I'm probably going to readress some of those things. But, um, I want to get into our first comment, our first question, uh, from John Ray, uh, which is 1956. Very nice. I don't know if that was the age, but thank you so much, uh, John Ray. So, John Ray asks, "Rabbi Niss, I have a question. You have Joel chapter 4:es 1-2. You have the nations that try to divide the land today. So they are predominantly in one region of the world is what uh is what John Ray says. I don't know if I necessarily agree with that, but uh I think it's been pretty clear that it's been multiple nations from many different regions of the world. But then you have he says uh Zakaria 12 uh:es 2-3 and the question I have is that is there a possibility that nations um is into two groups. So there's one one category of nations I think he's saying category that goes against Israel and becomes sorely wounded due to he's saying number two nations that rises up from behind that there's a debate for a while of if Israel uh is going to stand alone or that righteous nations should come to the defense of Israel. So first off I would say to you John Ray thank you so much for your question and I think you bring up a very good point. So uh Joel chapter 4 uh uh verses 1-2 that talks about God judging the nations. Um Zakaria 12 uh which speaks about God bringing and rallying the the nations for this war all who come up against Jerusalem. Um this is verses 2 through 3. So both of these passages actually speak very clearly about the nations gathering against Israel and the judgment that's going to follow because they have gathered against Israel. Now the question that you ask is very powerful because is there a possibility that the nations divide into two groups that there will be some against Israel and there'll be some that are defending Israel. And this is going to be crazy what I'm going to say, but I'm going to bring this later on because there's another question that I have to give justice to, but I want everybody to continue listening because the full bulk of the full answer for this I'm going to give uh probably in another uh question, but I'm going to answer you as much as I can right now. So, I want you to look at the scriptures with me. So in Zakaria or Zechariah uh in the 14th chapter uh verses 14- 16 you'll see over there that it talks about it says that that not all the nations are going to be destroyed. Now these I think more so the way to interpret these uh verses I'm going to give you are still those from within those nations that did attack or came up against or were against Jerusalem or Israel and the Jewish people. Not all the people are going to be destroyed because we see specifically in Zakaria that it tells us that everyone who's left of these nations that do not come up uh who came up against Jerusalem, they should go up year to year to go and worship the king. Who's the king? God. They're going to go and bow to the king, the Lord of hosts. And what they're going to do is they're going to go up and worship during the festival of Sukkot or the feast of tabernacles or the festival of boos uh whatever your translation says we call it uh festival of sukkot. So this means and God says later on that if they do not come up there's going to be obligation both Jew and non-Jew that everybody is to stream to Jerusalem for the festival of tabernacles one of the pilgrimage festivals to go and bow down to give alms whatever to the king um and that means that if a person doesn't do that and if they don't do that then God will cause it not to rain on their land so very famous passage so that means that there will be survivors from among those nations who um probably have humbled themselves and they've joined Israel in the worship of God. So we also see that in Isaiah 60 chapter 60 10-2 that there will also be some of those nations that um actually come to aid Israel. I don't know if it's in the sense of war or whatever the case is. We're not really clear because of the oraculine nature of the book of Isaiah if it's before or after. But it does speak of foreigners will rebuild your walls which is actually true. We see this even still. So foreigners will come and rebuild the walls and their kings will come and serve you. So for the nations he says of those of those kingdoms they will that will not serve you will perish and all those nations are going to be utterly ruined. So this clearly shows here at least that there are nations who choose to serve and who will support and even rebuild Israel in the end. Another p powerful passage is Isaiah 49 uh chapter 49:es 222- 23 where God says behold I will lift up my hand to your nations and kings shall be your foster like your tend to your children and their queens shall be the nurses actually to to feed them give feed to the feed off to the children and they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth. So this actually shows that there is going to be um rulers even of the war world that will actually honor Israel and serve the restorations in in essence God will get vengeance and he's very clear about that. So even if you look in Zakaria or Zechariah chapter 8 uh we've discussed in the last episode we even discussed uh Jeremiah chapter 16 and this is probably where we differ the most and uh in terms of esquetology in terms of uh Jews and a lot of the Christians uh is is what happens in the end times. So if you look at Christ Christian esquetology um I'm speaking mostly of Protestants, evangelicals even that there's a 7-year period of tribulation and during the seven-year tribulation some believe in the rapture not all Christians believe in the rapture but during that time uh they believe that there's a great revival and repentance of the Jewish people meaning that they are going to turn to Jesus who is their king and they by them accepting him is going to usher in a second coming. So that is diametrically opposed to what the actual Hebrew Bible teaches because in the Hebrew Bible it teaches in Zechariah chapter 8 that it will be 10 from the nations who actually come to the Jews. They're going to come to the Jew and it says atim. So I know I've heard people um I've seen this argument made one time says the Jew but it actually says the Jews at talking about you. you as in the plural sense. They're going to come to you, the nations of the world, tins from each nation, and grab on to the helm of the Jew or the the garment of the Jew and say, "I want to go with you, for I have heard that God is with you." Which we've discussed before our chapter 16 of Jeremiah where God says that these nations are going to come and they're going to profess that we have inherited lies from our fathers, right? Our fathers have taught us lies. What did they teach? They taught us idolatry and so therefore we are going to come to you the the the Jewish people and they're attaching themselves. And we see this also in Isaiah. There's a very very similar passage. So the truth is yes scripture does indicate that there are two categories. uh basically there will be the nations who will rage against Israel who suffer God's judgment and then even from within those nations and possibly even with from without not in those nations specifically there will be nations who will stand or people from those nations that will stand with Israel who are then will be blessed and will play a role in the actual redemption story. But the heart of the matter is this that even if Israel has to stand alone even for a time the God of Israel's promises uh to fight for his people as it says in Zechariah 12:9 that it says that God is going to destroy on that day says specifically on that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come up against Jerusalem. So whether the nations rise up to defend, whether they don't rise up to defend or it doesn't matter whether they do or they don't, God himself is going to defend. So my message to most of anybody in the nations of the world who's listening to this, you have a choice, right? Everybody has that choice. You and whatever nation a person may come from can either be amongst those who curse Israel and fall or among those who bless Israel and stand. So God's promises that that he's made all throughout the prophets, they do not change. They're absolutely not going to change. Like we went through a lot of times uh you know in the last episode, which I'm referring a lot of people there cuz it was much longer probably than this episode will be and you could go through all those passages and see how many times God is saying that is a everlasting covenant that it will not change. So yes, there will be righteous nations and there will be wicked nations. But at the end of the day, the safest place to be is on God's side and his side is on Israel's side. Okay. So the second comment I wanted to go through is from I think it's Myra Lac 8507. Uh the question is I know that you used to be a Christian. Just wondering what made you give up faith in Yeshua of whom the New Testament clearly said that it was a mystery discovered to the apostle or the apostles and was meant for that time to be made known. It was not made known in the past to the prophets. Clearly, you know the New Testament and it looks like you believe it, at least the book of Acts. Otherwise, you would have no business quoting from it. I just don't understand how a Christian can give up faith in Yeshua unless he ne never really had faith. Just some knowledge of some things. Don't you remember that it's written that a Jew and a believing Gentile together become a part of one people, both partakers of the promises of God? Um, all believers in the God of Israel, even the messianics are a part of the people of Israel. There is no spiritual Israel. There is only one Israel. All those who love God by obeying his commandments. Okay. So, thank you so much for the question. I don't know exactly how to say your name, so forgive me for that. Um, so it's a lot to unpack there. So, I'll I'll do it in phases. Um, so I know that you're coming from a very good place. I can already read from the way that you wrote this coming from a very sincere place and I really appreciate that. So, um, and I appreciate the time that you took to write it. So, let me try to answer you um honestly and I want to do this respectfully. And the reason why I really want to be very respectful about this is because as I said, I really think the bigger issue that we're having right now is not the my faith versus your faith, my truth versus your truth. I think there's been an overwhelming push from the other side. whatever you call the other side, the devil, evil, the side of darkness to basically divide and conquer in many different levels. And one of those things are in faith right now in in terms I'm talking about they're trying to push so much down our throat that I think that the real conversation um surrounding faith is a really a us versus them type of thing. But I want to answer your question. So I'm going to respect it. So you mentioned the b book of acts. So I want to be very clear with you. I don't believe uh in the book of acts as authoritative or binding uh as scripture for me um not spiritually. Um I was simply using it as a historical record to give an historical account or rather I would say even historical evidence. Um, I wanted to show that even the earlier disciples of Jesus were Torah observant Jews. In Acts, we see that when the accusations are risen against Paul, when they're rising against Paul, that he was teaching Jews amongst the Gentiles to forsake the Torah of Moses, the apostles had him, specifically James, as I mentioned before, was the leader of that community. He was the brother, James or Yakov, however, you know, historically he was known as Yakov. But these apostles had him perform a public ritual sacrifice in the temple to prove the opposite that he still upheld the Torah. So that was the main point. Another point of it was I wanted to show that the earliest followers of Jesus did not reject the Torah. But not only did they not reject it, they themselves saw themselves loyal to the Tanakh, to the Hebrew Bible, not as an inventors or inventors of a brand new religion. That's not how they saw themselves. It's very very clear from reading the New Testament and and uh you know, I I'll get in more detail of how you can see these things. And like I said before, you have to realize this. is very important for context. Uh when people are actually learning and even teaching in some cases that the Christian world has to understand as I said before is that the this Bible this Hebrew Bible was the only word of this was the inspired word of God. There was no no gospels there was no nothing yet. These guys were living during that time. So any reference, any thought towards Bible, towards scripture, towards anything authoritative, they were only looking at Tanakh in the New Testament. I mean in the Old Testament. Sorry. There was no New Testament yet. So that's why I say it's very very important to have these things in context. So this is the reason why I quoted the book of Acts. That was my whole point behind it. Now, as for why I don't uh believe in Jesus or Yeshua, whatever, as the Messiah and why I don't believe that he's God, uh I'll share this with you very carefully. Um I know for a lot of Christians that it gets very very these are very um a sensitive issue and gets people very aggravated. Uh and everybody, I'm sure, is probably, you know, going to start typing in their answers for why, you know, I'm wrong. But listen to this. For me, this happened many years ago, but it happened in layers. So, I wasn't a casual Christian as a person suggested maybe that maybe I didn't have faith. I was very devout. Uh I worked as in youth ministry. I was uh I I discipled others. Uh I prayed for hours as a teenager. I would lock myself into my room and spend many many hours with God. And God that you know carried me into my adulthood years. But I lived I lived this with all my heart. Wasn't something that I just, you know, put on. But at some point, and I've talked about this many times in my story, what may the events that led up to it, at some point in my life, I wanted to sort of enter into this reset with God. As I started to learn more and more, I remember sitting my Bible down on the table and saying to God that I want to know who you are. I want to I want to throw out anything I ever knew and I want to read this from cover to cover and I wanted to go all the way back from the beginning. So I started all over from ber sheet from Genesis and this is where things shifted over and over again. I started to notice as I read the Bible all the way through multiple times. I read that God gave multiple warnings to the Jewish people not to worship any god that they had not known nor any gods that their fathers had not known. So if they didn't know the god and their fathers didn't know that god they were not allowed to worship or to to bow towards it to to to at any point even in their mind not physically not mentally not emotionally to give themselves over to the gods of the other nations nor or any god that they have never known before. And at that time I believed that Jesus was god. I was a trinitarian. But in scripture, I saw a very clear line that God doesn't change his identity. He doesn't ask us to worship something else other than himself. In fact, God said that there is no savior besides me. There is no savior. Right? So, and he shall not give his glory to another. Meaning that the glory of God is at one place and the glory of God should not be given to any other. So, these are the passages that I read personally. So then when I reached the New Testament, I started to notice something else that Jesus himself also prayed to God. And not only did he pray to God, he taught his disciples to pray to God. So that was a turning point for me really at the beginning. So the next layer of this concept or this idea of of Messiah. So when I studied the Tanakh, I started to also learn more and more in Hebrew. I realized that the word Messiah or Messiah almost never refers to this future redeemer the way that Christians would assume. Meaning that if you go through the the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, the idea of a personal Messiah who redeems Israel isn't simply a part of the plain reading. It's not a part of the plain reading of that. meaning that if you just gave it to someone who had no pre preconceived notions, they would not necessarily come to a um a point to think that a messiah and it's hard for you to think of it as a Christian, which I would understand because I said I've been there. It's hard for you to think of it because most Christians reading the Bible, they're reading the Hebrew Bible and retrospect they already have Jesus in their mind. It's already they already see all of these different passages in Daniel everything. They see this as being Jesus already from the preconceived notion. But so I'm saying a person that has no preconceived notions. when they will read the Tanakh, they will not necessarily come to an idea really of a messiah, a redeeming character figure who is a king and who you know like they will not they probably have a lot of questions but one of the things that I don't think that a person will have this from the plain reading of the Hebrew Bible. So it was a rabbitic development within Judaism or understanding basically that was pulled out from the scriptures the idea of a messiah and specifically phariseaic Judaism which Judaism is today pheriseic Judaism. So which even lends proof to the fact that Jesus and his followers were orthodox in terms of they were phariseaic because that's who believed in a messiah during that time. Right? So that was a part of rabbitic Judaism. And because it was defined by these sages, it came with a criteria for who could be the Messiah based on whatever passages and whatever scriptures that they have brought. So Messiah had to fulfill a specific set of requirements. So it wasn't up to anyone else to to redefine what they were. So that's a major problem. So if you have Jesus who comes and and say everything was true, say you know things that you know most Jews we would we would never say is true. But I'm saying this if I gave you the fact that maybe Jesus uh you know walked on water, he did all the miracles that he did and he was born of a virgin and um um and and uh you know he died and was resurrected. All of those things were not a part of any of the criteria for who the Messiah was supposed to be according to Judaism to that time. So for me personally when I started to see this and I learned deeper into the matter, it became very clear for me that the criteria of the one that the sages actually said would be the Messiah did not match who Jesus was. So and me saying that in a very very short way that and that's the main problem I guess I would say that the criteria for the sages uh they laid out like you know rebuilding the temple gathering in the exiles and bringing universal peace uh those who weren't those none of these things were actually fulfilled by the person of Jesus dying and resurrecting like I said the performing of the miracles are never a part of the criteria and I know there's a certain point where Jesus says over to his followers that if you don't even believe in me, believe in the miracles. So that's diametrically opposed to Deuteronomy 13. So Deuteronomy 13 warns us specifically that if a person or dreamer dreams rises amongst the brethren who's a prophet who's able to do miracles and the miracles actually come to pass if in the end that prophet or that dreamer dreamer, I'm not saying this is Jesus. I'm just telling you why Jews, they don't believe uh because of miracles is because we're already forewarned by God that we don't we're not looking for miracles. What does God say? That if that person leads you away from the Torah of Moses, you're not allowed to follow him. I God have sent him to test you. So for a Jew, the litmus test is always going to be, is the Torah of Moses being upheld? Is that the path in which we are going? Wait, I want to ask you, do you ever feel like you're alone? Maybe you live in a community, maybe you live outside the community, and maybe you're going through things that it's very hard for you to discuss with the people that are within your community. I mean, we all struggle from time to time with faith, with uh with our belief in God, with our struggle and our walk and ups and downs, anxiety, depression, mental health, whatever it is, we all have struggles sometimes, and we need somebody to talk to. So, today is probably going to be your lucky day. The wait is officially over. Glory Nation is here today. On the 21st anniversary of my wife and I walking this journey together, we are opening up the doors to something special. This online community hosted by nas.io is a place where we go deep in faith, prayer, and personal growth. You'll get exclusive behindthescenes content, first listens before anything ever drops. We have Zoom hangouts with me, release parties, classes, merch drops, discounts on all of it. Whether you're walking strong or struggling to stand, Glory Nation is your home to grow. Join now. I can't wait to connect with all of you on a whole new level. Let's build this together. Glory Nation is live. So, click on the link in my profile to join or go to glory-nation.com, click join now, and let's change the world together, beginning with ourselves. I also noticed something else when seeing all of this. I noticed God's pattern when I was reading the Bible. There's certain patterns of God. So, at Sinai, when God gave Israel the covenant, I want you guys to really listen to what I'm going to say here. God gave the covenant, the the Torah. It was in front of the entire nation. We're talking at least two million people. The Torah is only recording 600,000, I think, men of a certain age, but there was women there. There were children, there elders. So, we we figure that there was around 2 million people that was there. There were all all eyewitnesses of God giving his Torah, Ten Commandments, and it was undeniable by everybody there. The problem that we have is that the book of Jeremiah tells us that the days are coming where God will begin, he will give us a new covenant and he will take out our hearted stones and he will give us a heart of flesh. And with this new covenant, God is going to basically not trump or overdue because we're already told over and over again that the first covenant is everlasting, but God is going to bring about this new covenant basically give us a reboot and an upgrade from the covenant that we had, whatever that looks like or whatever that sounds like. And so the problem is is that the presentation of this new covenant in Christianity is that it happened quite quite different from uh the way that it happened the first time. This new covenant was said to be given at a Passover Seda with maybe 12 to 50 people in the room, right? Not like the first time where God gives a covenant and everybody sees everybody knows what they're agreeing to. God is striking. part of a covenant is that you know we I'm I'm laying something out. This is part of an agreement and and you have to basically sign off to say you're with me. The Jewish people said nishma we will we will first do and then we'll hear what you have to say. So by the time you know from the Christian perspective is that the new covenant actually comes. is given in a room in the Passover seder and there's only 12 to 50 people inside the room and not only is it tucked away from the rest of the nation then the whole nation doesn't know about it. It's not given over to them in a way that they can understand and be able to see what are the terms of this new covenant. Not only that, the problem is that the the the consequences for rejecting this new covenant is far harsher and worse than the covenant that they were given at Sinai. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that Christians, most Christians, popular Christian believe that if you don't believe in Jesus, you go to hell, eternal damnation. We will see how different that is from the God of the Hebrew Bible who never threatens hell. Even on the worst offense, God never threatens hell. You will never see inside the Hebrew Bible that if you don't do X or this or that, then you go to hell. If you don't keep my Torah, then you go to hell. You don't see it. It's not a concept by God. So what I mean by that is is that by the this you know proposed new covenant the it's even harsher than that of the of the first covenant that everybody actually agreed to. They were all there for by the time the second covenant nobody even knew what happened except for the people who were actually there with Jesus at the time. Right? So I'm I'm not trying to turn this in like I said to apologetics but I was asked this question. So, I thought it was very important for me to be able to answer a person. I didn't want to take just, you know, only questions I felt were fun. But I I I'm taking it head on that that didn't line up with the God of Israel that I came to know inside the Torah. So, ultimately, my conclusion was that, you know, this is not my path. Jesus is not God and he didn't meet the legal hakic requirements and criteria for who the Messiah was. So, that's why I decided that way. So to your last point, um you said that there's only one Israel. Now on that, I actually agree and this is what I kind of wanted to go to to answer even the the first question for John Ray. Uh but probably not in the same way that you mean it. So according to the Jewish sages or some Jewish sages, I would not say all like I said before it's not the majority opinion however but there is the Rama there's the miri that understand Christianity as a monotheistic religion I mean know I just saw recently in one of barrel barrel wines um who um just recently passed away his soul should be blessed and he should have a have an elevation uh who wrote also that uh quoting from these rabbis that Christianity is considered a monotheistic religion. Okay. Now, many even taught that Christians who truly worship the God of Israel and live ethical lives are counted amongst the righteous Gentiles of the nations. Meaning in that sense, they are considered like the Noahide movement. Those who are righteous before God. Even though Judaism doesn't say that they are correct about the the claims of Christianity, but they do say that they are considered righteous Gentiles in the eyes of God. We understand and I think who explained this best was Rabbi Tovia Singer speaking of Noah, speaking those who believe in one God, believe in the God of Israel, who live uh ethical and I'll put in the link of the description the seven Noahide laws uh for anybody who wants to see them. that those nations who follow these these laws because of their love of God that these nations are considered righteous and in that sense these Gentiles who are Noahites really the religion they have converted to Israel to become a part of Israel the nation they have not converted fully they have not converted in terms of the sense of they have not uh got full citizenship of that nation but religiously they are part of Israel and they do have a share in the world to come. For any monotheistic religion that are following because they're following, they believe in God, they believe in the Torah. Okay? But not because of the belief of Jesus do that we believe that the Gentiles are brought in. It's because of their love for God, for the belief in the one true God of Israel, and because of their commitment to the moral law. And because of that, we call these people righteous Gentiles. So we do believe to some degree that they have been included in Israel. So this even goes to answer what John Ray was saying actually. Uh these nations who come up against Israel perhaps those who are righteous um amongst the Gentiles, those who believe in the God of Israel and who worship him and who behave obviously in an ethical manner and and follow God's moral law, then these are included in Israel. So these blessings would apply to those people as well. So it's just the nuance the biggest differences between us and Christianity at least I would say in that regard is is what's what what makes the nations righteous. So in closing I you know to this comment I don't doubt your sincerity and I honor your faith. I just came to understand through scripture and through history and through Jewish teachings that my place is with the God of Israel through the Torah and through the covenant that he made with the people of Israel. And that's why I stand today. I have another comment number three question from Ruthie P. Ruthie P says, "As a Christian, I'm in full agreement that we are to love, respect, and help the Jews. I love what you said about blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you." Uh there's a Christian writer by the name of Bill Kenig and he has written a book documenting natural disasters in America that directly coincide with the times that you the US has betrayed Israel. It's worth reading or hearing his lectures. Also, the late great minister Chuck Mesler has a book and a two-part video called My People Israel that makes me cry at how we as Americans historically betrayed the Jews. And I stand with the Jews and with Israel. Thanks for this teaching. So, Ruthie, I want to say to you, thank you very much. Uh, I appreciate your comment and I really, really appreciate it and your words are very, very encouraging even for me. I I could tell you that I care um I carry a deep love for Israel and for the Jewish people. And I love and and I I think a lot of people could tell from me here that I I love to see people genuinely in love with God. I don't care what their background is. I'm being honest. I genuinely care when I see sincerity from people and a heart that is after God. I have a I have a soft spot in my heart for them. Um and now the truth is I have heard of this book actually that you're mentioning by Bill Kenik. uh I always forget to pronounce his name. Um but there are other Christian authors who also have documented the same thing. How natural disasters in America always often seem to line up with the times when America pressured Israel to give up land or to compromise her security in some way. So now I haven't personally studied these books in depth, but I the gist of it doesn't surprise me at all. And the reason why I'm saying that is because God has been very very clear and what he says he means and he means what he says. And contrary to the conspiracy theories that there are out there and all the conspiracy theorist, it's not that the Jews control the weather either. God controls the weather. So if he says he will bless those who bless Israel and he's going to curse those who curse Israel, which by the way I keep seeing a lot of people saying like I just saw somebody the other day saying that no this was a specific blessing to Abraham and then he said it again to Isaac and they forget that in the book of numbers which I don't even know if I if I pulled up last year that that it's also said to the whole entire nation. It's a there's there's consistency there with what God is saying. It's also to the and it's implied all throughout all the prophets. So, we should expect to see this play out in history just as much as we're seeing God's hand move in many other ways. We're seeing from all the wars from the from the, you know, uh, the Yom Kipur war or the Six-Day War here in Israel or we're seeing what just recently happened with Iran. We're seeing what's actually taking place in here in Israel. And I want to add something else about something else that you touched on and that's the danger of this replacement theology. Um, which you know really has us talking right now. One of the major major points that has us talking or having this discussion right now. This is one of the things that drew me so strongly to Judaism. See because if someone claims that God replaced the Jews with the church, my question is where does it stop? Like when does it end? Because if you look at it, 700 years later after Christianity, Islam came along and said both the Jews and the Christians were wrong and that they were now replaced. So if replacement is the pattern, then who's to say that it doesn't keep happening over and over again? Like who's righteous enough to on whatever level, right? Even if you're to say you're Christian, born again, whatever, you're justified by your faith. What does faith look like? Because even the person that knows that that even if they're connected to God on any level, people wax and wayne with their faith all the time, even the faithful ones. So if the justification is by faith, what does it say when a person starts living a life that's contrary to faith? Do they fall out of cut? Has God rid himself of them again? But this is what the prophets show us. And this is what the prophets are constantly showing us as yes, Israel sinned. Yes, the prophets, they rebuked us very harshly. But the message is always ended with love, restoration, and a promise of of a reconciled future with God. And God says over and over again that I will never leave you nor forsake you. This is the story of grace of God saying to the Jewish people that no matter how far or no no matter how distant you made yourself from me I will never leave you and I will never forsake you. So I sincerely ask everybody if anybody from the nations, Christians, Muslims, whatever the case, if you believe that God can reject Israel after these promising, promising eternal faithfulness, that's what God did. He he he promised that these uh these this this covenant the prophecies will come to pass hashem the word of hashem and his word should not return back to him void then what assurance to Christians have that he won't also turn his back on them one day if his word isn't reliable what makes you think that with all the promises we got receipts the Jewish people have receipts to show to God you told us over and over again you would ever leave us, right? There's there's no guarantees like this inside the New Testament. So, you're not safe either. If his word isn't reliable and if his promises are are are are conditional, then honestly, are we to even who who could stand in that? Like nothing's nothing's nothing's set in stone. Then what are we even standing on? That to me is not the God of the Bible. So for me, replacement theology isn't just wrong. It's offensive to God himself because it actually paints him as someone who breaks his promises. And that's heresy. That a person that breaks their promises, a person that doesn't follow through on their word in the eyes of God is a despicable person. So to claim that God is that person, the God of Israel, he's faithful. He doesn't change. And if he promised never to abandon his people, Israel, then he hasn't and he won't. And the fact that we are witnessing Israel restored today in our very generation, God is proving to us that he will never leave his people. So, you know, this is where a lot of these people have gone very very wrong when they made a major major mistake and these things are offensive that they even look at God in this type of light. Hey, what's going on? I had to stop you for a second because I want to tell you if you like what you're hearing and if you're getting value from what you're hearing, please like and subscribe to the channel. It helps us get this out there and ultimately, you know what we're trying to do, spread the name of God all throughout the world. So like and subscribe, hit the notification bell so that anytime I put out a video, you are going to be informed first. The next comment is from Jesse. So sadly, a lot of Christians are using Paul's letters, Rav Sha. He puts a parenthesis, which is Paul Paul's uh alleged Jewish name, which he had a non-Jewish name, which is Paul, and his Jewish name was Rav Sha. He says, "Who were never meant to be even never meant to even be in the Bible, right? They were not supposed to be there." This person claims and they're taking them out of context and using them against Israel and the Jewish people. So Peter warned us about Paul in second Peter verse 3 vers uh chapter 3:e 16 about his words and the unlearned twisting his words out of context to lawlessness. Paul was a mystic and only one that is steeped in Judaism and cabbalistic writings truly understand otherwise they should not be available for the whole world to see. And I put this with another comment um just because I wanted to answer these two together. So in it says Davididic loyalist he writes great job exploring our foundations without getting lost in polics pimics sorry uh it's tempting for some counter missionaries to hang on the Christian rejection of Israel on Paul especially when so many Christians will chime in to claim Paul is anti or post Torah or Antonyomian he's He's against against law. But that doesn't square with his own teachings understood in the original context. Justin uh just in I think it's allegorized. Okay. Justin allegorized um Israel based on the uh I don't know what this is saying desperate uh desperate facts on the ground. Now that the facts on the ground have changed again, we are doubly capable if we doubt the promises of God. So it says, I am an angelic uh uh Anglican. I am an Anglican Christian and I want all my people to reorient our traditions around Zion. The particular vocation of Israel is no threat to our relationship as redeemed nations loyal to the throne of David. In fact, Israel's election is the vessel God has chosen to make us peoples before God. Okay. So, let's unpack these comments. So, thank you first uh to Jesse and to Davidic Loyalists uh for writing these in. Really appreciate. Listen, and I'm I just want to say I'm going through the comments. I can't comment on every single one uh that comes my way. Uh but I'm reading most of these comments. So if they're if they're there, I'm I'm I'm reading them. I'm going through. So and I plan to do this more. So you guys let me know if you guys like it or not. So I I want to thank you both for the comment. I want to say it's very interesting and I could tell already where you are both coming from in your faith walk and where you are in your journey quite possibly even just by the question uh and the way that these questions came across. So I want to be clear with you first to make this disclaimer again. I'm not a Christian. So I don't spend my life's work at least trying to build apologetics around Paul. I've said it many times. uh while I have a deep in love for Christians uh who sincerely love God and want to serve him with all of their heart, I myself am not a Christian. And that being said, uh still I think this is a fascinating subject and it's very worth unpacking. And I think a lot of my my love comes from the fact that because I was in that world, I saw a lot of people who were very genuinely in love with the God of Israel. I saw it with my own eyes. Not only that, most people have known anytime I've talked with other people, I've the reason why I respect is because at the time in my life when I did become a Christian, I was living in a very very uh dark life. I was living a very dark life at that time and Christianity came and the people that were in my life from uh you know the ministries that I got involved with were very very special and still I would consider very dear people to me. uh even though I do not subscribe to the religion itself. So I'm always trying to be respectful. Not to mention my father's a pastor and a theologian um who I love and he's one of my favorite people in the world. So I just want to be clear about all of that. But I I do want to unpack this because I think it's a fascinating topic. So let's think about this. If we go back to the book of Acts uh and we look at that that chapter 21 that we discussed before, if you look at this that one of the biggest issues u that you had in the early church was always this question surrounding Paul was if he's teaching Jews to abandon the Torah or not. So from an Orthodox Jewish standpoint, that's always been like this person obviously commented here um that that's always been the number one critique of Paul that he seems to undermine the Torah. And if you read Galatians and Romans chapter 8 or you know for example like Paul says things like you know we are no longer under the law. So these things are are very very interesting as they come off in presentation as he's very antinomeian. He's very against the Torah and you know we have a lot lot of issues here. So here's the problem with this though. He wasn't writing to Gentiles about a law that they never received. Right? So when you hear something like we are no longer under the law, he's obviously not talking to to Gentiles. So the questions that start coming in from this early church about whether or not he's teaching Jews to go away from because he had to been talking to this is like a number one thing you hear all the time for Christians. We're no longer under the law. Like the truth is that if you were not Jewish and you were not a part of that covenant then you were never under the law. So non-Jews were never under the law of Moses. Right? So to say you are no longer than the law. When Paul's writing this, he's obviously saying this to Jews or Jews who are amongst Gentiles at this time. But the question is what is he actually saying? So the Torah was given to Israel as a part of the covenant with God. So if Paul says we're no longer in the law, then he has to be speaking to these non-Jews. He has to be speaking to these Jews. I mean, so that was the exact controversy that we're seeing in Acts 21. And it's why the apostles, specifically James, publicly had him demonstrate his Torah observance with the temple sacrifice. So now you mentioned in second Peter uh chapter 3 16 where Peter warns that Paul's words are easily twisted by the unlearned. So it seems that Peter already knew what was like it was a thing by Paul where the way he wrote or whatever his style was. It looks like he's being fixed all the time. Peter's writing that James is having them, you know, do the sacrifice. So, what are we seeing here? That's very telling if you think about it because in Peter's own day, there was this concern. So, Peter is writing, listen, Paul's not saying what you think he's saying. And it's true that Paul sometimes affirms the Torah. Like when he says it's not the hearers of the law who are justified but the doers of the law translate I the Torah who those who do the Torah will be justified but I thought there's no justification by the law right so then it seems to seem otherware is other other places he'll say like you know the the Torah was a school master that has passed away and the back and forth you know it creates a lot of confusion for people. So, some argue that Paul was steeped in mystical uh Jewish thought and even Cabala, not the Cabala that people are talking about today. You know, this new demonic force of of Cabala that's been hijacked by elites and Hollywood and everything else. I'm not talking about that. This is this is this is not the real Cabala. Talking about real Jewish uh in-depth uh learning and mysticism of a of a holy holy Cabala that was that was handed down. That's what we're talking about. We're talking about cabbalis get Madonna alahit. So he he speaks of these visions that he has I think in one place where he talks about that he he once knew a person who ascended to the third heaven and and all these other things these language that come straight out of like Jewish mystical uh literature. But that only makes it harder for the average Christian obviously to understand what he's saying. And that is where this deeper problem comes in. So how Christians approach script scripture in general. So when it comes to the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, they often take the clearest verses uh about Israel. For instance, we'll go back. I'm sorry to keep picking on uh uh supersessionist, these uh uh these replacement theologies. So like listen, you take something about Israel and God's covenant and then you'll take that and you'll spiritualize it into promises about the church maybe. Yet, when it comes to Paul, whose writings are not always so clear, um, they take those words literally and the literal gets spiritualized and the spiritual gets literalized. I hope I hope you're following what I'm saying here. So, the inversion is part of why we're even having this discussion today. So, when we start to think about it, we have to remember that Paul's letters were just that. They were letters. They're one-sided letters. So, there's a correspondence written uh to specific communities dealing with specific issues and all these other things. Like I said, I'm not defending for against, but I do find this actually fascinating because nobody usually talks about this side of the argument, at least from a Jewish standpoint. A lot of Jews never even heard this or thought about this before. Um but later under Constantine when all these letters and all of the you know the gospels that whatever that they had were gathered and they were put into a cannon but prior to that Paul didn't know that he was being a part of the Bible of the Christian Bible he was writing letters and I understand why Christians um did that obviously why they canonized the canonized it because without it you know Christianity probably doesn't survive survive at all but I I don't believe Paul or any of the disciples thought that they were actually beginning a brand new Bible. So at least I would say Jesse, I agree with you that maybe that Paul was being misinterpreted. It could be, right? I'm just saying it could be. Maybe much of what the what became mainstream Christianity or Christian theology is actually a twisting of Paul's words exactly like Peter warned about. Or maybe Paul was simply inconsistent. You could say that other way. That's usually the argument from uh um from you most anti-missionaries that of course Paul's inconsistent and that raises questions of his his character and everything else. But either way, it's a very complex issue. But it's one worth wrestling with at least I guess for you guys as as Christians uh because it shapes so much of the Christian Jewish misunderstanding up until this day. and understanding this from a Jewish standpoint is that there have been many Jews slaughtered and the name of Christianity large in part due to the understandings that uh Christians took of from what Paul actually had to say. So I'm going to give you a few examples here. So Paul says in Romans 2 6-7 that God will repay each person according to what they have done to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, immortality, he will give eternal life. So this is by doing good, right? And then he'll say in Ephesians chapter 2 8-9, for by grace you have been saved through faith, not of works. lest anyone should boast. I mean, there's a lot of these. Like we said before, not those who hear the law in Romans 2:13 are justified, but it's those who who um but it's those who obey the law who will be declared righteous as opposed to just a few chapters later where he says, "For sin uh will be your master because you are not under the law but under grace." All right. in Galatians where we talked about the school master which is all about something that was to come unto Christ that we we may be justified by faith but after that he has come and we no longer school master so we have this back and forth you know Paul's he's a Pharisee of Pharisees these words is the one true god of our ancestors it says in the book of acts 24 I follow the way which you know which they call a sect and I believe everything is in accordance with the law that is written in the prophets this is what Paul says so you have this back and forth a lot with Paul. So I could give you an example even from the Hebrew Bible that you may find interesting from our own scriptures. So it says in the Hebrew Bible um the there there are many passages but I'll use this one passage where God says something like you know he'll say your new moons and your Sabbath I cannot endure. They're an abomination to me. This is in in in the book of Isaiah. And God is saying that the the Sabbath, the new moons, the sacrifices of of of the Jewish people are an abomination. There's also a place in the book of Psalms where King David, he actually says, I think it's a 50 51st chapter of Psalms, he says, "You do not delight in sacrifice or I would bring it. You do not take pleasure in burnt offerings." So if somebody from the outside, he just reads those verses and they're fully out of context, they could easily conclude, see, God doesn't want sacrifices. He abolished them. The prophets themselves, they already said so. King David said so already. But that wasn't the point of the passages. God had already promised that. That was already God had already commanded that. It was already a part of what the Jewish people were to do. The prophets weren't saying that God canled his own commandments. They were saying that Israel's sacrifices and the Sabbaths and the festival, the new moons have become empty rituals because they didn't have the heart. And performing these rituals without the heart, giving over to God ritual without your heart is an abomination to him. They were performed while people's hearts were far away from God. Even while they were bowing down to other idols. That's why God calls them an abomination. Not because the commandments were wrong and not because the people were corrupt. And it's the same with King David when he says that God doesn't desire the blood of bulls and he wasn't he wasn't cancelelling the sacrificial system. He was saying what God is really after is the heart of the person. The sacrifices only mean something if they're coming with repentance, right? if they're coming from sincerity. I rather God saying to another way to look at it is I want the sacrifice of your heart. That's what I want. So that's the danger. So if you imagine somebody who isn't Jewish, who has no context, he doesn't know what's going on, someone who hasn't read, they have no historical context, nothing. Person doesn't know where the prophets are actually coming from cuz they don't know where they what they were dealing with at the time. They just see those verses. They come along centuries later. They read those verses and they will conclude, "See, the Torah was abolished." God says, "You don't have to do it anymore." He says, in fact, he says, "Don't do it. It's an abomination." And I believe that's exactly I don't say exactly, but I believe that's that is an option to what could be happening to Paul's letters. They've been written as personal correspondence to specific communities and a specific historical context. But later, but when later generations read them out of context, without the background, without a Jewish framework, they misinterpreted them as abolishing the Torah altogether. And that's catastrophic because it goes against a lot of what was actually written in the New Testament. To be honest, I'm just being honest. This is coming from a person, and I'm just an outside person. I'm not saying this is uh my religion. I'm not saying that I believe in any of this. I'm just I'm just saying that, you know, put a cap on, start thinking about these things because these things are very catastrophic. A lot of Jews have lost their life behind these writings of how people interpreted these and they're not looking at the same things, same person given allegiance to the Torah over and over again in other places. It's so catastrophic because once you separate the heart from the action and once you spiritualize away all the commandments that God actually gave, you could twist God's words into a completely lawlessness um faith. And that's why Peter himself warned. It appears to be that this is why Peter warned that the letters of Paul could be twisted and and and to the unlearned person to their own destruction even he said. So yes, when you read the book of Isaiah, you read the book of Psalms in context, we understand that God was never cancelling his Torah. And maybe I'm just saying laavdil maybe the same thing could be said, same caution should maybe apply to these letters of Paul because if you lift a few lines without context, you can draw conclusions that go against everything or anything that God actually said even in the Hebrew Bible. So, another thing before I close this episode, I want to leave you guys with just a thought, and this has just been simmering on me. Uh, just just know who you're following. Know who you're listening to. This is for me, this is for you. And this age of influencers, of people, everybody thinks they're expert or they know. in this age of of these online videos whether Jewish whether you know la Christian and whether they may claim uh it's it's easy to be impressed by charisma today or by loud microphone but the real question is are these people that we're listening to actually loyal to God there's something practical I just want to bring up there's something that's been bothering me watch these people's speech The Torah tells us again and again that the the life and death are in the power of the tongue. Now, I'm not saying this to boast. I'm I'm just only saying this to really uh prove a point. And again, I'm not saying it to put myself on a high horse. I'm just saying this, and I've said it to other people, and I think it's important that I say this publicly because I've been called to question on some of my rap lyrics over the years. So, I just want to say this publicly since 2008, I have not spoken or said a single curse word. And God should help me that I don't. Not in a song, not on a podcast, not when I stub my toe, not when I'm talking to people, not behind closed doors, not when nobody's looking. I have not said a curse word. I'm not sworn. And trust me, there's many other things that I need to improve on in my life. I still need to work on. But the reason why I share that with you is because once you've really had a God encounter, once you have encountered God and you've experienced him, once you have truly tasted from his light, it changes you. It changes a great amount of you, if not all of you, inside and out. The way you think, the way you speak, the way you dress, all of it begins to shift. So when you are listening to people, when you hear these so-called men of God or women of God dropping profanity as if it's nothing, when you see them constantly in the company of people, these people who openly live, you know, against God's ways, that should be a red flag for you. And I'm not here to call out individuals by name for the sake of drama, but let's be honest. Anyway, there are voices in the media, the Candacees, the Tuckers, and many others who expose themselves by just their very speech, by the friends that they have, and by their actions. And yet these are the very people alongside the radical left and even parts of the so-called right who are trying to make us question the very things that God made clear amongst those as whether his covenant with Israel still stands. Whether prophecy is unfolding before our very eyes. Again these people are snakes. Snakes. We are having discussions today that people in the bi people that read the Bible never had questions about. They're starting to question them because of these people who are supposedly men, women of God. And nobody's paying attention. And so at the end of the day, it is always going to come back to discernment. And and the discernment only comes when a person actually knows God. If you don't not if you do not know him, then you won't recognize who is truly with him and who is not. That is why it's absolutely urgent for Jews and for non-Jews alike that we draw closer to God in this hour to his Torah, to his prophets, to his promises because we're living in a world of lies. And in a world of lies, the truth is not easy to see. You can only recognize it if you are bound up with the one who is truth himself. which is God Almighty. So my call to you as I close is this. Do not get lost in the noise of these so-called influencers. Get close to God. Know him. And then once you know him, you'll be able to see clearly who is with him and who is not. It is going to take self-sacrifice. It is going to take a fight. a fight for our lives to be able to be steadfast and close to God. And remember until next time to serve God or to live trying. I'm out.