Mike Huckabee: Why Israel Is the Eternal Home of the Jewish People - Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein

He not only chose a people but he chose a place and then he chose for the people in this place a purpose. The people were the Jewish people. The place was Israel and the purpose was to be a light to the world and to show that we don't have to look for God because he is looking for us. And that is what so separates the long history of why this city is so important. We have oftenly spoke about the righteous Gentiles. Mr. Mike Huckabe, the US ambassador to Israel, is truly a righteous gentile who talks from his heart and who's committed to the USIsrael alliance. Let's watch this video together as he was talking in Jerusalem about his relationship to Israel and the importance of Israel to America and to the world. Let's watch together and we'll talk about it afterwards. Kindly subscribe to the channel so that a little bit of light will push away a lot of darkness >> for this incredible ceremony. Mr. Prime Minister, Secretary Rubio, all of the wonderful people who made this possible by their generosity, contributing to something that is historic and something that is a living memorial of what God has done. It was 4,000 years ago here in this city on Mount Mariah where God chose his people. He not only chose a people, but he chose a place and then he chose for the people in this place a purpose. The people were the Jewish people. The place was Israel and the purpose was to be a light to the world and to show that we don't have to look for God because he is looking for us. And that is what so separates the long history of why this city is so important. It's also a reminder to us that this little bitty sliver of real estate on the vast planet Earth is the most contested piece of land in all of human history. Not because of just those who want it, but because of those who don't want the Jewish people to have it. But tonight, something is extraordinary that we celebrate. For 3,000 years ago, David established his kingdom here. And 2,000 years ago, the world through the Romans decided, "We'll get rid of the Jews." And they destroyed this place. And they scattered the Jewish people across the planet. But that wasn't the end of the story. Tonight, we're sitting here because the story is not just alive. It's more alive than perhaps it has been in the 4,000 years that God chose his people, his place, his purpose. And it is an extraordinary thing to behold. Tonight, I'm reminded of the day that the embassy was dedicated in 2018. I was so grateful to President Trump for making the bold and courageous decision that despite all of the opposition across the planet, he was going to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, as he should. Other presidents promised it, but they always found a reason to back away. President Trump made a promise, and he kept the promise. And on the day that we were here, and I was overwhelmed with emotion as I sat at the dedication of the embassy having moved to Jerusalem, there was a young man in the crowd and he was exuberant. He was an American and he was looking around and he said, "Wow, I've been waiting 20 years for this to happen." Sheldon Aden, who along with his wife Miriam, who is here tonight, major contributors to this incredible excavation. Sheldon, who I absolutely adored because he was one of the funniest men I've ever known. When the young man said, "Wow, I've waited 20 years for this." Sheldon in his very dry way just looked and said, "Son, we've been waiting 2,000 years for this." What a great reminder that the Jewish people are a patient people. And tonight there's something extraordinary, truly extraordinary to celebrate. It was David the king and the psalmist who said in Psalm 137 and verse 5, "If I forget you, oh Jerusaleam, may my right hand forget its skill." The Jewish people never forgot that this was their land, their home, their undivided, indisputable indigenous capital from eternity. And tonight something truly extraordinary happens. It is often said that history is to a civilization what memory is to the individual. If any of us were to wake up tomorrow and not remember where we lived or who we were or who that woman is that is living in our house because we didn't know her to be our wife. Amnesia is a horrible thing to have because one is disoriented, lost, completely unable to make a connection just to the simplest things of life. But history is to a civilization what memory is to the individual. And tonight, this is a celebration of the history of Jerusalem. There is a verse in the New Testament in Luke verse 40 of chapter 19 and it says this. If the crowds keep quiet, the stones will cry out. If the crowds don't acknowledge it, the stones will cry out. Tonight, the stones are crying out. The crowds may say it, but the stones absolutely and 100% validate that the Jewish people not only belong here now, but they have belonged here for 4,000 years since the time God said to Abraham, "This is yours. take good care of it and you'll be a blessing to the people around the earth and even to those of us who aren't even Jewish. He says, "Those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed." And I come here tonight because I'd rather have a blessing than a curse. I recognize that this extraordinary excavation is not just dust and stone. It is a living speech in which God is crying out through the very stones to say to the world this magnificent excavation, this extraordinary piece of archaeological mastery is a validation and a truth and it is shouting from the top of the mountain that this is indeed the eternal home of the Jewish people, the Jewish state and the people who rightly belong here. And tonight the rest of the world comes to say welcome home and may no one ever ever attempt to take your home from you. It is yours. And those of us who are not Jewish, we thank you for giving all of us a foundation of morality and decency and civilization upon which our own faith is built. For without yours, we don't have one. As I often tell my Jewish friends, you can be Jewish, you don't need me. But I cannot be who I am in my faith without the debt of obligation that I owe to you for having listened to God and been willing to be obedient to him when he called you to this place as his people for his eternal everlasting purpose. And I salute you and join you tonight in the celebration of this wonderful, magnificent, incredible reminder that God never has been finished with Israel and he never will be. This is the eternal home that he has chosen. God bless you all. >> Mr. Ambassador Mike Huckabe. What beautiful words. What poignant words and heartfelt word words. If only the world were to listen to you and appreciate the land of Israel, what it means to the Jewish people and to the world. King David, as you mentioned in Psalm 37, writes these words, "God decides man's footsteps." In other words, geographically, God decides where people need to be. So where you go geographically, it's because God needs you to be there at that moment, at that specific place in time. As you were talking, I was thinking about it. How God placed you to be the US ambassador to Israel and for you to be able to be there now during Israel's worst crisis. to be able to stand tall, not as a Jew, but as a Christian, and to talk to the world the the reality of what Judaism is truly all about, what our mission is, what our mandate is to be a light unto the nations and to recognize that we are the rightful owners of Israel. Now, we don't just own it because God gave it to us. Because we conquered it, because we are there, it is ours. We have Israel because that is our destiny. God chose, as you mentioned, close to 5,000 years ago, when he sent Abraham to Mount Mariah, which is Jerusalem, and said, "This is the land I'm giving to you." The world needs to be able to wrap their arms around it, accept it, and recognize it, and salute it. Because what Israel has done to Israel in the last 77 years is beyond miraculy miraculous. When Israel finally became a state again in 1948, Israel was a desolate, neglected land country with very few established cities, urban cities. The way it has transformed into in its 77 years Israel came from the gas chambers of Awitz, Terabinka, Bhwald, etc. We came from the dark clouds of the Holocaust. We did not come to Israel as a victim, but we came to Israel as a pillar, as a trailblazer. That we did not let the darkness of the Holocaust paralyze us, but rather we knew we couldn't change what happened, but we can change how we react. And Israel began to become an established country. a lot of sacrifices. Very difficult to take a desert land that has been desolate, that has been neglected for 2,000 years, and turning it into a flourishing country the way it is today. And the unique part about Israel is that in the short 77 years, it went from zero all the ways up to becoming a superpower by blood, sweat, and tears, hard work, faith in God, and commitment to the future of Judaism. We lost a third of of our people. 6 million people for a group that were just 15 million. Losing 6 million is a huge loss. Many obituaries have already been written about the end of Judaism. But Israel gave us the chance to get back on our feet. But look what Israel did in the 77 years. It has not only reestablished Israel, not only turned deserts into orchards, not only took desert lands and turned it into beautiful communities and cities which two million of its citizens are Arabs and yet we are there to protect all citizens of Israel. But look where it what it has accomplished in all areas of life. It has truly became a blessing once again onto the nations because all of its advances, innovations, inventions in agriculture, in academics, in technology, in medicine, in art, in theater, in defense, in communication, you name it. Israel is on the cutting edge, but not for itself. It's for the world. Any innovation or invention that Israel does, it shares it right away with the world. The world at large is continuously buying up the companies that are established from Israel because they love their technology and what they have accomplished that they want to grow on it. Look how many Nobel Prize winners came out of Israel compared to your neighboring Arab states. Israel needs to be a light unto the world which it has been. Just give us the opportunity and it will benefit the whole world. Thank you Mr. Huckabe for standing a tall righteous gentile. May God bless you with many long happy healthy years to come. God bless you. God loves you.