Owning Responsibility: A Deeper Truth About Redemption | Land of Israel Guys Podcast

Let me get back to what I was saying about the truth, the deeper truth. I think that's part of what we're here to do on the show, not just to report the news, but to do it from a prism of of truth and honesty and biblical uh sanctity. Okay? And so from a Jewish perspective, the temple was destroyed not because of the Babylonians, not because of the Romans. When we sit down on the 9th of A and we mourn and and we we weep, we're we're constantly saying the real reason because of our sins. our sins. Part of redemption that is unfolding right now is the Jews finally taking responsibility. And so we have to own what we have to own. So we could be like, "Oh no, it's because of the Arabs taking over Bethlehem." But why did they take over Bethlehem? Because we made a covenant. >> Yeah. >> With the people in the land. And the Bible tells us God will return you to the land. He will give you the land in a miraculous fashion. And do not make a covenant with them. They will be thorns in your eyes. Do not do so. We see all the way back to the book of Joshua when the the Jews right after the the victory against that the the village of I right the the then all of a sudden they got a little bit cocky a little bit excited a little bit wow we're being recognized and they struck a covenant with the Gibbeonites with who were Canaanites in the land and they didn't investigate fully and that is part of the Jewish Achilles heel we want peace in the world we want global unity but God says we're supposed to rectify by the world with his kingdom with his will and not to strike covenants. So in that way Tucker's right. It is our fault. [music]