We Don’t Want to Live a Lie Anymore | Land of Israel Fellowship

story. I told you last fellowship that um I'd met these Amish people. And it was in Texas. And I've just I've been in contact with them. They just tickle me in all the right places. They're so special. And I was meeting with one of the people there, and he was telling me that a few years ago they were on a horse and a buggy. And at some point they started asking questions. And they said, "You know, why can't we get a tattoo?" Cuz Amish people don't get tattoos. And actually it's from this week's Torah portion. If you open up um Deuteronomy chapter 14 verses 1 and 2, this is what it says. You are children to Hashem your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead, for you're holy people unto Hashem your God. And Hashem has chosen you to be a treasured people unto himself from all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth. You're not allowed to cut yourself. You're not allowed to pin yourself with tattoos. You're not allowed to do that. And they're like, "Yeah, but in the same Deuteronomy it tells us that we're not allowed to eat pork. Why do we have pork every morning? I don't understand that. Like, why this commandment and not that commandment?" And it's sort of like started challenge. Why are we on a horse and a buggy? They start driving cars. They started not eating pork. They started keeping Shabbat with cuz it's in the 10 commandment that it's on the seventh day. And they started just aligning themselves with a truth that they can hold on to. And really the only truth that we can hold on to today is the Tanakh. It's the only thing that like everyone, Jew, Christian, it doesn't matter, just the Tanakh is like something that we can all hold on to cuz it's the only book in the world that actually says, "Thus says the Lord." Everyone respects that. Everyone honors that. And what's so amazing is that I'm watching this prophecy from the book of Jeremiah unfold. And it's Jeremiah chapter 16 verse 19. And this chapter is particularly something really remarkable because it's seemingly contradictory. Here's what it says, "O Lord, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge in the day on the day of my affliction." "Unto you the nation shall come from the ends of the earth and say it was all falsehood that our fathers inherited, futility that has no purpose." And so Jeremiah chapter 16 says that a day is going to come the nations are going to come and say, "Listen, we've just inherited all these falsehoods. Like these are a new laws and new ideas. Sabbath is on the Sunday. Why are we doing that? It's just We didn't know any better. That's just the way that my parents taught me." And all of a sudden they're starting to wake up to the lies that they've been taught. And they're saying, "I don't want to live a lie anymore. I just want to align myself with the truth. What's happening here?" And so if you look at Isaiah chapter 43, this is really marvelous. Cuz I Isaiah chapter 43 says like this to Israel, "Israel, you are my witnesses," says the Lord, "and my servant whom I have chosen so that you may know and believe and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed neither shall there be after me." And so Israel is the witness. That's what Isaiah calls us. It's so the world will know and believe and understand that he's God. Hey, that was a highlight from this week's Land of Israel Fellowship. If you liked that highlight, you'll love the Land of Israel Fellowship. Find out more on the landofisrael.com. Join our global community from over 50 countries around the world that gather together every Sunday live from Israel. Check it out on the link below. >> [music]