YOU Are the Anti-Bilaam | Land of Israel Fellowship

longer. When I drove home this week with that that famous calm, relentless voice filling my car, there was a moment that I felt like, you know, just that an ambush, one of those ambush moments, where I just felt like I just small on some level. Like this very well-funded voice reaching millions upon millions, training the world to look at us with suspicion. How are we going to speak up against that? You know, for a moment I felt the way Israel must have felt in the wilderness, surrounded and condemned and wondering if the whole world had turned against us. But then I remembered the parsha and I remembered that we have a 4,000-year-old guarantee sealed in the words of Moshe himself that the curse won't be concretized, that it will become a blessing. Why? >> Yeah. >> Because Hashem loves us. So, my friends, when you hear these voices, just know that it's it's exactly the that that we don't feel worthy for this love that makes the love so beautiful. And these voices, you're going to hear them cuz they're getting louder. I don't want you to be afraid or disheartened when you hear them. I want you to smile the way that you smile when you already know the ending of the story. Because we do know the ending. We read it this week. They open their mouths and tear us out of Abraham's covenant. And God uses their very words to prove how unbreakable that covenant is. When you hear those voices, I want you to know that those curses will be transformed into blessings. Because you know, I I'm just looking at your faces right now and I realize that this fellowship, this is the answer to Balaam. He was a man from the nations who took the gift and aimed it at Israel in order to curse us, and every single one of you, the righteous of the nations, and you know who you are and you know that you're that, have taken your hearts and aimed them at Israel in order to bless. You're the anti-Balaam. And if these curses only inspire you to bless Israel even more fiercely, to stand with Israel more boldly, when there's a real price to be paid, and that's coming. If these if these curses inspire you to attach yourselves to us with greater love and greater zeal, then you're not just witnessing the transformation of the curse into the blessing, but you're a part of it. Pastor Larry Huch, he was a he's an anti-Balaam. From the very beginning, he came to this land not to take or to criticize or to curse, but to plant and to bless. And and and look at the olive trees right now. You got to come here to see them yourselves. They're bearing such beautiful fruit. You are the proof that there's another path a soul from the nations can choose. Balaam stood on those hills. You can see the hills from my window right now. He stood on those hills of Moab to tear Israel down. But you've crossed oceans. Some of you with your feet, and some of you with your hearts, and some of you quite literally on a sailboat carrying me home to Israel. And yes, I'm talking about you, Captain Jack and Skipper Debbie. We love you and we're praying for you. Some of you have crossed the earth physically, some of you have crossed it spiritually, but all of you have crossed a line that so many in the world refuse to cross, from accusation to to blessing. Right? From distancing to attachment. I just heard J.D. Vance when he said, "The only leader in the world that has any sort of affection was the word he used or support or um whatever it was to to Israel." And I just was hearing it's so much easier for all of these international leaders now to say, "Okay, Israel, you're on your own now. You're not strong. You're weaker than ever." Right? And that there's so many people that see that. And and but but then there are those that say, "I'm I'm done watching Israel from the outside. I want to be I want to be connecting with them on the inside like family. Like the prophet Zechariah said, and that's the other path. Not the path of Balaam who sought Israel and search for a curse, but the path of Abraham who heard the voice of God and chose blessing. The path of those who look at Israel and and were wounded and complicated complicated were very complicated people chosen rising up and say I will bless, I will stand, I will attach myself to the God of Israel and to the people of Israel. And that's how the curse becomes a blessing. And you're standing on the right side of the oldest promise in the entire Torah, the promise God made to Abraham when he said "Avarechecha umekalelcha aor." And I will bless those who bless you and the one who curses you I will curse. My friends, the Balaams of this generation are lining up to curse and they're walking straight into that ancient promise whether they know it or not. And you who have chosen to bless us, to stand with us the that is being written and noted and the the merging is happening. You're not spectators to this story, you're inside of it. On the on the side of the one who turns every curse into blessing. And so here's the call as we step towards the three weeks and back into our ordinary and back into our ordinary days. Be a blesser. In a generation of Balak and Balaam, in a world that is made a profession out of cursing our nation you're the ones who bless. Refuse the cynicism and refuse the curse and refuse the despair, refuse the evil eye, refuse the lie that that the lights on these hills are going out because I'm telling you from where I stand that they're only growing more beautiful and multiplying. >> My name is Ari and I live here on the edge of the Judean frontier. And just as the prophets foretold, the mountains of Judah are coming to life. The in-gathering of the exile is taking place right before our eyes. And the final prophecy is manifesting as the righteous of the nations are coming together with humble hearts here in the land of Israel fellowship. And now I'm inviting you to join us along with hundreds of Jewish and Christian families from all around the world to experience the beauty and the holiness and the magnificence of our fellowship. So, click below so you can taste the beauty and the holiness that is happening on this mountain. >> [music]