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July 18, 2014 - Jim Bakker Show
13:20
Urgent Israel Update #1 - William Koenig
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Iron Dome Protection 00:07:31
You are in the middle of it.
In fact, you said in Israel you were looking out your window and I guess bombs were going off and people were rioting or whatever is going on.
Yeah, we had the opportunity right after they found the three young men that were killed.
We were right there in the heart of Jerusalem, right in the middle of the rioting.
And it was just raw, raw nerve.
I mean the heart of Israel was hoping that those young men would be found alive and they weren't in that raw emotion, went to the streets of Jerusalem, as well as other cities around the country.
Is the beginning of the last day wars?
Very possible.
Very possible.
And the reason I say that is because Iran is committed to becoming a nuclear power.
I don't care about negotiations.
Right now, they're having negotiations with the P5 plus 1.
That's the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, the United States, Russia, France, United Kingdom, and China.
And what's important right now with the negotiations is it's not going to stop Iran to getting a nuclear weapon.
They are committed to being finished.
They are committed to completing a nuclear weapon.
And that will put Israel at risk and the entire Middle East at risk because Iran is committed to controlling the Middle East.
Hamas headline tries to hit Israeli nuclear reactor.
Five million people now under rocket threat.
At one time, one of the headlines just the last few days said 50% of all Israelis were in shelters at that moment.
Well, it's exactly right.
The blessing has been Israel has developed this iron dome that's been taking out a lot of the rockets out of the air.
This iron dome is amazing.
It is amazing.
And I want to thank the creator of the iron dome for the work that God gave to his brain.
This is an amazing weapon to shoot down.
And how many do you think they're shooting down?
Well, they're shooting down about 90 percent.
Now, if somebody is out there and they don't understand what the iron dome is, maybe someone hasn't been watching the news.
Iron Dome is something that Israel developed in order to be able to shoot down rockets when they are fired from Gaza.
So they have it so calibrated that they can determine as soon as that rocket is fired where it's going.
And they haven't determined if that's going to be an area of high population or an open field.
If it goes to an open field, they let it fall.
If it's going to an area of higher population, they attempt to take it out.
And they've had a 90% success level.
And the developer of the Iron Dome says we can do even more with this.
I mean, this is remarkable.
And they are taking rocket.
And I think today was the first death because of the rocket fire since this began.
I mean, it's been over, I think, 1,300 or so rockets that have been fired.
This is truly a miracle.
And again, the United States funded this.
And, you know, we're going to be blessed for this for many reasons.
The concern is that one bomb would get through to a city or something.
Well, and also a payload.
Fortunately, for the lack of a better word, these are rockets.
They do damage when they fall.
They're explosive.
But there hasn't been any chemicals put in them.
There hasn't been any nuclear material put in them.
So that could be very dangerous.
Iran, you said today to me, is a key.
You want to hear that?
Mind just came out.
Mind is came out.
You know what that is?
That's bombs dropping in Israel.
Go alerts.
I have my phone set on alerts.
I know every bomb that drops.
And that's why this is my first time to hear it on my phone ever.
I love Israel.
Israel is God's place.
Israel, Jerusalem is my home away from, well, it's my home.
As soon as I arrive and they say, welcome home, for the first time in my life, I was home somewhere.
Forgive me.
But this goes off every time a bomb, their alert.
There's people in Israel right now going to their shelters in these different, and it tells the different places.
Yeah, this is Red Alert Israel.
It's available on iPhones.
These are rockets that are falling on the state of Israel.
And the beauty of this, almost a million people now have this app on their iPhone, and I've been reading it very closely, is the prayer of support from Christians that go on.
They can respond to these alerts and encourage people through prayers and comments.
And it's just beautiful to see how many Christians right now have this on their iPhone so they can pray, so they can pray to God to cover and protect the state of Israel as these rockets fall.
I mean, I think it's over 1,300 rockets now have been shot at Israel.
And fortunately, about 90% of the ones that have gone to the population centers of Israel have been knocked out of the air by the Iron Dome.
I was watching Israeli television last night.
It's so I lived in the Bible through my prison years, and it's all coming to pass.
It's so real.
You read it, and people say, oh, I don't want to read in the Revelation.
I don't want to read Ezekiel.
I don't want to read all this.
But it's all real.
It's so real.
And to see it, and on the Israeli television, they were saying that basically they're surrounded by enemies.
The enemies are on all sides right now.
Let me put in this perspective, Jim.
I was at a media summit a couple weeks ago in Jerusalem, and the IDF spokesperson for Foreign News Services gave us a briefing.
Hezbollah has 100,000 rockets right now pointed at Israel.
Oh.
100,000.
And they are burying those rockets inside of homes.
The spokesperson said that a lot of the homes are three stories, and in the mid-story of the homes is a rocket launcher.
It's put into the home.
So that's what Hamas does.
That's what Hezbollah does.
They bury themselves inside of these communities.
And Israel's doing everything they can.
They drop flyers.
They do robocalls and tell them we're going to hit this area, leave, evacuate.
Israel's Decisive Defense 00:06:03
So Israel's doing everything they can to stop these rockets being fired on their people and are being decent about it.
I've never heard of enemies telling each other that they're going to bomb a certain neighborhood or whatever and to avoid killing any children, any mothers or whatever.
You know, anybody.
They are doing everything they can, Jim.
Absolutely.
But they have to.
Have to.
They feel Iran You feel is at the center of all of this.
Yes, they were even bragging this week that these are rockets that they have provided.
Some of these rockets are rockets that they have provided, Hamas.
Now, they're not going to live in peaceful coexistence with Israel.
No.
Iran.
You believe that you could wake up tomorrow morning and hear that Israel has bombed Iran and it won't surprise you.
Can I say that?
Yes.
We'll edit it out, by the way, if I said something wrong before.
I'm live streaming.
Yes, and I think that's important for people to understand that Israel has the right to defend themselves.
And if they determine...
A little teeny nation the size of, what, New Jersey?
Yes.
Yes, and if they determine tomorrow that they must do something, they're watching this very, very closely.
They're giving the international community an opportunity to make peace with Iran on this nuclear weapon program.
So if Israel determines that the agreement, and Israel keeps warning, Prime Minister Netanyahu keeps warning the international community, if you don't do enough, then this is going to create great problems for Middle Eastern countries, U.S. and world economy, and the state of Israel, and that Israel has the rights.
Israel will have the right to do what's necessary to defend the country.
And the other thing for those that support Israel and those that are friends of Israel and those of us that pray for Israel, Israel knows what to do.
Israel has weapons that little tiny Israel that is blessed with a lot of intelligence, both intelligence on the ground and brains.
They're going to do what they can to leave a do what they have to to devastate and stop the nuclear risk of Iran, not only to Israel, but to many Sunni countries that are hoping Israel will do something for their sake.
That's all right.
One of the scriptures, and I believe it could very well be talking about peace treaty scriptures.
You know, a lot of times America acts like what's happening in the Middle East isn't a big deal.
And we just say, well, let's have another peace.
Let's give up some more land.
Let's see what we can do.
You know, Jeremiah 8:11 says this.
They dressed the wound of my people, Israel, as though it were not serious.
Peace, peace, they say, when there is no peace.
Ezekiel 13, 10 says this, because they lead my people astray, saying, peace when there is no peace.
You know, I love it this week that Benjamin Netanyahu is being very bold, and he's actually calling some of our leadership naive.
They're talking about peace talks and how to coexist with these people.
You can't coexist with people that want to kill you.
You can't.
It's impossible.
You can't do that.
What would the United States do?
What would you do if 80% of our country was having bombs dropped on it right now?
Would you expect our leaders to defend us?
Yes.
But we don't expect Israel to defend itself.
Isn't that right?
I mean, a lot of naivete is going on over this, and it's lopsided.
Well, there's a pattern here.
The rockets start falling.
Israel responds.
Then the United States and the international community say Israel has the rights to defend themselves.
Then Israel starts defending themselves with force.
And then all of a sudden the international community starts calling for a ceasefire agreement.
And Israel, after a while, feels forced to cut a deal with Hamas.
This has happened two previous times.
What has happened in between each time is the rockets that Hamas is getting has more distance, more range, and putting more people at risk.
And then you have Iran boasting this week of the fact that they're providing these Syrian weapons to Hamas.
So the big concern, okay, fine, Israel cuts another ceasefire deal.
Well, what are the rockets and missiles going to be like next time?
And that's the big concern.
The good news is al-Sisi, the president of Egypt, has shut the border with Gaza so the rockets are not getting in there like they were.
And he is not a friend of Hamas.
And he, Hamas is an old Muslim Brotherhood entity.
So the fact is, and I think that's what's more important than anything else, Jim, is you've got a pattern of these, you know, rockets ceasefire.
Rockets ceasefire, rockets cease fire.
Eventually, and I think that's where Israel is right now, we must eliminate Hamas's infrastructure inside of Gaza and inside of Judea and Samaria.
This week, Hamas spokesman says, all Israelis have now become legitimate targets.
The reason it's so important, and I was mentioning your book, this book should be in the hands of every American to understand God's heart is with Jerusalem.
God's heart is with Israel.
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