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June 13, 2017 - Jim Bakker Show
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Jerusalem's Part in the Last Days - Rabbi Jonathan Cahn on The Jim Bakker Show
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Jerusalem's Turbulent History 00:03:01
This is the center of everything.
You know, and just since I was last here, something major happened.
United Nations, America, America, this is Obama planned this, undoubted, without any question.
America abandoned Israel over Jerusalem.
So what is the issue of Jerusalem?
Jerusalem is the center of biblical prophecy.
Everything is centering on it.
That's the end game.
That's the final goal.
It's Jerusalem.
So we need to know where we are in this.
And let me just give you in maybe two minutes or so, 4,000 years of Jerusalem's history.
Just so you have an idea, okay?
Just so you have an idea.
It becomes the capital of the kingdom of David.
The capital, Jerusalem.
All the tribes go up.
It's the center of everything.
The temple, Jerusalem, the holy city, Israel's beloved Jerusalem.
Then comes Babylon.
Babylon comes in, 586 BC, and they destroy Jerusalem, take the people captive for 70 years.
They come back, and they come back under Nehemiah, Ezra, Zerubbabel, and they rebuild Jerusalem.
Jerusalem becomes now, this is the second temple, second Jerusalem, and now Messiah comes.
Messiah comes to Jerusalem, weeps over it, because he says there's not one stone that's going to be left on the other because Israel, you didn't recognize the time of your visitation, and you won't see me again until you say, Baruch Haba, Bashemonai, blessed is he.
So here, Jerusalem, 40 years later, destroyed.
Romans come in, destroyed on the same day that the Babylonians destroyed, 9th of Av, destroyed.
Jewish people are beginning, they begin scattering them away, and then it becomes, quote, Christianized, Christianized under Constantine.
So now, Constantine comes in, Helena, his mother, they start doing, identify holy sites.
So they make it Christianized.
That lasts for a little while, and Byzantine becomes increasingly anti-Jewish.
Then from the deserts of Arabia comes the new force and comes this merchant trader who believes he's a prophet, Muhammad.
He sweeps across the Middle East.
And then after Muhammad, they get to Jerusalem.
The Muslims look it all over.
They convert the churches where they can.
Their general policy, you convert it into a mosque or build a mosque right over it or buy it higher.
They make it Muslim.
They declare the Temple Mount is now the third holiest site in Islam.
Until finally, in the Middle Ages, comes the Crusades.
The Pope calls for a crusade to take back Jerusalem, then take back the Middle East.
Then the Muslims take it back.
Saladin comes back.
It becomes a Muslim-ruled city again for years and years and years until, well still, comes the next power, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, rises up.
Now they're not Arabs, but they're Muslim.
So comes the World War I, and the Ottoman Empire is drawn into the war.
And so what happens is, in 1917, Ottoman Empire begins to collapse, crumble.
Israel's Favorable Moment 00:03:06
Jerusalem, for the first time in 2,000 years, Israel comes into the hand of a power that is favorable to the Jewish people, the British Empire.
But then what happens is comes World War II.
And now Jewish people are fleeing for their lives from Hitler.
After the war, you have Jewish people, you have the Arabs, and the British, the Britain Empire says, we can't, we don't want to handle this anymore, gives it to this little, this organization meeting in New York called the beginning of the United Nations.
They say, you deal with it.
1947, UN votes to make, to split up the land, make one part Arab, one part Jewish.
The Jewish people say it's not what we want, but we'll accept it.
The Arabs say no way.
And then, and they say, Jerusalem will go to nobody.
It will be an international city.
We will not give it to the Jews or the Arabs.
So what happens is, right after on May 14th, May 15th, Israel is proclaimed.
The Arab nations come in to destroy it immediately on its birth.
By a miracle, Israel survives and wins the war.
And so now Israel is there.
Doesn't have Jerusalem, though.
Jerusalem in the war, Jordan takes it over.
So what happens is, what happens is the Six-Day War.
1967, miraculous.
The Arab armies are gathering around Jerusalem.
They're around Israel saying, we're going to destroy you.
They're going to drive you into the sea.
Israel takes a preemptive strike.
Six days, six days.
And in the midst of the war, Israel tells Jordan, don't get into it.
Don't join this war to destroy us.
Jordan joins the war.
Then all of a sudden, now Jerusalem is in play.
So what happens is by a miracle, Israeli soldiers enter the gate of the lions.
They come in under a heavy fire.
They get to that western wall.
They weep.
They break down and weep.
The rabbi comes with them and he sounds the shofar.
Remember, we spoke in the Shemitah, it's the Jubilee.
Remember something about that, Rabbi?
It's Israel's Jubilee.
They're getting back their inheritance.
They're coming back to their land.
You know, what was that land before at the beginning when David actually purchased it?
It says everyone will return to their land.
You know, he purchased it.
It was a threshing floor.
Remember the temple now?
In Hebrew, the word for threshing floor is Gorem.
The rabbi who sounded it, his name was Rabbi Goren, rabbi threshing floor.
And he's the one who sounded it.
So now Jerusalem is back and they say it's back in our hands and we will never leave Jerusalem again.
That's what Israel says.
The world goes crazy.
UN condemns them, saying this is not your land.
And they say, well, this is our land.
Now they've been telling Israel since then, give back that land.
If you give back Jerusalem, you won't have any problems.
But the thing is, before Israel had Jerusalem, you had the PLO saying we're going to destroy Israel without Jerusalem.
So they say what the UN's been trying to do is undo the six-day war.
But before that, they were trying to destroy Israel.
So here it is under, now, looking back at these 4,000 years, when was Jerusalem the capital of any nation for any long period of time?
Bible's Warning: Move at Your Own Risk 00:02:03
Only Israel.
It was never the capital.
The Ottomans never had it.
And in fact, nobody really cared about Jerusalem for much of history.
But here's the thing.
The Bible says that in the last days, Zechariah 12, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling, and those who drink of it are going to stagger.
I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone, and everyone who tries to move it will be injured.
Or actually, the Hebrew says, will be cut to pieces.
Now, how do you move a city?
You can't move a city.
I mean, how do you move a city?
By moving its borders, moving its sovereignty, which is exactly what America under Obama, unfortunately, tried to do.
And that resolution, that resolution, it declares it Palestinian territory.
Israel's occupying power.
It says that, here it says that Israel has no right to Jerusalem.
It's the only nation in history, Israel, that just to build houses, they get condemned for building houses, not for war.
And so it says it's a violation.
And so the Bible says if you try to move it, you will be injured.
Now, we hope that the new president will undo that and move the capital and all that.
But something else as well is that why is there so much controversy over this?
Why?
Why?
Because there's an enemy.
And the enemy knows the prophecies.
He knows that when the Jewish people come back to the city of Jerusalem, Messiah is on his way.
Messiah is on his way.
Jerusalem is the city.
He clearly said it.
He said, you're not going to see me until you say, blessed be he.
Where did he say that?
He said it to the Jewish people, but not just Jewish people.
He said it to the Jewish people in Jerusalem.
That means the Jewish people had to survive for 2,000 years, had to come back to Israel, and had to come back to Jerusalem to fulfill what Messiah said.
Why is Jerusalem back?
Because Messiah said it.
Why is it back?
Because Zechariah said it.
Because the word of God is true.
That's why we have a Jerusalem.
I mean, think of all the capitals in the ancient world.
Babylon, Thebes.
Where are they now?
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