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Giants in the Land
00:03:06
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| Wow. | |
| The fighting is focusing on Gaza. | |
| Is there any significance to that? | |
| Yes. | |
| Yeah. | |
| A lot of people may not realize, believers, that Gaza, you know, here at the Gaza Strip, Gaza, Gaza is in the Bible. | |
| And Gaza is in the Bible. | |
| About, you have about 19 references in the Bible to Gaza. | |
| And Gaza was always interesting, always a place of conflict. | |
| Actually, you know, at the beginning, it says when the spies went up to Israel and they said, the 12 spies, and they said, there are giants in the land. | |
| They called them the Anakim in Hebrew. | |
| Well, it says later on that the Anakim were driven out of the land, but except one, pretty much one place, Gaza. | |
| So here, the giants in the land ended up going to Gaza. | |
| So it was always a place which represented the obstacle to God's purposes in the land. | |
| Now, when you read the story of Samson, you know, Samson, a whole part of it takes place in Gaza. | |
| When they blind him, when they take out, the Philistines take out his eyes, they end up taking him to Gaza. | |
| So when you hear that story of Samson, we've always read about, heard about from the time we were kids. | |
| It's taking place, the finale takes place in Gaza, same place that's in the news. | |
| They take him to the temple of Dagon, the destruction comes, the temple falls down. | |
| Interesting, you know, because we're seeing buildings falling down in Gaza. | |
| Well, that goes back to Samson, you know, with that. | |
| Now, so Gaza, and it's good, you had a map there. | |
| Gaza is located on the coast. | |
| It's by the Mediterranean Sea. | |
| It has been a problem for Israel from ancient times. | |
| It was pretty much the headquarters of the Philistines. | |
| Now, something to note, you know, when the Romans came in in 70 AD and they destroyed Israel, they sent the Jews around the world. | |
| They said, you know, let's do something. | |
| Let's rename the land so that everybody will forget that it really, it's the land of the Jewish people. | |
| So let's cut that connection. | |
| So they said, let's come up with a name. | |
| So the name they came up with was the name Pilestia or actually, I'm sorry, Palestina, which comes from, it means the land of the Philistines. | |
| They got that from in the Bible. | |
| That area was called Pilestim or the land of the, that's how you say Philistine. | |
| So they came up with Palestina. | |
| That's where we get the word Palestine. | |
| So whenever you hear the word Palestine, that's named after the Philistines, the enemies of Israel on purpose. | |
| And so there's one Palestinian state in Israel, which is Gaza. | |
| And so Gaza, I mean, it's amazing because Gaza was the center of the Philistines. | |
| And so now we're saying, hey, we're Palestine, which is named after, it means basically saying we're Philistines, and it was the chief city of that. | |
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I Will Send Fire
00:00:52
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| So the Gaza Strip goes back to the Bible. | |
| Now, in Jeremiah, God gives a word and he says that judgment is coming on Gaza. | |
| In the book of Amos, it says, thus says the Lord, because of the sins of Gaza, I will send punishment. | |
| In Zephaniah, it says, Gaza will be forsaken. | |
| And another place in Amos, it says, I will send fire on Gaza. | |
| I will send fire on the walls of Gaza. | |
| The palaces of Gaza will be destroyed. | |
| Now, I'm not saying that that prophecy is specifically saying what's happening now, but the word of God is very big and very, very all-encompassing. | |
| And so now we're again seeing what the prophet spoke of. | |
| The prophet spoke of Gaza judgment or fire and destruction. | |