If you would in your Bibles, turn to Obadiah.
The book of Obadiah, Chapter nothing.
Obadiah, shortest book in the Old Testament.
And we have.
This is our third message out of the book.
Obadiah.
We're going to begin reading.
Let's begin reading in verse.
We'll start reading in verse 14.
Actually, let's begin reading in verse 17.
It's where the paragraph starts.
Ready?
But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance.
There shall be holiness.
And the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph
a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble.
And they shall kindle in them and devour them.
And there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau, for
the Lord hath spoken it.
And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau, and they
of the plain, the Philistines.
And they shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields
of Samaria.
And Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess
that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath.
And the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Seraphad,
and shall possess the cities of the south.
And saviors shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the mount of
Esau.
And the kingdom shall be the Lord's.
Again, verse 21.
And the Savior shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the mount
of Esau.
And the kingdom shall be the Lord's.
It will be.
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, bless the reading of your word.
We do pray again tonight that we would see the importance of what's
happening now amongst Israel and what's going to happen in the
future.
Lord, we look forward to the day of your return.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
So we think about Obadiah.
Again he speaks of bringing down Edom.
And again Edom is proud of their security.
They rejoiced over Israel's defeat by their enemies.
And because of that God's wrath will be brought upon them.
And Edom will be destroyed.
And Israel will will be delivered.
And God's kingdom will be victorious.
So again we understand and know that Edom, the Edomites are
descendants of Esau.
We see this in Genesis 36:1.
Esau was the twin brother of Jacob.
So you have Jacob and Esau, the twins again.
Despite being related, the Israelites and the Edomites throughout
history have lived in constant conflict.
So you see that throughout the Old Testament them in constant conflict.
In Genesis 25 and we really did.
We covered some of this, but we didn't cover in detail.
I want to Tonight, in Genesis 25, verses 22 through 23, when Rebekah
is pregnant with Jacob and Esau, it speaks about here that the
children struggled together within her.
So within her, these.
These twins were struggling in her womb.
And so much so that she had the question of what is going on?
And she asked God, she says, what's going to become of the twins
in my womb?
And she said what God said to her.
The older will serve the younger.
And the promise that was given.
And Isaac and Rebekah knew this.
The promise of the Messiah, that lineage of the Messiah that
came through Abraham and now through Isaac would not go through
Esau, but would go through Jacob.
And I do want you to understand it.
We touched on it very briefly during one of the messages.
But understand that Isaac and Rebekah were told of God, that Jacob
was to be in that line of the Messiah.
They understood that God spoke in the past.
He spoke through prophets.
He spoke through visions.
And we know that Hebrews says that, you know, God, whose sundry
time, in diverse manner, spake in time past unto the fathers by
the prophets, but these last days, he's spoken to us by his son.
He now speaks through his Word.
Amen.
But then he spoke in visions and prophets, through the prophets.
Like when Joseph received the dream about the sheaves bowing down
to his sheave, or the sun, moon, the stars bowing down to him.
That was God's word to Joseph.
It was as if he had this.
It was just as inspired when Joseph received those dreams as what
you hold in your hand.
Joseph, I believe, understood that.
And when Joseph was thrown into prison, what kept Joseph going
and what kept Joseph sane and what kept Joseph even leading in
some those capacities he was put in is because he knew.
He knew that one day his brothers would bow to him because
God promised it.
And God keeps his promises.
So you say, well, how could Joseph go through all of that?
He understood the promise of God.
And so Rebecca and Jake, Rebekah and Isaac, they did know.
And that should have cultivated, that should have been
passed on to Jacob and Esau.
But.
But apparently it wasn't.
In fact, we know it wasn't.
Why didn't Rebekah and Isaac say, hey, we had a vision from God.
And your mama was told that, listen, Esau, one day you're gonna
serve your brother, and you might as well get used to it, right?
That's what should have happened.
Something.
I'm not saying it could have happened like that.
But there should have been explanation.
There should have been the word of God told to their kids, this
is the word of God.
This is the inspiration of God.
God told us this, but apparently that was not done.
And then you have this rivalry between Jacob and Esau.
We know that Jacob, as they were being born, reached out and
grabbed the heel of Esau.
And that's why they called him Jacob the Supplanter.
The supplanter.
From the very beginning, Jacob was trying to take over the position
of his brother.
And so there was this animosity between them, even in the
womb, it seems.
We know in Genesis chapter 25 that Jacob secures Esau's birthright
in.
Esau comes back from one of his hunts, and he is just.
He's tired and he's wore out.
If you read the account, he's saying, I'm gonna die.
I'm gonna die.
Give me something to eat.
And Jacob says, I will if you gimme your birthright.
Well, he says, I'm gonna die anyway.
Might as well.
And he sold his birthright to his brother.
The firstborn birthright was a big deal then.
It meant you got twice as much as everybody else in the family.
And there was other things that were blessings.
You would receive the first blessing from the father, from your
dad.
And I mean, it was a big, big, big deal to be the firstborn.
In fact, we know it's a big deal because God set aside the firstborn.
The firstborn of every family was set aside, and they had to pay
a tax for the firstborn to the temple.
As I think about.
Of course, that was later down the road.
But we think about again, this animosity between these two siblings
after Jacob secures the birthright of his brother.
The Bible says that Esau disparaged his birthright.
In Genesis 27, Jacob stole the.
Stole Esau's blessing from his dad.
Remember that?
Rebecca pulls Jacob aside and says, hey, Esau's out hunting, getting
ready to come back and make some porridge, some stew for her
dad.
And he's going to bless him, give him the death blessing.
I don't know what to call it, but the blessing right before the
patriarch dies, he says, hey, we're going to do this.
You cook up some.
You know, you cook up some stew like he likes.
And we're going to put animal skins on your.
Because Esau was a hairy dude.
He was a hairy man, apparently a little red too.
So they put skins on Jacob.
And so Jacob goes into his dad, who Isaac who was blind and
tricks him.
And Isaac receives the blessing of Esau from his dad.
Most of you know the rest of the story.
I know I'm preaching to the choir tonight, that Esau comes back,
he finds out, and he says, I'm going to kill my brother.
Rebecca says to Jacob, you better leave.
It's still amazing to me.
I remind you tonight that when that happened, that event happened
In Genesis chapter 27, Jacob and Esau were 75 years old.
We always think.
I always thought of them as being young, young adults.
They were 75 years old.
That would be the equivalent, because they live longer than the
equivalent of being about 45 or 50.
It's amazing, isn't it?
When Jacob returns 20 years later in Genesis 33, we find that
Esau, he thinks Esau is still mad after 20 years.
And he starts sending gifts to Esau.
You know, first band of gifts, first wave of gifts.
And when they finally meet, Esau grabs him, hugs him, kisses
him, apparently has forgiven him.
But we know that his descendants did not feel that way.
Esau's descendants.
Esau's descendants must apparently been influenced by the
story and by what happened to their dad.
And there was animosity between the Edomites and the Israelites
throughout their entire Old Testament history.
Edom, according to numbers, chapter 20 would not allow Israel
to pass through their land en route to Canaan.
So when the Israelites left Egypt to go to Canaan, they asked,
and you can go read about it, they asked to come through the land
of Edom.
And they said, no, can't come through our land.
In First Kings, chapter 11, verse 14 through 25, Edom fought
with King Solomon.
If you go back and read 1st Kings 11, you ought to do that.
You'll see that that's the chapter where God finally says to
King Solomon, I'm done.
I'm done.
You're worshiping other gods.
You've allowed your wives to spiritually annihilate you.
The kingdom's going to be taken from you or from your son.
And your son Rehoboam is only going to have one tribe.
And the rest of the tribes I'm going to give to your servant, Jeroboam.
And in that same chapter, God tells Solomon, and because of the
wickedness which you've done, the Edomites, the Edomites will be
a constant nagging enemy for you and your future descendants.
And they were.
And they were again.
They were kin to each other.
And yet this struggle between them continued.
In fact, when David came to power, if you go read the story,
you'll be reminded that God had said about the Edomites to be
wipe them out.
And they wiped all the males out except one.
And he fled to Egypt.
Imagine that now all the male Edomites were killed in except one.
And that one that was left when he found out Solomon died, came
back to Samaria.
The Bible says he ruled there.
And he was the one who continually in his future generations
who were a thorn in Israel's side.
Again, God's punishment continually upon Solomon and his
descendants.
And then in second Chronicles, we won't go into these in two Chronicles
a couple different places you find the Edomites rebelled against
Jehoshaphat and Jehorah.
I already mentioned to you that they dwelt in the southern edge
of the Dead Sea, that city of Petra.
And we kind of described that city of Petra.
Some of you who have watched the Indiana Jones movie and the Last
Crusade I think is the one you see when they go down into Petra
and it's a beautiful place to get to it.
There's a canyon you have to go through that's about a mile long.
And some places, like I told you, you can actually touch e either
side of the canyon with your hands.
It's how narrow it is in some places.
It is beautiful.
I watched several videos on it and just the beauty is amazing.
There are over a thousand different buildings and sepulchers
carved into the walls.
That beautiful temple you see in the Indiana Jones movie.
There's more than that, there's many others, even one bigger
than that.
It's amazing what they did, the Edomites and others, and they
felt like that was going to protect them.
Once you go through that mile long canyon, you come into an area
of about a mile long and about, almost a mile wide of open
area that's surrounded by this cavernous walls that in that day
there would be no way to get down and there'd be no way to get
down to the people below.
Today we could use like the parachute things they jump off buildings
with.
That would be awesome, wouldn't it?
Anyway, but back then they couldn't.
So they felt as they, you know, they were proud that they lived
in these caves, these sepulchers.
So there was also dwellings in the valley there, that mile Long
Valley, 3/4 of a mile wide.
But they felt like nobody could touch them.
They felt like they were indestructible.
They lived in their houses and palaces and carved in the walls almost
inaccessible by anyone else.
And they were prideful of it.
They thought they were safe, that no one could defeat them because
they couldn't get to them.
And Edom got into a power struggle with God.
That's not good.
It's not good to get into a power struggle with Jehovah God,
the God of all creation.
They should have accepted God's choice.
Again, Esau should have accepted God's choice.
And I could even go back to Rebecca.
And Isaac should have accepted God's choice.
And maybe this would not have been the case.
This animosity and just pride.
And so in Deuteronomy 23, verse 7, I want to point this verse
out.
God told Moses, he said this.
He said, thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother.
So there was actually a law for the Jew that they were not supposed
to despise the Edomites.
But that certainly wasn't the case on the other end.
Edomites despised the Jews, hated the Jews.
And that's proven out by their actions.
Because their pride and cruelty to Israel.
God decreed a total destruction of edom.
That's verses 3, 4 and 10, all three verses in Obadiah that make
that prediction.
They are going to be destroyed.
And Nebuchadnezzar, five years after the destruction of Jerusalem.
So remember now, Nebuchadnezzar comes.
Babylon.
Babylon comes to Jerusalem in the first deportation.
They take Daniel and the princess and all those about 2000,
they take them away.
That's in 606 BC they come a second time in 597 BC and they take
more people away.
Then they come in 586 B.C.
and they take the last and they destroy the city.
Obliterated, not one stone left on top of another.
Burn it to the ground, burnt the walls, everything destroyed.
Five years after that, Nebuchadnezzar is going down into
Egypt now, Egypt.
Because brother Sam Davison, when he was here, he alluded to this
a lot.
Egypt was supposed to be the Jew's savior.
They thought this whole time that, well, Egypt will come and help
us.
Egypt is our ally.
They're going to come help us and save us from Nebuchadnezzar.
Well, that never happened.
And so Jerusalem was destroyed.
And five years later, Nebuchadnezzar is making his way
down to Egypt to destroy Egypt.
And he does destroy Egypt.
He does.
He captures and conquers Egypt on his way down there.
Guess where he goes?
Well, the path is right there.
It goes through Petra.
And the Edomites, who thought they were safe, were defeated by
the Babylonians, just like everyone else in the then Known world.
From there, they moved up south of Jerusalem on the edge of
Judea.
And their name was the idioms or idioms.
And that's the kind of the name as you get closer to the New
Testament.
So we'll stop there with the history, but understand that it's
Idumeans.
I actually looked up how to pronounce it.
The remnants settled in southern Israel.
Maccabees also, again in AD 70, also obliterated the rest of
the Edomite nation.
All right, so what lessons do we learn?
We covered these.
Number one, God is sovereign.
God could do anything he wants and we should accept his choices.
Number two, pride is bad.
Being humble is good.
We learned that from.
That's a good way to preach it.
Yeah.
Pride is bad.
Being humble is good.
Nebuchadnezzar again, Edom.
So many examples.
God hates pride.
And then God's judgment will overcome.
In other words, God will fulfill not only his promises of
blessings, but his promises of judgment.
And God's will will overcome.
Number four, God protects his people.
I'm thankful for that, aren't you?
But in this case, in Obadiah, he protects Israel, his children,
his people.
And we know that he protects his grafted in people too.
Spiritual children of Abraham.
And God holds us accountable when we gloat our joy over the demise
of our enemies.
And that's what God is doing to the Edomites.
And then tonight we think about Israel shall possess their
possessions.
Verse 17 through 21.
Israel will possess their possessions.
We have a contrast between Mount Zion and Mount Esau.
Mount Zion.
God will rule and reign.
Mount Esau will be defeated.
Deliverance is coming for Zion.
And we see as it is in most of prophecy, that there's a near fulfillment
and then a far reaching fulfillment.
The near fulfillment of the prophecy is Nebuchadnezzar.
The near fulfillment of the prophecy is the Maccabees and their
generals.
And so that is the near fulfillment.
The far fulfillment is Jesus Christ.
When he returns at the second coming, which is the battle of Armageddon,
which he when he defeats the armies of the Antichrist and those
who have gathered there, he will set up his kingdom.
And so that's the far reaching fulfillment.
If you'll notice in verse 17, look at with me again.
But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance.
Israel will go back to Jerusalem, will go back to Zion,
will go back to Mount Zion.
They will have their land again.
And we know that that happened.
They went back and rebuilt Jerusalem and was in the land again.
So that's the near Fulfillment.
And then he says, look at there again.
It says, and there shall be holiness.
And there shall be holiness.
Well, again we think about the fulfillment of the temple being rebuilt,
the return of temple worship under Ezra.
Everybody know what I'm talking about now?
All right, so after the deportation, after the captivity,
70 years later, they returned under the Medo Persian empire.
They began to observables the first wave that comes back.
They began the foundation, they laid the foundation of the temple
and then it sets.
And then several years later, I think it was 20, whatever it is,
16, they rebuild the temple and they began temple worship again
that they hadn't had in, you know, 70, 80 years or so.
So the holiness has returned.
The ability to worship, the ability to sacrifice.
And to that again observe the holy days and all those things returns.
There's so much here.
One day, the far reaching fulfillment is one day Jesus Christ
will return.
One day the temple will be restored again.
Israel will rebuild the temple again.
Is it, is it going to happen before we're gone?
There's some, there's actually some debate of that.
We may, we, we may get the opportunity before the Rapture to
see some, you know, semblance of whatever it may be.
Maybe it's just partial or halfway.
But I can tell you when they already talk about rebuilding the
temple, they, they've got all the instruments made, they got everything
they need to do it.
They got all the ropes, they got everything made to do it, except
the sight to put it on.
If that ever happens.
And it will.
I don't mean if, I mean when that happens, look up, because yes,
the trumpet's soon to sound.
Holiness will return.
He says there, he'll possess their possessions.
That's speaking of the promised land.
They will possess their possessions.
It's theirs.
The land is rightfully theirs.
Given to them by God, not given to the Muslims.
By the way, they should have half of Iran right now.
I mean there's.
The amount of land they have now is minuscule compared to what
God really gave them.
Again, we think about the possessing of the land as has a near
fulfillment and a far fulfillment.
The near fulfillment is they did return and they did rebuild the
temple and they did rebuild the walls and they did rebuild the
city.
It was destroyed by Nero in 70 A.D. they were outside the land for
1900 years.
1900 years, imagine that.
No place to call home.
Everybody, all nations hated them.
Unbelievable.
I'll talk about it in a moment.
But the far fulfillment is again, one day Jesus will return.
One day, ultimately Christ will sit on the throne and the entire
land will be theirs.
Verse 18.
It speaks of the Edomites being wiped off the face of the earth.
I'll just leave with that.
And then the return of Israel to the nation and the land being
divided up.
One day that's going to happen.
Verses 19 and 20, verses 21.
Verse 21.
And the Savior shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the Mount
of Esau.
And the kingdom shall be the Lord's again, I've already said it
10 times.
I know.
But Jesus Christ will reign one day.
Mount Zion was essentially recaptured by recaptured.
They dwelt in the land under the Medo Persian empire.
But the far reaching fulfillment is that Christ will rule
and reign there.
Notice it says the kingdom shall be the Lord's.
By the way, his kingdom is an eternal kingdom.
This word savior is the same word we think about when we think
about judges.
So it says, the Savior shall come up to Mount Zion to judge the
Mount of Esau.
So when you think of this word, think of the word judge as
in the Book of Judges.
What were the judges in the Book of Judges?
Were they men who wore the black, you know, gown and set behind,
you know, a judgment and banged the gavel?
To a certain degree, yes, they were judges, but more than that,
they were deliverers.
Think of Samson.
You think of.
And I could.
We could go on and on of Barak and on and on, all the different
judges of the children of Israel.
Whenever the children of Israel would get right with God,
he would send a deliverer.
Gideon, he would send someone to deliver them.
But the person who delivered them would also end up being a judge.
He would help and constitute and help judge the nation.
In fact, we talk about how bad Samson was, but for 20 years, the
Bible says for 20 years he was a good judge.
He fell off the wagon, let his appetite get to him.
So that's what you got to think about in this verse when it
speaks about this Savior or deliverers speaking about the A judge.
Someone who will come and deliver them and then judge the nations.
Someone who would deliver them and then set up governance again.
Near fulfillment is Nebuchadnezzar.
Near fulfillment is Maccabees, Edomites, destroyed again.
They moved to the southern part of Israel called the Idumeans.
I just vaguely remember as I'm reading that.
Yeah, hang on, I will move on.
The forerunner though, of this judge or Savior is they were forerunners.
In other words, those who were judging, those who returned the name
I was trying to pronounce Sunday, Antiochus Epiphanes and their
deliverance.
And they saved the Jews.
All these things are forerunners of Jesus Christ, the
Messiah, whose seat and throne is Mount Zion, whose kingdom there'll
be no end.
It's the kingdom of God.
Mount Esau will ultimately be judged, ultimately be judged.
And all nations will submit to the power of the ultimate kingdom,
which is Jesus Christ.
I'm going to turn to Revelation 11:15 if you want to go
ahead and turn to Revelation, because I want you to turn there
in a moment.
Actually, no, we're going to turn to Romans here in a moment.
Revelation chapter 11, Revelation 11:15 says, and the seventh
angel sounded and there was a great voice in heaven saying, the
kingdoms of this world are become what?
The kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.
And he shall reign forever and ever.
The kings of this world become the kingdoms of Christ.
And he will reign forever and ever.
All will submit to the power and the kingdom of God.
We see in Obadiah the same that we see in all the prophets,
as far as when they're prophesying, they speak of judgment.
They speak of.
Of God fulfilling the judgment that he promised he would do.
But then also he gives them hope, a hope of the Messiah who will
one day return.
Every prophet does.
Speaks about the judgment, speaks about their falling, speaks
about their going after other gods and the judgment that God's
going to give them, and whether it's the Edomites or the
Jews or whomever they're prophesying against.
And then he speaks of the hope, the everlasting hope, the hope
that will one day come and deliver us, deliver the Jews from
oppression, deliver all of us from worldly reign to a heavenly
reign, one who sits on the throne, who is a just king, who will
rule and reign rightly, who can never make a mistake.
Imagine that.
A king with no ulterior motives, looking forward to that
day.
So that's the final word of the prophet.
God will judge the heathen, but Israel will be restored.
That's the prophets.
God will judge.
God will judge the heathen, and Israel will be restored.
The kingdom Israel will be restored.
The Davidic Covenant found in 2nd Samuel, chapter 7.
When God is speaking to David, he tells David that his son Solomon
one day will rule and reign, and of his lineage, of his children's
children.
There will be no end.
The throne.
He says to David that your throne will be an everlasting throne.
And that promise, that covenant is unconditional, right?
Sometimes if you make a promise or a covenant, a covenant
has two sides, my side and brother.
Clark's side, we're to keep the covenant.
But if he breaks his covenant, it means I can break mine.
But God says these covenants are unconditional.
I'm going to keep this promise no matter what Israel does, no matter
what the people do.
One day I will rule and reign forever and ever.
Jesus Christ of the Messiah, of the lineage of David Davidic kingdom.
How do we know this to be true?
Well, we know it because Gabriel came to Mary in Luke chapter
1, verses 30 through 33 and says to her that the baby that you're
about to have is the Messiah and his kingdom, there is no end.
Boom.
New Testament.
Amen.
So it makes it very clear there's no doubt that of the Messiah's
kingdom there'll be no end.
The Messiah is and was a Jew.
Just reminding you that and people on the Internet.
Crazy stuff out there.
People believe again.
Review of the prophetic timetable.
The next thing to happen on the prophetic timetable is the Rapture.
The Rapture.
Christ is soon to return.
When the prophets prophesied, as I said Sunday night, they did
not see the church age.
They did not see the fullness of the times of the Gentiles.
The times of the Gentiles began with the destruction of Jerusalem.
And the times of the Gentiles will end at the battle of Armageddon.
But the fullness of the times of the Gentiles is the time between
Christ's death and the Rapture.
The church age.
I gave you that little chart.
I'll pass it out again on Sunday night in the Book of Daniel
because we're going to cover that again.
You're going to hear this repeated several times over the next
few weeks.
Christians, the church have not replaced Israel, but we've been
grafted into the tree.
Praise the Lord.
We've been grafted in Romans chapter 11, if you would.
This will be the last verse you have.
You turn to Romans 11.
Now remember what Romans 9, 10 and 11 are.
Romans, chapter 10 is about Israel's God's dealing with Israel
in the past.
Romans chapter 10 was God's dealing with the children of Israel
in the present.
By the way, look at chapter 10, verse 1.
And this will kill a lot of the antisemitism that was around
during the early church.
During the early church, the early church fathers were all anti
Semitic.
Origen, Augustine, they were all anti Semitic.
And I'll tell you why here in a moment.
This is Paul's words.
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer for God as they would
my Israel.
What might Be saved by the way, he said to go to the Jew first
and also to the Greek.
Why would Paul tell us to go to the Jews and give them the gospel
if they were?
I'm going to use the word trash.
Like the Catholic Church treated the Jew for a thousand years.
It's unbelievable.
I was reading some of the history.
Do you know that when Christopher Columbus left Spain that
same day, it was like August 3rd, you know, 1492, right?
That same day the proclamation was made in Spain that kicked all
the Jews out of Spain.
150,000 Jews left the country of Spain.
Kicked them out because they were Jews.
Christians again have not replaced Israel.
Look here with me.
Romans, chapter 11, verse 25.
So Romans 9 is God's dealing with the Jews in the past.
Romans 10 Is God's dealing with the Jews in the present.
And then Romans 11, Paul is speaking about how God's going to
deal with Israel in the future.
In the Future again.
Verse 24.
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree, which is wild by
nature.
I'm sorry.
Verse 25.
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceit.
That blindness is in part has happened to Israel.
Blindness of what?
Blindness of the Gospel.
Paul makes that very clear.
That Satan has blinded their eyes.
Until what?
Until the fullness of the Gentiles become in.
When's that going to happen?
The Rapture.
When the Rapture happens and all the saved are gone.
The church is gone.
The Bible says here that the scales are going to fall off the
eyes of the Jew.
It's an amazing thought.
And so all Israel shall be saved as written.
There shall come out of Zion the deliverer.
Notice this verse?
Sound familiar?
There shall come out of Zion a deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness
from Jacob.
Holiness.
It's the same verse that we read in verse 17 of Obadiah holiness.
One day the deliverer, the Savior is coming again.
At the end of the Tribulation, he will land on top of Mount the
Mount of Olives.
The Bible says it will split in two and he'll defeat all the armies
that are gathered there.
And he will rule and reign forever and ever.
I want to give just a little background of why.
I'll use this as example then.
So when the movie came out of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Right here, the big one here recently, a few years back.
Mel Gibson's movie, right?
Mel Gibson.
Who is it?
The Passion of the Christ.
Right.
You'll remember just a short time after that that Mel Gibson was
pulled over by a policeman.
And there's actually audio of it, I believe, of him saying racist
slurs pertaining to the Jews.
That's not opinion, that's fact.
He did that.
Mel Gibson was disparaging to the Jew.
Why would Mel Gibson, and I don't know him, I don't know if he,
if he, he was drunk, he said some things he.
Hopefully it was because he was drunk and he just said some things
he shouldn't have said.
But Mel Gibson's a Catholic.
Why would he feel that way about the Jews?
Here's it.
This is it.
They believe and are anti Semitic because they believe that
the Jews killed Jesus.
And because the Jews killed Jesus, we don't like them.
And I'm making it very elementary here.
There's a lot more to it, but that's basically the Catholic Church.
Basically the Catholic Church felt the same way.
And over and over and over again.
All these little meetings the Catholic Church had early on, I'm
Talking about in 400 A.D. and 500 A.D. nearly every meeting they
had in one of their points, they would deal with the Jewish and
again, very, very anti Semitic.
So much so that they killed hundreds of thousands of Jews during
the Dark Ages because they killed Jesus.
Can I tell you, they didn't kill the Jews, didn't kill Jesus.
He said, no man takes my life.
I'll lay it down.
No, they didn't kill Jesus.
The Jews aren't responsible for killing Jesus.
Jesus laid down his life for us willingly.
He could have called angels to carry him away.
He said so.
He didn't have to, but he did so because he knew.
I love the verse, that he again, he saw his seed.
The Bible says Isaiah 53, he prolonged his days.
What does that mean?
It means he looked down through time.
He saw me.
He looked down through time, he saw you.
He saw every born again believer that would accept him as
Savior.
And he went to the cross for us.
Willingly gave his life for us.
Boy, we need to be all so careful.
There's so much antisemitism going on and the church should never
be a part of that.
And the replacement theology is anti Semitic.
It's full of it.
Again, that belief that.
By the way, I said something very seemingly harsh.
Sunday I said those who believe in replacement theology are.
It's heresy.
And I'm going to stand by that.
Because what you're saying is when you say that the church has
replaced Israel, you're calling God a liar.
And if you're calling God a liar, then you are a heretic according
to the Bible.
So be very careful when you get sucked into some of these things
and go read the history, man.
I've given you just barely a little bit of it, man.
There's so much history you can read about the early, what they
call Church fathers and what they believed and so much anti Semitism
going on because of their misunderstanding of the basic thing
that Jesus Christ laid down his life for me, willingly gave his
life for me, and that he has promised over and over and over again
that a Jew one day will sit on the throne and he will reign forever
and ever and ever.
So all us other ethnicities better get over it.
Amen.
By the way, it's the reason for all millennialism and many other
doctrines that are wrong is based upon this assumption that the
Church has replaced Israel, man.
Understand?
God has said, I will judge.
There will be holiness in Israel again.
The temple will stand one day.
And I'm just looking forward to the day that he returns and he
rules forever and ever.
No more trumps, no more Bidens, but a glorious and holy king
who will reign justly fairly and do so forever and ever.
What a kingdom that'll be.
Let's all stand, have our invitation Hymn five.