Participants: John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001610A
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00:13 The topic today is,
00:15 "The Jew, The Arab 00:19 and Jerusalem." 00:23 I've got some great Jewish friends. 00:26 I've got two doctors who take care of me, 00:28 and keep me going. 00:30 One of them is Orthodox, one is Liberal. 00:33 They're just great doctors and great friends. 00:37 You know the carpet 00:38 we've got here in this building. 00:40 Well, this carpet was laid by a Muslim from Syria. 00:47 He's got his carpet shop in Glendale. 00:49 He's just the nicest person. 00:51 You know why he is in America? 00:54 To escape religious bigotry and persecution. 01:00 You've all heard of King Hussein, haven't you? 01:03 The King who was the great leader 01:06 of the nation of Jordan. 01:09 I was in Jordan preaching on one occasion, 01:11 preaching in the church. 01:13 The pastor said to me, 01:15 "My house got blown up by extremists, 01:18 by Muslims who are extremists. 01:22 And they murdered my wife and they murdered my daughter." 01:25 And he said, "When I came to, 01:27 when I recovered consciousness in the hospital, 01:29 there was a man standing beside me." 01:33 And he said, "I was amazed, as I recovered consciousness, 01:38 it was King Hussein." 01:41 The leader of the nation and he said, 01:44 "My Christian brother, in the name of God, 01:48 in the name of Allah, I be seek you, 01:52 forgives us for this-- 01:54 this awful crime against you and your family." 01:58 He said, "I can't restore your wife or your daughter." 02:01 But he said, "I'll do anything I can do." 02:03 He built him a new home, 02:06 paid for all of his medical bills. 02:10 So I want you to know today, I don't think it's right 02:15 to put people just in categories 02:18 and say that they-- 02:20 because they belong to a certain category 02:23 that's different to ours, they've got to be wrong 02:27 and they've got to be bad. 02:31 The topic is, The Jew, the Arab and Jerusalem. 02:34 Please take your Bible 02:36 and turn with me to the Book of Isaiah 9:6 02:42 in the Old Testament to the Book 02:46 of Isaiah 9:6, 02:53 Bible says, if you got it. 02:54 It says, "For unto us a Child is born, 02:59 Unto us a Son is given: 03:01 And the government will be upon His shoulder. 03:03 And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, 03:07 Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." 03:12 We're gonna talk about this a little bit more, 03:14 as we go through the program today. 03:19 But if there is any place in the world, 03:21 that needs peace, it's the Middle East. 03:27 I've been there more times than I can remember to Babylon, 03:31 to Israel, and to Iraq, 03:34 and to Syria, Jordan, 03:38 Lebanon, Kuwait and Iran. 03:43 If there's any place 03:45 that needs hope, and help, and peace, 03:51 it's this land, the cradle of civilization. 03:55 Here we have the great land of Iran, 03:58 which is a, an Islamic state. 04:03 And the people there practice form of Islam, 04:06 which is called Shia. 04:11 Down over here, you have the great land 04:14 which is a close ally to the United States of America 04:17 Saudi Arabia. 04:20 And their religion is-- 04:22 No, it's not the opposite, 04:23 it's simply just a different brand 04:25 of the Islamic faith 04:27 it is the religion of the Sunni's. 04:32 And you can Google all of this, look up sometime Wahhabism, 04:37 Wahhabism, 04:39 couple of hundred years ago 04:41 in the hot desert sands of Saudi Arabia, 04:44 there was a so called prophet by the name of Wahhabi. 04:53 And he gave us ISIS. 04:56 It's an extreme fanatical form 05:00 of Islam. 05:03 You can read about it in the book that is called, 05:06 "The Kingdom," chopping of people's heads, 05:12 women being nothing, a sin to laugh. 05:17 Special religious police 05:20 who stand at the doors of the homes of the people. 05:26 No driving a motor cars by women. 05:30 The Saudi government reached an arrangement 05:33 with the Wahhabis, did you know this? 05:36 That the Wahhabis would support the monarchy 05:40 if the monarchy would support their distorted form of Islam. 05:47 And also, 05:50 if the government of Saudi Arabia 05:53 would so support it that they would export it, 05:58 not only support it but export it to the world. 06:04 We know 06:05 today that the Saudi government has spent-- 06:10 You can read this in the Huffington Post 06:13 more than a hundred billion dollars 06:16 on the export of this fanaticism, Wahhabism. 06:23 And these of course are the people 06:26 who have become the enemies of the world 06:29 in ISIS. 06:32 Now these countries here are really what you would call 06:36 theocracies. 06:39 They believe that God is the head of their nation. 06:43 They do not believe as Americans and as Englishmen 06:47 and Australians and New Zealanders, 06:49 and a few other nations believe 06:52 in the separation of church and state. 06:57 Neither do they believe in the First Amendment. 07:01 They don't have those things, and so these are theocracies, 07:06 a little bit like the children of Israel 07:10 in the Old Testament, 07:13 where people are put to death because they break the law 07:17 and they have a law, the Old Testament had the Torah 07:21 and they have Sharia law. 07:25 And then you have the state of Israel, 07:29 just a tiny little place over there, 07:33 and even though it is not a perfect theocracy, 07:37 it's something like a theocracy 07:39 because you do have the combination 07:42 of church and state, 07:46 and you have limited religious liberty. 07:50 For instance, I could not go to the land of Israel 07:54 and hold an evangelistic series. 07:58 And neither can you do it 08:00 in any of the countries of the Middle East, 08:05 and yet, this part of the world 08:07 is in fact the cradle of civilization my friend. 08:12 Come with me in the Bible to Genesis Chapter 2, 08:16 the very cradle of civilization, 08:19 Genesis 2:10 and onwards. 08:25 I want you to notice these verses 08:27 somewhat in a new and different like today. 08:32 "Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, 08:36 and from it parted and became four riverheads. 08:41 The name of the first is Pishon, 08:44 It is the one that encompasses the whole land of Havilah, 08:48 where there is gold--" 08:49 I don't know where that is. 08:52 "And the gold of that land is good, Bdellium, 08:54 and the onyx stone are there. 08:56 The name of the second river is Gihon, 08:59 it is the one which encompass is the whole land of Cush." 09:04 And the land of Cush as you know 09:06 is the southern part of Egypt. 09:08 So it would appear that this is the Nile River 09:13 and then verse 14 says, 09:15 "The name of the third river is Hiddekel, 09:18 it is the one that goes towards the east of Assyria. 09:21 The fourth is the Euphrates." 09:25 And so what we are basically talking about from this text 09:31 is the Middle East, 09:35 it is called, "The Cradle of Civilization." 09:40 It seems is so civilization started 09:45 in this part of the world. 09:47 It was the home of Adam, Abraham, 09:52 Isaac, Ishmael, Daniel, 09:56 the Jews, the Arabs, the Persians, the Iranians, 10:00 Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad. 10:05 These large areas have been conquered 10:07 and ruled by the Assyrians, 10:10 the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, 10:13 the Romans, the Pharaohs, the French, 10:16 and more recently the British. 10:22 The country of Iraq, at least the borders of the country 10:27 was drawn up by Winston Churchill, 10:30 one evening as he was having dinner. 10:33 He did it on a paper napkin 10:37 and hence the problems we have 10:39 in the Middle East today. 10:41 This is the birthplace of civilization. 10:47 What surprises Americans and Australians 10:50 and English people today 10:52 is this that during the Middle Ages, 10:55 the Middle East was the most progressive 10:58 and the most tolerant place in the world. 11:01 Did you know this? 11:03 Greatest doctors Alexandria, 11:06 the greatest scientists and the greatest freedoms 11:11 Christian and Jews 11:14 fled from Roman Catholic Europe 11:18 and found refuge in the Middle East, 11:21 under the Muslims. 11:24 Because the Muslims had far more freedom, 11:29 far more tolerance, and far more prosperity 11:33 than Catholic Europe. 11:36 Today, it is a seething cauldron of strife, 11:39 hatred and fanaticism. 11:41 Whatever happened to the Prince of Peace. 11:45 What about ISIS and Wahhabism? 11:48 Now, I want you to think again of the statement we made 11:53 in one of our earlier meetings if genuine prophecy exists. 11:59 Now this is a profound statement. 12:01 If, if genuine prophecy exists, 12:06 then the main issues of the age are met. 12:11 If there is indeed genuine prophecy, 12:15 then there is evidence that there is God. 12:19 Somebody said, "God died in the 19th century, 12:23 and man died in the 20th century." 12:26 The death of God always leads to the death of man. 12:31 But if genuine prophecy exists, 12:33 then the main issues of the age are met. 12:37 Today we are going to consider a prophecy, 12:40 I ask you to be the judge 12:42 that confounds the skeptic and the unbeliever. 12:46 Firstly, before we get into the prophecy, 12:48 we're going to have a look at the origin of the Jews 12:51 and the Arabs where they came from. 12:52 Would you come over here to Genesis 16:1 to 12? 12:57 Genesis 16:1, to 12, 13:01 "Now Sarai, Abraham's wife that born him no children..." 13:04 That was a disgrace in those days. 13:06 "She had he had an Egyptian maid servant 13:09 whose name was Hagar. 13:11 So Sarah said, Abram, "See now, 13:13 the Lord has restrained me from bearing children. 13:15 Please, go in to my maid, 13:17 perhaps I shall obtain children by her." 13:20 And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai." 13:25 Then Sarai, Abram's wife, 13:27 took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, 13:30 and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife." 13:33 This is when the trouble started. 13:35 "And Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan. 13:39 So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. 13:41 And when she saw that she had conceived, 13:43 her mistress became despised in her eyes. 13:46 Then Sarai said to Abram, "My wrong be upon you! 13:49 I gave my maid into your embrace, 13:51 and when she saw that she had conceived, 13:53 I became despised in her eyes. 13:55 The Lord judge between me and you." 13:58 Now it starts. 13:59 "So Abram said to Sarai, 14:02 "Indeed your maid is in your hand, 14:05 do to her as you please." 14:07 And when Sarai dealt harshly with her, 14:09 she fled from her presence. 14:12 Now the Angel of the Lord found her 14:14 by a spring of water in the wilderness, 14:15 by the spring on the way to Shur. 14:18 And He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, 14:21 where have you come from, and where are you going?" 14:24 And she said, "I am fleeing 14:25 from the presence of my mistress Sarai." 14:29 So the Angel of the Lord said to her, 14:31 "Return to your mistress, 14:32 and submit yourself under her hand." 14:35 Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, 14:37 "I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, 14:40 so that they shall not be counted for multitude." 14:42 And the Angel of the Lord said to her: 14:44 "Behold, you are with child, And you shall bear a son. 14:48 And you shall call his name Ishmael, 14:51 Because the Lord has heard your affliction. 14:53 He shall be a wild man, 14:56 His hand shall be against every man, 14:59 and every man's hand against him. 15:01 And he shall dwell 15:03 in the presence of all his brethren." 15:05 So Ishmael was the son of Abraham, 15:11 the father of the faithful, 15:14 and an Egyptian girl by the name of Hagar 15:19 because Sarai couldn't have children. 15:22 Now look at Genesis 17:15 to 21, 15:26 as we take up the story. 15:27 Genesis 17:15 to 21, "Then God said to Abraham, 15:32 "As for Sarai your wife, 15:34 you shall not call her name Sarai, 15:37 but Sarah shall be her name. 15:39 And I will bless her and also give you a son by her, 15:45 then I will bless her, 15:47 and she shall be a mother of nations, 15:49 kings of peoples shall be from her." 15:52 And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, 15:55 and said in his heart, "Shalla child be born to a man 16:00 who is one hundred years old? 16:03 And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, 16:08 bear a child?" 16:10 ' Somebody said mercy? 16:12 And verse 18... 16:18 I couldn't face it myself. 16:19 "And Abraham said to God, 16:21 "Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!" 16:24 Then God said: "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, 16:28 and you shall call his name Isaac. 16:32 I will establish My covenant with him 16:34 for an everlasting covenant, 16:35 and with his descendants after him. 16:38 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. 16:42 Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, 16:46 and will multiply him exceedingly. 16:49 He shall beget twelve princes, 16:52 and I will make him a great nation." 16:57 And so here is the family feud the warfare 17:01 that started about 4000 years ago. 17:04 Now come to Genesis 13:14 and 15 17:07 and you will see how difficult the situation becomes. 17:11 Genesis 13:14 and 15, "And the Lord said to Abram, 17:16 after Lot had separated from him: 17:18 "Lift your eyes now and look from the place 17:20 where you are, northward, southward, 17:22 eastward, and westward, for all the land which you see 17:26 I give it to you and your descendants forever 17:32 I give it to you and your descendants forever." 17:36 Can you see a problem here? 17:40 Can you see why they are fighting in the Middle East? 17:44 Almighty God says, here are two boys, 17:49 are they the descendants of Abraham. 17:53 Well, God says, "I'm going to give you the Promised Land 17:57 and I'm going to give it to your children." 18:02 So when the Jews read this they say, "It's ours." 18:07 The West Bank is ours. 18:10 We're not going to be conciliatory 18:12 because God gave it to us. 18:16 And the children of Ishmael say, 18:20 "This is our land. 18:22 And we will spill our blood for it." 18:25 I want you to notice on the screen 18:28 this little diagram here you have Abraham, 18:33 who is the father of the family feud. 18:38 He took Hagar and she gave him Ishmael, 18:44 and from Ishmael came the Arabs 18:50 and most of the Arabs not all of them. 18:55 Most of the Arabs are Muslims 18:56 not, not all of them but 90 percent, 18:59 but through the Arabs came the Prophet Mohammed, 19:05 as they say, "Peace be upon him." 19:09 Then on the other side, 19:11 you've got wife number one Sarah, 19:15 and when she's about 90, 19:19 by the grace of God 19:22 and the creative energy of the Holy Spirit, 19:28 she has a baby and she got-- 19:30 No wonder, she was laughing and the baby's name is Isaac, 19:36 and from Isaac comes the Jews 19:39 and from the Jews comes the Messiah, 19:44 Christ the Lord. 19:49 The children of Israel long before Muhammad 19:54 was slaves down in the land of Egypt. 20:00 And went about 1400 B.C. they arrived at Jericho. 20:06 We believe the Exodus took place 20:10 according to 1 Kings Chapter 6 and other passages. 20:14 We believe the Exodus took place in 1450 B.C. 20:20 most likely on March 17 of that year 20:24 but be that as it may, they came up, 20:27 came up out of the land of Egypt, 20:31 they crossed the Red Sea, or the Sea of the Reeds, 20:37 and they came to a town by the name of Jericho, 20:43 and this was the open door or the closed door 20:47 to the land of Palestine 20:51 and what's this derivation Palestine, 20:55 Philistine, 20:58 the Philistines or the Philistines 21:01 gave us the land of Palestine. 21:05 You know this, of course don't you? 21:08 I've been there, to this part of the world 21:11 to Jericho on many, many different occasions. 21:16 I got goose bumps 21:18 when I went there on my last visit 21:20 because I was there to look at the walls. 21:24 The Bible says, "The walls of Jericho fell down." 21:29 And there is overwhelming evidence 21:31 that the walls of Jericho did fall down 21:35 but what gave me 21:37 a tremendous thrill of discovery 21:40 was the discovery of this human skull. 21:46 A human skull that was in the wall at the base, 21:51 right at the base of the wall. 21:55 Something unusual had happened in Jericho, 21:57 they had a storm. 22:00 And as the flood waters had rushed through, 22:02 it had dislodged this human skull. 22:07 I thought was it an Israelite, 22:12 or was it one of the inhabitants of Jericho. 22:16 But one thing is certain my friend, 22:18 there was a Jericho, 22:20 and the walls of Jericho fell down. 22:24 Can I tell you a story? 22:27 There was a headmaster or the principal of the school 22:32 and he was teaching a class, 22:35 but in Australia, until, they may still do it 22:37 but when I went to school in Australia, 22:40 your minister would come and visit you once a week, 22:44 and he would teach a Bible class. 22:46 The Baptist minister would come 22:47 and the Catholic priest would come 22:49 and the Methodist minister, the Adventist minister, 22:52 and one day this little boy was in the class. 22:58 And the minister said to him after telling the story 23:01 of the overthrow of Jericho he said, "Now, our children 23:05 who broke down the walls of Jericho?" 23:09 There was a long silence, 23:12 then one little boy with red hair put up his hand 23:14 and he said, "Please sir, I didn't." 23:23 Well, a man went along so the headmaster 23:25 and he said, "Look, I was teaching Bible class 23:29 in your school today, and I had an excellent class 23:33 and I asked him the question, 23:34 "Who broke down the walls of Jericho?" 23:37 And a little boy put up his hand 23:38 and he said, "Please sir, I didn't." 23:41 The headmaster said, "What did he look like?" 23:44 He said, "He had a shock of red hair." 23:47 Well, said the headmaster, "That's the Jenkins' boy, 23:50 if he said, he didn't do it, then he didn't do it. 23:53 He comes from a most excellent family, 23:55 he didn't do it." 23:58 Anyhow, the headmaster wrote to the Department of Education 24:05 and told them the story 24:07 and in fact, I think it was the minister 24:11 who wrote to the Department of Education, 24:13 told him the story 24:14 and deplored the ignorance of these children. 24:17 And after a year or two, he got back a letter 24:19 from the government that said, 24:20 "Dear sir, I refer to your letter 24:23 concerning the vandalism at Jericho. 24:27 I've contacted the Jenkins' boy and the headmaster 24:30 and I'm satisfied that neither did it. 24:34 The Department of Education cannot accept responsibility 24:37 for this shameful incident. 24:40 However, in view of the unusual circumstances, 24:42 the Department of Education 24:44 is prepared to pay half the costs 24:46 for repairing the damage." 24:53 This part of the world 24:54 is sacred to three great religions 24:58 and we're thinking particularly of the great city of Jerusalem. 25:04 The derivation of the name going back to the Canaanites 25:07 means, "City of Peace," 25:11 it is loved by the Jews, Christians, and the Muslims. 25:20 They believe it is a sacred place 25:25 in the mind and the plan of God. 25:29 It is a city of prophecy. 25:33 It is a city 25:34 to which came a Jew 2000 years ago, 25:41 who was destined to change the history 25:44 and of course of the world. 25:48 That will be in our next program 25:51 when we talk about The Cursed Prophecy. 25:56 When we talk about the Jew, the Arab and Jerusalem. 26:13 Hello, friend. 26:14 I'm John Carter, in Havana, Cuba. 26:18 I'm standing here in Revolutionary Square. 26:22 This great square is dedicated 26:24 to the great communist revolution under Fidel 26:27 that came to this country back 50, 60 years ago. 26:32 This place is still undergoing a revolution. 26:36 We've come to check out the reality of the situation. 26:40 Freedom of Speech is not allowed here still. 26:44 Preaching the gospel out of doors 26:46 is not allowed here, 26:48 still whatever you hear about reconciliation, 26:51 nothing has really changed. 26:54 We've been told, we cannot run public campaigns in Cuba 27:00 in any part of this world. 27:03 We can run meetings in churches, 27:05 that's allowed. 27:07 So what are we going to do? 27:08 We're going to support the people of God 27:10 in this part of the world. 27:11 We're going to step through those doors 27:13 as God opens those doors. 27:16 We're not going to come and cause a commotion 27:21 and cause trouble to the people of God. 27:24 We will work diligently and as wise as serpents 27:30 and as harmless as doves. 27:32 Stand with us in the preaching of the gospel, 27:35 where ever it is, stand with us. 27:38 Write to me, P.O. 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