Focus on Israel

Laurie Cardoza-Moore: I'm Laurie Cardoza-Moore, and this is Focus on Israel.

Laurie Cardoza-Moore: Hello, and thank you for joining me today on Focus on Israel. My name is Laurie Cardoza-Moore, a wife and proud mother of five wonderful children. Like most Americans, I began to ask a lot of questions about what happened to our country following 9/11.

As I read and talked to experts, the issues of radical Islam and the attacks on America and Israel became extremely personal to me. In response, I founded Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and sharing the message of Christian biblical responsibility to the people and land of Israel against the rise of a new anti-Semitism.

In this series, Focus on Israel, I want to share with you what I've learned through my research and meetings with experts in their respective fields. The mission of this series and PJTN is to educate and equip you so that you can share this information with your family and friends. We'll present information you'll not see in the mainstream media.

With your financial support, we can reach Christians around the world with our message to stand against the growing threat of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel propaganda. After studying the scriptures, I realized that God had not forsaken his covenant with his people Israel. Unfortunately, there is a growing trend in Christianity to spread an age-old false doctrine and tradition called Replacement Theology.

This heretical doctrine suggests that because the Jews denied Christ, the covenant promises given to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants now belong to the church. That is why during the Holocaust, many Christians turned a blind eye to the Nazi death camps. Many felt justified in their passive and active involvement because they believed the Jews were the Christ killers.

For this reason, we must learn and spread the truth. It is so very important that at this critical time in history, we must turn our focus on Israel. Now, if you've missed any of our past programs, you still have a chance to review our most recent ones on the PJTN website. I also highly recommend that you purchase the DVDs of our past programs as most are no longer in the online archive.

Every lesson covers a specific topic, and each contains a wealth of information. Plus, each features interviews with numerous experts, including theologians, rabbis, pastors, political leaders, historians, and prominent archaeologists, many of them from Israel. Each program makes a great group study source to share with your family, friends, home group, or church.

So, please consider how you can help us make a difference and spread the word. Today we'll be focusing on another area of major controversy, the spiritual warfare that is fought in the heavenlies over Israel and the Jewish people. We often look at what goes on in the physical world and forget what we are told in Ephesians, that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of the dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

The anti-Semitism we see in history and today in the physical world is actually manifested in the spiritual world. Pastor, songwriter, and worship leader Stephen Bliss was given a heart for Israel many years ago, and now he gives us some inspired insight into this dark and unseen world.

Stephen Bliss: The other day I had seen a movie that was from a propaganda film, from the Nazis. And as I watched it, I was just I was really overwhelmed at how sickening it was. It was just amazing how this this convulsion of insanity came out of these people for the purpose of control.

And as we were having this conversation, it it inspired me to remember something that I had been going through for the last year and a half. And that was the revelation and the realization that even though we live in this horizontal horizontal plane between men and anti-Semitism and in the whole concept of anti-Semitism is basically an idea that is men against men doing wicked things for the purpose of accomplishing darkness or hatred or violence, we're not getting the big picture.

The big picture is far more dramatic, far more important to understand than just what is taking place in the natural. And that is the dynamic that this is an ancient war. This is a war that's been taking place for way beyond our our comprehension of time. It's actually been taking place from before what we know as the universe, what we can look through telescopes and in microscopes and the concept of understanding this which is physical and tangible, long before this came into existence.

There was a there was a falling out. There was a massive rebellion that took place in in the kingdom of heaven. And that was when Lucifer himself, who was the greatest of God's creations, who covered the throne of God. He was this unbelievable. I can't even imagine the beauty of who he was, because God calls him one of his greatest creations. He was a musical instrument. He led worship. He inspired the worship of God, and he covered the throne of God.

I can't imagine what this this creature looked like and who he was. And yet he became envious and he became jealous towards God, and he wanted, he wanted what was God's and God's alone. And when he rebelled, when he fell, he created a dynamic that would ripple throughout not just the heavenlies, but it would ripple throughout time.

And God meted out a judgment. God determined a judgment there as the scripture says that Yeshua was crucified before the foundations of the world. Before the whole dynamic of what we understand as creation existed, it was already done. It was already taken care of. It was already acted out. The gavel had already been brought down.

And Lucifer knew his end. He understood it. And of course, he led a massive rebellion. A third of the host of heaven went with him and entered into this this rebellion with him. And God created man in his image. Cause Lucifer at the time would have been God's greatest creation. He would have been the most magnificent, the most beautiful, the most awe-inspiring. This he was just something that nobody had any idea of we can't even conceive of such beauty.

And yet God did something even greater, and it was going to be through his greatest creation, and he was going to bring the final destruction of Lucifer. And God created man in his own image. He created this being that was the only thing in all of creation that was in the image of God. And it's interesting about man and from a scientific perspective, he has one molecule in his genome, in his in his DNA, that is different and it's uniquely to him and nothing else in all of creation that that anybody has ever found has has.

And that is called HAR-1. It is one molecule, and it's unique. And it separates him from everything else, and I personally believe that is a piece of who God is and that's what makes him in the image of who God is. So, in the concept of anti-Semitism and in the idea of of this thing that we see taking place, it's been the same dynamic that's been going on since the beginning, since the garden.

Because Lucifer knew, he had an understanding of what he had done. He understood what he had done. He had the full understanding of what God's judgment was against him, and that judgment was a permanent judgment. It wasn't a judgment that was going to fail. It was going to come to pass. And when he when he saw Adam and Eve in the garden, he he understood who they were.

They were a type of a deliverer. They were a because it was through them that he was going to bring the end of Lucifer. He was going to bring the destruction of Lucifer through them. And so, Lucifer in his devious and twisted brilliance, understood that if he could get them to fall in the same way that he did, if he could get them to enter into his rebellion, God would wipe them out.

He would finish them, and there would they would there would be no continuation. But when they fell, and which was an agenda of hell, it was a it was a dark, dark deed. When he got them to enter into that rebellion, at that point, he assumed that it would be over, yet God had another story. God had another way. God was going to show mercy. He was going to show grace. He was going to show forgiveness, and he was going to bring his son regardless.

And so, the story is a story of a series of deliverers that would come through time. And so, the next attempt was to destroy through Cain and Abel. He inspired, Lucifer inspired Cain to kill Abel, which was the seed. Cause he's always trying to kill the seed, the DNA. He was trying to prevent that DNA from transferring all the way down to where the ultimate would take place, which would be the coming of Yeshua.

So, throughout time, he every time a deliverer would come, he would try to completely destroy that seed. And and of course, we're talking about a war that's been going on since since way beyond anything that we can conceive of. And it's for the purpose of the destruction of man or the seed that would bring the ultimate deliverer, which is Yeshua.

So, when you get to the end of the book of Genesis, you're you have the story of God telling Moses his own story. Moses, you're a deliverer. And the same dynamic that took place in the garden and took place with Cain and Abel and actually took place in a grand scale with Noah, is same thing that took place when darkness inspired the mind of Pharaoh through the idea that the deliverer had been born amongst the Hebrews, is to kill all the seed bearers, right?

So, that's exactly what he did. And then story goes forward all the way, although there are other ones along the way. The story goes all the way forward to Yeshua's birth, and it's the exact same story that gets played out. So, there's this constant inspiration, this convulsing of darkness, you know, the dark ones, the fallen ones come, and they inspire the mind to get rid of the that which is the potential for deliverance, which not is not just deliverance for man, but it is the demise of Lucifer.

The story in its grand scale is not just the the the salvation of man, you know, through Yeshua's work on the cross, but it's actually the finish of Lucifer once and for all, because Lucifer is the inspiration for all of this. And so, when Yeshua comes, the same dynamic takes place that happens with Moses.

He inspires Herod. Herod goes and kills all the male children in Bethlehem. It's the exact same story. It's a spiritual war. This is an ancient war. It's a war that's a war in the heavenlies. It's not a war that's done it it's it looks like it's happening in a horizontal state, and there's dynamics that are definitely real. We don't want to deny that.

But we're talking about an inspiration that comes from the the ones who were fallen. You know, the principalities and the powers and the ones that Paul talks about who dwell in heavenly places. And they they use the demonic world, and they inspire human beings to enter into their rebellion and their darkness and their wickedness. So, there comes one last one, and that is it comes through the prophetic words that Yeshua himself says.

When he talks about the fig tree coming into existence and the ones who see the fig tree coming back to life, because in Mark, you have the story where he curses the fig tree, and all the apostles they see the they see the fig tree one day, and then they come back the next day and he curses it because it wasn't bearing any fruit, and it's a it's a metaphor. It's a picture.

And and that tree dries up, and it dies. And yet he says, when you see the fig tree come back and it it blossoms, he's speaking to something that was going to take place, and he was talking about Israel coming into existence, and the and the rebirth of Abraham as a nation in the earth. So, when Abraham is reborn in the earth after thousands and thousands of years of not being a nation, because even when Yeshua was here, Israel was not a nation.

It was not the nation of Israel. Rome was in control. It was known as Palestine. And that at that time it was it was completely disconnected from Israel as a nation and had been for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years at that point. Lucifer knew that prophecy, and also that Jerusalem coming out of the hands of Gentiles. Those those words were so strong that when the when the possibility of this even taking place of of the time coming when Israel could become a nation, Lucifer knew it.

And he inspired not just Hitler, but he inspired he's inspired many throughout time to conspire together for the purpose of the destruction of the Jews. That's what he wanted. He was trying to kill the seed. It's again the deliverer. Because the birth, the rebirth of Abraham in the earth and the birth of the nation of Israel and the restoration of the language and the and the and the Dead Sea Scrolls is the confirmation of the word being intact and all those things.

Those things were those things meant the end. They meant the demise of Lucifer. His time was short at that point once the nation came into existence. Darkness isn't didn't just use people like Hitler and and uh Stalin and Lenin. It had been planted in a seed in a book in 700 AD by Muhammad for the purpose of wiping out the seed, just like God had said that Ishmael would be a this this consternation against brother against brother dynamic long back during the times of Abraham.

I mean, so you've got something that was as ancient as that had was also percolating underneath the surface. It hadn't come to the surface yet. So, when one thing failed, boom, the next one takes off. And you you see Hitler with the grand fufti, you know, you you see this dynamic taking place, but nobody really understands what all that means in his fullness until after World War II.

And all of a sudden you have the rise of the PLO, you have Yasser Arafat in the fifties. You know, suddenly what were that fails, now you got another dynamic, and here comes the whole dynamic of Islam, the Quran, the calling for the destruction of the Jews again. And when Israel became a nation in in 1948. We think of everything from a horizontal perspective, but there's a vertical dynamic taking place.

There's something that's overarching. There's something that's taking place in the heavenlies that is sinister and dramatic, and it's inspiring all this. It's using the demonic world to influence and inspire minds that are are given over and aren't given to God. And and it's inspiring them for the purposes of destruction, and trying to destroy the the potential of that which would bring Yeshua back.

Laurie Cardoza-Moore: When you look closely at the spiritual warfare over the land, there are two places there that the enemy wants to destroy more than any place on earth. That is Jerusalem and Judea Samaria. Tommy Waller is the founder and executive director of HaYovel, the only international humanitarian organization supporting farming and archaeological programs in Judea and Samaria.

Each year, HaYovel brings a growing number of volunteers to the biblical heartland to serve local farmers. The New York Times has declared the work of Tommy Waller and HaYovel to be effectively obstructing the creation of the Palestinian State. And I say amen, Mr. Waller. His many experiences there have shown him where the battlefield lies and what we must do to win.

Tommy Waller: Here's the the struggle. The the enemy knows the the the focus. Look at the enemy. See what the enemy is focusing on and you'll see where where the battle needs to needs to occur. This is where this is why I'm talking about intercessors coming on really interceding for the nation of Israel because the Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria is the focus of the UN.

It's the focus of our administration. It's the focus of of the the the quartet. Nobody's talking about Haifa. Nobody's talking about Tel Aviv. Nobody's talking about the the the cities outside of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. And those those places are specific places because I believe Yeshua also knew that those places were the the places where the covenant was actually spoken.

Those are those are special places. When when Abraham came from his father's house, he came to Alon Moreh, which is Shechem, which is today modern day Nablus. It's a place where Joseph is buried. It's the place right beside Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, Mount of Blessing, Mount of Cursing. All of these mountains are right next to each other.

So, these all of these places are very special places, and all of that land, all of that land, it's the hotspots. If you look at Israel, it's there those are the hotspots. All of those places have mosque on them. What is what is Islam trying to do? It's trying to cover up the reality as if to say that they can stop the process from happening, the restoration.

The enemy is focused on on not establishing the land. What should we be focused on? We need to be focused on the the establishment of the land and be praying fervently in that. Our our our Bible studies, our our congregations need to have intercessors praying night and day for this this thing to happen. There's no other generation that's seen this.

He says in verse 8, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be a witness to me in Jerusalem, Judea, and all of Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth, of the uttermost parts of the earth. So, this is a this is a key for us to understand. Do we do we mark this out? Does it just do we just take it out of the Bible?

Is it or does it say what it says? And it's not the opposite. It's it starts there. Our gospel, our understanding of the scripture starts in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. And then it goes to the other. It's not it's not from Nashville to there, it's from there out. That's that's and that's why we have the understanding. That's why we're mixed up.

Because the gospel can't come not not legitimately. The understanding of the understanding of the scripture, the understanding of the restoration of this place. This is what the focus was is and it's all an answer to the question in verse 6, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? He's still answering the same question.

So, the so if he's still answering the same question, then this is another big thing is, what is the purpose of the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is given to you and to me to establish the kingdom. To be about the Father's business, to to work towards to empower us, to give us the ability. We can't do it in our own flesh. I mean, it was impossible for us to go in and make all this stuff happen.

But if the if the if this is true, he's still answering the question, will will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? And then in verse 8, he says, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes. He's telling the disciples, don't give up. I'm going to give you the power to accomplish this great feat. And they and they did receive part of that at the at Pentecost.

You're going to receive this power. That's the kind of power we need today. Today, in order to to firmly establish those mountains, we're going to have to go in with power. The Holy Spirit needs to needs to be a part of what we're doing. If we can carry that, if we can carry the manifestations of the this this empowerment of the Holy Spirit into the mountains of Israel, we can take the land again.

Let's see the Holy Spirit work in the midst of a people to establish the land again so that the nations would see that this place is that God has made his name establishing his name in this place. That's a it's a huge thing. It's it's bigger than than any of us can comprehend really. Or or we're coming towards Hanukkah, the season of Hanukkah.

Most Christians probably don't know a whole lot about Hanukkah, but Hanukkah is a very amazing time because you have this this anti-Messiah, Antiochus or Antichus, however you want to say his name, uh has a is opposed, is coming against this this uh this this rise. What's happening is is that here's 150 years before the Messiah is born, who we believe the Messiah is.

Uh is he is born in Bethlehem. What is the enemy trying to do? So, 150 years, Hanukkah is is a story about the the enemy trying to stop this Messianic process, the the establishment of this kingdom. And then this kingdom means that his time is done. The enemy's time is over. Once his kingdom is established, and the enemy is put down forever and and always, it's over.

So, he has to be in opposition to this. So, here 150 years before the Messiah comes in the world, the enemy tries to annihilate all the Jewish people. And if he annihilates all the Jewish people, it's the same idea that Herod had when he tried to annihilate all the babies. He tried to kill the he the enemy wants to stop the the the the Messianic seed.

If he can kill it or kill all the Jews, then he then it's is done. It's over. And so, that's what we have. We have all the we have all that picture in the in the story of Hanukkah. It's amazing story. And then we we see that it it it brought up again in the Inquisitions and the and the pogroms and the crusades. All this these attitudes of wanting to wipe out the Jewish race.

Why? And we see it majorly in the Holocaust. And this is in the amazing thing and this the strange things thing about the Holocaust is this is a this is not a third world country. This is a country that could be considered one of the most intellectual countries in the world at the time. And yet they were able to do something so horrible. That's that's demonic. That's

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