Happy Sunday everyone!
We’re back with another Gospel Message on this fine Sunday afternoon and back with us again this week is our good friend Pastor Robb Goodman.
From Pastor Robb:
Today message Is about the Life of King Josiah.
In today’s message we will discuss about the life and relatives of king Josiah’s family.
King Josiah was a very righteous king, and the Lord used him greatly to clean up the idolatry and evil that had taken place in Judah.
His grandfather. Manasseh was a very wicked and evil king.
Even his father Amon was also just as evil and wicked.
ADVERTISEMENTWe will look at the parallels in the lives of these 3 particular kings.
It is amazing how king Josiah was used by God to clean up the land of Judah and Jerusalem.
He did many great and mighty things and did not walk in the ways of his grandfather or his father.
My prayer is that you will be blessed by listening to today’s message.
And that the lord himself would speak to your heart in a powerful way.
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Great teaching and great history we can and should learn from!
The Bible is not just a history book, but it does record a lot of history and we should learn from the mistakes made by the Evil Kings and not repeat them.
Speaking of Israel and its history with JUST and UNJUST Kings, I thought it might be a good time to review this below…
And a question to ponder in your head as you do….
How will Benjamin Netanyahu be remembered in history?
Will he be on the Righteous Kings list or the Evil Kings?
And who ordered that 7-hour stand-down on October 7, 2023 anyway?
Hmmmmm.
Keep reading for a deep dive courtesy of Dr. Michael Heiser:
Why Is God So Focused On Israel? Let Me Explain...
I just saw a question from a reader that I thought was so good that I wanted to answer it here for everyone...
Because it's something I've covered before and it is VITALLY important right now as seemingly End-Times events play out on the world stage.
The question is this: "Why is a God who created trillions of galaxies so focused on this one tiny spec of land here on Earth in the Middle East?"
It's a great question.
Let's set aside for a second whether there are trillions of galaxies or if space is "fake".
And let's rephrase the question a bit to say: "Why is an infinitely powerful God who created everything so focused on one small space of land that is somehow special?"
We can even rephrase it one additional way by instead of focusing on the land focusing on the people.
Same question just asked a little differently: "Why and how is an all powerful God who created all people seemingly taking sides with one group of people and one Country? Why does the Old Testament even command Moses and Caleb and Joshua and David to go in and kill everyone, even the women, children and animals?"
Seems a bit harsh, right?
There are very clear and rational answers to all those questions.
As to the last one, you need to read this article, which explains the Genesis 6:4 connection to the coming End-Times Great Deception:
And as to the other questions, you need to understand the THREE reasons our world is fallen.
Most know about the Snake in the Garden, but I bet you don't know the other two.
And when you understand the other two, then suddenly all of those questions above make perfect sense and your Bible will suddenly start to come alive.
Suddenly, the Old Testament will go from being confusing and weird, to the dots starting to connect all over the place.
I went into great detail in a prior post which I will now give to you here....please enjoy:
Why Israel? It's All About Cosmic Geography!
For the past few weeks, I've been on a strange YouTube kick of watching old Dr. Michael Heiser videos.
You know how once you watch one video on something, then YouTube recommends all of those same videos to you for the next two weeks?
And it's not "strange" because it's strange content, quite the contrary.
Heiser is one of the people who I could listen to for hours on end and be endlessly fascinated.
I hated school, but oddly I can learn from someone like Dr. Heiser for hours without interruption and take it in like a sponge.
So that's not the strange part.
The strange part is I have so much going on right now (running this website, for one) and I don't have enough time to get to everything, but I still found myself spending time listening to videos from Dr. Heiser.
But after the war has broken out in Israel, it now makes perfect sense.
Because I have a platform here that over 5 million people each month tune in to.
I don't take that responsibility lightly.
I try to do this job with excellence and with integrity, and a big part of that means simply publishing the truth!
That means not censoring stories the way the MSM does...
It means honestly researching and honestly reporting each story, even if it doesn't fit "my" narrative...
And it also means being able to decipher competing stories to FIND the truth in a sea of lies.
It's that last part that suddenly makes Dr. Heiser so relevant and now I see what I was irrationally captivated by those videos for the last two weeks -- it was so I would be prepared to navigate this propaganda war we find ourselves in and report to you the Biblical truth of what is going on here so we don't just blindly substitute SUPPORT ISRAEL in place of SUPPORT UKRAINE!
I know that last line may make many of you nervous, and so let me say clearly two things: (1) I absolutely support Israel. That's not up for negotiation. But (2) I am not Israel's keeper and neither are you and neither is America. YHWH is. Israel is Yahweh's portion. He, himself, defends Israel and he neither slumbers nor sleeps.
So I want to get that clear right out of the gate.
Now what I want to do next is introduce you to this idea of "Cosmic Geography".
This is the Bible your pastor probably never taught you on Sunday morning, but it's very real.
Dr. Heiser was famous for saying "I've never had an original thought in my life" meaning that all of his work is thoroughly sourced and credentialed by other scholars and by history.
That's important.
I'm not interested in following someone who has created something "new" in Christianity, that's very dangerous, but I am interested in learning from someone who says "this is what the Church taught for centuries until modern churches stopped teaching it."
Now you've got my attention.
Heiser's basic premise is if you ask a modern Christian "why is the world so messed up" they'd give you the normal answer: because sin entered the world through Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden.
But if you asked an ancient Israelite, they'd say there are three reasons!
Yes, you have the Garden of Eden event, thats #1.
But second, you have the Genesis 6:4 event where the Fallen Angels leave the spiritual realm, come to Earth, mate with women, and create the Nephilim, and it's these Nephilim that become the Giant Clans through most of the Old Testament.
Look it up, it's all in there.
The third event is the splitting up of Nations, which comes right after the Tower of Babel.
The Garden of Eden is taught in church a lot.
Genesis 6:4 is almost never taught in church, but we talk about it here.
But this third event is very rarely talked about.
Because it confuses pastors so they just skip over it.
It's Deuteronomy 32:8 which reads:
8 When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations,
When He separated the sons of Adam,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the [c]children of Israel.
9 For the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the place of His inheritance.
Translation: that says God divided up the people of the world into Nations according to the "Sons of God" (i.e. the Principalities that Paul so often talks about in the New Testament).
These are real beings, and they were members of the Divine Council.
More on that in a moment.
Not co-equal gods, but certainly members of God's council (something else almost never taught in church).
If you look at the footnote of the quoted text above, some translations translate it "children of Israel" because they are not comfortable with "Sons of God", it creeps them out.
But look at the footnote Bible Gateway gives you on what the true language is:
Angels of God, or Sons of God.
The "DSS" refers to the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were only recently uncovered and which are widely believed by scholars to be one of the oldest and thus most reliable translations available.
That is the correct translation.
Then read verse 9: "But Israel is the LORD's portion".
In other words, let me sum it all up for you: God is angry with what people have done at Babel. They have not disbursed and spread out on the Earth the way he instructed them, so he divides them up into Nations and he assigns each a ruler -- an Angel or a Son of God.
But God keeps Israel for himself so that in the event all other Nations become corrupt (and they do), he can still fulfill his original plan that he had in the Garden of Eden through Israel.
I hope you're tracking with me, because you're going to see the News in an entirely new light when you understand this.
It's Ephesians 6:12: "12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
I know you've all read that verse many times, but does it make a lot more sense now?
Each Nation does indeed has a ruler over it, a "Principality".
It's Daniel 1013: "But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days; but lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, and I remained there with the kings of Persia."
I'm telling you, this stuff is all over your Bible, and once you start to see it and connect the dots, things come alive!
One more quote to pull it all home for you....
Psalm 82:
Psalm 82
A Plea for Justice
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 God has taken his place in the divine council;
in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
2 “How long will you judge unjustly
and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
3 Give justice to the weak and the orphan;
maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute.
4 Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”5 They have neither knowledge nor understanding;
they walk around in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.6 I say, “You are gods,
children of the Most High, all of you;
7 nevertheless, you shall die like mortals
and fall like any prince.”[a]8 Rise up, O God, judge the earth,
for all the nations belong to you!
If anything I have said so far makes you nervous, understand this is ALL in your Bible.
Have you ever read Psalm 82?
It connects with everything I just told you.
YHWH takes his place in the Divine Council, in the midst of the gods he holds judgment!
Don't be made at me, I didn't write that....Jesus did! It's in your Bible!
So does that mean we have multiple gods?
No.
But we do have multiple "Sons of God" that YHWH put on his Divine Council.
And you can't read that to just be the Trinity because in the remainder of the Psalm, these other "gods" (Elohim, simply meaning spiritual beings created by God living in the spiritual realm) they all turn evil and go bad.
Psalm 82 is recounting what happens after Deuteronomy 32.
God assigned the Nations of the world each to one of his members of his Divine Council.
He trusted them to rule fairly and justly but they all turn corrupt.
Sound familiar?
So they face judgment and God/YWHW carries out his original plan through HIS PORTION, which is Israel.
That's my effort to introduce this concept to you and for you to get a better understanding of what is happening with Israel right now on the world stage.
But of course Dr. Michael Heiser does it better than I ever could.
So for the visual learners out there, I have some videos for you.
The first is Dr. Heiser talking about this in a Q&A format:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiX4F_1gBuQ
If you loved that and want to go deeper, or if you'd prefer more of a teaching format over Q&A, I'll give you the absolute best.
This is Dr. Heiser's 4 Part Supernatual Seminar.
It covers everything I just told you but in much more detail and in the way only Dr. Heiser could do it.
Please enjoy -- and if any of this is resonating with your spirit, please share this article to people, friends, family members, or even pastors, that might need to see it.
Part 1 YouTube:
Part 2 YouTube:
Part 3 YouTube:
Part 4 YouTube:
Part 1 Rumble:
Part 2 Rumble:
Part 3 Rumble:
Part 4 Rumble:
After watching those videos (when you have time) keep reading as I unpack things further...
Here's more of what I wrote earlier today on this topic, pointing you through a sea of lies to where the Biblical truth is found:
The USA Does Not Keep Israel, YHWH Does!
Time for a little heart check....
And a little Biblical teaching.
I want to clear up a couple things because I think right now we are fighting so much devious propaganda that it's hard to know which was is up.
Anyone else feel like that?
They've boxed us into a corner, and that's why I say this is the most sinister FF propaganda attack I have ever witnessed.
But it's pretty simple to understand when you pause and lay it out.
Very simply, Ukraine is a massive money laundering operation.
We've covered that before.
That has now fallen apart.
First, the FTX part blew up.
Then, in recent weeks, public support for the continued funding of Ukraine has FINALLY dried up.
Fallen off a cliff, if you look at the statistics, and that's for Conservatives and Liberals.
People are done with it.
So the "People Who Run The World" (as Roseanne calls them) needed a new way to feed their War Machine.
Because after all, the War Machine is where all the money comes from.
So they just made one simple switch:
Pictures always explain things better than words ever could, don't they?
I actually have to applaud the genius of it.
What is the ONE country that Americans, and especially CONSERVATIVE Americans, will always support?
Israel.
So you swap out Ukraine for Israel and all of a sudden you get nonsense like this:
I have been very vocal the last few days about pointing this out and saying what I believe is the very natural, Constitutional and common sense statement: "NO MORE FUNDING TO ANY COUNTRY OTHER THAN THE USA!"
Do you know how much money we've spent to help Maui?
$700 per household.
And yet Billions upon Billions went to Ukraine and now soon will be going to Israel.
But in speaking out against using American tax dollars to fund the world, some think I am anti-Israel and that's where I need to do some clarification and some Biblical teaching.
Why do I have a flaming fire at the top of this article?
Because I need to introduce you to someone named YHWH: "For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God” (Deuteronomy 4:23-24).
And do you know what the Bible says about Israel?
It says a lot.
But it makes one thing very clear....
It never says the United States of America is to keep Israel safe, to be it's protector.
Sorry folks, not in the Bible.
No, it's much better than that!
Much more powerful!
Read Deuteronomy 32:9 -- "Israel is the LORD's portion..."
He divided up all the nations and gave them to the Sons of God, but Israel he kept for himself.
Biblical scholars call it "Cosmic Geography".
Read Psalm 121:
Psalm 121
A song of ascents.
1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.3 He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;
4 indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.5 The Lord watches over you—
the Lord is your shade at your right hand;
6 the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.7 The Lord will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;
8 the Lord will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.
It is the LORD who keeps Israel and watches over Israel, and he isn't slumbering or sleeping.
He's still on the throne, and spoiler alert, he doesn't need a bunch of corrupt War-Mongering politicians from America to help him out!
So let's be very clear....
I support and honor Israel.
But I am not Israel's defender, and neither is America.
That cheapens the role the Bible assigns to YHWH and I'm not all that interesting in trying to usurp his role.
It's why I wrote this earlier this morning:
Time to clear something up.
Do I support Israel? Absolutely!
Always have, always will.
But understand you are currently in the midst of the most devious FF propaganda event I have ever witnessed.
Ukraine support finally waned after 2 years. But many in America will support…
— DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) October 10, 2023
Time to clear something up.
Do I support Israel? Absolutely!
Always have, always will.
But understand you are currently in the midst of the most devious FF propaganda event I have ever witnessed.
Ukraine support finally waned after 2 years. But many in America will support Israel forever, until we are broke and desolute.
I bless Israel, I would never curse Israel. But understand the USA does not "keep" Israel. The Bible says GOD keeps Israel, and he neither slumbers nor sleeps. Read Psalm 121:4.
The USA is not Israel's keeper.
Israel belongs to YHWH. Read Deuteronomy 32:9-19. Israel is the LORD's portion.
USA does not guard Israel, The Most High does.
This is the most insidious propaganda I've ever had to navigate through, and whenever you find yourself in that position the absolute BEST thing you can do is find your north star center of truth.
And where do you find that?
In the Bible.
So that's what I've done here and I hope this helps you.
We can honor and support Israel while at the same time staying out of a brand new war and keeping American taxpayer dollars HOME and helping Americans!
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