Pastor Israel Pochtar

0:01 For the last 10 months, I've taken the time to give an update about Israel and the hostages and everything. I think today, uh, for the, for the sake of time, uh, for, for a couple other reasons. Today, I just want to remind you that the remain in captivity more than a hundred, uh, hostages, um, both alive and dead, and they have been in captivity for more than 300 days. Some of them are Americans. So you should be pressuring your representatives to pressure the government to stand

0:47 for the release of the hostages. And I, I think, uh, well, let me, let me just say one, let me say one take one more minute and, and say one more thing. Last Shabbat, after we, uh, dismissed for the day, um, after our services closed, I don't know if you've been paying attention to the news, but there was a rocket that came and hit Northern Israel and hit a Drews village. And 12 Drew's children were murdered. Unfortunately, I actually haven't heard a world outcry against Hezbollah, who's in the north firing indiscriminately at every potential target

1:35 that is in the north of Israel. I do hear outcry when Israel con conducts surgical strikes and takes out military commanders, um, from the world. Unfortunately, the world, well, Yeshua told us the world is, is against him. So the world doesn't care about the things that we care about. So I would like to invite Pastor Israel Paktar from Israel, uh, to, To come. He, uh, he contacted me on a Thursday. And actually, in light of everything that was going on this week with Dave, I was more than happy

2:22 to, uh, to, to invite Israel to come speak today. Um, so Israel is, is from Israel from Ash Ode and, and leads a congregation there, um, actually leads lots of different works that are going on that we've been, and all of us have been supporting. And if you've come to our membership meeting, our, our, what is it called, A business meeting, maybe I can't, with the missions report, then you've heard it. If you haven't, then you probably haven't. Um, and so Israel today will give us a, a little update and also share with us, uh, from the word a sha may our father in heaven. Lord, I thank you for Israel. Lord, I thank you for his ministry, Lord, and, and, and, uh, what they're doing in the land of Israel.

3:09 Lord, I just ask that you would continue to strengthen them to, uh, embolden them. Lord, I pray that you would continue to make a way for your message to be proclaimed for the message of Yeshua or Messiah to be proclaimed and your name to be glorified and exalted in Yeshua's. Name a man. Ah, man. My, now you can tell me. I I, my mom recently told me you guys were undergoing some more persecution and, and the yeah. The religious, were not letting you into your building. Maybe you can include that Mm-Hmm. With, uh, with your update. Sure. Shabbat shalom. So good to be back. Great to see all of you. And you have greetings and blessings and shalom from be Halal congregation in t Uh,

3:57 so anytime you are in Israel, you're welcome to visit us. Uh, we have congregations in T Lon and many other cities. Uh, we live in a very interesting time. And thank you for reminding me about building update, 'cause you've been praying for us for years and standing with us and Baru Hashem will always been such a blessing, uh, you know, for Martin to Ari Generations. Uh, thank you very much. Uh, you're really big blessing for us. And I know your donations are making impact, and, but your prayers really make a big, big difference. And we see it, we feel it. So it's wonderful. And now I want to tell you, uh, back home, I speak, uh, daily, three languages. And English is my third one. So if I go too fast, you know, grammar mistakes, uh, accent,

4:43 just say Hallelu and I will slow down. Okay? Anyway, uh, yeah. So we are in city of, and you know, Israel is very, uh, diverse, uh, you know, country, many diff different cities. Uh, uh, there are some just Arab cities, some just Jewish cities and some mixed, like Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Haifa, Jews and Arabs, Muslims, Christians and Jewish people live together. Jewish people would be majority, but still live together in those cities. You have mosques, uh, churches, historical churches and synagogues. Uh, city of Ardo, it's Jewish only city. So we don't have international community. Uh, so we have a city of quarter million people, and it's growing. So we have, we have, uh, four, uh, 400 synagogues,

5:33 uh, growing number of yeshivas. I even lost the account. Uh, and we are big and strong and known, uh, very evangelistic for sharing the good news of, you know, of Yeshua, uh, and big congregation in the city. So our building probably the same size as biggest synagogue in the city. Uh, so that's why we have lots, lots of, uh, confrontations. And we've been known for long years of confrontation. And right now there is a new attack on our building. Uh, the claim is you can use it for social work, humanitarian work, and we do lots of it, but we cannot pray there. And, uh, so we work with lawyers and all of that. But please pray for us. Pray for us. 'cause we have our own building, which is big miracle for Israel.

6:19 Very few congregations in the land that has their own building. And it's a big building. So praise God, God is moving and, uh, doing wonderful things. And I'm going to share with you testimonies and word of God and testimonies. And I feel like I have a few hours to just, just to download all the, all the news. But, uh, holy Spirit help us to be short, but also to be full of the Holy Spirit. Lord, I pray for your presence. Even during the worship, I felt and experienced your presence, your touch. I cry with the words of the worship Lord, with my Israeli Jewish brothers and sisters, and Baruch Hashem. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord, that we are one in, in, in Messiah. We are one in you Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you, Yeshua. Amen. Baruch Hashem. I love it.

7:06 I love the name of your congregations. Wonderful. You know, there's funny story when you send us, uh, Marty sent us very first check, uh, and we were young congregation just started, and it was about 20 years ago when a clerk in the bank needed to write down with a pencil, the name of the, uh, on the check, right? Just rewrite it. Today's computers. But it used to be writing. So this Jewish lady, Israeli lady writing it, bar Hashem. And she goes, like, your friends have funny names, guys, you know, say, yes, it's a Jewish congregation, you know? Yeah. Because next one was Jesus Christ, salt and light of the nations, you know? So every check was a message to local community, you know?

7:53 Anyway, God is good, uh, and God is, God is moving in Israel, and I know you are following the news. You know what happening. So I dunno to tell you news, but just testimonies, beautiful testimonies. And I can tell you for sure God is moving. And when October 7th happened, it changed. Our lives changed. Israel, changed history of humanity. It, it is another shift. It's another historical point. And we're going to study it in the books. We're going to read the books. And big books will be written about the season because it's a new day, new day for Israel, new day for Jewish people, new day for the world, and especially new day for America, because America is a nation of covenant with Israel. And I can tell you, it surprises me over and over again

8:41 and again, but even the governments probably will less like in Israel, like your governments will less like in Israel or will less agree in Israel. But Israel and history of America and history of Israel in connection is beyond people. So even different governments that actually has lots of disagreements with Israel, the crisis, crisis times, the censorship, the send troops, the send help. And it's wonderful. It's wonderful. It's more than people. It's more than political parties. It's just something divine in that connection. And I can tell you here and there, there is some voices, sometimes more reasonable, many times less reasonable. But there's only one nation that still stands openly and strong with Israel.

9:28 It's United States of America. So I have to say, God bless America, and Shabba Day is a good time to bless your country. And we are praying for you because Israel needs America strong. Amen. Yes. So, uh, we all waiting to see what God is going to do in such a situation. This morning, I received text message from one of the rabbis, Israeli rabbis, messianic rabbi, uh, reminding all the friends, uh, the prayer, the strong prayer of Derek Prince. He was good friends with many Jewish ministries in the land. He was, he was British, you know, Christian, but become spiritual father for many Jewish ministries in the land. And he said, Lord, send your confusion to Arabs.

10:16 That's it. And when it happened, Israel is safe. Israel's stronger Israel winning the, the, the war. So, uh, there is many prayers, but is one of the very effective prayers. Please send confusion to the enemies, send the confusion and let them deal with each other. And, uh, and, and that moment, Israel, uh, have easier and better times. That's the, that's the way it works in the Middle East. But anyway, uh, I want to start with the origin, the Bible, uh, book of Isaiah 60, uh, Isaiah 60, verse one, two, and three. Arise, shine for your lies. Light has come kumi or right kumi ori, for your light has come, and glory of the Lord has reason upon you.

11:04 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and deep darkness the people. But the Lord will arise over you, and his glory will be seen upon you. And the nation's gentiles shall come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising praise, the Lord, powerful message given to Israel, saying basically, a rise and shine glory of God is coming. But then sharing the circumstance, how and, and or when and and what circumstance. Glory will arise. And he speaks about darkness. It'll be aris of darkness. So the light of God, the brightness of his glory, we're going to see, and we already seeing is going

11:49 to be even brighter. But actually it'll happen at the time of uprising of the darkness. And that's what we have seen on October 7th. I Rio my testimony, what we experienced. Uh, but Israel still going through the most challenging and difficult times of its entire modern history, the modern state of Israel history. But this time we have great, great promises. You know, in 2000 years, all the enemies came to attack Israel as a messianic community. In the land, we have all the prophecies, and we have prophecies of Yeshua. And we knew what going to happen. We knew the destruction is coming, right? Destruction is, desolation is coming, exile is coming.

12:36 But this time it's different. We have all these prophecies that say, Israel will not only survive, it'll thrive, it'll grow, it'll fight, and it'll win. Yes, there will be wars and losses, but Israel will win. We have powerful prophetic words of the Bible prophecies, Bible prophets, biblical prophets, right? Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel. And it's a great time. And to find all the prayers of prophets and pray them and proclaim them to, to proclaim word of the Lord. When I have my doubts, when I have my, uh, fears, and I feel attacks, I'm going back to the word of the Lord

13:21 and my favorite ones, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and many others, Zaria. And we just pray biblical prayers. Hallelujah. Because there is promises. And right after prayers are prophet. So let's continue to proclaim word of the Lord, and we're going to see his glory. Hallelujah. And that the encouragement, encouraging message, we're going to see Aris of darkness. And we already see that. We see that. It's so obvious. You know, last time I was here a couple years ago, uh, I remember I was sharing about same scripture, but uh, I emphasize the Hebrew word for darkness. In, in the Bible, in English, it says, darkness and deep darkness or thick darkness, different translations. Uh, in Hebrew it says, which is darkness.

14:10 One of the plaques over Egypt was darkness. But it wasn't just lack of light because it says the Egyptians, they had lights, they had candles, they had lights, they had fire in the houses. It was more than just lack of fire or candles. They didn't run out of candles. It was tangible, heavy, physical, tangible darkness with the atmosphere of fear and anxiety and just atmosphere of death. That was what Egypt experienced. And that's the first word. Darkness going to cover the nations. So this is the same word, second word, deep darkness. Hebrews A-L-R-F-L. It is fog. A fog.

14:56 You know, have you ever been driving in the heavy fog? I've been to the mountains and I've been driving in the very heavy fog. It's dangerous. You blind, you don't see what's happening. So it says that's what will cover the nations, and we'll see it happening. They are lost. They don't know what they do. They dunno what's right, what's wrong. They don't know who is boy and who is girl. You know, like, there's lots and lots and lots of confusion, right? That's the modern way. Confusion. Lots of confusion, yeah. And, uh, what shocked Israel, after October seven, many Israelis would say, finally, now the world have seen, and they will see, and they will understand what we are dealing with, who we are dealing with, what is our battles.

15:41 But it's to big surprise of all Israel, people didn't get it. The most of donations. They didn't get it. They didn't get it. And they call darkness light and light darkness. They call evil free Palestine. They're good. And they call, uh, you know, and they call Israel. They the only democracy in the Middle East, the free country. They call it darkness and condemnation over it. Well, I want to tell you, as much as tough is it, it is in the Bible. We written that about, that, about all these events in the Bible. So we live in the generation. When Bible come into pass, the prophecies,

16:27 the prophetic words of the Bible, they come into pass. They're becoming so real, so tangible, measurable. It's so beautiful, right? It's heavy, but it's beautiful. But, so we need to comfort. We need to find comfort in the word of God, in the Holy Spirit, in the community. Hallelujah. That's why I really say it. And I minute your prayers means a lot for us. Your stand means a lot for us. We just know we not the long in this battle as Messianic communities in Israel, but also as Israel in general. But Hashem praises the Lord. Hallelujah. Amen. Yes, yes. Yeah. So we're working, we've been working with our congregation. When, when October 7th happened, the biggest work for me

17:14 as a leader, rabbi pastor, was to change the questions from why, Lord, why, to the, to the next question, Lord, what do you do? What, what are your works? What do you do? Because we know there is no mistakes. God, not, not just sleep too long, or was busy with the holidays, and, uh, miss the opportunity. You know, forget about borders of Israel. No. We still believe everything under his control. We not always can explain every detail. Yeah. Sometimes it's difficult to explain the details. Uh, it'll take time probably to understand bigger picture. Uh, but for sure how to say it in English.

17:59 Uh, Israel don't, not, not sleep and not slender. Right? The one who keep watching over Israel. Hallelujah. Thank you. Thank you, Harry. Praise the Lord. Amen. I told you English is not my first, not my second language anyway. So, uh, but I want to share with you testimony because in the midst of darkness, we see the light, we see the glory, we see God's moving in the lives of people, but also in the nation in general. And there is so many great things happened. And my message today, I called lessons learned, and I hope, I hope I will cover all of them. If not, we will continue to, to communicate and speak. But lessons learned. And there is many, many lessons that have been learned by us

18:45 as believers, as Messianic body in Israel, uh, and all Israel and all the Jewish communities learned so many lessons. But let's start with testimony. So first of all, uh, by the way, I was actually in the States of America with my son, who is in the army. I have three children. My oldest is a reserve soldier. He spend a few months fighting, uh, in Gaza. Uh, you know, uh, my youngest son is, uh, going to be 20 soon. And he is in the army. Uh, he has two more years to serve in the military. His name Saan and guy, and have, uh, middle daughter, she's already done with the army. You know, she's a girl. She's a young woman. Uh, praise the Lord. But October 6th, October 6th, uh, was actually

19:31 probably the heaviest day in the history of Israel. When we speak about, about condition of the society, we were going through very, very deep division, very, very deep political division in the land of Israel. It was so heavy, so crazy, so bad that people were talking even on the tv, on the, on the mainstream media in Israel. We were talking, are we going to see civil war? Are we going to see hamor? We call it wars of brothers in Hebrew, this civil war. That was the questions. And I remember many times watching the news to see all this hatred. I mean, the left hate, and right, and right, health and hate, and left and religious hate, and secular and secular hate and religious, and many things in between.

20:19 It was so bad, so wrong. We never seen that. And Hebrew, we call, we call it sin. You know, this term, right? Sin, by the way, in Judaism, we believe that temple was destroyed. The very biggest reason was sinat. Or if I hate person for no reason. That's my translation. Okay? Hate someone for no reasons. That's what we have seen. And hatred was growing. And I remember people call me from outside of Israel and watching Israeli news, and they would ask, what's up, PA Israel, pastor Israel, rabbi Israel, what's up in Israel? Like, how we can pray for Israel? What's going on in Israel? And I remember I had very difficult time to reply, to explain.

21:04 'cause it was bad. It was heavy. So October 6th was the days, days of heaviest division ever in the modern state of Israel. October 7th, when Israel had been attacked. We have seen an amazing twist, the miraculous twist. So from deepest division to greatest unity in the history of Israel. Hallelujah. It was unbelievable. It's so painful, uh, to think what it takes some time to get back to unity, to understand how we need each other. But that's what happened in Israel. And that's a beautiful part, really, from, from division to unity, to unity, to forgiveness, to sacrifice. And we're going to speak about that. So, uh, we woke up.

21:51 I live in, I live on the 30th floor, three zero 30th floor, and my windows facing sea from the one side Mediterranean seat. It's a beautiful city. And Gaza from the other side, actually, I see from the windows Lon. And I see Gaza with my own Verizon know, not even binoculars. So we have seen rockets flying over lon, lots, lots of explosions. We could see the fire, we could see the smoke from the, from the windows. And, uh, we have seen rockets flying over our house, around our house. Uh, war have started as Israeli, having my children, having being soldiers in the army. When I saw tenders with the terrorist driving in this, in, in, uh, ero, when I see it on social media, I didn't believe it.

22:38 I literally said, no, no, no, no, no, it's cannot happen. We know our army. We know, you know, our borders. It just cannot happen. It's fake news. Fake news took a while for, uh, many, many people, including me, to recognize what really happened, and you know, the history. But, uh, my personal testimony, first of all, my son, my youngest son, he was called right away through the army, actually was scheduled to go back in two days. Uh, but, uh, I took him by my car, and then I, I drove, drove him to the, uh, to the point when all the soldiers came together. And I saw these young soldiers with guns, guns, no guns. It was strange scene. They were really worried. They were, their faces were full of fear. I never seen Israeli soldiers in, in such a condition.

23:25 They're always brave. They're always bold. They're always ready to fight. But this time it was different. We could see fear. So when it said that happened, we really felt in Israel, darkness just came out of Gaza, the spiritual darkness. We're talking about Rafael, we're talking about darkness. We have seen it. We have feel it believers, religious people, and even non-believers, even secular people. You know, it was amazing to hear artists, Israeli Jewish artists, professors coming on TV and saying, what happened? It's actually demonic. They don't believe in the artists did not supposed to believe in God. They were saying, it is demonic, and it's come from hell, not from heaven, from hell.

24:11 I was like, okay. Yeah. But, uh, it was heavy. It was difficult. So driving my first son, my youngest son first, and then, uh, we started to understand more and more what happened. All, all the, all the level of disaster. Uh, then I took my second son, my oldest son, he is our youth leader in my congregation. Uh, he erit is 30 years old, reserved soldier, have two little girls, girls in the house. So he already knew what happening he was called later in the day, evening, Shabbat evening. Uh, so he came home, he kissed his two beautiful girls. He said goodbye. And that moment, he didn't know he's going to see them again or not, because we received reports. Many soldiers dying, you know, no, about thousand soldiers died in that day.

24:58 Uh, so I was driven him to the military base in the dark. It was darkness, physical darkness was night. But it was amazing to see coming to the military base, I have seen miles and miles of the cars parked on the sides of the highway on the right and on the left, because thousands and, and dozens of thousands, and eventually hundreds of thousands of, of young men left their families, left their businesses, left their life, jumped to their car, and many of them even wasn't called by officers. They just jumped to their car. And they went to military bases. And I can tell you, I was driving, it was only one open line, highway of three lanes, only one open line, and here on right and left cars

25:45 and cars for miles. And I see baby carriages, the family cars, you know, baby carriages inside of the cars. And I see business cars with the, you know, constructors left their cars there with all the tools, you know, they just jumped to the cars and went to protect Israel. Went to fight for Israel. It was, I was deeply moved, and I was crying and praying. It was amazing to see that. So when left my son, and then, uh, I received a message, uh, actually that day, 35, uh, men and women, generally speaking, few men, mostly boys, boys and girls, were called to the military. And just from our congregation would send 35 soldiers, uh, to the battle. Unfortunately, they have lost one soldier.

26:31 Uh, we almost lost another, but miracle happened. Our worship leader, the youth worship leader, this little, little girl, RIS, uh, that you probably would say in English, Iris, right? Ris, uh, uh, she was driving with her girlfriends, uh, soldiers, uh, with the, with the, with the, with the guns. They was called for backup by another soldier, uh, soldier, uh, soldier girls. She was driving, and they get into ambush and Terry start to fight them and kill them. So her friend was killed, another wounded on the two left. She jumped out and she started to shoot and kill terrorists. This little girl. Now, when terrorists recognize it's girls that killing them, they just run away. They just run away. Because by Islam to be killed by a girl,

27:19 it's a bad thing, you know? Yeah. But many, many great stories happened. But, uh, our, our boy David, who grew up in our congregation, is a son of our elders in the congregation, David Ratner. He was at the Gaza border this night. So when his small military base called, uh, NA oz was attacked, uh, they've been, been, uh, overrun by 350 terrorists and a unit of only, only seven boys, you know, seven, seven soldiers. So he was the machine gun guy, machine gun guy. Uh, eight hours of battle. Uh, and, uh, backup didn't come. So eight hours of battle, there were runion of bullets, runion of ammunition, eight hours of battle. But he decided to stay and decided to fight to the end.

28:07 He actually personally killed 40 terrorists, and he saved so many lives. He's a hero. 40 terrorists. He was praying and fighting, praying and fighting. Witnesses tell he was fighting like lion, running all over to help others. Uh, and because he knew right behind them kibbutz, and there is no soldiers, he knew they're going for these kibbutz. And he knew there is Messianic family in these kibbutz. It's only family in the Gaza area in that exact kibbutz. So he was fighting, uh, to the last, uh, drop of his blood, eventually had shot in his, uh, uh, neck, and eight hours later he was, uh, dead. So it's amazing story of, uh, of heroism. He refused to be evacuated, even wounded. He continued to fight until he died. Uh, so, uh, was standing with his family, uh, and,

28:54 and this year, his next brother going to Army. And he is looking forward to it. It's amazing. Family of six children. He's the oldest. Uh, so praise God, they have five more. And they all say, we're going to continue to fight in the Spirit, to pray for Israel. They're all messianic, big messianic family, but also to fight our physical battles with the country and land of Israel. Uh, praise the Lord. You know, Gaza in Hebrew probably have, have you heard it? Gaza in Hebrew, you know, in Hebrew will say, za, there is no G would say a strong a za. So za means stronghold. Interesting, right? It's a Hebrew word for stronghold. So right now it's a strong lot of terror, stronghold of evil, really.

29:40 Stronghold and Hamas. I know it should be letters, but altogether Hamas in Hebrew means evil. And it's mentioned in the Bible in Torah a number of times about Hamas. So it's just interesting to see, uh, the Bible and the hidden prophetic messages in the Bible. And when it's come up, we see and understand it. But you know, every stronghold will fall. Eventually, it'll fall because of glory of God, light of God. It shall fall. Amen? Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Amen. You know, almost two says, I will shake the earth and the nations, you know, and, and basically saying, I will shake everything

30:27 that can be shaken, that unshakeable kingdom of Messiah, of Messiah. You know, Yeshua will come down and we're going to see his glory, even in the midst of darkness, right? A rise and shine, because his light has come. But also darkness is a rising, darkness is rising. All the craziness is going on in the world. But that's the time to rise. That's the time to proclaim the word of the Lord. That's the time to stand for his glory. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Okay, so let's go to the, uh, lessons learned, and I will update you and explain what happens in the nation of Israel in those days. Uh, and there's many, many relation na lessons, lessons learned. Because I can tell you,

31:13 whatever happens in Israel physically, it is connected to the world. And surely it is connected to every believer. Messianic, believers in the states and other nations Christians. It's all connected. It's all connected. So, um, the first, first point, lessons learned, testimonies and changes that happened in Israel. That's what I mentioned in the beginning, is actually, actually division changed and turned to unity from division to unity. You know, division was very dangerous, very bad, ugly and dangerous. Unity really unite our people. So October 7th was wake up, call people, nation of Israel,

32:00 wake up, recognizing we fighting wrong enemy, we fighting each other instead of fighting, instead of fight. The real enemy, the real danger, the real evil. We've been fighting each other. So it was time of recognition and open eyes, praise the Lord. And I know it was so wonderful to see how many people came on tv and they been facing, they began facing and saying, uh, the rabbis, the orthodox people, the orthodox politicians, the secular guys, politicians, they would come on TV and said, Hey, I still disagree with your viewpoint. I still disagree with your political stand, but I'm sorry, I shouldn't have spoke this way. I was full of hatred. I dunno

32:46 why I shouldn't speak this way. I shouldn't be so, so rude to you. Last program. I'm very sorry. And then another guy would go, no, no, no, no, no, I'm apologize. I'm sorry. I shouldn't speak this way. I should have, you know, treat you this way. I'm sorry. It was so beautiful to see the healing. People still carry different opinion, but unity came and things changed. The atmosphere changed. People said, let's agree to disagree and walk and live together, build our country together, protect our country together. And that's a powerful message. So keep your unity, brother, sisters, if you feel like enemies attacking you. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.

33:31 If you feel like you losing it, look at Israel. Think of October 6th and then October 7th. Let it be a reminder for this generation reminder. What will happen? If not, you know what will happen if you want. So, uh, it's a very, very, very strong lesson for our nation, and we pray that we will continue to remember it, because we have jokes in Israel that, uh, Jewish people have short memory, and sometimes we do. So we need to remember what happened. Well, the second point, I already mentioned it, but second point was really recognition of who is our real enemy. You know, we've been fighting each other. We've been fighting secular, religious, religious, secular, and, uh, many others in between.

34:17 We've been fighting each other instead of enemy. And, uh, it's remind us, the enemy is real. You know, the enemy is real. Our brother is not your enemy. Maybe you disagree, but he is not your enemy, right? The devil, the demons in all this darkness, it is our real enemy. And it's like, I want to read Philippians two just to rep, proclaim word of God. Philippians two, verse three. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or concerned, but in loneliness of mind. Let each, each, each, his team, others better than himself, let each of you look out, not only for his own interest, but also for the interest of others. And Ians 4 43, sorry, 4 32 says, and be kind to one another, tender hearted

35:05 for giving one another, even as, uh, God and Maia forgave us. Hallelujah. I tell you, it was movement of humility and forgiveness in Israel. Many, many, many stories, many, many, many messages, movement of forgiveness, uh, and asking forgiveness and coming to humility. That was the big lessons. Third thing, and uh, just, it's my order. You can change the order. I've been just thinking like, what really happened in the land? And that's what I have clearly seen. And there is more another point, nation wake up understanding. We cannot trust our government and we cannot fully trust our army

35:53 and even our military leaders. And that was the message. We trusted government too much. We trusted even military, too much boasting and saying, oh, no, they won't attack us. We're too strong. We're, we're the strongest. We are the smartest. You know, we're the strongest. And, and that day, this trust was broken. But for many, for good, because many recognize, yes, government have to be fixed and change and do better work. Yes, the military leaders have to change and reevaluate, and some need to go, and they will go. And some already gone. But, but there were many, many voices, national voices saying, we have to come back to our roots, and we have to trust the Lord.

36:39 Trust the Lord. Baruch Hashem. Amen. You know, you are in vulnerable situation. You're going to elections. You know, don't trust people. Don't put your trust in people you know, in figures. And what if the one you put all your hope, even die day before elections? No, people are people, you know, they're die. And they, you know, they do mistakes. They can fail others. Put your trust in the Lord. That was heavy lesson. We've been trusting too much, you know, to government, to powers to army. And, uh, yes, army is strong. And yes, you know, yes, there is many yes, but still, we have to trust the Lord. And we heard it again and again and again, people saying, Hey, we need to stand up. We need to act, we you to do.

37:25 And when you trust our Lord, amen. Now, fourth point, we have strong army and all the stats, but all the sta statistics, Israel, it's the most effective army in the Middle East. It's the strongest army in the Middle East. Well, it's still small army. You know, we have 300 million of Muslims around us, around Israel, you know, and we have seen how some places just been overrun by numbers, you know? So even having such a strong army, what happened in October 7th? You know, I can tell you like a parable, you know, army, Israeli army, generally speaking, it's like a very strong

38:11 and mighty giant. It is strong, it is strong army, the mighty giant. But what happened? The giant fell asleep. Just fell asleep, you know, just fell asleep. And you know, if you remember, you know, we have, uh, the October 7th was Day of Simha Torah, but by international calendar, that was the day of, of the Yom Kippur war, day to day, Yom World War. And if you've seen the Golden Movie, and there's many documentaries, you know what happened? The, the, there were debates in Knesset, shall we call, 50 years ago, right? The, the six day war, shall we call 200,000 more reserve soldiers to, uh, like to fight if it will be attacked or not? That was the debates. But the Yom Kippur they just sent, sent, even those

38:58 who have been into the army, they send them home to rest. And only 10% of army left at the borders. They wasn't prepared to fight. Exactly. Same thing happened. And that's what many experts in Israel said, we have short ar, short memory, right? Exactly. Same thing happened. You know, I talked to family that survived this massacre, and they live right by the Gaza border, you know, the, the Kaia family, right at the Gaza border. So we talked, and she said, any other day, any middle week day, we have thousands and thousands of soldiers. There is planes, there's tanks, we always ready. But on that day, 90% of army, I think even more, even more, they just went home to celebrate. And very few stayed at the borders.

39:44 So giant, giant fell asleep. So it is a reminder how important it's for us to watch out, to watch out, not to leave your guard. And to remember, enemy is attacking. When you accept expected, the less enemy will attack you. Not when you're ready, ready to fight. You are praying, you're standing strong, you're fasting, you ready? Most likely, not most likely, he, he will attack you when you fell asleep, when you put down your guards, when you're not watching out. And that was very, very painful lesson. I remember all this kibbutz team, they, they, they say that again and again. Like where all the soldiers, usually we have thousands of them always ready. But on that day, they all were home celebrating Shabbat,

40:31 celebrating, uh, Simha Torah. And, uh, that's what happened. So another, that's a wake up call for the nation, for all of us, for the nations wake up call. Even if you're strong, watch out. Be ready. You know, a bible says in the book of James, the enemy walking around us, lion, right? Looking for pray. So don't become a pray. Watch out. Stand strong, keep praying, keep praying. Amen. The Bible, the Bible, uh, the English, uh, proper words for it. Be sober and vigilant, right? Sober and vigilant. Hallelujah. And that was the message. Very heavy lesson and very strong message. Be sober and vigilant. Um, and we need to understand times.

41:16 And there is time to celebrate. There is time to rejoice life. But the same time, always watch out. Watch out for your kids, watch out for your relatives. Watch out for your brother, right? We have to watch out for our congregation to stand for his kingdom, to stand for God's purposes and God's kingdom. Number five, Aris of heroes. That's what happened with Israel. And I can tell you, we have seen so many ordinary men and women become a heroes. So many men left everything behind, just ordinary guys. They were heroes. And I met some heroes that they actually, I could compare 'em only with biblical heroes. I met the soldiers that like four boys, I mean four soldier,

42:03 heavy trained soldiers, they're professional soldiers jumped to the car and they went, and they stop at all UBA units of 54 of them, the special units, the, they put them down all, and they continue to fight and continue to fight. We had heroes, and that's okay. But ordinary men, not special fighters, tho those who haven't been even in fighting forces, just normal, you know, military training become a heroes. Many of them sacrificed their life. And I can tell you, I want to address the young generation and, uh, speak to all the generation in connection between you and the young generation. You know, one, uh, retired officer came on TV and he spoke, uh, it was national message. He spoke on Israeli tv and he said, I was very concerned about this

42:50 generation, young generation. And he called him TikTok generation. Literally, he was repeating again and again, TikTok generation. TikTok generation. He said, I was very concerned thinking of Israel and this TikTok generation. He said, I thought they are selfish. They are lazy. They don't care. They only want to have fun. They're not serious about anything. And I said, I was very concerned about future of Israel, future of our country. But I said, but I was shocked. And I changed my mind because I have seen on October 7th as army of TikTok generation rose up and went out to fight to die, saving others. And he said, TikTok generation become heroes.

43:36 And he said, there is hope. There is hope. And there is future. Brothers and sisters, the older generation. I want to encourage you, probably when you see the young ones, you feel the same like, ah, TikTok generation. But when they will come, when our will come, they will rise. They will rise. So we need to continue to pray for them, invest and them encourage them. You know, we are older generation. Many times we feel like just to say, that's wrong, that's wrong, that's wrong, that's wrong. They need our encouragement. They need our prayers because they're living in very special times and we need them strong, but by the grace of God, but the grace of Hashem, they will rise

44:21 and they will stand strong. And Israel was an example. The, the, the thousands and hundreds and thousands become heroes. And there's so many stories, you know, I hope it'll reach you with English messages. But in Israel, every day, we have three main channels, TV channels, every day since October 7th, they've been inviting people, inviting heroes and survivors and heroes. And they share their testimonies, miracles, miracles, miracles every day. I never have seen Israeli TV and Israeli news so much in my life. But this time, you know, we stopped traveling, we changed anything, many things in our lives, but every day we were watching with my wife, stories, testimonies, and testimonies and testimonies and testimonies.

45:08 I hope we can get them in English. But so many testimonies, thousands of testimonies. And it's still going on, still going on. So many powerful testimonies of greatness, uh, and glory of God. It was amazing to see how God saved so many people. Well, next point, 0.6. And I say, my time is coming to close. Uh, 0.6 prayers. You know, so many people started to pray. And, and once again, we have so many stories of prayers. And I remember one of them, I mean, there were so many, but one of them, one guy said he was survivor. So he said, I was at the festival, I saw the terrorist attack. I run and I hide it in the bushes.

45:54 So sitting in the bush, I called the police and I told them, come and get me. Come and save me. There's terrorists and army. Send police and back up, help me. And the, uh, men on the other side, the police officer on the other side said, sir, I didn't say sir. Say brother, that's the language in Hebrew. Use brother, I'm sorry, but we cannot help you. It's like, what do you mean you are the police? You have to help me. You are the police. So sorry brother, we cannot help you. We're overrun. There's too much going on. We cannot help you. So this secular guy from the party, he asked them, so what shall I do? And police officers, seldom, officially you shall pray like you are the police officer. You telling me to pray? Yes, the only ha only hope for you.

46:43 It's to pray and close the close one down. And the anchor in the studio ask, ask him, so what did you do? And he said, I prayed like crazy. And he said, by the way, I didn't pray since my bar mitzvah age. He said, that was last prayer. I was secular. I didn't pray, but now I'm praying every day. Hallelujah. You know, we have seen as how people started to pray many different ways. Shma Israel was sound everywhere. And we have your stories. I started to pray. I've been praying, I've been praying, I've been praying. You know, for me it was very touchy to hear, to see the, the most secular TV on Israel, the most secular channel in Israel, and an istic anchor.

47:29 The lady, total artist, like nothing to do with God. You know, total Jewish artist, you know, I think Jewish artist sometimes tougher than just normal artists, you know, like very convinced at. But in that day, in that day, she was hearing the testimony, she was hearing the stories, and she would say, we all praying with you. You know, the earth start to say, we all praying for you, and we're all praying with you. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. So it was amazing shift when everyone started to pray. Everyone started to pray and call upon the name of the Lord. It was wonderful, wonderful. Hallelujah. And we have seen lots of salvations. We have seen many people who have heard the gospel. Uh, you know, they came to congregation to speak more, to check more.

48:15 And you know, during the war, we have seen us how evangelism is, evangelism is growing. And last time we took 550, uh, people from Lon, from our area to Jerusalem and standing in Jerusalem during the war and sharing the message of hope and life and salvation and Yeshua, the salvation Savior, hallelujah. It was wonderful. And, uh, telling them the Bible, telling them the biblical prophecies, and they invite, inviting them to open their hearts and pray to Yeshua and in the name of Yeshua, and to see so many people rise up. Stand up and pray to Yeshua. Praise the Lord. Powerful movement of God. Hallelujah. I know it's not the end, but we see so many changes,

49:04 so many good changes, bar Hashem. God is moving. And you know, I want to tell you, well, I'm cutting off, but, uh, the compassion, the volume of volunteers, people who never volunteered in their lives become volunteers in that moment. And they went to help each other, help community. It was powerful moment. You know, I had an, an amazing encounter. I was in Jerusalem, uh, few months after the war. And that there is international organization, invited number of pastors from the nations to show them what happened in Israel and to have small prayer gatherings. It's scheduled to be big gatherings. Eventually, a few people came from few nations, and we were in the hotel, but in the same hotel. We didn't know that. But in the same hotel were people who've been evacuated, removed from Gaza border to that hotel.

49:51 So walking with this international people, and when I came, I was only Israeli and only Jewish Israeli. In that meeting, working with his pastors and leaders, uh, together, one rabbi came to us asking like, what is it? Who are you guys? Because there's only Jewish people in Israel right now. Who are you guys? And they started to testify, we are Christians, but we stand with Israel. We stand with your country. This rabbi was so touched rabbi from, and he said, can I come and talk to your group? Can I share something with your group? And the leader said, yeah, please share. So he came to the room. He came to the room and he sat next words. And I was only a Hebrew speaker, so I needed to translate him. His English wasn't good enough. So I was translating him in the set. It was big honor. And he said, you know, guys, we live in the last days.

50:38 And he was so excited, you know, like full of excitement, happy, smiling, excited. We live in the last days. It's a great times. And remember, as my grandfather and my, it's a great grandfather and grandfather and father taught me about that. They had been preparing me. Uh, and we all been waiting for that time because that's the time the prophets, our bible prophets and rabbis been been speaking about. We live in that days. We live in the last days, and it's a glorious days. It's a great days. We're going to see Messiah is coming back very, very soon. And he was full of like a charismatic preacher and full of excitement. Ha was jumping, you know, telling. I was like, I never seen rabbi so excited. You know, praise Lord. Uh, and it wasn't even happening, you know?

51:26 And then he said, and then he said to Christians, he said, and you know what? We believe by Judaism say that we believe by Judaism that you are here for a reason. And you are so blessed. You are so lucky, so blessed. And he said, you know what? We believe that angels right now, sending, sending, I mean, God is sending angels right now all over the world and going through the nations. And one by one, they're picking up some Gentiles to stand with Israel. So you are here, and you're so blessed because God touched your life. He touched your heart, he touched you, and he brought you here to stand with Israel. You are very, very blessed. And very soon you're going to see Messiah. Hallelujah.

52:14 I was translating and crying. I couldn't believe what he's saying. Like, and by the way, then he smiled and said, and by the way, I know what you think about Messiah Christian guys, I know what you thinking about Messiah. And he said, when he will come, then we will know if he's coming back or he's coming for the first time, you know, Praise the Lord. So there's so many powerful stories. And you know, uh, in the beginning we have seen and we have felt the heaviness, the very heavy atmosphere, all this evil. I mean, demonic presence was so obvious on the streets of Israel. It was so obvious. But then we started to pray. You started to pray. Day by day, nation started to pray for Israel. And we see shift back again, shift the light came back,

53:00 the changes start, start to come. We came back to normal life, but know what happened? All these demons went to the nations, to deceive nations, to attack nations, and to take them, you know, to uprising, antisemitic spirits, you know, and to stand against Israel. It was so obvious. Well, God is going to deal with that as well. It's also in the Bible, right? But I can tell you right now, we see strong movement of God, our spirit out outpouring of the spirit of comfort. Remember Isaiah? He says, comfort. Comfort my people, says the Lord speak tenderly to Jerusalem, the heart of Jerusalem. Hallelujah. So we see the movement of the Holy Spirit of roja, ksh, the Holy Spirit, and it's touching many lives.

53:46 And we see when people come from the nations, the Jewish leaders, the Christians, when they come from the nations, they really testify the spirit of comfort just in the air. It's really outs outputting of spirit of comfort. So I want to pray with you, and let's stand up together. And Rabbi Ari, please come to be next to me. I want to do a few prayers before I will pass, Mike, but let's pray together. You know, you are Messianic congregation. We're connected in the spirit, and it's a very deep connection. Hallelujah. So I know Israel going through the most difficult times, but you know, people experiencing spiritual warfare, spiritual attacks in every nation, in every nation, in every place. I've been to best nations of the world and have seen suffer

54:33 and losses even there. And we heard the story, you know, the prayers and all of that. So I can tell you, sometimes you can, sure, you can feel like, well, the problems of Israel are much bigger than mine. But you still have your problems. You're still going through your challenges, uh, demonic attacks, physical attacks, different challenges with family, business, ministry, just the things you feel in your heart. But right now, there is powerful outputting of the Holy Spirit when you pour out, pour down the spirit of comfort. And I want to pray for Messianic congregation, for my brothers and sisters in America. I want to pray for you for Baruch Hashem and pray that Holy Spirit will touch your heart. And whatever your difficulties are, whatever your doubts,

55:22 questions, battles, you, you, you, whatever you're facing, the Holy Spirit will touch you, will refresh you, will, uh, inspire you. Hallelujah. Will do his miracles for us. Okay? Let's pray. And if, if piano player or any musician can come, would be nice, uh, just, just to play Hallelujah Bar Hashem. Thank you Lord, to Dua, thank you Lord, to DBA to D Abba. We come before you this wonderful Shabbat day, Lord. And Lord, you know each one of us, Lord, you know what we're facing. We know what we're going through.

56:08 You know, all the heaviness, all the concerns, all the questions, all the have in the swords. You know, all the struggles. And also demonic attack. I feel some of you here specifically under demonic attacks. And it's time for you to resist devil, to, to fight, devil to pray against devil Lord, you know our situations. You know each one of us lords. And you see, you know, our relatives, our children, our friends, brothers, sisters. So Lord, we pray in the name of Yeshua. Lord, we pray right now. I pray right now. Lord, release the spirit of comfort as you release it big way, so obvious,

56:53 so evident in Israel. Lord, release it also here for, for my Jewish brothers and sisters and all who grafted in lords. Release your spirit over this beautiful congregation, over our family's Lord. Hallelujah. Just release it, Lord. Release it. Lord. Release it Lord. Hallelujah. Come into our situation, Lord. And touch our hearts. Touch our hearts, Lord, give us clarity, Lord, in the area. So we need your clarity and your directions. Speak to us Lord, and give us clarity. Let us see. Lord, let us see what you do. Lord, let us understand Yeshua, what you do. Give us wisdom for our hearts, Lord,

57:39 to understand, to listen. To hear our voice. Hallelujah. And to act. And to act. Oh, hallelujah. Lord, thank you for that. You are touching many hearts right now. And our hearts are burned for you. Burned for you, Yeshua. Hallelujah. I I see in the spirit, some of you, you just kind of like waking up. Go, what was it? What was it? This heaviness. What was it? This craziness. No, no, no, no, no. I will stand for the Lord. I will stand for the Lord. I will stand for the Lord. I won't sleep. I wont be lazy. I will stand for the Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you Yeshua. Thank you Yeshua. There is healing in your presence.

58:26 There is restoration in your presence. So Yeshua, release your kind of glory. Kind of glory and touch each one of us. We want to go out, changed, refreshed, renewed Lord. Hallelujah. There is, there is. There is new power hall, new strength, Lord. Coming from heaven, coming from your throne of grace. Hallelujah. So we receive it, Lord, we receive it. Lord, we receive with Yeshua. Lord, you're so good. You've forgiven us. You cleans us. You're changing us. You pardon us Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you Yeshua. Thank Youa. Thank you. Sh We receive it, Lord.

59:12 We receive it. Yeshua, oh, a few more moments we receive with Yeshua Lord, and proud spirit of joy. Shua joy instead of mourning. Hallelujah. Spirit of joy. Spirit of joy instead of mourning. Lord, take off. Show all this heaviness. Take off all this darkness. Take off Lord. We want to praise Yeshua. We will continue to pray, Yeshua, as we've been reading all these prayers today, we'll continue to praise and proclaim your glory. Sheah, we'll testify about your goodness. We will see my miracle. I will see my miracle. We'll see our miracle. We'll testify about your Yeshua. We'll boldly we'll speak to the nations about your graciousness Lord and about your glory.

1:00:03 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelu, I hear this voice. There is healing in his un, in his wings, the healing in his wings. Lord, hallelujah. Release your healing right now. If everyone's sick, just raise your hand or put your hand on the place you have pain and feel, especially someone have problem in your belly. In your stomach. Hallelujah. Lord, we pray for restoration of broken bones. Hallelujah. For restoration. Lord, of all the pain, all the sickness, all the tumors must go right now because we pray bi Yeshua in the name of Yeshua right now. We say to the sickness, we say to the pain,

1:00:50 get out bi Yeshua, leave this place Bi Yeshua, leave body of Messiah. Leave my body bi right now. Oh, right now. Right now. Hallelujah. All the, all the joints. All the bones and joints, bones and joints be healed in hallelu. Knees been healed in, oh, oh, I even feel like, how to say in English? Stiff neck. Yeah, stiff neck. We are, people are stiff neck. I say someone God is releasing from your stiff neck and you'll become kind. Hallelujah. Oh to hallelujah.

1:01:37 Yes, Lord can to dha. Oh, thank you. Show for your presence. Thank you sh for the moment of the Holy Spirit. Revival is coming to this hou, to this house. I can say revival is coming to this house. Strong movement of God is coming again to this house Hall. Lord. Yes Lord. We say, yes Lord, fill this house with your glory, Lord. Like in old days and even more, we need you, Lord. We need the Lord. Hallelujah. Revival and his house, tri saying Hebrew, tri Lord for his house. Hallelujah. Tri hallelujah. Oh to I just really feel prophetic

1:02:22 atmosphere is coming down. So just, just let's close our eyes and maybe Lord will speak to you right now. Maybe Holy Spirit will show you something. Put attention. Yes, Lord. Speak to us. Speak to us. Holy Spirit. Speak to us. To us. Speak to us. Hallelujah. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Dreams And visions. I see in the Spiritless people that have gift of prophecy. You've been prophesied, but you become quiet for such a long time. Now it's time again to seek for the Lord who

1:03:07 to wait upon the Lord, to wait upon Yeshua and to pray. Hallelujah. That your voice will sound again and words so in the Spirit will come again and Revel relations will flow again. Hallelujah. And you'll pray prophet prayers again, hallelujah to D. If it's you, just say, yes, Lord. Yes Lord. Yes Lord. I want to pro. Say again. I will pro again. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. We pray for divine visitations, dreams and visions. Signs and wonders. In this house. In this house. Bar Hashem, hallelujah. Bar hash, the new visitation for Baruch Hashem,

1:03:54 who we thank you Lord for your presence here, for what you do, what you did, and what you're doing now. And we pray for the glorious future, Lord. Lord, us your glory. Let us Your glory for our children and our great children, Lord. Hallelujah. And our families. Let us your glory, shuah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Ra. Let us raise your banners. Banners of joy, banners of celebration, banner, banners of victory, shuah. Oh, banners, banners, banners, Lord for you, for your kingdom. Amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. At the benediction, may the Lord bless you and keep you.

1:04:42 May the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

1:05:30 In the name of our Messiah, Yeshua.