Josiah's Reign: Final Mercy Window

The closing theme of Josiah's reign in Jeremiah's ministry is that Josiah's reign is the final mercy window before God's judgment. King Josiah was a righteous king. He tried to reform the people, but they said, "No, we do not want the ancient paths." The tragedy is that the king's heart was tender, but the nation's heart remained hard. Josiah found the book of the Torah and humbled himself, but Judah as a whole did not truly return. Under Josiah, God gave Judah light, warning, reform, and time, but outward reform could not replace inward repentance.

Thank you so much for being with us tonight. It was a long video, but thank you for staying with us. You read the words of Jeremiah from God's mouth. This is hardcore stuff. This is why people don't like to read the book of Jeremiah. Everyone says they love Jeremiah, but do they know what God told him to tell the Jewish people and the Gentile nations? Get out of your paganism, abominations, detestable idols, and turn to Yeshua the Messiah. If not, the gavel is it, in this life and the next. That's the message of Jeremiah: turn to the voice of God, the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, the words out of His mouth at Mount Sinai. That is the voice of God. That is the word of God found in the New Testament. The writers of the New Testament wrote with the power of the Holy Spirit. God wasn't telling them, "These are the laws, these are the commandments." He told the prophets to go tell them to return to the commandments. We must get back to what Moses said. Exodus 19:9 says, "The people will believe Moses forever." Those who love God will believe Moses forever. Yeshua says the same thing in John 5: "If you don't believe in Moses, you won't believe someone risen from the dead." Christians, if you don't believe in Moses, you don't believe Yeshua either. We must believe Moses and follow the commandments. Whoever is in that land has strict guidelines. When people get out of the boundary lines, He will send prophets to warn them. They won't listen, and then He will bring the sword, pestilence, and famine. That's where we are today.

All this Israeli pride and American pride—I'm sick of it. I'm sick of everyone putting their hope in the governments of Israel and America and their military power, with zero victories. I don't get it. This is not a knock on the soldiers; it's a knock on the government, politicians, diplomats, who think they can impose their will on Islamic nations. They will give you a holy war, and Yeshua will have to get us all out of it. You will not defeat Iran, Turkey, or the terror groups until Yeshua returns after you repent. That's the end-of-age story. Iran, Turkey, beast kingdom, Antichrist, Yeshua—boom. They will not win until they repent. Bad times are coming. I stand with the Jewish people and Israel, but like the prophets who had the truth of Adonai: "Obey, or get out of the land." It's that simple. I don't know what the hierarchy of Israel, the government, and the rabbis are reading, because when I read the Torah, Jeremiah, or Isaiah, it's talking about today because they're doing the same things they did in the past. How did that turn out? Nebuchadnezzar came to town, and General Titus of the Roman Empire came to town in AD 70 because of the rejection of the Messiah and the Torah.

We need to get educated. We are not educated enough to go through the end of the age. Christians are not, and Jews are not either. That's why we don't understand what's going down. We think America and Israel will do it all. That's stupid. How is that going in 25 years? Israel should be calling on Him, not America. That's why you read Jeremiah 2. Don't go to Egypt for foreign assistance. God raised up Nebuchadnezzar to crush Egypt and Assyria to judge Judah and the Middle East. That will happen again. God will raise up a Nebuchadnezzar, Antichrist, and he will destroy the Middle East, including Jerusalem to a degree. Then the Jewish people will realize they can't get out of this and will call on Yeshua. The Father will decree for Him to come and save the Jewish people and all of us. But many Jewish people and Gentiles will die. We must understand that. We are lacking knowledge, like Hosea said, "My people perish for lack of knowledge." We need to get serious, wake up, and do our part in God's kingdom. One soul at a time. No one will change the Israeli government but God. He will deal with the Israeli government, but the people themselves need to wake up and understand Israel's position. The Jewish people need to wake up and realize where they are on God's timeline. This is not restoration time; it's judgment time. It's about to be the time of Jacob's trouble. Jewish believers know this. Don't get caught up in the Israeli government's actions. Yeshua said in Matthew 24 to flee to the mountains. That hasn't happened yet. It will happen for the wise people because Jerusalem will be ravaged. The Jewish people will not conquer the promised land as unbelievers with abominations everywhere. That should be common sense. They won't do this. Defend yourselves, of course, but trying to go on the "greater Israel" march and conquer the promised land without God will bring the gavel. He will raise up enemies against them. That's what people have a hard time understanding. Read Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28-30. It sounds like Jeremiah. Eating children, famine, pestilence, war, sword, captivity, cannibalism—crazy stuff. If He did it before, He will do it again. If the people don't repent, which they won't as a nation until it gets really bad, then it will be ugly. It's up to us to do our part in His kingdom.

The "greater Israel" project will not happen. Hamas is still there. Hezbollah has been there for 40 years. Houthis—no one can beat them. Even the US Navy can't. Iran will not be defeated. Turkey will not. The beast kingdom will not. Yeshua will. Until He returns after they repent, they will not win. America will not win. Israel definitely can't win without America, which goes back to Jeremiah 2 and Isaiah 30-31. "You and your lover will be destroyed." America is Israel's lover, and they will be judged. God wants to deal with His people and the Middle East Himself, just like Nebuchadnezzar did. If Jews and Christians understood this, they would stop this. It's time for repentance. You will not defeat Iran, Turkey, or the terror groups until Yeshua returns after you repent.