And he took up his oracle and said:
“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,
From the mountains of the east.
‘Come, curse Jacob for me,
And come, denounce Israel!’
“How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?
For from the top of the rocks I see him,
And from the hills I behold him;
There! A people dwelling alone,
Not reckoning itself among the nations.
“Who can count the dust of Jacob,
Or number one-fourth of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,
And let my end be like his!”
Numbers 23:7-10
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“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,
From the mountains of the east.
‘Come, curse Jacob for me,
And come, denounce Israel!’
“How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?
For from the top of the rocks I see him,
And from the hills I behold him;
There! A people dwelling alone,
Not reckoning itself among the nations.
“Who can count the dust of Jacob,
Or number one-fourth of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,
And let my end be like his!”
Numbers 23:7-10
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00:00Okay, that's the brief rundown of the prophecies. I'm going to tell you a little bit about what's happening now in the land of Israel
00:05and how you can see that this is pushing us towards the fulfillment of these prophecies.
00:13One of the things which appears quite clear from the prophetic scriptures is that in the last days the world is going to turn against Israel.
00:21Israel will be very much alone. There will be people who are going to curse Israel.
00:25And Jewish people are going to feel fear in the anti-Semitic world today.
00:33Yesterday we went to a meeting with some Jewish friends and non-believers.
00:37They were North London friends of Israel and others.
00:41And as we were talking to them we sensed some of the concerns they have about not just the state of Israel
00:47but their own position in British society as they feel the growing anti-Semitism
00:52and the growing hostility towards Jewish people.
00:55And we discussed ways in which we as Jews and Christians should get together to resist anti-Semitism, to stand by Israel.
01:03And we're hoping to work on a program that we will do just that
01:06because that's what I believe God wants us to do in these days, to be friends to Israel,
01:11to show the Jewish people that we love them, that we care for them, and that God cares for them
01:15and to resist the horrible spirit of anti-Semitism which is rising up in our nation.
01:20And you see this all over the place.
01:22You see this in these demonstrations which take place week after week in London,
01:26the red-green alliance, as I call it, of the far left and the Islamists
01:31who scream their hatred of Jewish people and of Israel.
01:35One of the ladies at the meeting yesterday said that they go down every week
01:39and stand whenever they have the demonstrations and stand for Israel in what they call,
01:44was it against hate?
01:48Stop the hate, that's what they call it.
01:49Yeah, stop the hate movement.
01:51And she described how when the demonstration goes past,
01:56this venom and the hatred which they receive as people standing for Israel
02:00and Jewish people is quite horrible to discern.
02:03And you saw just recently at Plastonbury this terrible event
02:08where the man stood up and cursing Israel and saying,
02:11free, free Palestine, death, death to the IDF,
02:14and saying, inshallah, from the baribou to the sea, Palestine will be free.
02:20In other words, there will be a Palestinian state and no state of Israel.
02:23And all the time we're seeing events which are showing shocking anti-Semitism taking place.
02:29Just last week, there was an event in Spain
02:34where some Jewish teenagers from France got on a plane.
02:38I think it was a whaling plane going to go from Valencia to south of France.
02:43And they got on the plane and they started singing Hebrew songs.
02:47Next thing which happened, they were turfed off the plane by the pilot
02:50who said that they were terrorists and they were disrupting the peace
02:53and they were left stranded on Valencia Airport.
02:57And a shocking event.
03:00And can you imagine if they'd done that to a group of Muslims on the plane?
03:05And yet the Jewish children were thrown off the plane
03:07just because they were singing some Hebrew songs.
03:09And it just tells you something about the spirit which is at work in our society today.
03:14Hatred of Israel, hatred of the Jewish people.
03:18And the main reason for this hatred, of course, is what's taking place in the Middle East,
03:22particularly the events in Gaza and the amount of propaganda
03:29which is coming against Israel for their treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza,
03:34which is leading people to hatred and cursing of Israel.
03:39It's reminded of the prophecy of Balaam in the Book of Numbers
03:44who was sent by the King Balak to curse Israel.
03:47But God turned his curses to blessing.
03:51And it reminds us that God wants the people, body of people today
03:53who will not curse Israel but bless them and stand by them.
03:58But look at that verse in Numbers chapter 23
04:01where Balaam takes up his oracle.
04:05He's been hired to curse Israel.
04:08But as he opens his mouth to curse Israel, God turns his curses into blessings.
04:12And he took up his oracle and said,
04:15Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,
04:17from the mountains of the east.
04:18Come curse Jacob for me, come denounce Israel.
04:21How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
04:23How shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?
04:27From the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him.
04:31There are people dwelling alone, not reckoning itself among the nations.
04:35Who can count the dust of Jacob or number one-fourth of Israel?
04:38Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his.
04:45So he sets out to curse Israel, but God turns his curses to blessing.
04:50And he says, there are people dwelling alone,
04:53not reckoning itself among the nations.
04:57And increasingly that is how Israel stands today,
04:59is people dwelling alone, not being reckoned among the nations.
05:04And even with Moab to try and disenfranchise Israel,
05:08and move them out of the UN, and make them not even a nation.
05:13And the end actually is to destroy Israel as a nation.
05:17And we see much of the world cursing Israel.
05:21Much of it based on false information and false reporting.
05:26Cursing Israel, not Hamas, who are responsible for the trouble.
05:30And despite the cursing and the trouble,
05:34the word of God indicates an ultimate good ending for Israel,
05:38at least for the redeemed in Israel.
05:41I'm going to be a little bit political now,
05:42so we'll leave the word of God for a moment,
05:45and look at some of the things which are happening.
05:47I'm sure you're aware, if you watch the news of all the events taking place in Gaza,
05:51and the way in which this is being used to make people view Israel as a terrorist state,
06:02as a state committing atrocities, committing genocide,
06:07and causing famine in the land of Israel, amongst the Gazans.
06:13I'm just going to read a part of an article from the Jewish News Service, JNS.
06:18It says pictures of starving children are horrifying
06:22and motivate decent people to do anything to relieve their suffering.
06:26This sentiment is driving the current diplomatic offensive against Israel,
06:30in which much of Europe is demanding that the Jewish state end the war against Hamas
06:34on virtually any terms in order to stop the suffering of Gazans.
06:39The food crisis has been manufactured by Hamas
06:41through tactics designed to hijack and or obstruct the delivery of supplies
06:46to those Gazans who needed them.
06:47This succeeded in increasing sympathy for the Palestinian clause
06:51and criticism of Israel.
06:54It's important to understand what created the food shortage in Gaza.
06:59Contrary to the misleading stories in the corporate media,
07:01it's not because Israel is preventing food from getting into Gaza
07:05or because of a mythical effort to perpetuate a genocide there.
07:09The main cause of the problem is the price of food
07:12rather than its unavailability.
07:14The price of flour, the most essential consumer good,
07:18has undergone an 80-fold increase since the start of the war.
07:21The cause of that out-of-control inflation of prices
07:24was not an Israeli effort to prevent flour from entering Gaza,
07:27but they wanted to give it away free.
07:29The problem has been that Hamas has been stealing the aid
07:32that comes into Gaza,
07:34then either hoarding it for their own cadres
07:36and or selling it at exorbitant prices
07:38to the Palestinian civilians.
07:41UN agencies that are driven by their support
07:43for the Palestinian war on Israel
07:45have been claiming that Israel doesn't let convoys of aid trucks
07:48into Gaza.
07:50But the plain fact is that,
07:51as repeatedly has been the case since the conflict began,
07:54more than 900 trucks packed with supplies
07:56intended for needy Palestinians
07:58have already entered Gaza
07:59and are in the hands of the UN.
08:02Yet their contents are not being distributed,
08:04something verified by the press.
08:07Israel has offered the world body
08:09five different routes for the distribution of the food,
08:11though none have been accepted or acted upon.
08:14The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,
08:17called the GHF,
08:19the organization created by the United States and Israel
08:21to make up for the failure of the UN aid agencies
08:24to do their job in Gaza,
08:26is also seeking to provide more food
08:28and to hand it over to the people.
08:30But again, the UN groups are doing nothing
08:32while working overtime to spread the blood libel
08:34that it is Israel that is causing Gazans to starve.
08:38Hamas is also responsible for the problems
08:40that the GHF have encountered
08:41and claims that Israel is slaughtering Palestinians
08:44who come to it for aid.
08:46You may have seen that,
08:48that they put it on the BBC,
08:49the Palestinians come for aid
08:50and the Israelis are shooting them.
08:53This is what this article says is happening.
08:55Since the GFH began its efforts
08:58to get around the logjam created by both Hamas,
09:01hijackings of convoys,
09:02and the stalling of UN agencies,
09:04the terrorists have deliberately created situations
09:07in which the crowds attempting to access the aid
09:09have either been attacked or infiltrated
09:11with Hamas operatives.
09:13That has resulted in repeated instances
09:15in which Israeli troops guarding the distribution efforts
09:18have come under threat
09:19and responded by firing into the air.
09:22Inevitably, that means some casualties
09:23to the mobs rushing towards them,
09:26which have been augmented by Hamas fire.
09:28The numbers of those hurt or killed
09:30in these unfortunate incidents
09:31and then inflated out of all proportion to reality
09:34has been true of all casualty numbers
09:37produced by the Hamas-ran Gaza Health Ministry.
09:41This has further damaged Israel's image abroad,
09:44adding to more fuel to the fire
09:46of post-October the 7th global surge
09:48in anti-Semitism rooted in fraudulent smears
09:51about genocide.
09:53This shortage of food
09:55is entirely the fault of Hamas.
09:58This point has eluded
09:59our hapless Foreign Secretary, David Lamy,
10:03and most of the political class
10:04and media in this country.
10:07Conn Cochlin, writing in the Daily Telegraph,
10:09said,
10:09Lamy believes that the enduring catastrophe
10:11that has engulfed Gaza
10:12since October the 7th attacks in 2023
10:16is the fault of the Israeli government
10:18and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
10:22Commenting after the UK
10:23had joined 27 other countries,
10:25including Canada, France, and Australia,
10:27in issuing a statement condemning Israel
10:29for depriving Palestinians in Gaza
10:31of their human dignity,
10:33Lamy's hyperbole knew no bounds
10:34as he declared that he was sickened,
10:37appalled by Israel's conduct,
10:38and his gross targeting
10:39of sub-starving Palestinians.
10:42Lamenting the fact that the UK
10:43had neither the power nor influence
10:45to end the conflict,
10:46he warned he was prepared
10:47to impose further sanctions
10:48against Israel
10:49if hostilities did not end soon.
10:52Throughout this seemingly endless
10:54anti-Israel diatribe on the BBC,
10:56at no point did Lamy make any reference
10:58to Hamas
10:58and the pernicious role the group has played
11:01in willfully disrupting
11:03the aid supplies to Palestinian civilians
11:06in Gaza.
11:06There was no condemnation
11:08of the campaign of tyranny
11:09Hamas continues to exercise
11:11over Gaza's civilian population,
11:14nor any mention of freezing the assets
11:16of the wealthy Hamas terrorist masterminds
11:18hold up in Qatar.
11:21So basically we've got a government
11:23which is basing its actions
11:25upon Hamas propaganda,
11:28attacking Israel,
11:30and denying the truth.
11:32And of course they're fed all this
11:33by BBC,
11:35by the civil service,
11:35by all the people
11:36who are acting
11:37against the interests of Israel
11:41and ultimately against the interests
11:42of this country
11:43because it says in the Bible
11:44I bless those who bless you
11:45and curse those who curse you.
11:47So more and more
11:48as Britain becomes anti-Israel
11:50and our Prime Secretary
11:51takes this very negative
11:53and aggressive action
11:54towards Israel,
11:55bringing this country
11:56under the curse of God
11:57and more and more trouble
11:58is going to come to us.
12:03So, what's the answer?
12:05They say that Israel
12:05should actually accept
12:08Hamas' demands,
12:09bring an end to the war,
12:10that will bring an end
12:10to the suffering of the Gazans.
12:12Will that take place?
12:14If Hamas reigns in power,
12:17which really is what
12:18the nations are working towards,
12:21including the UN,
12:22including our own government,
12:24and certainly most
12:27of the European governments,
12:28especially France,
12:29if that happens,
12:31will it mean that the people
12:34of Gaza will be set free?
12:36No.
12:37They will be under the control
12:39of the terrorists
12:39who will get away
12:41with not only starting the war
12:43and committing
12:43unspeakable atrocities
12:44but manufacturing a famine
12:46and will continue to be paid
12:48in the blood of Jews and Arabs
12:50if the terrorists
12:51achieve their objective.
12:52So, that's the situation
12:54which is facing Israel today.
12:56And because of this,
12:57we see what is really
12:59a prophetic event
13:00taking place
13:01as the world turns against Israel,
13:03puts this pressure upon Israel,
13:04and is trying to push Israel
13:05towards the point
13:06in which they have to
13:07give in to the terrorists,
13:09which would mean ultimately,
13:12in the end,
13:12surrendering the state of Israel,
13:15bringing it to an end.
13:16Because Hamas' aim
13:17has never changed.
13:18It is to destroy
13:19and to remove
13:20the state of Israel
13:21from the map.
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