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[tense music]
- [Narrator] "Then another sign appeared in heaven,
an enormous red dragon."
Revelation 12:3.
[tense music continues]
[birds chirping] [bright music]
[Adhan echoes]
[rockets whizzing] [Hamas militants shouting]
[intense music]
[explosions blasting]
[people shouting]
[explosions blasting] [people screaming]
[crowd shouting in foreign language]
[intense music continues]
[people shouting and crying]
- [Dinesh] Once again, an armed attack in the Middle East.
[somber music] But this time, it's different.
[crowd shouting in foreign language]
Palestinians celebrated as Hamas terrorists
paraded their prisoners through Gaza,
of which many were women and children.
- [Netanyahu] October 7th is a day
that will forever live in infamy.
[somber music]
They raped women.
They beheaded men.
They killed parents in front of their children
and children in front of their parents.
It was the bloodiest attack on the Jewish people
since the Holocaust.
- [Dinesh] 1,200 murdered,
250 taken hostage.
[somber music continues]
The Israelis intercepted a call from a Hamas terrorist
during the attack.
- [Hamas Militant's Father] Hello.
[somber music continues]
- Rafaela Treistman and her boyfriend,
Ranani Glazer, were at the Nova Festival
three miles from the Gaza border.
You came here on October 7th for a music festival.
- [Rafaela] My boyfriend, Ranani, was crazy
about this type of parties. [energetic music]
So you had artists from all around the world
and people from all around the world.
- When did you get the first indication
that something was wrong?
- [Rafaela] I mean, we're all dancing and happy
and we were in front of the main stage.
The sun started to come up
and everybody started to feel more and more energized,
and, suddenly, the music just stopped.
[crowd shouting]
[explosions booming]
- Yeah. - And then we started
hearing a lot of rockets and we started seeing from Gaza,
which is from there.
[person speaking in foreign language]
- A lot of rockets in the sky.
And we started running.
[tense music]
[camera person shouting in foreign language]
[gunfire popping]
[crowd shouting in foreign language]
We went to the 233 road,
which nowadays, is known as the Death Road.
And we started running and searching for shelter
because in every bus station, you have a road shelter,
which is basically this small blocks of cement with no door.
And we got into one of those
and hoped that would be all the protection that we need,
and we were wrong.
We sat at the very back of the shelter,
and a few minutes after,
a lot of people started to come inside.
And we became to be 40 people.
- Yeah. - Very claustrophobic
and one person on top of the other, and we couldn't breathe.
[tense music continues]
When they got there, the first thing that they did
was to murder a police officer
that we heard screaming from the outside of the shelter.
[gunfire popping]
Everyone that tried to get outside, was shot at.
[gunfire popping]
Now they threw inside gas grenades,
shrapnel grenades, hand grenades.
[explosions booming]
And they started taking people out
and burning bodies outside.
- And what are you doing?
Are you crouching down? - I was in the floor
under people. - Are you at the bottom?
- And they were just piled
on top of you? - Yes.
- It was just a huge mess and blood everywhere and parts
and people dismembered and very badly injured.
And I just stayed like that for about five hours.
Out of the 40 people, only 10 survived.
So, 30 were murdered inside of the shelter.
[somber music]
Ranani also tried to get out.
When I got out, I saw Ranani's body on the entrance.
- How have you recovered psychologically?
- It's very hard to believe what happened,
even though I was there and seen with my own eyes
and seeing them laughing and killing and having fun with it,
and when they would actually get inside to shoot people,
they were laughing, but laughing
like someone told the best joke that you ever heard.
- Is that to you, almost like a definition of true evil?
- Yeah, I couldn't see a soul.
It's only darkness.
- [Dinesh] A glimpse into the mind of a Hamas militant.
- [Dinesh] The Israeli Defense Forces
interrogate a terrorist who attacked a kibbutz.
[tense music]
- That's Gaza.
I didn't expect to be here.
When we came to Israel, our friends said,
"What are you doing?
There's a war going on.
You're not going to go to Gaza, are you?"
We said, "Of course not."
But here we are.
[people shouting urgently]
[gunfire popping] [tense music continues]
Hamas attacked 19 kibbutz communities
[people shouting] during October 7th.
[gentle music]
One was Nahal Oz near the Gaza border.
Lishay Miran, a mother and wife,
was there on that fateful day.
Lishay, the very short time we have been here
at your house, we hear these loud explosions.
[explosion booming] There you go. Right there.
- Well, this is our life.
[intense music]
[explosions blasting]
[people shouting]
- [Dinesh] While we were filming near the Gaza border,
the IDF was targeting terrorists.
Machine gun fire and artillery rounds were constant.
How far is it from here to the Gaza border?
- We are 700 meters from Gaza border.
- 700 meters. - Yeah, that's it.
- [Dinesh] On October 7th, what happened?
- We were here in our home.
[sirens wailing] When everything starts,
we go to our safe room.
- [Dinesh] Lishay, her husband Omri,
and two children sheltered in place.
- [Lishay] But around 9:00,
[people speaking in foreign language]
we start to hear the shooting and the yelling.
[explosions blasting] [gunfire popping]
[Hamas militants speaking in foreign language]
- At 10:30, they get into our home from the window,
and Alma was in my arms.
I put my hand on her mouth
because I really scared that she start to yelling or crying.
[Hamas militants speaking foreign language]
- And after two minutes,
we hear a lot of people inside our home,
they start to yelling at us to get out from the safe room.
- [Dinesh] Meanwhile, Lishay's neighbors
are being held captive.
- [Hamas Militant] Come with me.
Come with me. - No.
- [Hamas Militant] Talk to her to open the door.
- [Dinesh] The terrorists themselves
livestreamed the video.
[people shouting in foreign language]
- [Dinesh] The neighbor's son is forced to Lishay's home.
- And then, we hear a voice in Hebrew,
"Please open the door because if you don't open the door,
they are going to kill you and they're going to kill me,
so please open the door."
- You recognize the voice?
- Yeah, we recognized the voice.
We decide to open the door,
and then we see that we have inside our little home,
five monsters.
[intense music continues]
They took us to another home.
And then we sitting over there, two families together.
[explosion blasting]
- [Dinesh] The terrorists killed the teenage boy,
[gunfire popping]
whose name is Tomer Arava.
Then they kidnapped Lishay's husband.
- They just took him.
- And you haven't seen him since?
[somber music]
- No. - No?
[gentle music]
- [Lishay] But we are still waiting.
[baby laughing]
- And if she says to you, "Where is my dad?
Where's my father?"
What is your answer to her now?
- [Lishay] Told her that daddy in Gaza.
[Omri speaking in foreign language]
- This is a propaganda video
released by Hamas the day we interviewed Lishay.
What do you think is the driving force
behind this kind of barbaric and evil behavior?
- I can't really understand this.
You know, if I don't want to get into the devil
and the monsters' mind.
You know, all this was blood,
and there is a body over there, and we saw all the things.
- Things you don't expect to see in your lifetime, right?
- Not me, and, of course, not my children.
[gentle music continues]
The Jewish always say, "Never again."
But unfortunately, never again happened in October 7th.
They came here to our kibbutz, to our home.
They burn, they rape, they killed,
they kidnapped people and children.
[tense music]
- [Dinesh] I'm walking along the Gaza border,
which was overrun by terrorists on October 7th.
It's an eerie feeling.
This is a region where there seem to be no solutions,
and there is not even a clear idea of what the problems are.
[explosions blasting]
Israel has been blowing up targets here for two years,
since October 7th.
But the war is bigger than Gaza.
These are rockets
recently fired by Iran, [sirens wailing]
the chief foreign backer of Hamas,
which were a response to Israel
targeting Iranian nuclear facilities,
military sites, scientists, and military leadership.
[tense music continues]
Then the U.S. got involved.
- A short time ago,
the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes
on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime.
God bless the Middle East, God bless Israel,
and God bless America.
[intense music]
- [Dinesh] For the Jews,
these conflicts have been going on
since the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.
For Iran, it goes back to 1979,
when the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power
and radical Islam captured its first major state.
But in some ways, the conflict has deeper roots.
It goes back to the founding of Islam itself,
in the seventh century.
Islam has not lost the force of its original revelation.
The Jews claim to be the original inhabitants of this land,
going back to the time of Abraham.
- [Dinesh] Yet, all of this is highly contested.
[people shouting] Globally, the political left
blames Israel for the conflict and supports
[people shouting] the Palestinian claim
to the land of Israel, from the river to the sea.
- Today we're here to highlight the human cost
of the occupation.
- Occupation of Palestine.
- I mean, what does occupation mean?
Taking people's land,
taking people's livelihood away from them.
- [Dinesh] Most Muslims and others, too,
believe Israel is the colonizer and occupier of stolen land.
There's even a skeptical faction on the political right.
- Where does my support for Israel come from?
Number one, because biblically,
we are commanded to support Israel,
but number two- - We're commanded
as Christians to support the government of Israel?
- We are commanded to support Israel,
and we're told- - What does that mean, Israel?
- We're told those who bless Israel will be blessed, but-
- But what? Hold on, define Israel.
- Do you not know what Israel is?
- That's what God is talking about
in Genesis. - The nation of Israel, yes.
- So, is that the current borders, the current leadership?
He's talking about the political entity called Israel?
- He's talking about the nation of Israel.
Yeah, nations exists, and He is discussing a nation.
A nation was the people of Israel.
- Is the nation- They're the descendants
of Abram. - that God is referring to
in Genesis, is that the same as the country
run by Benjamin Netanyahu right now?
- [Senator Cruz] Yes. Yes.
[pensive music]
- [Dinesh] So, who are the Jews?
Who are the Palestinians?
And whose land is it, really?
Jerusalem is the holiest place on earth,
a sacred site for three of the world's great religions,
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
It's the most disputed piece of real estate
on Planet Earth.
Here, nothing is ever solved or resolved.
What did the scriptures tell us about this place?
Are today's conflicts connected
to what the Bible calls the end times?
Could the fate of the world, of humanity itself,
be somehow tied to this place?
And how does America fit into the picture?
[Iranian leadership yelling in foreign language]
- [Dinesh] The Iranian rulers identify America
[people shouting] as the ultimate target,
the great Satan.
- They're chanting "Death to America" all around me,
even as I say, "Oh, I'm an American reporting for CNN."
And they were happy to speak to me.
So, those two sort of jarring realities of the chant,
and yet, the friendliness, have existed together.
- [Dinesh] Like her, many Americans don't get it.
What we do know is it's a battle between good and evil.
But who is good and who is evil?
How can good prevail over evil without becoming evil itself?
We need a new way to understand these mysteries.
A secret key to unlock the problem and the solution.
[tense music]
[gentle music]
For this, we turn to Jonathan Cahn.
He is a Jew of a unique type, a Jewish follower of Jesus.
He is the founder and leader
of the Beth Israel Worship Center in New Jersey.
He's the author of many bestselling books,
including "The Dragon's Prophecy."
His book reveals that behind the conflicts we see before us,
there is a cosmic battle raging for the human soul.
- It seems to me, Jonathan,
one of the unique aspects of your work
is the way in which you use the Bible
as a kind of interpretive key
to unlock the significance of large current events.
- The Bible gives a premise that God is behind the world.
He operates in the world.
He uses history, He uses world events.
- And we can interpret current events
in the light of what came before-
- Mm-hmm. - But also
in the light of what's coming.
- There's actually a pattern and a purpose and a destiny.
For instance, October 7th.
- Is an event of biblical significance.
- It is. There is so much to it.
When it happened, where it happened, how it happened.
All these things,
there are literally biblical mysteries behind them.
- Let's talk about the Jews,
we know as the ancient Israelites,
but we also know them as the Jewish people
that are in Israel today.
Those are one and the same people,
aren't they? - Yes.
[gentle music]
And the Bible says that the Jewish people,
they're going to be scattered to the ends of the earth.
- They're gonna wander from nation to nation.
They're gonna be persecuted from nation to nation.
In the latter days, God says, "I will gather them back."
- [News Announcer] On May 14th, 1948,
the new government headed by David Ben-Gurion,
is installed in Tel Aviv.
Thus, for the first time
since the Roman Legion destroyed Jerusalem
in the year 70 A.D.,
the Jewish people have a nation of their own.
- As a shepherd gathers his flock,
I will bring them back to the land of Israel,
and the land of Israel will again blossom.
- Is there any other people of whom it could be said
that they dispersed? - Totally.
- And yet, they reconverged, not 10 years later,
not even 100 years later. - No.
Thousands.
And on top of it,
their own scriptures foretold it before it happened exactly.
- You make the striking point that
when the Bible talks about the Jews as the chosen people,
it's not as if God did a quick inventory
of all the people around the world and said,
"Oh yeah, I'm gonna choose those guys."
- You know, the Bible does say "chosen,"
but God called them into existence.
Jewish existence is a testimony, is a witness,
because they would never exist if it wasn't for God,
and they would never still exist if it wasn't for God.
So that's why the Jewish people never fit into the world.
Even that is in the Bible.
Israel, a nation that people that dwell apart,
there's something different about them,
and that is because of this.
They're in this world for a purpose.
- And what is that purpose?
- To bear witness of God,
but also as a vessel to bring into the world
the purposes of God and to fulfill them.
Through them, came the Word of God to the world.
Through them, came the gospel to the world, and Messiah.
- Prophets. - The prophets-
- Yeah, the 10 commandments. - The Psalms, all of it.
Yeah, the law, the sense of morality,
all came through this little, tiny people.
Yes, that's exactly why they exist.
And that's also why
they are the most persecuted people on earth.
- Now, in no way are you saying
that the Jews are sort of better.
Even the great figures of the Hebrew Scriptures,
they're flawed men, right? - Mm-hmm.
A vessel doesn't mean that this thing is better or worse.
It means it's being used.
And so the Jewish people are not better or worse,
but they are being used.
[intense music]
- [Dinesh] October 7th reveals this ongoing clash
between Jews on the one side
and the Palestinians on the other.
You expose the way in which this conflict
is a recreation, even a resurrection,
of a more ancient conflict. [people screaming]
- The nation of Israel is a resurrected nation.
So, what if there was gonna be a resurrection
of another people, an enemy people of Israel?
Ancient enemies of Israel were called the Philistines,
or the Philistia.
Goliath was a Philistine. They warred for ages and ages.
[intense music continues]
And they disappeared.
But what if they were brought back?
The word Palestinian literally means the Philistines.
In fact, the way you say Palestinian in Arabic is Filastini,
or the Filastin people.
It's literally a people named after
the ancient enemies of Israel.
The ancient Philistines were headquartered in a region
that was called Philistia in the Bible.
Today, it's called the Gaza Strip.
- I mean, the Bible names the Philistine cities.
One of them is, in fact, Gaza.
- Everything is back to where it was in ancient times.
- Remarkably, the Israelites had many enemies,
the Hittites, the Moabites,
of course, the Assyrians, the Babylonians,
and so on. - Yes.
- But it seems like the Philistines were a persistent,
and maybe in some ways,
the most long-lasting enemy of Israel.
- And the prophets, when it speaks about the Philistines,
it says, "You have this ancient hatred,
this vengeance for Israel."
[warriors shouting]
- That whole hatred has been revived.
You have a people there, almost, who are set
for the purpose of attacking or delegitimizing Israel.
The same atrocities that the Philistines did
were done on October 7th.
It does go back to the ancient parallels.
[intense music]
The ancient Philistines,
they trained their children to be child soldiers.
When David was talking to Saul, said,
"I'm gonna fight this giant."
Saul says to him, "You know, no, you can't.
This one has been a man of war since his childhood."
- [Cahn] So now you have the same culture developing
among the people called Philistines,
that they are training their children to be soldiers.
- [Dinesh] On October 7th, they took captives.
[people shouting] - [Cahn] Yes.
- [Dinesh] And they brought 'em back to Gaza?
[people shouting] - [Cahn] Yes.
- Does that evoke a biblical memory?
- Yes.
The Bible records that the Philistines would launch attacks
from that land to the Israeli villages
that were kind of a borderlands there
and they would take them back
to Philistia, or the Gaza Strip.
One of the most famous stories of the Bible
is the story of Samson,
and he represents the strength of Israel.
Well, the people of Gaza
try to take down the strength of Israel.
They actually blind him.
- The Israeli Defense Forces said, you know,
October 7th, what happened is the invaders blinded Israel.
- [News Announcer] Dozens of Palestinian commandos
advanced toward the Israeli border.
They blinded surveillance cameras
and Israeli defense systems. [explosions blasting]
They continued using drones
to target telecommunications infrastructure.
The aim was to blind the Israeli army as fast as possible.
[people shouting]
- [Cahn] They take Samson to Gaza.
And so, he's the first, you know, hostage of Gaza, really,
that we know of in the Bible.
Then, it says they made a spectacle of him.
That happened also with October 7th.
[crowd yelling] [intense music]
- It's not an accident
that October 7th was a convergence
of three Hebrew holy days. [gentle music]
It was an exact timing
because it's linked to the calendar of God.
One of the Hebrew holidays on that day
was called Simchat Torah.
Simchat means joy.
On the day of joy, the enemy strikes Israel,
takes away that joy,
makes it from a day of joy to a day of mourning.
But in the camps of the enemies of Israel,
in Gaza, in the West Bank and throughout the Islamic world,
they have celebrations.
It was the devil's holiday.
The enemy takes the things of God and he desecrates them.
- [Chant Leader] From the river to the sea...
- [Crowd] Palestine will be free!
- [Chant Leader] From the river to the sea...
- [Crowd] Palestine will be free!
- [Chant Leader] From the river to the sea...
[gentle music] - When they say
from the river to the sea,
they're speaking about the destruction of Israel,
'cause those are the borders of Israel,
but it comes from thousands of years ago
when God gave Abraham and his descendants,
He promised them the land,
He said, "I've given it to you from the river to the sea."
So now the enemy takes God's word,
which is a promise to Israel, inverts it to attack Israel,
and it becomes a chant against Israel.
- They think that they are the tools of God.
- Yes.
- And that's why they keep saying,
"We're doing this in the name of Allah."
I thought, how could someone be so deceived?
And then it hit me: Satan is a deceiver.
In fact, look at his name, right, Lucifer.
What does his name mean? Light.
So the Prince of Darkness camouflages himself
as a prince of light.
- [Cahn] Yes.
- Evil never shows itself explicitly as evil.
It never declares its intentions,
it always masquerades as good, doesn't it?
- That's the nature of evil.
[bright music]
- [Dinesh] The devil is the inverter of God.
You call him
the inverted angel? - Yes. Yes.
Everything is in reverse.
- The battles that we see are the surface
of a great spiritual battle.
- Yes.
- That is the primordial battle
between God and Satan,
the battle that goes back to the very beginning.
- It all goes back to that.
- There's evil in the world,
and the force of evil in Hebrew is called Shaitan,
means the opposer, the adversary.
We take that into English as Satan,
and in Greek it was called Diabolos,
the one who casts against you.
Well, it becomes the word diabolical and the word devil.
[gentle music]
If the Jewish people, if their existence on earth,
bears witness that God is real,
their history bears witness also that the devil is real.
He opposes the plans of God.
What are you gonna have? You're gonna have a war.
Ezekiel foretold a war.
And he says it'll happen when Israel
has gathered back from the nations.
He talks about an alliance of nations
that will invade the land.
Well, one of them is Sudan. He calls it Cush.
The amazing thing is that Sudan had a part in October 7th.
Another one is called Phut,
which today is Libya, North Africa.
Libya also was behind October 7th.
Asia Minor and Turkey.
Turkey also had a big part in October 7th, in funding it,
and the other one he mentions is Paros, which is Iran,
which is the key of all this.
The Iranian revolution
actually moved us into Bible prophecy,
because now Iran is the archenemy of Israel.
All these nations that Ezekiel actually mentions
tells us we are aligning up
specifically with Bible prophecy.
It is racing forward.
- And the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
depicted in the book of Revelation.
You speak about the colors of the apocalypse.
[horse hooves beating] - The first horse,
it says was white, which linked to conquest.
The second is red,
linked to war. [horse whinnies]
The third one is black,
which represents famine. [somber music]
[horse whinnies] And the last one,
the fourth one is green, or pale green,
which represents death.
[horses wailing] The amazing thing is
the colors of the apocalypse
have actually been manifesting in our world as never before,
because the flag of Palestine is white for the white horse,
red for the red horse, black for the black horse,
and green for the green horse,
the colors of the apocalypse.
- [Dinesh] Now let's talk about the dragon.
- The Bible speaks about this whole war
as a dragon, representing the enemy,
attacking a woman, representing Israel.
- But you also have a child.
It strikes me that's
the Messiah. - Yeah.
- It's absolutely.
It says a child, who then is going to rule the world
and who is caught up in heaven,
so it clearly is Messiah.
The dragon in the vision wants to destroy that child.
When the dragon cannot destroy the child,
the dragon turns his wrath against the woman.
[gentle music continues]
- [Dinesh] To me, this evokes the garden of Eden.
Satan cannot take any direct revenge on God.
God is stronger than Satan,
so Satan targets the beloved creation of God, namely man.
- Yes, as God's purposes were focused through Israel,
so the enemy's hatred is focused on the same thing.
It's exactly what we'd expect.
- [Dinesh] And the dragon, you say,
is the original antisemite? - Yes.
- The dragon is conducting through antisemitism,
his war against God himself.
- Yes.
- Hamas, they don't call it October 7th.
They call it Operation Toofan.
Toofan means The Flood.
What we witnessed that day, that was the dragon's flood.
- The name Hamas
has a biblical significance.
- Yeah, Hamas is a strange word. It's an Arabic word.
At the same moment, it's an ancient Hebrew word.
In Arabic, it's an acronym
for the Islamic Resistance Movement.
Also in Arabic, it means fervor, zeal, passion.
In ancient Hebrew,
Hamas means evil, violence, and destruction.
And it actually appears in the Bible.
You'll have a scripture that says,
"Lord, save me from the men of Hamas.
Hamas dwells in the dark places of the earth.
Rid Hamas from the land."
- [Narrator] "And the earth was filled with violence."
Genesis 6:11.
[gentle music continues]
- So it's all, again, part of an ancient mystery.
- October 7th, the people doing the atrocities,
filmed the atrocities. [tense music]
And not only that, but broadcast 'em,
[people shouting] which is to say that they
were proud of them, [people whistling]
and they met with a joyous reception.
[horn honking] [crowd shouting]
[intense music]
Even the Nazis, who did horrible things, tried to hide them.
The death camps, for example,
are by and large, not in Germany,
they are in occupied Poland.
- [Cahn] The Nazis were coming up
in a, quote, Christian culture,
so they knew they would be condemned.
This is gonna sound kind of crazy, but it's true.
Adolf Hitler had a part in October 7th.
- How so?
- The War of the Dragon is over ages.
And so he raises up one vessel.
They go down, take the next one, just like a relay race.
And so we'd expect to see some kind of passing of the torch.
There was a guy named the Mufti of Jerusalem.
Hated the Jewish people. [bright music]
- [News Announcer] Unrest in Palestine.
Suspecting that the Higher Committee
had incited Arab leaders to start a holy war
against the British government.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem,
head of the Muslim Supreme Council, was deprived of office.
- He fled and he ends up in Germany.
He meets with Adolf Hitler.
He wants Hitler to bring the Holocaust to the Middle East.
So Hitler says he will, when the time is right.
After the war,
the mufti is going to be put on trial at Nuremberg.
But he escapes, goes to Egypt.
He's hailed as a hero.
He becomes the one who's known
as the Father of Palestinian Nationalism.
Here, you have a direct link from Berlin to Gaza.
He finds an Egyptian teenager,
takes him under his wing, mentors him,
trains him, disciples him.
The Egyptian teenager's name is Yasser Arafat.
Yasser Arafat becomes the leader
of the Palestinian movement.
[Hitler shouting in German]
- Hitler supported and sponsored and mentored
the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Muslim Brotherhood gave birth to Hamas.
[group shouting]
- So this is Adolf Hitler's book
translated to Arabic, "Mein Kampf."
This book
[soldier speaks foreign language]
was found just a few days ago in northern Gaza,
in a children's living room.
It's the book that led to the Holocaust
and the book that led to World War II.
[gentle music]
- [Dinesh] Right now, in Israel,
you have the most important structure in Jerusalem,
in Israel, perhaps in the world,
and that is the Temple Mount.
At the very top of the Temple Mount sits a mosque,
a great conquest by the dragon.
- It's really the ground zero of end time prophecy.
It's called the Temple Mount for the reason
that in the temple is to be rebuilt there,
that mountain shall be lifted up in the end times,
all nations will come to it.
Messiah will rule from that mountain.
The Kingdom of God is linked to that mountain.
So what is the enemy gonna do?
In the Prophets, the enemy says,
"I will sit on that mountain."
- [Dinesh] This then is the real colonialism.
Islam has colonized and occupied the holiest site
in Judaism and Christianity.
- That temple represented the throne of God on earth.
So, he's gonna try to take the throne.
And you have the Eastern Gate.
The Bible links the Eastern Gate to Messiah coming.
But what happened with the Eastern Gate of the Temple Mount?
The Muslims blocked it up so nobody could come through.
[laughs] Like, we're gonna stop the purpose of God.
Behind October 7th was actually the Temple Mount.
- What is that connection?
- Months before October 7th,
there was an intention that there were Jewish worshipers
who wanted to go on the Mount
and celebrate Passover on the mountain,
which is where you're supposed to celebrate it,
with a lamb. [intense music]
All hell broke loose.
[crowd shouting in foreign language]
After October 7th, Hamas issued a statement.
They said it was because you, Israel,
desecrated our holy place.
And in one of those things it said,
because of the red heifers.
- So the Bible speaks about in times of Moses and Aaron,
red heifers being part of the ritualistic sacrifice.
Red heifers in the temple [tense music]
would be a pretty telltale sign of the last days.
- Yeah, the red heifers.
They haven't existed, but all of a sudden,
they found about five of them.
- [News Announcer] These are the red heifers that landed
at Israel's Ben-Gurion airport.
Rabbis believe the ashes of a red heifer
are necessary for purified priests
to serve in a future temple.
- The dragon went crazy, because he knows what this means.
And the answer was October 7th.
So, we are watching again end-time prophecy.
The Bible speaks of an end-time state,
a one-world form of culture or civilization
that is gonna be anti-Christian
and anti-Jewish, anti-Israel.
And the Bible also speaks of a figure called the Antichrist,
or the beast.
- And you're saying that Christ came into the world
2,000 years ago.
The Antichrist is yet to come.
- The spirit of the Antichrist comes first
and leads to his coming.
So already in the world, you can see the spirit of this,
the hatred for the Jewish people.
People will be without natural affection,
it says in the Bible.
Well, it's moving from say, natural to unnatural.
And so, it's a war against the ways of God,
but also the creation of God.
A war against manhood, against womanhood, against marriage,
against family, against life,
against childhood, against reality.
And we are watching all of it come at the same time.
- We've been talking about the Bible
as an interpretive key to world events.
But how do we know we can trust the Bible
as a reliable source of truth?
[bright music] Eric Metaxas
is a scholar and commentator
who has studied the topic of biblical archeology
and written a book about it, "Is Atheism Dead?"
Eric, for centuries,
the Bible was seen by many people
as something that you took on faith,
but particularly for skeptics,
the characters of the Bible
were seen as mythic figures,
maybe similar to the figures of Greek mythology.
- But it's only really since the Enlightenment
that this idea has come into being that,
oh, yeah, King David, he's a mythical king like King Arthur.
In the last century and a half, that idea began to unravel.
Just the archeological evidence for the Bible
as a historical document
has become genuinely overwhelming.
There's example after example after example.
It only moves in one direction.
It never happens that somebody
discovers something from archeology,
we see that the Bible is wrong.
Just the opposite.
[bright music continues]
- When you go back to the Old Testament,
we're talking about 1,000,
1,200 years before Christ. - Mm-hmm.
- One would expect that a lot of that
has been lost in the mist of time.
For example, the ancient enemies of Israel.
- Right. - You have the Canaanites,
the Hittites, the Moabites. - Yeah. Yeah.
- 'Cause I mean, we've heard of the Assyrians.
- Right. - We've heard
of the Babylonians. - Yeah.
But whoever heard of the Hittites?
- No one believed the Hittites existed.
But then evidence came out, more and more and more,
and over many decades, they pieced it all together,
and they thought, "Oh, the Hittite Empire."
[bright music continues]
[water splashing]
- Let's talk about some
of the remarkable findings [people chattering faintly]
that validate the New Testament.
Pontius Pilate is a figure who does not appear
in any historical document, outside of the Bible.
He was in the Bible- - Right. Right.
- But he was only
in the Bible. - Right.
- [Dinesh] And then people start digging in Caesarea,
in northern Israel.
- [News Announcer] Here, in 1961,
[gentle music] archeologists discovered proof
of Pilate's existence. [group chattering faintly]
- You wouldn't really sort of think that at this spot,
under this wooden stack, [wood thumping]
this inscription was found.
A Latin inscription mentioning Pontius Pilate.
But this was one of those pivotal moments
which changes everything, because suddenly,
Pontius Pilate comes out of this written inscription.
It's not just this figure in the Gospels.
- Now, anybody who took the Bible seriously was not shocked.
But a lot of people who don't take
[laughs] the Bible seriously, they were shocked.
They were making a water park,
so they're excavating, and then, oh,
they come upon a bunch of these stone ossuaries.
One of them was particularly ornate.
And it was the tradition of the first century
to put the bones of the deceased in an ossuary.
And they look at it inside,
they examine the bones of about a 60-year-old man,
and the name on it, "Caiaphas," the high priest,
dated exactly to the time Caiaphas would have lived.
Caiaphas is in the New Testament, and now we have his bones,
not just the ossuary, but the bones themselves.
It doesn't end.
- Isn't it ironic-
- Yeah. - That as the world
has become-
- Yeah. - More and more secular,
do you think that it's not accidental
[bright music] that God has chosen now
to speak back through the stones?
- If we're approaching, you know the end of time,
God will reveal himself more and more dramatically.
The evidence has piled up to a point
that I think the only way
not to deal with it is to look away.
They discovered the home
of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in Nazareth.
Almost no one knows that.
Practically, the greatest thing you could discover,
the childhood home of Jesus!
And then, because of the milieu in which you move
as an archeologist, you say, "Well, this is embarrassing.
Can I talk about it in a way that sort of buries the lead?"
[Dinesh laughs] And that is
exactly what happened.
The whole excavation really started in 1880
when some French nuns said, we wanna go to Nazareth,
the home of Jesus, and we wanna build a convent.
They start digging to build a convent.
They find this ancient cistern,
and they realize, "Oh, there's something here."
So this is the headline that some women
were doing some archeology.
Not that these women who were nuns,
who gave their whole lives over to serving Jesus,
had discovered the home of Jesus.
But it was about the fact that they were women.
Those are the times in which we live.
[bright music continues]
- Biblical history is based on the idea
that history has a plot.
- Right.
- There's a beginning, there's a middle,
and there's an end. - Right.
- One of the things that Cahn says
is that as the plot reaches its climax,
God and the devil
would begin to make themselves more manifest.
- It makes sense that
evil would become more palpably, explicitly evil.
We're seeing that now.
If evidence is piling up more and more
for the existence of God, for the historicity of the Bible,
if you are adamantly against it,
you have to rail against it more loudly or violently.
That's part of what I think this grand narrative is,
which is the exposure of evil.
People have nowhere to hide,
and so the masks are coming off.
- I wanted to see [bright music]
these discoveries of biblical archeology firsthand.
I started in the place where Israel itself started,
Shiloh, in the region of Judea and Samaria.
Some call it the West Bank.
It's where the ancient Israelites came
when they entered the Promised Land.
Eliana Passentin is the International Director
of the Regional Council for Judea and Samaria.
And you live up at the top of the hill,
and you can see from the river to the sea.
- I wake up in the morning,
first thing, and I can see Jordan, so that's the river.
And then the afternoon, when the sun is setting,
I have a beautiful view of the Mediterranean.
From the river to the sea is the entire state of Israel.
Shiloh is Israel's first capital city before Jerusalem.
- [Dinesh] So the ancient Israelites
crossed the desert, [gentle vocalizing music]
and they came to the Promised Land,
but they didn't go to Jerusalem.
- Joshua brings the children of Israel to Shiloh,
establishes the first capital city,
and this is where the tabernacle stands for 369 years.
And we found ancient remnants of pottery everywhere,
even in our backyard, from the time of the tabernacle.
- Eliana, what brings Shiloh to an end?
- We read the Book of Samuel,
that Eli, the high priest, is here waiting.
The children of Israel
go to the battlefield, [metal clanking]
and they fight the Philistines.
The messenger comes running from the battlefield,
and he gives the bad news,
that we lost the battle, his sons were killed,
and the enemy took the Golden Holy Ark of the Covenant.
Eli hears this terrible news,
falls down, breaks his neck, and dies.
We uncover that there was a huge fire here
exactly at that time.
We even have raisins that were burnt to a crisp
in this pyre. [intense music]
It's one of the sites in Israel that the story of the Bible
and the archeological finds are hand in hand.
And I'm sure, Dinesh, that you can feel what I feel.
It's a special feeling. [gentle music]
- And it's the feeling, really, of a massive convergence
of a biblical truth,
now supported and confirmed by archeological discovery.
- [Eliana] That's right.
- You mentioned that the highway right there, Highway 60,
is the Highway of the Patriarchs.
What do you mean by that?
- There's one artery of life in ancient times.
I'm gonna read this in Hebrew, and then I'll translate.
[Eliana speaking in Hebrew]
"And there was the festival of the Lord
from year to year in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel,
east of the highway that goes from Bethel to Shechem
on the south of Lebonah."
Right here, in Hebrew, it says highway,
and it's the main artery of life in ancient times,
and it's the main artery of life today.
- And this is the land, you're saying,
that Abraham and Joseph walked.
- And Jacob, right here. [gentle music continues]
- [Dinesh] Shiloh invokes the very beginning
of the story of Israel, but in some ways,
it is also connected with the end times.
Jonathan Cahn spoke of red heifers.
We found the very same red heifers in Shiloh.
[red heifers lowing] Larry Borntrager
is a ranch hand from America looking after the red heifers.
Larry, in the Bible, [gates clinking]
it talks about the temple being built again
in the end times.
- [Larry] Yeah.
- And for the temple to be built again,
there would need to be services
or rites performed in the temple.
- They would need to have the waters of purification,
which according to Numbers 19,
would be the ashes of the red heifer
mixed in with living water, sprinkled on the people.
- So this practice goes back to the time of Moses?
- Yes.
30 years ago, a farmer thought,
"Maybe someday Israel might need a red heifer."
Some years ago, some of the rabbis
were looking for a red heifer in Israel.
They couldn't find any, so they advertised outside.
This farmer said yes, he thinks he has some.
- Where was that? - In Texas.
- How'd they get here? - They came over by plane.
- Sometimes when people talk about Bible prophecy,
they speak in very general and abstract terms,
but here you have
a group of rabbis and Jews
who are anticipating the reconstruction of a temple
and are making actual preparations for doing rites
and services in it.
- That's the whole idea.
- Shiloh is a place of ancient biblical significance,
and so it seems to be not inappropriate-
- Exactly. - That these heifers
are back in Shiloh.
- [Larry] Yes. [bright music]
- [Dinesh] I went to a site in Jerusalem
that is home to perhaps the greatest discovery
in biblical archeology in the 21st century.
- [Ze'ev] Welcome to the City of David.
- Thank you very much. It's exciting.
- Let's take a look. - Right, let's take a look.
[bright music]
- [Ze'ev] It's a very active excavation.
This is, as we speak, uncovering Jerusalem's history
and heritage right before our eyes.
- Ze'ev Orenstein is the Director of International Affairs
for the City of David Foundation.
[bright music continues]
[tools clanking]
Wow, let's look at this.
What period is this now?
- So this is the Hellenistic period.
So, a little bit around the second temple was formed.
It's difficult work.
You have to be gentle, but also tough.
- Yeah.
Now, David was the greatest
of the kings of the Hebrew scriptures.
How was his palace, how did you discover it?
- The year was 2005.
Our visitor center is directly above our heads.
All of this is underground.
One morning, Dr. Eilat Mazar, a world-renowned archeologist,
she comes into our offices and says to us,
"You need to move your visitor center.
Beneath your feet, you will find the palace of King David."
If you have a city on a hill,
what part of the hill would you expect to find a palace?
The top of the hill.
She says, "This is the top of the City of David,
this is where you'll find the palace."
I say, "Dr. Mazar, with all due respect,
what else do you have to support your theory?"
She shows us a royal Phoenician capital.
And she says that this royal Phoenician capital
found some 60 years ago,
on the slope that we're standing atop right now,
proves that where we're standing
is, in fact, the location of King David's palace.
And she opens up the Bible to 2 Samuel, chapter 5,
which recounts the story of how David conquers Jerusalem
and makes it his capital.
He reaches out to his neighbors in the north,
the Phoenicians, and it says,
"King Hiram of Tyre sent envoys to David with cedar logs,
carpenters and stonemasons,
and they built a palace for David."
Why do we find a royal Phoenician capital
here in the City of David?
Because it was the Phoenicians who built David's palace.
They begin to dig, and they find to the north, to the east,
walls up to 20 feet thick.
Dr. Mazar finds at the base of the walls,
pottery and other organic material,
which she dates to 3,000 years ago, to the time of David.
This was the royal government center of the Davidic dynasty.
This was the original Capitol Hill.
There's a whole group of scholars
known as the Copenhagen School,
and they would have said to you,
"Prove to us, not using the Bible,
that there was a historic David, some 3,000 years ago."
Prior to 1993, you could not do it.
There was an excavation in Israel's north
in a place called Tel Dan,
where a large stone inscription is unearthed,
dating to about 100 years or so after the time of David.
And this inscription is attributed
to a man named King Hazael of Aram.
Aram is modern-day Syria,
and this King Hazael is also mentioned in the Bible
in 2 Kings.
And this king, the inscription tells us, was in a good mood.
Why? [people chattering]
Because it says he had won
a major military victory over a king
from the House of David. [people shouting]
And if there's a House of David, what does that mean?
- There was a King David. - There was a David.
- The Davidic line. - That's right.
And so today, virtually everyone agrees
there was a historic David.
[gentle music]
A person relates to the Bible.
For many it's a book of faith.
You believe, or you don't believe.
Yet, many people today say, "I don't just want to believe.
I also want to know [bright music]
are the people who march through
the pages of the Bible, [people chattering faintly]
were they real people?"
And the discoveries being made here in the City of David
are showing that Jerusalem's biblical heritage
is not simply a matter of faith, but a matter of fact.
It's real.
Where we're standing over here, a small seal was unearthed,
and the name on the seal in ancient Hebrew writing,
dating back some 2,400 years,
was Nathan-Melek, servant of the king.
If you open up 2 Kings 23:11,
you find that this Nathan-Melek was a royal steward
to King Josiah, direct descendant of King David.
His royal chamberlain was somewhere in this area over here.
[bright music]
The Pilgrimage Road has been called
the most significant archeological discovery
of the last 100 years.
This is what I call the biblical superhighway.
[gentle music] Anywhere that you wanted
to go in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago,
this was the road that would take you there,
from the Pool of Siloam
at the southern end of the city of David,
all the way up along the half-mile pilgrimage journey,
up to the temple on the Temple Mount.
And what you would have
along the sides of the Pilgrimage Road, shops, stalls.
- And the Pool of Siloam was a purification spot.
- [Ze'ev] Before you can go up to the temple,
you have to cleanse yourself.
The Pool of Siloam in the City of David
was perhaps the largest ritual bath anywhere in the world.
- [Dinesh] With regard to Jesus,
what are the chances that he walked
this very road?
- Conservatively speaking? 100%.
He was in Jerusalem, and he was Jewish.
He would have gone with all the Jews
at that time to cleanse at the Pool of Siloam.
He would have then walked up the flagstones
that we're standing on right now,
of the Pilgrimage Road running through the City of David,
coming out at the temple on the Temple Mount.
If you give me your hand, you can see over here,
that that is ash from
the fires that destroyed Jerusalem
2,000 years ago, the year 70,
when the Romans burned Jerusalem to the ground.
[flames roaring] [gentle music]
This coin, it goes back 66 to 70 C.E.,
during the period known as the Great Jewish Revolt.
Jewish people are fighting for their freedom,
fighting against the Roman occupation of Jerusalem.
At that time, the coins had no monetary value.
So what's the point of all this?
These coins would say in ancient Hebrew writing,
"For the freedom of Zion."
Represent a hope, a wish, a dream, and a prayer
that one day, their descendants
would return to Jerusalem as sovereign.
It took 2,000 years, but there is a free Jerusalem today,
the capital of the state of Israel.
- And it's worth noting that
Israel was invaded by the Assyrians,
the Babylonians, the Romans,
but the Jews are still here.
- The people who walked on this road 2,000 years ago,
it's their descendants who will walk on it once again.
- One of the most remarkable things to me about all this
is that there does seem to be, in the face of facts,
a spirit of denialism. [gentle music continues]
- [Dinesh] The story that they've been telling
for the last series of decades
is that Israel is a colonial project,
that the Jewish people have no history,
no heritage in this land in general,
and certainly not in Jerusalem in particular.
The problem with that is the City of David.
We are what you could call an inconvenient truth.
[gentle music] [singer vocalizing]
- North of Jerusalem
is the ancient city of Megiddo,
layered with centuries of war, worship and warning.
This was the stage
for some of history's earliest recorded battles.
Recent discoveries of Egyptian pottery at this site
confirm an epic battle documented
in 2 Kings and Chronicles
between King Josiah and an Egyptian pharaoh.
I spoke with Israeli archeologist, Ido Keynan.
Ido, how long have you been in the field of archeology?
- For about the last 40 years.
- You do your work with the Bible,
which you called your compass.
- Yes. - In one hand.
And then the tools of archeology in the other.
- So true.
The compass, the scriptures,
that helps me understand what I'm looking for.
- And are you aware of any significant archeological finding
that contradicts what you are holding in your hand,
namely, the Bible?
- No. [gentle music continues]
- [Dinesh] What is the significance of this place, Megiddo?
- There were about 37 battles
that took place here,
starting from, what was it, 2500 years B.C. and 1973.
Over here there is an Israeli airbase,
and it was attacked during that time by Syria.
- What you're saying is that this place has been
the center of constant battles.
- I don't say that, it's the scriptures.
This place, it says in Revelations,
this is where the last battle will take place.
- Megiddo is the root of the term Armageddon,
a term used in the context of the last days.
You don't believe that the final and apocalyptic clash
between good and evil is purely metaphorical.
You believe that there will be an actual confrontation,
and it will in some way involve Megiddo.
- Every word you just said, it's exactly it.
[gentle music]
- [Dinesh] In the hills of Galilee lies Nazareth,
the hometown of Jesus.
Today, Nazareth is a vibrant city
with a predominantly Muslim population,
yet it remains a key Christian pilgrimage destination.
[foreign language choral music]
- This is the place of the Annunciation,
where Mary was given the announcement that she's pregnant.
We see here the remainings of Nazareth,
going back 2,000 years ago.
[gentle music] People have an idea
that Nazareth was a big city.
No.
Remember what the Scriptures tell us?
What good can come out of Nazareth?
Well, why do they say that?
Nazareth was a small village
of maybe 100 to 200 people.
It was small.
- [Dinesh] And today in Nazareth,
it looks like there's been a demographic shift.
- Ooh-hoo. 60 years ago, okay,
about 70% Christian Arabs,
mainly from the Eastern churches, right?
And 30% Muslims.
Today, it's just the opposite.
- In the place where Jesus was raised today,
70% Muslims.
- [Ido] Yes.
[gentle music]
- We continue further north
to the Sea of Galilee.
Along its shore, lies the ruins of Capernaum,
once a humble fishing village,
now a silent witness to history.
It was here that Jesus called fishermen like Peter,
Andrew, James and John to follow him.
Ido, Mark, chapter 1, verse 21, Jesus came to Capernaum,
and on the Sabbath, he went to the synagogue
where he taught.
Is this where he taught?
- This is where he taught.
But the synagogue we are standing in now
is from a later period, from 400 years later.
[bright music] - So this is Jesus
saying, "You, Capernaum,
will you be exalted to heaven?
You will be brought down to Hades."
Jesus is predicting that this place will go down
and will not come back up again.
- Exactly.
Every verse, every sentence, every chapter
are there to be fulfilled.
And it took 600 years
'til this place was leveled out.
- Ultimately, Jesus's prophecy came true.
There's nothing here in Capernaum now
except for the remnants.
- Exactly.
[gentle music]
- [Dinesh] And right next door to us
are the ruins of a dwelling.
The dwelling is sometimes described as Peter's house,
which is not exactly correct, whose house is it?
- It's St. Peter's mother-in-law house.
In Mark it says, "And Jesus came to Capernaum
to St. Peter mother-in-law house, as she was sick.
She was in bed, and he healed her."
[gentle vocalizing music]
- [Dinesh] Biblical archeology is confirmation
of the ancient presence of the Jews in Israel.
Far from being colonizers,
the Jews are the original and indigenous inhabitants
of the region.
Moreover, the Jews of today are the descendants
of the ancient Israelites, the Jews of the Bible.
Today's Jews speak the same language, eat the same food,
perform the same rites and rituals,
and worship the same God.
Biblical archeology also shows that the Hebrew
and Christian scriptures are corroborated
in the seals and the stones.
As Ze'ev Orenstein said, "It's not simply a matter of faith,
it's also a matter of fact."
Jonathan Cahn's view of the Dragon's Prophecy
is supported by history.
But what are the moral and practical implications?
[intense music] - Israel has dropped
more bombs in the last 10 days
than we dropped in a whole year in Afghanistan!
- There's clearly growing consensus in the council
that it must do more to hold Israel accountable.
- They're shooting and killing civilians
at humanitarian aid hubs.
Dozens of them
on a daily basis. - Piers, are we gonna
put a sock in that? - Little children are getting-
- Yeah, you're right, Piers. - Shot in the face.
- Piers. - It is a good time-
- It's a genocide. - Piers, you are-
- It's a genocide. [intense music continues]
- When regimes start wars,
they are responsible for the fate of their own children.
I mean, if I come and do a home invasion on you,
right, and threaten your children and you strike back,
and then I go grab my own kids and stick them in front of me
and say, "Don't shoot, don't shoot,
because I'm holding my own kids."
The truth of it is,
I am putting my kids in jeopardy, not you.
- [Dinesh] The controversial issue of civilian casualties
was addressed by Mosab Hassan Yousef,
who is the son of the one of the founders of Hamas.
His father has publicly called for his death.
- Israel did everything within their ability to minimize
the civilian casualty in Gaza.
[crowd shouting] While Hamas,
while Hamas did everything in their ability
to maximize- - Order! Order!
- The civilian casualties. - Order.
- [Chair] The speaker will be heard.
- Hamas did everything within their ability
to maximize the civilian casualty
for political and financial gain, for global sympathy,
and they succeeded of fooling so many people.
[gentle music] - [Dinesh] Hamas confesses
it's desire to hurt its own people.
[pensive music]
- If Israel wanted to get rid of Gaza,
it would, a long time ago.
Israel has the power to erase Gaza if it wants to.
It didn't do that
because we're trying to eliminate Hamas bases
without hurting as many people as we can.
[pensive music continues]
They stole from me innocence, time, love.
There's a limit to what they can steal.
I think that I'm not allowed to stop,
because there's so many stories that we'll never hear.
And those people,
they actually knew what the value of life is.
They actually enjoyed life.
So I think it's like I owe them to keep dancing.
- All these people? - Yes.
[gentle music]
- [Dinesh] There's no doubt that the civilian carnage
in Gaza remains a moral horror.
Even if Israel is justified in its actions,
who can justify the deaths of women and children?
For me, the civilian deaths on both sides
represent victories on the part of the dragon,
whose moral currency is death itself.
In her 1972 book, "My Life,"
Israeli prime minister Golda Meir said,
"We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children,
but we can never forgive them for forcing us
to kill their children."
This captures the moral ambiguity of retaliation,
and what compounds the tragedy
is that it offers no immediate solution.
But is there a wider solution to the conflict itself?
For the Israeli perspective,
I turned to the Prime Minister of Israel.
- Prime Minister Netanyahu,
let me begin by asking you about October 7th.
- Well, I heard about it at 6:29,
which was more or less the moment
that the attack had crossed our lines.
I was in my home.
Got dressed, went to our military headquarters in Tel Aviv
and said, "This is not another round with Hamas terrorists.
This is a war."
I realized it wasn't only a war against Hamas,
it's a war against the Iran axis.
And we will have to take it on.
And I said and promised
that we would change the Middle East,
ridding it of the Iran's axis, ridding it of Iran's proxies,
but also ridding it of Iran's threat to annihilate Israel
and threaten the West with nuclear weapons.
- It seems that you recognized immediately that it posed
some serious problems for the idea
of the two-state solution.
- Hamas had a state, a de facto state,
and used it not to promote peace,
but to try to annihilate Israel.
They pay terrorists for murdering Jews.
The more Jews they murder, the more they get paid.
The idea that we should give the Palestinians
who seek our destruction
a base for which to execute our destruction was a folly.
A lot of leaders in the West
still cling to this absurd notion
that this conflict between us and the Palestinians
is about the absence of a Palestinian state.
It never was.
The goal was never to create a Palestinian state for peace,
but to destroy and annihilate the one and only Jewish state.
- The critics will say
that Israel has killed far more civilians
in retaliation for October 7th
than were killed on October 7th.
- Well, I think you killed a lot more Germans
than Americans were killed in World War II.
That's an understatement.
And the same is true of Japan.
Japan attacked you in a surprise attack, in Pearl Harbor.
They killed, I don't know, a few thousand Americans.
- I'd like to raise with you this amazing accusation
[gentle music] that Israel is somehow
a colonial power.
- This has been our land for 3,500 years
since Abraham came here.
And it was populated by the Jewish people,
by the people of the Bible.
That's when the Bible was written.
It wasn't written in Tibet.
It was written here by people that lived here.
Our identity was forged there,
our faith, and our very being.
We were often conquered by the Babylonians,
the Seleucid Greeks, the Romans, and then by the Byzantines,
and finally by the Arabs.
It's not we who colonized the area from the Arabs,
it's the Arabs who colonized the area from the Jews.
Other travelers, Brits, Americans, French,
came here in the 19th century, and they said, basically,
when will the Jews come back
and bring this land back to life?
And we did.
And the Palestinians joined us from neighboring lands.
And we never said, "You have to go out."
We welcomed them.
But now what they're saying is, "This is not your land.
It was never your land."
[gentle music] We came back to a land
that was largely barren and empty
and we brought it back to life, and we're going to keep it.
- I saw a video of you walking the Pilgrimage Road.
Say a word about the role of biblical archeology
in affirming the presence of the Jews,
going back not just to the time of Christ,
but going back 2,000 years before that.
- First of all, look at Christ himself.
He wasn't a Palestinian teacher, he was a Jewish teacher
with a Jewish name, Yeshua.
His father was Yosef, Joseph.
These are all Hebrew names.
And where did Jesus turn the tables on the money changers?
Where? In Nepal?
Perhaps in Singapore?
Of course not, it was in the Jewish temple.
[gentle music continues]
- In a recent exchange between Tucker Carlson
and Senator Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson said,
"Are you saying that
the Jews in Israel under Netanyahu
are the descendants of the ancient Israelites
who are described in the Bible?"
- Of course. There's no question about it.
The Jews spread from this land to various parts of Europe,
to the Middle East and elsewhere,
but we never forgot this land.
We said, "Next year in Jerusalem. Next year in Jerusalem."
My great grandfather came here in the 19th century.
Most of the Palestinians who are alive today came after him.
So, that's what our history has been.
On the one hand, regaining our ancient ancestral homeland,
and the other, developing a state that becomes
a juggernaut of technology and development.
We're a Silicon Valley in the Middle East,
a democratic society in the face of enormous attacks
of countries that want to annihilate us every day.
Who is Tucker Carlson defending here?
These are people who chant, "Death to America!"
They're after you.
They wanna destroy Western civilization.
They wanna destroy everything that America stands for.
They say Israel is the small Satan.
The big Satan is America. [bright music]
The only place where Christians are safe
in the Middle East is in Israel.
Not tolerated, welcomed.
They participate in our society.
We take care of the holy places,
which are destroyed everywhere else.
Churches blown up throughout the Middle East.
So if Tucker Carlson is asking you that,
then he has no idea, not of Jewish history, but of history.
Who are these so-called defenders of MAGA defending?
They're defending the worst enemies
on the planet against America.
They're not MAGA.
The people who speak of MAGA, they love America,
and they love America's values,
and they don't identify with the worst enemies
that America is facing today in the world.
With President Donald J. Trump,
the greatest friend that Israel has ever had,
he understands that we're fighting a common enemy.
Iran wants to destroy you. We stand in their way.
I'm very proud of the fact that Israel
is the front line of this battle
of civilization against the barbarism
that threatens all free societies.
[bright music continues]
- How should we, as Americans,
respond to the situation?
I spoke to Erick Stakelbeck
on his stage at the TBN Studios in Dallas.
He's a journalist and TV host
who's been covering terrorism
in the Middle East for decades.
When I think about how countries have gotten their land.
One, they were there first.
The second is by some sort of treaty or negotiation.
And the third is by conquest.
Israel succeeds on all three.
- God, clearly in the Bible, promised the land to Abraham
and his ancestors forever.
And so we have the biblical divine legitimacy,
but then in 1947/48,
as the U.N. is coming up with this partition plan.
- [News Announcer] And finally, they came out with a plan
to partition Palestine.
- Israel right now is the size of the state of new Jersey.
The U.N. wanted to give Israel
an even smaller chunk of land than that,
and Israel said, "Okay, we'll do it."
- [News Announcer] The Middle Eastern Arabic nations
were in violent opposition,
and when Israel was voted a membership,
they walked out in a body.
- [Stakelbeck] Arabs rejected it,
invaded Israel simultaneously.
[intense music]
Israel, against all odds, prevailed.
- [News Announcer] In the year of independence,
fighting was fierce in the Negev Desert area.
Here, Israeli troops round up the Arabs
and took hundreds of prisoners.
- And that takes us to 1967.
Israel, on the cusp of being invaded by Syria,
by Egypt, by Jordan, Israel strikes first.
[dramatic music]
- [News Announcer] And that victory is a swift,
smashing and total one.
As crack air force, infantry, artillery and tank corps
combine to sweep across the Sinai Peninsula
to the Suez Canal, east of the Jordan, north into Syria.
[bright vocalizing music] - Israel ends the 1967 war
in possession of the Golan Heights, in possession of Gaza,
Judea and Samaria, and even the Sinai Peninsula
before they gave it back to Egypt.
So Israel checks all the boxes of legitimacy
for a nation state.
- Isn't it interesting that in this
highly significant piece of real estate,
the forces of Islam
are sitting atop the holiest site
of both Judaism and Christianity?
- Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Quran, not even once.
It's mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible,
in both the Old Testament and the New.
The dome and the mosque were planted there
in the seventh century as victory arches.
This was the conquest of Jerusalem, the Holy City.
Even Muhammad, at first, when Islam started,
they faced not Mecca, he and his followers,
they faced Jerusalem during their daily prayers.
They knew the significance of conquering Jerusalem.
This has been a pattern in Islamic conquest
throughout the centuries.
They build victory arches. [gentle music]
- What do you make, Erick, of anti-Semitism?
It seems to be a cousin of racism.
And yet, it's different.
In racism, there's an effort by a group of people to say,
"I'm up here and you're down there.
You're inferior to me."
But that's hard to say about the Jews,
because they are far and away
the most successful tribe in world history.
- Yeah. - So anti-Semitism
is not simply a looking down on the Jews,
but, in some weird way, it's looking up to the Jews.
- It's the world's oldest hatred,
certainly demonic, a spiritual driver to it,
but much of it is based on envy.
People have asked, "Why the Jews?"
The devil hates the Jewish people
because they represent the existence of God.
You can't explain the existence and the rebirth of Israel
without bringing God into the picture.
Where else in human history have we seen a people
after 2,000 years of disbursement,
they return to that homeland,
they revive the Hebrew language,
and it's in regular use for the first time in 2,500 years.
- [Dinesh] And you're saying it has to be a miracle.
- [Stakelbeck] It's a miracle.
- [Dinesh] The dragon's response?
- [News Announcer] On the first night of Passover,
another suicide bomber has killed 15 people,
injured 100 others.
All of these people were civilians,
and there is no other reason than terror.
- [News Announcer] Three women killed
and more than 40 wounded
when a bomb exploded in a crowded outdoor cafe
in central Tel Aviv.
- [News Announcer] 15 killed, and 130 wounded
in Jerusalem today [sirens wailing]
[people shouting] when a suicide bomber
detonated in a crowded pizzeria.
[explosion blasting] [people screaming]
- Seems like in our time,
radical Islam has been
the primary transmitter
of terrorism.
- It's been said that not all Muslims are terrorists,
but all terrorism in the modern age
seems to be committed by Muslims.
We're seeing a great resurgence of radical Islam.
I really think it began in 1979.
- [News Announcer] Chaotic celebrations erupted in Tehran
when the news broke that Shah had gone.
[bright music plays] The Shah is defeated.
Khomeini has won.
[intense music] - Iran was a friend of Israel,
a friend of the United States and the West.
That all changed in 1979.
That was really the watershed moment for modern day terror,
because terrorists around the world,
whether they were Sunni, Shia,
they saw what the Ayatollah did in Iran.
It inspired jihadis around the world.
They said if they can do it, perhaps we can, too.
The dream of jihadis everywhere
is to have a nation state,
not just be a ragtag bunch
running back and forth between caves.
Iran is the crown jewel of jihadi government.
We have the Taliban back in Afghanistan.
We have Syria run by Al-Qaida-linked-jihadis
who overthrew Bashar al-Assad,
and with backing of another Islamist regime in Turkey.
So across the map in the Middle East,
we see these regimes rising up.
It starts in Iran, but it does not end in Iran.
[gentle music]
- [Dinesh] How should Christians think
and feel about Israel?
Mike Huckabee is a former pastor and governor of Arkansas,
who is currently the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
- Ambassador Huckabee, the United States
is friendly with a lot of different countries,
but we have a special relationship with Israel.
And why is that?
- We share a common foundation, and that foundation is
a Judeo-Christian understanding and worldview,
without which there is no Western civilization.
Most of Europe was founded on that same notion,
but they pretty much abandoned and rejected it.
And a lot of America has rejected it,
but it still holds true that our fundamental foundation
is that understanding of who God is.
- What you're saying is that we wouldn't be who we are
if Israel wasn't what it is.
- You can be Jewish
and have nothing whatsoever to do with Christians.
I, on the other hand,
cannot be a Christian without completely embracing
everything there is in the Jewish foundation,
because without that Jewish foundation,
there is no Christianity.
So there is an organic connection
between every person of faith,
be it Christian or Jew, to each other,
whether they totally understand that or not.
- [Protester] Israel, go to hell!
- [Protesters] Israel, go to hell!
[crowd chanting]
- [News Announcer] Jewish groups on campus
received anti-Semitic threats yesterday.
- [News Announcer] Anti-Semitic attack
injured several people.
- [News Announcer] Two people are dead
after a shooting outside a Jewish museum in Washington, DC.
- Free, free Palestine!
[intense music]
- What do you think is anti-Semitism?
- The whole issue of anti-Semitism is not geopolitical.
It is not ethnicity. It's not socioeconomic.
It really is a spiritual disease.
It is up versus down, good versus evil,
right versus wrong.
- For me one way to identify anti-Semitism
is to ask this question, "Are you singling out the Jews?"
People can criticize Israel, people can criticize the Jews.
- Yeah.
- But when you're criticizing the Jews for something
that you don't criticize others for,
then it raises the question, what's your real motive?
- There is no doubt in the world
that there is a different standard applied to Israel,
but also to Jews as a people.
Every time Israel wins the war and the world response,
"Israel needs to give up land,"
for the people that tried to kill Israel.
When in all of human history has the nation who won a war
been asked to give up what they won
after having been attacked?
[pensive music]
[gunshots]
What happened on October the 7th was a seminal event,
not just for Israel and the Jews,
it is a seminal event for the world.
- The writer, Jonathan Cahn, talks about the fact
that what happened on October 7th has a lot of parallels
of some of the ancient conflicts of Israel.
- Centuries ago, when it was the Philistines,
it's easier to say,
"But they were a primitive, uneducated people."
We're talking about now people in the 21st century
who have access to a much broader body of knowledge,
understanding of history and perspective.
This was the intentional slaughter
of the most innocent:
the children, the babies,
women, the elderly people.
Why a level of evil like that?
Where does this come from?
And I really believe this comes from below.
This is from hell itself.
- And yet,
not only in the Islamic world,
but in Europe, in Canada...
- [Protester] Israel, burn, burn.
- [Protesters] Israel, burn, burn!
- In the United States,
you have huge outpourings of activism,
not to express indignation over the terrorist attacks,
but over Israel's response.
- In the time of the Judges in the Old Testament,
it was said that everyone did what was right
in his own eyes.
In many ways, that describes our culture today.
- But the Western countries are pulling away from God.
Logically, they're pulling away from the people of God.
You have moral inversion in the West,
right becomes wrong, and wrong becomes right,
they look at the people who attack Israel and they go,
"The people who attack Israel are the victims,
and Israel is the aggressor."
- It is a totally upside-down morality to think that
when Jewish people are attacked, it had to be their fault.
And when they defend themselves and they seek to preserve
the lives of their own people, somehow that's an atrocity.
- Palestine could be a thriving metropolis, right?
President Trump talks about it as a riviera.
- Gaza could have been Singapore.
Hamas turned it into Haiti.
[pensive music continues]
- At one point in "The Dragon Prophecy,"
it speaks about the war against
the woman and her child [gentle music]
and her other children.
- If the woman is Israel,
then who are the rest of her children?
They have to be children of Israel.
If you're a true Christian,
the Bible says you're actually a child of Israel.
You are spiritually an Israelite.
So, the enemy makes war against both Israels,
the Israel of flesh and blood
in the world to destroy it physically,
and the spiritual Israel to destroy it spiritually,
to persecute it.
And the Bible says that in the last days,
both wars are gonna be evident:
the war against Israel,
and the war against God's people, against Christians.
- And when you look at who is persecuting the Christians,
very often it's coming from the same forces of radical Islam
that are going against the Jews.
- It's amazing. - It's the same enemy.
- Yeah, yeah, and at the same time, the very left wing,
they're generally against Israel
and against the ways of the Bible,
[laughs] against Christians.
The same end-time culture that hates Israel
is increasingly hating God's people who follow the Messiah.
So we're gonna watch both wars happen.
Israel and Christians are coming together
in a way they have never been before,
since the Book of Acts.
You had a Western civilization that wasn't Christian,
it was pagan and anti-Christian.
Well, it's going back.
So if everything's going back,
then the people of God have to go back to where we were,
which is the Book of Acts,
which is a dynamic, revolutionary, against-the-grain,
against-the-flow-of-the-culture people of God
who transform the world.
That's what we're called to.
- Just as the Israelis
had to become warriors [uplifting music]
like the Israelites of old, in the same vein,
Christians today need to put on a spiritual armor
like the Christians of old in the Book of Acts.
- Mm-hmm.
- And have that kind
of a warrior spirit.
- Yes.
We have to become fighters in the spirit for God.
We don't accept what the enemy wants to do with our culture.
We don't accept what he wants to do with the nation.
We don't accept what he wants to do in our family,
with our children, in our marriage, in our calling.
We say no, we take up the armor.
Because the very first believers,
they were warriors in the spirit.
God wants that again.
You overcome. You slay the dragon.
- Your message here is become a dragon slayer.
- [laughs] Yes.
You know, Messiah is the ultimate dragon slayer, you know?
So we have to be that.
We are fighters against darkness
and if we keep fighting, we win.
♪ We're holding on ♪
♪ But not for long ♪
♪ Can you pull us all close to the Holy Ghost ♪
♪ And keep us strong ♪
♪ We need Your light, we need Your love ♪
♪ To heal the world you made ♪
♪ And save us now in our darkest hour ♪
♪ With Your amazing grace ♪
♪ Earth to God ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Earth to God ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Earth to God ♪
- [Dinesh] Debbie and I have long cherished
the idea of being baptized as Jesus was in the Jordan River.
This is the church of the Ascension,
the site where Jesus was taken up into Heaven.
[gentle music]
For me, it's a reminder
that there's a world behind the world.
And concealed within political conflicts
is an eternal battle between good and evil.
The dragon is not always apparent to us,
but he is real and working to achieve our destruction.
Yet God's Word stands firm.
The dragon will not prevail.
In the end, he will be cast down and God will triumph.
♪ We need Your light, we need Your love ♪
♪ To heal the world you made ♪
♪ And save us now in our darkest hour ♪
♪ With Your amazing grace ♪
♪ Earth to God ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Earth to God ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Earth to God ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Earth to God ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Earth to God ♪
♪ Come in, God ♪
♪ Earth to God ♪
♪ Come in, God ♪
♪ Earth to God ♪
♪ Come in, God ♪
♪ Earth to God ♪
♪ Come in, God ♪
♪ We need Your light, we need Your love ♪
♪ To heal the world You made ♪
♪ And save us now in our darkest hour ♪
♪ With Your amazing grace ♪
♪ Earth to God ♪
♪ Come in, God ♪
♪ Earth to God ♪
♪ Come in, God ♪