Why a Biblical Perspective on the Middle East Changes Everything

about it. It's the same thing. I mean, you're you've got so much going on the embassy and aci if you didn't have a good team, then it all rests on you, right and your energy, your bandwidth, your your vision, and you know I don't do that. You don't do that, and so yeah, well, you know we've interviewed you before and you talk. That's why I'm surprised that you have me back like you missed of have amnesia with how badly that interview went. I don't know what, but no, in that.

that's been circulating online. And so we're all looking for those trusted sources, and especially our young people, they are looking for those that they can trust. And you were that.

I just don't have the time or energy. But you know, God bless you. You know, stay warm and be well fed. You know, No, I mean, you should, you should do this. But I couldn't sleep. I kept praying about it, and I thought, I think, I think maybe he's right. So why because I could either have an aneurysm every day at my fury at CNN, the New York Times, BBC,

certainly Al Jazeera, but so many others. You're like, oh my gosh, the Washington Post, which just God bless him, just had to lay off a third of their entire news department and all of their Middle East journalists because they're the horrible But they're also losing one hundred million dollars a year and you're like, that's crazy. So the idea was you could either have an aneurysm, get angry all the time, or think, you know what, Yes, big media is Goliath, but we know how that story works.

You don't have to be Goliath to win. You can be David with five stones and you only use one. So okay, maybe we could Maybe we should channel our energies into doing something different. Now I call this. I tell the staff well built over the last five years or so, I want you to follow the George Costanza

doctrine of journalism. Now, those of your audience that are Seinfeld fans George, or maybe they don't know George Seinfeld or George Cassandra is the idiot moron friend of Jerry Seinfeld in the famous show and George one day slumps down in the in the booth at the coffee shop where they mean he goes, every decision I've ever made in my entire life has been wrong, and that's why he's alot. And so Jerry says, well, George, if every decision you've ever made is wrong, then the opposite would

have to be right. Now, that's voodoo. Fortune Cookie is like, it's kind of you can't really, but in the show, that particular show, he makes every decision opposite of his instincts. He gets the girl and he gets a job of the New York Yankees, and everything works out well. If I see, folks, I don't want you, as young and emerging journalists, to focus on traffic. I beg you do not think about your impact. I want you to think

about credibility. Credibility, credibility. Those are the free things you would think about every day. And everything that you hate about the meat, do the opposites give you an example? Wonder So we started in September September one, twenty twenty, all visual news. So this is COVID, this is like, this is church is being shut down, This is George Floyd, this is raised Riots, this is Trump and Biden Lake

or Hillary whatever was then. No Christian was focusing on histort and the good news was the Abraham of course, just that was the first story we covered. Mike Pence was a friend of mine. Is Remains He invited me to cover it on them all on the way house ding and choosing okay, wonderful, No Christians. As you remember, I love Israel, were focused on any of these things, good pieces breaking out because America is on the edge of going, you know, blowing up. So that's when we started.

I had time to raise money, bad time, focus on israp. But we did it because God told us to do it. Long story short. Give you an example. During the after October seventh, right, So the New York Times published the story eight. The headline was eight, all eight columns, top of the folds, lasting Israel bombs, passing hospital and cost And it's the New York Times, right, so they have all this brand, equity, trust, and every immediate outlet on

the planet goes with the store. I said, well, guys, hold, hold, you're not this this is the lead of every isaac. There's something wrong about the story. Now, mae, if Israel did it, we will report it. We are not. This is not Hasbarah, this is not Hebrew four. We're not doing public relations. It's not propagand this is not propa game. But this is this is journalism. But we don't start from Israel's evil and let's burn it now. Right We're not you know, right, we're not. So so let's just

you know at that point nine am in Israel. You know that's early. It's late at night, in the early the middle of the morning here. So okay, that's what the New York Times is doing. But let's just give the idea of a little time, let's talk to them, let's see what do they what do you have? Did you do it? And within an hour or two, right, it was already video of it's a failed house in and missile that went up, failed, laid it on the hospital,

you can see it. Then they start sending us uh intercepts of ballast in hamas terras going did we do that? Did Israel do that? Oh? No, that was us? Oh my gosh, how well we got to tell them it was them, and and pretty soon you did all this death. So this is what we win. By the time, so four o' cock in the afternoon in Israel is nine am in the East coast United States. By the time we had the story, most people were waking up to the truth. But they weren't getting it from the mainstream media.

They were getting it from all initial neighbors. There's just one example of just doing it of don't run. New York Times has a brand of trust. I don't trust them anymore. I'm not We're not leading. If they do something interesting, we'll we'll look into it. I'm not. These guys are taking death tolls and saying palace it in health officials in Kaza. This is this like getting in health, This is like getting death poll numbers from the Nazis. In the middle of World War two more Jews died today.

We don't know why you're the ones killing them? What are you talking about? So so many Christians are so angry, and so we saw our traffic go from BA zero day one almost to thirty five million last year at the peak of the war, sixty nine million. Now we are not where we should be, but wow, we're moving in the radiations. People are finding us right well.

could say we're nowhere near that. There's maybe twenty to thirty thousand Jewish fall because Jesus and all of Israel depending there's two different studies, so like that's not got many. Well it's better than twenty three in nineteen forty eight. So we're moving. But in a nation of ten million people, seven million Jews seven and a half, that's not nearly enough. But we are. So we are covering what God is doing in the country as well. As the region, not

just geopolitically. And I would say there's there's hard bias, like you know, the ed or hates you, the producer hates you, and they are not trying to tell the truth. There's war, there's Al Jazeera, Iran Intelevision, Turkish elves. But there's also a soft bias in the media where they don't know what they're looking for. They don't know how

to cover the church. And if it's the church to them, that's the Roman Catholic Church, which most even joggles like that's interesting, but that's not what that's not what we want to know. What's God doing in this land? So covering that side is a big part because that's where we're heading. We're heading towards a nation that's been traumatized

over two and a half years of hellish war. But are sure as people are open to the Bible to more people in the idea app are reading the Bible, not the New Testament admittedly, but they're reading the Bible. They're singing songs of the Psalms before they go into Gaza or wherever. So that's a spiritual element of where we're going. It's also not getting covered by almost anybody in the media in Israel, even the good media. That's

one thing. The other thing is when there are challenges inside the church, right, so God is building Jesus, i'm I will build my church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it. Nobody's covering it. It's still he's still doing it. But I'll give you one example. We broke the story a couple of years ago that too alto Orthodox Uh legislators decided to put in a bill that said you can't tell people about Jesus or you'll go to prison. In Israel. We broke that story.

I've never seen a story go viral that fast. It just went global and we weren't being hostile. We were just reporting this. We hadn't even gotten into analysis. This just broke the story. Within seventy two hours, net Nyahu had put out a statement, I will never let that pass, and there was over that's not us, that's God, but he's but he uses people. So that's one thing of cover.

There was a pass in pastor who got thrown into prison because he he welcomed in Israeli and some evangelibals just to visit him, and that got in the pals in authority there, and then we were told by some palising Christians, don't don't not report that fleet. We're gonna it's too you know, if you're a you're in Israeli, it's not helpful if you report it. So okay that that's a tension between journalism and but being a believer. But we're believers first, so we didn't pepper. But after

forty days, this guy was not getting out everything. They tried behind the scenes wordwork. So finally they set several pass in Christians leadership on your all Arab news site, would you would you cover what's happening? So we did, and what we did as an open letter to pass in authority Chairman Mahmuda Bash and we said, I don't even know if you know this, mister president, but uh,

this is what's happening. It's not right. It turned out that it passed in businessman various successful paths in This man was following me on X saw that article, clicked on the article read the whole thing, was moved by it, unbeknownst to us, printed it out and went to the palace in Romaga and said, President of Bass, this is not good and if Joel and his team are reporting it today, others are gonna be reporting tomorrow. We have enough problems. We don't need this one too. You shouldn't

let this guy out. He didn't do anything wrong, and within forty eight hours he was released. This is God, but God uses faded people. So that's the There's geopolitical side too, we can talk about too, But just in terms of covering is what's happening? How do we pray for our brothers and sisters in all of the region. What is really happening. I still can't tell you many sources that I would news sources I would that exists that would report this type of information.

We've covered it, We've gone We've seen missiles launching while we're either delivering delivering humanagement relief for the Joshua Fund or going to and going to cover something for all Israel News. So it has been just the craziest world. This is the world that I write about in my political thrillers. I make it up. But the last three years of not you know, beyond fiction. But I'm actually I am optimistic. I am bullish about where Israel's go.

I Israel has, by the grace of God and the hard work and courage of our soldiers and intelligence services, has decimated the Iranian regime's capacity to destroy US, has Bona's capacity to destroy us Hamas. I mean, there's not it's not that there's a little bit more to be done. On all fronts. But we are not living in the same world that we were two and a half years ago.

And I believe that in six months to a year, everybody in the world is going to see Israel as the soup of power, bar none of any country in the Middle East security. I think the prosperity. I think money is going to flow into Israel, venture capital and and other I think that it's going to be and I think tourists, Christian tourists are going to flow. I think that ministries are going to come and say, Wow, what's happening, how do we be how do we help? I think I think the world is going to come

into Israel. And yes there are I believe maybe outside of the scope of this podcast, but there are other horrible prophetic things that are coming. But I think we're gonna be going into a stretch. I think of years, possibly of decades, where people are not thinking of the Middle East as they're insane Susan, why would you take people there Israel? I'm not going to there. There's missiles flying and terrorists and suicide bombers. That is not the

world we're about to head into. And so rethinking every ministry we will still have anti Semitism to deal with and anti Israelism. As Israel is more successful, that the anti Israelism is gonna get worse in certain quarters because people like Tucker Carlston and kanas Owanns are gonna be their heads are gonna be swiveling on their access and their eyes are gonna explode. They're like, the very country

we hate is winning, its succeeding. Patricians who know what where God is taking Israel will be well, we're part of the reason it's going well as hard as it has been, because we're praying and we're helping and out of latsing Israel, and He's blessing us as we busses as he promised.

to put it into perspective. And only recently did I come to the realization that it was actually the Hamas attack on October seventh that saved Israel from destruction, because they were supposed to have done unaffordinated attack with Hezbillah and Iran, so their ground incursion was to be met with missiles from Lebanon and from Iran.

They will try to do it again one day, but Israel has so pushed that scenario for far away, as you said, and now with a political realignment in the Middle East, when they see israel strength they're drawn to that strength. And this is another misunderstanding in America. We sit here, we live in peace in America. We don't have an enemy on our border. We certainly don't have an enemy within forty miles.

And today's Christianity, there's a lot of pacifism. There's a lot of well, we need to be weak, humble, right, and loving, and yes we should in our everyday lives. But the New Testament also says that our government has the responsibility of taking up the sword against evil, and Israel is doing that. They're taking up the sword against

the evil against their people. And I do believe what you just said that we're headed into a season where Israel's going to be strong, and that's going to realign politically in the Middle East, and there's the potential for a season of peace and prosperity in the Middle East. So we just so appreciate all israel moves.

such a great job educating Christians worldwide. And what we've never really had Right here, you and I are sitting at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, And it's interesting, Right after almost eight decades of Israel modern prophetic, biblical, wonderful, growing, thriving, but under challenge, Israel, how is it possible there's never been an actual Israeli media organization run by believers to

help believers around the world. Know, yes, I'm praying for the piece of Jerusalem, but today what's going on today that I ought to be praying about. You know, praying generally is wonderful, and you guys do that, but you've never even had an or there's never been a news organization that would like specifically cover all like now, I

should say it's very important. CBN News runs one of the best, but they're doing broadcasts, they're not trying to do daily digital a little bit more than they used to, but they're doing television and Chris Mitchell's but it's bar none the best journalist that there's there. But you like, even the icej events, the feast and everything else, it's amazing how hard it is to get Israeli coverage of those things. Much less American or European than never have

a tye. So you have to be your own media arms, and you guys do a good job of it. Whi's interesting, is I just feel like it's this is this is this has been a gap somehow God never created until now an actual Israeli media arm that would cover the ministries as well as cover the region. And well, we appreciate it.

so forth. So we're going to do a three thousand Christians from all over the world, Lord willing, including wonderful people from Ic ej from countries all over the world that you guys work in coming now. The summit is only one day. President Hertzog will be a keynote speaker, and Bastor Mike kackab be a keynote speaker, and then other wonderful trusted Godly Bible teachers who love and get Israel and the neighbors. We have our love and compassion

for the neighbors and Graham lots. Greg Lowie's skip Heights, Jack Graham of the former president of Southern Baptists and who's megachurch pastor in Dallas. These are the main keynotes. There will be some other speakers, but the goal is a one day catalytic event. You know, where Christian churition is pretty much dead. There's been Filidvarian emissions, You've led some of them. There's there's delegations Christians and Jews are doing, but in the grand scheme where it's like almost nothing

in terms of a Christians coming. So we're trying to use this as a catalyst. So people say, all right, so joshuall fund our ministry. We'll definitely and all those rooms, we'll definitely do a tour, right, But we're encouraging you and we're encouraging all kinds of other ministries. Design your own tour. Maybe it's just one boss, maybe it's just

a pastor on a few members of his team. Donors, funday school teachers, whatever, Plan your trip that's going to accomplish your ministry's objectives, and then buy tickets to just come to the one day of the conference. I think it will be the amazing conference that will help educate and mobilize Christians to go back all over the world to understand what the dynamic. Then where are we then? Where what is the what are the issues that we need to help people be better educated? Then can barely

plan them now. But you can see with Tucker and Candace and everybody attacking, we're gonna have to do stuff next year that we hadn't even thought of a year ago. So all that to say, we don't want We're not trying to run a tour of three thousand Persians in all Israel News and the Joshua. We're going to do our role. We'll host the conference and then we're trying to get and encourage pastors and mystery leaders. Now plan now and start planning to bring people and let people

start saving so they have a year or so. That's the trip of a lifetime. That's where I want to be. And we're not doing a conference for more than the summit, more than a day, because when you get to Israel, you mostly want to go see Israel. But I think it is important sometimes to do an event like this. Well.

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