Hamas, Israel, the Great Tribulation: Are They Connected? 

Biblical discussion starts at about 28:35, Great Trib discussion at 1:10:50

I call myself a complete Jew. I am Jewish because my entire family tree is Jewish but I am a believer. Jesus saved my sinful, filthy life and gave me a new life in Christ. The moment it happened was the most unbelievable experience….there are no words to explain what I experienced. I can only say that the Holy Spirit knocked me down!! I was on the floor and all I could say was, “thank you, thank you, thank you…..” but then it changed to, “I am so sorry.” Tears just streamed down my face and what I felt was the best feeling I had ever had. I know what true repentance is and I now know what true joy and peace are. I pray everyday that another person will experience what I experienced only because of Jesus Christ. He is our high priest who GAVE His life so we could have eternal life in heaven. We ALL deserve hell. We are not “good” at all. If you read this, please turn to Jesus. The Bible is The Word of God. Every single word is true. God bless you and thank you father for saving me.

My mind is blown. This is the best sermon I've heard and I think it's because you just simply read the Bible and interpreted it exactly how it's intended, which !shockingly! is unlike I've ever heard. I've been led by the Baptist and Nazarene churches to believe that everything Jesus is saying in Matthew is about end times and that God's chosen people include non-messiahnic Jews. I've never learned so much in such a shirt time. I am so thankful for this message and it comes at a dire time for me. I will be spreading this video to everyone I know. I am so thankful! Hallelujah! Lastly, I have and will continue to pray for you, Jeff and the new additions to your family. May God continue to use you, and I pray he will use me to bring many more closer to Him. Amen.

This whole thing has been so unsettling for me as a new Christian. Unequivocally standing by any nation is baffling to me. I cant thank you enough for this. THIS all makes sense and has brought peace to my heart. Thank you! 🙏🏻

Thank you so much for discussing these passages. I get it clear in my thinking and then good teachers go way out of the way to make scripture fit today and then I begin doubting my thinking about these scriptures. I pray that you continue to talk about interpreting the Bible faithfully and by using the Bible to read the Bible. So helpful and what a blessing!

I used to be one of those Christian’s who believed current events represented certain Bible prophecies until I started listening to Jeff. Jeff answered all my questions I had when I read the Bible and the things I believed didn’t seem to line up with scripture. I’m so thankful for Jeff and his ministry.

TIMESTAMPS: 3:10 post-ad intro stuuuuufff 7:41 topic introduction/overview of the show 11:00 Prayer for the Durbins, Piper and Nora 14:00 The horrific news/general discussion of war 18:26 ? disclaimer: some of y'all might be bothered and need to chill 20:50 being involved in the matters of foreign nations keeping our hearts in check: do we want to reach Muslims for Christ? pray for Christ to be known, pray for justice to be served 28:36 "I stand unequivically with Israel" statements 32:06 Is someone physically descended from Israel and rejects Jesus a part of God's chosen people? Are all these ideas about the people and land in the Bible? Are there two peoples of God or one? 49:35 small note about the ideas surrounding a building of a third temple 1:02:00 -housekeeping break, new sponsors- coffee, Heritage Defense for homeschool families, etc. 1:10:52 Does the conflict between Hamas and Israel have anything to do with the great tribulation that Jesus talked about in the Olivet discourse? -looking at the history of prophets -don't read the Scrpitures through the lens of current events -lots of people, including cults, get obsessed with these ideas 1:31:45 The context of Matthew 1:38:20 ? Jesus comes to cleanse the temple as the High Priest 1:41:00 The parables & the trial of Jesus 1:47:14 The religious leaders go after Jesus, and He responds to *them* & it's not a new thing 1:58:07 The context of history and the actual historical events the "whole world" terminology 2:09:12 What's this about being in Judea? You could escape the judgement on foot judgement imagery & the actual events 2:15:34 "Look for these things" Jesus said. Did they actually happen? 2:24:00 So, is Hamas connected to the Olivet discourse? Is there any application we can make? I'm so sorry I couldn't get these up earlier. I was busy on Thursday (and of course I wasn't aware of the topic) and then it took me several tries to complete. I hope they can still be beneficial to someone.

Been listening to you guys for 7 years now. The exegesis of Matthew 24, and passages alike, has been some of the most helpful material when discussing the end of the “age.” Thank you for taking the time to explain. God bless

I can't tell you how glad I am to see you guys finally speaking about this issue. I respect your patience in it, but I'm relieved to finally hear your take. 🙏

Jeff Durbin - one strong Shepard of His Word - so thankful for men like you who preach in truth and facts.

Wow!! This blew me away. I didn't grow up with postmillennial eschatology and have been completely perplexed by it until today. Brothers, your explanation and exegesis make way more sense of some confusing passages than I have ever heard before. Thank you and glory to God!

This was fantastic. Thank you for your ministry, guys. I love the Lord and am so happy to learn more about Him. Thank you for being faithful to His word!

Awesome point about Jesus talking to the church of Philadelphia, where He says there are those who say they are Jews “but are not” whilst Paul echos Him in Romans. Thanks for bringing that up!

I was raised dispensational premillennialist. As an adult I see now the errors in that interpretation. Thank you so much for this exegesis. I makes so much sense. And it makes it so much easier to interpret the Bible when you take it at face value in context instead of doing hermeneutical gymnastics. My mom would be so upset and disappointed that I listened to and praised this episode. But oh well. Thank you for your faithfulness to Scripture.

Pastor Jeff, I am 27 minutes in and deeply moved by your description of struggling to understand Islam and our proper relationship to it as Christian believers. As a Christian who has had family that lived in the Middle East, I encourage you to reach out to believers in your community with travel or work experience in the region. US Armed forces veterans might be a good community to contact in this regard. I'm sure if you looked around, you can find some folks. Good luck on this difficult journey. It's not an easy one. God bless.

It was certainly a blessing. Thank God that His scripture is SO CLEAR, and thank you guys for doing this exegesis!

YES! Thanku!! Finally someone is pointing all these things out! I been saying this & no one ever believes it but now I can show them this & I have some back up! Thanku again so much for speaking the truth for all to hear. God bless u all! I'll be sharing this w every one I can. ❤

I'm so glad you are covering this.

This is long, but absolutely necessary. Amen! Thank you for this guys!

You actually skipped Mt. 23.39, brothers: "For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." Spoken by the Lord to the same people (and Jerusalem) whose house was left desolate. God "has power to graft them in again," and He will.

This is great!!! Love you guys! Thank you for this- I pray you do more stuff like this ❤ this helps so many people. So many people are super scared and these videos refute the crazy stuff going on.

Only 40 min in and it is so good! Must watch for every believer.

This is fantastic. Sooo glad that I can pause the video in order to really absorb it all. Thank you!!!

Been waiting for this one!!!

Thank you for discussing this! My husband and I were talking about this very topic last night.

Guy's thank you so much for this. There are so here in Northern Ireland who are caught up in the Dispensationslism. I'll be sharing this with them. God bless you in all you do for the kingdom.

This episode was so clarifying and wonderful. Praise God for your ministry.

Thank you so much for your ministry and commitment to the text! God bless you.

Thanks Jeff and Apologia I appreciate you brother. Mind blown so much I want to study and dive into with what you have given me. Bless you, your family and your ministry!!

Thank you for this!! I told my husband over a week ago I wished you would do a video and address these topics. You surpassed my wishes. 😆I know so many people that have been sharing a false narrative of Israel, grafting, and being God’s chosen people. Plus this war being a sign of the tribulation. It’s frustrating.

Years ago - pre-2008, when we still lived in Phoenix - I was listening to the Dennis Prager show, and a Christian woman called Dennis and literally gushed with jealousy about how she wished she was Jewish like Dennis, and a member of God’s chosen people. She not only embarrassed Dennis, she embarrassed ME. This sister obviously did NOT know who she was in Christ. 😕

Crazy how everything happening today (technological advancements, digital currency, geopolitical alignments, etc.) is pointing toward prophetic fulfillment and never away from it. Christ is not currently reigning on the earth from the Davidic throne (which will be in Jerusalem, not heaven) as promised in Luke 1, Isaiah 2, Zechariah 12, 14, and Revelation 20.

I just came back to God something was telling me no time to waste it refreshed my faith. I am restudying the bible to know the truth and not be deceived.

Super healthy discussion! Thank you boys. Big up! God bless

Praise God. Much needed discussion.

You misrepresent the premillennial perspective. The nation Israel was chosen by God. God dispersed them from their land in their rebellion. God also returned them to their land, or do you reject that God set kings and rulers in place and removes them? (Romans 13:1-7, Daniel 2:21, etc etc. They are our mission field, but you are missing the rest of Paul’s own words. Romans 11:26-28

Very interesting and edifying conversation. Thanks guys!

My nephew also had some of his intestine removed as a premature baby. He is now 6 and still on the feeding tube. He still doesn’t eat. Hope this changes . Any prayers would be welcome. His name is kevin .

This was so helpful! Thanks so much for this, y'all!

It was so great!! Thank you so much, may God continue to bless you and the ministries of Apologia🙏

Great message guys , Thank you and God bless.

Wow ! this is very eye opening, so many pastors and myself says the same thing, thank you for this message, is definitely sobering and stirred me to really consider my current stand in this war and calling Israel the chosen ones.

Thank you so much for this!! It's the best treatment on the matter I have heard yet!

This is so good. Thank you.

I’m a dispensationalist but I can’t say for certain this is an “end time” event because these sort of things have happened in the past, many dispensationalist get ahead of themselves and will immediately claim that it’s an end time prophecy when you won’t even know for certain until the prophecy is fulfilled. Many dispensationalist will always mention the earthquakes, famine ect as evident that we are in the “last days” while these things have always taken place throughout history, if your a dispensationalist reading this text, don’t get too ahead of yourself because you could be wrong, it’s exciting to think about our Lord returning but we don’t know the day or the hour when his return is, don’t use these sort of “prophecies” as a way to try to reach the lost because it will only damage a persons outlook on Christianity, real evangelism is preaching and sharing the Gospel, not trying to use current situations as a way to preach and teach “the end is near so get right with God” when you yourself doesn’t actually even fully know if this is true prophecy, end time prophecies are for the believers, not the unbelievers. I too have also always said that God’s chosen people are those who God chooses to save, as a dispensationalist it’s always been annoying to me how other dispensationalist always put Israel an the Jews on this pedestal and almost seems like they are to be treated better then any other type of individual, even Christian’s, the Bible is clear that God doesn’t show any partiality.

Great program. Well said and explained.

Wow! Just wow! Thank you so much for this pastor Jeff. It's so clear to me now.

thank you for diving in this subject. such a blessing !

That was amazing, love your eschatology!

Lots of information to think about and study. Thank you.

Be praying for you Apologia in my quiet time! 🥰😇🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thank you so much for this!

Wow! This is fantastic! Praise the Lord!🙏🏻🔥❤️

Needed this. Will be listening to your sermons that expand more on this topic. I’ve been studying revelation for years from a future tribulation perspective (I didn’t know that there was a another scripturally consistent take) but this definitely makes sense. It’s just so confusing because I hear so many different sermons from people who have different eschatological perspectives and it’s hard to always discern what slips in 😂 thanks for your thoughtfulness in your wording and bring the evidence!

This is very helpful, thank you!

Congratulations on your new addition. We will be praying.

I really have tried to listen to your argument. I wanted to hear it with an open mind but I cannot listen to any more. You should read the whole Bible, in context, and Romans 11, which, apart from anything else exhorts us gentiles ‘not to boast against the natural branches.’ Paul was a ‘natural branch’ and wished he could be accursed for the sake of his (natural) brethren. He also knew, however, that the blindness of the natural branches was ‘in part.’ God promised all throughout the OT that He will bring His people, Israel, back to Himself. I can’t quote all the prophesies here. If you knew the Word and the God of the Word, you would know them. Paul warns us to ‘be not high minded, but fear.’ Where is the humility, the compassion, the wonder that WE should have been grafted in to the natural olive tree whilst they, as yet largely, remain cut off? Don’t you know we are debtors to Israel, the ones you’re saying are not? Please. Paul was a mass ‘Church’ persecutor and murderer. Read the promises of God to bring them back and give them that new heart and to cleanse them from all their idolatry, etc. ‘Oh Jerusalem! Jerusalem! You shall not see Me again until you say, ‘Baruch haba b’shem, Adonai!’ Come, Lord Jesus! Come and save Your heritage! Forgive us all!

Jeff, are you open to a public debate/discussion with another prominent teacher about these things? It could be helpful.

Thank you so much! Great blessing AS ALWAYS!! God bless you guys over there, you are absolutely amazing in your faithfulness!!! What a loooong video, I know I enjoyed it and played it back many times

This so so interesting! Please do more coverage on tribulation! I have learned to think about this so differently

To anybody who reads the Bible for themselves- and doesn’t rely on televangelists telling them what it means - it’s obvious that mystery Babylon the Great is Jerusalem . So yeah this might be biblical but not in the way so many evangelicals expect. I just hope their faith survives and doesn’t become the great falling away when all their “prophesies” fail.

But doesn't Paul go on in the same verses in Romans to state that Israel WILL be grafted back in?

Loved this conversation!

Thank you so much for this video. It puts things in a correct perception for me. I learned so much, God bless you!!🙏

Thank you for your clarity in this subject. We have a pastor at your church who is a pure bread Israeli, who was a tank commander and saw combat and he is an elder and pastor in our church because of his love and devotion for our The LORD Jesus Christ. I’m zealous for the people of israel because of this injustice that has fallen upon them and was one who said “they are the chosen people of God”, thank you for biblically clearing that up. Honestly knew the verses you all discussed about the Apostle Paul declaring that not all Israel IS Israel. I appreciate this info as it helps me Shepard my wife and children.

Go hug those twins and tell your wife how thankful we are that she allowed you to step away and share God's word with us.

Thank you brothers! fine work you do!! love you guys!! Thank you so much for the content! It helps me so much grateful for you guys!

I pray for you, and I pray for your family to be well and healed Jeff, God bless you and your family.

Lots of issues of what was said here. The basic premise that the regathered Israel we see today is not the prophesied regathering mentioned throughout scripture, particularly in the Prophets due to present day Israel's spiritual condition. It's so important not to cherry pick scriptures and build a theology around Roms 2 and Rom 9 in a vacuum, but to consider the whole counsel of God's word on any particular topic. In Daniel 9, an angel describes what would happen to the nation of Israel. This folks is that same Israel living in exile after breaking God's covenant. Yet, while in exile due to their unbelief they were still referred to as Israel. Even after breaking God's covenant, God's sought a new covenant (Jer 31:31) with that same Israel and Judah that had previously been cast out of the land of Canaan. That new covenant is the covenant with Jesus. This new covenant in Christ was made with the same nation under Moses, that carried the law. This new covenant was not to a different people. Jesus did *NOT* create a covenant with the world, He came for Israel and Israel only (Matt 15:24). He became the savior of the world by granting grace to the gentiles by including them or _grafting_ them to the nation of Israel which is comprised of natural (Jews) and wild (Gentiles) branches (Rom 11:13-21). Notice that some *natural* branches are _broken off._ Meaning they were previously *ON* the tree. This means the tree had both believing and unbelieving *natural* branches on it, from which God the Father would prune or cut off (John 15:1-2) from time to time due to their unfaithfulness. However, God in His great love for the world ordained a new kind of branch. One that was not born on the tree at all, but native to a wild trees of the world (Gentiles). That they would *by faith* be grafted into this tree, though they were wild branches previously. Now this *faith in God* requirement (Hab 2:4) had always been the requirement to remain on the tree, even for Israel under the law (Rom 9:30-32). But you gentiles, including these that run this RU-vid channel, *beware!* Why? Well, please read Rom 11:18-21. This ingathering of gentiles was for a limited time and during that time Israel would be partially hardened in their unbelief (Rom 11:25). But just as the early disciples understood, this limited extension would end. _After this I will return and rebuild David’s fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it, that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord_ (Acts 15:17). Jeff's statement (time 50:07) that we should be offended at the notion of rebuilding a new temple in Jerusalem is foolishness at best, heresy at worst. Christ while a Temple of the Holy Spirit taught in the 2nd Temple, even had zeal for it! (John 2:13-17). And He will build the 3rd Temple as well! Just as Christian USA is mostly filled with unbelievers you can't judge the whole nation of modern day Israel with it's popular voices. Were they not the same people who made the golden calf? The same who worshipped Baal? But look to what God did then, is doing now! I say to you! _Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel-all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him._ (1Kings 19:18). There remains even today a remnant of regathered Jews who live in the land of Israel, and yet believe in the Messiah Jesus. In fulfillment of Ezekiel 36 (Please read carefully this entire chapter). God's promise to the land itself, to one day regather them for His own name sake and then after regathering them in unbelief, cleanse them of all sin is literally occurring before your eyes if you have eyes to see it!

This gets me fired up and puts me at peace. Jesus came in power and judgment and established his kingdom. It’s so cool to see this truth, and understanding, and it honestly gives hope. Thanks Jeff and fellas

Praying for the family brother!

Very compelling! Thank ya'll So Much!🙏❤🥰

I think most believers stand with Israel because of the Plans God still has for Israel. God is not done with Israel, and Jesus will come back and reign from Jerusalem. God wants Israel to turn to Him, and they will. We shouldn't support their actions especially if it's evil, but we can stand with the Israel that God will reveal His full glory from in due time

Another thing, Christians are excited for the preparation of the 3rd temple only because it is a sign that we are close to our savior returning.

This was Great!!! I was raised on the rapture.. and signs about when it would happen. This was a good short break down of the truth.

Thank God for you Jeff you never "just go with the flow"

Insane how the idea and understanding of NUANCE about situations has disappeared from our discourse. Everyone thinks life is like a Marvel movie where there is a clear black and white good guy(s) vs bad guy(s)

I stand with 🇵🇸. They have suffered under that brutal occupation.

that was fantastic guys 🙏

Beautiful words.❤✝️

Fantastic episode. Gary Demar is also recently doing a great job explaining this more correctly

34:30 Time stamp reminds me of the Bible verse when Jesus asks "who are my mothers and brothers" when he preached in Nazareth

Thank you so much for taking the time to clearly explain these things through scripture.

These guys are amazing ! Thanks Jeff.

Jeremiah 31:36 “If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.” …we still have ⭐️ the stars in the sky… God isn’t done with Israel yet! He made promises to Israel (a remnant) mine elect.

Oh boy! Replacement Theologians, Amillennialists getting nervous about the truth they've been denying for all of these years.

I have never heard it explained this way before but it makes perfect sense. ❤ Thank you

Wow never heard something like that . Make so much sense. I will continue praying for that scatology that been tell. Thank you brother’s

I struggle with the evil of Islam. I am a very peaceful person, and I have patience and longsuffering for those who are lost, I am a Christian and I try so hard to behave as much as possible in all aspects to glorify Christ. Having said that, I struggle with the absolute rage I feel in the depths of my soul when I see the demonic acts of brutality committed against innocence. It sets my heart on fire. I have read a lot of the Islamic books and I know a lot of the dirty laundry that permeates their texts and I use it to reach out to Muslims. As far as Judaism, I understand that there are Jews hostile to the gospel especially in Israel, but their beliefs are not explicitly calling for Jews to kill and subjugate Christians and the rest of the world. As for my desire that the Jews be able to rebuild the temple, it's not for my salvation, but it's is, if possible, to quicken the return of Christ. My struggle is not confronting evil headfirst, or even defensively quarantining it (regardless of the futility of how might work in practice). I also recognize that the most victimized population of Islam are Muslims. However, it just feels like there is a violent repression of Christians everywhere around the world but here at home we are under a demonic slumber, but those who are awakened to the clear plans of Satan are restrained to watch the devil slaughter believers all over the world while his communist minions here in the West sing and drum their lies louder to drown out the murder of Christendom. Singing about tolerance, they drag Christians into court to persecute them for following their conscience, and shame, investigate and cancel Christians who object to perverts indoctrinating our children. This world will come to an end and we as Christians are to wait expectantly for Christ's return. That doesn't mean to sell everything we own and wait on the Mt of Olives, but we are to be deciples of Christ and do whatever we can to spread the gospel. I am not accusing you of falling short, but I am wondering what you do with Revalation if you think tribulation has already done.

Gods plan for the Jews as a nation are irrevocable as it says in Romans 11:26-30

God bleas praying for the twins, tuning in to this now. 🙏

God Bless your ministry!!

I just knew and I have not seen the full video but 9 min in I knew that Jeff was ready to go with Matthew 24 haha. I can see it behind his eyes he was ready for it. Exciting time for Jeff in this video haha.

This is replacement theology being discussed in this video.

Brave and relivant...as usual! Bravo❤

This was amazing!

I’d love to hear their genuine commentary on this passage-“But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭11‬:‭17‬-‭21‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Interesting that you stop at verse 20 and say that clear enough when obviously if you would’ve continued you would’ve been hit in the mouth with verse 25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; 27 For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins." 28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. I disagree 100% with your opinion for many reasons but this is one of many scriptures that ought to have you reconsider your constant calling of the people of Israel as the “covenant breakers” when it’s God who made the covenant with them and He doesn’t break His covenant.

Absolutely loved this ❤️

AMEN, this was fantastic. Gives me something to think about, thanks Jefff.