In Ezekiel 37, 12, I will bring you back to the
land of Israel. This is a promised land, promised
to the Jewish people, promised, chosen. And I'll
put my spirit in you and you shall live. I'm
waiting for that. Let's get excited. That's not
just from a millennium. Ezekiel 37, 14, I shall
put my spirit in you and you shall live. God
promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out His Spirit
on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring,
where we contend for that promised outpouring,
we equip for that outpouring, so that we may
engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss.
And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today.
We have with us our friend of many, many years,
Dr. Gene Little, who is involved, along with
his wife, in running our house in Jerusalem.
And he's going to be one of our speakers at Convention
2025, May 21st through 24th. We want to invite
you to come. And he's going to be speaking about
Israel. So he's going to be giving us a little
taste of what's coming at the convention about
God's chosen people and his promised land. Thank
you so much for joining us today. We're really
looking forward to this podcast ourselves, and
so we expect you will be too. Hopefully, all
of our listeners are very interested in what's
going on in Israel. It's a very important thing
on God's heart because the Bible comes from there.
And if you're a believer in the Bible, you need
to understand how Israel functions. But before
we get started, we want to encourage you, if
you haven't already done so, to go to our website,
globaloutpouring .net, and make sure that you're
on our mailing list and our email list, that
is. and that you are preparing to come to Global
Outpouring Convention 2025, May 21st through
24th in St. Louis at the St. Louis Airport Marriott.
We are going to have a glorious time there in
deep worship and deep intercession and deep Word
of God. If you love the things of God, if you're
hungry for more of God, it doesn't matter whether
you're a newbie or a veteran. You belong there,
and you're going to find other people of life.
Like Precious Faith. And it's for all of the
family. We have a nursery and children's meetings
and teens are going to have their own special
place and time that they can be meeting together.
It's going to be a time for the family to grow
in God. So we just encourage you to come. So
today we have with us Gene Little, Dr. Gene Little.
And he's, boy, we've known you for many, many
years. And we've had your wife on this podcast
as well, Mary Lois. So welcome to the Global
Outpouring Podcast again. You've been with us
before. Thank you, Sharon. Thank you. I'm so
glad to be here. Both you asked me here and be
on this podcast and say hello to all the listeners
today. Yes. I was just asking you before we got
started about, like, what are you a doctor in?
Well, I did my early education at the University
of Washington, got a bachelor's degree in political
science, and then I did a number of years in
the military as an officer and got out. And we
did one year at Chrysler Nations. And, you know,
part of this came about when I was in the military.
Mary Lois and I, we— We just fell in and got
the Holy Spirit while we were in Italy. And that
just, I tell you, being baptized in the Holy
Spirit will change your life around for the good
and bring the fire and excitement like you haven't
seen before. So I really felt led in those early
days to get out of the military. But I asked
the Lord, I was on an aircraft carrier and loved
everything that I was doing. And I said, Lord,
if I do get out, I feel like Peter. I'm going
to step out of the boat. I'm going to walk on
water. And go into the ministry. But you've got
to help me because I never looked at a Bible
until I was 30 years old. And I need some help,
Lord. So if you'd send me to a Bible school.
Well, I ended up going to Oral Roberts for three
years, getting a master's degree in divinity
with a specialty in books of the Bible and parables
and Timothy. And I just loved it. I have a real
gift to write. Yes. And I've spent many years
either writing books or doing something on the
Internet where you write little articles. So
that's been my life. I've been in education and
got a doctorate in literature from Sloan Bible
College up in Des Moines. And here we are. Yeah.
How many books have you written? I think about
eight or nine. I'm always writing the next one.
Yes, you are. What's the next one about? Next
one, my son suggested I write something called
Tactical Devotions. That's good. Yes. So anyway,
I'm having fun with that, although I've got two
or three others that I really need to get, and
I need to move on that too. Find something good
to write about. It's easier than ever to write
now and publish and print something. Oh, yes.
Absolutely. So you also wrote a devotional about
Jerusalem. Yes. Tell us about that. I have a
book. It's called Jerusalem Lest I Forget Thee.
And it's about 52 devotions that I sat before
the Lord. Jerusalem is mentioned 800 times or
more in the Scriptures. And I took 52 of them,
one for each week, plus I had an added one in
case of leap year. But you could read them like
during the Shabbat meal. Oh, nice. You could
sit down and read it all at once, but I think
to get the really flavor, just read it one at
a time, once a week. It's a very good one. That's
a great one. We had a great time on Shabbat.
We used to do that. And it was about Elijah.
Oh, yeah, the stories of Elijah. The stories
of Elijah. I remember that. That was always exciting.
So you also delved deeply into study about Islam,
and you wrote a book about that. Yes. After you
taught a course about it in our school of ministry.
Yes. Tell us about that book. Originally, we
taught a course. I was praying one morning. Sister
Gwen had asked, what should we teach? We had
to give her notice of what we were going to teach
about. I felt the Lord whisper in my ear, His
still, soft, silent voice, just before I got
up, teach my children the tenets of Islam, for
they're going to need to know these things in
the days to come. And what year was that? That
was, I think, before 9 -1 -1. Oh, yeah, I think
it was in the 90s still, wasn't it? It was. I
remember that. I taught it twice, and then 9
-1 -1 happened, and then we put it into a book,
and I've had it all these years to study. The
mystery of Islam. Mystery of Islam. It is in
many ways a mystery. Some ways I know. My wife
heard a word from the Lord, though, that in the
days to come, the Lord will utterly humiliate
Islam. And, you know, they come to know Christ
in increasing numbers. I just believe in that
for a revival in there. People get tired of that
heavy cloak of Islam, and they're searching in
dreams and in miracles and in ways to come. It's
easier than ever. Find the Bible on the internet
and they can read the liberating word of God.
It's true. It's true. The people who begin to
feel free enough, feel daring enough to dare
to read the Bible. And even though the Quran
says that you should read the book and you should
read the Injil, the Gospels. But, you know, I
don't think they're even really reading the Quran
that much, probably, unless they're studying
to go deeper. We've really been praying for a
great harvest in Islam because it's such a deception
that, well, we weren't really planning on going
down that bunny trail, but it's a serious, serious
subject. And we've been praying a lot for the
Muslims because they're so passionate about...
what they believe. And when they become believers
in Jesus, they become passionate believers in
Jesus. And where they were Israel haters before,
when they meet the King of the Jews, everything
changes. Hallelujah. And we're on the front lines.
We see that happening, not a whole lot, but by
the ones and the twos, people have their lives
changed. If not only the Word of God, but worship.
When they hear worship, they just get into that
and just come to the true Messiah and find that
hate drop off. And they come into really loving
the Lord. Beautiful, beautiful. So tell us what
the Lord has put on your heart. Don't preach
the whole sermon, because we want everybody to
come to the convention and hear the whole thing.
But what is the Lord moving you and leading you
to bring at this convention? Ooh. A thimbleful.
Thimbleful. We're going to talk about... God's
miracle nation is miracle people. I have Israel
on my heart. God has brought us over there. True
miracle. It's been 27 years that we've been in
that land, coming and going. And I really feel
more than ever that we are God's ambassadors.
And we haven't had any trouble. We just were
there. And God opens the door. And I can't say
that we've done an enduring work, maybe not a
great work, but we've been on the right place
at the right time. As you know, we have a hospitality
house there that Sister Gwen, many years ago,
heard the word of the Lord. going up to White
Plains, New York. And I love it. You must know
how the Lord can break into your life at any
time. How he can just whisper something, totally
shake you up. And like, where did that thought
come from? Still soft voice. And she heard the
voice of the Lord. saying, I am going to thrust
you and your ministry into Jerusalem. And she
asked Papa Jim and asked you, Sharon, what thrust
meant. And then if I recall the story, she forgot
all about that. Yes, she did. Derek Kuhn one
night was preaching on the future times of Israel,
and somebody suggested. We need to have a house
in Israel. No, he prophesied it. He prophesied
it. He said, Sister Gwen, you have to have a
house in Israel. And, you know, they ignited
something right there. They sure did. People
just started coming up. I've never seen. Yeah,
with $1 ,000 checks, and Sister Gwen had stood
up, and she sat down. I'm not taking an offering.
Because she didn't want to do it. She had forgotten
that word. That night, I think we raised $58
,000, put it into account, and she sent Mary
Lois and I out there to look for a house. And
that was exciting. We had been coming to Israel,
just briefly background there, that my wife had
been coming since the 1980s to sing in the Feast
of Tabernacles. Yeah, in the choir. Part of the
choir with you guys as well. And then I came
to Feast of Tabernacles a few years later to
work in logistics. And God caused that love of
Israel just to explode in our hearts. And I think
it was something that Sister Gwen saw, because
we were just surprised, as anybody else said,
she asked us not only to find a house there,
but to shepherd over it, to manage it. We actually
found a Holy Ghost real estate agent, Messianic,
as well as another real estate agent, and then
set apart looking for God's promise to come to
pass in His Word. And in, I think, a number of
weeks or months, we found... a home that fit
all the requirements that we needed for ministry.
And Sister Gwen saw it, and she just started
crying. And she said, when I cry, I buy. And
so that was the next step of faith that we had
to do was to raise the funds. That was a big
step of faith. Big step of faith for a smaller
ministry. But I challenge you out there that
if God has called you something to do, you may
have to step out in faith, but He will. He'll
back you up. If he's given you the promise, he's
given you the decree, and you may have to stretch
your faith like we did. And we were able to purchase
a beautiful penthouse, I would call it, because
there's no regular homes in Jerusalem. It's a
city tightly compacted together, always has been.
We have been there for 27 years now with ministry
meetings, with the hospitality. Been there in
good times and in bad times. Oh, yeah. And welcomed
the saints of the Lord and had just an ongoing
work to let Jesus' light shine. Yeah. Yes. Now,
didn't you tell us right before this what the
Lord spoke to you when you said, you know, do
you want me to be a pastor? What was your question
to him and what was his answer? Going into the
ministry, I had felt, first of all, you have
your education. I felt really I needed an education
to come into the ministry, and it was the desire
of my heart. And as I finished up my degree in
Oral Roberts, you know, I kind of did this kind
of backwards, but I said, Lord, okay. what would
you have me to do? What direction now that I'm
graduating? And I heard a still soft voice of
the Lord again, and you can, you get your spirit
quiet, you can hear the Lord. That's true. And
he said, I've not called you to be a pastor.
And I go, oh no, what else is there to do? Yeah,
what did I just spend time and money for this
education for? But he said, I'll give you a pastor's
heart. So one thing led to another, but I had
felt, What God was calling us to was really a
missionary outreach work. And as there's lots
of things you can do for the kingdom of God.
And during those early years, we did go to Cuba
and Mexico, Honduras, Canada, and a lot of other
nations in there on short -term mission trips
and some long -term trips. And I think it was
good preparation work for God putting Israel
on our heart. And so we're there. Not that you're
out on the streets trying to get people saved
because that's not legal there, right? No, it's
not. I think my ministry here, I am not so much
an evangelist, I'm a teacher. And that's a perfect
venue to have to teach Bible classes for those
that would like to come. And we've taught Zechariah.
We've taught some of the other minor prophets
and special events that we've had, speakers that
come and have ministry there. And it's a good
place there. And it's a watering hole for the
believers there. It's an oasis that we have.
And we're not very far from Sukkot Alel, which
is 24 -hour praise and worship ministry, and
some of the other ministries that are. You know,
there are a significant number of Christians
in that land, as well as Muslims and Jewish believers.
Yes. So you're talking at the convention about
Israel, promised land and God's people. Give
us some highlights. I want to start out, Sharon.
with Daniel 9, 25, and 26. Because that's what
he laid on my heart. We have a believer there,
a Jewish believer, that always says that the
city will be built in troublesome times. Yes,
that's what the Word says. She always reminds
us of that. And in the 27 years we've been there,
we've had times of peace, times of war, times
of terrorism, but this city is being built. And
I tell people, if you go away for a six months,
you will not recognize what's happening. But
even though in the midst of this war that started
October 7th, 2023, and we may go back to that,
it's an ongoing warfare right now as well with
Hamas kidnapping over 200 people and they still
hold 35. But Israel is in a building spree, especially
Jerusalem, that you will see. We have the red
line, which is a light rail system that goes
from Nevi Yakov now in the far north by Ramallah,
goes all the way to Hadassah Hospital. And that's
a light rail for passengers. We have one, the
blue line, that's going to be built and it's
going to connect at the old train station. And
they're going to put an underground train connection
to Tel Aviv. Wow, underground. Underground, and
it will connect with a light rail. And then the
Green Line as well. So it's going to be an urban
city with a lot of urban transportation. But
it is being built in troublesome times. And past
the year, we've just come back from spending
six months in Israel. And during even... The
worst of times when Iran sent over 300 missiles
one night and they were exploding over our heads.
And, you know, it makes you a man of prayer,
a man of faith as you lie there and hearing these
things. But the city is not only being built
with a light rail and other things. There's a
lot of multi -story buildings coming up, high
rises. And they're going to be all along Hebron
Road and in other areas there. The Lord is preparing
that city for something great. And it has always
been. Jerusalem has attracted not only people
from the nations there, and the nations are there,
but so much more. And we are waiting in anticipation
for so much more. We feel like we're one light
that people can come and be refreshed. But I'm
looking for a great wave of revival. And why
not? Amen. Why not? Amen. So we pray to that
end and many others. Beautiful. Beautiful. What
else? Okay. When we look at this land, when we
look at this people, how God originally made
a promise to Abraham. And in that promise, he
brought him up and showed him all the stars and
all the sands and said, your seed is going to
be like this in Genesis 15. He gave him an eternal
promise that I give you this land and your seed
shall inherit it. You know, I think a younger
generation forgets sometimes the promises that
are in the Word, that this Word was to the Jewish
people through Abraham, through his son Isaac,
not through the bondwoman, not through Ishmael.
You know, an eternal promise in Genesis 12, 7,
to your descendants, I will give you this land.
It's there. It's always been their land. Many
times I think the devil through the Romans and
through other persecutions have tried to eradicate
the Jews from the land. They keep coming back.
It's an eternal promise. And even as you read
through Genesis and Genesis 13, 14. Lift up your
eyes now and look on this place, north, south,
east, and westward. For all the land that I see,
I give it to you and your descendants forever.
Amen. Eternal promise. God doesn't go back on
his promises. That's right. He doesn't abrogate
them as the Muslims have in some of their, like
in the Koran, that doesn't apply anymore. So
he made a covenant and offered a sacrifice, and
God went through. If you remember the covenant
there, he went through as he split these animals
apart. Oh, yeah. And God came through with a
fiery torch. And God said. I am obligated myself
to this covenant. This land is given to you.
And he repeated this to Isaac, repeated this
to Jacob. And then even to Moses. What was Moses
called? They were delivered out of Egypt into
the promised land. And I know that God said this
is an everlasting promise. I think the greatest
miracle, though, was that. even after our Lord
was there as the promised Messiah and walked
the land. And you find the Romans coming in,
exiling the Jews for 2 ,000 years. But then in
1948, they were brought back through not only
the decision of the United Nations, but God brought
his people back into that land. And it's been
77 years now, and we've had a front. door front
window on what's happening in that land for we've
been there almost 30 years and to see what's
going on even though it's been troublesome times
the people are coming back. He's bringing the
bones back to life, and he's bringing the flesh
back on the bones, as he said in Ezekiel. I'm
waiting now for the Spirit of God to come in.
Yes. And even the name Israel may intrigue you,
but Israel was given as a name to Jacob. He had
wrestled all night with that angel, and he said,
I'm not going to let you go till you bless me.
Jacob was really a tough guy, even though Angel
had put his hip out of whack and everything.
And so he says, let me go. The sun's rising.
He said, I'm not going to let you go. And I think
that's a good word for us. Sometimes it's like,
Lord, I'm going to hang on to you. I'm not going
to let you go. said you're going to be called
Israel now no more Jacob which means schemer
which means uh more than that Jacob was he was
a real prize God changed not only he changed
his whole personality the name of Israel's prince
Prince of God, a prince, you know, that has prevailed
and struggled. And I think the nation, in taking
that name, has taken upon the wrestlings like
Jacob did. They've had to wrestle, and God wrestles
with his people to bring them back and to unify
them. So it has been having a front row seat,
seeing this there. When you look at Jacob and
Esau, and Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents.
Yeah, you don't think of him as being a wrestler.
You don't think of him going out guiding sheep.
I mean, he's got pale skin probably. He wasn't
out in the sun like his brother Esau, out as
a hunter. So he stays in the tent. He's not tough.
He's not used to maybe being out at night in
the desert or because you're hunting, you don't
always get back at night. But he had to learn
to be tough. Prophetic of Israel. They had to
learn to be tough because they were pushed around
for all these years, all through Europe, still
being pushed around. But now they have a homeland
and out of their homeland, they're making Jehovah's
name known. Amen. The God of Israel. God of Israel.
Yes. Amen. One of the stories I like is found
in Zechariah 8 .23. And I love the promises of
God towards Israel, towards the Jewish people.
They're not like replacement theology to where
you think that, well, all these promises are
now for the church. Some of these can only be
applied to Israel and to the Jewish people. And
Zechariah 8 .23 is... quite unique. It says in
the last days that 10 men out of every language
of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish
man saying, let us go with you for we've heard
that God is with you. Yes. Now, I was down by
the pool asylum and we'd taken Hezekiah's tunnel.
I was leading a tour group there. And while I
was waiting for the rest of them to catch up,
somehow I was in front of them all. I was near
a guard. You know, he was kind of, I think he
was nominal Jewish, older man, and I'm not young
myself. And just to make conversation, he said,
well, what brings you here? And I looked and
I said, well, I believe I'm one of those 10 men
that the Bible says that in the last days are
going to grab the hold of a Jew and say, I want
to go with you because I know the Lord is with
you. And when I said that, he started weeping.
He started crying because many Jews, they're
rejected people. And you can easily take offense
when you're rejected, but also just to demonstrate
the love that the Gentiles or someone might have
for somebody that's Jewish. Of course, what I
didn't say, and I should have, was the robe of
the Jew that I've grabbed hold of is Jesus Christ.
But even so, many of these people, they may appear
to be secular, but they know the word. They know
the word that in the last days, 10 men, 10 women
are going to grab the hold of a Jew. And I think
that's part of our challenge is to love the Jew
and to know that God's promises apply to the
Jewish people, as well as that I know we're grafted
in. We can claim some of those promises, but
praise God. So a little thing that I saw that
he shall place you again. He has brought them
this far after 2 ,000 years to place them in
their own land. And we'll find that in Ezekiel
37. 13 and 14, I will place you in your own land.
Yes. Now, it hasn't been easy. It's almost like
the time of Joshua where you've had to come against
those that don't want you there. And maybe you
have to come against terrorism. And it's exciting
to live in that land. with not only the politics
and different opinions. Somebody told me living
in Israel is like a fruit salad, only it's not
mixed. But let me tell you some of what God is
doing in Isaiah 19, 18, five cities will speak
the language of Canaan. Wow. And that refers
to five cities in Egypt. God is moving even in
Egypt where in their universities, they are teaching
the Hebrew language. Wow. Usually after so many
years being suspicious of Israel, there's an
opening there that people want to learn of the
Hebrew language. Five cities are going to speak
that language. It appears to me maybe an increase
of Israel's borders are also coming in time.
So this land may expand. It's prophesied. It's
what's been promised, so we should expect it.
That's because Isaiah 19, 23, and 25 talks about
the Isaiah 19 highway. Yes. And he'd say, well,
that's for the millennium, but why not now? Sure.
We can make some efforts there to bring that
highway to pass. Amen. You've got to start somewhere.
You've got to start somewhere. So you pray it
into being. You contend for it. Yeah, that's
good. But it's been a real love to be there,
to see fulfillment, what God is doing. And he's
filling this land, different prophecies. Amos
9, 14, they shall plant vineyards and drink the
wine thereof and make gardens and eat the fruit
thereof. Yes. I challenge you when you come,
not if you come to Israel, when you come to Israel.
go to the Shuk and see the fruit that this land
produces. He's filling this land with fruit,
not only fruit I believe in the natural, but
I'm looking for the fruit of the Spirit. And
I have faith and I have a love that God, you
didn't bring them this far just to bring them
into the land. So the Messiah is there. And right
now he's revealing himself to his people one
by one. He's doing it. He's doing it. He's doing
it. But I'm glad to have our front row seat.
Yes. We see what he's doing. It's fun to watch
what he's doing. You know, we had another friend
of ours, and I'll call him Yoni. He was fighting
in the Lebanon War, one of the wars up there.
And he told us his personal testimony. He had
been injured, a RPG, a rocket -propelled grenade
had hit his Jeep, killed his two other buddies.
And he was in the hospital for many months, paralyzed
from the waist down. Could not get up. And finally
the doctor said, Yoni, we can't do anything more
for you. Send us home. His father was a rabbi
in the kibbutz where he lived. And he was there.
He said while he was in the hospital, some Swedish
people had given him a Bible. And he remembered,
he said, when I was a child, I got a Bible they
handed out in the kibbutz, but they had ripped
half of it apart. And the kid always wondered
why he only got half the book. Well, they didn't
have any Torahs. They had gotten whole New Testaments,
and they ripped those apart. But now he had a
New Testament and an Old Testament. But he was
in his room. one night, and he'd been at home
for a while, and he started reading Isaiah 53.
Oh, my. You will not find that even in the Torah
readings. They skip over that. Some rabbis might
say Isaiah 53 applies to the nation of Israel.
Others will say, and we just don't want to deal
with that, and they move on. But he read Isaiah
53, and while he was reading it, he saw this
light come out of the Bible. All of a sudden
it was a light and turned into the face of Jesus.
And he saw Jesus beaten and just as described
on the page. But then the light got bigger and
the glorious form of Jesus appeared by his bedside,
the whole form. Jesus reached out with his hand,
touched him and healed him. Wow. Sovereignly
healed him. And he got out and we hear these
testimonies all the time. Yeah. And he said,
I jumped up out of bed yelling. I've healed.
I've been healed. Look at me. Jesus healed me.
Jesus healed me. I've been healed by Yeshua.
Yes. Oh, my. About 2, 3 o 'clock in the morning.
Oh, my. And he created such a ruckus in the house.
Nobody was celebrating that he was healed. No.
But the word was that if you don't. Take back
what you've said, then you must leave. And that
don't say this name and such. And rightfully,
many of the Jews remember the Holocaust. They
blame it on the Christians. They remember the
Inquisition. Blame it on the Christians. And
they persecuted people. So I could see that.
He said, how can I take this back? I saw. From
my own eyes. And so after three days, he had
to leave his house, and they sat Sheva for him.
And that means they considered him dead. Yes,
they did. Oh, wow. Sheva means seven. Yeah, you
sit seven days after someone passes away. That's
how you remember the one that is now dead. You're
now dead. Wow. And he went on to have a different
career with other places. Finally, after many
years, he was able to come back, and the family
had received him back again. Glory to God. I'm
not sure where they are in the midst of believers,
but sometimes it takes the working of miracles
as well as the Word, as well as worship. Amen.
I just see other people that I know that we hear
a lot of stories that I don't often say too much
just to. keep a low profile, but it is a land
of miracles. Absolutely. And another thing is
that this is in Amos 9 .14, another scripture,
I will bring again the captivity of my people
that were exiled, and they shall build away cities
and inhabit them. Amen. We're seeing this nation
is so young to see not only the way cities being
rebuilt. But the older ones being new cities
established and the other ones being rebuilt,
it's just something else, a miracle that you
see happening. So the way cities are being rebuilt.
And then one of the promises, I love Amos, go
read Amos in there, said that I will plant them
on their land and they shall what? No more be
pulled up. No more be pulled up. You know, living
in this land, we hear so much from the other
side that Israel doesn't belong there. And Israel
has no right to this land. Yeah, they left. They
left and they were exiled. I want to share from
the Koran as well in Surah Al -Ma'dah 5, 20 and
21. It said, O my people, enter the holy land
which Allah has assigned to you, and do not turn
back. That this land was assigned. Even the Quran
says that. Assigned to whom? The Jews. The Koran
is saying it's the Jews. Yes, it's in the Koran.
I have a surah right there. Wow, wow, wow. But,
you know, as in anything else, oh, no, no, that
doesn't apply. Right. It's been, it just meant
they have to become Muslim first. You know, make
all sorts of excuses. So I like that they have
been called back and that God has established
them, giving them this land. And even though
the other side, wants to they say well forget
that we're nation building we're going to build
our own nation and the jews got to go back to
where they were okay so they want to delegitimize
israel being there right and so we're in the
midst of that they want to dehumanize those that
are there and demonize and even destroy everything
about that yeah but we have an eternal promise
God has brought them back to the land, even from
ever since Abraham's days. And I believe that
this, too, is going to be in the days to come
that we'll see, even now that we're seeing that's
happening as Israel's expanding and watching
over the Druze up in Syria and establishing outposts
in Lebanon and even in Gaza. But, you know, it
isn't just one. scripture alone right in ezekiel
37 12 i will bring you back to the land of israel
yep this is a promised land promised to the jewish
people right promise chosen and i'll put my spirit
in you and you shall live i'm waiting for that
let's get excited that's not just from a millennium
ezekiel 37 14 i shall put my spirit in you and
you shall live amen live So these are some of
the close promises I keep to my heart, that God
is working in this nation. It's taking a little
longer than I'd like to see. I'm not getting
any younger. But, you know, it's kind of like
what Jesus said, when you put a little leaven
or yeast in the bread, how it works. I don't
know, but it rises up. And I think even through
the misery of this war, we are going to see.
great changes coming back that people can change
and find Jesus as well. Also, Isaiah 35, I can't
forget that, said the desert shall blossom. Oh,
yes. The desert shall blossom. We look about
not only the natural desert, because some two
-thirds of Israel is desert. And I just heard
the other day they're going to build a new airport
way down south, 80 miles from Tel Aviv, down
close to the border of Gaza and Egypt. I think
Israel has been forced to, in the days earlier,
that place wasn't very well settled. Everybody
went to Tel Aviv. Nobody wanted to go with Ben
Gurion's vision of let's go into the desert and
make this land produce. But now they're going
to build an airport. And I think it's going to
be 80 ,000 people used to build this airport,
an international airport. But it will also build
up that part of the nation that is. isolated.
And as a strong point, I've seen that in many
of the other places close to Palestinian territories
and stuff, Israel's built strongholds that you're
not going to come across here. You know, when
we were down in, when Ben -Gurion gave his speech
in 1948 in Tel Aviv, the building where that
happened, Independence Hall, they had a picture
on the wall when you walk in of about Well, like
30, 40 people all had shovels in their hands
to start building Tel Aviv. Yeah, they were turning
over the earth. Turning the earth over, and that's
where it started. So that they could start the
city. Wow. On the sand dunes. On the sand dunes,
they built Tel Aviv. Yeah, that's amazing. Wow,
that's astounding. Yeah. Yeah. I think one of
the other things that we forgot was many years,
there was a man called Hayseed. Oh, yes. He was
always looking for oil. Yes. And he had, I forget
his name, his company, Zion or one of them. I
don't remember. I don't remember. But not many
years ago, Israel discovered vast amounts of
oil in the shallow waters just off the shore.
And there's a prophecy in Deuteronomy 33, 24,
that Asher shall dip his foot in oil. That's
right. And many people, well, that's olive oil
or that is some other different. type of oil
in there that we get but they've found Massive
amounts of oil that they're slowly developing,
and that's another prophecy that's come to pass.
So we thank God that not only they're in the
spirit and in the natural, it's a wonderful place
to be. I encourage everyone, don't listen to
everything in the news, but come on the next
tour that Phil and Sharon are going to bring
on and see what God is doing and what the Lord
has done. Yes. Amen. What are good news sources
people can listen to out there where they're
not going to get biased news? I listen to Amir
Savati, and that is on Telegram. Yes, the Telegram
app. I also go to some of the Israeli sites on
the Internet, i24news .com. I think Mary Lois
has a couple of sites. I can't remember right
now. We'll add that to the show notes when we
get that from her. Yeah. And then we have IsraelNationalNews
.com. And J -Post, J -Post .com. So, of course,
as we come, just not only on the Internet, but
there's other sources you can find. I think the
best one is to grab the hold of a Jew, ask him
about his land. And read the Bible. Read the
Bible. Yes. How did I forget that? The Bible
tells you a whole lot of news that, and especially
if you do read the Bible and you get quiet before
the Lord, like you were describing, you get so
quiet that you can hear that still small voice.
He will interpret scripture for you that you
may have read it a hundred times. And all of
a sudden, there's fresh revelation on it, particularly
about his people and his land. Amen. Wow, okay.
So I think it's been my privilege over the years
to meet many souls, not only Christian. And we
don't call people Christian in Israel because
there's so few. We're believers. And I love that
term. So we're believers in Yeshua. You can run
into Yeshua, too. He's still the light of the
world. He's still making house calls. Yes, hallelujah.
Especially in that land. I will never forget
to the end of my days that I had an Emmaus encounter
with the Lord. Mary Lawson and I did. And I've
heard of people in different places. We were
down in Jericho, which is an Arab city, but it
used to be a city of priests. Yes. And many wells
are there and water. It's a well -watered garden,
as it were. We were by the tree of Sycamore Tree.
There's a little sign there that says this is
the actual tree that Zacchaeus climbed up. And,
you know, people in the car said, well, you think
that's the real tree? And I go, oh, I don't know.
It doesn't look like it's 2 ,000 years old. But
I know Jesus must have passed very close to here.
And that very microsecond that I said that, the
whole car was filled with light, such an intense
light. We were brought into the light. It felt
like our very beings were sucked into the light.
Wow. And it's an experience I'll never forget,
that we were just into the greater light, and
then it was like it exploded, and we just came
into the light, and all our breaths came out
at the same time. Just, oh, like that. And I
heard, I love it. And you hear the still, soft
voice. The Lord said, I'm still passing by here.
Amen. So, you know, sometimes you go, oh, I wish
that could happen to me, Gene. But, you know,
Jesus is not restricted to Jericho. Wherever
two or three are gathered, I am there. Also,
that you could run into him in your bedroom tonight.
But also, we are people of faith. And if you
never, ever have an encounter like I did, you
know, he's there. He is wherever we are. If you
can hear his still, soft voice, you'll never
be lonely. You'll know that he said he's not
going to leave you an orphan. And we serve an
awesome God. And whether you come to Israel or
not, come to Jesus first. Love the Lord. Ask
him to fill you fully as Holy Spirit. Yes. With
evidence and speaking in tongues. Yes. You have
the fire of God within you. And what else do
you need more than fellowship and the love of
the Lord? Beautiful. And he'll bring you into
his courts with praise. Amen. If you enjoyed
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