Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter
by Kenneth Carpenter
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Psalms 122:6, Genesis 12:1-3, Genesis 17:19, Deuteronomy 34:1-4, Joshua 1:1-3, Genesis 25:5, Genesis 32:27-28, Hebrews 7:14, John 1:10-14, Luke 13:34-35, Luke 19:41-44, Luke 21:20-24, 2 Corinthians 3:13-18, Galatians 3:26-29, Acts 15:14

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okay well thank the Lord for that thank the Lord good church growth amen also want to say uh sister ericon is sick this morning but not morning sickness all right she is there is a difference God is so good to us today we are a blessed people to be a part of the Church of the Living God the church Who the head of this church whose name is Jesus Christ that's right who shed his blood for the Redemption of our souls we are blessed to be God's people today we are doubly blessed today to be citizens of the great United States of America with all of her faults and failures she Still Remains the greatest nation under God that's right I am glad today to be a Tennessean a state where people are pouring into by The Groves that's right just the truth I don't know if I don't know if it's still there but uul reported that blunt County at one time within the last year that blun County was the number one one-way destination county in the United States of America people rented a U-Haul one way to get here I wasn't born here but I got here as fast as I could all right thank God to be a Tennessean today thank God for our local government today abely thank God for our state government today thank God for our great governor of our state maybe we won't know how to thank him for that until we get one that's not yeah my heart is heavy today because of this scripture that I'm going to read Psalms chapter 122 verse six I do ask for your understanding through prayer yesterday with the horrific events that are happening in Israel sister Carpenter and myself are scheduled to leave for Israel a week from tomorrow we um the events of yesterday has caused me I know we've been in a series and many of you may have come this morning wanted to hear more about the doctrine but I ask for your understanding to deviate on this Sunday morning and I want to minister on this scripture I Psalms 122 and verse 6 pray for the Peace of Jerusalem for they that they shall prosper they shall prosper that love thee title today is simply pray for the Peace of Jerusalem father we pray for Israel this morning God we pray for the at this time can't even put a number on how many lives have been lost God this Savage attack upon this civil country of Israel God I pray for Israel this morning Lord I pray for the Peace of Jerusalem it's capital I pray oh God that you would touch and that you would move that God somehow some way you would be the peace send Angels send Angels Lord to Jerusalem to Israel send your angels oh God and touch the suffering and protect oh God these people I pray for their peace today in Jesus name and you may be seated seated this may seem more like a lecture this morning if I do if I don't get completed this morning I will talk to the Lord about completing it tonight in the evening service but it is important that we know history it is important that we know true history history is vitally important to us today for if we know not the history of Israel then we would be more apt just to believe it's a squirmish between two countries in the Middle East but allow me the next several minutes and I know the hour is a little late but allow me for the next several minutes to give us the true history and give us a better understanding understanding of what is happening in the country of Israel The Story begins in Genesis chapter 12 in verse one I invite your attention to now the Lord had said unto Abram get thee out of thy country and from thy Kindred and from thy Father's House unto a land everybody say a land a land that I will show you I will make of thee a great Nation I will make of you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing I will bless them that bless you and curse him that curseth you and in thee shall all everybody say all all in thee shall all the families of the the Earth be blessed Abraham departed as the Lord had spoken unto him and lot went with him Abraham was Abram was 75 years old when he departed out of Heron the story starts with a man by the name of Abram we will later know him as Abraham and the Jews will later attach that he is Father Abraham he is the beginning of their Jewish nation in verses 1 through for you see where that God gave a promise of a land verse one unto a land that I will show you the land that God was talking about is the land of Israel in verse number three God speaks to Abram who is 70 and5 years old he and his wife have never bore a child but God puts a special blessing upon Abraham and says I will bless everyone that blesses you and I will curse him that curses you and then he says at the end of verse three that in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed go to Deuteronomy 34 and verse number one the Bible said and Moses went up Deuteronomy 34 And1 and Moses went up from The Plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo to the top of pisol that is over against Jericho and the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead unto Dan and all nefeli the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and all the land of Judah unto the utmost Sea and the South and the plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees and Zora and the Lord said look at verse closely verse number four and the Lord said unto him being Moses this is the land which I swear unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob saying I will give it unto thy seed I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes but Thou shalt not go over we're dealing with a land here not any ordinary land but a land that was given by God and given to Abraham Moses looks over and God says this is the land sometime later in Joshua chapter 1 and verse one the new leader Joshua takes over the Bible says now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of nun Moses's Minister saying Moses my servant is dead now therefore arise go over this Jordan thou and all this people unto and follow it closely unto the land which I do give to them even to the children of Israel so we see that when God gave the land to Abraham he not only gave it to Abraham but he gave it to Abraham Isaac and Jacob the land was transferable unto the seed unto the Seed of Abraham verse three every place that the so of your foot shall tread upon that have I given you as I said unto Moses from the Wilderness of this Lebanon even under the Great River the river Euphrates and all the land of the Hittites all the land of the Hittites and un the great sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your Coast there shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of of thy life as I was with Moses so will I be with thee I will not fail thee nor forsake thee so I want to establish in a few short verses that God promised them what is so special and this is true history what is so special about Israel what is so so special about the country of the land of Israel what makes it so special is that it was a Promised Land given by God to Abraham and to his seed now let's go back to Genesis 17 for a moment and verse number 19 we know that Abraham was 75 years old when God called him and we know that Abraham or his name was Abram at the time and his wife's name was Seri at the time that they had never given birth and they had given up on ever giving birth to a child Genesis 17: 19 and God said Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed and thou shalt call his name Isaac and I will establish my Covenant with him this is important with him for an Everlasting Covenant and with his seed after him now you have to understand something about this verse here Abraham had more than one son Abraham had more than one son as a matter of fact we'll speak about the the the the first son that Abraham had his name he had her he had ishmail through an Egyptian handmaiden and so he had ishmail and then he had Isaac when Sarah died he married Abraham married again coutura and the Bible says that Abraham had Sons through through coutura but yet the promise of God would not go through the seed of ishmail nor would it go through any of the descendants of coutura it would go through that one promised child called called Isaac Deuteronomy again the seed of Isaac Deuteronomy 1 and8 beh behold I have set the land before you go in and possess the land which the Lord swear unto your fathers unto Abraham Isaac and Jacob to them and to their seed after them now again we're going to understand how what's special about this land chapter 17 of Genesis chapter 17 and verse number verse number number 19 and God said to Abraham Sarah thy wife shall bear the a son indeed and thou shalt call his name Isaac I will establish my Covenant I will establish my Covenant for an Everlasting Covenant and with his seed and again I'm doubling that verse because I want us to see Abraham had a son by the name of Ismail we'll talk about him in a moment Abraham had many sons through his second wife coutura or would be it would be his third wife if you considered Hagar a wife it would be through coutura but God's plan was going through was going through Isaac God's God's plan now we must understand that that was God's plan but Abraham and Sarah Abraham and Sarah began to have the plan of their own and in Genesis 16 in verse number one it says now Seri Abram's wife bear him no children and she had a handmade an Egyptian whose name was Hagar Seri said unto Abram behold now the Lord hath restrained me from bearing I pray thee go in unto my maid it may be that I may obtain children by her and Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarah so Abraham and Sarah try to help God along in his plan maybe God meant that it would be a handmaiden of mine and so Abraham obliged her and takes this young Egyptian handmaiden and Abraham has a relation with her her and in verse three Seri Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian after that they had dwelt 10 years in the land of Canaan and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife and he went in unto Hagar and she conceived and when she saw that she had conceived her mistress was despised in her eyes and I'm going to tell you I'm going to tell you the great challenge this preacher has uh sister Wilson the great challenge I have today is I want to preach things out of here all right like I want to say things like you can't improve on God's plan I want to say things like just wait for God's plan just stand up on his word so Sarah and Abraham they work out this deal and Sarah hands her handmaiden the girl that draws her water the girl that does the cooking and does the cleaning and he hands her to Abraham and Abraham takes her and she conceives but when she conceived and got pregnant Hagar began to scorn Seri Hagar I I I imagine I I don't have Bible to prove this but I imagine when something like this Sarah said go bring me some water and Hagar probably said go get your own water well you don't understand I'm Abram's wife well sweetheart you need to check I'm Abram's wife also and when she be to despise her Sarah says in verse five Sarah said unto Abram my wrong be upon thee for I have given my maid into thy bosom and when she saw that she had conceived I was despised In Her Eyes the lord judge between me and thee in other words she said I've done wrong I I you know it was a mistake what we did but Abram said unto Sarah Behold thy maid is in thy hand do to her as it pleaseth thee and when Seri dealt harshly hardly with her she fled from her face the angel of the Lord found her Hagar by a fountain of water in the wilderness by the Fountain of the way to Shure and he said Hagar s Sarah's maid whence comest thou and where the goest thou and she said I F from the face of my mistress Seri the angel of the Lord said unto her return to thy mistress and submit thyself under her hands the angel of the Lord said unto her I will multiply thy seed now watch this he's talking to Hagar and talking to her seed who's the father of Hagar's seed Abraham Abraham is the Father the angel said unto her behold let me go back to verse uh ver verse number 10 the angel of the Lord said unto her I will multiply thy seed exceedingly that it shall not be numbered for multitude and the angel of the Lord said unto her behold thou art with child and shalt bear a son and shalt call his name ishmail because the Lord ha heard thy Affliction he will be a wild man his hand hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him and he shall dwell in the midst in it shall dwell in the presence or the midst of his Brethren now let me let me let me show you something today before I mention this word just because there was an Adolf Hitler in no way cast a shadow upon all German people all right in no way because there was an Adolf Hitler nobody looks at all the German people matter we've been to Germany several times and there's some of the sweetest people there that you would want to go and meet and preach to but because of one man Adolf Hitler we don't judge them all Ishmael is the father of the Arab nations of the Arab Nation Nations now I want to preface it by saying this all Arabs and matter of fact I would be very safe to say this the vast majority of Arabs are not radicals they're not radicals but the seed of this every man to war and every man there would be a Waring Spirit the descendants of Ishmael would be Fighters and they would dwell in the midst of fighting and that he would dwell in the midst of his Brethren and that is that is what's going on in the Middle East right now you have the Arab countries and then you have the land of the Jews or the land of Israel now watch what happens in chapter 25 of Genesis uh I hope I haven't lost you yet I just want us to understand when we go home and watch the news that we understand what true history is about because this thing is wrapping up church I'm telling you this thing if you've ever got right you need to get right because this thing is wrapping this thing is wrapping up Genesis 25 and 5 and Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac but under the sons of the concubines which Abraham had Abraham gave gifts and sent them away from his from Isaac his son while he yet lived Eastward under the East Country and these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived 103 score and 15 now Why does Abraham do that because the promised seed of the ownership of the land went to the promised Child Called Isaac the land was to Isaac it was to Isaac not ishmail not any of the sons of coutura so Abraham did something very smart as he saw death coming sister Franklin he said I'm going to start giving things away now but I want every I want everybody to know I'm going to give gifts but I'm giving it all to Isaac because I'm going to send ishmail and his descendants I'm going to send them away and I'm going to send all the children through coutura away they have the same father but not the same mother the Isaac didn't come through Hagar the Isaac didn't come through coutura the Isaac came by a miracle and it came through Isaac's wife it didn't or it came through Seri the miracle came through Syria now we understand today we understand today that all those years they were Barren all those years Abraham and Sera could not could not bear children was not on Abraham's part Abraham was able to reproduce but the issue was with Sarah so God did a m Miracle a child of Promise upon Sarah now now this is this this is important as we go through as we go through as we go through this this um this history lesson that I'm I'm giving you that I'm giving you now um Isaac had a wife by the name of Rebecca and when Rebecca was pregnant with twins with twins the Twins were struggling there was a lot of movement more than just a baby kicking with an elbow or a heel it was a movement a struggle she went to the Lord and the Lord said to them said there's two Nations that are in you and of course we know this is Jacob and he Esau but God and I I want you to keep following this God was taking his promise from Abraham to Isaac and now it's going to go to Jacob so Jacob in chapter 32 of Genesis verse 27 and I'm just hitting the I'm just hitting the tops here to help you understand where we get certain names Jacob was named Jacob at the beginning but Jacob had a wrestling match with an angel of which Jacob would not let go until Jacob was given a blessing and in Genesis 32:27 he said unto him God said the angel said to him what is your name and he said Jacob and he said thy name shall be called No More Jacob but Israel for as a PRI Prince hast thou power with God and with men and you have prevailed the first time the word Israel is mentioned is not a land it's a man it's a man who has his name changed from Jacob to Israel because Jacob your name is changed because you you are a prince and you have power with God and with man and you have prevailed now I want to be very clear about something I don't know the devastation that's going to happen in the land of Israel I don't know the devastation that's going to happen but you listen to your pastor today Israel will not be annihilated Israel will not be annihilated how do you know that for sure because God's word has a a plan for the country of Israel and for the Jewish people that dwell in Israel God has a plan I'm going to tell you something that's why you need to get in the church you need to get in the house of God because God has a plan for the church and it's a great plan but God also has a plan for the world and it's not such a great plan I want to be in the plan that God had has for his people now here I am preaching I I I can't do it I I I I I got y'all stop that Jacob's name has changed to Israel Jacob has 12 sons Jacob has 12 sons and one of these Sons is called Judah one of these sons of the 12 tribes are called Judah a in Hebrews chapter 6 7 this is important in Hebrews chapter 7 verse number 14 speaking about the fleshly lineage of Jesus Christ it says for it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood In the Flesh the promise came at out of the tribe of Judah out of the tribe of Judah now watch again all of Israel and even even Paul says this all of Israel all the 12 tribes not all them had the lineage of the promise but the tribe of Judah had the lineage of the promise he is called Jesus is called The Lion of the tribe of Judah what why is he called The Lion of the tribe of Judah because he is going to ferociously destroy and Stamp Out sin once and for all sin will not have dominion because God said there will be a seed of a woman remember that way back in Genesis for a seed of a woman will bruise the head will bruise the head of the serpent now Christ came through the lineage of Judah notice again with me go back to go back to Genesis 12 and verse number three and I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed oh look at this now look at this for a moment that's that's relevant to us because in chapter 12 of Genesis God made a promise about a seed that all the families of the earth will be blessed and that seed was not ishmail and that seed was not any of the sons of coutura that seed that promise was connected to Isaac because Isaac was a miracle child and then Isaac had Jacob and Esau and Jacob's name is later changed to Israel and he has 12 sons but God chooses the lineage of Judah the lion of the tribe of Judah and through the lineage of Abraham Isaac and Judah we are blessed this morning can I tell you we are blessed to know Jesus Christ we are blessed to call on his name we are blessed to believe that he is God manifested I I'm telling you we are a blessed people today to be a able to call on and worship and magnify the name of Jesus Christ oh God I thank you today that I wasn't born in a country that would have taught me the religion of another God who is dead and is gone but I thank you today that somebody reached me with that promised Seed of Abraham Isaac and Judah and it came all oh we are be thankful for that this morning Jesus is his name here he comes here he comes in John chapter 1 verse number 10 listen about listen about this seed that sprang out of Judah listen about this Christ Jesus Christ he was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not he came un his own and his own received him not he came as a fullblood Jew through the tribe of Judah through the promise of Isaac he came into his own and his own received him not but as many as received him that's us to them gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God and the Word was made flesh flesh dwelt among us we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth and here's the sad part he came unto his own and his own received him not he came as one of them not just as one of us but as a Jew he came as one of them but they received him not as a matter of fact the rejection was so deep listen to our Lord in Luke 13:34 listen to our Lord in Luke 13:34 oh Jerusalem Jerusalem which kills the prophets and Stones them that are sent unto thee how often would I have gathered would I have gathered thy children together as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings and ye would not behold your house is left unto you desolate and verily I say unto you you shall not see me until the time come when you shall say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord he looked over his own that was rejecting him and he said how many times look at this how many times would I have reached out and gathered you together for protection as a hen does her brood again in Luke chapter 19 and verse number 41 Luke 19 and 41 listen to our Lord please listen to our Lord and when he was come near Jesus beheld the city and wept over it three times in scriptures I find Jesus weeping he wept at the tomb of Lazarus he also wept the night that he prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane but now he stands over the city and he begins to weep over it saying if thou had us known even thou at least in this thy day in thy day the things which belong into thy peace but now they are HID from Thine Eyes notice he said I want to give you peace but now they are HID from thine eyes for the day shall come unto thee that thine enemy shall cast a trench about thee and cast thee round and keep thee in on every side they shall lay thee even with the ground and thy children within thee and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation this very quickly he looks over a city that's rejected him he looks over a city that will crucify him was not the Romans that crucified Jesus it was his own that demanded that demanded his crucifixion he wept over the city he said if you only knew the peace that you could have right now let me let me tell you they can talk about peace talks all they want they can have all the peace that they want to talk about look listen to your past today cuz I got a burden they will never establish peace on this Earth because they they have not invited the prince the ruler of the peace to the table it is a man-made peace and Jesus said my peace I live with you not as the world giveth but as I give for what the world gives to you the world can take away but the peace that I give you shall no man be able oh I'm so glad that I've got the peace of God inside of my heart today it's all in God's plan some 40 to 70 years later the prophecy of Jesus would come true the Romans would cast a trench around around Jerusalem 40 to 70 years after that the cries to crucify the Christ would be the cries of the Roman soldiers they would as historians have told us surround Jerusalem they would pull every stone down from the temple and they would disperse the people those that were not killed they would disperse them but the church had been birthed the church on Pentecost Sunday morning the church sister Carpenter was was primarily was primarily a Jewish church it was primarily on that Pentecost morning it was made up of Jews but again going back to Luke 2120 listen to Jesus once again he says and when he talking about the times of tribulation and when you shall see Jerusalem compass with armies then shall you know that desol thereof is nigh let them that which are in Judea flee to the mountains and them which are in the midst of it depart out and let not them that are in the countries enter therein for these be the days of Vengeance that all things which were written may be fulfilled but woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days there shall be great distress in the land wrath upon this people they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations and Jerusalem shall be trotten down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled can I tell you today in all the sympathy that I can give the Jewish people this scripture was the Wrath being poured out upon that Nation for the rejection of Jesus Christ the rejection of him brought the wrath of God and I know this is not all running preaching today but I am a man of God that wants to tell you the truth you just don't reject him and live happily ever after you just don't tell him no and go on your Merry way you can tell him no but he shed too much blood just to let you go on your way I don't want to suffer from the Vengeance hand of God thank you for your blood thank you for your name thank you for your spirit thank you for your word thank you for Holiness thank you for all the things that you've given to the church Lord I want to say thank you today because I'm believing in the soon coming of Jesus Christ for his church I wish somebody help me praise him right now on the day of Pentecost it was mainly a Jewish church but a few years later after Pentecost Jerusalem will be surrounded and would be pulled down it would be then that God's people the Jewish people be led into Nations all all over the earth and the Bible simply says and be trotten down to the Gentiles unto the times verse 24 of the Gentiles unto the times unto the times of the Gentiles now here's what happens here's what happens when Israel rejected him God didn't give up on them but God did allow a veil to come down over their eyes that they would not recognize Messiah Paul in 2 Corinthians chapter 2 Excuse Me 2 Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 13 Paul refers to this and he says and not as Moses which put a veil over his face that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which was abolishes very quickly Moses come down from the mountain been in the presence of God he didn't recognize it but his face was glowing from the presence of God when he came down brother Brad when je when Moses came down from the mountain was glowing with the presence of God the people begin to shun him and say you you know we we don't want to look upon that and Moses literally put a veil over his face and he spoke through a veil to the people now watch Paul using this in the New Testament verse 3 13 and not as Moses which put a veil over his face that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished but their minds were blinded For unto this day remaineth the same Veil untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament which Veil is done away in Christ but even unto this day when Moses is read the veil is upon their heart nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord the veil shall be taken away now the Lord is that Spirit where the spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty but we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the spirit of the Lord now and and and and I'm going to have to I I I I'll talk to the Lord today about uh about continuing this tonight uh but it's just it's just it's just here um the Jews rejected him they rejected him they suffered the punishment and then in Acts 8 the gospel was given to the Samaritans they were they were half Jew and half Gentile and then in Acts 10 it was a full blooded Gentile that came in that came into the church so we see it on acts two Jews acts 8 Samaritans mixed Jews half Gentile half Jewish acts 10 full-blooded Gentiles came in to the church Galatians 3: 26 is going to help us to see this Galatians 3:26 for ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus who started this Faith business who started this Faith business I hear it who started it Abraham did when Abraham believed the word of God he started this Faith business for ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus verse 27 for as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ there is neither Jew nor greet neither Bond nor free neither male nor female ye are all one in Christ Jesus look at verse 29 and see if you can help but shout and if you be Christ then are ye Abraham's seed and HS accordingly now I'm G to tell you I give praise to a natural Jew today I give praise because it was through that race that our savior was born into this world and they are the people that God chose but I got news for you today I'm a gentile by phys physical birth but I'm a son of Abraham by my spiritual birth I'm a son of Abraham by my spiritual birth I'm walking in the blessings brother white of the blessings of God Almighty I'm walking in the blessings that'll make a dead man get up shout that's right I said that ought to make a dead man shout today Gentiles flooded the church Gentiles flooded the church to such a degree that in Acts chapter 15 they had to hold their first general conference that's exactly right they had to have have their first general conference because they got so many of these Gentiles coming in they were trying to tell the Gentiles you got to be born again and get circumcised you got to be born again and obey the law and they had to have a council together but James ruling over that Council said these words in Acts chap 15 verse1 14 he said Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles that's Cornus to take out of them a people for his name now let me I'm going stop right here because this is where we the church are identified as his bride the church what Paul referred to when he said not Jew nor Greek remember that just a few moments ago when he said in Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek nor Bond nor free nor male nor female for you are all one in Christ that's his bride that's his body and that's why we take his name on look at look at this verse here how God did visit the that at the first did visit the Gentiles to do what to take out of them a people for his what don't tell me I'm making too much of a deal about his name don't tell me y'all squabbling about his name God visited cornelius's house to take out of them a people for his name I'm so glad come on stand with me this morning ohmighty God today I'm glad I belong to you I'm glad I have your spirit in Me God I'm glad I took your name on when I was baptized for by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body I'm just so glad today God in the midst of this turbulent world in the midst of this world that is ever more plunging headlong into moral rot and moral decay of which Satan the evil one has the power over this world I'm glad I'm not of this world I'm glad that I'm a part of that world to come I'm so glad today oh I'm so glad are you glad today are you glad today to be in the house of God are you glad today to know the Lord Jesus are you glad today to know the Lord Jesus are you thankful today come on church are you thankful today to know the Lord Jesus listen to me this morning if you need to be prayed for just wait a little while this morning if you need to come and give him a burden just wait a little while this morning just wait a little while but our primary focus it was 600 when I last saw the count when I left for church this morning 600 murdered slaughtered killed 600 people that woke up a week ago woke up a week ago and life was normal for them 600 people dead is probably more than that now thousands wounded thousands and he said pray for the Peace of Jerusalem there is a demonic force today and again I'm telling you there is an evil demonic Force there's an evil you know it's a sad thing when presidents and oval offices speak more about an evil presence than the church preaches I wonder with the way that some of us are living if we believe there's a devil we I'm going to pray for our needs right now we're going to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem we're going to pray for those Israelis right now because if you'll come back tonight and I believe I got a check in my heart but if you'll come back tonight I'm going to show you in scripture in Scripture God is going to turn back to that nation and God is going to take that Veil off of that Nation God I pray for Jerusalem right now I pray for the city I pray for the inhabitants of the country of Israel right now I pray for our missionaries that are there I pray I pray God go for those families right now I pray for that fleshly line of Abraham right now I pray for them come on let's gather up around the altar right now let's end this service today I pray for Jerusalem I pray for Israel right now I pray for their president I pray God I pray for their leaders God that are meeting I pray God I pray for their protection God I pray that you strengthen their Iron Dome I pray God that you strengthen them right now God God I know that many of them Lord Lord they they've got that Veil on them right now God they can't really see you God Lord Jesus there's been even been a even been a lot of backsliding even among their own religion oh God but I pray for them right now come on church I pray for the Peace of Jerusalem I pray for the peace in Israel right now oh God I pray for Israel come on lift your voice up like a trumpet God those hostages right now God those hostages those Jewish hostages that are in those tunnels right now God I pray Lord help them get out God help them get out God Lord help them get out God lord if you would spare a city if you would spare a city City over 10 people Lord if you would spare over God if one person God how much will you spare Jerusalem today how much will you spare Israel today oh God the hurt God I pray for the mothers and the fathers I pray for the daddies that are grief stricken I pray for the mothers that are grief stricken Lord I pray for the families that have lost children I pray for the families God that have lost loved ones I pray for Israel this morning I pray for Jerusalem this morning come on pour your heart out right now oh God I pray for them right now come on let's get some of that fervent prayer going like I preached about Wednesday night oh God oh God oh God oh God oh God touch Israel this morning God touch Israel right now God touch them right now God oh God I pray for them Jesus I pray for them right now oh God I pray for them right now God I pray for them right now Lord oh God I pray for them right now oh God I pray for them right now God I pray for them right now I do care about them God God I don't want my heart to grow callous Lord God I don't want my heart to grow callous God that I just care about myself oh God oh Jerusalem Jerusalem oh God God Jesus Jesus God oh I pray for them right now I pray for them right now God I pray for the hurting God send your angels God God there's a mother crying right now in Israel God there's a father crying right now in Israel God it's been Rec it's been reported that there's homes where the parents have been shot and killed and little children were left alive oh God touch them this morning Lord God move upon them this morning God God I know that the time it's evening it's evening in the land of Israel right now God the Sun is going down in Israel right now God move up on them oh God Israel Jes Jesus God hallelujah oh God oh God please touch that Nation God please touch that Nation God God these are No Ordinary People Lord God you will not forsake your Covenant with Abraham oh God just another moment of prayer please just another moment of Prayer oh just another moment of prayer just another moment of prayer oh God just another moment of prayer sweet Lamb of God sweet Lamb of God touch Israel this morning God touch Jerusalem God touch just one more moment just just one more moment just one more moment I uh I want to dismiss you just a second but I want to go ahead and tell you something you call it prophesying if you would like I feel it is prophecy but I believe that the retaliation brother Hammond that Israel will take on the Gaza Strip I believe that the r alation will be so severe that it will Foster misplace sympathy among the nations of the world for tonight I will show you in scripture where all nations have to turn and come against Israel and for the longest time I I heard this last night I heard this last night and it blew my mind I didn't know this but when when Israel became a nation when Israel became a nation the United States of America the United States I may be wrong on the president at this time but I think it was Eisenhower I believe it was and I could be you could fact check me on that if you would President Eisenhower when Israel declaimed they CLA declared they were a nation within 11 minutes minutes eisenh how were called to put the United States approval and to back it up 11 minutes record is 11 minutes I don't know about you but 11 has a very important meaning in the word of God did the 11th Hour start when that nation was declared now I believe that their retaliation will be so severe even right now even right now as oval offices come and go the friendliness to Israel is like the way is like the beach it goes out and it comes in I can't help whatever Administration it is whatever Administration it is I can't help what they do at Washington but I'm going to tell you what we're going to do right here we're going to pray for the peace of Jerusalem and we're going to prosper for them that love him one more time just lift up your voices we're going to be dismissed in this I'm going to continue this tonight in the service lift up your voice and praise God if any of you want to be prayed over this morning just come on up here now we'll pray for you right now we'll pray for you in the name of Jesus if not give a season of praising him right now give a season of praising him right now thank you