The Middle East Is Closer to War Than Most Realize

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[00:11:35]I'm Air Tati here live from Connect in the Jezrael Valley in Israel. And as always, together with me is Pastor Barry Stagner from Southern California.

[00:11:45]Shalom, Pastor Barry. How are you doing, my friend?

[00:11:48]>> Shalom. Doing great. Good to see you.

[00:11:51]>> Yeah, you too. And uh it seems like uh sunny California. Uh had an interesting day yesterday. You guys went to vote for the primaries for your uh governor. Uh and it looks like uh could be that Steve Hilton will be on the ballot in November.

[00:12:10]Well, it sure seems that way. He's got a pretty good lead over the third place uh candidate and so he and Bisera will probably be the ones on the ballot. Uh so, you know, it's good to see maybe some Republicans uh caught fire a little bit and got out and voted, which is not the norm, but hopefully they'll show up in great numbers in November should he land on the ballot. So >> yeah, >> one thing that this does mean air, which is a good thing, is bye-bye Gavin Newsome. And it's great to be rid of him >> as our governor.

[00:12:44]>> Yeah. And let's hope that you won't see him as a president or vice president.

[00:12:49]That would be even a bigger disaster.

[00:12:52]>> It make the rest of the country look like California.

[00:12:55]>> Exactly. Yeah. Anyway, uh listen, good to see you. Uh we have a full play today. Uh we haven't done this mid East and Beyond last week because I was uh in London recording the audio book version of the Elijah mandate uh my upcoming book that will come out in early September. I'm telling you folks, I cried when I recorded it and you'll understand why when you read it. This is an amazing amazing message that I believe God wants people to know.

[00:13:29]Seven chapters in the entire Bible mentioned in the Old and the New Testament. A guy that came without a known lineage and was taken before he was even dead all the way up to heaven.

[00:13:43]God definitely want people to understand his message. And uh I can't wait for you guys to uh grab a copy and mostly give it to your non-believing friends because I'm telling you this is uh something that uh will definitely resonate with many. Uh listen, Pastor Barry, can you please start uh this uh broadcast with a prayer and then we'll dive into our topics of today?

[00:14:13]>> Absolutely. And Lord, we are so thankful uh for the book that you have given us to come to an understanding of all things [clears throat] pertaining to life and godliness. And we thank you that within those things is information about the last days uh to increase our urgency for the lost and perishing around us as we see world events all heading toward that uh climactic period known as the great tribulation. So we ask God for your help in addressing these stories as they relate to Bible prophecy and the news. And we ask that you give ears to the hearers. And we pray this in the name above all names, Yeshua, >> Jesus the righteous. Amen.

[00:14:54]>> Amen. Amen.

[00:14:57]>> Go ahead.

[00:14:58]>> Well, Amir, obviously we're going to deal with some of the things going on uh within your borders and a little bit beyond to the north and to the south.

[00:15:08]And again, seems like Hamas is just under that continued delusion of their dream of eliminating the whole nation of Israel and driving out the Jewish people and all the things in Gaza just go on.

[00:15:22]>> Yeah.

[00:15:22]>> And on and on and on. So tell us about what's happening there with Hamas leadership and Israel's expanded control >> of the strip.

[00:15:31]>> Yeah. Well, we're watching live the demise of once a huge and powerful terrorist organization funded by Iran and ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni that is funded by Shiats because the common ground is of course the annihilation of Israel. Um, Hamas unlike others, is not calling for a Palestinian state, by the way. He's calling for an Islamic state. uh it's not about a Palestinian identity. It's about Islamic identity. Therefore, it's all the the Muslim Brotherhood uh ideology which by the way you you can also see manifested itself in American politics, American u cities and towns and all across Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Now um yes uh if you remember last time we talked about uh the elimination of Alhadad and the fact that somebody else took his place. Well, it didn't last for more than few days and Israel has eliminated the replacing of Isadin Hadad Muhammad O literally few hours a few days after he got into the shoes. So, so I it it's basically I think the fifth commander of the military wing of Hamas that uh we eliminated. We continue to eliminate uh in Gaza Strip more and more and more terrorists. Most of them took part in the October 7th. In fact, one of them not only that took part of the October 7th, he actually took part in the kidnapping of uh the uh uh hostages of Harris Gold, Goldberg, Pollen, Eliaken, Alon, and or Levy from the bomb shelter at Rain Junction during the October 7th massacre. And so he is gone. He is gone.

[00:17:35]And that's the video that shows how we eliminated that um uh scumbag. Now, you have to understand, Barry, Israel has an open account with every person that took part in the October 7th massacre and is still walking free. Now, those of them that were captured will stand for trial in Israel, military tribunals, and they will be hopefully executed. But those that are still walking free and think that they are immune will be eliminated.

[00:18:12]Look at this photo that uh uh on the screen all of these people one after the other were eliminated. the uh Muhammad def the commander, the legendary spokesperson Abu Obeda, then Rafa Salame that was the commander of the Kanunis brigade and Muhammad OD who was just eliminated.

[00:18:38]I'm telling you, we are one by one. In fact, look at this. All of the military wing leaders apart from Immad Akel which is on the left part in the middle all of them have been eliminated. Immad Akel is uh is going to be the next one. And once we eliminate him literally every single person from the leadership of Hamas that was planning and plotting and executing the October 7th massacre will be gone.

[00:19:07]And that's not enough. Uh take a look at the the fact that Israel is now also closing in on Gaza from all sides. Take a look at this. Netanyahu said that his aim is to as long as Hamas is not disarming. Originally we had 53% then we moved on to further it to 64% and Netanyahu as of last week said that we're aiming to take actually 70% and uh that's not going to stop there. Uh Pastor Barry as long as Hamas is not disarmed and as long as we have a terror organization there we will continue closing in on them more and more and more. 80% of the Gazans pledge to or they want to leave. But guess what?

[00:19:58]Nobody wants them. The the biggest problem right now that we have is that not that we need to convince them to migrate because Gaza is is really not a place you can live. The problem is that no country wants them. Yeah. Just few weeks ago, Denmark out of the ordinary released data that no European country wants to release because they are politically correct. Take a look at the crime over presentation by country of origin in Denmark. When it comes to rape and assault and attempted homicide and blackmail and burglary and and forgery, the Palestinians and the Somalis are at the top. And and the Palestinians when it comes to some of the crimes are 10 times or 15 or 20 or 30 times more likely to commit that crime than uh the Danes themselves. Um this is the state of most of Europe. In fact, in some countries is far worse than this. But this is the only country that dared to release to the public this data. And when you look at that and you see how the Palestinians are starring in most of those brackets, you understand why Egypt doesn't want them, Jordan doesn't want them, none of the Arab countries in the Gulf want them. And of course the Europeans and others don't want them. So right now 80% of the Gazans are people that don't want to stay there but nobody wants to take them in. Uh we're trying I think the president of the United States is trying to convince some countries uh to to absorb them and give them some economic uh packages. Uh but this is the story right now. And um Gaza, we eliminate terrorists every day, few times a day.

[00:22:00]And the good thing is that they don't hold any Israeli hostage right now. So we are not afraid to harm them and by doing so harm one of ours. That's it.

[00:22:10]Those days are over and we are hunting them and every person that committed that crime will pay for it. In far as far as I'm concerned every um you know you know people who wants to live in peace with us of course they can but I can tell you if you 80% wants to leave but they still wants to destroy Israel.

[00:22:34]They still want to annihilate Israel.

[00:22:36]They still wish Israel did not exist.

[00:22:38]It's not like they became peaceloving people. It's just that they understand that at this point they can't do what they wish to do. Their dreams of no more Israel are no longer there. And so they understand that uh right now all they did is harm their own life and their own livelihood. So they wish to move and start plotting all over again from somewhere else.

[00:23:01]This is the story. This is it about Gaza. And um that's uh that's what we have with them right now.

[00:23:09]Yeah, Mayor, that brings up a really important point in recognizing that what you've got going on on the northern border is quite different from what's going on uh in the Gaza Strip where the Hamas government uh that's in charge there was voted in by the people and you've got something completely the opposite going on in Lebanon where you've got a group that is basically holding a country hostage. there's a government separate from Hezbollah and the peoples are not with the same kind of mentality as the Palestinians and Hamas. Uh they just as soon live in peace with Israel, most of the Lebanese people. And again, I think remembering that, you know, when the Ottoman Empire was broken up, Lebanon was established as the Arab Christian country in the Middle East and just the Muslim birth rate has uh in basically a generation uh turn that country around into a predominantly Muslim country now.

[00:24:04]>> Uh so, but they continue to do kind of the same things that are happening uh in Gaza. Doesn't matter what what they agree to, they just keep firing rockets at Israel. So what's happening up north now?

[00:24:16]>> Yeah. Well, uh it's very interesting because uh the Lebanese front right now is the hottest thing that not only the hottest thing uh on the ground with rockets and drones and all of that, but also one of the main uh main issues on the table that Netanyahu and Trump do not agree on. Um, Israel planned for a widespread uh attack on Beirut because we understand that um this is the only way we can deter them from firing at our own cities and villages in northern Israel. So, we released a statement that we're about to attack and as you can see on the screen, 600,000 of the 950,000 residents of the Dah district, which is the stronghold of Hezbollah, left. They fled the area. uh because they understood that a strike might come.

[00:25:11]Then of course uh they called urgently their patrons in Thran and the Tehran people, the IRGC issued this urgent um warning that if Beirut is going to be attacked, all of northern Israel must be evacuated immediately. That's that's the IRGC mimicking an Israeli evacuation order.

[00:25:38]Now, uh simultaneously, they put a lot of pressure on the American negotiating team and on the US president.

[00:25:49]I don't know how to say it and still sound polite and I don't know how to say it and still sound respectful.

[00:26:01]But ever since President Trump came back from China, I'm not sure what was said to him there. I'm not sure what he was told. I'm not sure what what the things are. I know one thing more than ever before. He wants a deal with the Iranians at all cost, even at the cost of tying Israel's hand behind the behind the back for not responding to Hezbollah's aggression. So, so the IRGC placed their, you know, heavy pressure on the president. The president calls the Lebanese and Netanyahu and then he issues this uh very bizarre statement on X and on Truth Social. I had a very productive call with Prime Minister BB Netanyahu of Israel and there will be no troops going to Beirut and any troops that are on their way have already been turned back. By the way, it's baloney.

[00:27:00]Never ever we had troops going to Beirut. it was fighter jets or drones.

[00:27:05]Never mind. Then of course it says likewise through highly placed respect representatives which is the speaker of the parliament of Lebanon. I had a very good call with Hezbollah which by the way it's a terrorist organization that killed more Americans than Israelis and I had a very good call and they agreed that all shooting will stop that Israel will not attack them and they will not attack Israel. Now, this um how do I say it without sounding disrespectful? This is the most stupidest thing I've ever read because Hezbollah did not agree to anything.

[00:27:40]Now, Israel, the prime minister of Israel issued a statement a couple hours later where he said, "I had a phone call with President Trump and uh I spoke uh this evening, President Trump and I told him that if Hezbollah does not cease attacking our cities and citizens, Israel will strike terrorist targets in Beirut. Our position on this remains unchanged. At the same time, the IDF will continue to operate as planned in southern Lebanon. All the same. So, so, so basically, Prime Minister Netanyahu made it clear, look, whatever the president said, it is may be true about Beirut. We will halt things about Beirut, but we will continue to operate in southern Lebanon. And in southern Lebanon is uh we we lost 15 people so far. Take a look all these people that you see on the screen right now. 15 of them were killed in the last few weeks.

[00:28:39]Uh most of them are soldiers by the way.

[00:28:41]Uh they were all killed in the last few weeks mostly by explosive drones of Hezbollah. Some within Israeli territory, most within southern Lebanon.

[00:28:52]And you have to understand Israel is not going to allow this to happen. The only reason Israel started any any any operation in Lebanon is because we were fired at by Hezbollah. Remember October 8, a day after October 7th, there was no one in southern Lebanon, not a single Israeli troop, and they started firing at us. And then we moved in almost a year later. We found that they planned something a hundred times more dangerous than what his what Hamas did. So basically Hezbollah is a reason for this thing.

[00:29:33]Israel continued to deepen its uh holding of southern Lebanon. You can see on the map here um Lebanon and where we are right now. Take a look at the the map that uh I'm going to show you right now. Not this one. Yeah, the map. Uh take a look at this map.

[00:29:53]And um that's Lebanon as you can see. We zoom in. This is the Leitani River, the Zaharani River. Look, Israel is controlling now territory twice larger.

[00:30:04]Look, we even took the Buffor Castle, a crusader castle that we we took uh 40 something years ago, 1982, 44 years ago.

[00:30:14]In June of 1982, we took it when during the Lebanon war. Um and now 44 years later, we're back there again. Look, that was June of of in 1982 when the IDF took over the Buffor Castle. And now 44 years later, Israeli troops of the Golani Brigade are marching into this ancient. And by the way, what you see here stopped those photo, the Golani brigade has a new commander. And the ceremony that was held for the change of commanders was held in Lebanese territory on top of the Por castle as a symbolic thing. The Golani brigade took over that place 44 years ago. It took over that place today. And that's where there's an Israeli flag and the Golani uh emblem and the two uh commanders are there, the out the outgoing and the incoming commanders.

[00:31:16]Quite an amazing sight to see. Uh that's when the Israeli troops stormed into that uh castle. They took over. Um and not only that that we took over the castle but the entire ridge the entire area that is controlling um dozens of square miles all down below Hezbollah is devastated because you know for them losing ground is a very humiliated thing. Uh not only that the IDF is moving in, but most of the villages that were h were having Shiite population were raised to the ground because all of them were essentially military encampments of Hezbollah. Every house we found there either weapon by the way take a look at the weapons that we find uh as we move in. Look, look.

[00:32:06]Every every one of these photos that you're about to see is the stuff that we found in homes and in in in schools, in mosques, and in in in in municipality holes. All of that, you know, um launchers and and and motor shells and rockets and all of that. This is just from yesterday.

[00:32:28]So, Israel says, "We will continue the cleaning up operation.

[00:32:36]The only thing we're willing to hold uh to halt is attacks in Beirut. But if Hezbollah will continue to shoot at our towns and villages in Israel, we're going to attack Beirut." I'm telling you, it will happen because Hezbollah already did it this morning twice and yesterday once. And I believe that there's not going to be I mean we don't want to be people who says empty words and then do not follow upon their threats. So Israel will have to I think Netanyah will have no other choice but to order the Israeli air force to strike Beirut. And by the way in an interview to NBC uh he just said he just said that most of the terrorists that are operating against us are hiding in Beirut. So we're going to have to do it.

[00:33:22]There's no other choice. By the way, most of the Lebanese people support that. 70% of the Lebanese population is against Hezbollah and they want the IDF to finish the job. They want it. And so, as you said earlier, it's definitely a different situation than Gaza and Hamas.

[00:33:41]>> Yeah, it is, Amir. And I was thinking about I I believe the quote came from Ronald Reagan that uh history proves that man learns nothing from history.

[00:33:50]and you know watching what's been happening with the negotiations uh throughout the course of the uh Iranian history and anytime they've tried to engage with the international community uh they break and and buy you know their right in the Quran they're they're free to break contracts and lie in order to advance the cause of Islam and yet President Trump seems to be uh either ignorant of this or simply ignoring the fact that history shows that this is the pattern uh and how they operate and you know watching what's happening there in Lebanon and there's a church that was now involved in a Hezbollah strike and the as you like to call them the medianites turned a bl on to blind blind eye to this and you know it if it's no Jews no news and this is not simply limited to the Middle East I mean we see this same kind of thing happening uh in parts of Africa where Christians are just wholesale slaughtered. There's some 14 pastors killed one day last week and the media says nothing about it because it doesn't matter if it's just a church.

[00:35:02]It was just a Christian then this Christian village in southern Lebanon struck by rockets overnight last Thursday and St. George's Orthodox Church located in the village of Margun uh was hit by one projectile while another struck uh nearby uh areas and the international media coverage >> was simply silent because to them >> doesn't matter just uh >> just a church.

[00:35:30]>> Yeah. Yeah. If if a if a Jewish soldier will touch any statue of Mary or something like that it'll be all over the news. But when a church was targeted with rockets and projectiles, nothing.

[00:35:44]And you know, by the way, people could have been there. But you think anyone cares? They don't care.

[00:35:50]>> No one cares. And uh and it's a it's a very sad thing. But we know these things are coming. And we know uh the future is definitely um going to you know blame the Jews for everything and and thus allow a future coalition against Israel to come. And by the way that's uh this is what you and I are going to teach uh on the uh Norwegian fjords cruise um that uh by the way we still have about 30 or 40 se uh openings there. We're going to teach the entire book of uh of Ezekiel on that cruise for the first time. It's going to be exploring Ezekiel. So, if you want to join us, there's still seats open uh for this uh end of September and the beginning of October of this year. Join us. Um yeah, let's uh let's talk about um uh Iran, shall we?

[00:36:48]You know, it's >> it is interesting that, you know, public opinion is really turning against a lot of these things that uh you mentioned earlier and the president just continually wanting to sit down. And you know, one of the things that um I I think that he seems to have lost sight of is that what's on the heart of the American people and many other people around the world is the Iranian people, the Persians and other groups that are basically being held captive and their whole life is dictated by this terrorist death cult >> uh that just is has destroyed. such a beautiful country and wonderful, kind, >> caring, familyoriented people.

[00:37:31]>> And so these negotiations and continuing uh bowing to the pressures of other world leaders and certainly >> to those of the Ayatollah is not sitting well with the American public.

[00:37:44]>> No, it's not. you know, the president gave an interview to uh I think the New York Post uh and he just said that if it wasn't for him, Israel would not be be there. It wouldn't exist anymore.

[00:37:58]You know, I want to tell you something.

[00:38:00]Um again, I've seen a pattern since he came back from China. Um I I don't know what it is, but I know one thing. I don't like what I see.

[00:38:14]And um I don't know who is his adviser and I don't know what they're cooking right there, but from what I know, the stands of the Iranians are still the same and the and and the requirements of the Americans are still the same. And if there is going to be a deal and look at the two opposite sides, look at the two things. Now, Trump is saying, "Yeah, they agreed not to have a bomb. Yeah, they agreed not to buy a bomb." Yeah, they agreed not to have a bomb also 5 years ago and 6 years ago, and look where we are.

[00:38:53]>> The fact that they signed something on a paper means nothing without getting the enriched uranium, without dismantling all their enrichment facilities, without making sure that they don't have ballistic missile that can carry anything that they might already have.

[00:39:08]Without that it's meaningless. So you're about you're rushing you're running you're I I don't understand this towards a deal. You are praising the Ayatollah saying that you know you would love to see him that people respect him. Um you look the at is involved. They have a lot of respect for him. Look I don't understand what it's all about. I mean, if you use the f-word when you call Netao a few times and you throw superlatives over your your bitter enemy that want really wanted to kill you, wanted to kill your daughter, wanted to nuke your country if they could. Um, and they and then he says Iran have agreed or agreed that they will not have a nuclear Iran has agreed that they will not have nuclear weapon.

[00:40:03]It's like a joke in Bazooka Joe. Uh, you know, uh, chewing gum. I mean, come on.

[00:40:11]Now, the thing is this, uh, Pastor Barry, the thing is this. You and I, we can be very frustrated with what we see, but we also, when we teach the Bible, we need to take off the hat of the frustrated news watchers and to put on the hat of uh, prophecy teachers. And when we teach Bible, we know that at some point Iran will come against Israel again. Therefore, that that regime will probably stay in place. And for that regime to stay in place, some sort of a deal has to be reached. Now, will that deal be reached now or will there be another round of clash and then a deal?

[00:40:51]I don't know. I know one thing. The Iranian people are not going to be free very soon. And I'm saying that with a broken heart. And uh it's it it breaks my heart. By the way, the Ayatollah is not respected.

[00:41:08]I believe that 90% of the Iranians do not respect him at all. Um and so I maybe it's a tactic. Okay, maybe he just to throw some but the even the Ayatollah and the IRGC don't buy it anymore. How do I know? Last night, one of the ships tried to cross the straight of Hermuz and the Iranians attacked and in response, Sentcom, US Army, US military attacked the the island of Keshim where the Iranian fire came from. And then as a response, the Iranians attacked an US base in the in the uh major uh uh Kuwaiti um air. I guess it's an airport because their airport has civilian side and it has military side.

[00:42:06]One person got killed. Over 80 people were injured. Multiple ballistic missiles and multiple drones were used.

[00:42:14]This is the terminal. Look what the terminal looks like. I have videos on on on on Telegram. It's horrific. And yet Sentcom ended up it's uh it's a message by the ceasefire is still on. And I'm I'm thinking how many times can they spit at your face? Can they humiliate you? Can they can they step on you? Can they open fire at your bases? Can they attack your allies? Can they just uh twist your arm to include Hezbollah in the deal? And you still call this spit.

[00:42:55]You still call it rain. You still pretend there's not. You still say there's there's ceasefire still going on. a deal is around the the corner and I'm not sure what it is, but every outlet that I speak with, every channel that I'm reading, every person that I'm talking to is saying America is becoming a laughingtock in in the Middle East right now. Now, I want to believe that there is some strategy behind this.

[00:43:28]I want to be because if there isn't, we're doomed. You're doomed.

[00:43:34]So, you know, I just don't understand this. You guys have, you know, I landed at Ben Gurion a few days ago. It's it's in the US air base. I mean, over 70 refueling uh airplanes are parked at the in in Israeli air base. We're talking about most of the parking places for for passenger planes are now taken by American planes.

[00:44:04]And so it's it's uh if you have all of them here and you see that they are not in agreement and they don't want to sign anything unless it's whatever they want.

[00:44:15]I want to tell you something. The minute you sit with the Iranians to talk, they already won.

[00:44:22]They they don't know. This is it. As the president said, they never ever won a war, but they never lost any negotiations. He said it himself, and we're watching it. Everything he said is being fulfilled before our very eyes. In these negotiations, the Iranians are making America looking so bad. And I'm telling you, there's a growing dissatisfaction. Not forget about Israel. We we're we're not even a side to it because we know we're going to attack them. We know we'll have to. But I'm talking about even conservative voices like Mark Leavine, like Lindsey Graham and others in America itself are saying, "What is going on here? How long will you guys craft a deal when we know what they want and we know what you want?" And the only way to bridge it is if somebody's lying and if somebody is closing deals and is lying to his people that he's still holding his positions. And [clears throat] I'm telling you, the IRGC will never give up its nuclear program. So, he's going to create a deal that they will do something to postpone and stop or whatever. But unless you take the uranium and unless you destroy the enrichment facilities, they will do it again and again and again. It's it's very sad.

[00:45:56]>> And history says that's true. No question about that.

[00:45:59]>> Oh yes. Oh yeah.

[00:46:01]>> You know that this ridiculous claim that he is the reason that Israel is still around.

[00:46:07]>> Oh, >> I couldn't help but think of Isaiah 42 where the Lord says >> correct.

[00:46:11]>> I am Yave.

[00:46:13]>> That is my name and my glory. I will not share with another. And I think the president needs to be very careful about taking credit for what God has done. And God said, "I'm bringing them back for my name's sake." Because every time the Jews or every day the Jews were outside of their national homeland, my name was being profigned. So, I'm bringing them back for my sake, for my glory. And to say, you know, I'm the reason.

[00:46:41]>> Uh, man, that's that's from the devil.

[00:46:43]There's no other way.

[00:46:44]>> It is. a look at it because it's the opposite of God's word.

[00:46:49]>> You know, we were there before Trump. We will be there way after him. And look, I respect him. I respect him. I really love how he came along with us, how he's uh I mean I I truly believe that he, you know, if I have to choose between him and all the other people on the other side, of course he is a great friend of it, but there's a point and there's a line you don't cross.

[00:47:15]And this is not about Jews. By the way, I'm not offended as an Israeli or as a Jew. I'm offended as a follower of the Messiah. I'm offended as a Bible believer and I am telling you as you said he is playing with fire when it comes to >> how he how he belittles God in a way. I mean uh but I think if he has some what I call spiritual advisory he has to replace them. They are doing a horrible job. Horrible job. That's all I can say. But hey, who am I? Um, you know, I'm just saying uh I'm just saying folks, I'm not against President Trump uh in general, but where but where we have to say the truth about things that we know he's horribly wrong about. This is it. You have to do it. And and uh and again, Pastor Barry, I've seen it since he came back from China. It's I'm again I'm not sure what was said there but um I don't like it.

[00:48:30]>> Yeah. I mean I was thinking about Nebuchadnezzar, you know, God warned him >> and he said, you know, after a time, >> look at what my hand is made. And while the words were still in his mouth, uh he was judged by God. And thankfully, you know, he came back to his uh sanity after seven years. But it's just a just a ridiculous claim to make. And hey, let me remind everybody out there the importance of of subscribing and commenting and sharing uh these videos because we are in a war that is mediabased. And in order to get the word out, we have to kind of fight this uh algorithm battle that's going on. And you know, there's a lot of things that are popular out there and and views matter. And views are what determine what the algorithm is going to put higher up on people's searches. And when they're looking for something about Israel, they need to hear the truth in order to combat all the lies that are out there. So, please make sure you're subscribed to both of our channels. Make sure that you're commenting. and even if you're only sharing where you're from and liking uh this video so we can get the word out >> and fight back so to speak with what's going on out there in the world. Now air the Bible makes it quite clear that Israel is going to be uh economically sound in the last days and this will be a part of or even flourishing and and this will be a part of the motivation for the Ezekiel war. So that certainly would include uh its manufacturing of defense items and weaponry uh to export and maybe you can fill us in on what's happening there.

[00:50:14]>> Yeah. See, one of the things that Israel is being accused for is uh the low casualties on our side compared to the high high number of casualties on the other side. It's because we take care of our own people. We don't hide underneath while we shoot from civilian places. uh we actually develop defense systems to uh you know help our people and and a lot of countries are watching how Israel has been perfectly guarded and defended during the single most biggest uh attack of ballistic missiles and drones in the history by Iran and also by thousands of rockets, missiles and drones from all around us. And so everybody wants to buy from us defense systems. And the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced yesterday that Israel's uh all-time defense export record has been broken for the fifth consecutive year with $19.2 billion in 2025. Now bear in mind, we're talking about a war that we've been going on through for the last 2 and a half years.

[00:51:22]But take a look at the throughout the years since 2015 to 2025 literally uh in the last five years we more than doubled and that's quite an achievement but that's not the only thing what we still have in orders by the way that places Israel as number seven in exporters of uh arms and defense systems in the world. Number seven, small Israel, by the way, per capita because Israel has small population. We're number one in exports per capita. Number one. Now, um despite its microscopic size, Israel is number seven, but it's number one per capita.

[00:52:06]Um hey, we have 90 billion secured future deals. 90 billions. Almost hundred billion dollars in secured future. So what I just said about the records is for 2025, but we already have 90 billion.

[00:52:22]In other words, this year, which is we only got we only we're only 5 months into this year. We got into the six months and we already have 90 billion.

[00:52:33]You can can you imagine? We had 19 last year, 90 this year.

[00:52:40]That means that countries criticize us, boycott us, hate us, but they run to us when they want to buy defense systems.

[00:52:51]And by the way, take a look at this uh uh major thing that we do. Uh II, the Israel aerospace industry, uh it's main thing is the Arrow, the A3, ultimate upper tier defense system. Raphael is the one who was making David Sling which is a mid tier. So there's the there's the iron dome which is first tier, there's mid tier which is uh David Sling and there's Arow3 that is hitting the rockets outside the atmosphere. And then there is Elbit systems that creates pulse. It's a highly uh mobile and precise rocket artillery system capable of firing any type of rocket and it's rapidly becoming standard multi-rocket launcher for European NATO military. So those same hypocritical European governments are attacking us day and night and then they go and buy from us. And the funny thing of all is this. France bans Israel from defense exhibition, limits Israeli companies to showing defensive weapons.

[00:54:02]And the funny thing is they claim that they place embargo on Israel. It's a myth. The same prime minister of France admitted before parliament before parliament members. Take a look at this report from Amital. before parliament French prime minister admits before members of parliament let's stop talking about an arm embargo against Israel it's actually Israel that decides not to buy from us Israel is one of the biggest competitors of the French defense industry it has no dependence on us so outwardly to appease the Muslim voters they say we placed embargo in Israel but behind closed doors when they talk to their own parliament members.

[00:54:52]They admit it's actually Israel that doesn't want to sell us and Israel that doesn't want to buy from us because Israel is a big competitors of us. And I if I may say if if by 19 billion we're number seven, can you imagine with 90 billion where we're going to be, we're going to pass France already. So all I'm saying is that we have two different realities. The reality that those European countries wants to push for their own people to appease the Jew haters and the anti-Semites and the Muslim population and voters. And then there is the real reality of what really is going on. And they are running after us to buy from us those uh uh weapon systems. Um, and it's a quite a comical thing to see.

[00:55:47]And again, I'm not worried about Israel.

[00:55:50]He that uh um um watches Israel, he is neither slumbers nor sleep. The Lord is there standing. The Lord will protect us. Israel will survive. It's Europe that should worry about what's going on there. Look what's going on in Europe.

[00:56:09]It's crazy, crazy, crazy. I just came back from Zurich where thankfully I saw an amazing church with a wonderful onfire young adult community there. I mean 1 1500 young adults came to the fourth service that I had there. But at the same time everywhere I went in Europe before that I saw how Europe is gone completely gone. Paris was in flames because a a football team just won a match, a European championship title, and those, you know, migrants just burned the city down.

[00:56:45]Look, it's sad to see that, but this is so predictable because eventually the people will have enough. Right now, the Muslim population in Europe is anything between 10 to 20%.

[00:56:59]And it's already creating so much chaos.

[00:57:02]You can you can imagine that before they become the majority that the people of Europe will stand up and say enough is enough. And and I you and I when we teach about Ezekiel war and how God will fight and win, I believe that that's when the antichrist will rise from Western Europe. And one of the things that he will promise is a change. Islam will no longer dictate anything here anymore.

[00:57:27]>> Yeah. I'm here. I couldn't help but think what what Jesus talked about regarding the time that preeds his coming for the church and then the tribulation that follows. He said the earth is going to be filled with violence just as it was in Noah's day.

[00:57:42]And you know, we certainly have that spreading all throughout Europe and other parts of the country. Here in the United States, we've got the same type of thing going on, though not to the degree. And uh here now you've got not only the Iranian issue where other uh Arab states or Arab states rather are being impacted by Iran like we saw with the airport in Kuwait. Now you've got a situation where the Russia Ukrainian war is now reaching over into Europe with the incident that happened there in Romania. So maybe you can talk about that a little bit as well.

[00:58:17]>> Yeah. So, so basically, um, the Russians for the last couple weeks promised that they're going to annihilate Kiev.

[00:58:26]Literally, they said that and they even asked the US embassy to evacuate. They they they said, "We're going to do it."

[00:58:33]They're not doing well in the battlefield. So, they want to basically pressure the Ukrainians by uh hurting them in their soft belly, which is civilians in their capital. I mean, take a look at this video of hypersonic missile that hit a residential building in the heart of Kiev. That's that's what you see. By the way, dozens of those landed in Kiev and killed quite a few people. In response, um the Ukrainians launched um drones that hit a um oil terminal in St. Petersburg, which is so far away and such a big thing. Uh, so the oil terminal. Yeah, that's the video. Let's put it so you can see the oil terminal um burning in the port of St. Petersburg. Uh, and so the Ukrainians and the Russians up their game. It's a very, very bloody war. But what the Russians are doing, it's very interesting. uh they are creating or or starting what what I call war of attrition with NATO and they started testing the ground. They're sending drones and one of them hit uh a Romanian city um and uh injured quite a few people and so as you can see the city of Galati uh in Romania um hit and uh injured two injured two people in this case. But look, this is this is a a European city. That's a residential building and it got hit by a Russian drone uh just like that. And by the way, do you really think NATO did anything?

[01:00:28]No. And that's exactly what Putin wanted to make sure that happens. that NATO will expose its weakness, inability, it's it's really uh it's I I would say pathetic um situation right now. And he's going to send more of those. It starts with once a month and once every other week and then once a week. And look, uh this is the situation in in in Ukraine. He's sending the civilians to the metro under the ground uh almost every other day um as he's hitting Kiev hardly. And I'm talking about hypersonic missiles. I'm talking about um dozens of drones at once. Now the Ukrainians are fighting back, but u the Russians are no longer attacking the Ukrainian military. We're talking about hitting hard civilian population in the capital. And that's uh that's a different story. That's a different story as you can clearly see.

[01:01:36]Uh yeah, that's what we see that is happening. And uh I believe that um Russia is uh showing its aggressive side and uh it won't stop there. It won't stop there. Eventually, Russia will uh feel emboldened enough to move and uh and lead a coalition against Israel as the Bible says.

[01:02:03]>> Yeah.

[01:02:05]Yeah. Amir, kind of back to the days of Noah thing. Uh one of the other features we know of of the time of Noah is that the earth was corrupt before God. And that word in the Hebrew means moral ruin. In other words, there'll be just a lack of any sense of of morality.

[01:02:24]Certainly, Bible- based morality is going to be one of the features of the last days. And here in California, we have a administration that seems to want to lead the charge in moral corruption.

[01:02:36]And now we've got something called the Nick Shirley Act, which is >> Yeah.

[01:02:40]>> criminalizing journalism to shield >> massive fraud. And you know, in our state, you know, we've had here this uh bullet train that was financed with billions of dollars. We've got all this homeless aid that came in uh billions of dollars once again. And the homeless population has grown. It's the largest in the country here in California. And there's not been one single foot of rail laid or ground broken. Yet the billions of dollars for this uh rail system is all gone. And now here you've got a man who's standing up exposing a lot of the Somali uh abuse of uh US u I guess just kindness if you would say. Uh and and there's finding things like 110$10 million in a Somali run daycare fraud and these supposed learning centers that have no kids at all. So what did California do? They passed legislation where you're not allowed to to expose this as a journalist. And all they're doing is shielding fraud. And you I couldn't help but think of Isaiah 5:20 that says, "Woe to those who call good evil and evil good, who change darkness for light and light for darkness." And uh you know, there are woes that are coming upon the whole world. There's no question about that. But the fact is they're trying to silence anyone uh who is a voice of reason or has a concern for actual truth and righteousness. And you I don't know a whole lot about Nick Shirley and his spiritual state. But what I do know is he is feeling like many of us here that were tired of wasting billions of dollars to finance corruption. And now California says, "Well, let's make it legal." And again, you know, >> I mean, isn't that interesting? This the same people that are so concerned about the 3.8 billion annual u u annual help for Israel, which by the way, you get in return much more. They are saying nothing about this. And this is way more than that, by the way. I mean, you can save way more than that $3.8 billion if you, by the way, Nick Shirley just shows you how pathetic the media in America is. None of the real media outlets would do that investigative journalism job that he's doing as a young man. And by the way, he doesn't have the resources that the big media corporations have. He doesn't have the connections. And yet without all of that, look at the fine job that this young man is doing exposing and embarrassing people. And that tells you, by the way, that the Democrats have the media in their pocket and the media will always stay silent when it comes to how they do things and what they do. And u I'm glad to see that some people wake up to this and I'm glad to see that America understands uh that this corruption is deeper and wider than they've ever imagined. Yeah, it's quite an amazing thing. Pastor Barry, what about Belgium?

[01:05:58]What's going on there? And as we see Europe on a rapid uh course uh for self-destruction.

[01:06:08]>> Yeah, Mayor, we we see much of the same thing here in the States and elsewhere in the world. But there were a group of migrant teens who had been convicted of repeatedly raping a 14-year-old Belgian school girl. And this verdict has ignited righteous fury across Belgium and beyond where these nine migrant minors from cultures alien to Western civilization have been convicted of this repeated gang rape. and instead of going to prison, they've been released because of their uh migrant status and their age. And you know, once again, Amir, we're we see these kind of things here in our country and around the world where uh the victims are also or often rather uh punished rather than the perpetrators. And this whole upside down and backwards kind of thinking uh in the world. And I couldn't help but think of, you know, when Jesus had a held a little child and and he said, "Hey, you know, anybody harms one of these, it's better for them to have a millstone hung around their neck and they be cast into the sea." So again, I think all of these things are uh part and parcel of what is leading up to the tribulation period. And the mentality is already present for this murderous uh type of regime that's going to be uh under the control of the the man of sin, the son of predition, the beast of Revelation 13. And the world is going to be largely in support of that.

[01:07:44]>> And they're all going to go after the beast. And Mir, let's move on to the last story because we're getting short on time here. But just kind of along the same vein, uh, in Boston, there are going to be 19 drag queen story hours in this LGBT Pride Month. And it's funded by taxpayers so they can normalize in the minds of children men dressing and acting like women. And during these story hours, men cross-dress and read books to little kids with that as their expressed goal.

[01:08:24]and knowing obviously that kids are impressionable at that time they're going to be vulnerable to coming away but thinking well that's just normal that's just part of life and again it just seems like everything that God has established all the way back to initial creation creating man and woman uh in his own image and likeness everything has been violated and there's really nothing left on the list for man to cast aside side and break the bonds of of the one who is the authority over all creation. So >> yeah, >> you know, it's gender diversity that has to be become the norm and being able to be what you want to be instead of what you what you are genetically predetermined to be. uh is being normalized in the minds of little kids in a place where they ought to be growing and learning in public libraries, but instead they're being indoctrinated.

[01:09:24]>> Yeah.

[01:09:25]>> Is the devil's agenda.

[01:09:27]>> Well, let's hope that uh the air condition will not work in those libraries uh in these hot months.

[01:09:34]Uh listen um I just want to remind people um a lot of people are they may not understand that but um here at connect we have our normal operation going on but I resume traveling all around the world and together with you also and um we just want to remind people that if you pray and feel that the Lord uh uh leads you to support this ministry and what we do online as as well as in person as well as with young adults and as well as our media hub here in Israel. Please support the ministry by going uh to our website. We have also new ways to give and you can find it all on our website by using this uh code. I also want to remind you the Elijah mandate are my new book that will come uh in early September. I'm telling you it's amazing. I just as I said I just came back from London recording the audio book. Please uh pre-order it as and and get it for your non-believing friends and family members. And last, Norwegian Cruise. We still have 40 to 50 open seats. Uh if you want to join Pastor Bar and myself and uh study the entire book of Ezekiel, exploring Ezekiel aboard uh the Holland America ship that goes all the way to the Norwegian fjords. We still have few seats open. Please remember to uh sign up. Hey, Pastor Barry, before we end, I think it's time for the aaronic blessing.

[01:11:17]>> Yes.

[01:11:28]Shalom.

[01:11:31]The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance toward you and give you his peace. We pray this in the name above all names, the name of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, our Savior Yeshua.

[01:11:51]Amen.

[01:11:52]>> Amen. Thank you. Please again share this video, comment, like and subscribe to our um YouTube channels and uh support the ministry if you are feel led to. We have so many things that uh we still want to do uh uh from here and all around the world. So, thank you again.

[01:12:13]God bless you. Shalom from the Jezrael Valley and from Southern California. God bless.

[01:12:20]>> Shalom.

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