Judgment Day — Dave Hunt

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Good evening and it's good to see everybody here tonight. I'm really happy for the turnout tonight. I didn't know what to expect because the word basically was from the announcements, as you know, and what we can get out.

So I'm really happy to see you here tonight. And we're so excited about the soon coming of Jesus Christ, aren't you? Praise the Lord. And we know that as we see the events, recently transpired events there in the Middle East with Syria and Iran, we know what the Bible has to say about Damascus and Isaiah 17 .1 and Russia and Iran.

That connection is becoming stronger. It's becoming more apparent that we're that much closer to Jesus coming. And, of course, I'm so humbled up here to introduce Dave Hunt, one of my favorite all-time teachers.

My favorite teachers, of course, include Francis Schaeffer and Dr. John Walford and other great scholars and researchers into the Word of God and understanding the signs of the times and speaking into this culture.

And I think that there are a few teachers out there that handle the whole counsel of God as well as our brother Dave does, few men that are as disciplined and diligent in searching the Scriptures out as thoroughly as Dave.

And I'm sure that CPA degree helped you, Dave, in that researching capacity. In fact, you probably, those of you who know Dave well and know about the Berean call, his ministry is based on Acts 17 .11.

The Bereans were more noble than those of the Thessalonians because they searched the Scriptures daily to see if these things be true. And, of course, this is what Dave stands for. I need not to say any more other than that he's just one of my favorite all-time teachers.

And, of course, Pastor Chuck Smith calls him a modern-day prophet. And I know that humbles Dave even to have that given that title. Just what I know of Dave, I've heard him speak so often. So, Dave, we want to give you a big welcome as you come up here to share with us tonight.

Judgment Day and the Gathering of the Nations

Okay, thank you very much. I just finished a book titled Judgment Day. The pastor must have heard of it. Anyway, that's the topic he gave me this evening, Judgment Day. Turn to Joel 3, verse 2. I, God speaking, will also gather all nations.

Does that include the United States? I would say so. What's he talking about here? Hold your finger in Joel. Turn to Zechariah 14, verse 1. Behold, the day of the Lord cometh. Thy spoils shall be divided in the midst of thee.

For I... It's interesting to see those two words, I will. We'll come back to them this evening. You get them all through the prophecies. I will gather all nations, God says. God is doing something in this world.

He is going to gather all nations. I would say that includes the United States. It has to. We're not going to be here. We will have left in the rapture. Now, what's he going to gather them for? Back to Joel 3.

And we'll bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat. We're going to take them to Israel. We're going to gather them against Jerusalem. And we'll plead with them there. That means I'm going to punish them.

Plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel. Well, this is the last days. We've got a teaching in the church today that says the church has replaced Israel. We call it replacement theology.

Not according to God. Israel is the focus of the Bible. There's more about Israel in the Bible than anything else. Page after page after page. Now, why would that be? Well, there are a lot of reasons.

And I have to be careful to stick with Judgment Day tonight. The Messiah comes through Israel. Right? The Messiah doesn't just step off of a UFO. Voila! Here I am. He has a genealogy. He must be a man.

And God. He comes to this earth through a virgin birth. And the virgin through whom he is born in this world is descended from David. There's a long genealogy there. There's a land involved. Because he's going to rule on the throne of his father David.

In the land of Israel. Over his people. 203 times in the Bible God is called the God of Israel. I mean, how many times has he called the God of the Americans? Or of the French? Or of the Arabs? Never.

Those are very special people. Israel is mentioned nearly 3 ,000 times in the Bible. Twice as many as Messiah. Or Christ. How about that? Well, because the Messiah comes through Israel. Now that tells us a number of things.

It tells us what anti-Semitism is. And we'll come back and talk a bit about anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism, by the way, is something that I often point to as A. You can almost say the major proof that God exists.

Because he foretold it. And that these are his people. Now, why anti-Semitism? It's very simple. I mean, these people are so horrible that everybody hates them. And with good reason. Is that right? No?

You cannot explain it rationally. Except for one thing. Satan exists. Anti-Semitism is satanic. Why? Because the Messiah comes through Israel. And if Satan could have destroyed the Jews, No Messiah. He's won his battle with God.

It's that simple. And you know down through history. How Satan tried to destroy the Jews. But the Messiah came. You have that depicted, of course, in Revelation chapter 12. You've got this woman. Who's travailing.

About to give birth to a son. And the dragon is ready to devour. Well, the Messiah came. Defeated Satan on the cross. So, then I guess it's all taken care of, right? Wrong. We would have a rapture. We would have salvation.

We're in heaven. But if Satan could destroy Israel today. No second coming. You understand that? No second coming. What is the second coming all about? He comes to destroy Antichrist. And to take the throne of his father, David.

And to rule over his people, Israel. And if there are no people Israel left on this earth. There's no second coming. Satan has this world. God has lost his moral basis for punishing Satan. And Satan has proved God to be a liar.

Are you following me? The importance of Israel. Israel being in existence today. Okay, so what does he say? I'm going to punish them for my heritage Israel. Two reasons. Very, very interesting. I love prophecy.

I love the Bible. It's fantastic. You cannot escape it. We're talking about all nations now. What have all nations done? They have scattered my people among the nations. Is that true? That's a prophecy.

God said he would scatter them. Well, then how can you blame the nations for scattering? Look, God foretells what's going to happen. But he doesn't make the nations have a hatred of Israel. But God is going to do it in the sense that he's going to allow it.

But he's not going to cause it. Okay, so that prophecy has been fulfilled. They've been scattered. And notice the last part. They have parted my land. You realize the significance of this prophecy? You see, Israel has been conquered by many nations.

Right? When a nation conquered Israel, did they divide it up and give part of it to somebody else? Another part to somebody? No, you keep it. When you conquer a land, you keep it. That's yours. Never has Israel been divided until our generation.

First time. Now, did all nations join in this? Yes. November 29, 1947, UN Resolution 181. It's called the Partition of the Land. It goes back a little farther than that. You remember the Balfour Declaration, 1917?

The 1919 Paris Peace Conference? 1922 Declaration of Principles by the League of Nations, predecessor of the United Nations? The whole world recognized that that land that was called Palestine. It's not Palestine.

Maybe we have time to come back to that. They recognized that that land belonged to the Jews. It was set apart to be the national homeland for the Jewish people. And Britain was given the mandate, do you remember?

And they were to see that this happened. What happened? Britain betrayed the Jews. They kept them out. They had a white paper, 1939. And the white paper said, We are limiting the influx of Jews to 10 ,000 a year for five years.

Maximum 50 ,000. That is it. This is 1939. They desperately need to get out of Nazi Germany. They desperately need a place to go for refuge. And Britain says, No room in Palestine. Realize that these nations over there, Syria, Oh, there's a Syrian people going way back.

Iraq and so forth, they're Babylonians. The Persians, the Iranians are Persians. The Saudi Arabians, Iraqis, and Lebanon, and Jordan. These are not ancient countries. The Ottoman Turkish Empire held all of that territory for 400 years.

They were on the wrong side in World War I. The Allies took it over. And the British and the French began to divide it up. They created Saudi Arabia. They created Syria. They created Iraq. They created Iran.

And they were supposed to create Israel. They gave 77 of what had been marked out for Israel to the Hashemite Prince Abdullah to create what they called Transjordan, which became the nation of Jordan today.

77 of what belonged to Israel, they gave it to Jordan. And finally, in 1949, UN Resolution 181, they partitioned the land, what was left of it. And Israel got 13 of what they had been promised. God says, I'm angry.

You have divided my land. You have chased my people around the world. And then you've cut off their escape. You've divided my land. Now, we have a Christian president, I think. I don't know him. But they say he's a Christian.

I have friends who know him and say that. President Bush came up with a peace plan called the Roadmap to Peace. This is 2005. It's supposed to be just about consummated. It hasn't even gotten on the road yet.

It hasn't even begun. But what is the Roadmap to Peace about? Well, you're going to give them a little more land. Israel, we've already taken everything away from you. What has every peace plan involved?

Every one. The Western governments have been trying to impose peace on Israel and the so-called Palestinians. What is the foundation of every peace proposal? Give them more land. Israel, give the Palestinians a little more land.

God says, I am angry. You have parted my land. You've divided my land. And if you went to Leviticus 25, verse 23, God says, that is my land. It is not to be sold forever. He's angry with Israel. Because they've gone along with this.

You say they've had the pressure of all the world upon them. Yeah, but they didn't have to go along with it. And Israel has accepted this. Okay, so, judgment is coming. I'm going to gather all the nations.

Islam, Jihad, and Judgment

And I'm going to punish them. We're talking about Armageddon. Well, but you know, Islam is a peaceful religion. Well, that's what the president said. He said it many times. Colin Powell said, leave Islam out of this.

Islam is a peaceful religion. And the Muslim says, yeah, what about those Crusaders? And look what they did. The Crusaders were not Christians, I'm sorry. They waved the cross. But what the Crusaders did, they did it in disobedience of the teachings of scripture, disobedience of the teachings of our Lord, and of the example that he set, and that the early church set.

What Islam does in slaughtering people, they do it in obedience to Muhammad. They do it in obedience to the Koran. And in obedience, following in the path of the history that Islam has set. But what was that Gulf War over there about?

Wasn't that Muslim against Muslim? Why did we pagans have to come in and bring peace between Muslims? Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia. What was that eight-year war between Iran and Iraq all about? They used a thousand tons of poison gas on one another.

They killed as many as were killed in World War I. Wasn't that Muslim against Muslim? Who are these warlords over there in Afghanistan? Are they not Muslims? Hasn't Islam been there for centuries? Why, Islam should have brought peace by now.

They should love one another. They should be peaceful. I get letters from missionaries over there. Dave, if the British and American troops pull out, we are dead. They don't think the Taliban is finished.

They're ready to come back. And those warlords would be at one another's throats. The only thing that unites the Muslims is their common hatred of Israel. Otherwise, they fight one another. What's that 12-year war that's been going on in Algeria?

They've killed more than 100 ,000. That's Muslim against Muslim. Islam is peace. There are more revolutions, assassinations, terrorist acts in Muslim countries Muslim against Muslim. You realize in Iraq, for example, we've got some horrible terrorist acts going on.

Most of the victims are what? Iraqis. Muslims. Muslim against Muslim. You don't even hear about it in the news. You've just had quite a number of suicide bombers blowing themselves up in mosques in Pakistan.

It's Muslim against Muslim. And you've got a Sunni who comes in and blows himself up in a Shiite mosque. I think the last one killed about 30 Shiites, wounded 100 or so. Well, he's a hero to the Sunnis.

He got instant passage to paradise for being a suicide bomber. But according to the Shiites, he went straight to hell. Islam against Islam. All across the world. In the 1940s, a young Yasser Arafat, he was getting his training in terrorism.

He was a zealous member of Amin al-Husseini. Haj Amin Mohammed al-Husseini. His great uncle, who was put in by the British as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He was a terrorist. He's responsible probably for the slaughter of several hundred thousand Jews.

Hitler's partner in this and so forth. Well, Arafat got his training. The Husseini's Qasemite group, they were the rivals of the Arab Nashashibi family. They're all good Muslims. They had a blood feud.

Syria, I'll just give you a few examples. Syria attacked its Muslim neighbor, Jordan, April 13th, 1957. These are Muslims against Muslims. June 10th, 1958, at Jordan's request, 2 ,000 British paratroopers.

These are pagans. Non-Muslim pagans to the rescue again. And Jordan said, please, send in your paratroopers to protect us from threats by Iraq and Egypt. 1960, Jordan's prime minister and 10 other officials were killed by a bomb planted by Nasser's agents, the head of Egypt, intended for the king.

The president of Tunisia accused Nasser, at that time he was considered to be the leader of the Arab world, of sending secret agents to assassinate him. I'll just give you some illustrations of how peaceful Islam is.

1979, Hussein's forces killed some 2 ,000 PLO guerrillas. The PLO had 55 bases in Jordan. They were so evil that King Hussein turned his Bedouin troops on them and chased them out with the help of the Israelis into Lebanon.

In Lebanon, what did they do? Well, they were chased out, and I can tell you that Ariel Sharon would have killed her for that. And President Reagan said, don't. Leave him alive. Let him go to Tunisia.

Take refuge there. And you know what a mistake that was. They left about 100 ,000 young women pregnant. They would take people off. Israel is now finally, look, what are they doing? They're lobbing rockets and shells.

They're shelling Israel. They're shelling Galilee. What is Israel going to do? You've got an enemy right on your border, and they're just lobbing shells in. They're killing your civilians. You can't even carry on ordinary life.

Israel finally says, look, we've had enough of this. And they went in to take them out. The PLO would take people off the street, strap them to a hospital bed, command the nurses to drain every drop of blood from their body to use as blood transfusions for their men, and stack the dead bodies like cordwood in the hall, okay?

I think I could sicken you. I could say a few more things, but I'll restrain myself. 1948 to 1973, there were 80 revolutions in the Islamic world, 30 of them successful, including the murder of 22 heads of state.

Well, enough of that. Islam is peace? You've got to be kidding. Islam cultivates hatred. It's a religion of hatred. Muhammad said, we're talking about anti-Semitism now, we'll just get back to that. Muhammad said, the last day will not come.

I'm quoting him verbatim. You don't have to search to find this quote. It's taught in the Islamic academy just outside of Washington, D .C. It's taught in every Muslim school around the world. They all know this.

Muhammad said, the last day will not come until the Muslims confront the Jews, and the Muslims destroy them. In that day, Allah will give a voice to the rocks and the trees, and the rocks and the trees will cry out, Muslim, oh Abdullah, there is a Jew hiding behind me.

Come and kill him. You realize, Islam says, the last day cannot come. Now, what is the last day? It's not what the Bible calls the last days. The last day in Islam is when you are resurrected, and your good deeds are weighed in the balance against your bad deeds.

And if your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds, then you might make it. Well, I mean, there's no court of law on this earth that would go by that rule. Yeah, Judge, I know I was speeding the other day, but I've driven more times within the speed limit than I have exceeding it.

Surely my good deeds would outweigh my bad. Well, there are Catholics that think that way. There are Methodists and Baptists that think that way. I'm not such a bad person. I think I've done more good.

It takes one sin to be a sinner, and there's no place in heaven for sinners unless they've been washed in the blood of Jesus, unless they've been redeemed. Muhammad said, you never will get to the resurrection until every Jew on the face of this earth has been killed.

That's Islam. Now, was Muhammad a fanatic? No, he's the founder of it. How can you call these people fanatics, extremists, when they're only following Islam? They're only following Muhammad. Are you with me?

Oh, you say, yeah, but there's some really peaceful Muslims, and I have a Muslim neighbor or whatever in America. Yeah. But let them move back to Saudi Arabia. Let them move back to a Muslim country. Let them go to 15 of the 19 northern states in Nigeria have adopted Sharia.

They're about to adopt it. I think they may have voted it in. I don't know. Have they, Rob, in Canada? They have. The Muslims can apply Sharia to their communities. Fifteen of the 19 northern states in Nigeria have adopted Sharia.

What has been the result? Hundreds of Christian churches burned down. Thousands of Christians killed, because Muhammad said, Islam divides the entire world into two sections. Dar al-Islam, the house of Islam, and dar al-harm, the house of war.

There is a perpetual jihad by Islam against the house of war. There will never be peace until every non-Muslim has been either killed or brought into submission to Islam. I'm just telling you the facts.

Obvious of peaceful religion. So, if Islam took over America, these peaceful Muslims would find themselves, they would have to submit. They would have to follow along. That's the situation to that day.

Antisemitism, Islamic Teaching, and the Holocaust

Now, we're going to kill every Jew. Not too long ago, well this is actually October 2004, Saudi Arabia's IQRA TV channel conducted man-on-the-street interviews. And let me just give you some quotes, what these people had to say.

Interviewer, would you, there's just people on the street, would you as a human being be willing to shake hands with a Jew? No, because the Jews are eternal enemies. The murderous Jews violate all agreements and are full of hatred towards me.

Interviewer, would you refuse to shake hands with a Jew? Respondent number four, I'm just picking out a few here. Of course, so I wouldn't have to consider amputating my hand afterwards. Interviewer, if a child asks you, who are the Jews, what would you answer?

Respondent five, the enemies of Allah and his prophet. Respondent six, the Jew is the occupier of our lands. Respondent seven, the murderers of prophets are eternal enemies of course. Respondent eight, if only the Muslims declared jihad, they would turn them, the Jews, into rotten carcasses under their feet.

There's just man on the street interviews folks. This is what they are taught from childhood. It's in the mosque, it's in the schools, it's in the school textbooks. We're training the next generation for peace of course, of Muslims.

Textbooks in Syria lead pupils to the quote, inevitable conclusion, all Jews must be annihilated. That's what they teach in the public schools. The Egyptian textbook, Studies in Theology, Traditions and Morals, explains that the Quran encourages the faithful to perform jihad and behead the infidels.

You know what's going on over there. Why do they behead these hostages? That's Islam. Muhammad said, whoever renounces his faith, off with his head. That's the execution method in Islam. Look, we don't have to debate about it, argue about it, do a lot of research about it.

You want to know what Islam is? Go to Saudi Arabia. It's that simple. This is where it began, this is where its holiest sites are, Mecca and Medina. This is where it is practiced, as Muhammad taught it, the pastor was mentioning the Wahhabis.

Well, this is Wahhabi Islam, but it's all the same folks, basically. They fight one another. They're just following Muhammad. And what is the situation in Saudi Arabia? You need to know this. This is our ally.

They're fighting terrorism on our side, so they say. They have bankrolled al-Qaeda to the tune of $500 million. They are paying the families $5 ,333 to every member of a family of a suicide bomber. And they gather the money, like TBN has their fundraisers, they get it off of television in Saudi Arabia.

Of course, these princes have got all kinds of money. Anyway, but they've promised. They are supporting terrorism. This is our ally. It's in their schools. This is their teaching. At the graduation ceremonies for the Islamic Society of Hamas, their network of kindergartens, these are funded by Saudi Arabia, Palestinian children enact the attacks of suicide bombers.

This is their ambition. Children wear military uniforms and mock explosive belts. These are kindergarten kids. They wield imitation Kalashnikov rifles. They burn the Israeli flag. And they chant, death to Israel, death to Israel.

Palestinian TV has a children's program modeled after Sesame Street. It's called the Children's Club. It's all about children becoming suicide bombers. Hatred of Israel. Slaughter them. The present Mufti of Jerusalem, appointed by Arafat, he told the Egyptian weekly, Allah Ram, Allah Rabi, quote, the younger the martyr, the greater and the more I respect him.

A new generation will carry on the mission with determination. How are you going to straighten these kids out? What are you going to do with them? This is the training that they are giving them. I was talking to a Palestinian.

He had become a Christian. And he said, from my earliest memory, from the moment I could raise my little fist in defiance, I was taught to hate the Jews. They must be destroyed. That's satanic, folks.

We explained it. Satan must destroy them. You had an 11-year-old. I don't know if you saw it in the news. Most of this stuff doesn't get in the news. I don't know how the Israelis spot these people.

You realize that thousands of suicide bombers have tried to get into Israel? Some get through. Most of them don't. And we used to say, oh, you're overreacting. Come on. But we're finding out in Iraq what it's like to be up against suicide bombers.

How are you going to spot these people? An 11-year-old boy, he had his knapsack on his back, you know, to carry his school books and so forth. And somehow they spotted him. They opened that thing up.

There's an 11-kilo bomb in there, 22 pounds, explosives, plastic explosives, very powerful, with all kinds of nails and everything else to cause mayhem. It was set to go off by a cell phone. And his handler is following him.

And when he saw the Israelis open that knapsack, click, the phone called it, but it failed. Or there wouldn't have been survivors. And the bomb is right in the knapsack next to his Spiderman doll, little 11-year-old.

Well, he said they gave him a package, and they said they'd give him a lot of money if he would take it into Israel. They use every technique, every way they possibly can. Saudi Arabian school books, even grammar books are full of phrases, exalting war, jihad, martyrdom.

They just did a study in 82 mosques in America, textbooks, material, propaganda, brought in by Saudi Arabia, printed in Saudi Arabia, financed by Saudi Arabia. And it's all about slaughtering, I'm sorry, Americans.

Muslims in America, you are like you are behind the enemy lines, and you must be willing to take off their heads. You pursue, the Quran says, you pursue the infidels wherever you find them, and you behead them.

You do give them a chance. You offer them that they can submit to Allah, and they can become Muslims, or off with their heads. This is the teaching, and I probably spent too much time on that. Well, God is angry, and he's going to bring this world into judgment.

And he's going to bring the nations of this world into judgment. You see, it isn't just Hitler. I've done a lot of research on the Holocaust recently, for this book that I just finished. It wasn't just Hitler.

1938. That was 1939. 32 nations gathered together in the Hotel Royale in Evian, France, on the shore of Lake Geneva, a very beautiful spot. In the meeting, the gathering was called by President Roosevelt.

We're going to discuss the problem of the Jewish people in Nazi Germany. Hitler has said he's going to kill them all. You had a meeting not too long before that of top Nazi officials, and they identified, they had located 11 million Jews in Europe, Western, Eastern Europe, Russia, and they laid their plans to kill everyone.

Can you believe that someone laid plans to deliberately murder 11 million people? They're going to wipe them out. Well, but Muhammad said it before that. And Roosevelt said, we're not going to do anything about it.

It gave Hitler the occasion. Well, what did they do? Delegates from 32 nations, it's a beautiful thing. They're down at the base of Mont Blanc, Chamonix up there. Well, they're having, enjoying summer snow skiing, horseback riding, gambling, swimming, sailing.

And Hitler, when he heard of this conference coming up, he mocked them. He said, look, if you are sincere, you know, you blame us. You don't like what we're going to do to the Jews. Well, they're already killing them.

You don't like what we're going to do to the Jews. Well, you can have them. We'll give them to you. We'll even put them on luxury ships. Anybody take them? No. See, it's not just Hitler. The world has the blood of these Jews on their hands.

And when the conference ended, with no help to the Jews, Hitler mocked them again. He's like a pilot washing his hands. We gave you the opportunity. You blame us. But you wouldn't take them either. Apparently, you don't like these people either.

Apparently, you agree they ought to be wiped out. You had a meeting a few years later on Bermuda, the British and the Americans. They said, we're not going to do anything. And furthermore, you want to know what they discussed?

The British Foreign Department, the United States Department of State. They said, look, we don't even dare to press Hitler to treat these people better. Because if we try to press him to do something about the Jews, you know what he's going to do?

He's going to dump them all on us. He would be just happy enough to not run them through the gas chambers. That's too much trouble. He's going to dump them on us. And we don't want him. Anti-Semitism is satanic.

God said these people would be hated and persecuted and killed like no other people in history. And it happened. And it is one of the major evidences that God exists, that the Bible is his word, and that these are his people.

Abraham, Isaac, and the Land Promises

Wow. What about Palestine? But I mean, there are Palestinians over there. And these poor people, their ancestors go all the way back. They're descended from the original Palestinians, aren't they? And these Israelis have come in, and they're occupying their land.

Don't you have any sympathy for them? Well, I'm sorry. We just quote the Bible. Not even doing too much of that tonight. It's not very edifying, but I think it's very informative. You need to know a little bit about this.

Turn to Genesis chapter 12. At the end of chapter 11, we meet a man named Abram. Remember? God gave him a land. God brought him into a land. Let's read, and promise to give it to him and to his descendants.

Let's read the end of verse 5. And they went forth to go into the land of Palestine. And into the land of Palestine they came. The end of verse 6. And the Palestinian was then in the land. Is that what your Bible says?

I get a little bit angry. This is a good Bible. It has maps in the back. One of the maps is Palestine in the days of the Maccabees. It is a lie. There never was a place called Palestine. There never was a Palestinian nation, Palestinian people, Palestinian language, Palestinian culture, Palestinian religion, Palestinian government.

It never existed. They came into the land of Canaan. And the Canaanite was in the land. Now we got a problem. See, you have a controversy over there between the people who claim to be descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the Arabs, and they are, and the Arabs who claim to be descended from Ishmael.

Now listen, folks. Ishmael was Abraham's first son, wasn't he? Doesn't matter whether his wife was Sarah's maid. Abraham was the father, the firstborn. He ought to have the inheritance, shouldn't he? And that's their claim.

Well, first of all, they are not Palestinians. Ishmael's father was whom? Abraham. Was he a Palestinian? He was from Ur of the Chaldees. Ishmael's mother was Hagar, the Egyptian. You got an Egyptian mother and a Chaldean father and you say you're descended from the original Palestinians?

Come on, guys, you are lying. And when Abraham brought his wife and her maid and his whole household and everything, fox and so forth, into the land of Canaan, it was already settled, wasn't it? The Canaanite was in the land.

Well then, why should Israel turn to chapter 15? Why should the Jews? Well, you know, let's go to chapter 17. Chapter 16, you have the birth of Ishmael. He's not the son of promise. Chapter 17, verse 15, God tells Abraham, your wife Sarai, you're not going to call her Sarai anymore, you're going to call her Sarah because I'm going to bless her, she'll be a mother of nations and so forth.

Abraham, verse 17, falls on his face. He laughs. He says, shall a child be born and he's 100 years old? Well, he had more children after she died through Keturah, his second wife. And verse 18, Abraham said unto God, Oh, that Ishmael might live before thee.

You hear what Abraham is saying? Ishmael's a good boy. You gave me a son. I love Ishmael. Why can't he be the one, the covenant child through whom and his heirs will then inherit the land? Notice what God says.

Verse 19, Sarah, thy wife, shall bear thee a son. Thou shalt call his name Isaac and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his seed after him. Well, yeah, but that's what the Bible says.

But Islam says, yeah, but the Bible got corrupted. Really? Well, there's too much. You couldn't corrupt it. Go back to chapter 15. God makes a covenant with Abraham. Verse 13, he said unto Abraham, Know of a surety that thy seed, what's thy seed?

These are the ones that are going to inherit the land. Ishmael hasn't been born yet. Isaac hasn't been born yet. And God says, we're going to know who the seed is by a couple of signs. What is it going to be?

They will be a stranger in a land that's not theirs. They will serve them. In other words, they will be slaves. They will be afflicted 400 years. Now, the seed, they're going to be slaves for 400 years in a foreign land.

Never happened to the Arabs. You can't just make this up. It happened to the Jews. And then God says in verse 16, in the fourth generation, they're going to come back into this land. I'm going to bring all these people in mass into this promised land.

Did it ever happen to the Arabs? Never. Happened to the Jews. Now, why is he going to give them this land? Because he just decides to give it to them? No. Verse 16, The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

I'm not going to just give you this land. I'm going to give it to you because of the wickedness of these people. They are not wicked enough for me to be justified in wiping them out now. But in 400 years from now, they'll be like Sodom and Gomorrah.

They will be so evil that in my righteousness, I will be forced to wipe these people off the earth. And I will use your descendants to do that. And you must. They didn't come there to convert them. They came there to kill them.

One of the problems, they didn't do the job, did they? They made covenants with these people. And it's a great lesson for us today. Well, how do we know that the Jews are these ones? I love the Bible.

Wow! You are not going to escape the Bible. Turn to Exodus, chapter 12. You know what Exodus 12 is. It's a Passover chapter. Here are these people. God said they're going to be slaves for 400 years. Then I'm going to bring them out into the land.

And here's the story of it. Verse 14. This is a prophecy, folks. It's an amazing prophecy. This day shall be unto you. What day? The 14th of the month. We go earlier in the chapter. We don't have time to go there.

But the 10th day of the month, you will take a lamb out of the flock, right? And you will keep it under observation for four days. And then it's like it's talking about one lamb on the 14th. Verse 6. In the evening, the whole assembly of the congregation shall kill it.

There's a lamb coming. And all of Israel is going to kill it. Going to kill this lamb. Wow! Incredible. The 10th day of Nisan. Jesus has been hiding out, remember? He walked no more in Jewry because the Jews sought to kill him.