Holl-06 Israel's Final Restoration — Art Katz

Thank you for a lovely introduction. It's my privilege to be here. I'm the one who's being honored. And my only fear is that I will spoil everything. Everything has been so lovely till now. But you don't know what you're getting.

I wish that you had had a chance to read something of the booklets that are now on the back table.

Some in English, some in Dutch. About Israel and the church of the last days. A famine for the hearing of the word of the Lord.

Israel, the Church, and the Coming Holocaust

Not that it's not being spoken, but it's not being heard. You'll be tested tonight. A powerful statement on Romans chapter 6. The heart of the gospel. Which you should have obtained with your baptism.

A little booklet on the true conversion.

Many saved, but few converted. This is in Dutch. This should be in Dutch.

The spirit of truth. But my Dutch publisher is a year late. My German publisher is late. In a book that I can't even hold up for you.

And the book that I can't show you yet.

It's called the Holocaust. Where was God? I have the chutzpah to raise the question. And the answers are frightening. Because in that booklet I not only attempt a biblical explanation of the Nazi Holocaust.

But I speak a warning of a Holocaust yet to come. That if the word of Jesus and Daniel and other of the prophets be true.

That if the word of Jesus and Daniel and other of the prophets be true. Then this coming Holocaust will completely overshadow the Holocaust of the past. And the Jews are not prepared for this at all. Nor is the church prepared for this.

If I'm right in my understanding. And many would love to see me wrong. I would love to be wrong myself. Then this catastrophe should come upon world Jewry. But if I'm right. If I understand the prophetic scriptures correctly.

It's a warning that needs to be sounded. The French edition of the Holocaust book which is in print. Is now number 7 on the 10 most purchased French books in Switzerland and France. And that in only a few weeks.

Because it is explosive and controversial. And that's where I'm going from here. French. Switzerland, Lausanne, Geneva. Lyon, France. Where evangelical ministers want to meet with me. Kiev in the Ukraine.

Where messianic pastors want to meet with me. Who are happily encouraging Jews to come to Israel now. And want to understand my position. When I say to extend such an invitation. Is to bring Jews from the frying pan to the fire.

So I'm a prophet of impending catastrophe. I've only had two messages in my last trips to Israel. And I've only had one message in my last two trips to Israel. The first one which is about 7 years ago.

Which I spoke 7 times in the land and 3 times in Jerusalem.

Listening to the howls and shrieks and screams of people who were antagonized by it. Cats, you haven't changed. You're as loveless as ever. Because my message was Ezekiel 37.

The Valley of Dry Bones and Israel's Necessary Death

The valley of dry bones. The necessary death and resurrection of Israel.

Not as a happenstance. But the necessary death and resurrection. Which we have no more disposition to consider.

And we never considered it. In the same way as the disciples didn't consider the fact that the Messiah would have to die and then be resurrected. Actually we have the same attitude as Peter. But now towards Israel.

Let this be far from you.

Let it not be unto you. Can't you succeed without it? After 50 years of statehood? Thousands of years in exile? Don't you deserve now to succeed?

Don't you deserve now to succeed? There is a must and a holy happening. And Jesus points Peter back. And he instructs with the most severe words.

Go behind me, Satan.

Because you smell the things and you taste the things that are not of God but of man. That is quite encouraging. While he had such a huge compassion for his Lord.

How humane and compassionate. It's the best kind of attitude that man can produce. And one that Satan loves to employ. To keep the Lord himself from his necessary redemptive death. Jesus said to the disciples upon his resurrection.

Who were disappointed and dejected. We have thought it had been he who would have restored the glory to Israel.

O fools and slow of heart.

Not to understand all that the prophets have spoken. Should not the Messiah suffer and die? Before he ascends to his glory? We deserve that rebuke today. Because we think that the issue of Israel is the issue of the success of its state.

The nation Israel. But there is something much greater that is at stake.

It's the glory of God forever. And so much as I understand the scriptures. And God's way. That there has never been access to glory.

Except through death and resurrection. So let me pray.

Lord save us from your rebuke. Don't let our well-meaning intentions get in your way. That our humane consideration for Israel. Keeps us from recognizing its necessary destiny. There's an ought and there's a must.

There's something intrinsic to the faith. It's rooted in reality itself. It's intrinsic with God.

There's a suffering and a death.

That precedes the glory. Open our hearts to understand it. And our lives to embrace it. Or Israel will not have a chance. Except that there's a church that understands.

And prepares itself.

For the soon coming catastrophe. The necessary death. That must come to pass. In Jesus' name. Help us. Help me. To bear such a word as this. Before so precious a people as this.

To have such a right heart. Give them courage.

And stamina. To bear the hard words of God. I thank you and give you praise. In Jesus' name. Amen. Well I mentioned the message given seven years ago. Spoken seven times. I'm a foolish man who thinks much of the significance of numbers.

Seven means completion. And when I finish arranging the days of this trip. Beginning in Holland with this gracious invitation. Taking me to France and Germany. Switzerland and France as I've mentioned.

The Ukraine and Russia. The Ural mountains in Central Asia. And ending in Finland. Where every invitation has been withdrawn. Because I found out. The churches that had invited me. Were outgrowths of the Toronto revival.

And somehow they had learned that I had raised some. Questions about that phenomenon. So they refused to have me. Unless I can endorse that revival. So we're still going by faith. Maybe the Lord wants to give me a rest at the end of the trip.

Seeing that I've just come back from five weeks in Africa. And we'll be going to Guatemala in September. And Canada in July. And Southeast Asia in 2001. To bring the strange message it has given. The Lord has been pleased to give.

Well what was your last time in Israel Art? Almost four years ago. We had a conference. For which no messianic congregation would open its doors. For a man who was saved in Jerusalem. 36 years ago. And had been coming almost every year.

In which they used to say that when Art comes to Israel. To Jerusalem. The word of the Lord comes with him. But they don't say it anymore. And so we had to have the conference in our hotel. And not one soul came whom I've known for 25 to 30 years.

And not one soul came whom I've known for 25 to 30 years. Only one woman. To enjoy our food. And to harass me while I was speaking.

And when I got home from the trip. There were two ladies waiting for me. One signed by 13 of the most eminent leaders. Oh letters. One signed by 13 of the most leading significant men in Israel. Many of whom whom I've known over a quarter of a century.

Condemning me as a false prophet. Giving aid to the enemy. Harassing the church. And being terribly in error. One letter came from a Dutch brother. Whom I've also known over a quarter of a century, 30 years.

His was a much kinder letter. But equally as offended with me. And this is my answer to him. I attempted to read it. I have two Bibles with me tonight. And three papers. And I fasted all the day. And five days before we came.

And I'm trembling. How do I proceed? How do I break into the consciousness of the church? That already has such a tender affinity for Israel and the Jews. And speak those things that must necessarily come to pass.

The Time of Jacob's Trouble

A good point of beginning is one of the great issues that have been raised. It's the issue of the time of Jacob's trouble. It's mentioned in Jeremiah chapter 30.

In Daniel chapter 12.

Jesus in his Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24, Luke 21. Matthew 24. Luke 21. This is where he said that there's a trouble coming. That eclipses all troubles that have ever been known since the world began.

And if it were not cut short. No flesh would survive. He spoke about the abomination of desolation. That... That initiates this time of trouble. Citing Daniel. Referring to Jeremiah. So there's a whole body of prophecy.

That referred to a last days time of trial. For Jacob.

Wherever Jacob is. Not only in the present state of Israel. But Holland as well. And South Africa. Johannesburg and Pretoria. Cape Town. 100 ,000 Jews. I spoke to the church for the first time. Prepare yourself.

For a time of affliction to come upon the Jews of your own nation.

In a global antisemitism. Of the fiercest kind. Where a Jew will not be safe anywhere in the world. I faced some hostile audiences. Of the Christian Zionist kind. Who did not want to have their world upturned.

Didn't want to have to consider such a scenario. And I watched God in one night turn them completely around. So at the end of the night I could say to them. Pray for me. I'm going now from South Africa to Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Black nations. That will be the route of flight of escape.

Out of your South African cities.

For a surviving remnant of Jews. And I have to speak this to the black church. Pray for me. And they did. I'm a believer now 36 years. And I have never found a time when. The issue of the exegesis of scripture.

This is a Greek word, exegesis. The drawing out of the true meaning. I've been a believer 36 years. And I've never seen a time like this. With the issue of the interpretation of scripture. Is more critical than now.

Particularly prophetic scripture. That can be read in several ways. Wasn't the valley of dry bones. Fulfilled in the Nazi time. Weren't Jews literally reduced to valleys of bones. Why then do you say.

This is a future event. Because the text itself indicates that. In verse 11. When they themselves say. We are cut off.

We are without hope. We are as dry bones. In that moment. For which God is still waiting. For the people of Israel to make such an acknowledgement. God turns to a son of man. He's released.

He's released. By Israel's own acknowledgement of the truth of its condition. Prophesy to these things. That they might live. That they might live. God is still waiting to hear that acknowledgement. What came out of the Nazi holocaust.

Was not that we are cut off. We are as dry bones. But something of an entirely different character. More in keeping with our Jewish character. Our indomitable self-sufficiency. Our never-ending. Never again.

If you go to Auschwitz today. Where I have been many times. Treblinka. Where I was on my last trip to Poland.

And in other death camps. You see in six foot tall letters. Or as it was in Treblinka. In German, French, English.

In German, French, Jewish. In English. Never again. God is still waiting.

What kind of God is this? It raises this question. How far will he go? Is it the one holocaust sufficient? Not if it has not obtained its end. The brokenness of a nation. Who is called to more than the issue of successful statehood.

Is called to be a servant son. Of a priestly kind. To the nations. To the Goyim.

To the Arab nations. You do err. Because you don't understand. What is our ultimate destiny and goal.

And how far God will go to obtain it. You are too success oriented. In your own life and in your own church. And project that kind of mentality onto Israel. The point of contention between my Dutch brother and myself.

He says that the time of Jacob's trouble has passed.

It's all okay now.

Israel may be going through present difficulties. But over a course of time.

Things will improve. There is no necessity for your apocalyptic scenario. Israel's suffering has passed.

What an astonishment. To believe that the Nazi time was the time of Jacob's trouble.

When the scripture makes it clear.

That it must have its inception in Jerusalem. Through an anti-Christ figure. To stop sacrifice that had been initiated.

After three and a half years of a false covenant of peace.

In which Israel recognizes it has been duped. That it was a false peace. And negotiated with an anti-Christ figure. Who now demands to be worshipped as God. It's a historic moment. That has not yet come.

And it triggers the whole explosive devastation of Israel. Into which I believe will be an expulsion again into the nations. Either in flight from the terror of that violence. Or in actual captivity. Or being cast out into the nations.

Even to the farthest corners of the world. In which God says, I will return you.

That's your future.

And you'll be able to compare two returns. One essentially initiated and negotiated by man. The Zionist state. To which orthodox Jews do not yet subscribe nor acknowledge as valid. Because they believe in their understanding of scripture.

And rightly so, in my opinion. That that prophetic fulfillment can only come through God. Not through the allowance of his providence.

Not because he allows things. And the atmosphere around him. But really through the intervention of God. Visible and demonstrative. In front of the face of all people. As well as the hopelessness of Israel itself.

That they will know that I am the Lord. Who has spoken and brought this about. Fifty years of present-day Israel.

Has not yet acknowledged that. And never will. It is remarkable how mature men can come to their opinions. When the scripture so clearly shows that this time of Jacob's trouble has its initiation into Islam itself.

How can you say that it was the Nazi time? This does not initiate in Europe or in Germany. But in the land. And there was no state of Israel in that Nazi time. My whole debate with my colleagues and my brother.

Has opened to me a whole contemplation of the cross.

After 36 years in the faith.

25 years in community. Traveling the world in the Lord's service. In a difficult marriage with a Gentile wife.

And through the very difficult event of moving between the... In our 35th anniversary. Yes. Yes, in the pagan people.

I wasn't there yet. I'm still listening. A woman. Oh, she's really still there. Missed for a moment. Sorry. I realized that every issue in the last analysis is the issue of the cross.

I have found that in the last analysis. In the contemplation of this. That this end time has to do with the cross.

We're not talking about an idle matter of difference of opinion. And that's why I fasted today.

And I kept myself away from the Shabbat table. Because the message I bring is not determined by a person or by a reputation. But it concerns here the subject of life and death.

Only eternity itself. If this catastrophe comes.

And we don't see it coming. And we haven't made any preparations. And we don't make any proclamations in this case. Then we are actually, if we cooperate, a helper in the death of Israel.

There is so much more than I can express.

It's about really interpreting the word of God.

And really. And the key, I believe, is given to men who are actually prophetic. That is to say, truly prophetic. Because I believe that the critical issue today for the church. Is discerning the truth from the false prophets.

True and False Prophecy

And the difference we have between the true and the false prophets. And that has always been the case. There is a classic example of what happens through the ages.

One says, peace, peace. And heals the wounds of his daughter lightly.

Easily. And the other says, there will be a future judgment. There is a calamity. A catastrophe is coming. Repent now. And come into the ark of safety.

Because there is a judgment that must come. Because it says in Jeremiah, your sins will exceed that of your fathers. And anyone who reads the Jerusalem Post regularly. Knows that that prophecy is being fulfilled.

Jews practicing torture. The exploitation of foreign workers. The highest rate of abortion in the world. Where the first two abortions are free for every Israeli girl serving in the military. Satan clubs and witchcraft.

High school extortion gangs. That brand students with their cigarette butts if they will not give them some shekels.

And they torture their fellow students. By poking them on their armpits.

The highest rate of the abuse of women in physical, battering violence and murder. There is a whole catalog of sin. I take no delight in announcing it.

But your naivety requires it.

Because you have a romantic sense of astuteness. You think that somehow we are some special kind of humanity. We are all little Davids. Didn't you read that President Weizmann was indicted for taking bribery of almost a half million dollars while in office?

Didn't you read that President Weizmann was indicted for taking bribery of almost a half million dollars while in office? A scandal. The highest position of the state. And the same thing happens, happens, President, ex-president, minister, prime minister Netanyahu.

In which he obtained funds for his own political campaign. And why not? Is there any man good? If God were to mock or nick at you, who can stand? Do you think we have some special virtue? Or are we men?

In the end, an example for all people of this world, what man really is.

And what he will do in the perpetuation of his own interests. When he has not access to God.

I have a prophetic way of understanding present Israel. Given not to succeed. But to fail.

Who else could have attempted it in half a century? To take a malarial wasteland and transfigure it into a high-tech civilization. To take a narrow liturgical language, Hebrew. And make it into a modern secular tongue.

In a nation that wants to be like all other nations.

A nation that wants to be like all other nations.

The Hong Kong of the Middle East. The second greatest internet, computer, software giant outside of California. And succeed in doing it.

Well that's when my life collapsed. When I succeeded. Born in the depression years.

Raised without a father. By a mother struggling to sustain a household with two sons. I became in my later years a professional. A teacher. And my mother could quell. To quell. Having achieved what I sought.

I recognized my failure in my success. I could raise the great questions from my students. But I could not myself answer them. Especially in the failure of my marriage to a German wife. In which my good will and reason failed.

Israel's Political Success and Moral Failure

The Zionist state of Israel has given us opportunity. To see the truth of our condition. As we would not otherwise have ever acknowledged it. What do you do with a captured suspected terrorist? If he has information that can be extracted.

That might save another bombing in Jerusalem. Or a bus in Tel Aviv. So the Orthodox won't have to come with their plastic bags. And take the body parts off of the telephone wires. Is such a one going to voluntarily give information?

Without coercion? Toward our necessary destiny? We are required to employ means. That we would never have considered as Jews. While we were living in ghettos. In other nations. Rightly did a scholar proclaim.

Power corrupts.

And absolute power corrupts absolutely. Even Jews. Or should we say. Especially Jews. Because we have the greater calling. We have the greater honor. We have the greater history. We have the law. We have the prophets.

And for us to violate against God.

We will suffer double for our sins. What gives me perspective and additional strength.

Is not only my confidence. That I am speaking out of an office. That God has given. But my own history for the last 25 years.

But also my own history for the last 25 years. We have been living for 25 years in North Minnesota. Of course that means nothing to you.

But I can tell you. It is very primitive. It is rough land.

It is also cold. It is the coldest place I think in North America. Our temperature is even lower than that of Alaska. We are about 200 kilometers. 150 kilometers from the closest border. 8 miles. 20 kilometers from the nearest city.

Population 200 people. And we have been living there for 25 years. And I am actually from New York. And I am an educator in California. I am a worldly.

Intellectual man. What am I doing in that primitive location?

In North America. In the United States of America.

In the country that Jews have obtained their greatest success.

Their greatest security. God called me.

By a word. End time teaching center. Community. Refuge. Where my foot came over the chain in the entrance to the property. A bankrupt boys camp. That is all the Lord had to say. Or we have made a mistake for 25 years.

Trying to become food sufficient. Particularly at a time when we may not be able to buy nor sell.

At a time when we may not be able to buy nor sell. At a time when the Antichrist is going to expel Jews from their places of safety. And is that also not a time that we get the number the marking number.

On our forehead or on our arm? How then shall we provide? Not only for ourselves. But for the stream of refugees. The least of these his brethren. Whom we shall see naked. Hungry. Despised. Rejected. Treading roads of a remote kind.

Northern Minnesota. Out from Canada. Zimbabwe and Zambia. In the most remote locations in Southern Africa. Under brutal and primitive conditions.

Because God says in Ezekiel chapter 20 from verse 33 I will meet with you in the wilderness of the nations.

Face to face. And I will plead with you. And there you will come into the bond of my covenant.

And into the rod of my authority. So that the redeemed of the Lord can return to Zion. As the redeemed of the Lord.

With everlasting joy upon their heads. And mourning and sighing.

Fleeing away. O you dear saints. You need a teacher more than a prophet. So look at the booklets. And there you'll have more detailed explanations.

Of the frequency in the prophetic scriptures.

And I will return you.

From every place wherein I have scattered you. With a fury poured out. How else should modern Jews find themselves in Northern Minnesota or Southern Africa. With a fury poured out. Has driven them suddenly out of their places of security.

The remnant of them that will survive. Will survive because of you. Or they will not survive at all. How do you read Matthew 25? Prophetically. Jesus separates the Gentiles. Of all nations. One by one.

He determines their eternal destiny. The righteous inherit the kingdom of God. But the wicked who say when did we see you hungry, thirsty, naked and in prison. And they say Lord when did we see you. They say Lord.

But they could not recognize the Lord. In the least of these his brethren. God is going to sift and test Israel. Amos chapter 9. I will shake you as one shakes corn in a sieve. And not so much as one kernel shall fall to the ground.

I will sift you through all nations. Because it's not only the Jew that needs to be sifted. But the nations themselves. And the people who say Lord, Lord in the nations. And have no ability to extend mercy.

To a people who will be universally despised. Hated and pursued. Blamed for the collapse of everything.

In the modern world. Which collapse is coming. But the righteous will extend mercy.

They cannot help themselves. Their righteousness compels them. When it will be no more convenient for them. To extend mercy to the Jews who are the least of his brethren. Than it was for Corrie ten Boom and her family 50 years ago.

Then you will be tested. You who love the Hebraic choruses now. And all of the Jewish and Hebraic resonance of worship and celebration. What will that day reveal? Remember how assured that Peter was. Lord, though all the world deny you.

Yet will I deny you never.

And so said they all.

Until the night of terror came. And the one who made the loudest professions. Denied Jesus with oaths and cursings. I don't know the man. What shall we say? We need not only to prepare physically for Jews in time of flight.

But spiritually. To be able to bear the situation. To make it known. To sound a warning. To be able to receive them. Not out of a sense of grim religious obligation. But God says I will meet with you face to face.

They've got to see something more than religious obligation. That holds its breath waiting for them to pass. They've got to see the unconditional love of God. Under the most trying circumstances. When they will be at their worst.

Their least politeness. Their greatest irritation. That they are again suffering a Christian crime. They will be stretched to breaking. Irritating. And will not be grateful. For your sacrifice. And your risk.

What will that reveal? The Lord said end time teaching center. Community. Refuge. You know what I've come to realize? In 25 years? No community, no refuge. Community is more than the casual accommodation or coming together of the saints.

Community, Mercy, and Preparation for Jewish Refugees

We are 25 or 30 of us living together on the same property.

I'm not their employer. I'm only a brother with them. And a difficult brother.

But they're all difficult. Daily irritations and trials. Because God says in Romans through Paul that by your mercy they can obtain mercy. And a woman cried out in a church years ago when I preached that.

She said we don't have mercy for each other. How shall we have it for Jews? Only a community can bear the weight and the responsibility the impact of Jews in this condition. Because they have already had a history of bearing one another.

How does that appeal to your Dutch sense of privacy? Where you can be so joyous and pleasant on Sunday. Or the conference situation. But Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday the daily thing reveals the truth about condition.

And better that that truth should be revealed now while there's yet opportunity to alter it by the grace of God. Then we should reveal it to Jews whose only hope we will be. In that last day. Are we living in such a vital relationship with our fellow men now?

Are we ourselves touchy, vulnerable and easy to be irritated? I'm reading from Oswald Chambers. My utmost for his highest. Do you read him? Daily? Selection for the day? Together with the psalm for the day?

The chapter from the book of Proverbs? In your daily devotional time?

Before you go off to business? Or attend to the family? Or any such thing?

The issue of the last days for the church is the issue of its devotion. Because there's a young man that Satan has been seeking to destroy. Satan has been told to throw him into the fire and into the water.

He foams at the mouth with fits under demonic manipulation.

And the disciples could not cast it out.

And Jesus said to the Father, How long has this been going on? Since childhood. Since its infancy. Since its birth as a people. Satan has been out to destroy the Jew. Throwing him into the fire and into the water.

And he's coming into the earth.

For he knows his time is short. And he wants not just to harass the Jew.

But so as to destroy him. And the disciples could not cast it out. And they were more spiritual than you. They had walked with Jesus. But they came to this ultimate test. And had not the faith. Had not the authority to deal with this ultimate demonic manifestation of the kind that is coming into all the world in the last days.

And will seek as its last activity.

The annihilation of the Jew. Will you be able to cast it out?

They took Jesus aside privately after he had delivered this child. Because when he commanded that demon to get out from him he shook him one last time like a rag doll. And left him for dead. There was not so much.

A deliverance that was needed as a resurrection.

And Jesus stretched forth his hand and lifted him up. This is beyond your present spirituality. Why could we not cast him out? Well, because this kind this ultimate kind cometh not out but by prayer and fasting.

Prayer beyond petition.

Prayer that is communion. Prayer that is communion.

That is in the presence of God frequently. And obtained in the early morning hour. In the cold draft on the floor. In your little private devotional room in Holland. A sense of God. As God. That is greater than all of the reality of evil.

And will overcome it. Because it knows the God who is greater. Devotional God. These are hard words to consider. And only the righteous will succeed in that day. Who are in communion with his risen life.