Pray for Peace, Stand with Israel
Sept. 20, 2024
Host: Dr. Isaac Crockett
Co-host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 9/20/24. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Isaac Crockett: Well, hello and thank you for joining us today. I’m Pastor Isaac Crockett and my co-host today is the Honorable Sam Rohrer, and we’re hosting together this radio program, but we’re not in the same room. I’m actually here at the little church that I pastor a little church that’s been around for over 180 years out in the cow pastors and sheep fields around us at the northern part of Pennsylvania, just a few miles from where I live in New York state. And Sam, you’re down there in our office and kind of the center headquarter of things down there in Elverson, Pennsylvania a few hours away. But thank you for tuning in. And Sam, you and I have been kind of coming and going and just missing each other. You just came back this weekend from an amazing opportunity praying with hundreds of people for Jerusalem in New York City.
Isaac Crockett: We’re going to talk about that. Lord willing a lot on this program today. And even as you were praying right before the radio program started just now, you were talking about some big things that are happening and I want to talk about that. But you’re also looking forward to some big things on yesterday’s program. You and Pastor Gary Dull, of course, another co-host. We’re talking about some things going on overseas with the American Pastors Network and staying in the gap as we get started. And just you and I catching up, I don’t think we’ve been on the radio program together now for over a month, which is kind of unusual. Could you just give us a little bit of an overview of what you have coming up overseas with Gary and some of our other guests and favorite friends that do things withstanding the gap today?
Sam Rohrer: Yeah, absolutely Isaac. And it is real thrill and sometimes American Pastors Network of which we both are apart, started about 13 years ago to help present truth in various ways, but for the purpose of helping to encourage those in the pulpit. And it started here, but over time, Isaac, it has actually extended this radio program, the Stand on the Gap TV program that you and I do together has been actually been felt and sensed internationally. It was some years ago that our international director, Dale Armstrong and I and Gary Dull was also there, were involved in Ukraine back in 2014 and 15, and were able to preach and teach members of the parliament there and pastors from around Ukraine, no idea that it would develop there into what is happening now. Our ministry, the Stand in the Gap TV program you and I do is carried on TV stations in Eastern Europe.
Sam Rohrer: So it is reaching millions of people in that area. And from what I’m hearing from those involved there with significant impacts, well this event we talked about yesterday, and people can listen to that program for more information, but some years ago God had directed Gary not through his church, but kind of as an adjunct to it to begin a mission work of which missionaries are around the world, some of whom are in Africa. And out of that has come an opportunity for several of us, Gary and myself, and Dr. George Barna is actually going to be there by Zoom and some others in helping to encourage expected right now over a thousand pastors there. I’ll say the country, it’s going to be in Kenya. Amazing. And so there’s a number of things that are taking place like that, Isaac, but I think you know what the great thing about it is until the Lord returns.
Sam Rohrer: And I believe that everything that’s happening that we see in Israel and biblical prophecy, that the Lord’s return is soon, but we are to occupy until he comes. And to the extent that doors open up like these things, we need to try to go through them. And so that’s just a brief overview of something that’s coming up there that will allow us to speak to pastors, to chaplains that are a part of the government that minister to their agencies over there, which is interesting, and then to government officials themselves and other things that’ll be taking place here the first part of October. So a lot of things coming up here,
Isaac Crockett: A lot coming up and I was just a couple of weeks ago gone. I was in Nashville representing Stand in the Gap today at our friends, the Getty Music Group. At their conference they had thousands of pastors and their wives there and others from churches. And it was exciting how many people every day I kept running into that are familiar with our ministry. Some of them said they listened every day or watch us every day or once a week. And so it was exciting. I just want to say hello and welcome to any of those folks who maybe are just now from, we met with hundreds of people at hundreds of conversations. Maybe you just started tuning in via our app or on radio or your favorite podcast. Hello and welcome to the program for those of you, Sam, that you just met with the hundreds of people that you were praying with in New York City that we’re going to talk about getting to see some of the people who listened to us regularly that were there because they heard about this prayer gathering through the radio program.
Isaac Crockett: Thank you for listening. Thank you for being there. And it’s just nice to have that personal touch. And Sam, you and I also do a TV program Stand in the Gap tv. It’s part of Stand in the Gap Media and it’s so neat to see how the Lord has taken the radio and the TV and is using it all over our country and even internationally. And so again, hello to you internationally maybe from other countries who are listening. Sam, could you maybe tell us a little bit about the Heroic Faith series that we’re doing on Standing the Gap TV right now?
Sam Rohrer: Absolutely. Isaac and I could ask you to do it. You could do as good a job as me, but sometime ago, the Lord directed you and I to do a series of programs and we are doing them from time to time, oftentimes have guests. The Heroic Faith series is just between yourself and I, and the purpose has been to take individuals referenced in Hebrews chapter 11, the Hall of Fame of Faith, as we would call that chapter where the writer looks back and starts at Abel and goes to Enoch and then to some others and goes to Abraham, ends up to Noah, and then it goes through and lists a number of people by name and then it ends up in the end of that chapter. Isaac, as we’ve talked about on these programs, talking about countless, who knows how many tens of thousands of people that are never named, but they in times of persecution, they stood tall and they lost their lives.
Sam Rohrer: They were martyred for the cause of Christ. They’re a part of that hall of fame of faith as well. So, so far I think we’ve dealt with I think seven. I don’t think this is the order, but Joseph, it was one, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego was another one, and Noah and Esther and others that God used in a significant way to give us encouragement for when they were presented by difficult times. They did not bow the knee to government, to the God of this world. They stood tall in faith and they accomplished great things for God and Isaac. I think the reason we’re doing is just to help people to understand that the days in which we are in are getting more difficult, some more difficult than others and for some people more difficult than others, but the Lord will give us all the strength that we need if we fear him, keep his commandments and put him first heroes of faith. It’s a great thing to think about,
Isaac Crockett: Amen. And we want to talk about how we can increase our faith and how we can be praying and standing for Israel and just being ready. In these days. We don’t know what is going to happen day to day, but we know in general that we have a God who is in control and so we can pray for peace and stand for Israel and trust God every day when we come back. Sam, I want to hear all about this big prayer gathering that happened in New York City, what it has to do with United Nations, with peace in Jerusalem with Israel. So many questions, so much to talk about. We’re going to take a quick time out to hear from our partners. We’ll be right back on staying in the gap today. Well welcome back to the program. I’m Pastor Isaac Crockett with the Honorable Sam Rohr here, and I’m asking Sam a bunch of questions on this Ask Sam Friday.
Isaac Crockett: And Sam, we haven’t been able to be together to do an Ask Sam edition for quite a while. So you just came back this week, well, Sunday of this week we’ve been talking about this, looking forward to this, praying for this, but there was a prayer gathering in New York City with your good friend, the Congresswoman Michele Bachman. You’ve actually been you and RuthAnn in Jerusalem for these Jerusalem prayer breakfast before, but this was the first one I believe to have a Jerusalem prayer breakfast in New York City and it has to do with United Nations. They’re getting ready to meet here in just a couple of days. Can you just tell us a little bit about where this event was, who was there, what was going on? Just give us some of that, fill in some of the information of what happened at this amazing Jerusalem prayer breakfast in New York City.
Sam Rohrer: Yeah, absolutely Isaac. It was some years ago that the prayer breakfast was formed in conjunction by request of the one of the members of the Knesset, a fellow named Robert ov and Michelle Bachman, the two of them together, they came up with the idea of saying, you know what? The Bible says that we are to pray for the peace of Jerusalem and all true believers understand of God’s covenant promises to Israel, to Abraham, a land Israel, a city Jerusalem and people, the Jews, and that as believers we know that God promised to fulfill his plan of redemption for where the whole world God told Abraham would be blessed. Well, we know as scripture further unfolded that the entire world being blessed was through the coming of the Messiah, Yeshua. That happened 2000 years ago. Now we’re sitting here 2000 years later and we’re seeing Israel being born again as a nation, 1948, the Jews being regathered, just as it talks about, it’s in the scripture prophetical aspects, and it brings us to the point where now once again, God is refocusing his attention on Israel.
Sam Rohrer: So that’s why we talk about Israel so much on this program because God does and you can’t turn on the news where Israel’s not in the focus of it. That’s not by accident. The purpose then was to say Israel needs help. Who are those most supportive of the nation of Israel? Its Bible believing Christians. And from that came this idea of needing to pray. And even though there are theological differences because the concerned Jews except for Messianic Jews, those who have accepted Jesus as savior, the Orthodox Jews at this point, those that are really directing the fervency, I would say the heart of modern day state of Israel are Orthodox Jews. Orthodox Jews do not think that Yeshua has come, although there is a softening Isaac on the part of so many of them. And so in any regard, the putting together of an effort to bring together Christians and Jews to pray for Jerusalem, the Jewish people, Israel was the genesis.
Sam Rohrer: Now, since that point, there have been many breakfasts in Israel, but there have also been about 29, I believe now in other capitals of the world or major cities of the world. This one over the weekend was in New York City. You’re right, it was the first time. This was a wonderful turnout, probably about 600 people would be my guess of those that were there. It was located, the hotel it was in was only a block from the United Nations. The choice of September 15th and 16th was to be in advance of the official gathering of the United Nations. And the vote, which at this point is scheduled, a vote hostile to Israel, that will take place next week, October 22nd or 23rd in that range. And it is hostile, hostile, hostile to Israel. Now, I’m just going to stop at that point and just come back and let you ask a question. But that was the setting. It was a two day event, the fervor intensity, the singing, the praying people, 32 states, I mean 32 countries from around the world were represented. So people from 32 countries were there. And what an amazing thing to be able to see that and to be able to pray together biblically, pray together that God’s will would be done in regard to Israel
Isaac Crockett: And some of those listening to us right now, we’re there with you. What an exciting, what an appropriate timing for this. I can’t really think of a better time than right now. And as you were mentioning, September 22nd, 23rd, that’s when the UN is meeting and voting. But that is also really getting close, approaching the one year anniversary of the attack, the massacre torture of October 7th that happened to Israel. And one would think that with that being so close to the anniversary of October 7th, that there would be things being done to remember that atrocity, but instead it would appear from all means that they are actually focused on supporting Palestinians and Gaza and some of those, I think it could be argued that have helped Hamas. Can you tell us a little bit about this vote, about what the UN appears to be planning to do and why it’s so appropriate for us to be praying for the peace of Jerusalem, praying for Israel right now?
Sam Rohrer: Yeah, absolutely. You said a couple things there. Here’s what the about, and then I’ll then remind me to talk a little bit about the significance of this window of time here. But the vote is a vote. Here’s the foundation of it. About six or eight months ago, people may remember that the International Human Rights Commission and another criminal court, which is an adjunct of the un, formally indicted Benjamin Netanyahu and the Minister of Defense of Israel, they indicted them with crimes against humanity. That’s the charge. Why? Because they as a part of leading the Israeli defense forces in response to the October 7th attack last year going into Gaza, they saying, you’re killing innocent gaza’s in Palestinians and therefore you are guilty of committing crimes against humanity. And if people can remember on this program, we’ve covered it, these two entities do not have enforcement mechanisms themselves.
Sam Rohrer: However, because of their accusation, if nation’s leaders, South Africa was one that people recall, said, the president of South Africa said to Netanyahu, if you come down here to South Africa, we will arrest you and turn you over to the UN court. That’s how bad it is. Now here’s what the resolution is about. They’re going to further condemn Netanyahu and defense Minister Gallant. But it’s going to also, the resolution as written will condemn Israel overall and order this incredible thing, order the evacuation from the northern area, Judeo Samaria and East Jerusalem, the city of Jerusalem, east Jerusalem, order all Jews to within six months to vacate that those areas. Well, that is unbelievably absurd. So how that will happen, don’t know, but this is a condemnation. Now here’s the thing. The United Nations has passed twice as many resolutions condemning Israel for various and sundry things over their tenure. Then they have passed regarding any other country in total. So the United Nations is hostile to Israel, hostile to God’s plan, hostile to the Jewish people. And this effort next week is to further elevate that, to try to force Israel out of the areas that Israel is there and it is theirs. Now, here’s the bottom line, if I would say one of the things we talked about was this, every nation of the world is now their ambassador is going to cast a vote.
Sam Rohrer: A lot of what was talked about here was that the nations will weigh in relative to Israel, but more than that, they’re weighing in about God. Psalm chapter two says, the nations of the world lift their fists together against the God of heaven and to his anointed. His anointed clearly is Jesus Christ, the anointed of God, Messiah. It is also Israel, which is called the chosen of God and is also the church, the true believers who are chosen in Christ before the world began. These are, I think, the anointed of God. And as we’re seeing, and we talk much about it, the hostility of the world, demonically led clearly is against Israel. Yes, Jewish people, yes, but it’s also against Christian people. Ultimately it is against God. Scripture talks about God separating the nations from the goat nations to sheep nations, sheep being favorable to Israel, goat nations being unfavorable, and God will meet out judgment against the goat nations, the nations that oppose Israel. It is fully believed that this vote next week, if it occurs, it will in fact put the nations of the world on notice that they are either at a sheep nation or a goat nation. How God responds, I don’t know, but this is the significance of this event and the kind of discussion that we had and we’re hearing and we’re praying about. It’s really incredible time.
Isaac Crockett: Well, Sam, we have just a moment into the break, but can you define a sheep nation versus a goat nation? The
Sam Rohrer: Sheep nations are the nations that when they have an opportunity, they bless Israel rather than to curse Israel. A resolution is a formal communication by the nations because all 193 nations of the world will be there. They will weigh in and bless Israel. Well, they will weigh in and curse Israel and say, the land is not yours. You don’t deserve to be there. Get out. That’s sheep forgive.
Isaac Crockett: Alright, well Sam, this is great. You’re opening up a very spiritual discussion about what we see unfolding in the news in front of us. It’s not just news on the newspaper or on the TV headlines. It’s from the word of God and all of us with a biblical worldview, we need to have our spiritual eyes open. We want to take another quick break and we’ll be back on standing the gap today to look at the spiritual aspect of it all. Well, welcome back to the program. I’m Pastor Isaac Crockett and I’m talking with Sam Rohrer, the president of the American Pastors Network and the regular host of this program. And Sam, we’re doing another Friday edition Ask Sam edition of Standing the Gap today. And it’s just sometimes kind of nice to go through the week and just look at these things that are going on in the headlines through a Christian biblical worldview.
Isaac Crockett: And so as we look through the things that are going on and this prayer breakfast, the Jerusalem prayer breakfast that you were at, you’ve been in Israel in Jerusalem for it, but this was the first time for it to be outside of the UN headquarters in New York City. Very interesting what is happening, what is about to happen in a couple of days at the United Nations, but as we look at what’s going on, whether it be another attempted assassination on President Trump, whether it be the division in our country of the media seems to be stirring people up against each other and different divisive things, whether it be what’s going on in the Middle East and the things that have happened against Hezbollah and Hamas and all these different targets and things that are going on. All of these things point us back to God and his control and his sovereignty.
Isaac Crockett: But it also points us back to prophecies and to the word of God. And you just took us to breaking news things that are about to be voted on in the United Nations, but you took us straight back to the word of God and you were talking about sheep nations and goat nations and those who are blessing Israel officially proclaiming that they are there to help Israel as opposed to those who are officially attacking Israel at a time of great need ever since October 7th and going after them. And so I want to look through some of the ramifications of that. And for those who are maybe just joining us right now, we’ve been talking with Sam about this prayer breakfast, the Jerusalem prayer breakfast that was organized by Michele Bachman that Sam was at, and looking at the things that are going on in the United Nations and that are about to be voted on how they have direct impact, not just on Israel, but a very spiritual implication. And so Sam, we look at the headline news and so many times everything spiritual is just kind of ignored and people try to stir up fear and hate. But can you talk to us about what the spiritual impact of the things like what you were just discussing with the upcoming assembly votes, it seems that there’s a spiritual awakening, both good and bad, and it seems to be an awakening of evil forces against Israel. Can you maybe talk to us a little bit about that and what we might expect to see at the United Nations?
Sam Rohrer: Well, Isaac, I think, and again reflecting a little bit on the tone and the tenor of many who spoke or participated at the event referring to the Jerusalem prayer breakfast over the weekend, but it extends into the broader discussion of believers who are alert to what’s happening and a movement that we are seeing within the Jewish people themselves. And that is this, for those who understand scripture as you just referred, as we talk about, we believe, well, I don’t believe it is what is true. The word of God is all about God’s plan of redemption. First written and told in Genesis three 15 after sin came into the world and God judged the serpent and the seed of Eve and that plan of redemption where God promised redemption for a sin cursed world in sin that’s now killed people, their spiritual soul, their dead in their sins and trespasses.
Sam Rohrer: God said, I’m going to do something about that, that plan involved. Then God going to Abraham and said to Abraham through you, I am going to bless the world. And that’s the Abrahamic covenant and a people, the Jews, a nation, a Israel and a city. My city, city of God refers to it as Jerusalem and through that the world would be blessed. So even this was a part of discussion that was at the prayer breakfast. Some of this was called out. I was glad that some chose to do that because God’s purpose for Israel, for Abraham and his descendants, Isaac and Jacob, was that they would be a light to the world that they would bring the light of that would later become the gospel, but the light of redemption, that that would be a light to the gentile worlds, basically everybody other than a Jew.
Sam Rohrer: And from that the world would be blessed. That was in the coming of Jesus Christ, the Messiah at the first coming that did not, but the leadership of the Jewish nation rejected Yeshua, Jesus, and they put him to death. And the scripture tells us that then God said he set Israel aside for a moment and he prophesied through scripture number of places he would scatter them to the nations which he did in 80 70. And so the Jews were scattered to the nations and God turned to the Gentiles as we’re told in the book of Luke. And so we have been in the time of the Gentiles now where the apostle Paul became the missionary to the Gentiles and Christ said, I will build my church. So for 2000 years, Christ has been building his church, led by the Gentile world. The Israel has been set aside, but God said, I’m going to bring you back at a given point at the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled, church age being completed.
Sam Rohrer: And God did in 1948, he brought Israel back, miraculously born in a night a nation was and the people, the Jews began to be gathered. Now you’ve got a nation. And in the last just 10 years, Isaac, it’s amazing how the nations of the world, the scripture talks about the nation’s gathering Persia and Russia and Turkey and Syria and the nations around Israel gathering together and even refers to what would be the Palestinians in Hezbollah to the north and Jordan, which will be wrapped up to the east. The scripture tells us about these times that will happen God’s purposes is to put the focus back on Israel and ultimately to settle them and their land. I’m going to cut some of the short, but this is what Bible believing Christians know the Bible says. So for us as we look at these things, if we look at the news of the day and we say, wow, here’s another piece that God said would happen, here’s another piece, and God is putting pressure on increasingly Israel, the Jews and Christian people.
Sam Rohrer: So if you look now and say, well, anybody can be accused of anything right now and somebody runs to their defense, but you can persecute the Jews and increasingly you can persecute Christians and that’s not a problem. The world is turning against God’s anointed at a point when we know scripturally the global government, the time of antichrist is coming together. These are coincided. We can see it. We’re in incredibly amazing days, Isaac, and it should motivate, I think all of us who know the word to communicate and testify as much as we can wherever we can, but we’re in those days. And that sense, we could sense that in that breakfast there in New York, even the Orthodox Jews who have not yet come to faith in Christ, there were many messianic that were you. There were many that were not, but they are feeling something in their heart. I believe God is at work and we’re in an exciting, exciting time.
Isaac Crockett: Well, amen. And God obviously is at work, and this is something that you and I have talked about a lot. You’ve mentioned this many times, Dr. Craig Hartman who was on the program with me a few weeks ago from Shalom Ministries. He was talking about this, that Israel is not going anywhere anytime soon. As long as the sun is shining, God is promised to keep them a nation. But he was also saying that their greatest secret weapon, and we were talking about their military strengths and things is that they have God and God is there and his sovereignty that we see the sovereignty of God. And so this really helps us as soon as we want to be afraid, we wait, say, wait a minute, God is in control. Just real quick, we don’t have a lot of time, but we’ve had a lot of things happening last week. Many more high level targets from Hamas and then even Hezbollah were taken out this week. We had the pagers, I shouldn’t laugh, but the pagers that blew up injuring hundreds very seriously killing over a dozen people. I think 2,800 people hurt from this. What do these sort of things, these military strategic victories tell you about that God is in control and that he is helping Israel and what does it maybe give us any hints of things going on that Israel might be planning with what’s going on at the un?
Sam Rohrer: Well, I think one thing for sure, we know at this point Isaac Netanyahu, the Prime Minister is going to speak to the United Nations next week before that vote. That is, I think he’s going to come to Washington. We believe that with all doubt, Israel is going to engage Hezbollah because they know Hezbollah is going to engage them fully. I think what may have happened with this clever in some respects, use of their communication tools that are pagers in their hands to explode, and it exploded when they actually made it appear that a voice of their own commanders were speaking to them. And that’s when an exploded. I mean, it’s incredible how it happened, but now they are unnerved. The Iranians are unnerved. The Hezbollah folks are unnerved because they don’t know what they are touching, might just all of a sudden explode. But I believe from a military perspective that this may have been a part of the psychological part of the preparatory move into Lebanon. Israel knows that Hezbollah must be cleared out just as it happened in Hamas, in the Gaza. They know it’s going to be an engagement with Iran. They know though, they have learned that they cannot make any deals with the enemy because the enemy wants them destroyed utterly. So we’re going to end up in an engagement, I think, which is a part of that early stage of that
Isaac Crockett: Such interesting times, and it’s always good to know that God is in control. We’re going to wrap things up when we come back from this quick timeout. Please don’t go away. Keep the radio on this station or if you’re listening to a podcast, stay tuned. We’ll be right back to talk a little bit more about what is going. We want to wrap up with prayer and with solutions to the date, the things going on in this day and age. Welcome back to our Stand in the Gap Today program. This is Isaac Crockett. I’m talking with Sam Rohr. We’ve been asking you a lot of questions today, Sam, on this Ask Sam edition, but it all started with prayer and we talked a little bit earlier on in this program about this big prayer gathering, hundreds of people praying for Jerusalem and special time. You’ve been in Jerusalem at the Jerusalem Prayer breakfast now in New York City, outside of the United Nations headquarters just days before this very impactful vote that will be happening here a couple of days next week.
Isaac Crockett: And we know that God answers prayer and we know that before we do anything, we need to go to prayer. When Jesus was sending out his disciples and about 70 other people to go with them, he sees the harvest and he says, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers. And what they did is they prayed and then they went into action and they did things and they obeyed. We need to pray and obey. But as we look at this and we look at the power of prayer, Sam, what are some things that you see going on that we can see the direct act of God? We can see him providing his providence in these things. What are maybe some ways that we can thank the Lord in regards to what is going on in Israel right now? And then we’ll maybe look at some requests we could make unto the Lord as well.
Sam Rohrer: Isaac, I think one thing that I’m thinking of right now is that we are told to pray. So that’s why it’s a good thing when it comes to Israel. We are told to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Oftentimes that’s discussed. Well, what does that exactly mean? Well, one, it is that they end up being at peace with their enemies. It does mean that, but it also means that when we pray for Israel, the Jewish people, that they come to understand the prince of peace, the purpose for which God set them apart as a chosen people to be a light to the world through whom would come the Messiah, Yeshua, the majority of the Jewish people today are still in unbelief. As the scripture says, they still are blinded to the idea that the Messiah has come. It was interesting that even in the breakfast there were some who spoke who indicate that they are looking for the Messiah.
Sam Rohrer: Now, obviously you and I and true believers know that the Messiah, Yeshua came first as a servant, a shepherd of the sheep not to battle, not to take on the world, but that he will return as a king in the cloud. And that will be how the tribulation period ends, and it will be there after the worst time of affliction will have ever come on this entire world, the tribulation period as God judges, the God rejecting of the world, but he also disciplines and judges the unbelieving Jewish people. And the Lord says in Zach Ray that when the Israeli people, a small number, at the end of that period where the antichrist is seeking and conducting the worst holocaust in the history of this world, they will recognize the fact that Jesus was Messiah. And when they call out, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Sam Rohrer: That is a trigger. The Lord will return in glory physically to the Mount of Olives at that point, and then he will set up an earthly kingdom, the millennial kingdom. So a physical kingdom is coming, but there’s a tough road to hoe for this world and for Jewish people who do not believe as well as rejecting Gentile world. So when we pray for peace, we pray that people come to the understanding of understand that the Prince of peace, Jesus Christ, the only one who can grant peace, that that understanding comes to them now so that the time of tribulation and punishment will not come upon them. Bible says the worst time that this world has ever seen and so bad that if the Lord does not cut the day short, there wouldn’t be anyone left. It’ll be a time that will surpass anything that we can imagine.
Sam Rohrer: And we’re at those early stages where we are seeing the players in place, Israel in place, the nations that the Bible talks about in place lined up in hostility against Israel, and they move afoot, clouded in deception that is increasingly wanting to persecute and eliminate all who disagree with them. True Bible believe in Christians, Jewish people and Christ himself, but we know how it will end. But these are the days in which we are live and living in. And so we have the message of the peace, the gospel. And so we need to proclaim it and understand that these days are before us.
Isaac Crockett: And Sam, it’s so exciting when you mentioned that there were 32 countries, I think you said, represented there in New York City praying for the peace of Jerusalem. It’s exciting to me when I run into people and some of the people who are listening to our program right now who are praying for Jerusalem. I have pastor friends all over the world. I just saw on social media just this week, pastor friends in Eastern Europe and South America and Central America praying for Jerusalem and talking about things that are going on in Israel. So it’s exciting to see God’s people concerned about Israel and we need to continue to be as we get ready to close our program, and I’m hoping that we have time for you to close it in prayer. Sam, what are some concerns that we as Bible believing Christians, those with a biblical worldview, hopefully listening that we can take to heart and put on our prayer list to pray specifically for Jerusalem and for Israel ahead of this upcoming vote from the un?
Sam Rohrer: One of the things is, and we prayed for it over the weekend, and that is this, the representatives of the nations, those who will cast their vote, need to pray for them, that they understand that a vote of condemnation to Israel is a vote of condemnation and a fist in the face to God who made the covenant. Israel is not there in wanting to protect their land because they think it’s a good idea. They’re there because God covenanted that ground and that property. And frankly, Israel has never become in possession of all that God promised that he would give to them. There’s a lot to happen. This is ultimately every person who casts a vote. There is a vote not for or against Israel. It’s for or against God himself. And God says that judgment will follow for the nations that lineup the goat nations against Israel and a blessing of some type of protection of some type for the nations that agree with God and support Israel.
Sam Rohrer: So that is one prayer that we pray for because even in our own nation, so let’s think of our own nation, I don’t know what our ambassador is going to do this. Biden administration has been very hostile to Israel aggressively. So I don’t know how they will cast their vote, but there is a connection, by the way, I think God words it there with the separating these notions, Matthew 25, not talking about it, that there is in that there’s that direction of what comes to the nation. So we need to pray that they do not curse Israel because it will not go well with that nation. That is the bottom line.
Isaac Crockett: Alright, well Sam, we just have a couple moments left. Would you go ahead and close this in prayer?
Sam Rohrer: Sure, I will. Dear heavenly Father, Lord, we are thankful that you are not only in charge, your plan is fully underway. You are carrying it out. And Lord, there is no one, there is not a soul, there’s not a nation, there’s not an individual, not even an antichrist himself who will come to power at someday in this world, who can alter, can delay, or can stop your plan. So Lord, we pray for thy will to be done and manifest to all the peoples of this world. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Isaac Crockett: Amen. Amen. Well, thank you for that, Sam. Thank you for listening. I’m Isaac Crockett. On behalf of my co-host, Sam Rohr and our producer Tim Schneider and many other people behind the scenes, we thank you for listening to Stand in the Gap today, and I pray that until next time, you will stand in the gap for truth. Wherever God places you.
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