Big Converging Events – Bigger Imminent Events

Big Converging Events – Bigger Imminent Events

September 15, 2025

Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer

Guest: Ted Vanlandeghem

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 9/15/25. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

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Sam Rohrer:

Hello and welcome to this Monday edition of Stand In the Gap Today. And it’s also the beginning of what I know will be both a major headline, news week, with many looming global events occurring as well as many significant domestic US focused events on tap as well. Now in anticipation of this and as a result of what will unfold, this will be a full week of programming here on Standing The Gap today, and I trust that you will not miss a day now, dominating US news and amazingly highly followed in other nations as well, is the continued discussion and impact of the murder of Charlie Kirk. We all know that, and as I said last week on this program, there is much that is known about this event, but I’m going to say perhaps I don’t know, there’s a whole lot more, perhaps maybe that may not be known.

The narrative be aware is still being manipulated and it’s being shaped by the government storytellers, as they say, and the AI algorithms, all of these things are coming to bear. The narrative is still being shaped, yet this much is known. This event is the 911 event for the younger generation in our nation. It will impact them forever and the laws and the concept of God and freedom and the justification for larger government and more just as well. The JFK murder impacted the generation old enough to remember that event or the 911 event, which impacted the minds and the ensuing law and freedom of that generation 24 years ago and C, as it impacted the entire world and continues to, and that was just five years ago. Now, what is known is that all of these events, they contribute to shaping the hearts and the minds of the people who witnessed them and those who follow after them.

But they tend to color the individual’s worldview and they further mold one’s concept of God and truth and law and justice, and depending upon one’s worldview during these times, these things either drive the hope of mankind, the individual’s alive then and come after them, either toward a soon returning Jesus Christ or they drive them to an even greater dependence on the God of government. And I’m going to say in our day into the soon emerging antichrist. That being said, each of us in our own thinking and consideration will in part shape the next steps from this event. Yet there are many other events converging at the same time that augment this one. Then there are other, I’m going to say imminent events from God’s perspective about which those of us who truly fear the Lord must consider. So Todd, I’ve chosen to frame today’s conversation is simply this big converging events, bigger imminent events, and my guest today was to have been with me last week on Thursday, and there were some problems that came up and he was not. So I’ve invited him back again and that’s Ted Vanlandeghem. He’s director of the synagogue and church engagement of the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America. He also leads the Joseph Project International. He’s involved in the ancient Hebrew scroll project, a lot of archeological things that are involved there at the Evidence museum in Glenrose, Texas. But Ted also served for 26 years in the US Air Force and he served for a time in the White House Communications Agency during George W. Bush. And with that, Ted, welcome to the program today.

Ted Vanlandeghem:

Thanks, Sam. Thanks for having me on.

Sam Rohrer:

Yeah, you’re welcome. Ted, I know that you’ve got many thoughts about the murder of Charlie, correct. I just want to give you an opportunity just for a brief moment here, but from a specific human focus as to what actually happened and why. Here’s my question to you right now. Is there anything significant that in your studied opinion is not yet known or perhaps is contradictory as regard to what is stated as known or at least puzzling of which alert people should be aware? In other words, there’s a question that’s kind of out there. What are your thoughts on that?

Ted Vanlandeghem:

Well, Sam, several things about the assassination shooting of Charlie Kirk to me and to many others out there who have greater expertise than I have, just really seem to don’t sit right. First off, Sam, the would be assassin and Tyler Robertson is reported to have used a 30 odd six Mazda. This is an old military model rifle that a lot of people use for hunting and for experience, this just would be the choice weapon for this assassination. They’re notoriously unreliable. And the video footage shows the alleged assassin Tyler coming onto campus with a small black backpack that looked too small for the rifle to fit into it from the vantage point of the images I looked at and the backpack footage that I saw didn’t seem to have a barrel bulge, which if he had the rifle in there, there would be some sort of a bulge unless it was broken down and a rifle like this isn’t that easy to break down, but this means possibly he would’ve had it disassembled in his backpack, he would’ve had to assemble it up there on the roof, which would, I think under the stress and pressure of this event would be a challenging thing to do even for somebody who’s experienced.

And it’s possible, but it’s not likely because this isn’t a simple takedown rifle like some of the modern rifles that are out there. And depending on how you count the disassembly and reassembly steps, I count about seven steps in this process, and it’s been reported by some and believe that after taking the shot, then he again, hurriedly disassembled the rifle, placed it into the backpack before fleeing. Again, this isn’t impossible, but it’s really unlikely in my mind and raises red flag questions as to could there have been another shooter Now during his entrance and his exfil, his exit from the campus, he passed numerous cameras and a professional sniper would’ve done a site survey in advance, mapped out a route into the scene and an actual route that would’ve avoided as many of those cameras as possible. And another item that just nags at me is that there seemed to be a couple of people who acted as intentional decoys to throw off law enforcement off the trail of the shooter. Was this random or was this planned? And if it was planned, then this could be indications of a wider conspiracy and not just this lone wolf trans shooter. Now, I’m not saying that’s impossible, but it nags the question for me. It also seems from the footage being circulated then off to his right, some of his security people were positioned there doing hand gestures, but there has been some possible imagery that’s out there that might indicate a second shooter.

Sam Rohrer:

So basically, Ted, we’re out of time here on the segment. So basically as you’re saying, for those who are looking, there are a lot of questions that yet remain and the narrative that has been established is still being shaped, ladies and gentlemen, that’s the point. So be aware that much is happening, but the impact of how we view this and walk away from it is shaping people’s thoughts, their attitudes and all of that. That’s why we need to be anchored in God’s word. We come back and we’re going to move and talk about some of the imminent things that are coming.

Well, if you’re just joining us today, we’ve just begun the program. This is our second segment. Thanks for being on board with us today. Our theme and the title I’ve chosen to frame our focus today is this big converging events, bigger imminent events, and we’re going to talk about some of those imminent events. Mr. Ted Vanlandeghem, he’s the director of synagogue and church engagement for the Messianic Jewish Alliance America, in addition to a number of other things that he does, in addition to being a former military guy and having worked for a period of time in the White House Communications Agency during the GW Bush administration. Now that being the case, we’ll come back and touch probably again a little bit on what we’re talking about in the last segment, but I’m going to go now across the pond overshadowed by last week’s murder in Utah, Charlie Kirk, we just had some comments about how much is not known yet about that event, but overshadowed by that in Europe, Russia sent many drones into Poland’s airspace.

That’s a big deal and we’ll talk more about that when we get into it. But they did. They did that prompting Poland’s military to shoot down several, and then the Polish government citing a violation of Polish sovereignty and they invoked what is known as Amendment four of the NATO agreement that binds the European nations together, which we hear so much. And that amendment demanded an emergency meeting of NATO members to address the incursion. Now, this is what we often hear. Invoking Amendment five of the NATO agreement would’ve triggered a declaration of war by all NATO members against Russia for the violation of sovereignty of one of the NATO participants. Okay, so that’s the difference. So what they declared was amendment four in a mandatory meeting where members came together to discuss and then to choose how to respond. So it’s kind of like a first step into a bigger step perhaps.

But since that time, the escalation or rhetoric of war and what to do about it has increased between NATO members and Russia and among European members of NATO with Donald Trump playing a, I’m going to say a confusing role at times causing many to say at least some to say that our president is quietly trying to bring about the destruction of NATO while at the same time still threatening Russia and threatening European nations themselves if they buy Russian oil. Alright, so there’s a lot of pieces in that. Ted, from your perspective, I think this is a key question. Are we witnessing an imminent engagement of Russia with NATO? Are we witnessing the rise of NATO or a collapse of NATO as some are suggesting that our president is even quietly orchestrating that. So what’s happening a real incursion by Russia and will we see a rise of NATO or we see this whole thing causing a deterioration in a collapse of NATO?

Ted Vanlandeghem:

Well, Sam, I think we’re witnessing the real possibility of an engagement between Russia and its alliance, which includes China, Iran, and North Korea against NATO. So when I think about this possible engagement, I don’t see it simply just as Russia and Sam. I believe that President Trump has recognized the extreme weakness of the NATO alliance that has made, and he’s made emergency moves to try and get them to take their own self-defense seriously, as we know, for far too long, NATO has basically depended upon the US military to be its primary security guarantor. Trump knows that the US can no longer unilaterally shoulder this burden for Europe as we ourselves are in danger here in the US of a complete financial collapse with a national debt nearing $38 trillion. Sam, the militaries of the NATO alliance are not only shockingly weak, but many of these leading member states of the NATO alliance are also in danger of a financial collapse themselves.

Britain, France, Germany, Spain, all of these countries have serious economic instability that would stymie their ability to wage a war or to engage with Russia and its alliance in a World War III scenario. Additionally, these nations have the Trojan horse of massive Islamic migrant populations that are now a huge part of these countries demographic. And in many European countries the top name for newborns is Muhammad. There is a major groundswell in these countries all across Europe against this Islamic migrant tsunami. Great Britain is possibly on the verge of a civil war over this issue, France and Spain, they’re not very far behind Turkey. The second largest military in NATO is showing signs of moving away from Europe and NATO and closer to the BRICS Alliance of China, Russia and Iran. Finally, Sam, the Western European NATO powers are completely dependent upon Russian oil and gas. This is a grave national security threat for Europe and Trump knows it most in the west here are just living under this illusion of an undefeatable NATO.

Sam Rohrer:

So all right, let me just come back and ask in simple terms. So you are saying that it would be logical to conclude that there is some type of an imminent engagement militarily with Russia and the European countries, but it won’t be just with Russia. You would envision it with the alliance that now includes Iran and Russia and far as that goes, North Korea and those nations and perhaps even the bricks nations to some degree, maybe not militarily, but economically, is that what you’re saying?

Ted Vanlandeghem:

Absolutely. I think the threat and the possibility of imminent conflict has never been higher and contrary, popular understanding the NATO alliance is really unprepared for this, not just militarily with equipment and training and logistics, supply lines for munitions and equipment and resupply, but also economic stability and stability of their own demographic within the borders of their countries. There’s incredible instability in the NATO alliance countries.

Sam Rohrer:

Alright, so that being the case, let me follow up with this question here then is that if the president is saying to European nations, which you say are already weaker and we know that they don’t have any military, they don’t have people, even though a lot of them are beginning to draft again and all that kind of thing, they’re not there now. So Russia knows that Russia also knows that they’re using Russian oil and even if they were to say no to Russian oil with the president saying, we want to supply you from the United States, how could that be done and how could that be done right away? Seems to me Russia, if they would want to actually militarily engage NATO, they could just turn off the oil.

Ted Vanlandeghem:

Well, absolutely, Sam. I mean they have the energy advantage. The only wild card in that as far as natural gas goes is Israel’s offshore, massive offshore deposits and they have gone to production and begun to provide certain European countries with natural gas that could be expanded. Obviously you’d have to work around Turkey in order to do that, but bringing oil and gas from the United States would be cumbersome and expensive for Europe and could be easily disrupted. And there’s other factors too. Russia has been in a regular warfare cutting data cables, communications, command and control for a number of European countries. And so Europe is really over a barrel.

Sam Rohrer:

All right, so we can’t resolve that today, Ted, but you’re saying what’s happening is worth watching and it is in process. Alright, so ladies and gentlemen, that’s that. Now, Ted, last couple of minutes left. I want to ask you this, looking at this overall picture and in this segment I’m determining imminent war or rumors of war, at least other hotspot around the world that you’re watching where full fledged war could break out. Name those that you’re watching and why, just briefly.

Ted Vanlandeghem:

Sure. As it stands right now, I’m still very much watching Ukraine. That war in Ukraine not only persists but has intensified and the Russians are gaining ground daily in the war of attrition. In addition to that, we saw an unprecedented Russian drone form across Polish airspace. As you mentioned earlier, in contrary to the narrative in mainstream media, Russia seems to be on the offensive, not on its back leg. There’s an increase in the presence of North Korean soldiers in the Ukraine battlefields and reports of Chinese military advisors. Even more dangerous in my mind is a solidifying alliance between Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. We saw India’s prime Minister Mohdi embrace warmly by China Xi and Russia’s Putin at the Chinese military parade. And this is a huge strategic fail in my mind. Sam, we’re seeing Turkey move closer to the Russian bricks alliance. We’re seeing the hoot pursuing chemical warheads for their hypersonic missiles in Egypt is talking about the possibility of war with Israel and there could be war in the Caribbean over Venezuela’s moves against Guyana and its major oil deposit there offshore.

Sam Rohrer:

Alright ladies and gentlemen. So there’s just a few. All right, Ted, you put them on the table and ladies and gentlemen, what Ted just mentioned there, all of those different locations, they’ve been brewing for a long time. They’re not new other than Venezuela would be the newest one perhaps, but all of these things are all connected and the point of just laying this out here is that this pot has been brewing and now I’m just thinking of like a cooking demonstration. When you put things on a stove, you turn up the heat, ultimately it continues to build and build until it finally goes to boil and then the steam will do its action, right? A lot of that is happening and to some degree, and we’re going to go to what the scripture says about other things that are happening Middle East, but these are wars and rumors of wars right now and they are increasing. That’s the boiling of the pot. And Jesus said though it will happen, but don’t be perplexed. Okay? That’s where we’ll leave that for right now. When we come back, we’re going to talk about fall feasts. They’re coming up, first one’s coming up next week, Rosh Hashanah.

All right, if you’re just joining us, we’re midway today. The theme is big converging events, bigger imminent events, and the last segment we talked about the imminent events and it builds off of what the Lord said would happen in these days and that would be we would hear of increasing wars and rumors of wars and we went through basically where the hotspots are today and new ones may develop tomorrow. That’s just the way it is. So not to be perplexed now, that’s the takeaway, but let’s go to this another imminent event. And this one is truly imminent as there are biblically identified spring feast. We’ve talked about the feast of the Lord, they’re called in the old Ted Leviticus, talks about and lays them all out, multiple other programs that we’ve done with other guests. And my guest today, Ted Legum, but we’ve done a focus on that.

But I want to bring this into focus here today to get Ted’s view as there are biblically identified spring feasts of the Lord are called, but their spring feast observed in the spring of every year, which is kept by Israel and the religiously observant Jews, which we now know clearly were indicators, or by definition there are dress rehearsals for key components of Yeshua’s first coming, that is the spring feasts were tied to Christ first coming, we know that now. But so are there also fall feasts which are also dress rehearsals for Christ. Second coming Now the first of the fall feast is Rosh Hashanah or the Feast of Trumpets, and it’s coming up in just a week from now. Many are saying, and if you’re looking at things, you’ll find it out there. Many are saying that this event could be the time period, not the day, not the hour, but could be the time period perhaps of the rapture of the church, which we know could appear and be today as well. And that is what has been imminent that the rapture. But Ted, as a messianic Jewish believer, can you identify first of all the fall feast, identify them by name and when they are and what they signify to the Jewish people. And then I’ll come back and we’ll focus on Rosh Hashanah.

Ted Vanlandeghem:

Sure. Sam Rosh Hashanah, as you mentioned, is the first of the fall feast meaning head of the year literally, but it’s actually in the Bible called Yom Terrois, the Feast of Trumpets. This is regarded as the Jewish New Year by the Jewish people today in Israel. But the actual biblical new year is in the spring, 14 days before Passover on the first of Nissan and Osh Hashanah happens to fall on the first day of Hebrew month re or the seventh Hebrew month. Now Rosh Hashanah begins a 10 day period, Sam known by the Jewish people as or the days of all the 10 days of all culminate on Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement, which is known as the highest or the holiest day on the biblical calendar when national atonement would be made for Israel. And then five days after that, Sam comes the third and the final fall feast or feast of the Lord called Sukkot or the Feast of Tabernacles or some call it the Feast of Booth. And these are the three fall feasts that are really a picture of Christ return, the fulfillment of the beginning and the end of the seven year tribulation period.

Sam Rohrer:

Alright, now that being established, there’s four spring feasts. There are these three fall feasts, feast of trumpets coming up here next week, September 22nd, third for 10 days you say. And then following that is Jean Kippur, and then after that saka, so there’s three that are occurring. So let’s focus in here now on rash Hasani. You’ve already said it’s the first of the civil year and let’s go from here. Could it represent the time period for when the rapture will occur or is there a significance for it for some other event related to Christ second coming? And put it in there also as you’re answering that specific question, which is more for the attention I suppose, of God-fearing people who are looking for the return of Christ. That is one part. The other is from a Jewish perspective, as they celebrate that this year, what are they actually thinking when they go into that? So break those two out if you don’t mind.

Ted Vanlandeghem:

Yeah. Well Sam Rosh Hashanah in all three of the small feasts really are tied, especially Rosh Hashanah we believe is tied to Christ coming for the church, the gathering of his bride at the beginning of tribulation. But it also is all of these fall fe are really tied to the end of tribulation when Christ comes and judges the antichrist and the nations gathered against Israel. So Rosh Hashanah and TRO represents a number of things. Prophetically number one, it’s like occurs at the darkest point of the month, which is likened to the darkest point in history the day of the Lord at the end of the age. And there was a Hebrew idiom or saying regarding this holiday during the time of Jesus that no man knows the day or the hour. Could this be an allusion to Christ returns for the church? Now, although biblically it wasn’t the new year in the time of the Bible today, this holiday that occurs in the first day of the seventh month is regarded as a civil New year.

And in a sense, Sam, this is a prophetic picture of the new beginning or the beginning of the seventh millennium or the millennial reign of Christ. The seventh millennium is regarded by the Jewish people as the Shabbat or the Sabbath millennium, the millennium of rest. Another key thing about Yom Terrois as Rosh Hashanah is called in the Bible terrois. And Hebrew means two things. It means a shout and it means a trumpet blast. And we know from the New Testament that one of the things that Harold’s Christ’s coming is a shout and a trumpet bless when he comes for his bride. And in Hebrew that word is terro in terro. And as I said earlier, this begins, ya mean Noreen, the days of all which is really a picture of the judgment of the nations of the earth that gather against Jerusalem and Israel. The Jewish people believe that during this time that the book of life or the scroll of life is opened in heaven and Sam, the Jewish people during this period, we actually greet one another with a phrase kote or an abbreviated version, SHA toba, which means may you be inscribed in the book of life.

That’s how we greet one another. But it’s also a picture of the future national atonement of the remnant of Israel that survives the tribulation. Zacharia the prophet tells us of a future time. In the end days when Israel will see the one whom may pierce and weep and mourn bitterly for him. We believe that this is the national recognition of Yeshua by the remnant of Israel that survives the tribulation. Sam, during this holiday we have a tradition called Tali too where we go out to a body of water and we cast our bread upon the waters in a river or the ocean symbolizing our sin being carried away as far as the east is from the west, this is where you get the saying or the phrase, cast your bread upon the waters. And when we do this prophetic act of casting away bread that represents our sin into mind time or living waters, and we read the passage from Micah seven verses 18 and 19 alive, that who is like you, oh God, who bears iniquity and ignores transgression for the remnant of his chosen people.

He does not retain his anger forever for he desires to be benevolent. He will again show compassion and will subdue our sins and cast all of our transgressions into the depths of the sea. So Sam, in closing, if you look at the life and the history of the Jewish people, the people of Israel over and over, you will see in the history books that God has moved powerfully and prophetically in the life of the Jewish people and in Israel on this day, all those events are just a precursor of the crumbing grand finale of history that is directly tied to these prophetic fall feast that is the coming of Yeshua. Jesus Christ.

Sam Rohrer:

That’s a great overview, Ted. It really is because of what’s happening in Israel today, particularly since October 7th, and the fact that they are as a nation’s perspective, not as Jewish people, but as a nation of Israel. Israel is at war, they’re at war with their neighbors. There is pressure being brought against the nation of Israel by the United Nations and they are clearly all the world is able to see that there is a running away from Israel, they’re becoming a pariah. And we know the antichrist is behind that without a doubt. But from the standpoint of those who are living in Israel and Jewish people generally, are they perceiving that shift as it’s happening right now and are they perhaps looking at this event, this first of the fall feast maybe differently this year because of all of those things?

Ted Vanlandeghem:

Well that that’s a big question. What I would say is within Israel, there’s a messianic expectancy in Israel like there hasn’t been since Jesus Christ came the first time. That’s number one. In the last 10 years we’ve seen a huge surge in Jewish people coming to know the Lord worldwide. But I would also say in tandem with that in Israel there’s this weariness from war, there’s a desperation, there is a sense of hopelessness among some Israelis. Like this cycle is never going to come to an end. And then another segment of Israel’s population sees this as her moment to make its move to guarantee her security and to fully take ownership of all of the land of promise

Sam Rohrer:

That is significant because within that, the weariness that is taking place, the weariness of war, also the desires to recognize we are not going to accept some Palestinian state. There are the boundaries that God promised. So you’ve got that part, as you’re saying, want to claim that you see a lot of action in there. I would also suspect, and we’re about out of time ladies and gentlemen as well, and we’ll go further into Israel when we come back in next segment, that the desire for peace is also increasing. Well, that’s also a thought as it sets us up for well the beginning of a tribulation period because somebody is going to come and he’s going to promise seven years of peace. Right? Alright, A lot of things coming together should be noted and not forgotten. We’ll be back and we’ll continue talking specifically now about Israel and what’s actually happening with them and with their neighbors.

Well, as we enter into our final segment now, I hope that you’ve been informed our prayer and our hope in all of the programs that we do here on Stand in the Gap today is to be objective in what we select as headline news. There are so many headline news out there that just as we talk about so often more often than not intended to overwhelm people, it’s not possible to stay up to date on all that is happening. And in reality, most of what’s out there is not worthy of staying up to date about and shouldn’t even be considered. Particularly as we are engaging all of us and all of you who are on any kind of digital media know that the presence of artificial intelligence now is just absolutely loading up and directing messages. Most of them not wanted from all sectors. And because they know what you want and are able to respond in real time, are putting together additional pieces of information to direct to each person who’s on that media to shape their world of view.

And we’ve talked about it in other programs with experts. I just put it out there. So selecting what we put here is something for which I ask you to pray for us, and then the connecting of biblical principles in the selection of guests that we’ve had, which we have some of the most reliable and expert guests, even with my guest today here, Ted Vanden Legum on the things of which we talk about. So all of that, that’s just something for which I ask you to pray. Wisdom for us, discernment for us, so pray. And then of course all of this requires the fuel to keep it going. That’s financial. Your participation financially is so very, very, very important. And thank you so much for those of you who are consistent and have helped and for many who have never done anything, please go before the Lord to see if perhaps you can be a part of that this week.

Alright, now, Ted, let’s get back into it. There are many events staying there in Israel, but there are events going on in Israel around Israel, threats to Israel as we speak, and frankly threats from Israel to other nations around her. It’s really a boiling pot there. Speak first to what you see happening in Israel regarding her military actions. We’ll go to the temple mountain a little bit, but her military actions, for instance in the West Bank, there’s been statement about that. What’s happening in Gaza, I heard yesterday were 500 different military sorties into Gaza, Gaza City particular. So there are major offensive actions there. What’s happening?

Ted Vanlandeghem:

Sure. Sam, Sam, since the surprise tax on the Israel took place on October 7th, 2023, where Israel was caught by surprise, like it was during the Yom Kippur war of 1973. There’s been a tremendous shift in Israel’s resolve regarding her neighboring threats and the idea of a Palestinian state altogether. Sam, since there’s attacks, we’ve seen a tremendous shift throughout the Middle East because of this systematically, Israel has been dealing with its bordering threats one by one. Hamas and Gaza have all been but obliterated. And keep in mind too, that Israel’s unilateral pullout of Gaza in 2005 as a unilateral gesture of peace for which Israel only received hundreds of thousands of rockets. Mortars and missiles into her territory is kind of the foundation of this current conflict that’s going on right now. But Hezbollah and Lebanon has been obliterated. Syria, Bashar Alad was overthrown in the entire Syrian military infrastructure has been completely obliterated.

Israel has decimated the PS terrorist army in the West Bank. Our s military and nuclear program has been decimated. The Houthis and Yemen have been greatly degraded, and Hamas leadership, even in Qatar has been struck in that far off Arab country. What’s left around them? Egypt, Jordan, are they next? Sam Israel’s moving towards complete sovereignty upon the Temple Mount West Bank, which is Judea, Samaria, and much of the Gaza Strip. This is tectonic Israel. If Israel makes a major move on the Temple Mount, which could be the case, will this draw Egypt and Jordan and other arid nations into direct conflict with Israel? That remains to be seen. Could Israel also destroy Damascus? And the Alani government there, Sam, one by one. All of Israel’s enemies are being decimated and degraded one by one.

Sam Rohrer:

And Ted, I listened to what you’re saying there, and I pick up on a comment you made in the last segment. We’re talking about the fall feasts and that is this. On one hand, there are those within Israel who just said, we’re tired. We’re not going to make any deals with our enemies anymore, like in the Gaza because it never works out. Iran continues to say, or they want us destroyed completely. And so we’re just tired of that. The other motivation they talked about would come from the religious, probably more Orthodox that would say, you know what, we’re at that point where if we’re going to be a nation and remain a nation, we’ve got to go back to God’s promise to Abraham about the boundaries, which Israel has never really had frankly. And so we’re going to go beyond our limited borders of Israel now and think in terms of the promises of the boundaries geographically that God has given us. Are those the two leading motivators you think, that are driving what’s happening in Israel now?

Ted Vanlandeghem:

I think so. There’s been a demographic shift within Israel. The Orthodox community has grown in its influence in the population and in tandem with it has been this growing notion that we can’t have a hostile Palestinian neighbor. And it’s time for Israel to assert its sovereignty over its biblical heartland, Judean Samaria over the Temple Mount, and even over Gaza. All of this, which is a part of God’s promise, title deed to Israel.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay, so let’s leave that there. We only have about two minutes left. Don’t have much time to talk about it. You talked about the Temple Mount. I mentioned it. There are some that are saying that I actually heard in the Arab interview where the question came up. They’re following, they know about the red heifers. They know about Israel’s Orthodox community, particularly wanting to have a temple rebuild and all of that. And the question was asked, well, Israel right now is operating almost so independently. What if they were to do something on the Temple Mount? Would there be any Arab nation really resistant in the cleric? The Muslim cleric actually said, I don’t think so. Well anyways, what is happening on the Temple Mount?

Ted Vanlandeghem:

Well, I saw that video too. Sam and the Muslim cleric is powerfully and prophetically stating a reality that many of us who watch over Israel see her border enemy. And threats in the entire Iranian proxy network has been obliterated. Israel has this sense of renewed sense of security and destiny. They’re emboldened to fulfill her destiny to reclaim all the promised land, especially the temple mount. Simultaneously, the degradation of Israel’s bordering threats is a full force move towards a third temple. Sam Israel has brought back the return of the Sanhedrin or the return of the biblical heart, the return of the coine or the priesthood in the identifying and training of these priests in mitzvah year ago, the return of the temple artifacts and treasures and tools needed for temple service, the return of the altar, the return of the red heifer, the return of the priestly garments, the return of a Cohen Haga high priest, the return of the die needed for the high priestly garments, the return of the crimson red dye for the third temple, the return of the biblical holidays, and acting them out and doing dry runs for a third temple.

Even the return of Jewish prayer upon the Temple Mount and this return of Messianic expectancy just to name a few prophetic indicators.

Sam Rohrer:

Wow. We’re going to have to go back and pick up on some of those things you’re talking about, Ted, but thank you so much for being with me today. We’re out of time, ladies and gentlemen. That was Ted. His website is mjaa.org. Messianic Jewish Alliance of America, MJAA. Listen to this program again, hopefully it was encouraging. I’m encouraged and wow, all of those who fear God, yeah, look around, see what’s happening in our country, but then look around and see what’s happening in Israel.