The Challenge to face the New Age

Joshua 1:8 NKJV

8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you[a] shall meditate in it day and
night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make
your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

“The only constant thing in this world is change”- Heraclitus

I. What is change?
- New age, lifestyle, how people sing and give praises to our King
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2
-What are the things we Christians should do?
Matthew 6:33
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added
to you.

II. What are the rapid changes in today’s age?

- Artificial Intelligence
a. Destruction
Q: What should believers do?
Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God. (Matthew 5:9)
b. Job Loss
c. Disappearance of truth- John 8:31-32
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My
disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
History
1. Right now, Israel has Lebanon to its north, Syria to its northeast, and Egypt to its southwest.
The state of Israel was created out of the region formerly know as Palestine. Palestine was the
Holy Land of the Bible.

It all starts back with the story of Moses. Moses rescues his people from their slavery in Egypt.
They go into the wilderness for 40 years. Moses and everyone over 20 years of age does not
make it into the Promised Land. It’s Joshua and Caleb that lead the younger generation into the
Promised Land (which is the Palestine area). This Promised Land is initially the land of Canaan. It
was inhabited by the Canaanites. Joshua leads his people into this land. They defeat and drive
out the peoples who are on the lands that God wants to give them. The Jewish people then
form a tribal confederation and form out the biblical kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Later on, the
kingdom of Judea is then formed. From this time forth, the biblical kingdoms of Israel-Judah-
Judea have been the only independent sovereign nations or states that have ever existed in
Palestine (Israel). No other groups of people have ever managed to do this after the Jewish
people were driven from this land in 70 AD.
2. After the Romans conquer Judea, Palestine then becomes a province of Rome. After the
Roman Empire falls away, the land of Palestine then falls under the Christian Byzantine Empire.
Then in 638 AD, an Arab Muslim caliph takes Palestine away from the Byzantine empire and
makes it part of an Arab Muslim empire. During this period, many of the people living in
Palestine become Arab Muslims and convert to the religion of Islam. However, Palestine still
never becomes an official state, nation, or country even under the rule of these Muslims. Then
in 1099 AD, Christian crusaders from Europe conquer the Palestine area and take it away from
the Muslims. But again, the Christian crusaders fail to make Palestine an official state or
country. They just basically used it as a military outpost. Later on, Palestine ends up in the
hands of Syria. Then from Syria, Palestine falls into the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Then after
World War 1, the British take Palestine over from the Ottoman Turks. The British then
temporarily govern Palestine under the League of Nations. Again, during all of these transitions
and takeovers, not one of these other peoples or countries ever make Palestine an official state
or country!

3. Now here is the real interesting part. Right around the 1850’s, the Jewish people started to
migrate back to Palestine in small droves. The land was basically dry, barren, desolate and
unlovely. The Jewish people that came back in started to farm and cultivate the land and
started to make it flourish and prosper again. The reason it was so desolate was because no
other countries or peoples had ever claimed Palestine for its own and thus no one ever took
proper care of this land or ever attempted to cultivate its true potential. When the land started
to flourish and prosper once again due to the farming and agricultural efforts of these Jewish
settlers, other peoples saw this and started to migrate back into this land. One group to come in
were Arabs from some of the surrounding Arab countries in the Middle East. The Palestinians
have always complained that it was the Jewish people that had dislocated them from this land.
However, it was really just the opposite. It was the Jewish people who first came back and
started to make the land flourish again due to their own farming efforts – not the Palestinians
or Arabs.

The Arabs did not start coming back until after the Jewish people had already started to migrate
back and make the land flourish. So after the Jewish people started all of this development in
the 1850’s, other peoples started to come into the land, including the Arabs. Palestine then
started to get a real mix of peoples in its land. However, it was predominately Jewish people
and Arabs that were starting to inhabit it.

Then when World War 2 started to break out in the early 30’s, more Jewish people started
coming back to Palestine. Finally, at the end of World War 2, after going through the horrors of
the holocaust, many more Jewish people from all around the world decided to migrate back to
Palestine.They thought they would have a better chance for security and independence by
going back to their ancestral roots, the land of Palestine.

However, just as Jewish people were migrating back to Palestine, so were other Arabs. Finally
on 5/14/48, the Jewish people were able to declare Israel (Palestine) an official state. Palestine
is now Israel, and the Arabs, who are now living in Israel, are called Palestinians because they
are now claiming that this land belongs to them, not to the Jewish people. Shortly after Israel
becomes an official state under Jewish rule, the Palestinians start to get support from some of
the other Arab countries. Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan all now start to side with the
displaced Palestinians and start war against Israel. The United Nations then gets involved trying
to establish peace and truces among all of these countries. During this time, many of the Arabs
in Israel are driven out of Israel and are forced to live in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, etc.
These Arabs that are driven out are the so-called Palestinians. For a while there is peace. People
start to forget about the displaced Palestinians, who are now in refugee camps and have no real
home to call their own.
4. Now here is where the real trouble starts. Seeing the plight of these dislocated Palestinians
in refugee camps in neighboring Arab countries, a group is formed called the infamous PLO,
which stands for Palestine Liberation Organization. Organized resistance against Israel actually
started to grow in the 1950’s. Other Arabs finally formed the PLO in 1964 and their goal was to
literally wipe Israel off the face of the map. They blamed the Jewish people for running the
Palestinians out of Israel and they would now wage war against them by terrorists’ acts. Yasser
Arafat became official leader of the PLO in 1969 and has been waging war against Israel ever
since! This war with Israel has now been going on for the last 42 years.

Conclusions
1. Palestinians are Arab Muslims who started to come back into the Palestine area after the
first wave of Jewish people starting coming back and causing the land to flourish back in the
1850’s.

2. Between 1850 and 1948, apparently more Jewish people came back to Palestine than actual
Arabs. As a result, the Jewish people were able to regain this land for their own, declare it an
official state in 1948, and basically drive out many of these Arabs from this land. Palestine is
now Israel. But the Arabs, who were driven out, eventually started to try and come back in the
1950’s and 60’s. They now refer to themselves as Palestinians, since that was the name of this
land before the Jewish people took it over and declared it an official state in 1948.

3. If you step back and look at the real big picture, you can see what was really going on. God
the Father told His chosen Jewish people back in the Old Testament that He would bring them
back to this land in the latter days, and that it would be their land as an everlasting possession
and that no one would ever take it away from them again.

This is why no other peoples or countries ever declared this land an official state, country, or
nation during all of these takeovers – because God Himself kept this from ever happening! He
kept this land for His people until it was time for Him to bring them back into this land. God
obviously started to release His people to start coming back into this land in the 1850’s. And it
was His people that started to farm and make this land flourish again. The Arabs that had been
living there had done nothing with this land, and none of the other surrounding Arab nations
ever saw fit to try and grab this land for themselves and declare it an official state, country, or
nation. By all reports from the early Jewish settlers back in the 1850’s, this land was basically
barren and desolate. So no sooner does God start to flourish this land again under His people’s
farming and agricultural efforts, that some of the Arabs, who had pulled out of this land in
earlier years, started coming back to it because of the success the Jewish people were having in
causing it to once more flourish and prosper.

However, God made sure between 1850 and 1948 that His people would gain complete control
of this land so they could name it as their own state on 5/14/48. With many of the radical
Muslims being under severe demonic influence, you can see why all of a sudden in the 1960’s
the PLO is formed in order to wage war and terrorist activity against Israel. There was no way
Satan was going to let this one slide by if he could help it. I believe it was Satan who made sure
the PLO was formed, and he has been influencing radical Muslims ever since to wage this war
on the Jewish people and their state of Israel. With all of the Palestinian Arabs still in the land of
Israel, you have nothing but continued fighting between these two groups of people.
Now here is the most incredible part of this saga. The Arabs in the Middle East control 99.9% of
the landmass. The landmass of the state of Israel is only one tenth of one percent of the entire
landmass in all of the Middle East.

You would think that the rest of the Arab nations would just take in the Palestinians into their
own countries and let the Jewish people have their state of Israel since it is such a small part of
the entire Middle Eastern landmass to begin with. But the Arab Muslims can’t seem to be able
to accept this easy solution. They apparently want it all. Bottom line – the Jewish people came
back first to this land in the 1850’s. The Jewish people were the ones to get this land flourishing
again, not the Muslims.

The land of Israel is Holy Land from the Bible, and it was directly given to them as an everlasting
possession by God the Father Himself. The Muslims know the history of our Old Testament and
that the Jewish people should be allowed to have this land once again due to the religious
history of this land for the Jewish people. The Muslims have the rest of the entire Middle East
under their control. They have more than enough land space to take in and accommodate these
Palestinians, and they could easily bring peace to this entire region if they would just take the
Palestinians into their own countries and let the Jewish people have their land of Israel for all of
the above biblical reasons. But for whatever reason, many of these other Arab countries seem
to want to have nothing to do with these Palestinians. Israel has also made concessions with
the Palestinians over the years trying to get them to agree on suitable distribution of land
space.

However, we know this will not happen. The Bible says that the Jewish people and their land of
Israel will be protected by God the Father until the Antichrist comes forth to start the last and
final round of persecution of the Jewish people.

What should Christians do?

- Know the truth

III. Action plan

a. Be light of the world- Matthew 5:13-16
Believers Are Salt and Light
13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is
then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
14 “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do they
light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the
house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify
your Father in heaven.
b. Lead them out of the dark John 17:15
15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them
from the evil one.