Hebrew Voices #115 – Live from Quarantine #1

In this episode of Hebrew Voices, Live from Quarantine #1, Nehemia Gordon speaks with Keith Johnson about the challenges Keith encountered in Israel when the pandemic broke out, what it was like praying on the Temple Mount when no one else was there, and look at some Bible passages to put everything that’s going on into perspective. Petra wrote: “This was such a blessing! Thanks so much for sharing your hearts!... My family and I are determined to be prayerful, careful and will stay strong in heart. Blessings from Maine!”

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Hebrew Voices #115 – Live from Quarantine #1

You are listening to Hebrew Voices with Nehemia Gordon. Thank you for supporting Nehemia Gordon's Makor Hebrew Foundation. Learn more at NehemiasWall.com.

Keith: I’m in quarantine right now, for two weeks, and it’s eerie to have people being told to leave a country and have airlines not give you the ability to get on that airplane. And to wonder what’s going to happen when you land, and all of those things, our whole group went through that all over the world. We’re all at home now, and guess what we realized in one week?

Nehemia: What’s that?

Keith: That we’ve come back to a different country than where we left.

Nehemia: So guys. We’ve come together today, it’s March 20th, 2020. I’m in Dallas, Texas. Keith is coming to you from Charlotte, North Carolina. And it’s a little bit after 5 PM in Dallas here, 6 PM in Charlotte. And we’ve come to you on this… from quarantine. Keith, you’re literally in quarantine, right? Can you tell the people why you’re in quarantine, how did you get there?

Keith: Obviously, there’s been a lot that’s happened in a short period of time. A week ago… for those that don’t know, we took a tour to Israel, 40 people, the BFA International Tour. And before we left, I think maybe the numbers in the United States were… I don’t know, I could probably find out specifically. But over in Israel they were already ahead of the game of starting to prepare for what we’re going to talk about here, today.

But the biggest thing that happened was, while we were there things shifted and changed really quickly. I’m not going to go into all the details. I can just tell you, if you ask me why we’re quarantined, when I landed in the United States, they came on the loudspeaker and they said, “Listen. Because of where you’re coming from, we are not only suggesting,” they just made it like it was a fact. “We’re going to ask that you all quarantine for 14 days,” and people had to fill out forms and all sorts of things. And it was kind of weird.

But I want to tell you one thing, Nehemia, just for folks that are listening. One thing that’s interesting, do you know how when you land in Israel, and when people land, they clap? This is the first time that’s ever happened. When we landed in the United States, people clapped like they were landing in Israel. I mean, people were trying to get out of the country, and they were being told to be out the country. So long story short, we are doing quarantine in our house, and Andrea and I are doing social distancing to make sure, during this period of time, that we respect the process and whatever is happening.

So we’re doing everything we can do here, and hopefully, it will suggest that other people take it seriously too, and do the same thing.

Nehemia: So tell us who was over in Israel, because I wasn’t there with you. You were there with like 40 people.

Keith: Yeah, and I could just tell you this. We had the most amazing group of people. We had 39 up until you called. You called and said to me, “Keith, you’re in Israel, yes? Do you realize the borders are being closed?” I was like, “What are you talking about?” We had one guy who had missed his flight and needed to get there. He had to get a new ticket, and he went through Istanbul. And as he was in Istanbul, Israel said, “That’s it. We’re shutting the border to non-Israeli citizens.” And so we thought we were going to be 39 and not 40. But when he landed in Israel, they asked him who he was with, and what he was doing. And he said the guy just liked him and opened the door. So while the borders were closed the open door happened, and we ended up having 40 people in Israel for an amazing, very tense, very difficult, probably the most logistically challenging trip I’ve ever been on, for that week that we were in Israel, because every day, something was either happening in the United States that affected us, or happening in Israel that affected us.

Nehemia: But Keith, tell us what did you do during this week in Israel? Was this your typical tour, where you were traveling to the…

Keith: No, it was an invitation-only tour.

Nehemia: …the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and the Church of the Beatitudes. Where did you go, what did you do?

Keith: We didn’t do that. It was an invitation-only tour, for people that are, we call them the ambassadors of BFA. And like I said, the response was amazing. We had 40 people that said yes, they’ll meet. And this was a year ago that we planned it. And I’ve got to tell you something interesting, and I said this to…

Nehemia: It’s time you got there, Keith.

Keith: Yeah. No, here’s what’s funny, and not funny, is that there were a number of things that happened before this COVID-19 thing, that would have made people pretty nervous about Israel. One, there was a situation with Tehran and the United States. And as you know, being from that area over there, if Tehran gets upset, one of the first things they think is, “We want to attack Israel.” But missiles, they thought were going to be flying. So then, the second question was, Trump came out with what he called The Deal of the Century. And immediately, there was a discussion of the third intifada because of that.

I don’t know if you heard that happening, but there were a lot of people that were saying, “Listen, we’re going to do a third intifada.” So I thought for sure, when January 1st came that the people that were planning to be on the trip, they could opt out before January 1st. And on January 1st, I called Karen, our BFA administrator, and I said, “Okay, tell me now, are they still coming?” And not one person dropped out.

Nehemia: Wow, that’s amazing.

Keith: Then, here’s what happens. China lets us know about a month-and-a-half, maybe some people say two months late, there’s COVID-19 that’s taking place. And most people were like, “Yeah, that’s in China.” And that went for most of January. Now, for Andrea and I it was very close to home because we have a son who is in China and is still China at this very moment. And so as all that was going on - and you understand, Nehemia, having lived there, it’s a very… how would I say that? A fluid situation. Anything can change at any day that can affect the entire country.

So we had heard from a number of people that this was going to be bad, and so we called Andrew, and said, “Hey, Andrew. Listen, we’ve got a flight for you. We want you to come home,” and Andrew was on the phone with us saying, “I appreciate that offer, but I’m going to stay here.”

Nehemia: Oh, so he’s still in Shanghai?

Keith: He’s there right now.

Nehemia: Wow, okay.

Keith: The point is that as things were changing in the United States and in China - especially in China - we still weren’t thinking, I wasn’t thinking too much about Israel, until they got their first case. Now, this is very interesting, Nehemia. Do you remember when they got their first case of COVID-19?

Nehemia: I can’t say I remember, no. I know there was a student at Bar Ilan University who got…

Keith: Exactly. It was the Sunday before we left the next Sunday. So one week, one, and then they did this really radical thing. They had a group of tourists from South Korea that they believed had been in the situation where someone had the virus. So when a plane landed from South Korea, Israel took off the Israeli citizens and turned the plane around. That began a daily process of - like I say - difficulty. But we had an amazing tour, and we’ll talk a little bit more as we go on here, today.

Nehemia: I actually want to launch this, start off strong here, sharing with people what happened on the Temple Mount, because that’s absolutely historic.

Keith: Okay, I’ll tell you what.

Nehemia: You were part of it. You have exclusive video that we’re going to share here in a few minutes.

Keith: Okay, here’s what we’ll do. I’ll tell you what we’ll do. Can we do this, Nehemia? I mean, the folks are here. Can we just take a moment and pray?

Nehemia: Absolutely.

Keith: Before we get started? And let’s just see what the Father does. Do you want to pray?

Nehemia: I’m going to let you lead.

Keith: Okay, I’ll pray. I’ll tell you what, I’ll start off and then, you know, you get moved by the Spirit, you can pray.

Father, thank you so much for this time, this opportunity. I want to thank You for the technology that allows us to connect people through this very difficult process of being distant from one another. This is happening all over the world, and yet, technology allows us to be able to speak to these people. Many of them are by themselves, and some of them are with family. We just ask that Your Spirit is not contained, that it is not quarantined, that Your Spirit is not unavailable but is readily available to those of us who are calling upon You. I pray for peace. I pray for your perspective. I pray that You would use this time to encourage someone to trust You just a little bit more.

Thank you in advance for what You will do. And in the midst of all of this, Father, we are trusting You, and we’re asking for Your intervention. For those that are weak, we ask for strength. For those that are sick, we ask for healing. For those that are anxious, we ask that You will give them peace. And Father, especially we thank You that You are here with us now, and we invite Your Spirit in Your name, Yehovah, amen.

Nehemia: Amen. You talked here that it’s the opportunity for people to come closer, Yehovah, and get to experience some of His protection. And you know, there’s this old saying, “There are no atheists in the foxhole.” You know, it’s back from World War I when you had these intellectuals who went onto the Western Front, and left and right, people were dying around them. I think there’s a lot of people who are going to get - no pun intended here, guys - but a rude awakening and realize… we think we’re on top of everything, with technology, and we’re too advanced, and too intellectual to believe in God anymore. There are people out there who have that attitude. I think they’re going to be reminded that we’re just all one second away from death. I mean, we’re only here by the grace of Yehovah.

Keith: Amen. I know you want to share this video, and I know the folks there are listening. I will say this. I have to give you a lot of credit, Nehemia. This is less than 24 hours that you’ve found this technology to be able to do this. And now you’re on YouTube…

Nehemia: Can I tell the people the story?

Keith: Please, I want you to tell the story. That will help me kind of…

Nehemia: Prime Minister Netanyahu gave this speech, and I called you up and we did this…

Keith: When did he give this speech?

Nehemia: Last night. He gave a speech like, I don’t know what time it was, and we did this quick video and we had a reaction to it. In this, we said how we’re going to do this program here, we’re going to do this live broadcast. So we got off from doing that little 10-minute clip we did, and I opened up the program and realized, I don’t even know how to do it.

And it turns out, you have to buy a package. It’s not that straightforward as I thought it was. One guy asked here before you came on, Keith, he said, “Will this cut off after 40 minutes?” Because on the free version, it cuts off after 40 minutes. And on top of that, there’s all kinds of things you can’t do in the free version. So you know, guys if you feel so led, we’ve got Makor Hebrew Foundation on my end, and BFA International on Keith’s end. We’re stepping out here to try to bring this message to you.

So if you want to support my ministry, nehemiaswall.com and Keith, what’s your website where they can support your ministry?

Keith: Bfainternational.com. Bfainternational.com.

Nehemia: Okay, so you had something unique in history happen.

Keith: Yes.

Nehemia: And I want you to share it, because this is in the annals of history now.

Keith: It really is. It really is interesting.

Nehemia: It really is incredible.

Keith: We had a group of people that did not do any of the regular touring things. I don’t really like that anyway, but the things that we did were all very specific, and I don’t want to bore you with all of it. But the whole point of it was to end our time in Jerusalem, and to end the tour Sunday morning on the Temple Mount.

So we were ascending, you know? We were at the Horns of Hattin, had a wonderful time there. We were in the Galilee and we went down to Jericho, and we get to the Dead Sea. We made our way up to Jerusalem, had an amazing meeting on the southern side of the Temple Mount with Rabbi Yehuda Glick, who met with our group. We’ve got video from that. There are so many things that we’ll be able to share over time.

So we had all of this information that was going on. We went down under the ground, in the Western Wall. I took them over to the spot where you and I first met and discussed an important question that I asked you about the Name. All this was happening with the culmination being, we’re going to ascend the Temple Mount on Sunday morning.

And then, as we were preparing for that, Saturday night we got this notice. Can I read the notice?

Nehemia: Please read it, yeah.

Keith: “From the office of Senior Deputy Director, General Tourism Experience and Administration, below are the new directives according to the Ministry of Health in dealing with the coronavirus outbreak.” Now, this is at the hotel, folks. So we get this at the hotel and it says, “As of 6 AM tomorrow morning…” that means it’s going to be Sunday morning, “visitors still in Israel will not be allowed to continue with their plan to visit the sites.” What do you mean? It’s the culmination, are you kidding me?

Nehemia: Somebody say, “uh-oh”.

Keith: Somebody say, “uh-oh”, right? So they say, “First of all…”

Nehemia: Wait, so you’ve been planning this for a year.

Keith: We’re planning it for a year.

Nehemia: For Sunday morning. And Saturday night you’re told, “Hey, guys. There are no more visits.”

Keith: And guess what? What also happened is, we got a notice from the United States, the President of the United States declared Sunday as a National Day of Prayer. And what he said was, “Pray wherever you are.” So we’re like, “Okay, we’re ambassadors of the United States. We need to go and pray.” And so they sent us a note saying…

Nehemia: You know how beautiful that is, “pray wherever you are?” This reminds me of the speech that King Solomon, he’s on his knees with his hands in the air, and he prays this beautiful prayer, it’s in 1 Kings chapter 8. And one of the things he talks about there, he says, “And the foreigner who is the far-off land…” I’m paraphrasing here, “will turn to this place and pray to You…”

Keith: This is what we were going to do. We were going to go to this place and we were going to pray according to what Solomon had done. But the Israel authorities say, “As of tomorrow, your visits are cancelled.” Second thing, “Visitors are requested to stay in their hotel and plan their departure from Israel as soon as possible.” In other words, “Get out.” And now, this is…

Nehemia: Wait, this is the final day of your tour?

Keith: Yes.

Nehemia: Oh, my gosh. Wow.

Keith: So first thing is, don’t do your sites. Second thing, stay in your hotel, unless you’re on your way to the airport. Third thing, “As regarding your activity in the hotel, tomorrow an update will be broadcast. Presently, we ask hotels to continue operating according to the new regulations. This means no more than 10 people in one area and maintaining a designated distance of two meters.” So I go down to dinner, or whenever it was, the tour is all split up. They’re staggered at tables, and I wanted to go sit with the people. And the guy said, “Sorry. We already have 10. You go to that table, by yourself.”

Nehemia: You were lunching by yourself.

Keith: So I’m thinking, “Something’s going on here.” Now, the interesting thing is this. Back to Sunday morning. So we had talked, as a group, about what was going to happen. As you know, Nehemia, you’ve been on the Temple Mount. It can sometimes get very tense up there. Correct?

Nehemia: Absolutely

Keith: I mean, it can get very tense. And so we had talked about all the things, religious issues, etc., and one thing that always happens at the Temple Mount is, there’s a long line. So we say, “We’re going to be there at 7:30 so that we can be there right when the Temple Mount opens at 9:00.” So we were expecting to be there from 7:30…

Nehemia: An hour-and-a-half early. Wow.

Keith: Always, this is what we do. Here’s what happens. We come through the Dung Gate, to wait in line, and there’s no line. When we get to the front, the Israeli people there, the police that are in charge, there’s literally no one in line, and they say, “Okay, come.” And they stop us at 10, and I don’t understand what they’re doing. So they’re saying, “10 can go. 10 can go,” and I’m like, “Well, that doesn’t work for us.” So I wait for the other 10. We get everybody together. We get up to the Temple Mount, and here’s when everything changed.

For the first time ever, I didn’t see the people that are usually there, that are putting their eye on you, and following you around, and walkie-talkies. Come to find out that the Al Aqsa Mosque was closed. The Dome of the Rock was closed. There’s nobody there.

Nehemia: Wow. So let me put this in perspective for people. So, Israel liberated the Temple Mount in 1967, but then turned the administration of the Temple Mount over to the Waqf. The Waqf is the Muslim equivalent of, let’s say, the Vatican. That is, it’s the religious authority of the Muslims with their religious leaders, and they administer the day-to-day goings on inside the Temple Mount. To get in, you have to go with the Israeli police who surround you, so you’ll be surrounded in a cordon of Israeli police. And right outside the Israeli police will be the Waqf, who are also keeping an eye on you.

When I went there with Jerusalem Jane a few years back, them not realizing that I’m Jewish, we didn’t go surrounded by the police, and the Waqf came right up to us and kind of gave us a really hard time. And you’re saying you went up there and the Waqf people weren’t there?

Keith: Well, here’s what I came to find out was happening is, the Waqf was having a meeting. So there were…

Nehemia: Even better.

Keith: …10 to 15 of them that were in a separate place, they were having a meeting. There were a few people that were up there, but it was extremely quiet. So we walked. Now, here’s the interesting part. Our tour guide, a Jewish man, he was wonderful, Yariv. Yariv says to us ahead of time, he tells me ahead of time, he says, “Listen. This is a very, very tense situation. Tell your people, no religious things, no dah, dah, dah.” And he’s giving me all the rules, as they usually do. And I will tell you in the past, I’ve actually had to let the tour group go without me, because I had an interaction there. So this time I was like, “Oh…”

Nehemia: Yeah, you can’t just slide over that. The interaction was the Waqf knows you…

Keith: They kicked me off.

Nehemia: …by name.

Keith: Yeah.

Nehemia: And I was there with my mother and you, and this Waqf guy walks up to us and he says, “Keith Johnson,” or “Keeth Jaunsen,” more like that. And like, how does he know you out of the hundreds of thousands of people who come to the Temple Mount every year? They know you by name. They have like a milk carton with Keith’s name on it.

Keith: No, no. Well, they do…

Nehemia: With Rabbi Yehuda Glick.

Keith: What they do is they track people that are there, and I understood that. But I was with you, and of course, he said, “How is your friend, Yehuda Glick?”

Nehemia: Which was a veiled threat, because their assassins shot Rabbi Yehuda Glick and tried to kill him. So they know you by face, they know you by name, and you go up there and they’re not around. This is miracle.

Keith: They were not, they were in a meeting, I guess. Well, we know they were in a meeting, because we saw them later. But here’s what was so interesting, and this is the part that we’re going to share here - no one’s gotten to really see this- is that there were two thing that happened. This is part one. Part two, we’ll talk about if we ever share it later. But part one was, this is faithful group of people, the BFA people from around the world said, “Yes, we’ll go with you.” We went up there and we were looking around, and we stopped, and here’s what I’d like to tell you, Nehemia, if you’re willing to do this right now. I’ve put together just a few clips, four minutes of what happened on the Temple Mount. Remember this, there’s no reading of the Scripture. There’s no prayer. There’s no religious issue. They don’t even really want you to gather. They want you to…

Nehemia: And just to be clear, so the Waqf, this Muslim organization, controls the Temple Mount. And they will riot and kill people if anybody… literally, if a Jew moves their lips without making a sound, they’ll assume it’s silent prayer, and this could be an international incident. And the Waqf people are usually following the people to make sure they don’t move their lips, literally. It’s unbelievable.

Keith: Yeah, religious police, legitimately. So here’s the thing. So Sunday morning, this group of people that came, that you’re about to see this short little video, these people were the witnesses that helped to open up something that changed… I mean, I’m telling you, I’ll just say this. This is the beginning of something really special. So if you want to share this…

Nehemia: I’m going to share that in a minute. Before I do, somebody posted here in the comments. They said, “Keith Johnson, troublemaker, LOL.” I can’t let that go by in silence. You know, Keith Johnson here is doing what the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King did, what the woman in Alabama did when she said, “I’m not going to go to the back of the bus.” He’s saying, “I am a person who believes in the Creator of the Universe, and you’re not going to tell me that because I’m not part of this ethnic group, I’m part of a different ethnic group, that I’m not allowed to move my lips in the place where God put His name.”

This is a human rights issue, and you’re no more a troublemaker than the people… it really is civil rights. I see this as you are continuing the work of Dr. King and others, who are fighting for human rights to pray to your own God without being harassed because of your ethnicity or your religious affiliation.

Keith: Well, the situation radically changed, because I have been there many, many times where I couldn’t do that because of the situation. There’s police everywhere, there’s Waqf, they’re hassling you, they’re yelling at you. Over time, it’s slowed down, and I think that we have to give a lot of credit to the man that literally gave his life to this, and almost died, which is Rabbi Yehuda Glick…

Nehemia: Amen.

Keith: …who said that this is supposed to be a place of prayer for all the nations. That’s Biblical. And he literally, a week ago before we got there, I think it was a week ago before we got there, he ended up having a big confrontation up on the Temple Mount. But he’s committed to that, and so he has really been the driving force to get things changed there.

So Sunday morning was the first of a couple of things that happened, and I want people to see this, because our own people haven’t seen it. And before you show it, let’s just remind everybody - this is not production. This is you saying, “Send me a clip.” And I’m sending you a clip, and you’re getting it just the way it happened. So they’re really with this.

Nehemia: It’s raw, guys. And before we show the video - and I just saw it a few hours ago, when you finally sent it. I was begging you to send it to me for days.

Keith: Yes, you have no idea how the last 24 hours…

Nehemia: Since Sunday, and you finally just sent it to me a few hours ago, three hours ago, two hours ago, and I just finally saw it. I didn’t know this until you said it just now, the name of the tour guide, whose name is Yariv, and do you know what that name means? “Yariv” means, “He will strive. He will argue for it,” and Yariv is, “Yehovah will argue for, He will strive for something.” And in this video, he is living out his name. Okay, here it is. And I’m going to hit play, and we’ll find it and watch the video.

Keith: “Now, I want to tell you guys something, how special you must be. How special you must be. They say that any moment, they’re going to shut this down, so nobody’s here, except for us. So it seems to me that this would be a good opportunity for us to do what we came here to do. So what I want us to do is to just walk over there, right in front of those stairs, as a group, and there’s just something I want to say to you, and then we’re going to take a little more time to reflect, okay?”

Yariv: Do they understand that it’s a miracle that you’re actually here?

Keith: Oh, no. I don’t think they understand.

Woman: I get it.

Yariv: Do you understand that the fact that we are here now is a miracle?

Women: Yes, yes.

Yariv: When we mentioned five groups that are left in Israel, all of them on the way to the airport. All of them, on the way to the airport. I believe in miracles. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Enjoy the day, please. Please enjoy, it’s a miracle. Wow, wow.

Woman: It’s amazing.

Yariv: Unbelievable.

Keith: What we’re going to do, the safest place to be is the center of this world, and I believe it’s His will for His people to be able to come to this place in respect, and in honor, to do what Solomon asked. And I’ll tell you what Solomon asked.

Solomon said, “Listen. What about the foreigner that comes from a far place?” He says, “Moreover, concerning the foreigner that is not of Thy people, Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for Thy Namesake, for they shall hear the great Name and of the mighty hand of Thine outstretched arm. When he shall come and pray towards this house, hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling place and do according to all…Say “all”.

Group: All.

Keith: “…that the foreigner calls, that all the people on earth may know Thy Name, to Thy people, Israel, and they know that this house which I have built is called by Thy name. Let’s take a moment.

We are just taken a full walk around the whole area. We have prayed, we have reflected. We’ve read Scripture, but I have to give you this last one. “Yehovah appeared to Solomon by night. He said unto him, ‘I have heard thy prayer and have chosen this place to Myself for a house of sacrifice. If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence…” even COVID-19, “among My people, if My people who are called by My name shall humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Now, My eyes shall be open and My ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place, for now I have chosen and hallowed this house that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart shall be there, perpetually.” So He’s ready to listen. So let’s take a moment.

Now, before I send you on your way, I just want to remind you. Ninety percent of the people who came to Israel are on their way home. We’ve seen one other group on the Temple Mount. We’re here out of obedience to do what we’ve been called to do. You all are amazing. You are fulfilling the prayer of Solomon when he built this house, and the Father answered that prayer. Is that not good, for a good old-fashioned amen?

Group: Amen.

Keith: Is that wonderful, a good old-fashioned amen?

Keith: Let me just tell everyone what happened. It was so quiet, we had determined ahead of time we were going to do something that I’d done with a group from Namibia. I took a group from Namibia up to the Temple Mount. These people in Africa, and when I went to the Temple Mount…

Nehemia: Back up, back up. You brought a group from Namibia to Israel?

Keith: Right, a group from the... Nehemia, you don’t know what’s going on. I mean, there’s so many things happening. So a group from Namibia comes to Israel on a tour, specifically for them.

Nehemia: Are you serious?

Keith: This is the first time we ever did this. We went up to the Temple Mount, and all of a sudden it was as if a window of peace opened up up there. And I stopped and I said, “Hey, everyone. Do you know that we could pray without having to move our lips? Do you know we could…?” And we, as a group, prayed on the Temple Mount. That’s the first time I got this feeling. But this time, what happened is, since there was no Waqf and there was complete peace, and there’s literally no one there, we literally stopped and we would read Scripture, and then we would pray, silent prayer amongst each other. We went to four different spots around the Temple Mount and came right back at the end and finished with the very verse that you just talked about in 2 Kings chapter 8, where it says, “Now the foreigner will come.” And what happens when the foreigner comes? The Father answers the question, Nehemia, and he says, “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways and seek My face, then I shall heal their land.”

And so we took that as our responsibility. These people were wonderful, they were beautiful, and I have to say again, those that are already here, those ambassadors, you were brave, you were amazing. And then, after we did the group prayer, Nehemia, we stayed for an hour for individual prayer, all over the Temple Mount, and it was beautiful.

Nehemia: Wow. What do you mean, they let you go by yourselves around the Temple Mount?

Keith: After that, we were by ourselves, and we said, “Okay, now we’ve finished our group prayer. Now, individually go out for another full hour.” Usually, they kick you off after about 30 minutes.

Nehemia: Yeah, they can’t wait to get you out.

Keith: I want to say, it was an experience that I think everybody that came, I said to them, “You won’t experience this again.” Maybe during the redemption, but it was amazing. Now, I want to end this whole Temple Mount thing, because two days later, I get a phone call from Rabbi Yehuda Glick, and I’m now stuck in Israel, because I was supposed to leave on Sunday, but back to the whole airline situation that happened. Flights got cancelled, flights got changed, and the only goal was to get our people back home, so what I told everyone was, I wasn’t going to leave until everyone got back home.

So Tuesday, I’m now beyond the time I’m supposed to be there. Rabbi Glick says, “Hey, listen. Can you meet me early in the morning? Let’s go to the Temple Mount together.” I said, “No, it’s closed.” He said, “No, it’s not closed.” I said, “Yeah, it’s closed.” What was closed was the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. We get there, nobody’s in line again. I have a video of him talking, and then we go up there with about six or seven other Jewish people, with the soldiers around, taking us up there. And Rabbi Glick did something, and it was amazing. We got to pray - I’m talking about out loud - in front of the police. And the group on Sunday opened the door, on Tuesday, he busted the door down. And then on Wednesday, I think on Thursday, he did a live invitation, kind of like what you’re doing here, and did the same thing again.

So something has changed. We don’t know how long it will change, but this thing which has been such a difficulty has opened the doors so we could go there and pray. So thanks for sharing that, Nehemia. We’ll make it available on YouTube. And different people that were from different places, they experienced it. I don’t even know how to say it, it was a blessing.

Nehemia: I don’t feel like we could talk about what’s going on today in the Temple Mount and not talk about how the Temple Mount was chosen. I mean, that’s described in the Tanakh.

Keith: Amen.

Nehemia: It’s a scene that’s in 2 Samuel 24, and the king has counted the people, even though he was told, “You don’t need to count the people. Trust in Me, you don’t have to feel all great and puffed up. Trust in Yehovah,” and he decides not to trust in Yehovah. He wants to find out how many soldiers he has, even though his General, Joab, urges him not to do it. There’s a lot we could talk about here, but let’s see. I’m going to read some of this here, because, I mean, boy, this is Temple Mount. You’ve got to talk about this.

All right, so David has sinned. I’ll read here from the JPS, if I can find that. Should I read the Hebrew, and you’ll read the English? 2 Samuel 24 verse 11.

Keith: Let me use my NASB.

Nehemia: So it’ll be verse 10. “Vayakum David baboker, u’devar Yehovah haya el Gad hanavi, khozer David le’emor.”

Keith: Verse 10, “Now, David’s heart was troubled after he had numbered the people. So David said to Yehovah, ‘I have sinned greatly in what I have done, but now, Yehovah, please take away the iniquity of Thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly.’”

Nehemia: Okay, actually… That’s a good verse. What verse are you in?

Keith: You said 2 Samuel 24:10 in English.

Nehemia: Okay, beautiful. That’s verse 10, I’ll read that, because that’s beautiful, too. “Vayach el David oto akhereichen safar et ha’am. Vayomer David el Yehovah,” “And David said to Yehovah, “khatati meod asher asiti.

Keith: Amen.

Nehemia: “I have sinned greatly, that which I did.” “Ve’ata,” “Now,” “Yehovah,” “ha’aver na et avon avdekha,” “cause to pass away the iniquity of Your servant,” “ki niskalti me’od,” “for I have done foolishly.” Now, read verse 11.

Keith: Yes. “When David arose in the morning, the word of Yehovah came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying…” 12, “go and speak to David.”

Nehemia: Let me read the Hebrew. “‘Halokh vedibarta el David,’ koh amar Yehovah.” “‘Go and speak to David,’ Thus sayeth Yehovah.” “Shalosh anokhi notel alekha,” “three, I have placed upon you.” “Bekhar lekha akhat mehem, ve’eseh lakh.” “Choose one of them, and I’ll do it to you.” “Vayavo Gad el David vayaged lo,” “and Gad, the seer, came to David and he said to him,” “Vayomer lo, tavo lekha,” “and he said to him,” “hatavo lekha sheva shanim ra’av be’artzekha.” So option number one, seven years of famine in your land. “Eem shlosha khodashim nesukh lifnei tzarekha, vehu rodfekha, “or three months of you being chased by your enemy and you fleeing from him, “im hayot shalosh yamim dever b’artzekha,” “or three days of pestilence in your land.” “Ata da u’re’eh ma ashiv sholkhi davar,” “Now know and see what words shall I return to the One who sent me?” Meaning, what shall I tell Yehovah? He sent me these three options.

So we’ve got war, we’ve got famine, or famine, war, and pestilence. Pestilence is disease, it’s the Wuhan coronavirus. It’s Spanish Flu, it’s the Black Death. This is dever, pestilence. Fourteen, “Vayomer David el Gad,” these are famous words in the Jewish world. I mean, they’re beautiful words, they’re words that many Jews recite every afternoon in the afternoon prayer. “And David said to Gad, “tzar li meod,” “I am very troubled.” “Nifla na beyad Yehovah,” “Let us fall now into the hands of Yehovah, “ki rabim rakhamav, u’veyad adam epola,” “For His mercies are great, and let me not fall into the hands of a man.” So let Yehovah’s hand be upon me, not the hand of a man.

What’s interesting is, he didn’t tell him which of the three, right? He didn’t say, “Let there be pestilence. Let there be famine.” He said, “Let me fall into the hand of Yehovah,” right? Meaning, not the hand of my enemy, that was option number one, or was it two? Option two was the hand of the enemy. He doesn’t want the enemy to punish him, the punishment to come through an enemy, but from the hand of Yehovah.

“And Yehovah placed pestilence in Israel,” verse 15, “from the morning until an appointed time. And there died from the people from Dan as far as Beer Sheva 70,000 people.” Verse 16, “Vayishlakh yado hamal’akh Yerushalayim leshakhata,” “And the angel sent His hand against Jerusalem to destroy it,” “vayinakhem Yehovah,” “And Yehovah repented.” And literally, it means He was comforted. That is, He decided, “Okay, that’s enough.” Vayinakhem Yehovah el hara’a,” “And Yehovah was comforted from the evil,” “Vayomer lemal’ach hamashkhit ba’am rav,” “And the angel who destroyed many people said, “Ata heref yadekha…” Sorry, “And He said to the angel who was destroying many people,” “Ata,” “Now,” so this is Yehovah speaking to the angel. “Now,” “heref yadekha,” “let weaken your hand, let your hand go,” “u’mal’akh Yehovah haya im goren Aravna haYebusi,” “and the angel of Yehovah was at the threshing floor of Aravna the Jebusite.” Can you move your head slightly to the right, Keith? That is the spot of the threshing floor of Aravna the Jebusite. Now, let’s see the black dome again.

Vayomer David el Yehovah ber’oto et hamalakh hamakeh ba’am, vayomer,” “And David said to Yehovah when he saw the angel smiting the people and he said, “Hinei,” “Behold,” “Anokhi khatati,” “I have sinned.” “Va’anokhi he’eveti,” “And I have acted wickedly.” “Ve’eleh hatzon, ma’asu?” “And these are the sheep, what have they done?” “Tehi na yadkha bi uvebeit avi,” “Let your hand be against me in the house of my father.” David is putting himself in harm’s way. This is incredible.

“Vayomer Gad el David, vayomer hu,” “And Gad said to David on that day,” “Vayomer lo,” “And he said to him,” “Aleh hakem laYehovah mizbe’akh begoren Aravna haYebusi.” “And he said to him,” Gad the seer, “Go up and establish an altar to Yehovah at the threshing floor of Aravna, the Jebusite,” directly behind Keith’s head. “Vaya’al David kidvar Gad, kasher tziva Yehovah,” “And David did according to the word of Gad, as Yehovah commanded.” And this is beautiful, this part, verse 20. You could put your head back there. I like your dome better than the other one.

Verse 20, “Vayashkev Aravna vayara et hamelekh ve’et avadav ovrim alav,” “And Aravna looked and he saw the king and his servants coming towards him.” And he’s like, “Oh, no.” Remember, this guy is a Jebusite. He’s not even an Israelite. “And Aravna came out and he bowed down to the king with his face to the ground. And Aravna said, ‘Why does my lord, the king, come to his servant?’” I mean, remember, the other Jebusites had been wiped out. So Aravna’s thinking, “This ain’t good.” And David said, “To buy from you, to purchase from you the threshing floor to build the altar of Yehovah, so that the plague ceases from upon the people.” And Aravna said to the king, “Yikakh ve’ya’al adoni hamelekh hatov be’einav,” “May the king take and raise up, may my lord, the king, take and raise up whatever is good in his eyes.” You can have it for free.

“Behold, the oxen for a burnt offering, and the threshing sledge, and the utensils of the cow or the bull for wood,” meaning like he’s got all this wood, and this was not a lot of wood. He’s got the threshing utensils, the yoke, and all that. He’s can use that for wood.

Verse 23, “Everything Aravna has given to the King. And Aravna said to the King, “May Yehovah, your God, receive you,” or “accept you.” Wow, beautiful. “And the King said to Aravna, ‘No.’” “Lo, kikano ekneh me’otkha bemekhir,” “For I will surely purchase from you at a price.” “Velo a’aleh leYehovah Elohai olot khinam,” “And I will not raise up to Yehovah, my God, burnt offerings free.” A sacrifice is not free, it costs. By definition, in English at least, you sacrifice, you give something. And that’s what he’s saying here, “I’m not going to give this sacrifice free.”

“Vayiken David et hagoren ve’et habakar bekesef, shekalim khamishim,” “And David purchased the threshing floor and the oxen with silver, 50 shekels of silver.” So to me, this is incredible. We’re just going to finish the story and I want to go back to the significance of one more verse. “Vayiven David mizbeakh leYehovah,” “And David built there an altar to Yehovah,” “ve’ya’al olot ushlamim,” “and he raised up, sent up burnt offerings and peace offerings,” “vaye’ater Yehovah la’aretz,” “and Yehovah responded to the prayer for the land,” or to the offerings. “Vate’atzar hamagefah me’al Yisrael,” “And the plagues ceased from upon Israel.”

Wow, I mean, to me there’s so much here to unpack. First of all, it’s incredible to me, the most disputed land in the world, is the land that’s behind your head. The land that David purchased for cash money… Not even cash money - real money, silver. And it’s that land that the nations of the world, UNESCO has proclaimed, that land doesn’t belong to Israel. That has nothing to do with the Jews, UNESCO has said. That land that Israel said, “We don’t want it for free. We were going to buy it from the inhabitants of the land, from the Canaanites.” You know, the Jews and Israelites are what are called the “indigenous inhabitants”. But there’s another term that scholars use, the “autochthonous inhabitants”. And the Jebusites were the autochthonous inhabitants, meaning they were the original people of the land. The Israelites have only been in Jerusalem for a little over 3,000 years. The Jebusites were there for a couple of thousand years before that.

So we bought it from the autochthonous inhabitants, from the Jebusites, for cash money, so nobody could ever say throughout all of history, “Well, the Jews just came and strongarmed us, and took this.” No, we bought it. That land is the land that’s so disputed, the land Yehovah put His Name forever. And it’s at that spot where the plague stopped, when that was established as the place Yehovah put His name forever, with the sacrifices that were brought there.

To me, David’s response is incredible, where he says, “Let us fall now into the hands of Yehovah. Let me not fall into the hands of man,” and the result was the Wuhan coronavirus. The result was a pestilence.

Keith: And you know, it’s funny, it’s really interesting, because sometimes people look at that little golden dome and they get confused, and they’re not always clear about the history. And of course, you’re bringing up the whole issue of David, but even before David, we have Abraham going to that area and offering up his son. Isn’t it interesting? David says, “I will not offer to Yehovah anything that doesn’t cost me.”

And before that, we have Abraham going there, and of course, up there they say, “Well, Abraham brought Ishmael.” So they say it’s not Isaac. That’s what the Muslims say. But you have a spot that’s got so much significance on so many different levels. And what I love about this story, Nehemia, that you just read, and which Travis brought as a devotion, is the idea that even when something is happening like this, the Father can decide - stop. And this is our prayer, that He would just be comforted in the midst of all of this that’s going on. And we know that ultimately, He is the one that could say, “Stop,” to the Coronavirus and to anything else. So we’re going to continue to pray for that, and ask Him to do what He does best, and that is to comfort us in the midst of difficulty.

And I know there are a lot of people listening right now, I’m sure, that have been spending a lot of time watching the news, or hearing what’s going on in the internet, etc. But ultimately, ultimately, what do we believe about our Father? He is ruler of it all, and we’re going to continue to go to Him, and come to Him, and ask Him for His grace and mercy.

Nehemia: Amen. Keith, would you right here with the people online here, would you agree that we can do this again? People are going to be shut in. I did a program this morning with my sister, it’s on YouTube. I wanted to share the video feed here on this stream, but it’s not going to work. So guys, go to YouTube. I actually interviewed two of my sisters. One of them is a professor in Israel, the other is professor in Washington State in Seattle. The one in Israel shared stuff that really shook me, that really shook me.

Keith: Let me ask you something…

Nehemia: Go to YouTube. Let me just share what’s in there. I’m going to give you the TLDR - too long, didn’t read - version. What we’re going through right now is phase one. There’s going to be a second wave, what’s expected, and there could be more people who die in the second wave than the first wave. So anybody who thinks we’re going to be in quarantine for two weeks as a nation, the US or Israel, and this is going to be over, no one in the scientific community believes that.

What they’re trying to do is, the term that was used in the press conference in Israel was to “flatten the curve”, so that there are fewer people taking up ICU beds when they get pneumonia. But this is going to last a while, so I’m hoping you’re going to come back and we could do this again. I don’t know if it’ll be regular or what, exactly.

Keith: What you do best, you know, Nehemia gets me in a corner. But I’d like to be able to say is, I really want to make today a special opportunity. It is a stand-alone for me, and because I think circumstances the way that they are right now have been, man, overwhelming for me personally, and for people that we’re dealing with. So I will say this to you, that I think that we need to continually ask the question, “What can we do, through the ministries that we have, to support people in a really difficult time?”

Nehemia: Totally.

Keith: And it may be this, it may be other things. There are some other things that are in the works. So I’m hoping that as we’re led, we will let people know how we do that.

If it’s okay, I’ve got a verse I really want to share with people. Here it is. So before we decided to go, I was led to a verse. And I just want to say again, in times like these, I don’t know how you feel, Nehemia - for me, my spiritual life is based on the word of God. And when the word of God speaks, that makes me sometimes want to stand up and walk outside, etc. This verse has been something that has been on my heart for months, and months, and months.

So when our group got together, this was the verse I shared with them on the first day of our tour. And so I want you to go to the tap-tap, 2 Chronicles chapter 16 verse 9. And if people have their Bibles, I want them to look at it. There’s a thought in here I really want to get to. It says this, in the NASB. “For the eyes of Yehovah move to and fro throughout the earth, that He may strongly support those whose heart is…” and in the NASB it says, “completely His.” Now, I want you to read the same verse in Hebrew.

Nehemia: Okay, “Ki Yehovah einav meshotetot,” “For Yehovah, His eyes wander about,” “bekhol ha’aretz,” “throughout all the land.”

Keith: Read, bevakasha. Just read it in Hebrew.

Nehemia: Oh, the whole verse?

Keith: Yes.

Nehemia: “Ki Yehovah einav meshotetot bekhol ha’aretz lehithazek im levavam shalem eilav, niskalt al zot…”

Keith: Stop right there. When you see the word “shalem”, what do you think of?

Nehemia: Complete.

Keith: It’s complete. What does that mean?

Nehemia: Complete.

Keith: So the idea of our heart being… some versions would say “wholly devoted”. Some would say, “complete”. But the point is, it says that “His eyes,” and it uses that really interesting word…

Nehemia:Meshotetot”.

Keith: Sometimes it’s like “looking”. And I told the group, I said, “You know, a lot of people during this coronavirus issue, and whatever, they’re on the internet and their eyes are like… I mean, they’re just scanning everything they can get, scanning everything they can get.” And I just thought of His eyes, scanning the earth, saying, “For those whose heart is complete, wholly devoted to Him, He wants to strengthen us.” And what’s interesting about the verse, Nehemia, it doesn’t say, “He’s scanning the earth to figure out how to get us out of trouble.” It doesn’t say, “He’s scanning the earth so that no bad things will ever happen.”

Nehemia: Go on, preach it.

Keith: He doesn’t say, “I’m going to scan the earth to look to get you out of a situation that you won’t have to deal with.” And I’m telling you, every single day in Israel, this was the verse He told me to bring in Israel. Every single day, He would strengthen my heart in the middle of chaos. Now, here’s what’s beautiful. I am convinced that He is not sitting up there in heaven and saying, “Let me just…” I mean, He’s not playing with us.

The verse literally says, He wants to strengthen us. He wants to khazak our heart. It’s like what He did with Pharaoh. Pharaoh wanted to let the people go, and He said, “No, I’m going to strengthen you. I’m going to harden your heart so that you can’t.” He’s going to control all of that. And I have to tell you right now, I’m sure there are some people like me that need that. I needed a strengthened heart to deal with the details of what happened the last week. And as I’m looking forward into the future, I need a strengthened heart.

And so how do I get that strengthened heart? By saying, “I am leaning and trusting on Him completely. My heart is wholly devoted to Him.” Nehemia, this was my prayer, and it happened in Israel. And now I know why He gave me that verse, because we need strong hearts right now.

Nehemia: Amen.

Keith: The information that you shared today, which you’re about to share with everyone… Or I don’t know how you’ll talk about it, with your sister. The information when you turn on the news, one governor said this, today. I think it was the Governor of New York. He said, “This is not a political decision. This has to do with math.” They said, “Why are you making this big decision to have everyone be in…” what are they calling that? Not self-isolation, self…

Nehemia: Social distancing.

Keith: No, not just social distancing, 100 percent of non-essential folks have to be at home, 100 percent. California makes the same decision. Illinois just made the same decision. Maybe it’s going to happen in North Carolina, and that’s happening. And I’ll tell you, for me, I need it right now. I am in quarantine right now, for two weeks. And let me just tell everyone, it’s eerie to have people being told to leave a country and have airlines not give you the ability to get on that airplane. And the wonder of what’s going to happen when you land, and all of those. Our whole group went through that, all over the world. We’re all at home now, and guess what we realized, in one week?

Nehemia: What’s that?

Keith: We’re coming back to a different country than where we left. Everyone that’s traveled back to their places have come back to a different country. So this verse, for me, was prophetic. “Keith, fully devote yourself to Me. Trust Me completely, and I’m going to give you a strong heart.” He doesn’t say He’s going to get me out of the situation. “I’m just going to give you a strong heart.” And I’m sure some people that are with us right now need that. And so maybe you can talk about shalem. We talked about it with our book, but how do we do that? What do we need to do? I just know for myself, it’s a complete trust in Him, complete.

Now, I want to tell one story that this was the proof of trusting Him. So we’ve got 40 people, the borders are closing. When Trump made his decision on Friday, everyone almost went into shock when he said, “You can’t come from European countries.” There was some confusion. People didn’t realize, if you were a US citizen, you could still come. There was just craziness all around us.

So, Sunday comes, the first group leaves. Monday comes, the second group leaves. Tuesday comes, the third group leaves. A couple of days before, I’ve got a couple that’s supposed to stay in Israel till Thursday. I’m not supposed to leave until Thursday. Okay, in the middle of the night before Tuesday, something wakes me up and it says, “You need to get out of Israel right now.” I’m not trying to be overly spiritual. I’m just telling you, it was a strong urging. “You need to leave now.” I said, “I can’t leave these people. I’m not going to leave these people.” So first things first, I went to them - true story - and they had had a flight cancelled. Their flight was going to be on Thursday. A wonderful, beautiful couple, that they are an at-risk group, by the way, if something were to happen. They had a flight that was going to take them on Thursday through Europe, and then from Europe into the United States, a long flight, all the confusion that you can imagine.

And we went to the airlines to try to figure out. The airlines weren’t picking up. Nothing was available, no flights were available. I called our tour operator. I said, “Noam,” he’s the owner of the tour company, an amazing man. I said, “Noam, I need your help. I need these people on a plane.” He calls me back and he says, “Keith, on American airlines, nothing is available. Nothing.” He says, “But I’m going to call my friend, who’s a travel agent.” He calls the travel agent. The travel agent says, “I got two seats.” You wouldn’t believe the amount of money to get them on these two seats. I told him, “Buy the tickets.” He said, “Keith, that’s crazy. It’s too expensive.” I said, “They must get out of Israel now.” He calls me back, he says, “I got the two seats.” Then he calls me 20 minutes later and says, “I’ve found two other seats, a little cheaper. Still, it’s expensive.” It didn’t matter, because…

Nehemia: I’ve got to know, how much did the seats cost? You’re killing me.

Keith: More than you want to know.

Nehemia: No, no. Tell me. I want to know how the airlines are gouging people.

Keith: Oh, they’re evil. The seats were $2,600 each. Now, listen to this. Now, I want to get to the point. I have them seats…

Nehemia: Is that first class?

Keith: No, not even upgrades. So now I’m saying for me. Now my flight’s scheduled for Thursday. I can’t get a hold of the airlines. Nothing happens. I’m just talking about trust. I’m talking about how fully complete and whole to Him, He’ll strengthen your heart. Once I get them all set, they’re ready to go. Next group goes. We’ve got one group left. We had one couple that we had a driver who was supposed to come and get them. The driver’s going to come and get them and take them to the airport.

We’re waiting in the lobby, the driver comes in. He says, “Who’s going to the airport?” So we sent them in the cab. Five minutes later, another driver comes in and he says, “I’m here for Jim and Linda.” And we said, “What are you talking about? This guy just took Jim and Linda.” He said, “No, no, no. They’re not supposed to take Jim and Linda.” Long story short, the wrong driver takes the two people. Watch God. The driver calls up the other guy, they get into an argument back and forth. He says, “I’m taking these people.” He says, “Yeah, but this has already been paid for.” He drives them and brings them back. Now, this is all happening, you guys, this is all happening in the middle of letters saying, “The hotel’s going to close.” Chaos everywhere. We transfer their luggage into the other cab and I send them on their way. I look at the driver, his name was Asher. I said, “Asher, I’m going to pay you for your time, but I need a favor. Can you take me around the corner? I need to go meet with Rabbi Glick.” And so he says, “Okay, I’ll do that.” He takes me around the corner. I walk in, Rabbi Glick is there. We have an hour. I said, “Can you come back and get me?” Now, I hadn’t paid him anything, yet. I’m telling him, “I’m going to pay you. It’s all going to be good, but I need you to do this for me.”

He takes me there, and he comes back and gets me. He says… How did he say it? “Are you a khaver of Rabbi Glick?” I said, “Yes.” “He’s a friend of mine,” he says. “If you’re a friend of Rabbi Glick’s, you’re a friend of mine. Where else do you need to go?” I said, “Well, I actually need to go to the airport.” Why do I need to go to the airport? Because I’ve got to go talk to the airlines. Now, bear with me, Nehemia. It’s Shabbat. I’ve got the wrong cab coming to get the people who comes back. He says to me, “I’ll come back and get you.” And I said, “I’m going to go to the airport.” “Why?” “Because the airlines won’t pick up the phone, and I need to now get out of Israel because the two people have a flight.” “Jen and Charlie,” I say, “would you take care of these people getting to the airport? I’ll meet you there so that no one is left behind.” Jen says, “It’s just like Israel. No hoof will be left behind.”

This guy puts me in his cab. He takes me to the airport. He says, “I’ll wait to see if you get a flight or not.” I go into the airport, true story. I finally get up to the front, everyone’s trying to leave Israel. And they said, “Well, Mr. Johnson, you don’t have a flight Thursday. You were supposed to leave Sunday.” I said, “No, it was changed by Delta.” They said, “Mr. Johnson, you don’t have a flight. We’ll see you Thursday.” I said, “That’s impossible. I need to get home now.” “Well, we’ll put you on standby.” What are the chances, Nehemia, if I’m on standby, that I get on a flight? They’re all sold out.

Nehemia: No, you won’t get on a flight.

Keith: My people come. Now, I meet them at the airport. I’m fulfilling what I need. I said to myself, “Even if I have to stay here, my friend, Nehemia, has made an offer.” Would you tell the people what you offered, if I got stuck in Israel? Tell them what happened, and what you offered.

Nehemia: Yes, so I offered you to stay at my apartment in Israel, as long as you needed to.

Keith: Absolutely. And there’s an apartment in Israel which I could have stayed there. Now, for the part of strengthening the heart. I go to the man. I sit down and I said, “Father, my word is my bond. I cannot leave until these people are safe, and now they’ve got a flight. But it would be really nice if You would do this. But if You don’t, even if You don’t, I want to thank You for what You’ve done.” I go back to the counter, and he says, “One seat available.” They put me on a flight, Tuesday. I get home on Wednesday. The hotel was going to close on Thursday, and if I had not had the cab driver take me there, if I would have showed up Thursday, I’m stuck in Israel.

And now for the other part, I’m not feeling that good. I’m tired, I’ve been up for 48 hours. I’m wondering, “What’s going on?” But I want to tell you, Nehemia, as a testimony. Yehovah strengthened and continues to strengthen my heart, and I’m convinced somebody’s listening that needs that. Someone needs the strength, and He said, “There’s a condition, one condition. Is your heart complete toward Me?” So, this is my only thing. If that comes across tonight, that people have an opportunity to be strengthened, and right now, the world is going nuts. There are a lot of people that need strength. I know I do. How about you, do you ever need Him to…?

Nehemia: Absolutely.

Keith: Absolutely. So that happened for me, it’s a testimony. I’m back here with my wife. Now, unfortunately we’re separated during this time. She’s got the downstairs and I’ve got the upstairs. And the reason for that, right now, is during this…

Nehemia: Social distancing in the house?

Keith: Yeah, we have social distancing in the house. And part of it is because my sweet wife, she said this first, so I can say it. She said, “Keith, you know, now it’s probably a good thing that I’m kind of like a germaphobe,” because she knows that we need the germaphobes right now. We need people who can keep things clean, because when you’re coughing and sneezing, or whatever, it can get pretty bad. And so I really appreciate her being so diligent. Things have changed in a week. I’m sure it’s changed for a lot of people that are listening. But I think that we just need to continually be people that have a complete heart, so that He can strengthen us. And that’s what I believe He’s going to do as a result of all this.

Nehemia: Amen. You know, I really appreciate you sharing that, Keith. Guys, Keith talked about the germs and trying to stay away from getting the virus. And there’s a lot of misinformation out there. I did an interview with my sister, who is a professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Washington in Seattle, and she talked about what you could do to avoid getting the virus. So guys, go over to YouTube. I’m going to post the link, actually, right here on my channel. You’ll see my sister with the curly hair. There’s the other sister with the red hair. The one with the poodle hair, she’s the one who talked about that you can avoid getting this virus, it’s possible.

And eventually, you might get it, right? I mean, I was thinking, you know, “Maybe I should get it now instead of when I’m 70, because it ain’t going away.” Who knows? Maybe it’ll be a vaccine, maybe there’ll be a cure. We have no idea.

And so what they’re trying to do is flatten the curve, and there are things that you can do, washing your hands. People walk around with masks. I thought even yesterday, “Those people are crazy.” But now, I realize after talking to my sister, “Hey, that actually makes a lot of sense.”

Keith: Let me clarify something. I have permission. What I didn’t want to do about the reason that my wife is so diligent, and this is why we’re separate, because there might be some confusion. Like, “Well, Keith, why would you guys be separate?” Andrea actually came home Sunday morning, and that was on purpose. We had a flight that was available. She came home Sunday morning. I’m still in Israel, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. So the moment that she left to come home, and one of the really important reasons for that, is that we’re in a very tense situation, obviously. But more importantly, she’s of the high-risk group. She’s not old - she’s a couple of months older than me - but she has asthma, and that is something that actually is really, really a dangerous thing during this.

So people would say, “Well, why would you be separate now? You’re married, you live in the same house.” Because she had to come home before me, and I’m still there, I have every single day, every interaction I have between Sunday and Thursday, we don’t know what I came into contact with. So she is a germaphobe, but more importantly than that, she’s a high-risk germaphobe. And thank God she’s a germaphobe, because what she’s been able to do in our house is to keep things in a place… And listen, we love each other. We talk every day. It’s kind of a new thing, it’s kind of a cool thing, you know? But the truth of the matter is, we need to keep her in a place where if I’m coming from Israel, and who knows what I’ve encountered, we don’t want that spread to her. So that’s what that’s really about, but I didn’t want to say that unless I had her permission. She’s awesome, and I’ve got to tell you something. Imagine this, so my wife comes on this trip, and she’s got these vulnerabilities, and she was absolutely wonderful. She held my hand, we walked together. But I did have to send her home early, and so we’re going to go the 14 days, and hopefully at the end of 14 days, we will both be good and we’ll go from there.

But this is going to be a long-term process, I think, and we just need to be as sensitive as possible for the older people, and people with underlying medical situations - diabetes, heart disease, asthma, any of those things, to get those people…

Nehemia: Well, I have asthma. I’m in the high-risk group.

Keith: You’re in the high-risk group, Nehemia. And I’m telling you, so I’m living - again, strengthened heart, having the love that I have for her, and knowing that if it means inconvenience for me, so be it. But, I mean, this is a serious, serious situation that’s taking place right now.

Nehemia: I spoke to a doctor, a friend of mine, yesterday, and he was telling me, “Nehemia, you’re overweight. You’re high-risk.” And he says, “Even if the virus doesn’t affect you more than it affects another person, and it might, but even if it didn’t, if you get in a situation where there’s 100 people who need the ICU bed, the ventilator, and they only have 40 beds, you’re the first one off that list. Asthma, now we’re taking the 20-year-old without asthma.” And that isn’t a hypothetical. Decisions like that have already been made in Italy, where they’re triaging, they’re deciding, “We’re going to let this person die. We’re going to put this person on the ventilator, because they have a better chance.” Those decisions have already been made in Italy, and they’re now starting to be made in New York, and in Iran. Yeah, I mean, they probably don’t even have ventilators there.

Keith: And that’s why this whole situation is the way that it is. And I’ll be honest with you, we got back home, and luckily, by God’s grace, her coming early, she could actually prepare the house. And for me…

Nehemia: Did you get toilet paper?

Keith: Well, before we left, we took care of some things. And we had some wonderful… my brother-in-law and my sister-in-law helped us. We thought, “In the event that the numbers go up, can you do this for us?” And we had a list of things which she created, and they did that. And so we’re here. Our son is not here right now. It’s one of those things right now where it’s so fluid. My prayer for people is that in the midst of all of this, we don’t lose sight of Yehovah being in control. He is ultimately the One who can stay the pestilence. And at the same time, He’s the One that allows certain things. And so we need to trust Him completely. And as much as possible, Nehemia, we need to not allow ourselves to fall into any sort of panic, but just be as peaceful as we can, and purposeful as we can, and as prepared as we can. And I think we will be okay.

I believe this is the remnant of people who are going to survive. I believe it. I believe we’re going to survive, but it’s going to take wisdom, it’s going to take trust, it’s going to take strategy. There’s a lot that’s going to be on us, but I’m pretty confident that if we take the right approach, that we’ll be okay.

Nehemia: For sure. Hey, we did another video, the two of us, a very important video, guys, of testimony of Devorah Gordon, who is over in Jerusalem. And we recorded that earlier today, and she ends with the Shabbat Prayer. So I’m going to share that link here. You can also go to my YouTube page.

Keith: Tell everyone what she said, because she said some really important things. But tell everyone, kind of like about her experience being there. You know, Nehemia, the great thing is that it was gift, which she was talking about. So let them know a little bit about the fact that she’s in Jerusalem right now, which hit me like a ton of bricks when she said it’s the first time that they’ve had a Sabbath like this. I mean, what is the Sabbath? There’s no connection, there’s no people getting together. And yet, they’re still entering into Sabbath.

Nehemia: Well, you know, it’s interesting. I grew up in Chicago, and English is my native language. But I didn’t know, growing up, that I use a Yiddish expression, you said this to me. I said, “Keith, we’re going to be eating Shabbat dinner by my mother.” And you said, “What do you mean, ‘by her?’ You mean, nearby?” This is an integral part of the Jewish culture, that you will eat “by someone”, meaning, “at their house” on a Friday night and Shabbat lunch. Those are the two meals that people go, and they’ll eat by my mother, and by my sister, by my friend. This is just part of life that I grew up with in the Jewish world. And in Israel, everyone is part of that. And now, for the first time, you can’t go eat dinner by your mother, or by your friend, by your cousin on a Shabbat night, because of social distancing.

And so we’re in a situation where people are stepping out onto their mirpesset, onto their balconies, just to get fresh air, and see other human beings. So guys, go over and watch the video that Keith and I did with Devorah Gordon, and she talks there about the Aviv search, which with Yehovah’s help, will take place this coming week. And it may not, right? I mean, it might be a situation where it can’t happen, but let’s hope and pray it does, if it’s supposed to happen. If it’s Yehovah’s will then it’ll happen, but if not, then it won’t.

Keith: I want to encourage people, and I want to say this. A week from now, a week from now or two weeks from now, things could change even more radically. And I really want to encourage people. Listen, I don’t like constraints. I don’t like schedules. I don’t like somebody telling me I can’t go somewhere. It’s just not my personality. I don’t like it, but I’ll tell you something. There are so many vulnerable people right now, and there’s a whole bunch of young people right now who are like, “Oh, even if I get it, it doesn’t matter. I’m fine.” Well, guess what? The interaction they’re going to have with others, and it’s a very contagious virus. And so I really want those that are listening here… I mean, I know there are conspiracies out there, and people saying, “It’s not real, and it’s a hoax,” and this, that and the other. This is real. Today, in Italy, 600 people died today – today. What I’m saying is, if we were to do what Israel did… And I want to leave with this.

Fifteen years, every time I’ve been to Israel, I’ve always learned something. And what I’ve appreciated about Israel is, if I put one eye on Israel and one eye on the other place that I’m at, anywhere in the world, I usually get a perspective. What Israel did was very inconvenient for us. In fact, it was maddening. Flights cancelled, borders shut. Do you know, in Israel, what would happen is if you were in the spot where someone had the virus, just in the physical place, they had 100,000 people in self-quarantine - 100,000. And those could be people that were just in a space. Were you here in hotels, were you here, were you there? So as we’re traveling, I’m thinking at any time we could be like the pastor and the people who basically got not just quarantine with guards around the hotel. I mean, it could happen.

But the point I want to make is, being in Israel let me see what potentially could come here. And that was a part of the strengthening, too. So I hope that people don’t pass this off. We’re in a 100-year event. It happened to be about 101 years…

Nehemia: Oh, this is what they call a black swan event.

Keith: Yeah, yeah. This event here that we’re in - the numbers before we left and where they’re at today, are through the roof. And we haven’t hit what’s going to probably come in the next couple of weeks when they start testing people. It’ll be a little bit like China. One minute there’s 1,000, the next day, there’s 7,000. So anyway, I’m just saying that for people to take it seriously, and especially for those vulnerable ones, the older people, the people that have underlying health issues, it’s got to be scary for them. And so we need to be strength for them. We need to be perspective for them. We also need to be sensitivity for them. So I want to make sure that people know that. It’s a serious situation, and we’ve got to do everything we can to honor… as they say, love Yehovah, and love our neighbor as ourself.

Nehemia: Wow, there’s a lot there. I’ve got 2 Kings chapter 6 verse 24, I just want to look at this real quick, and then I’m going to end with prayer.

Keith: Okay, good.

Nehemia: “And it happened after this that Ben-Hadad, king of Syria, gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria. And there was a great famine in Samaria, and indeed, they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for 80 shekels of silver, and one fourth of a cab of dove droppings for 5 shekels of silver.”

“Then, as the King of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him saying, ‘Help, my lord, o king.’ And he said, ‘If Yehovah does not help you, where could I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the wine press?’ Then the king said to her, ‘What is troubling you?’ And she answered, ‘This woman said to me, give your son that we may eat him today, and we’ll eat my son tomorrow.’ So we boiled my son and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son that we may eat him,’ but she had hidden her son. Now, it happened when the king heard the words of the woman that he tore his clothes, and as he passed by on the wall, the people looked. And there underneath, he had sackcloth on his body.”

“And he said, ‘Go, do so to me and more also. If the head of Elisha, the son of Shaphat, remains on him today.’” So he’s ordered Elisha, who is the disciple of Elijah, Eliyahu, to be executed. “But Elisha was sitting in his house and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, ‘Do you see how this son of a murderer…’” meaning the king, “‘has sent someone to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?’ And while he was still talking with them, there was the messenger, coming down to him. And the king said, ‘Surely, this calamity is from Yehovah. Why should I wait for Yehovah any longer?’”

Those are the words of the king of Israel. Like, “Come on.” And actually, it’s interesting, in Hebrew he says, “Why should I hope for Yehovah any longer?” And what he’s saying is, “Hey, this bad thing came from Yehovah. I have no more hope in Yehovah. I don’t want anything to do with Him.” He believes Yehovah exists. He just doesn’t want anything to do with Yehovah. He’s saying, “I don’t hope in Him anymore.”

“Then Elisha said…” this is chapter 7:1, “‘Hear the word of Yehovah. Thus sayeth Yehovah, Tomorrow, about this time, a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.’” So this is interesting. It may be the first time in history where we hear about the economic concept of supply and demand, right? So during the siege, the price for the donkey’s head, which is worthless, it’s not even a clean food, it’s not a food, a donkey’s head is selling for a lot of money, and then, tomorrow, the prices are going to drop precipitously.

“So an officer on who’s hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, ‘Look, if Yehovah would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?’” What you’re saying is impossible. And he said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.” So Elisha says, “You don’t believe in it? You won’t even be able to see it.” “Now, there were four leprous men at the entrance to the gate and they said to one another, ‘We are sitting here until we die.’”

So this is why I want to bring this story. Verse three is we hear about these four men who are in quarantine. They’ve got leprosy, the city is under siege, and they’re not even allowed inside the city. They’re sitting outside the city and saying, “We’re going to die. Like normally, we’re beggars and people throw us food. They don’t want to get near us, because we have leprosy. But in this case, they don’t even have food to throw at us.” They said, “If we say we’ll enter the city, the famine is in the city and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we will die also.”

“Now, therefore, come let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live. And if they kill us, we shall only die.” We haven’t lost anything. “And they rose at twilight to go up to the camp of the Syrians. And when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise, no one was there.” So they were rising at the first light when the planet Venus has risen, and there’s the first twinkling of twilight, and the Syrian camp’s empty. “For Yehovah had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses, the noise of a great army. So they said to one another, ‘Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the king of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.’ Therefore, they arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact, their tents, their horses, their donkeys, and they fled for their lives.”

“And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate, and drank, and carried from it silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid them.” These are like the guys on eBay who are selling the hand sanitizer for $200. “Then they came back and entered another tent and carried some from there also and went and hid it. Then they said to one another, ‘We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news.’” And I love it, in Hebrew, the word is “yom besorah,” “a day of besorah,” that’s the word that’s usually the equivalent of the Greek, evangelion, what translates in English as “gospel,” right, but it’s meaning, “it’s a good news.” And the Greek Septuagint says, avangelia. This is a good news, it’s the Evangelists, the good news of the Evangel, meaning, this is good news. What’s the good news? The enemy has left and we’re not going to starve to death. Okay, so, “This is a day of evangelion, of Gospel, and we remain silent? If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now, therefore, come let us go and tell the king’s household.” There are people starving to death. They need to know what’s going on here, that there’s food for them to eat, and they won’t die.

“So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, saying, ‘We went to the Syrian camp and surprisingly, no one was there, not a human sound, only horses and donkeys tied, and the tents intact.’ And the gatekeeper called out and they told to the king’s household inside. So the king arose in the night and said to his servants, ‘Let me now tell you what the Syrians have done to us.’” This is the conspiracy theory. “They know we are hungry. Therefore, they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive and get into the city.’” They’ve heard the gospel and they said, “That’s too good to be true.” “And one of the servants answered and said, ‘Please, let several men take five of the remaining horses which are left in the city. Look, they may either become like the multitude of Israel that are left in it,’” meaning, they’re going to die, “for indeed, I say to them, ‘Come like all the multitude of Israel left from those who are consumed. So let us send them and see,’” meaning, we’re all dead, anyway. What do we have to lose?

“Therefore, they took two chariots with horses and the king sent them in the direction of the Syrian army saying, ‘Go and see.’ And they went after them to the Jordan and indeed, all the road was full of garments and weapons the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and told the king, and the people went out and plundered the tent of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yehovah.”

“Now, the king had appointed the officer…” So Elijah has his prophesy, and they can’t imagine how it would possibly come true. It seems impossible. And boy, you know, today, reading this story, it strikes me in a way it didn’t strike me in the past, because I could imagine that impossible things could happen, but I’ve never experienced a black swan event, a once in 100-year event like we’re going through now, maybe once in 500 years.

“Now, the king had appointed the officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate, but the people trampled him in the gate and he died, just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him. So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, two seahs of barley for a shekel, a seah of fine flour for a shekel shall be sold tomorrow, about this time, in the gate of Samaria. Then the officer had answered the man of God and said, ‘Now, look. If Yehovah would make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?’ And he said, ‘In fact, you shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.’” In other words, this man saw it, literally, then he was trampled by all the people going to get the food.

“And so it happened to him that the people trampled him at the gate and he died.” Wow, I mean, we’re the lepers in this story, and we’re in isolation.

Keith: Now, Nehemia?

Nehemia: Yeah.

Keith: I want to tell you something, and I want to ask you a question.

Nehemia: Yessir.

Keith: Tell me the oldest example of quarantine that you know of.

Nehemia: That’s a good question.

Keith: This is important. You called it “Live from Quarantine”.

Nehemia: I mean, definitely leprosy is a form of… in the Torah, has quarantine attached with it, for sure.

Keith: Well, Leviticus 13, I want to close with this. I’ve got this at my house, there’s a Torah scroll. I see it every single day. The first example I know of quarantine actually is before Leviticus, but 13 it says that priests will come and look and say, for how many days? This is cool. How many days do they tell, the priest that the person has to be isolated for?

Nehemia: Seven.

Keith: And then after they check, how many more?

Nehemia: Another seven.

Keith: 14. Here’s what’s amazing. I got the chills right now. So Israel is saying right now, “We need seven days of quarantine.” That’s what they’re starting with. If you come home, as I did, after being in Israel, now I’ve been separated from my wife for four days, we come in the house and we say, “We need 14 days to make sure that if I come in, etc.” to see, or whatever. This happened in Leviticus 13. So from a Leviticus view, the Father puts it in the Torah, “Listen, sometimes you’re going to need to have quarantine.” Why am I bringing that up?

Quarantine was actually His idea. There’s another family that was quarantined, you remember who they were, in Genesis, right? Where were they quarantined? Inside of a boat, as you talked about today?

Nehemia: Yeah, Noah was shut up in the boat. I wouldn’t call that… I mean, yeah. It’s quarantine in the sense that the waters can rush in and get them.

Keith: There’s the point I wanted to make.

Nehemia: The quarantine was to protect them, not the people around them.

Keith: Exactly. So quarantine is for the sake of protection. People need to think of it that way, that this is actually grace, to be quarantined. I know it’s inconvenient. It’s inconvenient, but guess what? I’m hoping that at the end of the quarantine we’re clean and we can move about the business that we need to move about.

So I know you’re going to say a prayer. Before you do that, I’ve brought something, you were with me when I got it, and I want to do this tonight, if I can. There’s a wonderful little package here. You were with me when I got this. Do you remember this?

Nehemia: We can see the shofar, yeah.

Keith: Yeah, so this is from the IDF. We traded shofars, remember?

Nehemia: That’s right.

Keith: Yeah, we traded shofars, and I still have this shofar with me. And so I want to, tonight, just before you say a prayer, I want to blow this shofar, and I do believe we’re at war. I believe we’re at war right now, and for me, everything that I can do, both spiritually and practically, I want to be able to do. So I want to blow this shofar in honor of the Father, on this special Shabbat that’s been set aside, that this sound goes up and pray His blessings come down. We pray for the pestilence to be stopped. We pray for grace. We pray for all of those things, and I know you’re going to do that. So can I blow this? And folks that have come, I want to say thank you to the people that responded to our little booty video that we’ve tried to do. Thank you very much for that.

And for all of our friends around the world, those that came with us to Israel that are still in 14-day quarantine, and many people, you probably are…

So anything else before you pray? I want to blow the shofar.

Nehemia: Before I pray, can I read a prayer that my sister wrote?

Keith: Absolutely.

Nehemia: So there are two videos on YouTube from this morning with my one sister in Seattle, and another sister in Jerusalem. This is from a third sister. This is a sister, I would say that she’s not… I want to say, she’s not spiritual. She doesn’t write prayers left and right. This is a very unusual thing, as far as I know, for her to do. And so she wrote to me and she said that I inspired her to write this prayer, and I was very moved by it.

She sent this to me, “Yehi ratzon milfanekha Adonai, Eloheinu, Elohei avoteinu,” “May it be Your will, in your presence, our Lord, our God, the God of our fathers,” “tifros aleinu sukkat shlomekha,” “That You spread over us the sukkah, the booth of Your peace,” “vetagen aleinu mipnei magefa ra’ah,” “and that You protect us from an evil pestilence.” “Shetishlakh malakhim lerapeh et ameinu, veshetakhus al amekha,” “May you send angels to heal our people, and may You have mercy on Your people.” “Shetakhazekh et nesi’enu ve’et memshaloteinu bemilui tafkidam,” “May You strengthen our presidents…” she wrote that in plural, interesting, “our presidents and our governments, in the fulfilment of their duties.” “Vetiten bi et vakoakh lekayem et takanot medinateinu ve mekhuyavoteinu,” “And may you give me the strength to fulfill the rulings of our state and our obligations.” Amen. Can you blow the shofar, Keith?

Keith: [blows shofar]

Nehemia: Yehovah, Avinu shebashamayim, Yehovah, our Father in heaven, I ask that You stand before the angel of the pestilence and you say, “Lo.” “No.” No further, that you put Your sukkah of protection, Your booth of protection over us, covering us with Your protection, Yehovah. Yehovah, strengthen the hearts of all of those who are today in a difficult situation or are having difficulty from the disease, or from quarantine, or from the shortages. Yehovah, give wisdom to our leaders around the world to make decisions that can bring us into a situation where this plague stops. Yehovah, we want to fall into Your hand and not into the hands of any human. Yehovah, have mercy on us and forgive us of our sins. Amen.

Keith: Nehemia, you won’t do this, so I want to do it. Everyone needs to know this. You have done a really phenomenal job at nehemiaswall.com with a whole lot of information in there. It’s a lot of new things that are going to be coming out really soon, the same thing at bfainternational.com. The videos are going to be coming out, information’s going to be coming out, especially when you send an email.

Like, for example, both of us sent an email. It was just on the spot, yesterday, two emails in a day, which is not normal, right? I mean, you just sent the email. So I want to encourage people that are here, this is not for any other purpose than to stay connected. Make sure that you go to nehemiaswall.com, sign up for the newsletter. Make sure you go to bfainternational.com, sign up for the newsletter, so that when we do send something out, you don’t miss it. And things are very fluid.

Nehemia: Absolutely. Another thing people should do is, if you have gmail, go into your promotions tab and drag my newsletter out of it. Drag Keith’s newsletter out of it, from BFA International, from mine, nehemiaswall.com, Makor Hebrew Foundation, and when they ask you, do you want other things not to go in there of this sort? Select YES, and do the whitelisting. Look up how to do that, because I’ll send things out and you know, only 30 percent of the people will get it, sometimes. So guys, I hope we’re going to have a chance to do this again. I want to wish everybody a Shabbat shalom.

Keith: Somebody just put a comment and I think it’s so appropriate.

Nehemia: What’s that?

Keith: They want that the Priestly Blessing to be spoken with the Name in it. And if you would be willing to do that for us, to place the Name upon the people, I think that would be a great way to end.

Nehemia: Okay. “Yevarekhekha Yehovah veyishmareikha.” “Yehovah, bless You and keep you.” “Ya’er Yehovah panav eleikha veyikhuneikha.” “Yehovah shine His face towards you and be gracious towards you.” “Vayisa Yehovah panav eleikha,” “Yehovah lift His face towards you, and may you have shalom.” Amen.

Keith: Amen.

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  • Thank you from China where the worst is behind us. I am supporting Nehemiah the best way I could as also his believers and of course the believers of YHWH.
    I have been in China for about 10 years now but it is about time to leave now because the rest of the world needs us. . We were going to meet but the instant delivery of my wife didn’t work out.But I hope one day we will…Take care of yourself. Shalom. Charles Eliyah Pelosof.

    • Yehonatan says:

      Why do I hear the faint sound of the Star Wars Imperial march from any Imperial institution? Are we sure we can trust a unelected non transparent worldwide system that does not depend on Yehovah to track and surveil us to prevent pandemics? My faith and trust is in Yehovah.

  • daniel says:

    In this crisis of biblical proportion I’m trying to impress upon friends and family that maybe YHVH is calling His children to observe Pesach and His Feast days in all seriousness and humility, casting out the leven, behave modestly, etc… Thanks for these sobering messages, and May the Death Angel pass over your house. That second curve looks like it’s around Sukkot, and my prayer is to somehow make it to Jerusalem for the Fall Feasts.

    • Samantha washman says:

      Isaiah 26 and 27.
      Praise to yehova.
      Praying for mercy for the world . Accepting his will.

  • Marcella Wilson says:

    Thank you Nehemiah. The discussions with Pastor Keith were interesting and inspiring. And your sisters were such a fount of information. I so appreciate what you provided.