206. Is Israel Safe?
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Brett and James discuss their time in Israel.
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Bokertov, Bokertov, this is from Israel. And this is the 4 Freedom Podcast, and we are, man, we just come back from Israel, man. We had a great time. And, man, it was great. And I'm glad to be back in the studio recording 4 Freedom Podcast with James.
James, how have things been since you've been back? Brett, I just have one question for you. Do you want the scarf for $20? It's the best scarf in town.
Three for $20, two for $10. Two for $10, three for $20. Great time. Man, we landed in Jerusalem, and a guy hit us up.
And every time we have gotten off or on our bus, he has found us. So how? He comes to our hotel. He saw us at the Mount of Valos two or three times. We saw him everywhere.
And one time, or almost every time, he has gotten onto the bus, walking up and down the aisles, trying to sell us these scarves. He was selling them $20 the first day.
And this last day, he got on, and he was selling us four for $20. So we went from one for $20 to four for $20. Yeah, it was the four people that bought them for $20. Like, well, what happened to me?
How come I had to pay $20? It's like, oh, those are embroidered. Those are more expensive. They're embroidered. Yeah, yeah. So it was great. But we're here.
We're going to get to the end of the episode and talk about is Israel safe.
Exploring the Sea of Galilee
But we want to just sort of walk through our journey that we've gotten to so far. We landed. We went to the Sea of Galilee. And we went to most sites that we've been before.
Expanded to each other. We've got a different guide this year, which, man, my mind has been blown with the different amount of information that he's given us. But we went to Magdala, which, if you remember, when we talked about Israel before, Magdala was one of those great sites. First century synagogue.
The scripture scroll was found there intact. And had a lot of great things. We were about to leave Brett and tell us about the guy who we're going to have on the podcast, Rabbi Kelly.
He's a Catholic priest. Tell us about Kelly. Father Kelly. Father Kelly. Yeah, Father Kelly. So this is our little bit of experience from the last time we were at Magdala.
We got off the bus. We walked around. We saw the synagogue, which was great. And we saw a couple little things. We saw some mikvahs and things like that. And it was great and awesome. This is a synagogue floor that Jesus walked on. He stood on. He taught in this synagogue. Wonderful.
And then we left. Not so this time. This time we saw the synagogue. We're getting ready to leave. And then here comes this Catholic priest. He's Irish.
His name is Father Kelly. And, you know, he got on to my wife for talking. That was funny. And then we, he took us on a journey. And he told us about the,
you know, our guy. He said our guy gave us the Jewish perspective. And now he's going to give the Christian perspective. And this guy, he's used to dealing with inner faith. So he didn't, like, harp on Catholic stuff, you know.
And, man, we learned so much. He brought us in a center behind the hotel. And he taught us so much about the site. He showed us the other synagogue. It's right across the street behind a bus stop.
Which means that Magnala was bigger than we thought. We thought it was just some tiny little podunk town. But, you know, when you have two synagogues within throwing distance of each other, what does that tell you about the size of the city? That maybe it was a first synagogue.
And they had a split. And went across the street. And became second synagogue. Whatever you want. But, man, he did a great job. Very emotional.
And then he agreed to be on the podcast. And I am really looking forward to him coming on.
But it was just a great experience all around. I know you mentioned the boat ride.
It was really cool that we got on the boat at the Sea of Galilee. Took us around way longer than last time. But he actually took us to Tiberias and took us to our hotel. Dropped us off at a port right outside our hotel in Tiberias.
We stayed in a different hotel from last time. And our bus met us there with our stuff. And so, listen, Galilee was great.
It was wonderful. Yeah, it was a great time. I really just, again, I loved the teaching of Father Kelly.
Even though he's Catholic, he does a devotion every morning on the Sea of Galilee. Like five to seven minutes. He's got an intern that's from Winston. Who's living there for three months.
And we're going to coordinate a time for him to come on the podcast. Share some of the, I mean, they're still doing digs constantly.
Women's Role in Ministry
And one of my favorite things as we're talking about Magdala was the chapel that we went to. And the importance that it put on women in ministry. And women's role in Jesus' ministry.
He asked the question, how many of us in our room, and maybe you're listening, and you can ask yourself this. How many of the people in our room were won or influenced by their mother in their life?
And every single one of us. My mother led me to the Lord. Mothers are massive influences in our life. And this whole church was dedicated to Mary Magdalene.
A couple of the ladies there mentioned in Scripture that helped fundraise for Jesus and fund his ministry. And there were columns that had their names on it. And there was one empty column.
And he said, does anyone know what name is on this column? And he pointed to each of our ladies and he said, it's your name.
It's your name. It's your name. You are the one that's on this column. And it's to reach the next people that are around us. And oftentimes in ministry, women can be feeling like a second-rate citizen.
But it shows the importance of what women have in their life. And we were talking to Johnny Nix, who's here with us. And may have him on the podcast here soon. But he was, we were talking just about the lack of male leadership in our Christian church these days.
And it's sad that even 2,000 years ago, right, Timothy? He had his grandmother,
Lois, and his mother, Eunice, who raised him and loved him and cared for him. And there was no father or grandfather in the picture.
And how would that have been even different if a male influence, other than Paul, would have been there? And it just changed my perspective a little bit as we were there, as we're hanging out.
One of the things, Brett, that I loved as we went to the different sites, all tourism has come back.
All the flights are opened up. But people are still scared to come, right? Yael is begging us, please bring more people. Please bring more people. I'll give you a quick fact. In the year 2019 to 2020, from the month of November to February, before the pandemic happened in 2020,
Pari told me they had 195 tours in a four-month period.
And she said, we're lucky to get three or four a month right now. And so the amount of tourism is down.
And we saw this in the Sea of Galilee. We'd pull up to a stop, and I was like, man, I remember pulling up to Capernaum. And there were like 14 buses in a row. And we had an exact time frame. We walked in.
We had three minutes at the synagogue and two minutes in Peter's house.
And we saw a couple of the things while we were doing some teaching. And then we had to hurry up and rush out. But we got there, and there's not a bus in sight. We walked the entire Capernaum. And no one was there the entire time we were there.
We had the entire place ourselves. We're taking pictures. We're loving it. We're having a great time. We didn't feel rushed. So that's part of the great thing right now. But the economy and the people are just starving without tourism.
And so it has been safe. And we'll give some more illustrations about that. But, Brett, let's transition to a couple of new places that we went. But we went to Shiloh, Shiloh, the place of the tabernacle. Last time we went, pouring down rain, completely covered in mud.
We're trying to find shelter everywhere we can. This time it was clear.
Visiting Historical Sites
And we got to go down to the tabernacle site. We got to see where the tabernacle stood for 369 years, the permanent tabernacle, where Eli was killed, where Hophni and Phinehas were killed, where Samuel was dedicated to the Lord, Hannah's prayer.
We got to stand in that temple ground. And that was our tabernacle ground.
And that was a wonderful time, something we didn't get to do the first time. But then now, as we are in Jerusalem, we're staying right here in the old city, right outside the walls, we got to go to a couple of new places. Let's start with the two that we did today.
And then we'll talk about Bethlehem at the very end.
Well, I'll tell you, one of the things that we did, two of the things we did, we did several things today that we didn't do last time. In fact, today was really full of new experiences for us.
Not only is our guide different, but in fact, our guide is named Guy. And not only is he a different guide, but he does things different. Not that there was anything wrong with Amir last time. Amir was great. Guy's just different. So we started from a different place. And I enjoyed the fresh perspective.
One of the things that we did, we went to Mount Zion and we went to Caiaphas' house. And we were crunched for time because we had an appointment later in the day. And so we got there and we went down to the basement at the bottom,
which hewn out, this rock room is hewn out. And we're just down there. And you can just imagine, this is Caiaphas' house. This is where it was. And this is where they held Jesus until they turned him over to the Romans. And it just meant a lot.
My wife read Psalm 88, which was appropriate for how Jesus was feeling at that moment.
And then we sang victory in Jesus. And it was just a great time. We came up. We came into the outer court where Peter denied Christ three times. And then you have the Roman road right there.
And when I throw it back to you, I want you to give me the significance of the Roman road. You told me about that today.
But, man, it was just great to be there. We didn't get to go to Caiaphas' house last time. And then we went up to the upper room. And that was a wonderful experience because that was another thing we didn't get to do. Now, there were some crowds.
It was probably the crowdiest it had been the whole time we were here. There was about three different groups in the upper room with us.
So we're all trying to talk at the same time. And that was a good – we didn't have a whole lot of that. A lot of this trip, we've just – we've been the only tour. So we went to the upper room. We saw that. It was great. Had a great experience.
And before I hand it back to you, let me just say that I have felt safe this entire time.
I've not felt – even when we went to Bethlehem, which we'll talk about in a minute, I felt completely safe. Not only is it safe in Israel, but our tour company, Yal Tours, Yal Tours, they take care of us.
They watch out for us. You know, if there was something dangerous, they would keep us away from that. Of course, there's conflict in the area. But, you know, if you wait until there's no conflict to come to Israel, then you're never going to go.
So, and listen, and I heard the remarks of family members, oh, are you going to Israel? You better be careful and things like that. Just watch out for yourself. But you get here, and it's totally fine. It's totally safe. I haven't felt unsafe this entire time. Yeah, absolutely. Same way.
We'll start with – well, before I forget, let's start with one thing that we got to do that Marcus – so this is Marcus' eighth trip to Israel.
One of the things that he has never gotten to do that we got to all do together was when we landed in Jerusalem driving in yesterday, we got to go straight to the Mount of Olives. Yeah. We went to the Mount of Olives. It starts getting dark.
The dome of the rock is lit up. We take a picture in front of it. The pictures don't do justice because if you know how iPhones work, they make everything brighter so that you can see what's going on.
But I don't think I'll ever forget seeing the Temple Mount, seeing the locations, and just feeling, you know, Jesus would have seen this. It would have been nighttime for him.
He would have – of course, it wouldn't be lit up the way it was lit up, but just the view that it was lit up in the nighttime was a view that I'll never forget.
As we went to Caiaphas' house, this is a place we didn't get to go before. This is where, like you said, Jesus was put in prison. He was judged. He was thrown over to Pilate, to Pontius Pilate, to be executed. And then Pilate sent him to Herod.
And Herod sent him and said, this isn't my deal. Crucify him, send him back.
And, of course, Pilate washed his hands. As we're at Caiaphas' house, they have uncovered the steps that lead from Caiaphas' house down to the Kidron Valley, or the Jehoshaphat Valley, that leads directly over to the Garden of Gethsemane, which tells us that the way they
would have gotten Jesus from his arrest at the Garden of Gethsemane to Caiaphas' house would have been up that road. You can see the stairs. They are clearly stairs. They have been uncovered. They're laid out. And Jesus, our Lord and Savior, would have walked up those steps to be tried,
never opened a word, at Caiaphas' house. And we got to sit and stand on those stairs that we know 100% sure that that's the only way up to Caiaphas' house. It's the shortest way from the Garden of Gethsemane to that house.
And so they would have made that way and that way up. So from there, of course, you've got the Via Della Rosa.
Did Jesus go to the Via Della Rosa, or would they have taken Jesus from Pilate's house back up those stairs to the crucifixion site of Golgotha? Maybe. Maybe that's the true Via Della Rosa.
We don't know. But that is the idea of back and forth of Jesus could have actually climbed those stairs to go to the crucifixion site. So what a great experience that was.
The upper room, I'm about to preach a series to the upper room. And so that was a great time for me as well.
So I'm trying to think of something else that we did, if it was anything else other than Bethlehem. Because we, this was part of the, we had about a third of our group that said, I just don't know Bethlehem. It's unsafe. If you're not familiar,
Bethlehem is part of Israel. But Israel and the IDF, the Israel Defense Force, does not have jurisdiction to maintain order inside of a Palestinian territory. He said there's an A, B, and C. A is all Israel defense.
B is like Shiloh or Shiloh, where you've got IDF and Palestine sort of working together.
Experiences in Bethlehem
And then you've got C, which would be a Bethlehem, which is all Palestine territory,
still Israel, still the state of Israel. But the Palestinians handle the disagreements and the arguments, and they have the police force in there. And so Bethlehem would be, it's on the West Bank, of course, and it is Palestinian rule. So our guide, because he is a Jew, our leader, Yael, leader,
or Eit, because she's a Jew, they're not allowed to enter those territories.
And so he said, if you go, we can't go with you, but you can go by yourself, and we can have a guide on the other side. So we got to the Nissan Brothers. And so about a third of our group didn't go because, again, there's safety.
Is everything going to be okay? And so we get there. We pull up. They close the gate behind us at the Nissan Brothers.
Best meal of the trip was, oh, my goodness. Best chicken, I think. In North Carolina, we've got a chicken that is massive in the area called Porter Pit Chicken. And you pick the bone up, and the chicken just falls off. So good.
I think it gave it a run for its money, how good that food was there at Nissan Brothers. Again, they haven't had tourism there in Bethlehem in years, and we'll talk about that in a minute as well. So we did all that.
We leave from there, and we go to the shepherd's field where the supposed angels came, made the witness to the shepherds, and they left and went and found the baby Jesus. We got to go into a cave. We got to see all that. But was it safe, Brett?
What was your perspective of the safetiness of us going into Bethlehem and then leaving Bethlehem?
What was your experience or thought on that? Well, listen, this is Palestinian-controlled land.
Okay, this is the highest level of Palestinian control, like James said. So, you know, there is going to be some of the normal politics that you would normally have. Is it any more heightened now than it was as it's always been?
No, I don't think so at all. I think it's the same way that it's always been. Even though we're in Palestine and Bethlehem, I never felt unsafe.
The only thing is our tour guide told us that, listen, don't let these street vendors try to give you anything or give you a gift because they'll call the cops on you and cause trouble and you will be
delayed. And if they try to give you something, just say no thank you. They're very aggressive in Palestine, more so than in Jerusalem. But other than that,
I mean, we had no issues. We even got through customs. Fat Marcus said it was the fastest he'd ever. Because you can drive into Bethlehem, but to drive out, you've got to go through security checkpoint.
Sometimes they ask to see your passport. Well, our guide said, look, don't go that way. Go this way. And, man, he waved us through. You know, we just drove right on out. So, you know, it's, I don't think it's any more now than it's always been.
It's always been that way. And I think it was good. Now, I would like to say a little bit about our tour guide. Our tour guide, his name was Edmund.
And he's Palestinian, but he's been to the States. His family lives in the States. And he was talking about how hard it's been in tourism, especially there in Bethlehem. He was talking about how his family has moved to the States.
350,000 Christians in Bethlehem have left. There's only 30,000 there now. Now, it's very hard to be a Christian in Palestine, in Bethlehem.
There's a lot of persecution on Christians. And he said from 2020 to now, he's worked 10 months.
And this is the reason why. It's because they had the pandemic. And then when the pandemic finally got over, they started doing tours for 10 months. And then the war happened. So, in six years, he's worked 10 months because of that.
Tourism is the only thing he does. And he's new at it. So, because he's new,
we're only in six years, we were only his second group. Because he had his first, I guess in the 10 months, he was doing training. And so, he had his first group of 12 people. And then the war started. And now we were his second group. But he was super knowledgeable.
He took us to the shepherd's field. And we went into the little chapel there. We sang Silent Night, which was awesome. He told us about the three different Christmases, two different New Years they have.
Because every denomination has got to get their Christmas and New Year's in. And how they're out of school from December 20th to January 20th there.
Because, you know, everybody has, you've got three Christmases. And his house was right outside the shepherd's field.
So, he talked about how, you know, at home, every 50 tours, they would sing Christmas carols in the chapel. And he would hear it. And so, he said the only thing that he could grow up and be was a tourist for the shepherd's field. And, man, he took us there.
Took us into a cave. Gave us some perspectives on the nativity that I had never thought before.
New Perspectives on Nativity
And that was the reason why we came here. The reason why we made this trip to Israel was to get these different perspectives. And now I will preach. I will never preach the nativity story the same again. Because I heard what he had to say today. And so, was it safe?
Absolutely, it was. You know, the third of our group that didn't go, I'm just going to tell you, I thought they missed out at the best part of the day. It was the best meal. It was the most informative.
The guy did a great job. I think they missed out. I couldn't have not went. Because I've got FOMO.
I've got fear missing out. And so, I was going to go no matter what. And I'm glad I did. To be honest, it was the best part of the day. I agree with you. And I think it was a great time, as you said, that we got to experience there.
He was a Christian. He was a believer. And so, that was encouraging. Again, our first time, we never had anyone on our tour that was a believer. They were all Orthodox Jews. And so, we've had two believers. We had a great conversation today with a Coptic Egypt Christian.
And so, what a great perspective they have by being in the land where Jesus was at and where we are now at. It's been a great time. And I have so enjoyed it. Has there been bombs dropping everywhere? No. Does the media lie to us? Yes.
Has there been bombs in the past? Yes. But Israel, in their sense, and I've told our people this, if it were unsafe for us to be here, they would not allow planes to fly in. They would not allow us to be on the grounds. The first thing that stops is the planes.
Because the planes are not going to be responsible for dropping people off when they can't get out of the airport. And so, they're going to shut those down first.
And as long as flights are open, this is what Pari told me, as long as flights are open, it's safe to be in Israel. And I can attest to that. Being here away from our family, it's been safe the entire time.
Seeing, you know, Marcus, he said every time he goes to Bethlehem, it's always chaos. It's always crazy. And he just simply told them,
we're not going to go because of that. And we got to the Nisan brothers. He told them that. He said, I'll fix that. And he called the police. He told them.
And there was a police officer out there waiting for us, escorted us, and then went ahead of us and got us to the checkpoint.
We had been told that it was going to be an hour to an hour and a half to get through that checkpoint. It took about a minute and a half because they want us to come back. They want the tourism here.
They want us to see the Holy Land. And they want us to experience, like we said before, the Bible coming to true life. It's a full vision of full color.
And, man, it has been a great experience. We're going to be able to, tomorrow, go to the Dead Sea and Qumran and Masada and then finish our day with all the city, with the crucifixion place, the Church of Flagulation,
some of the places we didn't get to go on our last day. And then before we know it, Brett, we're going to be getting on a plane and flying home, 12 hours and time change and everything else.
Reflections on the Trip
But, man, what a great time it has been. And the friends we've made, man, the guys on this trip have been awesome. Even Sean from your church. Man, what a great time we've had with him and Johnny and Tim and Paul. And I'm missing some Chris Lawrence.
Oh, Lawrence is like my best friend now. It's a great time. And there's two guys that I want to highlight.
And they will probably never listen to this episode, so it's fine. One is a man that you brought, Wayne.
And tell a little bit about Wayne. And then tell about his story and about what he did and how he was able to come to Israel. And then I want to share about the other guy. Well, I'll tell you. Wayne McKee is a preacher.
He's 75 years old. He pastors a church, Faith Baptist Church in Lena, Mississippi.
And, you know, I first met Wayne with a phone call. Because what happened is we put our trip in our association newsletter. And he read the association newsletter. Heard about the trip. And he contacted me.
And wanted to know if he could, you know, he could want to come to Israel one last time. And at first he was going to come with his wife. But then she had some health problems and decided to stay back. But Wayne's just an old-fashioned kind of guy.
And what I mean by that, just nothing electronic. No smartphone. No email. No internet. No internet.
So I kind of had to help him and do all of his online stuff for him. I had to sign up for him and pay for him online and things like that. And apply for his Israeli visa and things like that for him. Which I didn't mind doing at all.
That's part of what I do in leading this group to Israel. That's part of my job. But listen, he is just... That was the first time I ever met him. I didn't know him before he called me. And I have just grown to love him here today.
I preached at the Garden of Gethsemane. And then we want to turn it over to Wayne to pray. To give him an opportunity to speak. Because we've been giving all the pastors on this trip opportunities to speak.
And so he was able to speak for a minute. And then pray at the Garden of Gethsemane. And it was just a precious, wonderful time. He's a great guy. And I'm glad...
He did say this will be his last time in the Holy Land. He also said that he has learned... He went one other time in the 80s. And he said he learned more on his first day here than he did the whole rest of the trip.
He's seeing stuff he didn't even know about the first time he went. And he's having a great time. Yeah, I think part of that...
I forgot that he said he had been here before. He's been in ministry for 50 years. He drove a truck for 50 years. So he was a truck driver full time. And then pastored the church on the weekend. He drove over the road Monday through Friday.
Came home on the weekend. Pastored his church in Georgia. And then recently moved to Mississippi to be with his grandkids. But that was one of the things I learned today. Was every tour guide in Israel has to at least have their master's degree.
And then they have to go through like six to eight months of training to even be an Israeli tour guide. Which, if you can think about it, 40 years ago in the 80s.
I'm sure they didn't have any of that. It's just... So, yeah, you've got to pass the test. You've got to be able to do these things. And so they're very knowledgeable today. They want to bring what the Jewish culture is. And how it affected and set up for the Christians.
Because we're... Again, there was a split between the Jews and the Christians. Once they were together, as our guide said. And then when Peter had his vision of Cornelius at Joppa.
That was a new place we went to. I forgot where Jonah was at. He had the vision of Joppa. We got to do that the first day. See, we've been here so much. I've forgotten a brand new place. He had this vision.
And our guide told us, he said, up until this point. He said, the Christians and the Jews were together. They were okay with it.
But when Peter came in and said, God is declaring everything to be clean. And whatever he declares to be clean. And we're abolishing the rules of kosher and those laws.
He said, the Jewish fraction said, we can't do that. And the Christian fraction went a different way. So they were together for years there. They were worshiping together. They loved each other.
But that was the moment where Peter said, hey, we're going to have freedom in Christ. And Paul later wrote, Galatians 5.1, we're going to have, for freedom in Christ, that's free.
It's been great to be able to get a hold of Wayne and be able to talk with him. The other guy that I'm going to highlight is Bruce. Or not Bruce, Butch.
Butch or Kirby is what his name tag says. But he goes by Butch. Butch is in his 80s, I believe.
And he's here with his sister. And his niece and nephew. Or his two nieces. And his granddaughter is... Two nieces and granddaughter. That's what it is. Yeah. He's here with them. And sister, Beth.
And there's Mary Beth, his niece. And then Sarah Beth is his granddaughter. Okay. And then the other one, I can't remember her name. Angela.
Okay. I don't know why. Angela and Sarah Beth and Beth. But, man, he is hoofing it with the rest of us. I mean, he's outpacing me at times. He's taking every step.
He's loving being here with his granddaughter and his sister and his nieces. And, man, it's just been an encouragement to me. Because he said that he was here nine or ten years ago. There was a guy that was...
We were on the Temple Mount today, Brett. There was a little old lady. She didn't speak English.
And he walks over and he's trying to tell her about Jesus. He's trying to tell her about our Lord and Savior who died on the cross for her sins. She doesn't speak English and she doesn't even understand him. And she's over there trying to...
Like, that's his heart. He's like, I'm here to tell the Jewish people about Jesus.
And what an encouragement that is for us that he felt safe enough to walk over on the Temple Mount, the holiest of holy place for the Muslims, and to try to witness to them. And not fear of persecution. Not fear of arrest.
And so it's been a great time. Man, we have enjoyed it. I'm thankful for the ones on this trip that came with us. I'm sorry for the ones that couldn't come. Maybe next time in a couple of years if we come back, you'll join us.
Closing Thoughts and Farewell
And so, Brett, any final words before we cancel, before we close down?
I'm just glad to be here. I'm glad to go home and I'm ready to go to bed. That's right. We're recording this at 943 at night after a long day here in Jerusalem. We've got a long two days left. And so thank you for tuning in.
And like I said on the last episode, we're going to be dropping the teaching and the preaching times and maybe even some of the clips of our guide and some of the things that he said. I've tried to record most of them.
And so hopefully we'll get some of those audio things out in the month of February and then look forward to what we've got coming out in March with spiritual manipulation and boundaries. We're going to be talking about boundaries as well and what that looks like, healthy boundaries in a couple of months.
And looking forward to this season of the podcast. And so until next time, to God be the glory. Great things he has done. I found my new name. I found that good grace.
I found that healing. And the tears fell down my face when I found my beginning that has no ending. I found that second chance. I found my best friend. I found my forgiveness. I found my happiness. I've been singing ever since. I found my freedom in you.
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