Iran in biblical prophecy, particularly the prophecy of Jeremiah chapter 49.

Now, you may have been watching the news and you've seen the United States attack on Iran,

and there's a lot of political commentary on that but I want to pause right now and ask the

question why does the modern state of Israel founded in 1948 care about Iran they're not neighbors

they don't share a border. Why is Iran so important to Israel?

And to widen the angle lens a little bit, why do Zionists, Jewish Zionists and Protestant

evangelical Christian Zionists see Iran as so important and why must Iran be stopped?

Well, one obvious observation is that the dismantling of Iran and the Shiite Muslim fellowship weakens Islam in general,

but it also strengthens Sunni Islam.

That might be a podcast I have to do on another day.

It's very interesting to see how over the last 100 years Muslim politics has been changing and shifting in the

Middle East in the role of Iran and Shiite Islam. As you may know, Shiite Islam is different

than the majority form of Islam, Sunni Islam, Shiite Islam believes in the original 12 imams blood relatives of Muhammad,

and they believe the 12th Imam has been alive hiding on earth for 1,200 years,

and he will emerge at the end of times, according to Shiite Islam eschatology.

It's interesting, it's weird, it's kind of stupid, but we're not going to

talk about that today. The problem is Iran in Zionist dispensationalist, I would call

incorrect, heretical interpretation of Jeremiah 49. Now, before we begin that, you have to understand

that going back to Genesis in the Table of Nations, the Parthians, the Elamites, these are, you know,

after the time of Noah, these are the people of Persia, which is modern Iran. You can see on the screen,

you see Elam, Elam, you see Persia. And by the way, often in America, you'll meet someone

who says, I'm a Persian. And usually that means they're from Iran, but they don't want to say

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