Welcome to the program today, Mano Gonzalez here in studio, and I have through Skype, Graham Keelan, who lives in England.

And we started last week a series really on how God is using Israel in his entire plan of redemption.

And one of the things that we discussed last week was talking about the land of Israel and whose land was it.

We discussed a variety of things.

You can certainly check our YouTube channel if you missed last week's episode where we're trying

to address what we're seeing happening right now in modern Israel, but looking back at the history

of Israel, going back to all the way to its foundation with Abraham into the time of Jesus, which we're going to be discussing today.

But the question that we want to address this week is talking about Jerusalem as a city of vengeance.

And to me, it's a pretty fascinating topic because it appears all through the Bible,

but specifically we're going to get into Luke 21.

So if you have your Bibles, please join us as we think about the history of what God is doing

in the redemption, really I would say of the entire world through the nation of Israel.

So Graham, welcome back.

Thank you very much, Mando.

Looking forward to session number two.

Yeah, here we are.

And so, you know, right here at the beginning, let's discuss a little bit about kind of the theology of Israel.

We talk about Jerusalem. We talk about the turning point in the history of Israel in this sense.

We do know that Moses had warned that Israel would be kicked out of the land and they would be brought back.

Deuteronomy 29, Deuteronomy 30. Even before they went in the land, you have this prophetic utterances.

We know that they were removed from the land at the Babylonian captivity for 70 years, so, you know, almost a century,

but they were removed out of the land in AD 70 for 1,870 years or so, 1,878 years.

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