The Rise of Zionism and the Fall of Great Britain

Concluding their England journey, the brothers parallel the events from the last century’s moves of God with the re-birth of the state of Israel. Unfortunately, they discovered how antisemitism led to diminishing the largest empire in human history: Great Britain. Is there hope for the UK to turn back to God?

Air dates: 2026-Jan-14

Production Code: 2603

Duration: 28:30

Year: 2026

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  • 00:01 ♪♪♪
  • 00:06 Caleb Colson: Last week on the “Bearded Bible Brothers.”
  • 00:09 I looked everywhere for Josh, lost in the middle of London.
  • 00:13 Hirchie Schaffner: It’s amazing to know the roots of it, the
  • 00:15 backstory of where it all started.
  • 00:18 Caleb: We’re gonna go over the history of these great moves of
  • 00:21 God, how they occurred here, and how we believe something good is
  • 00:24 coming in the future.
  • 00:26 Our ancestry, Colson, from the area of the UK here and linked
  • 00:30 with our family’s history.
  • 00:31 Joshua Colson: The bombs bursting in air gave truth to
  • 00:34 the night.
  • 00:36 ♪♪♪
  • 00:46 Hirchie: Well, once again, we are here at the heart of
  • 00:49 governance of the United Kingdom.
  • 00:51 I just feel like I need to say it that way.
  • 00:54 You know, it’s right here behind us.
  • 00:56 This is the Palace of Westminster, where Edward I was
  • 01:01 born in 1239, long, long ago.
  • 01:05 Of course, back then it wasn’t quite as large, quite as
  • 01:09 majestic as it is now.
  • 01:11 There’s been a little bit of reconstruction, but you see it
  • 01:13 behind us right here.
  • 01:15 Caleb: You know, antisemitism was ramping up in Europe even
  • 01:18 before Edward was born, but he is the one credited with the
  • 01:22 infamous Expulsion of the Jews edicts, you know, that he began
  • 01:26 in July 18, 1290.
  • 01:28 This was a horrifying moment in history when all the Jews were
  • 01:33 commanded to get out of England, literally the first time any one
  • 01:37 country in Europe expulsed the Jews, like completely.
  • 01:42 He was kind of a perverse, really antisemitic guy.
  • 01:45 He wanted to do it on a very important Jewish holiday.
  • 01:49 This was Tisha B’av.
  • 01:51 This was the commemoration of the destruction of Jerusalem in
  • 01:54 70 AD, as well as the destruction of both the first
  • 01:57 and second temple in the past.
  • 01:59 So, he was really sticking it to the Jews.
  • 02:01 Hirchie: Yeah, too bad William Wallace didn’t get to him a
  • 02:04 little quicker, that would have been–
  • 02:13 Joshua: Is or was England doomed to repeat their past mistakes?
  • 02:17 Well, instead of looking at it that way, let’s look at all the
  • 02:19 good that’s occurred here, the many revivals and the worldwide
  • 02:22 revivals that even were birthed and spawned out of here, and how
  • 02:24 they paralleled the good that was going on with the Jewish
  • 02:26 people, with the rebirth of Zionism, the rebirth of the
  • 02:29 Jewish state.
  • 02:30 It’s pretty incredible.
  • 02:32 Caleb: It is, because Satan could sense that his time was
  • 02:35 coming to an end, that the clock, like Big Ben, was ticking
  • 02:38 for him, and he was trying to do everything he could to wipe out
  • 02:42 the Jewish people before they would be rebirthed.
  • 02:45 He started to move in the hearts of Russia, of Ukraine, and
  • 02:49 throughout Europe with the pogroms, these violent uprisings
  • 02:52 and expulsion of the Jewish people to remove them, to even
  • 02:56 harm them, to even kill them.
  • 02:58 But in the midst of all this antisemitism and chaos and
  • 03:01 death and murder, God would raise up one man who didn’t even
  • 03:05 know him, one man who wasn’t even a believer in the God of
  • 03:08 Israel, who would step forth prophetically to fulfill his
  • 03:12 word, and that man’s name was Theodor Herzl.
  • 03:16 Caleb: Ezekiel 36:24-26, “For I will take you out of the
  • 03:20 nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you
  • 03:24 back into your own land.
  • 03:26 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I
  • 03:29 will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all
  • 03:32 your idols.
  • 03:33 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you.
  • 03:36 I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a
  • 03:39 heart of flesh.”
  • 03:40 Caleb: Theodor Herzl was a Jewish journalist
  • 03:44 from Austria-Hungary.
  • 03:46 Now, he was known as the father of modern political Zionism.
  • 03:51 He was tasked to be a news correspondent in France to cover
  • 03:55 what was known as the political scandal of the century.
  • 03:59 It was called the Dreyfus affair.
  • 04:02 In 1894, French Army Captain Alfred Dreyfus was falsely
  • 04:07 accused of spying for the Germans.
  • 04:10 Joshua: Herzl witnessed mass rallies of antisemitic
  • 04:14 French mobs.
  • 04:15 He heard them crying out, “Death to the Jews,” and said this is
  • 04:18 what pushed him to becoming a Zionist.
  • 04:20 He then formed the Zionist organization in suggesting that
  • 04:24 there was no safe place for a Jew to live except for
  • 04:27 his homeland.
  • 04:28 And since there was no homeland for the Jews, he proposed the
  • 04:30 formation of the Jewish state.
  • 04:34 Caleb: Isaiah 49:22-23, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I
  • 04:39 will lift My hands in an oath to the nations and set up My
  • 04:43 standard for the peoples; They shall bring your sons in
  • 04:46 their arms.
  • 04:47 And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;
  • 04:49 Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your
  • 04:53 nursing mothers; They shall bow down to you with their faces to
  • 04:56 the earth, And lick up the dust of your feet.
  • 04:59 Then you will know that I am the Lord, For they shall not be
  • 05:02 ashamed who wait for Me.”‘
  • 05:04 Hirchie: In 1895, Herzl wrote his book, “The State of
  • 05:08 the Jews.”
  • 05:09 In that book, he stated the importance of the European Jews
  • 05:13 and the need for them to return to their original land of Israel
  • 05:18 to avoid the persecution that he knew was coming.
  • 05:20 Caleb: Yes, now this is where the British come into the story.
  • 05:24 There was an Anglican minister named William Hechler, and he
  • 05:29 was made the official Reverend of Vienna by the
  • 05:32 British government.
  • 05:33 He met with Theodor Herzl in 1896, and the Holy Spirit moved
  • 05:37 on his heart.
  • 05:39 Because of his understanding of Bible prophecy, he knew Zionism
  • 05:41 was prophetic.
  • 05:43 He joined forces with Herzl and tried to find a way, with his
  • 05:47 contacts, to get all the heads of state around Europe to meet
  • 05:50 with Herzl as well.
  • 05:51 And one by one, they started jumping on board to the idea of
  • 05:55 Zionism and giving the Jews a state, a place to live.
  • 05:59 Caleb: Amos 9:14-15, “‘I will bring back the captives of My
  • 06:03 people Israel; They shall build the waste cities and inhabit
  • 06:07 them; They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them.
  • 06:10 They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
  • 06:13 I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall they be
  • 06:16 pulled up from the land I have given them,’ Says the Lord
  • 06:19 your God.”
  • 06:21 Hirchie: So Reverend William Hechler was really greatly
  • 06:25 influenced by the European evangelical
  • 06:28 restoration theology.
  • 06:30 And what that was, that’s really big words, you know, fancy talk,
  • 06:33 but what it was was a group of people who truly believed and
  • 06:37 desired to get back to the first church, the church we see in the
  • 06:40 book of Acts, to move away from the religious theology that
  • 06:46 really was in the body at the moment.
  • 06:49 And so they had this assertion to really see the first church
  • 06:53 come back, to see the signs and the wonders and the miracles,
  • 06:56 and to rely on the fullness of the Holy Spirit to fulfill the
  • 07:00 gifts and the fruit of the Spirit in their lives.
  • 07:03 Caleb: And that’s really interesting because, along with
  • 07:05 that, they started to take the Bible as literal, especially
  • 07:09 Bible prophecy and eschatology.
  • 07:11 So in Bible prophecy, if God talks about the Jews returning
  • 07:14 to the land of Israel and being restored, then he meant it, a
  • 07:18 literal Israel, literal Jews returning.
  • 07:21 And this terrified Satan.
  • 07:22 He could not stop the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
  • 07:24 He couldn’t have stopped this move of God that was affecting
  • 07:27 people, which also meant that he wasn’t going to be able to stop
  • 07:30 the Jews from being restored to their land and Israel
  • 07:33 being reborn.
  • 07:34 And this was all part of God’s plan, using the body of Christ
  • 07:37 to bring his people, his chosen people back.
  • 07:40 Caleb: Joel 2:28-29, “And it shall come to pass afterward
  • 07:44 that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your
  • 07:48 daughters shall prophesy.
  • 07:50 Your old men shall dream dreams.
  • 07:52 Your young men shall see visions.
  • 07:54 And also on My menservants and My maidservants I will pour out
  • 07:58 My Spirit in those days.”
  • 08:01 Caleb: It’s not an accident that God aligned the restoration of
  • 08:05 his church with the restoration of his chosen people.
  • 08:08 You had a man, Theodor Herzl, who was a Jew but an atheist.
  • 08:13 He was living out Bible prophecy with a Christian pastor who
  • 08:16 believed in God’s Word.
  • 08:18 And at the same time that revivals were breaking out all
  • 08:22 over the world, there was a man named Eliezer Ben-Yehuda who was
  • 08:26 restoring a dead language, Hebrew.
  • 08:29 He was already ahead of the curve, having emigrated to the
  • 08:32 land of Israel in 1881 to escape persecution in Russia.
  • 08:37 Joshua: And by 1906, the Azusa Street Revival exploded
  • 08:40 in California.
  • 08:42 The effects of this going global, the ministry that was
  • 08:46 seen during the Azusa Street Revival, the works of the Holy
  • 08:49 Spirit, are those so powerful that they hadn’t been seen since
  • 08:53 the book of Acts in that level of intensity.
  • 08:55 At the same time on the world stage, the Jewish people were
  • 08:58 being offered Uganda as the proposed new site for
  • 09:02 their homeland.
  • 09:03 Of course, they politely declined this.
  • 09:05 At this time, we see the Charismatic and Pentecostal
  • 09:08 Movements boom across the world from everything
  • 09:11 that’s happening.
  • 09:13 Caleb: Joel 2:23, “Be glad then, you children of Zion, And
  • 09:17 rejoice in the Lord your God; For He has given you the former
  • 09:20 rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for
  • 09:24 you the former rain, And the latter rain in the first month.”
  • 09:28 Hirchie: So in 1907, the Welsh revival was still having
  • 09:33 global effects.
  • 09:34 You know, it was moving worldwide.
  • 09:36 Not long after that, there was this English plumber named
  • 09:39 Smith Wigglesworth.
  • 09:41 He got born again during the Sunderland revival.
  • 09:43 And in that time frame, he actually received the baptism of
  • 09:46 the Holy Spirit, completely revolutionized his life.
  • 09:50 He went around all of England, actually ended up going to the
  • 09:53 United States and different areas, actually seeing healings,
  • 09:58 miracles, signs, and wonders, even seeing the dead raised in
  • 10:01 his time of ministry.
  • 10:03 Caleb: Wow, he’s one of my favorites, truly,
  • 10:05 throughout history.
  • 10:07 And Satan would try to strike back.
  • 10:10 He was infuriated.
  • 10:12 He would pour out his magnum opus of hatred through a man
  • 10:16 named Adolf Hitler.
  • 10:18 He would go on a campaign, Adolf Hitler would, to try to
  • 10:21 eliminate all the Jews of the world.
  • 10:24 Thank God he ultimately failed.
  • 10:26 At the end of World War II, Great Britain had the
  • 10:30 opportunity to bless the Jewish people, to restore the Jewish
  • 10:33 people back to their land after all the pain and the suffering
  • 10:38 they endured during the war.
  • 10:40 Ultimately, they failed as well.
  • 10:42 Caleb: Genesis 12:1-3, “Now the Lord had said to Abram: ‘I will
  • 10:46 make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name
  • 10:49 great, And you shall be a blessing.
  • 10:52 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who
  • 10:55 curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall
  • 10:59 be blessed.”‘
  • 11:00 Caleb: England was the most powerful nation on the Earth
  • 11:02 after World War I.
  • 11:04 They literally controlled a quarter
  • 11:05 of the world’s population.
  • 11:07 Because of their obedience to God, with the outpourings of the
  • 11:10 Holy Spirit and their support for the Jewish people, God
  • 11:14 blessed them at every turn.
  • 11:16 But during World War II, they slowly became corrupted.
  • 11:20 Hirchie: Well, they were reluctant at first to even allow
  • 11:24 the Jewish refugees in from the nation of Germany under Nazi
  • 11:29 rule and other Nazi-occupied nations as well.
  • 11:34 You know, they didn’t allow them in immediately.
  • 11:36 They actually, when they did let them in, they brought them in as
  • 11:40 enemy invaders, to some sense, and put them in
  • 11:43 internment camps.
  • 11:45 We know that there was also rumors that the government of
  • 11:49 England knew about the concentration camps, and yet
  • 11:52 failed to do anything at the initial outset of World War II.
  • 11:56 Caleb: It’s really traumatic because even after World War II,
  • 11:59 Jews tried to make their way to the Holy Land.
  • 12:02 They went on boats.
  • 12:04 The MI6 even tried to stop them, even tried to blow up their
  • 12:07 boats before they made it there.
  • 12:09 It was a difficult situation.
  • 12:12 Eventually, the League of Nations tasked England with the
  • 12:16 British Mandate to create a state of Palestine, if you will,
  • 12:20 a state for the Jews to live and reside.
  • 12:22 Imagine that, the United Nations, which is what the
  • 12:25 League of Nations was back then, trying to create a Jewish state.
  • 12:28 And of course, they ultimately failed.
  • 12:30 Caleb: Isaiah 66:8, “Who has heard such a thing?
  • 12:34 Who has seen such things?
  • 12:36 Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day?
  • 12:39 Or shall a nation be born at once?
  • 12:41 For as soon as Zion was in labor, She gave birth to
  • 12:44 her children.”
  • 12:46 Hirchie: You know, God didn’t take these acts of indifference
  • 12:48 and even persecution lightly against his people.
  • 12:52 The nation of the United Kingdoms and Great Britain, it
  • 12:56 was a powerhouse for decades, centuries.
  • 13:00 And we begin to see the decline during this time because, in
  • 13:03 essence, they cursed the people of Israel.
  • 13:05 And with that, there is a curse that comes back on you.
  • 13:08 And so we’ve seen, even in the nation today, it’s nothing like
  • 13:11 it was back in its yesteryear.
  • 13:14 But I do believe that God is a restorative God, and that he’s
  • 13:18 gonna do a great work in the United Kingdom, and they will
  • 13:21 see a Great Awakening again.
  • 13:22 Caleb: I’m with you, man.
  • 13:24 And he looked back after the failure of the British to
  • 13:27 establish a Jewish state.
  • 13:29 When the British mandate ended on May 14, 1948, the Jews
  • 13:33 declared their independence.
  • 13:35 They were restored to the land of Israel.
  • 13:38 A nation was born in a day, and prophecy was fulfilled.
  • 13:41 And literally, God had already given them a birthday present
  • 13:44 one year in advance with the discovery of the Dead Sea
  • 13:46 Scrolls, which not only verified the authenticity of the Bible,
  • 13:51 but the authenticity of the Jewish right to the land
  • 13:53 of Israel.
  • 13:55 Caleb: But God was not done aligning his chosen people with
  • 13:58 his bride, the Church.
  • 14:00 At the same time, Israel was reborn, so was the
  • 14:03 Charismatic Movement.
  • 14:05 This healing revival lasted from 1947 into the ’70s with such
  • 14:09 ministers as Oral Roberts and A.A. Allen,
  • 14:12 along with another evangelical revival led by Billy Graham.
  • 14:16 This outpouring of the Holy Spirit was not localized to a
  • 14:19 single denomination.
  • 14:20 The spread through the Anglican Church, Lutherans,
  • 14:23 Presbyterians, Methodists, and even Roman Catholics, with the
  • 14:27 height of the Charismatic Renewal going global in 1967.
  • 14:30 After the Six-Day War, God restored former territory to
  • 14:33 Israel, including East Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria,
  • 14:37 and the Golan Heights.
  • 14:39 In 1973, a surprise attack against Israel led to the
  • 14:42 infamous Yom Kippur War, but God turned it to Israel’s advantage
  • 14:47 again, taking more ancestral ground.
  • 14:49 This is when the outpouring of the Holy Spirit came again to
  • 14:52 California with the Jesus Movement.
  • 14:55 Chuck Smith and Lonnie Frisbee saw the power of God explode and
  • 14:59 again go worldwide.
  • 15:00 Out of this movement came the Jews for Jesus, along with many
  • 15:04 more Messianics, including Zola Levitt Ministries.
  • 15:08 Jews were starting to come into the kingdom, a full circle
  • 15:11 restoration as described in the book of Acts.
  • 15:14 But things have been quiet since the Jesus Movement, and a
  • 15:18 generation has passed without witnessing these outpourings of
  • 15:20 the Holy Spirit.
  • 15:21 The time is now for our children to take part in the next move
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  • 15:59 Joshua: You know when a really cool movie comes out and they
  • 16:01 make a novelization of it, which goes into way more depth than
  • 16:04 the movie’s time allotted, but then the book ends up sucking?
  • 16:06 Well, this is not that scenario.
  • 16:08 This week we’re offering the book, “Josiah and the Last
  • 16:10 Reformation,” written by my little brother.
  • 16:13 Caleb lays out the companion guide to our hit series, even
  • 16:16 giving behind the scenes details of how we filmed our series at
  • 16:19 the onslaught of the war with Hamas.
  • 16:21 Learn more about idol smashing in “Josiah and the
  • 16:23 Last Reformation.”
  • 16:25 Like I’d even read.
  • 16:26 Caleb: Josh, we’re still recording.
  • 16:28 Joshua: Uh-oh.
  • 16:31 Caleb: The story isn’t over yet.
  • 16:34 Israel is still central in God’s plan, not just for prophecy, but
  • 16:39 even for a blessing to the nations.
  • 16:42 You know, the nations originally were allowed to persecute the
  • 16:46 Jews and scatter them over the four corners of the earth
  • 16:49 because of their sin, because Israel sinned to commit idolatry
  • 16:52 against God.
  • 16:54 But now that they have been restored to their land, God will
  • 16:56 never allow them to be uprooted again in the way that they were
  • 17:00 in the past.
  • 17:01 Hirchie: You know, we’ve seen a rise of antisemitism again in
  • 17:04 the wake of October 7 and the aftermath of that.
  • 17:09 Right after World War II, we saw where communism and socialism
  • 17:13 started creeping into European nations, creeping into the USSR
  • 17:18 at the time, creeping into all these different areas, and that
  • 17:21 ideology still remains really strong and embedded in Europe.
  • 17:26 And we’ve seen the effects of this, where people have become
  • 17:29 so conscious of themselves and self-serving, and even to the
  • 17:33 point where they’re believing lies more than they’re believing
  • 17:37 the truth.
  • 17:39 They’ve removed God from their theology in all senses, and we
  • 17:44 see that in this extreme environmentalism, you know,
  • 17:48 where it’s all about the planet and not about the people on
  • 17:50 the planet.
  • 17:51 We’ve seen it in the mindsets of what my truth is versus the
  • 17:56 truth being the only way.
  • 17:58 And so, we understand that this darkness has crept into the
  • 18:01 nations, and we’ve got to see a stop to it.
  • 18:04 Caleb: Mother Earth worship, it’s Gaia worship all from
  • 18:07 the beginning.
  • 18:08 And with that mentality, they do not procreate in a way that God
  • 18:12 said be fruitful and multiply.
  • 18:13 They’re not having enough children to sustain the
  • 18:16 population growth that is necessary in these
  • 18:18 European countries.
  • 18:20 We’re about to see entire cultures and languages disappear
  • 18:23 in a matter of decades.
  • 18:25 But as I mentioned before, Islam is happy and willing to fill
  • 18:29 that void, and they are by literally outbreeding the
  • 18:33 Europeans who have welcomed them in as refugees.
  • 18:37 In fact, this was the master plan.
  • 18:39 Hirchie: You know, a recent study, back in 2025, Europe’s
  • 18:43 Muslim population is estimated at around 46 million, or 6% of
  • 18:50 the very continent’s total population, roughly 745 million.
  • 18:56 They contribute for 30% of the births, despite only being 9% to
  • 19:01 10% of the population.
  • 19:04 It is believed that by 2050, at this rate, France could have
  • 19:09 more Muslim births than native French births.
  • 19:13 This is why we need to pray for the salvation of the Muslim
  • 19:17 people, because even now, we see in nations like England Muslim
  • 19:23 Sharia law and Sharia courts taking over areas, where they
  • 19:27 are infiltrating the laws of nations and changing them to
  • 19:31 follow these Islamic codes that are nothing but demonic.
  • 19:35 And the sad reality is that there is no way to stand up to
  • 19:39 this in the natural alone.
  • 19:41 It is a spiritual battle, and the Church has to rise up and
  • 19:45 begin to pray for the power of the Holy Spirit to transform the
  • 19:49 lives of these Muslim men and women.
  • 19:52 Because if they don’t, we will see the anger, the hatred, the
  • 19:56 vitriol, and even the murder that will take place not only in
  • 20:01 Israel, not only in the Gaza areas, but actually in Europe
  • 20:07 and the United States itself.
  • 20:09 Caleb: I know people may think that we are overreacting, that
  • 20:12 there’s not true Sharia courts in England here, but it’s
  • 20:17 absolutely true.
  • 20:18 It has become the Western capital for Sharia law embedded
  • 20:22 within a civilized government system in any other Western
  • 20:25 culture in the world.
  • 20:27 And in fact, a Sharia court, according to their law, all a
  • 20:32 man needs to do to divorce his wife is say divorce three times
  • 20:36 in her presence, and that’s it.
  • 20:38 He can get a divorce.
  • 20:39 It’s really terrible that since these Sharia courts started in
  • 20:42 1982, there’s now 85 in England, and it just keeps getting worse
  • 20:47 and worse with elected officials in office, like the mayor in
  • 20:51 London being Muslim.
  • 20:54 Hirchie: It’s time to pray, people.
  • 20:56 It’s time to pray.
  • 20:58 Caleb: 1 Timothy 4:1-3, “Now the Spirit expressly says that in
  • 21:02 the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving
  • 21:06 heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking
  • 21:09 lies and hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot
  • 21:13 iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods
  • 21:17 which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who
  • 21:20 believe and know the truth.”
  • 21:22 Hirchie: So in 2024, this interdisciplinary team did a
  • 21:26 research work led by this group called Queens, right?
  • 21:30 And it was called “Explaining Atheism,” and it was researched
  • 21:33 here in the UK to see how many people that live here actually
  • 21:37 no longer believe in God.
  • 21:39 They’ve moved from being theist to atheist.
  • 21:42 And the staggering results were that there are now more atheists
  • 21:46 than there are theists in the UK, with actually Scotland being
  • 21:50 the highest percentage.
  • 21:51 Caleb: That is crazy if you know the history of Scotland.
  • 21:54 But I also have a very interesting Gallup poll from
  • 21:57 2025 explaining the rise of atheism in Europe.
  • 22:01 Now, these following countries show the percentage of
  • 22:04 non-religious or atheist participants.
  • 22:07 Sweden is the highest with 59%, Estonia 59%, Denmark 56%, Norway
  • 22:14 55%, and the United Kingdom 50% non-religious or atheist.
  • 22:18 See, this is not just a rejection of God, Hirchie.
  • 22:22 This is a growing hate against folks who do believe in God.
  • 22:26 It’s not just, “Live and let live.”
  • 22:28 It’s, “We don’t like what you believe, and we’re gonna make
  • 22:30 you silenced.”
  • 22:31 Hirchie: Yeah, and what’s staggering about it is when we
  • 22:33 think about nations that are under communist rule, that are
  • 22:37 lost in darkness, that have been this way, we think about
  • 22:40 persecution in the Church.
  • 22:41 But it’s in these nations that were actually many of them
  • 22:44 developed as Christian nations that we’re seeing it in this day
  • 22:47 and age.
  • 22:48 Caleb: A sad, sad fact.
  • 22:51 Joshua: But there is still hope.
  • 22:53 New research from the Bible Society is showing that there is
  • 22:55 a soft revival, or a quiet revival, that is actually
  • 22:59 happening in the UK amongst the young men.
  • 23:02 You see, they’re finally getting dissatisfied with the atheism,
  • 23:05 with the lies, with everything that’s been happening.
  • 23:07 If you come into any of these city squares, you’re going to
  • 23:09 hear a lot of things.
  • 23:10 Tonight, we’ve been hearing men say, “Repent, the end is near,”
  • 23:12 young men in their 20s and 30s saying this, so there is hope in
  • 23:16 the fact that we are becoming dissatisfied with all of the
  • 23:20 nonsense of this day.
  • 23:21 Caleb: Amen, you know, on September 7, 2025, there was a
  • 23:25 70,000-person march in London called “Britain’s March
  • 23:31 Against Antisemitism.”
  • 23:32 It was people like you and me, Bible-believing Christians, who
  • 23:35 were standing for Israel, standing for the Jewish people.
  • 23:38 Yeah, there was even nonbelieving Jews and people
  • 23:40 there that just wanted to show their support for Jewish people
  • 23:44 and explain that they see the hate that’s going against Jews
  • 23:48 today, and it’s not acceptable.
  • 23:51 Then on September 13, I believe, 2025, there was an even
  • 23:55 larger demonstration.
  • 23:57 The media said it was 150,000 people, but it was closer to 1
  • 24:02 million, one of the largest rallies in UK history.
  • 24:05 In London, it was just after Charlie Kirk’s death,
  • 24:10 his assassination.
  • 24:12 It was “Unite Britain,” this march that people were showing
  • 24:17 that they were not happy with the Islamization of Europe and
  • 24:22 of England.
  • 24:23 They were not happy with conservative values and
  • 24:26 Bible-believing Christians being silenced.
  • 24:29 And just as Charlie Kirk was assassinated, they said, “It’s
  • 24:33 time to declare our voice for truth.”
  • 24:35 And they went out and declared, they did, and the media tried to
  • 24:38 hush it down.
  • 24:40 They didn’t want to cover it.
  • 24:41 But the mayor of London, the very first Muslim mayor who’s
  • 24:44 still in office, Sadiq Khan, he got out there and he said, “Look
  • 24:47 at all these protesters.
  • 24:48 They’re nothing but racist bigots, Islamophobes, haters.”
  • 24:53 And yeah, they sure showed their colors right there.
  • 24:56 Joshua: We believe that we are living in the time that Joel 2
  • 24:59 speaks about, this end time that’s coming, where revival is
  • 25:03 going to happen, and we do believe that it has to be
  • 25:05 amongst the youth.
  • 25:07 You see, the Father can’t return, Yeshua can’t return
  • 25:11 until everyone’s heard.
  • 25:12 And we believe that today there is a group of kids.
  • 25:15 There is a group that has never heard the gospel because the
  • 25:18 message of today is so focused on you and your truth and
  • 25:20 nothing else.
  • 25:22 And even though the idea, the concept of what a Christian may
  • 25:24 be, may be something that they’ve heard of, but the
  • 25:26 details of salvation aren’t.
  • 25:28 But we do believe that we’re gonna see a revival amongst
  • 25:31 them, and that will be the change that will usher in this
  • 25:34 end times, but with a shout and a cry for truth, as opposed to
  • 25:38 just the evil.
  • 25:40 Caleb: Matthew 24:14, “And this gospel of the kingdom will be
  • 25:43 preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and
  • 25:47 then the end will come.”
  • 25:48 Hirchie: You know, it’s all up to us.
  • 25:50 Like, it’s in our hands now, what we do to bring forth this
  • 25:54 great outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
  • 25:57 You know, it’s not that we can make God do what we want him to,
  • 26:00 but he’s called us to be his hands and feet.
  • 26:02 He called us, he said in Matthew 5:16, you know, that “We’re
  • 26:06 called to shine our light and do good works, that they might
  • 26:10 glorify our Father in heaven.”
  • 26:12 And every great revival we’ve been talking about here, the
  • 26:15 Great Awakening, the Welsh revival, even what happened at
  • 26:18 Azusa, it was a people who said, “We’re not gonna be satisfied
  • 26:21 with the world.
  • 26:22 We’re not gonna be satisfied with the things that this world
  • 26:24 gives us, but we’re hungry for an outpouring of the
  • 26:27 Holy Spirit.
  • 26:28 We’re hungry for the holiness of God.”
  • 26:30 And that’s the call to all of us, right?
  • 26:33 To lay down the things of this world.
  • 26:34 Jesus said, “If you wanna be my disciple,” right, you know, lay
  • 26:37 down everything else.
  • 26:39 “Deny yourself, and take up your cross, and follow me.”
  • 26:42 And there is no greater call, and this world needs us.
  • 26:45 We can’t live on the revivals of old.
  • 26:48 We need a fresh outpouring, because he told us, “There’s
  • 26:51 gonna be a great harvest, and then the end.”
  • 26:53 Caleb: And so the time is now, and the final outpouring
  • 26:56 is here.
  • 26:58 The question is, what will you decide to do?
  • 27:00 Are you going to receive, step into, submit to the calling that
  • 27:04 God has placed on your life?
  • 27:05 Or are you gonna end up being like one of those pharisaical
  • 27:08 Christians of the past, like in the Jesus Movement, when they
  • 27:11 saw these hippies coming to Yeshua?
  • 27:14 And they’re like, “This isn’t of God because they have long hair.
  • 27:18 They smell.
  • 27:19 They don’t wear shoes.
  • 27:20 You know, they’re weird.
  • 27:22 They play that weird hippie music.”
  • 27:23 And they missed out on an amazing thing that God was doing
  • 27:27 in the Earth.
  • 27:29 And it’s usually what most Christians do, because they are
  • 27:33 so consumed with religion, with the practice, with the act.
  • 27:38 A good friend of mine and Josh’s, Pastor Steve Hill, he
  • 27:41 was an evangelist also from the Brownsville Revival, he used to
  • 27:46 say, “Religion will damn your soul to hell.”
  • 27:49 And it absolutely will, because there’s nothing that you can
  • 27:52 find in religion that will save you.
  • 27:53 Only the blood of Yeshua HaMashiach will save you, set
  • 27:58 you free, and deliver you from all bondage.
  • 28:02 And then when you’re living in the spirit and not in the flesh,
  • 28:06 then he will pour out his presence on you, and you will
  • 28:10 change the Earth.
  • 28:12 Joshua: Did you know the “Bearded Bible Brothers” is an
  • 28:14 outreach of Zola Levitt Ministries?
  • 28:16 That means we are entirely donor funded.
  • 28:18 Consider giving at levitt.com.
  • 28:20 You can also join the “Bearded Bible Bonanza” to access
  • 28:23 additional content at Patreon.com/BeardedBibleBonanza.
  • 28:27 And as always, pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

Hosts

Joshua Colson
Caleb Colson