What Does It Mean to Be the House of God? A Messianic Worship Perspective

Shilo (00:00):
Why are they marching, spreading so much hate, violence, and lies so proudly and loudly? And where is the church? The church is nowhere. The church is stuck in the house of God in the four walls. And we don’t want to offend anyone. We don’t want to step on toes. We want more attendance, so we will. But the church is when it’s silent, then the enemy is advancing. When lies don’t meet truth, then lies continue. Lies spread. When the darkness is not encountered by light, it just takes it over. And I think that’s part of the reason God is calling us as a church in his end times to rise up, to be a voice. God says, I will not be silent for Zion’s sake. So how come his church is silent?

David (01:01):
Well, welcome back everybody to another episode of the Covenant and Conflict podcast with us all the way from Israel, an amazing friend, Sheila, Ben Hood. Shalom friend. Shalom, we’re so excited that you’re here.

Shilo (01:15):
I’m excited to be

David (01:17):
You. Were here with us a few weeks ago. You’re going to be here with us this weekend at our church singing in Hebrew. We’re so excited that hallelujah, you and your family are here. And I just want our listeners to get to know you, get to know your story. You come from Israel, you come always bearing news, having things that we can pray for. But I’d love to just first take a little detour down your story. So tell us, were you born in Israel? Did you move to Israel? Were you always part of a Messianic family following Yeshua

Shilo (01:49):
Or was there a moment where that became real for you? Tell us a little bit about yourself. Wow. So I was born in Jerusalem, born and raised in the area. We live in Omi. It’s a small city to the east of Jerusalem. It’s in Judean area in the West Bank. But my family, thank God, both my parents are believers, we’re always believers. My father came from England, immigrated from England when he was about 20. And my mother was born in Israel but not to a Messianic Jewish family. And she was just in a traditional Jewish family and heard the gospel about age 16, 17, had to go through family and different pressures from them. But long story short, God has been saving my mom’s family one by one really first my grandfather through a dream doing coma. And then my grandmother, she was a Holocaust survivor and then my uncle. And so we were raised in a very godly, good family. All of my siblings still are serving the law together. We go to the same congregation, which is kind of cool. And

David (03:04):
Your dad’s the leader of that congregation?

Shilo (03:05):
My dad is the leader of the congregation and we served, it’s a real blessing. It’s located between Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, so it’s really at the edge of the Judean Desert,

David (03:17):
Which

Shilo (03:17):
Is not objective. Yes, but it’s the most beautiful place in Israel. So for me, I think as far as I can remember, I always loved the Lord even as a kid. And I love to go to worship in the ke line, the congregation. But faith was not the main reason I live. It wasn’t the main thing about my life. It was another thing about my life and I think it all changed. What made me go full on for the Lord was it was a process. It wasn’t one event, but at age about 15 I met my wife, she was 13 and she said to me, come to this house of prayer that I started to attending and I didn’t know what is the house of prayer even. So I came, she’s a beautiful girl and that was the main reason I came. But then I actually met the Lord. It was through the more extended time of worship. Worship was not the transition into something else. It was the main thing you do. You worship the Lord for two hours straight. And the Lord started speaking to my heart. I think it’s the first time I really started hearing his voice

(04:36):
Or even reading the word and something popping to me in a very personal way. So it was in that atmosphere of worship and prayer. But I think if I have to pinpoint a moment that really turned me around was a message by our youth leader in that house of prayer. And he was saying how Yeshua speaking about the wide way and the Naro way and all my life, I thought the wide way is the world’s way. The naro is the Christian way. And he was saying No, he’s speaking to his followers. The world is not even in the equation. The wide way is people who call themselves Christians. And the narrow way is also people who call themselves Christians

David (05:25):
But are actually following Yeshua.

Shilo (05:27):
Yes. And the wide way is a way of no, there is compromise,

David (05:31):
There

Shilo (05:31):
Is no sacrifice. And that was the description of my life as a believer at that point. If it’ll be not good, not beneficial for me to tell someone I’m a believer or about the gospel, then I will not tell him If now I have to go out of my way to do something for the Lord, then I will not do it. I was living not as a sacrifice. I was living, enjoying all the worlds comfortable, very comfortable, enjoying from here, enjoying from here. But the Holy Spirit really in that night convicted me. I felt like you are not in the right way. And I felt, Lord, you deserve everything. He’s beautiful. And I’m meeting him during the worship and I said, I want to give everything I want to live as a living sacrifice. So that was also a turning point. And very quickly after that I got baptized, I think it was around age 16, then I went to the Army Age 18 for three years. Halfway through I got married to my wife. So she was 18 and one month old and I was 19 and a bit. And it was a crazy, and that’s not normal in

David (06:47):
Israel, right?

Shilo (06:48):
That’s not normal.

David (06:49):
Like New York City for us Texans. You get married in the thirties, right?

Shilo (06:53):
Yeah. I mean all my commanders when I was in the army, they will take me aside for a few months and they will sit me down and listen, who’s

David (07:03):
Forcing you to do that?

Shilo (07:03):
Don’t do it. Why are you doing it? You sure it’s your life you’re playing with? And thankfully we are almost 13 years old. 13 years married. We have three children, seven, five, and two. God has blessed us so much, I will do it again in a heartbeat. It was difficult. The first year of marriage was extremely difficult. We were kids, so we both wanted mama, but we had each other and living together and I’m still in the army and I was getting a hundred dollars a month as a salary and my wife was the one bringing the bread into home anyways. But even through this, God has mended us together so much. And then after the army, we went for a time of vacation, I dunno how to call it vacation or seeking out what the Lord wants,

David (08:03):
Which is again very normal after service in the IDF people kind of go abroad. They

Shilo (08:08):
Typically won leave. Most soldiers use either the South America or the far east to break free, to be honest, to do drugs, to try to forget about serving. Yeah, I mean you in such a rigid system and you just want to do the opposite. So we also wanted to go to the Far East, but we wanted something more calm. So we went to the Philippines

(08:32):
And while we’re in the Philippines, the Lord start putting on my heart full-time ministry now by my profession doing the army. And that’s how I made money. Also, I’m a computer programmer and that’s my mind is very much like that. And when I was in the Philippines, when the Lord started putting it on my heart to go to a specific house of prayer, I didn’t want to do it. I was telling him, no, I already actually have a contact with a friend to work for him. And it got stronger. I shared with my wife, we prayed about it and we asked the Lord for signs and he gave us sign by sign and the last sign was the director of that house of prayer, which I felt specifically sends me a message and saying, the Lord put on my heart to invite you to be part of the house of prayer in Jerusalem. And I said, okay. I never told him I want to do it because I don’t want to do it. I actually only spoke with him. Hello? That’s it. Nothing deep. So I went there and I was there for eight years. And during these eight years, the Lord really brought me through a season first of being hidden for four years.

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All I did was prayer, watches most of what I did to in an empty room just before the Lord. It was an amazing time and a difficult time at the same time. And then eventually God gave us solu and we transitioned into that. And yeah, it’s been a journey.

David (10:07):
And Solu is now the prayer house, but it’s also the traveling worship band. How do you say it? Worship

Shilo (10:16):
Team. So Israel is the name of our ministry and basically it is based on the vision of voice, kind out in the wilderness, prepared the way of the Lord. And the conclusion of that is the Lord showing his glory, revealing his glory to all flesh and basically Yeshua coming back to earth. And so we believe that actually solo, the word means it’s a command world in Hebrew means you plural prepare the way or build up a highway. And we believe the Lord has positioned us in the Judean desert to prepare the way for the Lord’s return for also revival in Israel and the nations. So we have four things we do. Many people think we are a band, but we actually, yes, we are a band, but we have four things we do and one is the house of prayer and community. So we have people from different congregations joining us together, regular times of worship almost daily. Also community meals and different things we do together. And then the second thing is we actually creating culture, which means we are producing a lot of content. We have teaching videos, we have podcasts, we have written material, we have music videos,

(11:35):
Different things like that because we believe God gave us this instrument to reach the non-believers and to strengthen the body of Messiah and to be a voice. If the voice is not heard, then what is the purpose? So the third thing we do is ministering in the nation. We are actually going to the north, to the south and going to different communities of people teaching, encouraging, leading worship, reaching out. And the fourth thing is what you said is going out to the nations. So that is limited to about 60 days a year. And we have got to bring out of Zion, the world of the Lord. We believe God is calling the Jewish people to be light to the nations. So for us specifically as Messianic Jews, it’s even more because Christians have been light to us for so long, coming, serving, sacrificing, teaching, giving. And now the body of Messiah, Israel reached an adult or a state that it can also give back maturity. Yeah, maturity to the nations. So with that calling, we go to different places. We go to the USA once a year for two all across the states in the 15 passenger van enjoying each other. But we also go to Europe and Africa and Asia. And this year, first time we go to Australia.

David (13:07):
Wow, it’s amazing. Well, you have a unique perspective as someone who is a part of Israel, ingrained in Israeli culture, leading worship in Hebrew, in a sound that is connecting with modern day Israelis. That’s one of the big separations that I saw when I first started getting into this world is the type of music and worship that was connecting with Israelis was not the same. Messianic worship. And you guys I think are really paving away, paving a highway solo for that as well. But you are also kind of ingrained in the church world. You travel to these churches, you see these churches, you interact with so many pastors. So I’d love to hear your perspective when you go to a church or I guess when you go to the nations, the typical more predominantly Gentile churches, what do you see is usually what’s missing? What are the big things that you see that there’s a disconnect from the scriptures that you’re reading in Israel and what you’re seeing God do in Israel and then when you come to the nations,

Shilo (14:29):
I think before saying disconnect, there is lots of good things in the worship. That’s a

David (14:36):
Good place to start. Let’s start with the good things. I like the positivity.

Shilo (14:40):
No, but there, that’s the beauty of the body of Messiah. There are things the Lord has given each nation, every tribe, every tongue, every language, each one carries something very powerful that we can inspire each other, we can steer each other to jealousy. And so when we listen to CCM or worship that comes from the United States, we are blessed by it and we use some of it and even translate a few songs that really touch us. So there is a lot of things about, I would say intimacy with God in the Christian Western Church,

David (15:30):
Quiet time connection with God

Shilo (15:33):
And very personal like me and God. And many times, and that’s borderline what is my criticism, but many times it’s like, oh, the waves, the difficulty different.

David (15:49):
It can be

Shilo (15:50):
Very self-focused. Now there is a place for that in King David. We see him also doing these kind of things.

David (15:56):
The Lord is my shepherd.

Shilo (15:57):
Yes. And it’s a good thing. But if it’s the only thing, it’s the only thing, it’s it’s wrong. And I think in the Jewish culture, very much is in general, it’s much more collective thing. It’s much more

David (16:15):
Our father.

Shilo (16:17):
Our father, yes, our king. Even when we are Yo Kippur, the of at, we have seen, we have. And it’s very collective and there is power in it.

David (16:29):
Totally.

Shilo (16:29):
There is something like you need the closet with the door closed, but you also need the saints getting together and praying together. It’s both end. Yeah, that’s

David (16:39):
So

David (16:39):
Good.

Shilo (16:40):
And for us, what we are trying to do as solo is to write songs, original songs that we feel the Lord is giving us three times of worship before him. So it’s not like we’re sitting down and we are, let’s write a nice song that will be a hit. No, we’re actually first spending time before him and then we are receiving songs while we just worship him. And most of the time it’s not focused on us, it’s not focused on my trials, it’s just focusing on his greatness, his beauty, his power. And it’s a refreshing, I think for the church at least what we see. And also when we do videos, we have a lot of music videos. We always try to make it a more community thing. Totally. Not just like a person with guitar and a nice background but families together. There is old people, there is kids 4-year-old in our videos

David (17:40):
And

Shilo (17:40):
I don’t see it in the United States worship.

David (17:44):
I’ve never noticed that about your, I’ve noticed it about your videos, but neither you say that I’m going through the catalog in my mind and yeah, I mean it’s like families

Shilo (17:52):
And

David (17:52):
Families and family. People see it.

Shilo (17:54):
I think people want to see people with flip-flops, not just like, I am cool, I’m cool there a smoke machine. People are tired of this, I think. Yeah,

David (18:04):
Totally.

Shilo (18:05):
One Paso in Los Angeles said, I just love the fact you have chairs stack in the background of your video. They like maybe it’s more raw, it’s more

David (18:15):
Authentic,

Shilo (18:15):
It’s more, yeah, it’s more like relatable. We’re not doing it on purpose, we’re just doing it whatever we are.

David (18:21):
Totally.

Shilo (18:21):
And when we did that, when we started doing these videos, we actually, and actually even now we are not doing it for the church. I mean we’re not doing it for the people outside of Islam, the

David (18:34):
Nations.

Shilo (18:35):
The nations. We are doing it first of all for our people. And when we started to do that, we really aims to do it for these worship videos for our friends in Israel, like 30, 50, whatever

David (18:49):
People.

Shilo (18:50):
And suddenly we see there is 30, 50,000 people from the nations who are also wanting, and it was a shock for us. It was a huge shock for us. And the shock was even to the point we said, should we somehow stop? Or it felt like, oh, maybe we need to protect it. Yeah, this

David (19:11):
Is wrong.

Shilo (19:12):
Maybe we’re exposing something that shouldn’t be like. But after prayer and time of just thinking about it, we realized no, it’s not something to hide, it’s something to spread. It’s something to show. And we even added subtitles in English and stuff like that. But our first goal, our first priority is for the Jewish people in the land. So we very, very rarely do songs in English like singing in English. We might have subtitles, but

David (19:42):
No, that’s good. It shows me that it comes out of a place of overflow for your people and then out of that overflow, like you said, it’s overflowing out of your time with the Lord and then it’s directed towards your people and out of overflow of that it affects the nations. I think you’re doing it right, you’re doing it the proper steps.

Shilo (20:03):
But I think it’s the Lord’s wheel because I cannot believe, like you said, we are going to churches in the United States and people actually know the words of the songs in Hebrew and they don’t speak Hebrew. It’s amazing. It’s not about, imagine you going to a Japanese church

David (20:24):
And

Shilo (20:24):
There’s worship in Japanese and sure you can worship in the same spirit, but there is still disconnect. But somehow when it comes to Hebrew somehow, and it’s not because of us, the Lord is doing it all across the earth somehow people connect. I think it’s part of what the Lord is doing globally, bringing back the church to Israel.

David (20:47):
And it’s foundational for all of us. I mean everyone knows, even if they try really hard not to think about it, everyone knows is the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Torahs and Hebrew and even the New Testament written in Greek, it’s written by Jewish people. So it’s just so ingrained. It’s kind of our common foundation, which I think is one of the things that everyone’s picking up on is this is our common starting place is the Jewish Foundation. So that’s amazing. I see the same thing with the need for the church to embrace the community. As a youth pastor for seven years, the amount of times that I heard students develop an intimate relationship with God and then ditch the church because they felt like I don’t need anymore. The church was just there to get me to a relationship with God.

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And the other thing you said about the authenticity when I was growing up, the fact that church could be cool was the draw because churches weren’t cool. The world was cool, church was boring and lame. And I kind of experienced the rise of the youth ministry games, pizza, fog lights. And for the first time it was like, whoa, I can invite my friends to a cool place. And I think that generation has grown up. The young generation was embedded in this youth culture with fog and lights and cool clothes and they’re the ones that are like, yeah, it kind of feels like we’re putting on a show a little bit. Can we actually just authentically, so it’s a reversal back to again, maybe a pure way of doing and not that God wasn’t moving, I think

Shilo (22:37):
God

David (22:37):
Moves

Shilo (22:38):
Can move

David (22:39):
Generation donkey

Shilo (22:39):
Also.

David (22:40):
Amen. Not that they’re donkeys. Yeah, but a hundred percent. So what’s your burden now? You just finished a cross country tour in the States, you went to multiple churches and I know every time you come there’s a message kind of a through line to all the churches. What do you feel like is God speaking to you, to solu the church, all the things that you’re doing? What’s the message right now that you feel like God’s put on your heart for the church? And maybe that’s for the western church, maybe it’s for the nations.

Shilo (23:18):
I think it’s for everyone. Simply it’s just the importance of the church. He was speaking about the guy who’s saying, oh, the church was the means for me to get where I am and now I don’t need the church. This is so wrong on so many levels. When Yeshua came to earth to die, it wasn’t just for the sins of that guy so that guy can be closer to the Lord. It was actually to establish the church. That was his mission. That was one of his missions at least. And he said on this stone, I will build on this rock. I will build my church. And the gates of Hades will not overcome it. And I think if you look around you in the world now, the kingdom of darkness is raging. There is so many, and I’m not talking just about the war in the Middle East or Ukraine or it’s everywhere. It’s the confusion that there is. It’s the fake news lies honestly, if I didn’t have the road, I would be in depression. Now it looks terrible, the situation, but that’s the reason he has established the church. He said, I will build my church.

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It’s not gateway church or it’s not, it’s his church and he’s the one building it. And when people like the imaginary guy you’re speaking about, they’re saying, I don’t need the church. They’re actually dismantling the church. And Yeshua said, whoever is not gathering with me, he’s dispersing In these times, maybe it’s the most important times that the church will be built up and it requires actually showing up. I mean you can have online church if you have real church, if you have connection, but it’s not about consuming a content into your brain information. It’s actually where you work out your faith. It’s like a gymnastic athlete. He can work out at home, but really he should work out in the gym

David (25:20):
Or

Shilo (25:21):
A student he can study at home. But he actually should study in school because it’s a place that supports his calling.

David (25:27):
Well there’s sharpening with the other people.

Shilo (25:30):
You go to church and somebody gets on your nerve. That’s exactly why you came in order to practice love, in order to practice patience and joy and not just to receive, oh, what can I receive from you, Lord, it’s actually to worship, which means to give to sacrifice. The action of sacrifice is the action of drawing close to him. And it’s not about salvation. People think, oh, sacrifice is for salvation.

David (25:55):
We love to make everything about salvation. In the Western

Shilo (25:56):
Church, it’s not about salvation. Sacrifice, sacrifice. Coban in Hebrew comes from the world av to draw close. So there was many types of sacrifices. There was thanksgiving sacrifice, there was sacrifice. When your son is born,

David (26:09):
There

Shilo (26:09):
Was different things. And I think whenever it’s difficult to go to church, whenever it’s difficult to gather, then it should be the best time to do that. And I think the house of the Lord, and I’m not speaking about church like the four,

David (26:26):
The

Shilo (26:26):
Building, the building, I’m speaking about the gathering of the saints, the living together, the community gathering, those who are called out. And I think that I was sharing with you earlier, but I just love the fact that the first time in the Bible that the phrase house of God appears is not a house, it’s not a building. It’s a rock in the field where Jacob is putting his head on and he is seeing the heavens open and the angels are sending him descending on the ladder. And he says, this is the house of God, this is the gate of heaven. And I think the Lord want to use his people as his house, but also as the gate, as a place. What is a gate? The connection between two sides, right? If there is a gate, supposedly you’re not supposed to be able to go around. So the gate is between heaven and earth. And the Lord wants to use us in these end times, in these turbulent times to bring his will. And there is no, I don’t know of any other way he’s doing it other than the church.

David (27:37):
Well it’s interesting. Jesus says, I am the gate and yet the church is the body of Messiah. So if we are the body of Messiah and he says he is the gate, then you are making that connection. That is the body. The body of

Shilo (27:51):
Messiah is the gate. And the other connection is John one 50 something that he’s speaking with Nathaniel and he’s telling his newest disciple, you are going to see the heaven open and you’re going to see angels ascending and descending. And you will expect the only place it appears is Jacob’s ladder. Angels ascending on the descending on the ladder. No, on the son of man. So Yeshua himself, he’s the ladder. And that means, and actually also, I dunno if I’m over connecting it, but there is a rock also there where Jacob puts his head on and the ladder is there. And then I’m thinking about Yeshua saying, on this rock, I will build my church. So all of this connects together, the church, the body of Messiah, the house of God. In these end times, I think it’s so important, the reason so much darkness is spreading is because the church is not there to stop it.

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The gates of hell will not overcome the church. So where is the church? I was in England with my wife and we hear shouting, I dunno, shouting in the street. We go out and we see hundreds of English people, not even Middle East English people walking and they shout like violent things against Israel, violent things about against us like we are murderers or something. Obviously they’re brainwashed and there’s lots of lies. But all me and my wife, what we could think about is why are they marching, spreading so much hate, violence and lies so proudly and loudly? And where’s the church?

David (29:32):
The

Shilo (29:32):
Church is nowhere. The church is stuck in the house of God in the four walls. And we don’t want to offend anyone. We don’t want to step on toes. We want more attendance. But the church is when it’s silent, then the enemy is advancing. When lies don’t meet truth, then lies continue. Lies spread. When the darkness is not encountered by light, it just takes it over. And I think that’s part of the reason God is calling us as a church in his end times to rise up to be a voice. God says, I will not be silent for zion’s sake. So how come his church is silent? He says in the same chapter, I will establish watchmens on the worlds of Jerusalem and they will not be silent. Why are they not silent? Because he’s not silent.

David (30:26):
They’re imitating God,

Shilo (30:27):
They’re imitating God. And it’s not about stone, I mean arrows. And it’s about their proclaiming day and night. So you don’t need even to take a political stance. You don’t even to say like, oh, I stand with what they do in Gaza. I am not speaking about that.

David (30:42):
I’m

Shilo (30:42):
Speaking about standing with the word of the Lord, standing with the promises that he said. And it’s difficult for the church to do that. I mean, in general there are mighty Christian people who stand, but sadly they’re the minority.

David (30:56):
Yeah. Well it kind of goes back to what you said at the beginning about the narrow and the wide path. You’re making this connection that the church is wanting the wide path because the wide path is more people will come and join the church or more people will want to come and will have greater attendance, but they’re falling into the trap. Many of us are falling into that trap where we’re actually supposed to be the narrow road. And that’s a hard tension to navigate because we all want to see more and more people come to know the Lord, but at what point are we diluting the message? Because we don’t want to, like you said, offend anybody, take any hard stance, put any kind of stumbling block in people’s way when Yeshua himself is a stumbling block. And that’s something that Michael Mistretta said on our podcast. He is like, I’m okay if Yahu is a stumbling block. I don’t want to be a stumbling block, but it’s okay if Yahu is a stumbling block and Israel is a stumbling block. And I think it is. I’ve heard it said before, it’s a cup too. It is the, yeah, stumbling block for the Gentiles is Israel. And the stumbling block for Israel is Yeshua.

(32:13):
We each have a stumbling block that we trip over.

Shilo (32:16):
Yeah, it’s about being a living sacrifice. It’s about willing to die to self in order for him, for his ways, for his word, for his truth. I think that many people are not willing to sacrifice to him. We spoke about it. David said, I will not give the Lord something that did not cost me yet. I think so many Christians, they stop the moment. It gets costy, including me. I’m not holy and high up there. It’s something. It’s daily living sacrifice. It’s a lifestyle.

David (32:56):
Yeah, totally. Well that’s such a good perspective to have as we kind of close out. What would you say to those listening who maybe have this burden for Israel and the Jewish people want to see the church stand up? What would you say is a practical thing that the average person that’s a part of a church can do? What can I do? I don’t have a traveling band. I don’t have a big YouTube or Instagram. So what can I do? What would you say?

Shilo (33:31):
I think the calling God gave us a voice kind out in the wilderness. Isaiah Forti is not our calling. It’s the calling for every believer who want to live for something higher, a little bit more than being a good Christian, being nice to people. Everyone has a voice. And John was crying out, John the Baptist, Yohannan was crying out in the desert. He didn’t go to where people are, where he’s situated. This is where he’s a voice. And actually God brought the people to him from all over the country. And I think each one of us has a voice first before God in intercession and prayer. And obviously all of that is A, B, c in the quiet room, but also a voice before the people. Each one of us has a community and all it takes is to be a voice where you are. Don’t go searching, don’t go to Africa if the Lord didn send you to Africa. Not everyone is Jonah, have to go to Nineveh. You are where you are for God’s reasons and purposes. And that means first of all, you pray, but also you stand for the truth. You speak about, I was in Sarasota now with a friend and he’s like, he’s old school in that sense. So everywhere he goes, he has in his pocket like tracks

(34:55):
To share about the gospel. So we wait in the barber shop, he opens the magazine and he stick a few trucks and he close the magazine and he puts it and he goes to the toilet, he opens the toilet a little bit put and then rolls it back. He’s on a mission. He’s like a secret spy everywhere he go. I am not saying that’s what everyone should do, but in a sense, maybe yes,

David (35:20):
It’s living on a mission. Yes, having a purpose

Shilo (35:22):
Wherever you go, whatever you do, you don’t have to be YouTube, you don’t have to be traveling wherever you are. You on a mission. And you know what? This friend of mine, what he did after spending with him a week, it changed me everywhere I go, if I’m on the Uber, I try to evangelize to the person. I hope it’ll not stop and fade for my, but it’s understanding we are here for a mission and it’s about praying before the Lord, but it’s also the people around us. They’re all lost and we need to save them. And also when you encounter lies, don’t be afraid. Stand up. There is lies all over. So many lies. And I think the lies only stop when you encounter it with truth

David (36:12):
And truth. The foundation of truth is scripture. And so that’s one of the things, as you say, the A, B, C, prayer scripture, our quiet time, developing that foundation of truth, as Paul says, to be prepared for

Shilo (36:26):
Anyone’s

David (36:27):
Question, anyone’s question about faith.

Shilo (36:30):
Give a count of the

David (36:31):
Hope that you have. Yeah, that’s within you, the hope that’s within

Shilo (36:35):
You.

David (36:36):
So that’s so good. Well, thank you for encouraging us and thank you for what you do. I’ve told so many people before, what you and what Solu are doing for the Israelis is truly life-changing. And for such a time as this, I feel like the Lord’s put you guys in the wilderness literally to be a voice crime. It’s a beautiful

Shilo (37:00):
Place

David (37:00):
And connecting with the hearts of so many people that really need the hope of Yeshua in our world. So thank you for what you do. Thank you for being here and blessing our church with a little bit of Hebrew worship, which we all need. If you want to check out Solu, go to Solu Israel on YouTube. They have some amazing videos. You’ll see the community coming in for those videos and check out what they’re doing, support them. If you’re looking for someone to support in Israel, they’re an amazing ministry to support and to get behind. So that’s all we have for today. Thank you David. This has been Ben Hod Sheila, Ben Hod with us, and we will see you next time on Covenant in Conflict. See you, Shalom.