I am genuinely asking this question.
Why does no one care about Armenia?
You want proof of this? Just switch on BBC News or CNN
and you will hear the same countries being mentioned day
after day. Israel, Palestine, Ukraine,
Russia, China, and rightfully so.
But for some reason, there are things that are happening right
now in Armenia that would make you lose sleep, and 99% of you
are totally clueless. I will show you the incredibly
corrupt reason why the Western news stations are barely
touching this subject. But first I want to spread
awareness of what's going on. If there was ever a country that
had good reason not to trust other countries, Armenia would
be at the very top of the list. You want proof of this?
Just open a history book and you'll see exactly why.
Actually, I actually want to go somewhere first before we go any
further. Want you to know something?
Some of you aren't totally ignorant.
So what's going on on in Armenia?
And some of you, dare I say you have very strong political
views, but that isn't the goal of this video.
Just like what I've said about Gaza, about Israel, there are
innocent people right now who are caught up in all of this
hatred and yet they did not choose to be born there is All
they want is to try and survive is all they want, like you and I
is to lead a quiet life. And while we sit at back in our
comfortable homes in the West as keyboard warriors writing out
all of our political views on this situation, there are people
who are trying to put their children to sleep at night.
But they can't calm them down because it's all they hear is
huge blasts in the sky. So know this.
As I mentioned, some countries names Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Nagorno, Karabakh. Let's all be slow to speak and
remember that we're not commentating on a movie script.
No, this is real life with real people.
So the situation is this. Back in the 1920s, the Soviet
Union really did a big disservice to the Armenian
people. They decided to draw up borders
and they put Nagorno Karabakh inside of the Azerbaijan
territory. Why was this a problem?
Because inside of Nagorno Karabakh, it was made-up of 94%
of Armenian nationals. I don't want to be flippant, but
to make this simple for you to understand, it's a bit like
this. I don't know if you've ever been
into a sporting event and you as a supporter have had to sit in
your opponent's side of the stadium.
So, for instance, I'm a Manchester United supporter and
imagine I'm sitting there wearing my team's uniform
surrounded by Liverpool supporters.
I personally would be a little bit nervous about doing that.
So take that tiny little analogy and amplify it by 1000.
And that's exactly how the Armenians feel when they are
technically on Azerbaijan territory.
Hey, this next bit's a little bit important, so you might want
to catch this, because Armenia and Azerbaijan have been at
loggerheads with one another over who should own Nagorno
Karabakh. And over the last 40 years,
three serious fights have broken out.
In 1988, Nagorno Karabakh declared its intention to join
Armenia, leading to our first fight, which lasted until 1991.
And then the Soviet Union collapsed, which only made
things worse, because now, as a was left with a huge chunk of
land which was full of Armenians.
Who is all they wanted to do was be reunited with their homeland.
But now that the Soviet Union was gone, there was no one there
to keep the peace. And so both countries declared
their independence, neither backing down on who should own
Nagorno Karabakh. Then in 2020, as if that year
wasn't hard enough, our second fight broke out.
But this fight only lasted 44 days.
Why? Because Azerbaijan easily beats
the weaker Armenia. And our third and final fight,
which is happening right now, started in 2022.
Nagorno Karabakh, as you can imagine, is practically isolated
from the rest of the world, and it relies on a small, tiny
corridor at the South of its border.
This road is the only route by which the Armenian people living
inside of Nagorno Karabakh can receive supplies.
And so, in an attempt to make them surrender, Azerbaijan have
blocked Arcade did it. They've cut off all electricity,
all gas, all essential goods. The people now are currently
running out of food and water. But on top of all these things,
they also stopped charities from entering to provide aid, so that
now 99% of Armenian nationals that are living there had no
choice. What did they do?
In September 2023, a huge exodus took place from Nagorno
Karabakh. But it wasn't just the lack of
food that caused 100,000 people to run for from the land which
their ancestors had lived in since the 4th century.
No, what was one of the other reasons?
Well, state-of-the-art drones were used to destroy Armenians,
very dated tanks and the little defense that they did have was
dismantled in just 20, 4 hours. In a moments time, I'm going to
show you the corrupt reason why we in the West have practically
been silent and we've watched the Armenian people be emptied
of everything they ever owned. But first, let's ask this
question. Is there a single country in the
world that cares about Armenia? Well, the answer is going to
surprise you. Russia for the longest time has
sought to protect Armenia and has tried to keep the peace.
But you know exactly what I'm going to say next.
To say that Russia has has been distracted would be a massive
understatement, because all of its resources and energy have of
course been focused on its own fights with the Ukraine.
So with Armenians bigger brother out of the picture, is it any
wonder that they have no food, no help?
And when you have a history like Armenians, is it any wonder that
they ran from their homeland to find some level of peace and
safety? So come on, guys, Do you want to
hear the reason why we in the West have barely reported on
these awful events in our news stations?
Well, I'm going to choose my words carefully now, but the
answer is money. Baku in Azerbaijan has a gold
mine of oil, and I would guess that at some point in your car
you've had some level of Azerbaijani oil.
However, getting the oil to us has never been a walk in the
park, because the only option that Azerbaijan had was to
transport the oil through the Caspian Sea and whose land
borders the Caspian Sea, Russia. And as you can imagine,
Azerbaijan did not want Russia to have control over their oil.
Now this is the corrupt part. The Western oil companies
noticed this problem and provided a solution.
They would build an oil pipeline that would run right through
Europe, providing fuel and energy to millions across the
continent. And we in the West are also
reliant on Azerbaijan, with companies investing 45 billion
to construct a gas pipeline, which again sources a huge
amount of Europe. So now do you see why Armenia is
not only hopeless against Azerbaijan, but also voiceless?
Now with an oil and gas cash flow under their belts, it's no
surprise that for 14 years between 2000 and 2014,
Azerbaijan held the title of the fastest growing economy.
And where do you think they poured their wealth?
More advanced tools to make them unbeatable.
And with the West literally investing billions into
Azerbaijani oil so that they get richer, is it any wonder that
they have turned a blind eye to everything that is going on?
Because they're not stupid. They know if they start speaking
out and our news stations start reporting on this situation, is
all Azerbaijan has to do is say that's it, the deal's off, get
your oil from somewhere else. And that's why it's down to
average Joes like you like me to start caring about little
Armenia, the country that no one cares about.
OK, I've got a bit of a confession to make to you.
I've not been entirely honest here because the truth is this.
There is one person who cares about Armenia and that's God.
And yet, as a Christian St. preacher, do you know what I
often hear people say? They say, well, either God
doesn't exist or he does exist, but he just doesn't care about
us. Just look at the mess this world
is in. Well, the answer to that
question is it's actually us who have created that mess.
We are the one who have wrecked this world.
You see, God created us as intelligent, thinking, creative
people. But there's something else that
God gave us when He created us in his image.
He gave us a free will so we have the right to choose to love
or the right to choose to hate. He didn't make us like mindless
jellyfish that are just being swept around the ocean by the
current. No.
He wanted us to have choices so that true love, for it to be
real love, we have to make that choice to love him.
Did not Jesus say love your enemies?
Did not Jesus say if someone strikes you on the right cheek,
we'll turn the other cheek also? Did not Jesus Christ say love
thy neighbor as thyself? And if we all chose to obey
God's commands, Even if you're the most stubborn atheist
listening to me right now, you've got to admit to me that
this world would be a much better place if men and women
just obeyed Jesus Christ. The way I like to think of it is
like this. I want you to imagine a big huge
tree trunk and attach this tree trunk is an elastic band, and
you also are inside of this elastic band.
It's a long elastic band. It's a thick, elastic band, and
this band will let you travel as far away as you want.
If you want to cause as much sadness in the world, you can.
If you want to go around the earth and sin as much as you
want, you can. If you want to go around the
earth and be selfish, you can. But one day this elastic band
will run out of stretchiness. One day this elastic band will
run out of slack. And the further you travel away
from that tree trunk, the more it's going to hurt.
When you're brought back, you ping against it.
Well, my dear friends, that tree trunk represents God.
And right now, God has given men and women a very loose lead.
He allows us to do whatever we want to do.
But one day, I promise you this, one day you will run out of
slack and God will bring you back to that tree trunk.
And again, the further you go, the more it's going to hurt.
The Bible says that every knee will bow, every tongue will
confess, and one day God's going to bring you back.
You can run on for a long time away from God, but one day he's
going to bring you to your knees.
And I'm just pleading with you to settle your accounts with God
through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, before it's too late. But hey, now, it's not always a
bad thing to be a tree hugger. Because if I can stay with the
analogy, those of us who have stayed close to the tree trunk,
those of us who have obeyed the Lord God and loved his commands
and loved Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, those of us
who've lived like that, we know that God is coming back to
create a new heaven and a new earth where there'll be no mess,
there'll be no problems. And God is going to deal with
all of those sinful men who in their pride have made horrible
decisions that have damaged the rest of us.
But in this new world, there'll be none of that.
We'll only have one ruler, the Lord Jesus Christ, and he makes
no mistakes. But perhaps my answer there
doesn't quite do it for you. Well, just make sure you check
out this video here, because I did spend a lot of time really
dealing with this one big question.
Why does God allow pain in the world Just now?
If it's OK with you, I'd like to take a little diversion because
we need to ask the question, where is the evidence that God
does care about Armenia? Well, apart from the personal
testimonies that I've heard from Christians who live in Armenia,
I also want to draw your attention to 1 fact.
And it's this. God cares about all people, but
especially the forgotten. In the Bible, we read a rather
upsetting story. It's about a woman called Hagar.
Now Hagar was Sarah's maid and Sarah was Abraham's wife.
Now there was a massive promise that God promised Abraham,
Abraham. He said that through you,
Abraham, I will bless you with numerous children as numerous as
the stars in the sky. You will have children, Abraham.
But the problem was this Sarah, his wife, who the promise was to
come through was old and age. And Sarah herself believed that
she was past her sell by date. And she actually laughed when
she heard this, thinking there's no way God can do this for me.
And So what did Sarah do when no child came?
She grew impatient and almost bitter to Lord the Lord, so she
came up with a plan. Now, just before I tell you
this, remember this. Whenever we act in haste,
whenever we doubt the Lord God and think that we know best,
just know this ruin is just around the corner.
Shame will come when we choose our own direction because we
should instead trust that God is a powerful God who can do
anything. So what did Sarah do?
She took her maid Hagar and told Hagar to have relations with
Abraham, and Abraham went along with it all.
And what happened? Well, a little baby was
conceived and once Sarah saw this child, she was very jealous
and bitter. The scripture actually says that
she dealt harshly with Hagar and because Hagar was so frightened,
she ran into the wilderness with her newborn baby.
So here is this young woman with no money, with no friends.
Her owners have basically used her as a tool for their own
gain, and she's in the middle of the wilderness with a baby and
she can't provide for this baby. You can imagine how scared this
woman would be. She would have felt like she was
totally invisible and nobody cared about her.
But know this God cared about her, And God spoke to her in
that moment. And he also gave a promise to
her, saying, I will bless you with many, many descendants.
And I have seen your affliction. I have heard your cries, Hagar.
And So what did Hagar do when she realized this?
She was stunned, and she called the Lord Elroy, which means you
are the God who sees me. You see, my dear friends,
whoever you are, wherever you're watching this from right now, I
want you to know something. You might be going through a
really difficult time and you might feel totally forgotten,
totally invisible to the rest of the world, but I want you to
know something. God has not forgotten you.
And God is the God you can call Elroy, because he is the God who
sees you and wants to hold your hand through any pain that
you're going through right now. I'm not sure if this is helpful
or not, but I myself have many doubts and I have lots of
anxieties. But there's one thing I don't
doubt and it's this that God loves me.
And God cares about me and not just me, but He cares about you
and He cares about Armenia. You see, the Lord God knows what
it is to be forgotten. Think about this.
He is given us a wonderful earth, and every day there are
quite literally billions of people who breathe his air.
Every day there are quite literally billions of people who
eat his food, drink his water, and live on his world.
And yet so many of those people don't even say thank you once to
Him. So often they think about a
million things, but the thought of God never enters into their
mind. God himself, the Lord Jesus
Christ, knew what it was to be forgotten.
He had 12 very close friends. One of his friends decided to
betray him just for a bit of extra cash.
And all of the disciples except for John, all of them scattered
and left him. As he was nailed to that cross.
He knew what it was to be forgotten and neglected.
The Lord Jesus Christ when he was on the cross, do you know
what he cried out? Now many people get this wrong,
but Psalm 22 is a messianic. Psalm is talking about the Lord
Jesus Christ. It was a prophecy of some thing
that was going to happen in the future.
And people think, no, he was just quoting it for the
Pharisees because they knew it. That's not the case when we look
at the scripture, when the Lord Jesus Christ said, my God, my
God, why have you left me? It marries up with the rest of
the Scripture. Here's another one to think
about in Isaiah 53. What does it say?
It says, yeah, it was the Lord's will to crush him, that's Jesus
and to cause him to suffer. And though the Lord makes his
life an offering for sin, that's the clue.
That's what happened on the cross.
The Lord God made Jesus Christ into an offering for our sin.
In 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 21, it says he made him who knew no
sin to be sin so that we might inherit the righteousness of
God. Does that make sense?
So the reason why the Lord Jesus Christ cried out, my God, my
God, why have you forsaken me is because God the Father was
crushing him on the cross, and all the way through eternity
they have he had this wonderful relationship.
But at the cross it felt like the Lord God was leaving him,
was turning his back on him because Jesus Christ was
becoming our sin. On the cross he was becoming all
the rottenness, all the ugly things that you and I have ever
done. It was laid on him.
The weight of that sin was pressed on Jesus Christ and
their God was pleased, as the Scripture says, to crush His
beloved Son, because he had to pay the price for that sin.
What goes to your mind as you think of that?
That God the Father effectively turned his back on his Son on
the cross so that you could be forgiven.
And then imagine Jesus when he entered into the realm of the
dead, he would have felt forgotten.
But what does the Scripture say? The Lord God hadn't forgotten
him. It says he will not let his holy
one see decay. And the Lord God, through the
power of the Holy Spirit raised Jesus Christ back to life on the
third day and he conquered the grave triumphant and all of that
that amazing message which at times it's hard to understand,
that amazing message is for you and for me.
So that we know that we've got salvation in Christ alone.
Because just think about this. If he is the God who sees me,
that means he doesn't just see me.
All the good things I've ever done, even though there's very
few that I've done. But he also sees the shameful
things I've done, the things in the dark, the things in secret.
And we have nothing that we can offer God.
There is no good work that will appease him.
No, the only thing that can save us, the only thing that can
scrub away and wash our sins away, is the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. And that's why we need the one
who knew what it was to be forgotten and left on the cross.
We need him to save us, to rescue us and to give us eternal
life. So you come to him right now,
and you put your trust in him because he promises he'll never
turn you away. And I'm kind of sorry if I'm
repeating myself, but if you would like to see an answer to
that huge question, click here right now.