In this powerful conversation, David Blease sits down with Nathaniel Buzolic (known to many as “Nate Buzz”) to trace his extraordinary journey from Hollywood fame to radical faith, and from personal brokenness to becoming one of the most outspoken Christian advocates for Israel today.

After moving to the United States in his early twenties, years of rejection in Hollywood finally led to a breakout role on The Vampire Diaries, but success did not bring peace.

Choosing to follow Jesus publicly strained his career, complicated relationships on set, and forced him to confront what it truly means to surrender everything to God.

After experiencing deep betrayal and heartache, Nathaniel desired to give up on life, left Hollywood, and traveled to Iraq during the Syrian civil war, volunteering with humanitarian efforts on the ground. In a moment of total surrender, he gave his life fully to God, leading him to read the entire Bible in 28 days and igniting a life-altering calling tied directly to Israel.

Since then, Nathaniel has led countless believers through the Holy Land, helping Christians understand the Jewish foundations of their faith. After the October 7 Hamas attacks, he returned to Israel to document survivor stories, stand with the Jewish people, and speak truth in the midst of global confusion.

In May 2024, Nathaniel made history as the first non-Israeli, non-Jewish person ever invited to light the torch at Israel’s Independence Day ceremony, exactly seven years after his first visit to the land.

This episode also tackles:

• God’s covenant with Israel
• Why replacement theology fails biblically
• The rebirth of Israel in 1948 fulfilled prophecy
• Why Christians cannot understand Scripture without Israel
• What it means to live out “promise made, promise kept.”

Whether you’re wrestling with faith, Israel, end-times theology, or what it truly costs to follow Jesus, this episode will challenge and inspire you.

0:00 – From Poverty to Hollywood

8:35 – Landing Vampire Diaries

14:15 – The Moment Jesus Became Real

22:11 – Betrayal & Rock Bottom

25:29 – Iraq, ISIS & Surrender

32:28 – Reading the Bible in 28 Days

34:39 – God Said “Go” to Israel

43:10 – October 7th & The Spiritual War

48:34 – Lighting Israel’s Independence Torch

What does biblical unity between Jewish and Gentile believers actually look like in practice, not just theology, but lived relationships?

In this episode, Micah and Abby Mahoney of Heartcry of David share their powerful journey into a ministry centered on reconciliation, worship, and covenantal unity. With backgrounds spanning Christian, Pentecostal, and Messianic Jewish spaces, they describe how God led them to confront a deep disconnect within the Body of Messiah and to pursue a vision rooted in Scripture, humility, and love.

Heartcry of David was born out of a conviction that King David understood something profound about the Messiah and Jew-Gentile unity, and that this revelation still matters today. What began in 2015–2016 as an audacious, underfunded international worship project has since grown into multiple collaborative efforts across Israel, the UK, and Italy, bringing believers together through worship, Scripture, and shared spiritual inheritance.

Rather than transactional encounters or one-directional ministry, Micah and Abby emphasize genuine, bilateral relationships; recognizing that Israeli believers are not just recipients of ministry, but are also called to minister to the nations. Throughout the conversation, they offer practical wisdom for believers who want to engage God’s heart for Israel in a healthy, biblical way: through prayer, teaching, and real relationships.

This episode is a compelling invitation to rethink unity, calling, and what it means to walk faithfully in God’s redemptive story.

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In this gripping episode of the Covenant & Conflict Podcast, we sit down with Rabbi Matheus Guimarães, a Messianic Jewish leader from Brazil, to uncover one of the most tragic, and least told chapters of Jewish history: the Sephardic Jews and the Spanish & Portuguese Inquisition.
Through his own family’s astonishing testimony, Rabbi Matheus reveals how millions of Jews were forcibly converted, hunted, silenced, and yet somehow survived, preserving Jewish faith, identity, and memory in secret. We explore the rise of Messianic Judaism in Brazil and the creation of a groundbreaking museum housing 500 years of preserved documents, artifacts, and testimonies that expose how Jews carried their faith underground and across the Atlantic.

In this episode, we explore:

• The roots of the Sephardic Jewish Communities in Spain & Portugal
• The “Golden Age” of Jewish learning—and how it fueled the European Renaissance
• Why Portugal’s forced conversions were even more brutal than Spain’s
• The Inquisition’s relentless targeting of the Anusim (the forced-ones)
• The expulsions of 1492 and the forced baptisms of 1497
• How Jewish families escaped to Brazil and rebuilt their faith in secret
• The explosive growth of Messianic Jewish congregations in Brazil today
• Why understanding our Jewish foundation is essential for the Church
• How modern antisemitism mirrors Spain, Portugal, and pre-WWII Europe
  

This conversation is historical, prophetic, and deeply personal, a sobering reminder that the past is never truly past, and that Jewish identity has always endured, even in the darkest hours.
If you care about Jewish history, the Inquisition, Sephardic Jews, Messianic Judaism, Jewish-Christian relations, Brazil’s hidden Jewish roots, or the rise of antisemitism today, this episode is essential viewing.