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Speaker 1: What is the future of Gaza and what did the

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Speaker 1: biblical prophet Zephaniah have to say about it. As controversy

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Speaker 1: believers must keep learning and praying for God's heart for

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Speaker 1: Israel's neighbors. Hi, and welcome to this episode of Inside

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Speaker 1: the Epicenter with Joel and Lynn Rosenberg. We are a

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Speaker 1: podcast of the Joshua Fund, a ministry dedicated to blessing

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Speaker 1: Israel and her neighbors in the name of Jesus. I'm

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Speaker 1: Lynn Rosenberg with the Joshua Fun team, and in this episode,

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Speaker 1: we discuss the future of Gaza and we look at

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Speaker 1: the Biblical prophet Zephaniah's perspective on the region.

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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone, Well this is pretty exciting. Wah Okay. Now,

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Speaker 2: if I see people having to leave throwing up in

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Speaker 2: your seeds, I will try not to take it personally.

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Speaker 2: I understand it's a little crazy this morning, but in

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Speaker 2: some ways it's a little bit like the moment that

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Speaker 2: we live in. Right. We don't feel sometimes like our

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Speaker 2: feet are on solid ground, and that's why we need

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Speaker 2: to turn to the Lord Jesus Christ, our rock. I

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Speaker 2: want to look at some prophecies this morning, particularly Isaiah nineteen,

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Speaker 2: to give us a sense of where are we really going.

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Speaker 2: But I also want to take a moment, and I

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Speaker 2: had to kind of call an audible on myself late

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Speaker 2: last night to take a moment to look at Zephaniah two.

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Speaker 2: If you've got your bibles, if you turn a Zephaniah two.

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Speaker 2: I want to touch on this first because most of

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Speaker 2: you have probably not had your quiet times in a

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Speaker 2: long time in Zephaniah. Fair enough, but you might want

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Speaker 2: to dust it off and take a look at it.

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Speaker 2: It's very difficult. But when he said what he said

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Speaker 2: that he was going to own it, the United States

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Speaker 2: was gonna own it and rebuild it and make it beautiful,

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Speaker 2: and we were all like, what what, what are you

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Speaker 2: talking about that? So I'm making a little bit light

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Speaker 2: of it, not because it's not serious, it's excreet. It

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Speaker 2: could not be more serious. And I hope that you've

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Speaker 2: seen our heart in the Joshua flynd. We want to say,

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Speaker 2: all right, Lord, what is our role, what our evangelicals roles?

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Speaker 2: What can we do to minister to the people of Gaza, food, clothing,

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Speaker 2: we do. We don't have answers yet, We're still praying,

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Speaker 2: we're still searching. We don't want to do our own will.

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Speaker 2: We want to do what we want. If God has

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Speaker 2: good works that He's prepared beforehand for us to do,

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Speaker 2: we want to walk in those. Nothing else, but what

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Speaker 2: the President said really caused me to go to Zephaniah

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Speaker 2: too and said, because remember he was saying, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: was like, what does that mean, including the president of Egypt,

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Speaker 2: whom God has opened up a door for lending me

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Speaker 2: to meet, and he said, no, I'm not taking people

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Speaker 2: from Gaza. And then the King of Jordan, whom and

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Speaker 2: this led me to Zephaniah. Now, in Zephaniah chapter one,

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Speaker 2: it's only you know, it's only three chapters for this

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Speaker 2: and I encourage you to do it. Zephaniah one sets

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Speaker 2: up two different concepts of the Day of the Lord. Okay,

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Speaker 2: the day of the Lord in the near term, which

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Speaker 2: He was the wonderful, godly reformer king of Judah at

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Speaker 2: Reading the word of God. Remember he they discovered the

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Speaker 2: need this? Should we read this? Is this important? Yes,

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Speaker 2: it's important the word of God. Yes, But there was

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Speaker 2: But it's always important when an old Testament of prophet

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Speaker 2: You know, I will stretch out my hand against Judah

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Speaker 2: then there are other prophecies like verse eighteen, on the

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Speaker 2: chapter two, verse two, before before before three times in

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Speaker 2: one verse it says, before the decree takes effect? What decree? Well,

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Speaker 2: the decree that the end of days is coming, before

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Speaker 2: before the tribulation, before the day of the Lord's anger

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Speaker 2: What is gonna happen? Well, Verse or says that Gaza

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Speaker 2: that's very sad there was the you know, it's the

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Speaker 2: epicenter of the Philistines, right, and the Philistines are not

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Speaker 2: connected to the Palestinians today, but the name is right.

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Speaker 2: not ethnically related, they're not culturally related, but they live

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Speaker 2: because that was there Israel's worst enemy for so long.

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Speaker 2: So that's where the name comes from. Phalstine is Palestine. Right,

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Speaker 2: So the Palasins of Gaza have sadly identified themselves with

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Speaker 2: the Jewish people will pasture on it. And it says

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Speaker 2: their God will care for them for who for the Israelis,

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Speaker 2: for the Jews of Judah, and restore their fortune. That

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Speaker 2: is something we need to chew on. When President Trump

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Speaker 2: God be using him to fulfill it? Yes, do we

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Speaker 2: know that for sure? No. But when he said that,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna go take Gaza. We're gonna fight and get

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Speaker 2: give it back to the Arabs. Is that what's really

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Speaker 2: I really don't know, but I think we need to

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Speaker 2: be praying because we are heading into a new, very painful,

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Speaker 2: All right, well, let's say all the Gosins are moved out,

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Speaker 2: get to move someplace else? Ukrainians got to move to

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Speaker 2: everywhere else in Europe, Syrian's got to move to Europe,

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Speaker 2: We've got to be praying for the Lord to use

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Speaker 2: the church to bring hope. The governments aren't gonna bring hope,

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Speaker 1: Today's verse comes from Isaiah chapter nineteen, Verses twenty and

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Speaker 1: and he will deliver them. They will return to the

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Speaker 1: Lord and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.

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Speaker 1: Will you join us in continuing to pray for the

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Speaker 1: people of Gaza, that God would open practical pathways for food, water,

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Speaker 1: and medical care, that He would give the people of

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Speaker 1: Gaza a future and a hope. Pray for scripture distribution

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Speaker 1: and christ centered education that can help in rebuilding lives

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Speaker 1: hope to spread and to grow across the whole Epicenter region.

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Speaker 2: Let's turn then to Isaiah nineteen. I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: try to take you through the entire chapter, verse by verse.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to focus on the end because that focuses

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Speaker 2: context for you in case you haven't read Isaiah nineteen recently.

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Speaker 2: It starts in Isaiah nineteen verse one talking about an

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Speaker 2: and it says, behold, the Lord is riding on a

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Speaker 2: swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt. It's

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Speaker 2: very interesting. You know that not every country in the

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Speaker 2: world is mentioned in the Bible. The United States isn't mentioned,

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Speaker 2: Canada not mentioned. A lot of countries in the world

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Speaker 2: not mentioned, but some are. And God doesn't tell us

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Speaker 2: a prophetic future of every country at all times in history,

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Speaker 2: but he does tell us the prophetic future of some

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Speaker 2: when you lead a ministry focused on a certain footprint

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Speaker 2: will do it this way. He'll do it lovingly, but

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Speaker 2: he's like, oh, just just just hold on a second.

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Speaker 2: Blessed is Egypt my people, and a Syria the work

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Speaker 2: of my hands. We're like what, no, and Israel my inheritance. See,

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Speaker 2: God doesn't just love the Jewish people, he doesn't just

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Speaker 2: more and more countries or the UN of course, accusing Israel.

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Speaker 2: I'm not here to describe the rightness or wrongness of

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Speaker 2: will control it, is that where we are, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: But is the world turning against us more and more

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Speaker 2: and more as we try to defend ourselves. Yes, it's

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Speaker 2: every single day, demanding them Kamas, give up, surrender, give

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Speaker 2: another biblical prophecy. But in the end of all this,

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Speaker 2: God has called us to and others Henri Victor. And

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Speaker 2: in terms of building big picture, you know, movements of

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Speaker 2: the ministry that we're called to and that many others

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Speaker 2: are called to. This is gonna work. If you want

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Speaker 2: to invest in the ministry that has a way more fruit,

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Speaker 2: right now, go invest in ministries in China. Shina s right, sorry,

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Speaker 2: just could God miss China. That's where people we've gone

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Speaker 2: from two hundred and fifty thousand believers sixty years ago

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Speaker 2: to one hundred million. Go invest in Sub Saharan Africa.

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Speaker 2: That's where God is bringing tens and tens and tens

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Speaker 2: to Brazil, go to Iran. We are not seeing the

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Speaker 2: level of fruit in the epicenter that we see in

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Speaker 2: other parts of the world. But these scriptures give us hope.

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Speaker 2: Not only does Romans eleven twenty six say that we're

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Speaker 2: heading towards a day where all Israel will be saved.

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Speaker 2: It's not just Israel. It's the Egyptians, it's the Lebanese,

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Speaker 2: it's the Syrians, it's the Jordanians, it's the Palasinians, it's

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Speaker 2: the Iraqis. I can't tell you if all of them

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Speaker 2: are gonna get saved. I'm just saying it's gonna be huge.

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Speaker 2: Let's pray and thank the Lord and ask the Lord

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Speaker 2: to show us our part in all of this. Father

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Speaker 2: in Heaven, we're so grateful that you give us this

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Speaker 2: picture of the future. And we're not claiming to understand

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Speaker 2: based on today's headlines yesterday's what we'll read tomorrow exactly

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Speaker 2: how this is going to play out. But Lord, we

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Speaker 2: want to stay focused on what your word teaches that

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Speaker 2: hard times are coming to the Middle East. Hard times

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Speaker 2: are happening in the Middle East, and yet you are moving.

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Speaker 2: There is hope behind the headlines, behind all the things

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Speaker 2: that the enemy is doing. You are on the move,

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Speaker 2: and we're so grateful, and we ask that you would

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Speaker 2: show us our place so we can serve you faithfully

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Speaker 2: and minister to people who may not yet be ready

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Speaker 2: to say yes. But we believe that you love the

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Speaker 2: people of the epicenter Jews, Arabs and others, and that

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Speaker 2: you want to that you will strike them, but you

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Speaker 2: will also heal them. You will send them a savior.

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Speaker 2: You will send them the champion. You will strike and

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Speaker 2: you will heal, and then we will all worship you

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Speaker 2: in Jerusalem. Thank you, Lord, use us for our part

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Speaker 2: in it of our great King, Jesus, the King of Israel,

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Speaker 2: the King of the universe, and I hope the king

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Speaker 2: of each of our lives. The name of our Lord

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Speaker 2: and Savior, Jesus Christ. We pray Amen.

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