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Speaker 2: Why should Christians care about Israel?

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Speaker 3: And what does God promise to those who blesses people? Hi,

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Speaker 3: and welcome to Inside the Epicenter with Joel Inlyn Rosenberg,

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Speaker 3: a podcast of the Joshua Fund, a ministry dedicated to

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Speaker 3: blessing Israel and her neighbors in the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 3: In today's episode, Joel walks through eight biblical reasons why

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Speaker 3: followers of Jesus should love, pray for, and bless Israel

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Speaker 3: and her neighbors. He also shares what God is doing

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Speaker 2: Right now. Here's Joel.

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Speaker 4: Hey, We're thrilled to stand arm in arm with Israel,

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Speaker 4: just seemed like the Lord put this together masterfully. For

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Speaker 4: a podcast. We got him all to ourself. And incredible author,

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Speaker 4: just an amazing friend. We've known each other for years,

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Speaker 4: and we fixed that this weekend, and so Horizon, would

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Speaker 4: you stand with me and let's together as we praise

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Speaker 4: the Lord for our dear brother. Welcome Joel Rosenberg as

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Speaker 1: Thank you, good morning, bokertve sabareer. That's Hebrew and Arabic.

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Speaker 5: Why did you have a Noah?

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Speaker 1: Why should Christians care about Israel and her neighbors? But

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Speaker 5: Neither is Washington. Some people would say that it is.

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Speaker 5: And I'm just saying it's fantastic. I'm doing a great okay.

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Speaker 1: And you know, and if you're if you're putin, if

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Speaker 1: you're a jijiin Ping, you think the Moscow or Beijing

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Speaker 1: are you are? Are the is the epicenter of the world.

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Speaker 1: But God says, no, this little tiny country that wasn't

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Speaker 1: even a country for two thousand years and now it is.

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Speaker 1: That's the center of the world as he sees it.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna pause here for a moment. Stay with us.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back with more from Joel.

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Speaker 3: Today's versus of the Day Genesis twelve, verse three. I

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Speaker 3: will bless those who bless you, and the one who

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Speaker 3: curses you, I will curse, and in you all the

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Speaker 3: families of the earth will be blessed. And today's three

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Speaker 3: prayer requests. First, pray for more Jewish and Muslim people

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Speaker 3: around the world to encounter Jesus through the Word, through

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Speaker 3: believers who love them, and through the work of the

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Speaker 3: Holy Spirit. Second, pray for the Church to teach the

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Speaker 3: full story of Scripture faithfully, without fear and without skipping

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Speaker 3: the parts about Israel and God's covenant promises. And finally,

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Speaker 3: pray for believers to find practical, genuine ways to bless

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Speaker 3: Israel and her neighbors in their everyday lives.

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Speaker 1: Zeko thirty eight, verse twelve says the same thing, that

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Speaker 1: God's going to draw the people back and the Jewish

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Speaker 1: people from exile, bring them back to.

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Speaker 5: Live at the center of the world. And that word

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Speaker 5: center in Hebrew is Navel. It's been not.

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Speaker 1: Naveal like Nabel you know, San Diego. No, we're talking

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Speaker 1: navel like belly button. It's the belly button of the earth.

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Speaker 1: From God's perspective, it's the center. Now also zero point

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Speaker 1: four Israel, according to the scriptures, is the Israel is

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Speaker 1: the epicenter of God's plan for the world spiritually right.

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Speaker 1: You all know this from Acts chapter one, verse eight,

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Speaker 1: when Jesus says to his disciples the apostles just before

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Speaker 1: ascending into heaven. But you will receive power when the

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be

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Speaker 1: my witnesses. Where in Jerusalem first, then Judaea and Samaria.

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Speaker 1: That's what we call the West Bank today, that's what

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Speaker 1: the world calls the Palace in andan Eras, Judaea and Samaria,

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Speaker 1: and even to the ends of the earth. Now, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to burst your bubble, but you live at

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Speaker 1: the ends of the earth. I my family, we live

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Speaker 1: in Jerusalem. We live at the epicenter. And I know

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Speaker 1: from for you Israel feels like the ends of the earth.

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Speaker 1: But you've got it inverted. And so the good news

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Speaker 1: is the Gospel has reached all the way out here.

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Speaker 1: On The question is whether the Gospel will reach the epicenter.

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Speaker 1: This is what we're engaged in, and this is what

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Speaker 1: we want you to be part of. Number five. The

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Speaker 1: story of Israel is at the heart of the scriptures,

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Speaker 1: from Genesis through Revelation. That's why congregations that teach from

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Speaker 1: Genesis through Revelation get the story. They understand the narrative

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Speaker 1: of what God is unfolding. But people who just teach,

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Speaker 1: you know, and cherry's pick through the scriptures. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying you have to do expository preaching through all the Bible,

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Speaker 1: but there's a healthiness in doing it because not doing it,

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Speaker 1: you may work your way around the basic story of Israel,

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Speaker 1: which starts in Genesis and ends in Revelation. Okay, how

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Speaker 1: many times do you think in the Bible Israel is

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Speaker 1: mentioned five hundred times, one thousand times, fifteen hundred times,

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Speaker 1: two thousand times. Let's go crazy, two thousand, three hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty one times. Two thousand, three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: one times. Israel is mentioned in the Bible, and it starts.

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Speaker 1: The first time is Genesis thirty two, verse twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: The last time is in Revelation twenty one, verse twelve.

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Speaker 1: You got only one more chapter to go Israel's mentioned

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Speaker 1: right to the end.

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Speaker 5: Okay, it's central.

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Speaker 1: And the problem with those pastors and Bible teachers and

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Speaker 1: others who will try to distill what's known as biblical

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Speaker 1: theology or the narrative of the Bible into a very short,

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Speaker 1: concise equation that's understandable, but often it goes like this, creation, fall, redemption, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: and return, second Coming. Now that's all true. Creation, fall, redemption, Return.

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Speaker 1: But there's a problem what you've done in making the

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Speaker 1: Bible and teaching it to young people, to older people,

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Speaker 1: to every people. When you just say that's the basic

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Speaker 1: story of the Bible. What have you eliminated Abraham, Isaac Jacob,

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Speaker 1: twelve tribes, David Solomon, all the prophets, all.

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Speaker 5: The history, all the things we're supposed to look at

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Speaker 5: to learn from how to walk with Lord, how not

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Speaker 5: to walk with the Lord. You've just eliminated all that.

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Speaker 1: And so many churches are doing that and just having

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Speaker 1: a terrible effect on the church. The Church is really

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Speaker 1: wavering in some areas, particularly among young people, whether we

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Speaker 1: should love and bless and stand with the people of Israel,

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Speaker 1: the nation, visual and the Jewish people or not. And

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Speaker 1: many influenced by TikTok or Candae or Tucker or Hassan Piker,

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Speaker 1: one of the big influencers on the left, who says

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Speaker 1: that Hamas is a thousand times better than.

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Speaker 5: Israel, Like all that stuff is affecting.

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Speaker 1: Our young people, and we see it and encounter it

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Speaker 1: and deal with it every single day. Number six, God

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Speaker 1: describes Israel as what as the apple of his eye.

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Speaker 1: Now that's a poetic way of saying, your pupil, that's

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Speaker 1: your pupil is the apple of your eye.

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Speaker 5: And what is it? It's first of all, it's super sensitive, right.

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Speaker 1: You don't want even your spouse and certainly not your

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Speaker 1: children to come quickly at your pupil, even if there's something.

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Speaker 5: In there that they need to get out, Like whoa, whoa, whoa.

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Speaker 5: Time out.

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Speaker 1: First, there's a plank in your eye, could you just

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Speaker 1: maybe you want to get rid of that first before

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Speaker 1: you start coming at me, like you.

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Speaker 5: Know, like a superhero. Hold time out.

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Speaker 1: Secondly, it's it's very sensitive, so you want to deal

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Speaker 1: tenderly with your pupil. Secondly, it's the way you see

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Speaker 1: the world. Israel is the way God sees the world.

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Speaker 1: First of all, it's tender to him. It's sensitive to him.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't want you to attack Israel and the Jewish people.

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Speaker 1: You can criticize, you can have different disagreements with so forth.

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Speaker 1: To be sure, I do and I'm open about that,

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Speaker 1: but not to come at as an attack, not to

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Speaker 1: be vengeful, to deal tenderly with your pupil, with God's pupil,

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Speaker 1: and to realize this is how God sees the world.

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Speaker 1: He sees it through Israel, the nation, and the history

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Speaker 1: and the future of Israel. Deuteronomy chapter thirty two mentions

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Speaker 1: for the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob, Israel is

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Speaker 1: his a lot of inheritance, and then it goes on

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Speaker 1: to say that God guarded Israel as the apple of

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Speaker 1: his eye. That's where we when we first hear this expression.

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Speaker 1: Later in Zechariah, God says, Zachariah says, for whoever touches you,

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Speaker 1: he's speaking about Israel and the Jewish people, touches the

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Speaker 1: apple of his eye. So he's saying, be careful to

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Speaker 1: come after the apple of God's eye. Number seven, Jews

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Speaker 1: are the chosen people. That's what the Bible says. Now,

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Speaker 1: as a Jewish person, I can tell you that most

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Speaker 1: of my team wishes we were not chosen, because we

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Speaker 1: would say to you, how has that worked out well

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Speaker 1: for us? The Pharaoh chose us, Hayman chose us. In

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Speaker 1: the Book of esther Right, Hitler chose us. Stalin shows us.

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Speaker 1: The Iranian president years ago, Mahmoud Ahma genocide, I mean Ahmadinajad.

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Speaker 1: He chose us for annihilation. The local the most recent

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Speaker 1: Iatoa Hamanai and his ilk.

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Speaker 5: They've chosen us.

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Speaker 1: They've chosen us for hatred, They've chosen us for persecution,

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Speaker 1: They've chosen.

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Speaker 5: Us for genocide and annihilation.

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Speaker 1: We're like, you know, Lord, please, we don't want to

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Speaker 1: hog the spotlight. You know we're kosher, right, Why don't

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Speaker 1: you Why don't you choose somebody else? Choose the Japanese,

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Speaker 1: choose the Brazilian. Seriously, we don't want to be chosen

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Speaker 1: being chosen sort of like I don't know if you remember,

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Speaker 1: it depends on your age. But the Far Side cartoons

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Speaker 1: from like the eighties, those were my favorites back in

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Speaker 1: the day. Gary marsh In a Canadian comic with little

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Speaker 1: funny animals, little funny sayings, right, so he had My

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Speaker 1: favorite is there's two deer standing in the forest, and

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Speaker 1: one deer has a bullseye on its chest, and the

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Speaker 1: deer without the bulls eye says to the deer with

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Speaker 1: the bullseye, bummer of a birthmark.

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Speaker 5: Hal, that's what it feels like to be Jewish. You

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Speaker 5: you were born and you were raised. You're like, I've

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Speaker 5: got a bull's eye on me. Why what you know?

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Speaker 1: Years ago, when Len and I were moving with the

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Speaker 1: boys to Israel to become new citizens. It was years

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Speaker 1: after we'd started the Josh fun but now the Lord

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Speaker 1: was calling us to go there and be with our people.

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Speaker 1: And I have two sisters, both adopted ones from Korea

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Speaker 1: and Katie, the Korean sister. She says, Wow, I want

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Speaker 1: to get to Israel, but I've never been. Help me

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Speaker 1: just get a picture of what your life will be like.

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Speaker 1: Do you have McDonald's over there? Yes, Yes, we're a

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Speaker 1: civilized country, Katie, we have lots of McDonald's.

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Speaker 5: Great. Do you have Ikea? Yes, we have Ikea. We've

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Speaker 5: got several ikea. Very happy about that.

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Do you have target? I said, Katie, the whole country

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Speaker 5: is a target. You can't.

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Speaker 1: You can have a building with a bull's eye on

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Speaker 1: it or a little dog with a bulls like that

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Speaker 1: doesn't work in our culture, and unfortunately she laughed and

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Speaker 1: sort of got that.

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Speaker 5: So we don't want to be chosen.

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Speaker 1: But this is not our self identification. This is what

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Speaker 1: God said about us. Deuteronomy, chapter seven, verse six. The

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Speaker 1: Lord says, for you are a people holy to the

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Speaker 1: Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you

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Speaker 1: out of all the peoples on the face of the earth,

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Speaker 1: to be his people, his treasured possession, and that phraseology

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Speaker 1: is repeated over and over again throughout the scriptures. First

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Speaker 1: King III talks about your servant is here among the

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Speaker 1: people you have chosen, the people Israel Isaiah sixty five.

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Speaker 1: I will bring forth descendants from Jacob that's Israel, and

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Speaker 1: from Judah those who will be.

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Speaker 5: Who will possess my mountains.

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Speaker 1: In other words, he's gonna draw the Jewish people back

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Speaker 1: to the land of Israel, Isaiah saying. He says, my

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Speaker 1: chosen people will inherit those mountains and those lands, and

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Speaker 1: there will my servants live. This is God's plan that

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Speaker 1: we be chosen. Now the challenge is this just because

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Speaker 1: we're chosen by God to be first movers, to know

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Speaker 1: him first and to make him known.

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Speaker 5: That's not enough.

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Speaker 1: It's not enough for Jews and Israelis to be chosen.

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Speaker 1: We have to choose God back. Otherwise it doesn't matter. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we got first opportunity, but we have to say yes,

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Speaker 1: just like you have to say yes.

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Speaker 5: God has chosen you.

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Speaker 1: He wants you to know him personally and to be

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Speaker 1: adopted into his royal family and have all the blessings

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Speaker 1: that come with knowing the Messiah and going and living

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Speaker 1: with Him in Heaven forever and ever and ever and

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Speaker 1: ever and ever and ever and ever. But if you

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Speaker 1: don't choose Him back, if you don't say yes to

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Speaker 1: that free gift, it doesn't count. So I encourage you

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Speaker 1: to do that, and I asked you to pray for

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Speaker 1: my people that we would go. There's a free gift

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Speaker 1: on the table. Yes we want that. There's a blessing

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Speaker 1: and a security that comes with being chosen.

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Speaker 5: Yes we want that. Most of our people don't know

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Speaker 5: that yet. Number eight.

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Speaker 1: Israel is described in the Bible by God, the land

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Speaker 1: of Israel, as the promised land promised to whom to

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Speaker 1: the Jewish people. Now, I don't have the time today

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Speaker 1: to get into the two States solution and all those challenges.

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Speaker 1: But I want you to know that in nineteen forty seven,

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Speaker 1: when the United Nations was trying to decide what to

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Speaker 1: do with the Land of Israel, the Land of Palestine

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Speaker 1: had called it based on the Romans term, using the

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Speaker 1: term Philistine to turn it into an Anglicized word Palestine.

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Speaker 5: You know, they basically thought that the Solomon story.

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Speaker 1: Of dividing the baby in half was a good idea,

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Speaker 1: and so they took the land and they say, we're

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Speaker 1: going to divide it. This is called the Partition Plan

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Speaker 1: of nineteen forty seven, and the UN voted on it

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Speaker 1: on November twenty ninth, nineteen forty seven. This portion goes

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Speaker 1: to the Arabs, and this little portion will go to

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Speaker 1: the Jews.

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Speaker 5: Was it as much as we wanted?

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Speaker 3: It was not.

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Speaker 5: Was it all the land that God has promised to us?

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Speaker 2: It was not.

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Speaker 5: Did the Jewish people say, but we'll take it? Yes,

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Speaker 5: we did.

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Speaker 1: The entire well, I mean, the vast majority of nations

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Speaker 1: in the United Sations at that time voted to go

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Speaker 1: with that plan. But there was a Palestinian state, an

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Speaker 1: Arab state built into the system.

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Speaker 5: But the Arab said no. And on May fourteenth. Nineteen

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Speaker 5: forty eight, when Israel declared independence.

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Speaker 1: The Arab world attacked Israel. They never said yes to

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Speaker 1: that plan. Nineteen sixty seven, when the air world was

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Speaker 1: surrounding Israel and getting ready to wipe us off the

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Speaker 1: face of the planet, annihilate us, Israel.

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Speaker 5: Decided we had to strike first.

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Speaker 1: We did, and we defeated the Arab enemies in six days,

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Speaker 1: and on the seventh day we rested. Very biblical, very nice.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was sad that it had to be done,

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Speaker 1: but we offered that a peace treaty to our Arab neighbors. Look,

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Speaker 1: we'll create an Arab state, a Palaisian state next to

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Speaker 1: our state. Arab said no, tried to annihilate us again

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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy three, and over it has gone. President

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Speaker 1: Clinton very famously tried to create a Palistine state in

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Speaker 1: nineteen or in two thousand.

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Speaker 5: President Trump I.

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Speaker 1: Offered the Palestinians a sovereign state in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 5: It was the deal of the cent. You was fantastic.

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Speaker 5: You've never seen a state like this. Who was fantastic.

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Speaker 5: Babe loved it. I loved it. They didn't love it.

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Speaker 1: So well, just having just having a little fun here

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Speaker 1: this morning. My wife's you're thinking not getting a dead

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be proven that at this juncture. Don't go with

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Speaker 1: the impressions that no. So the point is, for seventy eight,

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Speaker 1: seventy nine years, howson hasn't been offered a state and

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Speaker 1: they haven't taken it. They've attacked over and over and

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Speaker 1: over again. Now I don't I can't resolve that right

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Speaker 1: now for you. There's they have their reasons, but I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying, it's not like Israel hasn't tried over and

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Speaker 1: over and over and over and over again.

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Speaker 5: But God does say this land is promised to the

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Speaker 5: Jewish people.

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Speaker 1: And that term the Promised Land that actually isn't an

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Speaker 1: Old Testament promise or phrase. That's New Testament language. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the Old Testament lays out all those principles, including actual

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Speaker 1: geographic dimensions that I think won't actually be fulfilled until

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Speaker 1: the Millennial Kingdom. But it's Hebrews chapter twelve, in which

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Speaker 1: God says by faith, Abram made his home in the

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Speaker 1: Promised Land like a stranger in a foreign country. That's

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Speaker 1: where the term when if you ever heard the term

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Speaker 1: the Promised Land, that's a New Testament phrase. We didn't

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Speaker 1: make it up. Now, let's land the plane here. Two

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Speaker 1: quick thoughts and I won't go into a lot of detail.

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Speaker 1: But number nine, God chose Israel's capital, Jerusalem, also known

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Speaker 1: as Zion. I mentioned because there's a mountain at the

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Speaker 1: center of Jerusalem called Zion Mountain Zion. God chose Jerusalem, Zion,

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Speaker 1: as his very own, the very place that he loves

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Speaker 1: more than any place in the world, and where he

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Speaker 1: will live forever. So when people attack Zionism, Christian Zionism,

727
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Speaker 1: what they're saying is, I don't care if.

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Speaker 5: God says he loves Zion or not. I'm against it.

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Speaker 5: Is that really where we're supposed to be.

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Speaker 1: We may not fully understand why God loves Zion so much.

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Speaker 1: Why doesn't he love San Diego more than Zion. I

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Speaker 1: can't explain that to you. It's pretty lovely.

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Speaker 5: Here, right Daniel calls Israel the beautiful land.

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Speaker 1: It is beautiful. But you know some of you been

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Speaker 1: to the Caribbean that's beautiful too, right. So But here

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Speaker 1: second chronicle six', Six god, SAYS i have Chosen jerusalem

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Speaker 1: for my name to be, there And i've Chosen david

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Speaker 1: to rule my People, Israel Second, chronicle six thirty. Four

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Speaker 1: god speaks about the city that you have, chosen the

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Speaker 1: city Of, Jerusalem. Zion that Word zion has mentioned one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two times in The, bible one hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty. Two it's not like a throw. Off it's

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Speaker 1: not only one or two three. Mentions The psalm nine

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Speaker 1: to eleven.

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Speaker 5: Sing praises to The lord who dwells In. Zion.

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Speaker 1: Eight great is The, lord and greatly to be praised

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Speaker 1: in the city of Our, god in his holy, mountain

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Speaker 1: beautiful in. Elevation the joy of the whole earth Is Mountain,

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Speaker 1: zion on the sides of the north Of, jerusalem the

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Speaker 1: city of The Great.

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Speaker 5: King psalm sixty.

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Speaker 1: Nine god will Save zion and build the cities Of,

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Speaker 1: judah that they may dwell there and possess.

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Speaker 5: It zion is a.

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Speaker 1: Means god is going to bring The jewish exiles back

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Speaker 1: to the land Of, israel back to the city Of,

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Speaker 1: jerusalem back to the mountain Of, zion and he's going

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Speaker 1: to rebuild. It and he's gonna settle us there and

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Speaker 1: draw us to. Himself psalm eighty. Seven The lord loves

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Speaker 1: the gates Of zion more than all the other dwelling

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Speaker 1: places In Israel psalm, one.

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Speaker 5: P thirty.

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Speaker 1: Two for The lord has Chosen, zion he has desired

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Speaker 1: it for his. Habitation this is my resting place.

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Speaker 5: Forever HERE i will, dwell FOR i have desired.

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Speaker 1: It you're, like that's Old, Testament joel, again you've gotta think.

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Speaker 5: Christianly take us to The New. Testament, dude that's all Old.

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Speaker 5: Testament we don't want, old we want.

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Speaker 1: New, okay you're in The book Of, Revelation revelation, fourteen verse.

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Speaker 1: One THEN i looked and behold The, lamb the crucified

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Speaker 1: and Risen Savior.

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Speaker 5: Jesus where's he.

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Speaker 1: Standing he's standing On Mountain, Zion revelation, Fourteen revelation twenty,

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Speaker 1: One verses one through. Three THEN i saw a New

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Speaker 1: heaven and a New earth for the First, heaven and

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Speaker 1: the Firth earth First earth passed, away and there's no

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Speaker 1: longer any. Sea AND i saw The Holy, city The New,

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Speaker 1: jerusalem The New, zion coming down out Of heaven From

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Speaker 1: god made ready as a bride adorned for her. Husband

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Speaker 1: AND i heard a loud voice from the throne, saying,

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Speaker 1: behold look that the, tabernacle the dwelling place Of god

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Speaker 1: is among, men And he will dwell among them where In,

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Speaker 1: jerusalem the New, jerusalem and they shall be his, people

784
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Speaker 1: And god himself will be among. Them god Loves, Jerusalem

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Speaker 1: god Loves, Zion god Loves. Israel he has a plan for.

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Speaker 1: It why should we resist? That why should we be

787
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Speaker 1: so hostile to? THAT i suggest that we should not

788
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Speaker 1: be last point the apostles and the prophets throughout The

789
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Speaker 1: old And New testaments telling us to pray for. It

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Speaker 1: pay attention to the people Of, israel people Of, jerusalem

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00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: The jewish, people speak kindly to, her pray for, her

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Speaker 1: proclaim The gospel to. Her and remember that When jesus comes,

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Speaker 1: back he's not coming back To San. Diego he's coming

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Speaker 1: back To. Israel he's coming back To. Jerusalem he's coming

795
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Speaker 1: back to his Holy, mountain and you're going there to worship.

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Speaker 1: Him so if you've never gotten To israel, before you

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00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 1: know you will definitely get. There isaiah fordy, Comfort oh,

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Speaker 1: comfort my, people says Your, god speak kindly To. Jerusalem

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Speaker 1: So i'm one twenty. Two of, course pray for the Peace,

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Speaker 1: jerusalem seek the good of the people Of. Jerusalem romans one.

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Speaker 1: Sixteen FOR i am not ashamed of the of the

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00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 1: of The. Gospel for it's the power Of god unto

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00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: salvation for everyone who, believes to the jew first.

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Speaker 5: And also to The Gentiles romans eleven twenty.

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Speaker 1: Six, eventually after a lot of prayer and a lot of,

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00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: evangelism and a lot of faithful work by the church

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Speaker 1: to plant and water, Seeds god says All israel will be,

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Speaker 1: saved just as it is written The Deliverer jesus will

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Speaker 1: come from where From? Zion he will remove ungodliness From.

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Speaker 1: Israel From jacob's that's That's New, testament that's The book Of. Romans,

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Speaker 1: look there's no other country other Than israel about Which

812
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: god speaks so, lovingly so, tenderly so, compassionately or so.

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Speaker 5: Often it doesn't Mean he doesn't have strong words for

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Speaker 5: us when we. Disobey that's, yeah you that The bible

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Speaker 5: is filled with. That but it's always with compassion. Love

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Speaker 5: he's speaking the truth and, love and it seems.

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00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: Hard, sometimes but that's Because he doesn't want us to

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Speaker 1: go down a path of, destruction.

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Speaker 5: Present destruction or eternal.

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Speaker 1: Destruction, LOOK i want to cooset with this, thought and

821
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Speaker 1: that is to encourage you to consider praying For israel

822
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Speaker 1: more faithfully than you, have being part of a global

823
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Speaker 1: movement of. Prayer that's How jews And muslims are going

824
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Speaker 1: to come to faith In. Jesus that's how we are

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Speaker 1: coming to faith In jesus more than. Ever that's how

826
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Speaker 1: we're going to get To romans eleven twenty, six where

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Speaker 1: All israel gets. Saved be involved in a ministry like The,

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Speaker 1: joshua and we would love to have you, involved to

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Speaker 1: learn to, pray to, give to, go come with us To.

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Speaker 1: Israel next, year we're going to do the first major,

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Speaker 1: conference First christian conference in more than seven, years because

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Speaker 1: we HAD covid and then war and so there hasn't

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Speaker 1: been a Major christian conference In israel in a long,

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Speaker 1: time more than seven. Years But april, seventh twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: seven will be hosting The Epicenter summit one Day Uh Greg,

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Speaker 1: Lori Skip heitzig And Graham, Lots Jack, graham The president Of,

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Speaker 1: israel THE Us ambassador To, Israel Mike, Huckabee uh, myself and.

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Speaker 5: And more that will be announced. Soon we want you to.

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Speaker 5: Come we want you to be a witness to the

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Speaker 5: nation Of.

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Speaker 1: Israel he, GOES whoa how come you Even joggles are

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Speaker 1: the only people that seem to love us at a

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Speaker 1: time when everybody else seems to hate.

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Speaker 5: Us we would love to have you come The Joshua faund.

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Speaker 1: of course you can become a prayer supporter a financial.

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Speaker 1: Supporter but we're also Encouraging bob And mike McIntosh and

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Speaker 1: others to. Consider, look prices are a little high these,

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Speaker 1: days and yes we've been through a period of, war

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Speaker 1: but we think things are going to get. Better we

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Speaker 1: think prices are gonna come. Down we think things are settling.

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Speaker 1: Down and we won't take. You you, know we'll cancel

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Speaker 1: if It's we're not going to take you into harm's.

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Speaker 1: Way but we think it's one thing to stand With.

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Speaker 1: Israel it's much better to stand into this. Room come

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Speaker 1: and see the, land and whether it's with us or

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Speaker 1: with them or with, others we want you to see.

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Speaker 5: It we want you to worship The lord, there to

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Speaker 5: study The.

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Speaker 1: Word, there to walk Where jesus and The apostles and

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Speaker 1: the prophet's walk and to see what Is god doing?

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Speaker 1: Now that's so, exciting that's so. Powerful what is this

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Speaker 1: awakening that's. Happening we want to show it to. You

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Speaker 5: And to understand whether you come or. NOT i hope

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Speaker 5: hardship but you promise to bless those who will bless your.

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