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Speaker 1: Welcome to Inside the Epicenter weekend edition with New York

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Speaker 1: Times bestselling author in Midi Stexberg Jewel Rosenberg. This is

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Speaker 1: a radio program of the Joshua Fund, a ministry founded

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Speaker 1: by Jeel and his wife Lynn that's dedicated to blessing

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Speaker 1: Israel and her neighbors in the name of Jesus. This

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Speaker 1: is a program where we don't just talk about faith

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Speaker 1: in current events. We dive right into the spiritual pulse

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Speaker 1: of the Middle East and the God who was moving

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Speaker 1: so powerfully in it. Every week we unpack the headlines,

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Speaker 1: the prophecies, and the hope of Christ that's rising in

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Speaker 1: a region so often misunderstood because what happens in the

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Speaker 1: Epicenter doesn't stay there. It's aftershocks ripple across the world. Today,

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Speaker 1: we are featuring a timely and deeply biblical message from

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Speaker 1: Joel Rosenberg on one of the most important questions facing

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Speaker 1: Christians today. Why should followers of Jesus care about Israel,

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Speaker 1: love the Jewish people, and bless Israel and her neighbors

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Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus. Joel walks us through the

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Speaker 1: Abrahamic Covenant in Genesis twelve explains God's promise to bless

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Speaker 1: those who blesses people and unpacks why Israel still matters

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Speaker 1: in the heart and plan of God. Let's join Joel

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Speaker 1: Rosenberg as he opens God's Word and asks why Christians

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Speaker 1: should care about Israel.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, good morning, bokertve sabah acher. That's Hebrew and Arabic.

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Speaker 2: That's as far as I can go on that part,

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Speaker 2: So let's not get too excited by the greetings, but

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Speaker 2: thank you. It's such a joy and honor to be here.

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Speaker 2: And this morning, I want to talk about war and

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Speaker 2: rumors of war and the Gospel, and I want to

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Speaker 2: talk about the blessing that comes when we bless Israel

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Speaker 2: and her neighbors. Right, But it's important if you don't

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Speaker 2: care about Israel and you don't care about what's happening

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Speaker 2: in the Middle East, Okay, I'm guessing you care about

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Speaker 2: being blessed by God.

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Speaker 3: And this is not the only way.

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Speaker 2: But when you have such an early prime by God

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Speaker 2: in the Bible, I will bless you. I will do

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Speaker 2: something extraordinary in your life if you will bless my

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Speaker 2: people the nation that becomes the nation of Israel. That's important.

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Speaker 2: And in a world of a lot of challenges. It'd

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Speaker 2: be worth considering why, why why should I bless Israel?

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Speaker 3: And what does that mean? Do I have to agree

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Speaker 3: with everything bb net.

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Speaker 2: Yah who says no that the Israeli government says or

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Speaker 2: does no? So what does it mean? Why should Christians

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Speaker 2: care about Israel and her neighbors? But today I'm going

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Speaker 2: to focus specifically on Israel and the Jewish people. We

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Speaker 2: are living in a moment where more Jews and more

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Speaker 2: Muslims are coming to faith in the Crucifixion and the

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Speaker 2: resurrection and the return of Jesus than at any other

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Speaker 2: time in human history. We're watching the greatest spiritual awakening. Amen.

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Speaker 3: That's worth an amen.

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Speaker 2: We're watching the greatest spiritual awakening among Muslims. For example,

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Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty, we think there were maybe two hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand Muslims in the world who had come to faith

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Speaker 2: in Jesus as Lord, as God, as crucified, as resurrected,

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Speaker 2: as coming back. Maybe two hundred thousand Muslim converts in

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Speaker 2: the world in nineteen sixty. Today we are at over

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Speaker 2: fifteen million. It's probably worth spending a few minutes saying

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Speaker 2: why God, does Isral matter to God? And why should

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Speaker 2: it matter to us as followers of Jesus. Somebody walk

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Speaker 2: you through some reasons. And the Joshua find is a

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Speaker 2: ministry to again to educate and mobilize Christians to bless

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Speaker 2: Israel and her neighbors in the neighbor of Jesus because

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Speaker 2: of this Abrahamic covenant promise that you are actually blessed.

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Speaker 2: There's a promise of God blessing you in extraordinary ways.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't list all the ways, so bring that up

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Speaker 2: with the Lord. But there is no other promise. There

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Speaker 2: are very few promises that early in the scripture that says, Wow,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to get a blessing to bless a certain

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Speaker 2: group of people. So what does that mean and why

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Speaker 2: should we do that? And the Joshua Fund, as you

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Speaker 2: can imagine with the name fund, we raise funds to

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Speaker 2: invest in the local church in Israel and among the

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Speaker 2: Hoalsts and among the neighboring countries. And we strengthen the church,

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Speaker 2: We equip the church, We encourage the church and try

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Speaker 2: to be a witness and help the church be a

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Speaker 2: witness and make sure that everybody in Israel and the

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Speaker 2: region has at least heard the gospel. How can they

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Speaker 2: believe if they have not even heard in their own

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Speaker 2: heart language from people that love them and know them

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Speaker 2: and want to serve them.

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Speaker 3: That's what the Joshua Fund does.

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Speaker 2: Part and educating the church here and around the world

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Speaker 2: is part of raising up a global movement of prayer,

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Speaker 2: because the only way our team is going to come

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Speaker 2: to faith is through prayer. Right, two thousand years it's

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Speaker 2: a little tiny country. How have the Jewish people not

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Speaker 2: come to faith? Yet? There's not enough people praying. That's

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Speaker 2: the main reason. So what are some of these reasons

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Speaker 2: why should Israel matter to Christians? So let me just

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Speaker 2: go through a few. Number one, God's says in the

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Speaker 2: Bible that he loves Israel with an everlasting love, and

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Speaker 2: Jesus loves the people of Israel so much that he

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Speaker 2: wept over Jerusalem, Israel's capital, because he so wanted the

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Speaker 2: people of Israel, the Jewish people, to know him personally

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Speaker 2: and experience his love and blessings. Jeremiah chapter thirty one,

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Speaker 2: we read that at that time declares the Lord, I

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Speaker 2: will be the God of all the families of Israel,

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Speaker 2: and they shall be my people. And it goes on

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Speaker 2: to say the Lord said to Israel. I have loved

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Speaker 2: you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you

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Speaker 2: with loving kindness again. I will build you, and you

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Speaker 2: will be rebuilt, O Virgin of Israel. Jeremiah's writing at

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Speaker 2: a time where there's already been the destruction of the

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Speaker 2: nation of Israel and Babylon, King of Negabaezar is coming

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Speaker 2: to gobble up Judah. And yet God is saying through

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Speaker 2: Jeremiah how much he loves the people of Israel, even

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Speaker 2: though most Israelis at that Israelites at that point don't

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Speaker 2: know him. They're not listening to him, they're not reading

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Speaker 2: the word, they're not obeying. But God says, I will

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Speaker 2: build you, I will rebuild you. This is a promise

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Speaker 2: of the future. And he says that he will call

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Speaker 2: them O Virgin of Israel. He's describing supernaturally and somewhat poetically,

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Speaker 2: that He's going to purify the people of Israel through

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Speaker 2: his blood and redemption so dramatically that he will consider

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Speaker 2: us a virgin in his sight when he marries us.

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Speaker 2: And we have not handled ourselves like a pure and

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Speaker 2: chaste virgin in our relationship with the Lord. But God's

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Speaker 2: going to change it. He's gonna make it right. That's

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Speaker 2: his promise to us. Luke chapter nineteen. When Jesus drew

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Speaker 2: near and saw Jerusalem the city, he wept over it,

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Speaker 2: you know that passage Praise God, And that is happening again.

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Speaker 2: The fact that so many Jewish people have come to

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Speaker 2: faith in Jesus in the last fifty or sixty years

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Speaker 2: is evidence that this prophecy, these prophecies are coming to pass.

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Speaker 2: The fact that Israel is a sovereign nation state again

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Speaker 2: after almost twenty centuries of not being one, you know,

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Speaker 3: The fact that.

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Speaker 2: Israel's in the headlines all the time. Okay, you may

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Speaker 2: There's lots of reasons to disagree with Israel embarrassing. The

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Speaker 2: question is is God doing something? Yes, Fore, almost twenty

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Speaker 2: because he loves this people. Number two, the writers of

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Speaker 2: the New Testament continue to encourage the church to study

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Speaker 2: and learn from Israel's history. The apostle Paul tells the

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Speaker 2: right First Corinthians, Chapter ten, verse eighteen, Paul writes, look

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Speaker 2: the ugly. That's what the Bible is filled with, our

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Speaker 2: live in light of the word. Paul writes in several

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Speaker 2: other verses in chapter ten of First Corinthians that the

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Speaker 2: sometimes an example of what not to do, sometimes an

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Speaker 2: Acts chapter seven very famously, Stephen in the New Testament.

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Speaker 2: he's about to be martyred, is recounting the blessed history

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Speaker 2: and people of Israel. This is not because a lot

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Speaker 2: of people will say, oh, you're just talking about the

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Speaker 2: Old Testament, Joel, that's the Old Testament. We're a New Testament.

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Speaker 2: We're Christians. You have to think christianly.

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Speaker 2: I was not aware that two thirds of the Bible

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Speaker 2: know we were the Old Testament was off limits. What was

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Speaker 2: to think christianly, well, well, yes, in light of all

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Speaker 2: Old Testament. Number three The Bible describes Israel as the

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Speaker 2: epicenter of God's plan for the world. Geographically is Ezekiel

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Speaker 2: Chapter five, verse five thus says the Lord God, this

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Speaker 2: As God sees it, Israel. Jerusalem is the epicenter of

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Speaker 2: all his plan and purposes for the world. Right with respect,

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Speaker 2: San Diego is not the epicenter of the world.

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Speaker 2: Some people would say that it is. And I'm just

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Speaker 2: saying it's fantastic. I'm doing a great okay. And you know,

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Speaker 2: think the Moscow or Beijing are the is the epicenter

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Speaker 2: as he sees it. Ezekiel thirty eight, verse twelve says

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Speaker 2: and the Jewish people from exile, bring them back to

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Speaker 2: Also zero point four Israel, according to the scriptures, is

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Speaker 2: the Israel is the epicenter of God's plan for the

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Speaker 2: world spiritually right. You all know this from Acts chapter one,

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Speaker 2: verse eight, when Jesus says to his disciples the apostles,

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Speaker 2: just before ascending into heaven. But you will receive power

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Speaker 2: when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you

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Speaker 2: will be my witnesses. Where in Jerusalem first, then Judaea

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Speaker 2: and Samaria, that's what we call the West Bank today,

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Speaker 2: that's what the world calls the Palace, Indian Eras, Judea

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Speaker 2: I don't want to burst your bubble, but you live

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Speaker 2: at the ends of the earth. I my family, we

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Speaker 1: Joel as he explains why the spiritual awakening taking place

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Speaker 1: why Christians should understand God's heart for Israel through the

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Speaker 3: Number five.

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Speaker 2: you may work your way around the basic story of Israel,

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Speaker 2: We may not fully understand why God loves Zion so much.

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Speaker 2: he's coming back To. Jerusalem he's coming back to His Holy,

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Speaker 2: For israel more faithfully than you have being part of

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Speaker 2: that's how we're going to get To romans eleven twenty

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