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Speaker 4: I'm doctor Tony Evans and I'm excited for you to

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Speaker 4: join me on Heroes in the Bible. Please be sure

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Speaker 4: to the epic Adventure of David, a story of honor, battle, jealousy, darkness, friendship, love, scandal,

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Speaker 4: and murder. While most people know of David the myth,

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Speaker 4: few know about David the man. In this episode, David

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Speaker 4: finally receives a crown on his head. The weight is

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Speaker 4: over and everything will finally be as it should. Peace

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Speaker 4: the nation will be united forever. Right if only it

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Speaker 4: this episode, but it is not a perfect coronation. In fact,

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Speaker 4: half the nation will not support him. Sorrow, loss, backbiting,

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Speaker 4: remember something very important. David's story is a beautiful narrative,

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Speaker 4: of David's story. Unfortunately, the innocence of sheep herding, slaying giants,

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Speaker 4: is going to navigate politics, civil unrest, famine, scandal, betrayal,

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Speaker 4: A Sorrowful Coronation.

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Speaker 5: Prelude to chapter eighteen. Word had spread that Jesus was coming.

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Speaker 5: God, Jesus looked back at them.

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Speaker 5: The entirety of scripture was leading up to this moment.

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Speaker 5: The crescendo of God's story thus far was about to unfold.

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Speaker 5: Beginning of the end. Chapter eighteen, a sorrowful coronation. Flames

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Speaker 5: David awoke that night in a cold sweat. Visions of

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Speaker 5: David closed his eyes and breathed in the crisp bear

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Speaker 5: Even in his imperfections and failures, God was moving and

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Speaker 5: The Amalekite scavenger came closer into view, and David put

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Speaker 8: A long journey, my Lord David, he shouted, I have

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Speaker 5: From, David asked, handing the young man his wine skin.

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Speaker 6: Do not say anything about the throne. We are coming

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Speaker 5: the city where the elders awaited him. David approached the

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Speaker 5: David looked back at Shama. He gave a sly smile.

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Speaker 5: The elders silenced the crowd and looked down at David.

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Speaker 11: The giant s Leah, the champion of Israel, God's anointed.

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Speaker 11: We got a here to affirming you the calling of

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Speaker 11: the Lord. You have protected our people from the enemy,

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Speaker 11: even when the country considered you to.

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Speaker 4: Be an outlaw.

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Speaker 11: King Saul is dead, and now it is time to

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Speaker 11: look forward. Behold, you are now King of Judah.

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Speaker 5: The elders placed the crown atop David's light curls. The

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Speaker 5: Shepherd stood to his feet, and the crowd erupted and praised.

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Speaker 5: The Shepherd of Bethlehem was now king of God's people,

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Speaker 5: the forerunner for an even greater king that would come

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Speaker 5: after him, a king that would not just redeem a

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Speaker 5: nation for the entire world.

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Speaker 4: Jesus was not crowned with gold but thorns. This is

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Speaker 4: one of the most important preludes we have listened to yet.

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Speaker 4: Before David is crown king, we need to understand how

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Speaker 4: God crowns himself as king. While the world looks for

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Speaker 4: polished and illustrious coronations, Jesus rode on a donkey and

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Speaker 4: wore a crown of thorns, eventually enduring shame and torture

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Speaker 4: for his people. Jesus, having the opportunity to be crowned

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Speaker 4: a king, ose to instead take the form of a servant.

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Speaker 4: David will be expected to do the same, and we

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Speaker 4: will eagerly wait to see if he succeeds. After the prelude,

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Speaker 4: we are brought back to the battlefield where Saul fell

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Speaker 4: on his sword. Desolation surrounds his lifeless corpse, and a

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Speaker 4: lone scavenger loots his crown and ambulant. The undignified sight

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Speaker 4: reminds us that death equalizes us all and shows no

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Speaker 4: honor to kings. Saul, a king, died a gruesome and

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Speaker 4: inglorious death, and in the end his belongings are taken

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Speaker 4: and his body is shamed. This scene is meant to

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Speaker 4: signal to us the fragility of the throne. Saul died

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Speaker 4: and everything seemed to crumble at once. Putting our hope

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Speaker 4: in worldly leaders and institutions is risky business, since they

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Speaker 4: can come and go in an instant. What we put

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Speaker 4: our hope in today may fail us tomorrow. How silly

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Speaker 4: it seems to put our unwavering trust in frag figures

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Speaker 4: and systems. The scavenger in the beginning of this episode

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Speaker 4: is an important figure as well. He represents the choppy

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Speaker 4: and hazardous transition from one king to another. The entire

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Speaker 4: interaction between him and David gives us yet another painful

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Speaker 4: reminder that this whole shift from King Saul to King

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Speaker 4: David will not be pretty. The interchange between the Scavenger

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Speaker 4: and David starts off terrible. He brings David Saul's crown

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Speaker 4: with hope that he will be rewarded. However, he's dishonest.

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Speaker 4: We've already seen what dishonest he can do. The Scavenger

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Speaker 4: tries to elevate his own importance in the story, unaware

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Speaker 4: that he was implicating himself as the king's murderer. It

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Speaker 4: was such an unnecessary lie, too, he paid a hefty

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Speaker 4: price for it. This doubles down on the idea that

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Speaker 4: David did not hate Saul. He could not tolerate the

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Speaker 4: man who claimed to kill him, even as an act

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Speaker 4: of mercy. David is destroyed worry by Saul's death, but

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Speaker 4: even more heartbreaking is the loss of Jonathan. The passing

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Speaker 4: of Saul and Jonathan was more than a tragedy. It

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Speaker 4: was a transition. Saw the father and Jonathan, the brother died,

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Speaker 4: ushering in David's adulthood. This is a deep psychological phenomena

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Speaker 4: that plays itself out in stories. Oftentimes, the transition from

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Speaker 4: boyhood to manhood is represented by the death of a father,

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Speaker 4: signifying the passing of the proverbial torch. Another phenomena is

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Speaker 4: the surpassing of the brother and going further than he

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Speaker 4: was able to go. David mourns their loss as he should,

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Speaker 4: but then gets right to work. It is every leader's

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Speaker 4: job to honor the past while looking forward to the future.

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Speaker 4: David will have to respect Saul's legacy while making up

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Speaker 4: for his past sins. This concept is parsed out for

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Speaker 4: us when David watches the sun rise watch as the dark,

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Speaker 4: cold Earth received the warmth of the morning, he realized

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Speaker 4: that Israel was in need of that same warmth. Darkened

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Speaker 4: from the years of Saul's unstable reign had left them despondent,

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Speaker 4: and the loss of the Philistines had left them vulnerable.

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Speaker 4: They were in need of the light of the Lord,

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Speaker 4: and David felt a great burden to reveal it to them. David,

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Speaker 4: from the get go feels a responsibility to surpass his predecessor.

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Speaker 4: We should all hope to do better than the generation

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Speaker 4: before us, and we can only pray that the generation

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Speaker 4: after us surpasses us. Just as Jesus did not come

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Speaker 4: to be served, but to serve, David prepares his men

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Speaker 4: to serve. He plans on protecting the people, whether they

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Speaker 4: crown him as king or not. This introduces another important

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Speaker 4: theme for us, and that is the theme of character.

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Speaker 4: David passionately protected Israel when he was a shepherd, a prince,

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Speaker 4: an exile, and the king. He had the same focus

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Speaker 4: and mission, whether he was beloved or hated. It may

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Speaker 4: be a cliche, but I will say it anyway. Characters

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Speaker 4: who you are when nobody's watching. David was the same

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Speaker 4: in the cave of Abulum as he was in the

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Speaker 4: palace of the King. People pleasers will act a certain

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Speaker 4: way around those they are trying to please, but act

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Speaker 4: differently when nobody is around to praise them. True men

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Speaker 4: and women of God hold themselves accountable no matter who

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Speaker 4: is present, because they know God is always there. David

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Speaker 4: is coming to the rescue. Meanwhile, the men of Judah

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Speaker 4: are debating about who should be king. Israel has already

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Speaker 4: named Ishbashev, Saul's last remaining son, king, but Judah is

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Speaker 4: not so certain about him. Judah was the largest and

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Speaker 4: most powerful tribe of Israel, essentially standing as a nation

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Speaker 4: of its own, and they are more inclined to choose

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Speaker 4: the giant slayer. Did you think David's rise to power

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Speaker 4: would be simple or easy? It was neither. The next

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Speaker 4: few episodes will feature a a dark turn for the

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Speaker 4: nation of Israel. Civil war is brewing, and David will

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Speaker 4: be at the center of it. It seems so clear

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Speaker 4: to us what the right decision is, so why does

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Speaker 4: it seem so hard for Israel. We have the benefit

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Speaker 4: of hindsight. Think about all the twists and turns of

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Speaker 4: your life. Think about all the wrong decisions you made,

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Speaker 4: but in the moment you thought you were right. Who

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Speaker 4: we are now will be the person we laugh at

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Speaker 4: twenty years from now. That's what it means to grow.

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Speaker 4: Israel will grow and realize their mistakes eventually, but now

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Speaker 4: Ismaschef is their king. Judah, however, crowns God's chosen hero

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Speaker 4: to rule over them. David was received with praise and

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Speaker 4: singing for the first time in years. He receives the

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Speaker 4: love and affection of his nation. Unlike Saul, the praise

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Speaker 4: does not go to his head. David knows that everything

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Speaker 4: he has is thanks to God. He also knows that

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Speaker 4: he is not the real hero of this story. Later

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Speaker 4: revealed in some of his psalms, he will prophesy of

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Speaker 4: a better king and psal one ten he will sing

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Speaker 4: the Lord says to my king, sin at my right

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Speaker 4: hand until I make your enemies your footstool. David sings

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Speaker 4: about a different king who will make his enemies his footstool. However,

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Speaker 4: the enemy he fights will not be a foreign nation

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Speaker 4: or a radical king. It will be death itself. David

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Speaker 4: knows somewhere deep within his spirit that he is the

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Speaker 4: forerunner for someone greater, a king that would not just

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Speaker 4: redeem a nation, but the entire world. In the next episode,

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Speaker 4: Sin and Death crouch like lions ready to devour Israel.

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Speaker 4: Will David be up to the political and spiritual challenge?

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Speaker 4: Find out in episode nineteen, a civil war begins. Thank

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