Red Heifer Update, Dark Side of CoComellon and Updates from Gateway Church after Robert Morris

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The Dark Side of Coco Mellon Max Lucado gives an update on what's been happening at Gateway

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Church since the Robert Morris scandal.

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And the latest from Chris Reed.

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Plus a very special Red Heifer update with Byron Stinson.

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I'm John Madorazo for CharismaNews.com and these are your midweek rundown stories.

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In this recent article, Isaiah Saldifar uncovers the sinister side of Coco Mellon.

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Is there something sinister behind the world's most popular children's show?

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It is very important what we put in front of our kids' eyes and their ears.

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So what is really going on with this popular kids' show?

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In a reaction video, Isaiah Saldifar shared how this kids' content has triggered all

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kinds of negative behaviors within its viewers.

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They say right now ADHD is at a record-breaking high for kids.

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That's all no attention span.

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Kids can't sit through anything.

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Sit through class, sit through a movie because their attention spans are being ruined from

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shows like Coco Mellon and from TikTok and from Instagram.

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The first thing the video shows is the deceptive ways that Coco Mellon uses color patterns

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and saturation to addict children to what they're watching.

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He goes into a deeper explanation of this.

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It's really interesting and you should check it out.

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Go to the link in the description so that you can read the article and watch the video

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as well.

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Not only are the contents of Coco Mellon addicting for children, but the messaging behind the

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show has an agenda from showcasing two fathers in an episode to creating a song about a child

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refusing to brush their teeth or take a bath.

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It's teaching children to be rebellious.

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The internet has also exploded with parents discussing how their children became energized

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with rage, throwing tantrums after watching Coco Mellon, many even having speech delays.

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As Christians, we need to use wisdom and discernment with all media consumption, including the

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media that our children read, watch and listen to.

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Definitely check this out if you're a parent or a soon to be parent as well.

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We want to make sure that be careful little eyes what you see.

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In an exclusive interview, Max Lucado shared with me what is really going on at Gateway

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Church.

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He gave an update on the church as he is taking an interim pastoral role with the megachurch

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as they're seeking a new permanent pastor following the resignation of Robert Morris

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earlier this summer.

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Max Lucado and Pastor Yoakim Lundquist are sharing the teaching load at the Dallas megachurch.

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He says, the church is showing some beautiful signs of health.

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Here we are almost two and a half months, maybe three months into this.

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And initially, of course, understandably, they were all shell shocked.

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But every time I go, I sense there's more energy, there's more joy, there's heartfelt

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worship and they are being reminded as any Christian is at some point in their life that

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we don't that we don't put our trust in a person, a leader or a pastor.

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We put our trust in Lord in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And that's what they're doing.

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They're trusting Christ.

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That's really important.

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And it's encouraging to see that the church is still continuing to grow and to move forward.

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And I think that's a great way to illustrate the situation with Robert Morris.

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Please continue to pray for Gateway Church.

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And there's another update from Chris Reed, formerly of Morningstar, and he says, thank

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you for the good times.

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Recently, Reed released another video.

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He continues to speak about his time at Morningstar Ministries, this time giving a show of appreciation

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for all those that he worked with and ministered to during his time as the CEO and president

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of the church.

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And he's also apologizing to all those who may be hurting in the middle of the storm.

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I just want to say to all of you who are hurting or confused or sad, I'm sorry for all of those

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things that you're feeling to the victims.

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I'm deeply sorry.

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I really am.

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Reed says now in the victims, you can you can click the hyperlink here and to find out

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more about what he means by the victims.

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There is a court case going on with Morningstar that does not involve Chris Reed, but you

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can click there to see more about that.

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Now also in this article is the video so you can watch what he has to say.

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And he does say to you, I want to say, I think of you, I pray for you.

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Please continue to pray for yet another church in a difficult situation.

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And right now I have with me a very special guest to talk about what is happening with

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the Red Heifers.

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Byron Stinson, it's great to have you back to kind of give us an update on the Red Heifer

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situation in Israel.

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And as we've talked before, you were integral in getting the Red Heifers to Israel to Shiloh,

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where they are right now, preparing for this Red Heifer ceremonial sanctification sacrifice.

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So tell us what's been going on.

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Well, John, it's over in Israel.

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The rabbis have had possession of the cows now for they became of age back in February,

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March.

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And then they've been preparing the things they need to be able to do the ceremony.

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There, of course, the war has been going on during that whole time and the nation is really

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fighting towards protecting themselves.

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So it's kind of a, it's been complicated, but it's moving forward.

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One of the things that we had five cows we shipped over there out of the five, three

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are still pure and could still be used for the ceremony.

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Two have started growing a couple of white or black hairs that is qualified them for

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the ceremony.

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They're still very good animals that could produce another Red Heifer.

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So what we've done, and this is, you'll be the only the second one to hear about this,

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is what we've done is we have actually arranged for the cows to be inseminated with semen

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from the reddest bulls that we could find in the whole world.

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And so we now have those two re-inseminated.

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And of course they could have a bull calf instead of a Heifer calf.

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We won't know about that, but we're starting that process.

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So we're going to build a herd out of any that aren't used.

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It's only one needed for the ceremony.

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And so we're doing that just for future generations.

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So that was exciting to have that done this week, actually just three days ago.

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We did that.

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So that's already happened.

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Yes.

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The cows are in Shilo, which the Shilo is the place where there would have been a Red

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Heifer ceremony there, just as there was a Red Heifer ceremony in the wilderness with

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Moses when the Tabernacle was first built.

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And then there had been a Red Heifer ceremony at Gilgal.

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And then there would have been Red Heifer ceremonies up there at Shilo.

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And so the cows have been down by Gilgal first, now they're at Shilo.

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And we need to take one with a priest that's prepared for the ceremony and do that on the

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Mount of Olives.

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Of course, we have the property on the Mount of Olives.

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We have that in our possession.

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We have, you know, it's not me doing it.

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I just help get the cows there and friends with all of them because I worked hard to

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get the cows there.

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So I get some information.

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I really don't have the full inside track on everything because it's their responsibility

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of the Fathers of Faith over there.

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But they do share with me how they're doing and it's moving forward.

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So I think we could see it this fall.

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I think we could see that ceremony.

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I think it's important that they go ahead and follow the words of the Bible and do that

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if they can.

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If not, then it'll happen.

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When God's ready, it'll happen.

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I think it's getting closer and closer.

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Everybody can see that.

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So yeah, so so this has to be done by a priest.

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And so there are qualifications of the priest.

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And so there was qualifications for the Red Heifers as well.

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What is the process for the for the priest and how close are they to the priest being

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ready as well?

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So what's happened is everyone is contaminated by death.

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We see death on everything you can look at, whether it be a wall, a TV screen, people

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themselves.

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You know, humanity is not able to delve into the world of eternity because of this death

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that's on the whole earth.

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The process of the Red Heifer is to bring back a water of purity, to bring back the

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ability to come closer to that eternal life, to bring life back.

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And so the priest, when he's born, this young priest, he has to come from a priestly family.

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He has to be born not in a hospital because there's too much death in a hospital.

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He's born away from that.

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He's kept away from cemeteries and kept away from death as much as possible on earth.

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So he's as pure as anyone on earth could be away from this thing called death.

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And so then he's the one that then is selected to actually do the ceremony.

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Now, people don't understand.

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They think it might be cruel, but actually one of the main things when you're doing the

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ceremony is to never let the animal feel any pain.

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I don't know if you've ever been cut so sharply by something that you didn't even realize

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you were cut or burned by something and you didn't even hurt because it was so quick.

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So this is kind of the way the ceremony happens is this priest has to be able to make the

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animal bleed without the animal even knowing it's been cut.

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And it just goes to sleep.

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That's part of the process of making sure there's no cruelty in this process, unlike

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you would see in a meat plant or something like that where there's not care for that.

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And then the animal is completely burned and the ashes collected along with the ashes of

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all the wood that went into it.

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You have the wood that is from the Cedars of Lebanon.

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You have wood that's from this hyssop plant or hyssop tree.

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You have all the other wood that's collected and used in that too.

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So altogether, it's really not, you know, you have everything about the cows and of

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course there's also the blood, which is so important throughout the Bible.

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The Bible tells us there's no atonement for this death except by blood.

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And so this animal's blood is a representation for me as a believer in Yeshua of his blood

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that was shed for all to be able to connect back to God.

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But this is the way that our Jewish fathers of faith have been instructed by God to connect

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back to him through the blood of this animal.

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So they're following the playbook, the Bible, that says do it like this.

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They're just doing what God says to do.

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For me, I'm following the playbook that I know in my heart is belief in Yeshua who gave

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his blood and he's the one that gave me the waters of purification because he was the

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living water.

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And so it's all the same thing.

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It's an image of each other.

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One is more physical and one is more spiritual.

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And God, I think, is now taking both the physical and the spiritual and making these two things

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come together so that both of us, both Christians and Jews, can see that we're from the same

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family.

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We're from the family that God selected out of all the families of the earth.

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He selected Abraham and he put his name on the Jewish people.

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And then because of disbelief, they were exiled into the nations.

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But with a promise from every single prophet that in the last days they would be returned

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to the very land of Israel, their God would make them a strong nation, that he would stand

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up over them and protect them during that time.

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And then this process of building a third temple that will be for his glory on the holy

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mountain of God.

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Anybody wants to look into that, turn to Micah 4, you'll see that there's a prophecy that

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people from everywhere in the world will come in the last days.

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They'll come to the mountain of the Lord, and there at the mountain of the Lord they

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will see the temple sitting there.

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And God will rule over the earth and bring peace to the earth.

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That's what we know as the thousand year reign of kingdom of God that Jesus told us, pray

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that this kingdom would come, that God's will would be done on earth.

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It is all coming about, both spiritual and physical.

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It's a joint thing that God is doing to bring us back to the hope of eternal life.

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That's what this is all about on both sides.

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We just have to realize that we're walking the story from two different directions, but

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it's the same story.

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And so that's what we're in the middle of seeing right now with the Red Heifer ceremony.

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By the way, John, you might be interested, I wrote a book, it'll be coming out, I hope

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by October the 5th or 6th, it's called Hunt for the Red Heifer.

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And love for y'all to have, it'll tell more about the whole story of how we found them.

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So be watching for that book to come out that I was able to put together.

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It's coming out through Amazon.

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Wonderful, wonderful.

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Well, just looking at the calendar here, we have Rosh Hashanah, which is on October 2nd

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through 4th.

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Yom Kippur is October 11th and 12th.

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Sum Koth, which is the first days of that is October 16th through 18th.

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And Sum Krat Torah is October 23rd through 25th.

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So if you're saying that the sacrifice could happen this fall, those are dates that we

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want to be keeping our eyes on.

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So I want to encourage everybody to keep an eye out for what is happening and stay tuned

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to CharismaNews.com because we will get this information to you as quickly as possible

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as it happens.

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So Byron, thank you.

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I'm on my way right now, so feel free to contact me over there and I'll give you an update

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as I hear more about it.

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Absolutely, absolutely.

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We will do that.

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Thank you, Byron.

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All right.

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God bless you.

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