(186) To Help You Understand the Conflict in Israel

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the Muslims believe that any place where Muslims have been, any place where they've prayed

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belongs to Islam.

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Yeah, any place they prayed.

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Exactly, any place they prayed.

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So whatever was under the Ottomans or any other Muslim rule, like all the way to Spain,

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Spain was under the Moors, right?

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So they claim Spain and they're expecting to get it back.

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And even, I saw a little video clip the other day in this square of just hundreds and hundreds

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of Muslims all bowing down and all that and the caption said, Is this Mecca?

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And underneath says, No, it's London.

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God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promised outpouring, we equip for

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that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Bus.

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And I'm Sharon Bus.

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Welcome to the podcast today.

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We're so glad that you're with us.

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This is going to be a wonderfully interesting study that we're going to do to help you understand

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what is going on in the conflict in Israel.

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This is part two, and we're going to focus this time on the Palestinian question.

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What is this really all about?

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We're so glad that you're with us today.

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This is a wonderful day to be alive, a wonderful day to be worshipping the Lord.

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And we're glad that you are with us today as we contend for the outpouring of the Holy

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Spirit on all humanity.

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And we want to encourage you that it's really in our heart to help equip you.

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And this podcast in particular is helping to equip you with an understanding of what

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is going on in Israel so that you can answer questions that other people have and you can

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help people overcome the things that they've been believing that aren't necessarily so.

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So in our last episode, we talked about the Israel side of things, because there's a conflict

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between Israel and the so-called Palestinians.

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And I say so-called, and you'll understand shortly what I mean by that, but we covered

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the fact that the Bible promises, God promised in His Word to give the land to the descendants

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of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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And there's all kinds of archaeological evidence all over the land that proves that the Jews

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have been there, that Israel has been there, that they've been there thousands of years.

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Yeah.

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And there's some buildings actually in Jerusalem you can go into.

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And when they were excavating, they found all those ruins of something, you know, underneath

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it.

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Oh, yeah.

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When they were excavating to build.

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To build.

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Yeah.

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And so...

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Building roads, building train tracks, whatever.

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Yeah, and so they would very often have a piece of glass where you can...lights you

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can look down what's underneath.

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Yeah.

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Because that's the only way they could really build, because it's an archaeological thing.

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Yeah.

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And there's more archaeology in Israel per square foot than anybody else, anywhere else

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I know.

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Yeah.

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It's just really, really amazing.

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So...

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It is amazing.

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And so we covered those things.

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And I just think it's interesting that from the time that God made that promise to Abraham,

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it's been roughly 4,000 years.

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Yeah.

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Roughly 4,000 years.

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And then roughly 3,500 years, 3,800 years, somewhere in there from the time that Joshua

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came and conquered the land.

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And there's archaeological evidence again for all of these things.

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And they just keep uncovering more and more and more.

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All the time.

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You can find that kind of information on YouTube.

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If you're interested in that kind of thing, just look at archaeology in Israel and YouTube

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will feed you lots and lots and lots of material.

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And make sure you get...it's better if you look for the Jewish sites and stuff, because

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some there are there that will try to change, you know, what the truth is.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Kind of like the news today.

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Yes, that's true.

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So Jerusalem celebrated an anniversary, the 3,000 year anniversary of David coming to

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Jerusalem to rule.

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Just a few years ago, we were there for that.

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Yeah, I remember that.

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That was awesome.

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And then we covered the fact that, you know, in the time of Jesus, Rome was ruling over

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what they called the province of Judea.

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And they might have called it Syria, Judea, because Syria was the north beyond what would

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be Judea.

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And the Jews kept trying to do again with Rome what the Maccabees had done with Greece

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to overthrow them.

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So there'd be a revolt and then Rome would come down hard on them.

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And, you know, in 70 AD, Rome destroyed the temple.

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When was Masada?

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That was...

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That was around that time.

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I don't remember exactly what year.

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It was after that, because that's where a lot of the zealots...and just people just went

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to Masada, which was Herod's desert fortress.

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Right.

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So then in 135 AD, the Bar Kokhba revolt happened.

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And Rome was fed up and they said, that's it.

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We're cleaning them out.

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And they came down hard and they completely decimated things.

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They completely razed Jerusalem to the ground, I think, and several other cities and commanded

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the Jews to all leave.

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Of course, they didn't all leave.

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There've always been Jews there throughout all this time.

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But then they named the place, Palestina, in order to try and wipe out any history of

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the Jews ever having been there.

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And it's been called Palestine really actually in more recent centuries.

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I mean, it was named that by Rome.

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But then in the 600s when the Muslims came...and it's amazing to me how many different Muslim

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conquests there were.

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And each different group of Muslims would come and they'd beat out the other Muslims

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or the Crusaders or whoever.

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And then they'd go back to Baghdad or they'd go back to Cairo or they'd go back to Damascus

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and rule from there.

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They didn't rule from Jerusalem.

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They weren't at home there.

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Yeah, that wasn't home.

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So it's just sad to me that the scholars of the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries, 20th century,

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the scholars that were studying the Bible once the Bible became available, they were

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calling the place Palestine instead of Judea.

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I don't understand why, but I guess that's what the maps said that they had available

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to them.

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So anyway, moving on, we have the other side of the conflict.

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So there's this conflict and the people who are in conflict with Israel are calling themselves

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Palestinians, although there is no history of them being called Palestinians.

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If you like old movies, you can go and find the 1960 film called Exodus with Paul Newman.

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Yeah, that's really good.

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It's a good movie.

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It gives a lot of history.

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Of course, it's got a love story, all wrapped up in it and whatnot, but it tells the story

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pretty well about what was going on prior to 1948.

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And the thing that was interesting to me was he's calling himself a Palestinian.

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He's playing the part of a Jew and he's calling himself a Palestinian.

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Well, that was enlightening to me when I saw the movie that, wait a minute, they're calling

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themselves Palestinians.

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And then I dug a little deeper and like what is now the Jerusalem Post was then called...

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The Palestine Post.

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Exactly.

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Yeah, I remember you can Google, you can find that.

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I've seen pictures of it in Israel.

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They have a front page and a frame, the Palestine Post.

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And it kind of takes you back.

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I thought, what?

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Yeah, if you didn't know the history.

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Right.

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And they didn't know better.

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They didn't think to call it Judea.

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It had been Palestine for almost 2000 years, not quite that long.

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But it's really interesting that the people who are now calling themselves Palestinians

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never called themselves Palestinians before.

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When we first started going to Israel...

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And I just want to say this.

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I do not consider myself to be any kind of an expert on this, but I've been going there

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for 45 years.

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You'd be a real good tour guide.

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Well, I love it.

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I love it.

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I don't want to go into the details of that.

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But what's interesting to me is the history that I have watched happen, because I started

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going in 1978.

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All right.

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That's just five years after the Yom Kippur War.

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That's only 30 years after it became a nation.

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Right.

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It was a very young nation.

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It was a very young time of Israel's history.

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And it's only 75 now.

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So it's just interesting to me to look back over these years and the things that I've

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gleaned in my probably something like 50 times going and being in connection with the people

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and studying and loving the Word of God, it's all in the Bible.

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So I have a unique perspective, I think, and I found it very, very interesting that the

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Lord allowed me to have my first trip there in 1978 on the heels of the Camp David Accords

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with Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin.

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It was like the day before we flew to Israel.

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And I saw this on the television that in the home where we were visiting on our way to

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New York, and I knew that there was something very significant.

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I didn't understand it.

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I was only 20 and I hadn't learned a whole lot yet.

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I was just getting started in learning.

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But I think that was so significant that the Lord allowed me to see that and watch all

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of these agreements down through the years in the meantime.

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But what's going on there, we have to understand that there are Arabic speaking people that

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are, well, there's lots of different factions among them.

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And there are those that are Christian Arabs and those that are Muslims.

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And there's some tribal stuff too, you know, they come from different clans of Arab descent.

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Got the Druze and different...

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That's another whole group of people.

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In the first so many years that we went, there was no talk about Palestinians.

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There was talk about Israelis and Arabs.

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Yeah.

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I remember we were up in Mount Hermon and went into a coffee store there and I ignorantly

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said, do you have any Turkish coffee?

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You know, that's the coffee that...

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I mean, you boil it five or six times in a little pot, it's real thick and put a ton

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of sugar in it.

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Yeah, a little cup.

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And he said, Arab coffee.

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You know, he didn't say Palestinian coffee.

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Arab coffee, he corrected me.

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Right.

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So then sometimes I would hear them talk about themselves as being Jordanians because Jordan

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had been occupying the West Bank from 1948 till 1967.

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And what is the West Bank?

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The West Bank...

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Oh, honey, the West Bank.

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Oh, don't get me started.

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The West Bank is the Western Bank, the Western side of the Jordan River.

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Okay, the side of the Jordan River that's on the West.

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And what happened there?

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And so that whole region is the area where most of the biblical historical accounts take

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place.

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Most all, if not all, of the altars that were built by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, altars

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and memorials, places where God appeared to them, are all in what's called the West Bank.

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Yeah, it's Judea and Samaria.

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It's really Judea and Samaria.

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Yeah.

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And...

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So to call it the West Bank is improper.

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And even in the back of your Bible, it says the West Bank.

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It's because they're just ignorant of what the truth is.

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Right.

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And they're calling it the West Bank just because it's on the Western side of the Jordan.

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But when the land was divided by the British, there was this area that they were going to

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give to the Jewish people.

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And then there was a place beyond Jordan called Transjordan, which means beyond Jordan.

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So the other side of the Jordan, that's what it was called in the New Testament.

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You see places where it's referred to as beyond Jordan.

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You know, Jesus went beyond Jordan.

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That's the other side of the...

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Transjordan means beyond Jordan.

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It means the other side of the Jordan.

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It doesn't mean both sides of the Jordan River.

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It means the other side of the Jordan River.

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Yeah, you can write that in your Bible.

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Yeah.

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So anyway, these people were calling themselves Arabs or Jordanians until...

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I'm trying to figure out when it was that I started hearing them referring to themselves

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as Palestinians.

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I think it might've been in the 90s.

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It was Arafat started it.

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We are Palestinians.

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And that was 72, 73?

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Well, I don't know, just when he started, probably right after 67, he started into that.

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But it didn't catch on right away.

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But you keep repeating something.

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And if you repeat something, it's a good communist tactic, which they're using.

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And all of our news people do it too.

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If you keep repeating a lie long enough, people will believe it.

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It's true.

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And that's what has happened with this name.

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So who are these people?

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Where do they come from?

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Where do we see them in the Word of God?

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Well, in Genesis chapter 16 and verse 11, and this is to Hagar.

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She was an Egyptian and she was the slave of Sarah.

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And she was kind of like a concubine also because the promise seed Isaac hadn't showed

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up yet.

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And so he got ahead of God's plan and tried to create it.

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But not through Sarah.

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And the scripture though, in Genesis 16 and 11, and the angel of the Lord said unto her,

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behold the art with child and shall bear a son and shall call his name Ishmael because

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the Lord hath heard thy affliction.

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And he will be a wild man.

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His hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him.

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And he shall dwell in the presence of his brethren.

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Wow.

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So that's Ishmael.

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That's Ishmael.

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And now Esau.

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Yes.

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So then in the next generation, you've got Isaac has Jacob and Esau.

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And Jacob was the one the promise would go to and Esau was the one that the promise didn't

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go to.

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And he was also pretty much a wild man.

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And so the Edomians, the Edomites, the Mount Seir, those are references in the Bible that

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refer to the people that were descended from Edom or from Esau.

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And so there's that people group.

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So there's cousins in the next generation.

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And then you've got Lot who was the nephew of Abraham.

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And after the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Lot and his daughters ran, and they were

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the only survivors of the family.

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And first they went to this little city and they decided that wasn't safe.

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And they went to the mountains, which is where the angels told them go to in the first place.

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That little city probably should have been destroyed too.

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I think that was Zohar.

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And so the daughters are there with their dad and they're thinking it's the end of the

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world.

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So how are we ever going to find husbands?

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Let's get our dad drunk and get pregnant so that we can carry on to the next generation.

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So that happened.

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And the offspring of those, of that incestuous relationship was Ammon and Moab.

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So they were located in what is now Jordan.

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So you've got Ammon Jordan.

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It's remembering the Ammonites.

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Ammonites.

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Okay.

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I thought of that before.

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So and then you've got Moab.

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You remember Ruth came from Moab.

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Ruth the Moabitess.

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So these are people groups that are in that region.

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And then you've got Abraham after Sarah died, he took another wife because God said after

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all you're going to be the father of many nations.

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So let's have some more babies.

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So he's creating color.

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So he took another wife.

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And out of all of those offspring, let's just look quick at who that is.

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Genesis.

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Genesis 25 says, then again Abraham took a wife and her name was Keturah.

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And she bare him Zimran and Juxhan and Midan and Midian.

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You've heard of the Midianites, right?

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Okay.

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Remember Moses' father-in-law was a Midianite.

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So he was a worshiper of the one God because he'd learned that from his father Abraham,

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right?

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And Ishbeck and Shuah and Juxhan begat Sheba.

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Where have you heard of Sheba?

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The queen of Sheba.

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Okay.

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So that's probably Mradner Day Yemen or somewhere in that vicinity.

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And Dedan and the sons of Dedan were Ashurim and Latushim and Liumim.

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And the sons of Midian, Ifa and Ifer and Hanuk and Abida and Elda'ah, all these were the

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children of Keturah.

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So you've got all of these descendants of Abraham in that region.

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So there's descendants of Abraham in that whole region.

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They're actually all Semites.

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All different flavors.

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All different flavors.

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And there's this kind of an ancient hatred that's talked about in the scripture that

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there's a jealousy of the ones who were chosen by God.

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And so there's been this spiritual darkness that has tried to mar the minds of the people

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that are not the chosen ones.

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And that's part of the issue that's going on.

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I want to be sensitive and help you understand that there are different people groups with

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different situations.

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Like the Arab Christians, many of them trace their history back to the time of Jesus.

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Yeah.

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The shepherds fields.

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Yeah.

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Some of them are descendants of the shepherds in Bethlehem.

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Of course, they would be Jews originally, but they became believers in Jesus.

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And they stuck it out when the Muslims tried to conquer and they stuck it out and stayed

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with Jesus.

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And a whole lot of people, both Jews and Christians became Muslims.

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Yeah.

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They were forced to.

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They were forced to.

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It's you do it or you die.

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You do it or you die or you pay a big fine.

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And people did what they chose to do.

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And then when things lightened up, a lot of them didn't go back to being Jews or Christians.

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They just stayed being Muslims.

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And there are things in the Muslim religion that make it very, very difficult for Jews

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and Christians.

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Let me just back up and say there was a long, long period of time where the Jews and Christians

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under Islam lived in relative peace and harmony.

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Out of children, we'd all play together.

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Yeah.

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And then when the Jews started coming back to the land in the late 1800s, there was a

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move along those lines, mostly from Russia and from Eastern Europe in those first couple

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of waves of immigrants.

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And around the same time, the Ottomans were kind of looking at how the Jews are developing

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things and the British are starting to show up.

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And so they're making it available to workers from neighboring countries to come there to

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help them build the nation.

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So there were a lot of Muslim and Christian Arabs that came for work.

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And they came from all over North Africa.

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A lot came from Algeria.

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There were Circassians up in what would be now the former Soviet Union around the Black

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Sea.

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There was a Russian genocide, really, of the Circassians and some of them fled and ended

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up in Israel.

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They're Muslims.

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But before they were forced to become Muslims, they were Christians for a thousand years.

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So you've got people that were historically Christians and they had to become Muslims.

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So this is a really hard thing, a really difficult thing.

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And one of the things that the Muslims have as one of their, I don't know if you'd call

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it a tenet, but it's an understanding that they have that if it's necessary for the sake

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of promoting Islam, you can lie.

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And you can hide the fact that you're a Muslim or you can pretend that you're not a very

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serious Muslim or you can just outright lie about what Muslims believe.

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And you could pass a lie detector test.

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I would think so.

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Because there's no condemnation because the Quran says you can lie to someone who's not

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a Muslim.

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Right.

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So what they do, they tell you what you like to hear.

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Exactly.

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That's what you get.

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And that kind of bleeds over into the whole culture.

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Yeah.

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I heard this from one of our guides.

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This is to give you an idea how they think.

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If a PLO officer goes into an Arab store, he can take what he wants.

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He says, I want this, I want that, da, da, da, da, and not pay for it.

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Okay.

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If an Israeli soldier walks into that shop and says, I would like this, I like this and

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like that and pays for it, they don't say, oh, he's so nice, he's going to pay for it.

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They say, look how weak this man is.

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I mean, that was told to me by an Israeli.

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I remember that.

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See, that's the mindset you are dealing with.

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It's an inferior, it's just like size matters.

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You have bigger club, bigger gun, bigger what have you.

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Right.

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And they rule by fear.

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They rule with strength and being vicious a lot of times.

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And that's why we had what happened October 7th, because this is the mindset of Hamas.

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Hamas is an evil, evil group that in their charter, they're not there to get a Palestinian

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state.

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Their whole thing is to annihilate Israel.

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Push them to the sea.

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Exactly.

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And they make this declaration, we will have the land from the river to the sea.

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They don't want a two state solution.

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They want a one state solution and it's theirs.

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Yeah, that's right.

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They don't want Israel to be there.

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Their job is to annihilate them.

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There's a thing in the Quran that, let me just back up and say this.

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The eschatology of Islam is in expectation of the coming of a messianic type character

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that they call the Mahdi.

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And he's going to come and make peace with everybody and everything will be hunky dory.

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And then Jesus will come back and establish a worldwide Muslim culture.

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That's their eschatology.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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But part of that is they're expecting the Mahdi to come when there is great violence

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going on.

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Okay.

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So in some of the writings of Islam, I can't quote exactly where it is, but I've got a

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little quotation of an English version of it.

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It says, the hour will not start until after the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims

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kill them.

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The Jew will hide behind a stone or tree and the tree will say, Oh Muslim, Oh servant or

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slave of Allah, this is a Jew behind me.

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Come and kill him.

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So they are taught from childhood to hate the Jews.

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And our dear friend, Kamran Yari from Iran, originally from Iran, a former Shiite Muslim,

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very devout at the time.

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Jesus appeared to him.

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He became a believer.

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That's a very short version.

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We'll put...

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We need to have him on again.

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Yeah.

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But we've had him on before and we'll put a link to that podcast in the show notes so

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that you can hear the rest of his story.

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But he makes a statement.

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I didn't ask to be born a Muslim.

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I was just born a Muslim.

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I couldn't help it.

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And so we have to just stop the inclination to just be angry with these people or have

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an initial negative response about them because we just need to pray for them.

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Because God wants to pour out his spirit on the Muslims.

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And you may know that the fastest growing church on the planet is the underground church

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in Iran.

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Yeah.

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You don't hear about that much.

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Not on the news.

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Not on the news.

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You just listen to the right kind of news to hear that.

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So there is something going on in Iran that's wonderful.

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And all of this other stuff that's going on, you know, man, we don't want anybody to drop

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the atomic bomb on Iran because of all these wonderful believers.

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But you know what I mean?

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There's things that we have to get our perspective right from the kingdom point of view.

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Well, as far as the Quran goes, some years back we bought an English version of the Quran.

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And the particular one I have, this is by Ballantine Books.

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This was actually printed in April of 1993, this printing.

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And you know, in the Quran is all Allah.

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But in this, you will not find the name Allah in it.

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Yeah.

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Everything is God, God.

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Yeah, anywhere where Allah's name appears in the Arabic scripture or whatever you call

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it, the Arabic Quran, it's translated as God.

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So there's a confusion about who are we talking about?

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Yeah.

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That God might also bring to naught the craft of the infidels.

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God bring to, you know, oh ye faithful, obey God, which is Allah, and his apostle, which

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should be Muhammad, and turn not away from him, now that ye hear the truth.

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Okay, so you can pick this Quran up, and it's very poorly marked.

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You know, it doesn't have an index in the front.

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I was only able to find it by the, you know, it makes it hard to find anything in it.

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But about 12, 13 years ago or more, 14 years ago, we were at a conference and we heard

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a man that was a Christian Arab, and he befriended some Arab scholars that, you know, they were

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00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:20,680
Muslims, now they're believers, and he felt inspired to translate the Quran into proper

494
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:21,680
English.

495
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:22,680
Accurate English.

496
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:27,480
Accurate English, because what he says is the Quran's you buy, the English ones, they're

497
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,280
sugar-coated.

498
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,520
They don't tell you what it's really saying.

499
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:38,560
So I'm going to read a couple things out of this, and this particular Quran, this is called,

500
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,100
it's called the Generous Quran.

501
00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:42,100
Which is the proper translation.

502
00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:44,120
The proper translation, not holy.

503
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,040
The Generous Quran is the proper.

504
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:52,760
And you can look for this, it's Usama Dakdak Publishing.

505
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,560
That's his name, Usama Dakdak.

506
00:29:55,560 --> 00:30:02,600
You can also find these on eBay and Amazon, because I found them there.

507
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,760
And I bought a few more just to have them.

508
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:12,400
So anyway, this is his footnote, and this is chapter 17, I guess, what it is.

509
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:19,000
One of the big things the Muslims have today is like the third most holy site in Islam.

510
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,460
Number one is Mecca.

511
00:30:21,460 --> 00:30:24,520
That's where the stone is, that black stone.

512
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,800
They go kiss it and get...

513
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,360
Yeah, when they go on Hajj.

514
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,040
Yeah, when they go do the Hajj once a year.

515
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,680
And then there's Medina, number two.

516
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,160
And then they say Jerusalem, the holy site.

517
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:42,600
But there is no mention in the Quran, the name Jerusalem does not appear.

518
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:47,400
You see Mecca, Medina, you'll see all these other names, but there is no mention that

519
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,220
this is Jerusalem.

520
00:30:49,220 --> 00:30:55,160
This is what the publisher writes before, in the footnote here, before the scripture

521
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:56,160
that they have.

522
00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:02,620
And it says, this passage describes Muhammad's trip to Jerusalem and to the seven heavens.

523
00:31:02,620 --> 00:31:06,400
Muhammad claimed that he visited the temple of Solomon and prayed in it.

524
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:11,600
However, the temple was actually demolished 550 years earlier.

525
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:12,600
And what year was that?

526
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,660
That was about six...

527
00:31:14,660 --> 00:31:18,100
His night journey was about 621 AD.

528
00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:19,880
This is the date of it.

529
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:24,240
But Solomon's temple was destroyed in 586 BC.

530
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:25,620
That was the first temple.

531
00:31:25,620 --> 00:31:26,620
And the second temple.

532
00:31:26,620 --> 00:31:29,300
And the second temple, the 70 AD.

533
00:31:29,300 --> 00:31:32,880
So that was Herod's, you know, the one that Herod built.

534
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,740
And so that was destroyed.

535
00:31:34,740 --> 00:31:38,640
And so Muhammad is born 550 years later.

536
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,440
So I'll continue reading here.

537
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:46,460
According to the Hadith, Muhammad ascended to the seven heavens riding a mule after his

538
00:31:46,460 --> 00:31:49,640
miraculous visit to the temple.

539
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:54,720
Notice in verse 93, when the people requested that Muhammad ascend to heaven as a proof

540
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,300
to believe in him.

541
00:31:56,300 --> 00:32:01,520
His response was not, I have already been to heaven, but rather I am just a human.

542
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,160
See, he's admitting he's just a human.

543
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,160
He's not, you know...

544
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:12,600
Okay, this is what the correct English translation of the Quran says.

545
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,840
Praise be to him who took his servant by night from the forbidden mosque to the farthest

546
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,040
mosque.

547
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,200
So Jerusalem, they're saying, is the farthest mosque.

548
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:26,120
Whom we have blessed, that which surrounds him, that we might show him some of our signs.

549
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,480
Surely he is the hearing the seeing.

550
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,960
This is what they go on to make the Temple Mount a holy site.

551
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:38,360
And it has Alaska Mosque, which is a very old mosque, and that was built when?

552
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,440
It's been there a long time.

553
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:49,240
But there is no legal right to that Temple Mount because Jerusalem is not in the Quran.

554
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:50,240
It is not there.

555
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:51,240
You can hunt all you want.

556
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,400
You will not find Jerusalem in the Quran.

557
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,240
You know, it's a political thing.

558
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:57,240
Right.

559
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,080
Muslim thing, political thing.

560
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,360
It goes deeper than that.

561
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:01,480
Okay, tell us.

562
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,440
It goes into something in the spirit.

563
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:05,440
Okay, yeah.

564
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,760
Oh yeah, we're going to Isaiah now.

565
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:13,960
Yeah, my observation, I've been on this for some years where in one of the places, I think

566
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:20,240
it's Bethsaida in Israel, there is what they call a Stella, which is a carved rock that

567
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:28,520
has a little G God carved into it and it's bale and he's like a bull with horns that

568
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,240
are shaped like a crescent moon.

569
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,880
And he's supposed to be the moon God.

570
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:40,240
And there's some evidence that Muhammad was born on Allah's day.

571
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:48,120
And at the time he was born, all of the days of the year had a God.

572
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:55,480
So when he found out that he had started having his experiences and Allah is telling him that

573
00:33:55,480 --> 00:34:02,240
he's the only one, then now he starts to have this monotheistic thing.

574
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:08,360
But the moon God, you see the crescent moon on top of all of the minarets and on top of

575
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,640
all the mosques and on all the flags.

576
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:19,160
So there's something connecting to the moon God, which has gone all the way back to even

577
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:25,840
the golden calf probably had horns like that, that got the Israelites in trouble still at

578
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:26,840
the foot of Mount Sinai.

579
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:27,840
Yeah.

580
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,040
You know, they didn't get very far before they blew it.

581
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:38,000
And what I see is that in Isaiah 14, starting with verse 12, it says, how are you fallen

582
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:43,560
from heaven, O light bringer and day star, son of the morning in the King James, it says

583
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:49,600
Lucifer, how you have been cut down to the ground, you who weakened and laid low the

584
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:53,440
nations, O blasphemous satanic king of Babylon.

585
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,360
And you said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven.

586
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,440
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.

587
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:05,080
I will sit upon the Mount of assembly in the uttermost north or in the sides of the north,

588
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:06,760
as the King James says.

589
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:11,560
And there's only one other place that talks about the sides of the north.

590
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:16,200
And that is in the Psalms where it says, talking about.

591
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,000
Yeah, that's in Psalm 48 verse two.

592
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,000
Go ahead, read it.

593
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,160
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God.

594
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,880
And that's Lord is Yehovah.

595
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:32,740
Greatly to be praised in the city of our God in the mountain of his holiness.

596
00:35:32,740 --> 00:35:38,920
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,

597
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:40,880
the city of the great King.

598
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,240
So I remember we used to sing a little song, a little chorus on that one.

599
00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:46,840
I won't try and try and do that right now.

600
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:51,000
Maybe you know that's chorus, but but we used to sing the chorus over and over again.

601
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,880
Great is the Lord greatly to be praised.

602
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:57,080
And I couldn't understand beautiful for situation that just didn't.

603
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,080
I was young.

604
00:35:58,080 --> 00:35:59,080
OK, I didn't get it.

605
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,080
I just didn't get it.

606
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,120
And King James isn't that he's just.

607
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,440
That's true.

608
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,240
And that's all we were reading in those days.

609
00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:11,280
But we were sitting on the southern steps of the Temple Mount and we were singing that

610
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:12,480
song.

611
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:18,660
And I suddenly realized that just to the south of us was the city of David, where David would

612
00:36:18,660 --> 00:36:19,660
have written that.

613
00:36:19,660 --> 00:36:20,660
Yeah.

614
00:36:20,660 --> 00:36:25,080
And those steps we were sitting on are the actual steps of the first temple.

615
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:26,080
Yeah.

616
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:27,080
The first temple.

617
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,080
Some of those are Salomonic.

618
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:29,080
Yeah.

619
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,080
You can sit on those steps because they haven't been touched.

620
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:33,080
They're still there.

621
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:34,080
They're still there.

622
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:40,880
But then I suddenly had this this epiphany that, oh, it's situated beautifully on the

623
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,600
north side of the city of David.

624
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:44,600
That's where it is.

625
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,840
That's where the threshing floor of Aruna was that where Solomon eventually built the

626
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:49,840
temple.

627
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:50,840
Yeah.

628
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:51,840
OK.

629
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:56,280
So we see the only other place that that location is talked about is right here where we're

630
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:01,200
talking about Lucifer and where he says, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.

631
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:05,360
I will sit upon the mount of the assembly, mount of assembly in the uttermost north or

632
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,100
on the sides of the north.

633
00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:13,040
And you have to realize that this whole war going on, which has been going on then going

634
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,400
on now, is the deceiver himself.

635
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:17,400
Absolutely.

636
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,460
That is the bottom line to everything.

637
00:37:20,460 --> 00:37:24,040
And the other thing is who will be worshiped on the temple mount?

638
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:25,040
Right.

639
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,400
Is it going to be Allah or is it going to be Jehovah?

640
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:34,080
And I think it's also very interesting that where it says I will ascend the word for ascend

641
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:35,080
there.

642
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:36,080
That's NASA, is it?

643
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:37,080
No, this one.

644
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:38,080
That's the Greek.

645
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:39,080
I'm sorry.

646
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,240
No, NASA is is one of the Hebrew words for for going up, going up.

647
00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:43,240
OK.

648
00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:44,240
But you know, the word Aliyah.

649
00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:45,240
Yeah.

650
00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:47,280
Aliyah means to ascend.

651
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:48,280
All right.

652
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,000
So the root word is Allah.

653
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,000
Allah.

654
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,000
Yeah.

655
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,000
Pretty interesting.

656
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Pretty interesting.

657
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,200
That this is going on.

658
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:56,800
And that's where he's sitting.

659
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:02,520
He's sitting there on the Temple Mount being worshiped in the place where Jehovah was worshiped

660
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,600
all those years.

661
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:09,200
And you know, he's he's elbowed his way in by deception.

662
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:14,500
And this whole Islam thing, he's determined to take over the world.

663
00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:16,280
You know, that that's his determination.

664
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,480
And he's he's just sure that he can do it.

665
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,640
And he keeps forgetting that that he's on a time clock and he's almost done.

666
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:24,640
Yeah.

667
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:30,200
But anyway, I really think that that's who Allah is, because even the Muslims themselves

668
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:36,840
do not believe that the God of of Judaism is the same God, even though they talk like,

669
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,520
you know, the Jews blew it.

670
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:39,520
Yeah.

671
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,120
They didn't listen to Allah and they didn't listen to his prophet.

672
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:44,980
So you know, they're in trouble now.

673
00:38:44,980 --> 00:38:47,860
So it's as though they think it's the same.

674
00:38:47,860 --> 00:38:50,100
But yet they they say it's not the same.

675
00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:52,760
And we know for heaven's sakes, it's not the same.

676
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,600
Not absolutely not the same.

677
00:38:54,600 --> 00:39:00,280
The other thing that's very significant is that the Muslims believe that any place where

678
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:05,720
Muslims have been, any place where they've prayed belongs to Islam.

679
00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:06,720
Yeah.

680
00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:07,720
Any place they prayed.

681
00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:08,720
Exactly.

682
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:09,720
Any place they prayed.

683
00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:16,320
So whatever was under the Ottomans or any other Muslim rule, like all the way to Spain,

684
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,800
that's Spain was under under the Moors.

685
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:20,800
Right.

686
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,720
So they claim Spain and they're expecting to get it back.

687
00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:31,160
And even like I saw a little video clip the other day of in the square of just hundreds

688
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,440
and hundreds of Muslims all bowing down, all that.

689
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,280
And the caption said, is this Mecca?

690
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,840
And underneath says, no, it's London.

691
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:40,940
Exactly.

692
00:39:40,940 --> 00:39:45,440
And they are saying and actually, when we went to hear this man who we got this book

693
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:52,040
from, they were saying that within another 20 years that England will be a Muslim nation.

694
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:57,640
Yeah, because the English are not having babies at a strong enough rate and the Muslims are.

695
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,360
Yeah, they're severely outnumbered and they're in the parliament, they're in the government.

696
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:02,360
Yeah.

697
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:03,360
Even in ours too.

698
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:04,360
Yes.

699
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:05,560
You can see the handwriting on the wall.

700
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:06,560
That's what they're trying to do.

701
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,320
Because it's world dominion.

702
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:09,640
And how are they going to rule?

703
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,120
Can I read a little something?

704
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:12,120
Sure, go ahead.

705
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:19,800
So this is out of their proper English Quran and this is under the title called The Spoils.

706
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:24,680
And in the footnote here it says, chopping off the heads and fingers of infidels who

707
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,920
are opposed to Allah and Muhammad is taught here.

708
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:34,400
See what is very nice about this edition, you can find stuff very easily and it'll just

709
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:40,360
quicken your mind and you can go through it, you can mark stuff and it'll give you some

710
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:45,960
firepower to say this is what you believe in but if you can't read Arabic you don't

711
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:46,960
know.

712
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:47,960
Yeah.

713
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:48,960
You've been deceived.

714
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:49,960
Right.

715
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,680
So anyway, the direct translation.

716
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:58,520
When your Lord revealed to the angels, I am with you, so make firm those who believed.

717
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:03,000
I will cast a terror into the hearts of those who become infidels.

718
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,960
So chop on their necks, chop off every finger from them.

719
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:12,280
This is because they have opposed Allah and his messenger and whoever opposes Allah and

720
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:16,880
his messenger, so surely Allah is severe in the punishment.

721
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:21,680
That is so tasted and that to the infidel the torment of the fire.

722
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:26,360
And another footnote underneath this says, Muslims who turn away from engaging in war

723
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,520
with infidels will burn in hell.

724
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:29,520
Yeah.

725
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,200
So you can see why they think the way they do.

726
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:37,220
They are believing with all their heart as much as driving Israel into the sea and killing

727
00:41:37,220 --> 00:41:43,960
every Jew as we believe in Jesus Christ and his precious blood as our savior and our healer.

728
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:44,960
Right.

729
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,180
See that's how strong their belief is.

730
00:41:47,180 --> 00:41:53,200
But the most wonderful thing is that when Jesus appears to them and shows them who he

731
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,480
is, they have an instant transformation.

732
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:57,720
Yeah.

733
00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:02,560
Instant repentance and they follow Jesus with that same kind of passion and leave behind

734
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:06,840
all of the lies and they become lovers of Israel and lovers of the Jews.

735
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:07,840
Yeah.

736
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,720
And there's one other spot here.

737
00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:13,280
This is on chapter 47.

738
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,640
It's under the one that's titled Mohammed.

739
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,280
And this is again the footnotes.

740
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:23,140
Muslims should strike the necks, cut off the heads of infidels and those who engage in

741
00:42:23,140 --> 00:42:27,880
war for Allah are assured of the gardens of paradise.

742
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:33,840
So when you meet those who become infidels, so strike the necks, decapitating, parentheses,

743
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:37,120
until you have made a great slaughter among them.

744
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:42,440
So firmly bind them, so let there neither be free dismissals or for a ransom until the

745
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:43,900
war is over.

746
00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:48,500
And this way, and if Allah wills, he will take vengeance on them, but he would rather

747
00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:50,800
test some of you by the other.

748
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:56,120
And those who were killed for the sake of Allah, so he will not let their works go astray.

749
00:42:56,120 --> 00:43:01,040
He will guide them and reform their condition and he will admit them into the garden for

750
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,480
which he made known to them.

751
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:09,200
And later on you can find out that garden, it's full of virgins and everything else.

752
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:14,000
So when you have a spirit of lust involved too.

753
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:19,280
So anyway, that's just a couple of quotes out of the proper English translation of the

754
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:20,280
Quran.

755
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:21,280
Yeah.

756
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:27,160
So it gives you an idea of how they are thinking, what they've been taught and how to pray

757
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:28,920
for them, okay?

758
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:34,680
Because it's a matter of the God of this world has blinded their eyes.

759
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:41,360
And there is a scripture in Isaiah 25 that says that God is going to destroy in the same

760
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:47,800
mountain where it's right now occupied by the wrong entity, that in the same mountain

761
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,200
God is going to destroy this veil.

762
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:56,400
And I'm convinced that this veil in verse seven, it says, he will destroy on this mountain

763
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,220
the covering of the face that is cast over the heads of all people.

764
00:44:00,220 --> 00:44:04,960
And this is the amplified, it says in mourning and the veil of profound wretchedness that

765
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:08,000
is woven and spread over all nations.

766
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:13,920
And I really believe that something is going to happen on the temple mount that Jesus is

767
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:19,720
going to show himself for who he is and all of the veil will be taken away, the deception

768
00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:20,720
will be taken away.

769
00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:26,160
Now, I want you to also understand that we have this group of people called Christian

770
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:34,520
Arabs that may be Christians just by birth, not by new birth.

771
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:39,100
They've been born into Christian families and maybe they go to church or maybe they

772
00:44:39,100 --> 00:44:40,280
don't go to church.

773
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,400
Maybe they light a candle on Christmas or something.

774
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:48,520
But just like any other group of Christians or people group where there are Christians,

775
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,560
there's just many denominations.

776
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:55,720
But most of them, especially the ones that have been there for a very long time, are

777
00:44:55,720 --> 00:45:03,160
either some kind of Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox or Catholic, and they have been taught replacement

778
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:04,580
theology.

779
00:45:04,580 --> 00:45:10,400
So they don't have a grid for Israel either because they've been taught that the church

780
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,640
replaces Israel.

781
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:18,080
And so most of them are pretty antagonistic towards Israel as well.

782
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:24,360
And now that they're under this so-called Palestinian authority and they didn't elect

783
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,680
Yasser Arafat to speak for them.

784
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:27,680
Okay.

785
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:35,080
I don't know how all of this happened that Yasser Arafat was chosen to be their spokesperson,

786
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:39,840
but he just stepped up to begin to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people.

787
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:41,320
We are Palestinians.

788
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:49,120
And began to call them Palestinians after Israel, after 1967, when Israel got the West

789
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:50,120
Bank back.

790
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,800
They got all of Jerusalem back.

791
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:53,800
Yeah.

792
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:57,940
And got Jerusalem back and the Golan Heights and Gaza.

793
00:45:57,940 --> 00:46:07,240
Because in the 1948 war, Jordan had occupied illegally occupied the West Bank and Egypt

794
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:12,760
had occupied the Gaza Strip and Syria had occupied the Golan Heights.

795
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:14,120
I guess they were already there.

796
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,280
I'm not sure just where the boundaries were before that.

797
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:20,240
But anyway, Israel wound up getting all of these places.

798
00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:28,660
And that's when Yasser Arafat began to stand up and make himself known.

799
00:46:28,660 --> 00:46:32,920
And in 1974, Yasser Arafat addressed the UN General Assembly.

800
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:38,000
He said he was holding an olive branch for peace in one hand and a freedom fighters pistol

801
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:39,000
in the other.

802
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:40,000
Okay.

803
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:48,640
So, this is written on the website that talks about his Nobel Peace Prize that he split

804
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:53,800
with Rabin and Perez who agreed to start this peace process.

805
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:54,800
Okay.

806
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:59,320
And some of the Arab Muslims were very upset with Yasser Arafat.

807
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,960
But he said, no, no, don't worry about it.

808
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,560
This is that tequila that I can lie.

809
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:11,800
Okay, I can lie because we're making inroads with the rest of the world by saying these

810
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:12,800
things.

811
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:17,120
But they were really harsh to the Christians.

812
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,800
How many Christians actually lived in Bethlehem?

813
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:26,400
Because I remember we used to go there and there's different shops who still have some

814
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,000
beautiful olive wood.

815
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,000
Yeah.

816
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:36,360
I don't know the actual numbers, but I have an article from 2012 about the world church's

817
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:40,480
silence in face of Islamic persecution of Palestinian Christians.

818
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:44,000
And I'll put a link to it in the show notes.

819
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:49,480
But it says after the 1948 war, Christian communities suffered most in the West Bank,

820
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:54,960
not under Israel's occupation, but because Muslim refugees were cynically settled in

821
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,520
their midst by Arab leadership.

822
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:01,160
Ramallah was 90% Christian before the war.

823
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:02,160
Wow.

824
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:03,920
While Bethlehem was 80% Christian.

825
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:09,720
By 1967, more than half of Bethlehem's residents were Muslim, while Ramallah is a large Muslim

826
00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:10,720
city today.

827
00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:13,640
And there's not many left in Bethlehem today.

828
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:14,640
No.

829
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:18,880
And it says in the first year of the second Intifada, when Arafat's terrorists ravaged

830
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:26,160
Christian towns by gunfire and mortars, 1,640 Christians left Bethlehem and another 880 left

831
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:27,560
Ramallah.

832
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:32,480
So it's not been easy for the Palestinian Christians.

833
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:38,320
And they have to speak out against the quote unquote Israeli occupation, because if they

834
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:43,320
don't, their silence will be perceived as pro-Israeli by the Muslims.

835
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:44,320
So they-

836
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:45,680
They're forced, kind of forced.

837
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:46,680
Yeah.

838
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:47,680
Yeah.

839
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:53,720
So this is the kind of situation that there is for the civilians that really aren't involved

840
00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:55,760
in the politics of the thing.

841
00:48:55,760 --> 00:49:03,400
And they say that Hamas won that election in Gaza and got into power in 2006.

842
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,680
Well, that sounds like it was rigged like ours.

843
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:07,680
Yeah.

844
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:09,640
I'm thinking so.

845
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:17,240
So with regard to the walls and fences that Israel has put up for their security, because

846
00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:22,120
through the years, they've just had one wave of terrorism after another.

847
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,320
Suicide bombers getting on buses and markets.

848
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:26,320
Yeah.

849
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:27,920
All of these things.

850
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:35,040
From the same article from 2012, it says that Israel's barrier helped to restore common

851
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:38,800
security not just in Israel, but also in Bethlehem.

852
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:43,560
The Church of the Nativity, which Palestinian terrorists defiled in 2002 to escape from

853
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:47,500
the Israeli army, is now filled with tourists from around the world.

854
00:49:47,500 --> 00:49:52,760
It was a little irksome to me when we went there.

855
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,240
And we went through the wall.

856
00:49:55,240 --> 00:50:00,720
But you had to get off of your Jewish bus and get onto an Arab bus or else have an Arab

857
00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:01,720
driver.

858
00:50:01,720 --> 00:50:03,000
Yeah, because a Jew is not allowed to.

859
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:04,000
Yeah.

860
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,920
We had a Circassian driver, so he was Muslim, so he was okay.

861
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:11,280
They're a little more moderate in their behavior.

862
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:17,720
Anyway, we had to leave our Jewish guide behind and take on a guide from Bethlehem.

863
00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:22,520
Well, it turns out the guide that's going to show us all about the birthplace of Jesus

864
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:24,520
is a Muslim.

865
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,600
And telling you about your Christian heritage.

866
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:28,840
Yeah, it just doesn't sit very good.

867
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:30,320
It really didn't feel good.

868
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:31,320
Yeah.

869
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:32,320
I was very sad.

870
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:39,480
And you can drive down a number of the highways in Israel in what's Judea, Samaria, and there's

871
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:43,520
a road that would go up to a town and there would be a big red sign on it.

872
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:47,880
It would be in English, it would be in Hebrew, English, Arabic.

873
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:53,280
And to say this is PA-controlled territory, Jews are not allowed in there.

874
00:50:53,280 --> 00:51:00,760
And we've been behind some of these areas before and it's a usual feeling because they

875
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,560
don't really want to come and get you if you get in trouble.

876
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:05,720
Yeah, that's the truth.

877
00:51:05,720 --> 00:51:13,280
So that sign, the big red sign reads this, this road leads to area A under the Palestinian

878
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:14,660
authority.

879
00:51:14,660 --> 00:51:20,560
The entrance for Israeli citizens is forbidden, dangerous to your lives, and is against the

880
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:22,160
Israeli law.

881
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:28,240
So it's because they don't want to have to go in after them and rescue them.

882
00:51:28,240 --> 00:51:30,720
Yeah, because they may lose their lives doing it.

883
00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:31,720
Yeah, and they might.

884
00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:37,680
So just wanted to tell the rest of what that actually says.

885
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:41,600
So here's the thing, we need to pray.

886
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:47,700
We have seen the move of God change hearts.

887
00:51:47,700 --> 00:51:53,600
We've heard story after story after story of what happens when you start to pray for

888
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:54,720
Muslims.

889
00:51:54,720 --> 00:51:57,560
They start having visions and dreams.

890
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:03,740
They start seeing healings and their hearts are turned that Jesus is the real Messiah.

891
00:52:03,740 --> 00:52:08,840
He is the one who really loves them and that God is really our Father.

892
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,320
There's no such thing, Allah is not a Father.

893
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,340
He calls his subject slaves.

894
00:52:14,340 --> 00:52:16,600
That's what a Muslim means is submitted.

895
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,200
It means submitted, which really means slave.

896
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:20,200
Yeah.

897
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:25,280
I mean, we love slaves for Jesus, but he doesn't rule over us with a sword.

898
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:26,280
No he doesn't.

899
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:31,160
We have our choices, but when you're a Muslim, your choices are very limited.

900
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:32,920
And I want to add one thing.

901
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:36,440
This is a movie that would be a big help to you.

902
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:37,440
It's called Golda.

903
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:38,440
Oh, yes.

904
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:45,280
It was Ingrid Bergman's last movie and Golda was the lady prime minister of Israel.

905
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:49,040
She went there on a kibbutz before Israel was a nation.

906
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:53,080
When there was a young lady lived on a kibbutz.

907
00:52:53,080 --> 00:53:00,160
And it's amazing timeline history of, and she was the prime minister in the Yom Kippur

908
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:01,160
war.

909
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:02,160
Yeah.

910
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:05,000
And so you'll get a better perspective of a lot of things.

911
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:06,000
That's true.

912
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:07,000
Yeah.

913
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:08,000
The movie is called Golda.

914
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:09,000
Beautiful.

915
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,920
I'm not sure what year that was written, but that'll really help you.

916
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:12,920
It's true.

917
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:13,920
It's true.

918
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:17,960
And I want to add right now, father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we are agreeing

919
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:25,400
with our listeners and we're agreeing with your word that you will pour out of your spirit

920
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,800
on all flesh.

921
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:34,720
And Lord, we're asking you to pour out your spirit in Gaza, in the so-called West Bank,

922
00:53:34,720 --> 00:53:41,920
in Bethlehem, in Jerusalem, in all of Israel, Lord, on all the people that are involved.

923
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:46,200
The Israelis as well as the so-called Palestinians.

924
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:51,280
Lord, we're asking you to turn their hearts.

925
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:54,320
Give them a visitation.

926
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:55,900
Visit them with your love.

927
00:53:55,900 --> 00:53:57,720
Visit them with your life.

928
00:53:57,720 --> 00:53:59,920
Visit them with your light.

929
00:53:59,920 --> 00:54:05,960
Transform their minds and bring them into that relationship with the Prince of Peace

930
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:10,560
that will transform this situation, Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ.

931
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:19,040
And we pray for all of the Muslim nations, all the Muslim multitudes all over the world.

932
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:23,040
And they've spread out to do their worldwide domination.

933
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:24,360
They're trying to do it.

934
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,720
They're ready to launch.

935
00:54:26,720 --> 00:54:29,840
But father, we're asking you to visit them.

936
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:34,740
Visit these sleeper cells that are right here in our own country, that are in almost every

937
00:54:34,740 --> 00:54:36,820
country probably.

938
00:54:36,820 --> 00:54:41,140
Visit them, Lord, and show yourself for who you are.

939
00:54:41,140 --> 00:54:48,500
Bring down that evil snake, just like in Revelation chapter 12, that dragon.

940
00:54:48,500 --> 00:54:54,280
We're asking you to cast down that dragon, that old serpent called the devil and Satan

941
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,720
who deceives the whole world.

942
00:54:56,720 --> 00:54:58,520
That's what's been going on.

943
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,320
This is the deception of the whole world.

944
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:05,520
And Lord, we're asking you to cast him out into the earth and his angels with him.

945
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:11,400
And we're declaring the power of the blood of Jesus Christ as this accuser of the brethren

946
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:14,240
is cast down in the lives of the people.

947
00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:21,360
Lord, we're asking you to bring them into life and light and your love through the power

948
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,520
of the blood of Jesus Christ.

949
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:26,360
Transform their lives, Lord.

950
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:30,440
Pour out your spirit, we pray, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

951
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:31,440
Amen.

952
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:32,440
Amen.

953
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:42,480
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954
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962
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