Standing with Israel - Strang Report - April 16, 2024

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Hello everyone, I'm Stephen Strang and welcome to this edition of the Strang Report live

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on Tuesday, April 14th, 2024.

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Apparently I made a mistake.

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We're live.

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I don't do that very often.

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I knew it was one day off from the 15th and I said it wrong.

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I should write better notes.

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But anyway, here we are.

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Today I'm going, I have no guests.

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I'm just going to share from my heart, maybe have a little fun in just dealing with a lot

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of different subjects, fairly serious subjects.

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Today I'm going to talk about the attack that Iran did on Israel just on Saturday night,

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early Sunday morning where they were.

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And also I'm going to comment on what's happening in New York with the trial with Donald Trump

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and even what happened at the Men's Conference at James River Church in Missouri just a few

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Now tomorrow I'm actually interviewing Chuck Smith or Chuck Pierce, rather, the very respected

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prophet, we're going to talk about what's happening in the Middle East from a prophetic

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point of view and it will play up live on Thursday at 4 p.m.

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You won't want to miss that and you may want to tell others about it.

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In fact, we're going to do some promotion on our website, on Charisma News and in other

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ways just to let people know because I think it's going to be so very important.

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Now everyone knows that Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th.

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It's interesting when you find out that Hamas says they attacked Israel because of the red

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heifers.

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You know, there's been a lot of interest in the red heifers.

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There's some prophecies that a red heifer has to be offered on the Temple Mount as a

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part of the last day's scenario and there are several perfect red heifers in Israel

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and there's all this controversy about it.

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It's kind of behind the scenes.

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When I was at National Religious Broadcasters a few weeks ago, there was quite a buzz there,

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some people talking about it, speculating it.

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And it's just interesting that Hamas has actually said that that was just over the pale as far

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as they were concerned.

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Of course, there are radicals, there are terrorists.

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They killed more Israelis in one day than the number of Jews have been killed in one

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day since the Holocaust.

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Since the Holocaust, the most Jews killed in one day was October 7th, 2023.

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And the war is dragged on.

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At first the world was outraged that this happened.

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Now there are protests many, many places.

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I mean, even here in the United States, there are pro-Palestinian protesters yelling, death

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to America in our own country.

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It's really very serious and I think what it does is it points to the fact that we are

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in the end of time.

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We're in the end of time.

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The Bible talks about it and I was just talking to a Christian leader this week about end

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time prophecy.

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Now I grew up in a church where people would talk about end times and the tribulation and

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the rapture and the feeling was that all these horrible, horrible things were going to happen.

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And listen, if you read Revelation or if you read the book of Matthew where Jesus talked

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about it or even Daniel, there are some terrible things going to happen.

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In fact, I even wrote about it in my own book, Spirit-led Living in an Upside Down World,

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which I'll talk about a little bit later.

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But some terrible things are going to happen.

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But the feeling was that it didn't matter to Christians because we were going to go

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away in the rapture.

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We were just going to, in the blink of an eye, the twinkly of an eye, the wording that's

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in the Scripture, and we'd be gone.

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There are other points of view of people that think that the rapture won't happen until

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after the tribulation.

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Some believe it'll happen in the middle of the tribulation.

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There are some people who don't believe in all that at all.

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But as time has passed, well, I should say that as a young person, I always assumed that

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all these things would happen long after my lifetime and they were interesting to contemplate,

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that it didn't really affect me.

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As I have become a journalist, as I become a Christian leader and study these things,

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and as I have seen the events of the world unfold, where there's a great following away,

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where there's a great apostasy, where there's a move toward one world government, which

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we saw during COVID.

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Well, there's been a move toward globalism in one world government.

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We saw some ways where governments would actually try to take away our freedoms and impose their

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will, the WHO that would almost impose its will over countries, actual governments and

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so forth.

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Anyway, I say all that to say, now I'm not so sure that I'm not going to go through the

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tribulation.

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But one thing that I believe is that no matter what, the Holy Spirit can empower us.

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First of all, the Holy Spirit causes us to be strong and to stand up to all of these

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things that are going to happen.

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It also causes us to be strong.

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Even if we were to die, even if we had to give our lives, it causes us to be strong.

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And we can believe that God has a plan and purpose.

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It's not just bad things happening.

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God has a plan and purpose for mankind.

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This outlined in the Word of God and the Scripture, and we can be thankful that we're

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alive now.

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In fact, someone told Jonathan Kahn one time, he's of course the author of the Harbinger

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and more recently the Josiah Manifesto, and they said they would have loved to have lived

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in biblical times.

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And he said, well, congratulations, you are living in biblical times.

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And that's a very interesting way to look at it, that the times we're living were prophesied

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in the Bible.

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So we need to pray.

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We need to pray for the situation.

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The Middle East is very, very tense.

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There are some people that are saying that it's just one or two things could happen that

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could actually trigger World War III, bringing the superpowers we need to pray, that that

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doesn't happen.

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And we believe in the power of prayer.

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I've talked about it many times on the Strang Report.

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One of my purposes in life is to try to call the body of Christ to pray and to hold up

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a standard.

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I'm not certainly the only one doing it.

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We're not a prayer ministry per se, but I just believe that even as we analyze what's

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happening in the world around us, that we have to understand, that we have power in prayer,

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and that we can speak to mountains and say that they should be removed and they will be

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removed in the name of Jesus.

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Jesus commanded the wind in the waves.

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They obeyed him.

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He said that greater works than these that will do.

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We have to believe this.

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And again, there's so much more that could be said, and that's for another day.

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I want to touch some things.

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I get all these emails from different ministries and groups in Israel calling for prayer.

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They're calling for prayer and they're calling for hope.

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In fact, we have raised quite a bit of money for three different ministries in Israel.

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They are, I guess you'd call them messianic ministries.

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They're believers in Yeshua, Jesus, and they're there in Israel spreading the gospel, but

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also helping those in need, particularly during the Israel Hamas war.

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And we've been able to partner them through our nonprofit partner called Christian Life

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Missions.

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We do everything through Christian Life Missions, 100% of what people give go to the cause.

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And we've been able to raise from viewers like you $150,000 that has already been dispersed.

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The ministries say that they're putting it on projects that actually help people.

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So they're not taking anything out for overhead.

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Neither are we.

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You can go to ChristianLifeMissions.org and check out our Stand With Israel.

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There's also reports on how this has been done and the three different ministries are

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listed there and what they've been doing.

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But I got an email just this morning from a ministry in Iran and it's ELAM.

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I want to say Elam or Elam.

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I'm not sure how to pronounce it, but it's a Christian ministry in Iran.

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And they're also very concerned about what's going on and they're calling for prayer.

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And I thought it was worth sharing with you.

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They say that we should pray for restraint from all sides in this conflict and for it

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to deescalate.

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Pray that the Lord will raise up peacemakers who can speak with wisdom, authority and clarity

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in this atmosphere of antagonism and aggression.

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The church in both Iran and Israel, as they should get on their knees and pray as they

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rise to continue sharing the hope of the gospel amid fear and uncertainty.

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There are stories, anecdotal stories that we hear.

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They're hard to check out, but of people coming, Muslims, having dreams and Jesus appearing

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to them in the dreams.

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And apparently there's quite a vibrant underground church in Iran and we need to pray for Iran.

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But we also must pray for Israel.

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If you know anything about me, you know that I'm proud to say that I'm a Christian Zionist.

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I visited Israel many times.

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I've raised lots of money for Israel.

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I love Israel.

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You know, the Bible says that God will bless those who bless Israel.

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And I believe that that's true.

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But I also believe that we need to not deify Israel.

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You know, Israel is a part of God's plan.

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The fact that a nation was born in a day, which Israel was on May 14, 1948, it's a fulfillment

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of prophecy.

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But there are some who almost, it's Israel right or wrong.

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And you know, Israel needs to not be guilty of the same kind of atrocities that Hamas

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is.

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They're in a very difficult situation.

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We need to actually pray that their military leaders, really none of whom or most of whom

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are not believers as we would understand it, but that they would have the wisdom of God

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because many lives are on the line, not only in Israel and in the Gaza Strip.

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But really if this escalates into a world war, of course, it will just be absolutely

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devastating.

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So we need to pray.

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We also need to pray, I believe, for what's happening in New York with the trial of Donald

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Trump, the first time a former president has been put on trial.

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And I know that many Christians have already sort of made up their minds on how they feel

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about what's going on.

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My personal opinion is that it is actually frightening that the government can use technicalities

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or just make up things to bring a charge.

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If Donald Trump was not running for president, none of these charges, none would happen.

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But they have come up with very, very weak cases.

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Jews have actually run for office promising to put Trump in jail, those kinds of things.

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You know, really every American, whether you like Trump or not, should be very concerned

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about this.

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And we need to pray that our justice system will be fair.

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There's like a two-tiered justice system.

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I've talked about it before on the STRANG report.

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We don't have time, or I don't have time today to go into it, but we ought to pray.

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I've interviewed President Trump.

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He told me personally that he had not done anything with Stormy Daniels.

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This whole thing in New York has to do with hush money with Stormy Daniels.

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They say that he somehow violated something by paying her to be quiet.

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You know, the fact is that rich people will often pay, even when they're not guilty, just

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to make a problem go away when it would create a problem for their business, or in this case

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his run for the president.

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But he told me personally he had not done anything.

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But whether he did or not, there needs to be justice when it comes to our courts of

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law.

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And we need to pray.

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I mean, how would you feel if you were in that kind of situation?

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And it's just amazing to me that Donald Trump is as strong as he is.

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And you know, there's a lot going on with the election.

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This is just one part of it.

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I'm going to be interviewing some people in the next couple of weeks on the Strang Report

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about what's happening and discussing what Christians can do.

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You know, Christians are considered to be a voting block, but other than that, we don't

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have much say in what happens.

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It's kind of politics as usual.

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One of the things about Donald Trump that I personally respect is that he will at least

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listen to Christian leaders and allow himself to be prayed for in a way that I've never

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seen another politician.

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And I've had the opportunity to be in the White House numerous times.

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I've personally interviewed four different presidents.

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I've studied it.

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I've written about it.

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And he does seem to be open.

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Now this is not to say that he is a great, strong Christian leader.

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He's not.

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He's a very flawed individual.

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But then so are the rest of us.

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Recently, I've been reading a book by a never-Trumper who can't understand how any Christian could

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possibly support Trump.

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And you know what?

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He makes him good points.

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There are people who's backed Trump that almost make him into a superhero, put him out of

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pedestal in a way that he doesn't really deserve and try to make him into some kind of Christian

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icon, which he isn't.

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I think that we probably need to consider that Jesus said, my kingdom is not of this

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world.

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Donald Trump is not going to bring in the kingdom of God.

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I personally believe that if he's elected, he'll slow down or reverse some of the very

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bad policies that actually take away our Christian freedoms and actually make what the Bible

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calls calling evil good and good evil.

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There are some people who are trying to codify that into law, which will be very, very difficult

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for the Christian community.

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So for that reason, if nothing else, I think I'm supporting Donald Trump.

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But my point today is to not talk about that, but to say that we should pray for him.

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Then the next thing I'm going to comment on is what everybody seems to be talking about

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on social media, and that's the men's conference at James River Church in Springfield, Missouri

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this past weekend.

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Now interestingly, I interviewed David Lindell on my podcast.

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You can go on YouTube or the other sites, the other platforms and actually listen to

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it.

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It was maybe two weeks ago and we talked about what was coming up.

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He did not mention any of the things that became controversial with the sword, Swallow

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or I guess you call him, and some of the other things that happened.

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Of course, there was kind of a confrontation in a manner of speaking between Mark Driscoll,

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who's a friend of mine, a man whose books that I've published in the past, and John

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Lindell, who is also one of my authors and someone I consider to be a friend.

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And then it was later reconciled in a very Christ-like way where they actually came back

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and Mark Driscoll got up and criticized some things that he thought were extreme.

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John Lindell told him he was out of place.

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He confronted him publicly and Mark said, okay, and he walked off the stage.

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You probably saw this on social media.

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I was not there.

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I've only know what I've seen on social media and what people have talked about.

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But later they came back and they dealt with it in kind of a Matthew 18 kind of way on

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how Christians can disagree and go on.

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And then Mark Driscoll preached his message that he was going to preach.

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So that is a beautiful example.

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It's an example of what the Bible says that all things work together for good to those

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who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose.

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Now you may be surprised by this unless you saw the podcast because I mentioned it, but

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I was actually at this conference last year.

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I had reason to be in Missouri on business.

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I actually arranged my business so that I could go to this conference.

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I was told it was very good.

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I was involved for many, many years with Promise Keepers.

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You may remember that and went to many Promise Keepers conferences.

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They're not being held anymore.

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And this at James River has been very successful for a number of years.

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They packed the arena at Missouri State University there in Springfield.

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And they claim, and I haven't been able to fact check it, but they claim, and I have

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no reason to disbelieve them, that it's the largest men's conference in the country.

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And it's, you know, last year, in fact, I did a podcast on it last year after I got

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back because I was all excited.

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A lot of men came to Christ.

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I was deeply touched, but they also had what I'm going to call fun and games.

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And they went out of their way to make this macho to the nth degree.

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And you know, as I was talking to somebody about it, I kind of remember it was like VBS

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when I was a kid, Vacation Bible School or even children's ministries today.

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They try to make them real excited, get the kids yelling and screaming and jumping up and

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down.

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They try to make it fun.

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And then, of course, they teach the Bible lesson.

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And for men, and it was almost all men, there are very, very few women.

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The women that were there were mostly, you know, helping.

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It was just macho.

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It was kind of like, guys don't get a chance to get together and be men.

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And it was like going to a WWF rally.

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They had cars, they had some old cars.

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They actually had a real tank.

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The tank ran over the cars while the guys were yelling and they had strobe lights going

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off and smoke machines and all kinds of things.

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And they had acrobats.

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And you know, it didn't last very long, but and it was exciting.

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They had strong music going and rah, rah, rah, rah, and then they would quiet down and

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have teaching of the word and an ultra call and all that kind of thing.

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This was this year's version that was maybe a little more extreme.

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I can't really tell, but it seemed to be a little extreme.

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And Mark Driscoll, who is nobody's fool and he very definitely has an opinion.

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He himself is a man's man and men gravitate toward his ministry because of that.

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And that's why they invited him to speak.

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Mark Driscoll also knows what it is to be criticized.

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He's been criticized as much as any contemporary pastor in America.

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That's again a story for a different day.

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And so he understands it.

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So anyway, there's all these interesting dynamics.

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And I thought since today I'm opining kind of on what's going on this week, the week

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of April 16th.

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I got it right the second time around.

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And I just thought I'd share that with you.

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And finally, I want to mention my book.

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I talked about this a little earlier.

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There's a whole chapter in here on the end of time.

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I touched on that earlier when I was talking about Iran and how we have to be led by the

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Holy Spirit and how we have to be strong.

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This is a book that I wrote last spring.

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It's been out for not quite a year.

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And it's a book that I passionately believe in.

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And we're making this book available to churches all over the country for penny cost Sunday.

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And we're selling it very, very inexpensively.

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And a donor has donated some money to give books to churches that may not be able to

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afford it or maybe want to give it to everyone in the service.

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And if you're interested at all, I'm not going to make this into a commercial.

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But you can email me at info at CharismaMedia.com.

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And find out more information.

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We'll send you the information at info at CharismaMedia.com.

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It's here on the screen.

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The only reason I mention it is I'm today is kind of a potpourri.

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And I'm kind of ad-living and just kind of sharing.

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And I hope that you come to my podcast, not just for my guests, but I'm going to have

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great guests like Chuck Pierce next time.

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I'm going to get some other people that have lots of followers on social media because

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they are very articulate and have a lot to say.

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I think that you're going to like it.

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I'm going to start promoting the podcast more and really building it.

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And I hope that you find that I bring balance to situations.

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That I've been like that my whole career.

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I try to bring Christian maturity and wisdom.

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You know, I've been around for a long, long time.

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I've been there, done that.

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I've seen it all.

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Or at least that's how I feel sometimes.

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Of course, I haven't seen it all.

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But I'm able to bring something that maybe other podcasters don't.

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And that's why I hope you'll subscribe.

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I hope that you'll tune in.

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And I will form a relationship.

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There's other podcasters, some that I follow.

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That they're just people that I like to hear their voice.

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And I'm trying to mimic that for you.

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And I hope that we make a connection.

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Well, that's all I have to share today.

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I hope you enjoyed it.

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Give me your comments in the comment section.

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I love going and reading them.

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And I answer many of them as I feel it's appropriate.

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Tune in again on Thursday at 4 PM Eastern Daylight Time

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for my interview with none other than Chuck Pierce

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from Corinth, Texas.

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A man that I consider a friend I have deep respect for.

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And he has real insight on what's going on in the Middle

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East, especially as we seem to be racing toward the end of time.

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Thank you for watching.

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Share this podcast with others.

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Put a link on social media.

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That would really help us get out the word.

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God bless you.

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See you next time.