We're in a time, and Israel is in this time, of this beating and this threshing.
I mean, yes, the enemy is doing it. It's a horrific time, but God doesn't miss any opportunities
to turn things together for good.
God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity.
Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promised outpouring,
we equip for that outpouring, so that we may engage in that very outpouring.
I'm Philip Bus.
And I'm Sharon Bus. Welcome to the podcast today.
We realize that there are things going on in the earth today that are causing people to have lots
and lots of questions. And one of those big question marks is what's going on in Israel.
And we want to give you some perspective from our travels and our experiences and the research
that we have done to help you understand the conflict in Israel.
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that you can join us. And if you'll write to us on that feedback email, then we can help get you
connected to our prayer times. So today, we've just been thinking about the importance of helping you
to understand what is going on in Israel right now. There's war going on. There were terrible
atrocities. There was a massacre that happened on October 7th, 2023. And when it first happened,
I was thinking, okay, it's another skirmish. We've known these things before. Even the
Yom Kippur War lasted less than three weeks. And we had plans to go to Israel at the end of October.
And we've been sorely disappointed that we've not been able to go. We've had interesting situations
the last few years. We had a tour that was planned for March of 2020. And that didn't happen.
No, that didn't happen. And then we'll reschedule it for the fall, November of 2020. Well,
that didn't happen either. And neither did it happen when we scheduled it for the next year
in November. Didn't happen. And so then we scheduled one for November of 2023. And
it didn't happen. So then we just scheduled just the two of us, or just a small, there were four
of us that were going to go over. Well, no, that didn't happen either. Nope. Nope. They cancelled
the flights. Yeah, it's a very strange time that we're living in because it's been 45 years that
I've been going to Israel. I went the first time in 1978. And I was being trained on that tour,
my very first one, I was being trained to become the tour coordinator. How many times have you
been to Israel? You know, I quit counting after 30, because I thought, oh, this is just too much to
keep up with. And then after about, I don't know how many years later, I figured, I think I've
probably been about 40 times. And then sometime later, I think, I'm pretty sure I've been something
like 50 times, mostly as a tour coordinator, helping people see the land. I love taking
first timers. It just lights my inspiration up to see when people's faces light up, when they
see and they walk on the land where the stories that they've read in the Bible, the scriptures
that they've read, it just becomes so real to you. And so I love doing that. And it's just one of my
passions to help people get connected with the word and the land and the people together.
And it makes the scripture click. Absolutely. And then after you've been, then you read the
scripture and you remember what the place looked like. I was there. I was there. I was right there
on a boat on the Sea of Galilee. And here's this place where Jesus walked on the water.
And walking in Capernaum where all the healings took place. All those healings and miracles. So
we have a lot of perspective for having, well, Phillip, your first time was kind of...
Yeah, it was 1981. Yeah. And it was our first time. And it was like our honeymoon.
It was like our honeymoon. We were married in July and that was an amazing time. And I've
probably been over 30 times myself. And even as a volunteer for the International Christian
Embassy at the Feast of Tabernacles celebration, being in their choir, I did that about 10 times.
Yeah, that was amazing. And then I've stayed over there for a month, sometimes in the earlier years.
So we kind of, and we lived over there for three months at one time. And so it gave,
you know, we have quite a feel for the land and what makes things tick over there.
Yes. Because you can't judge the nation by what you're seeing in the papers.
Oh my goodness. It's totally, as the Russians say, propaganda. So if you're listening,
everything you're listening to, most of this on the news, you're being propaganda iced,
if that's a word. Yeah, it is a word.
Propaganda iced. So take everything you listen to with a grain of salt because you're not
hearing the truth unless you're on a real Israeli site.
Right. And even some of those are stilted the wrong direction too. But I was listening to
someone who is an Israeli and he was talking about somebody that he knew from America that
had, you know, he's got his ear to the ground. He's listening for what's going on in America.
This man's a Christian and he's believing in the end times. And, you know, so it's important to
know what's going on in Israel. And so he's listening to the news all the time. And what
he had heard on American news had very little to do with what had actually happened
in, you know, in this massacre around the, what they call the Gaza envelope, the communities
that are around the Gaza Strip. And so he didn't even know what had really happened. So there's
lots of information out there. We don't really want to go into that particularly right now,
but there was a terrible massacre and atrocities, terrible, terrible atrocities. But we want to help
you understand why that happened and what's going on and how the people are thinking and who's who
in the zoo, so to speak, and just to give you some information to help you know how to pray.
Because really, contending for the outpouring has a lot to do with contending for what's going on
in the spirit realm in Israel, because it's God's land. He says in his words that in his word that
it's his land. And he promised it to Abraham. And then he reiterated it more than once to Abraham.
And I'll just give you a couple of the scriptures where he promised it. First, Abraham was called
in Genesis 12, and God sent him to the land. Go to the land that I show you, right? And then when
there's a covenant made where Abraham, was he Abraham by then? Yes. No, he was still Abraham.
And he falls into a deep sleep. He's been told by the Lord to sacrifice all these animals,
and Abraham falls into a deep sleep. And God himself comes down like a furnace and passes
through the pieces, which is what was done to make a covenant. You would pass through the pieces
together. But God did this himself, because he's going to keep the covenant. It's his covenant.
It's his covenant, and it's his plan, and he's going to execute it. He's going to make it happen.
And so in Genesis 15, he said that in the same day that the Lord made covenant with Abraham,
saying, unto your seed have I given this land, he says, from the river of Egypt
unto the great river, the river Euphrates. And he goes on to talk about the different
Aites that are living there that, you know, they think it's their land, but God is basically
saying it's my land, and I'm giving it to you and your descendants. And then in Genesis 10,
26, he's reiterating the covenant to Isaac, Abraham's son. And he says in verse 26,
Isaac went to Abimelek, the king of the Philistines, unto Gerar. Now Gerar is in
the vicinity of the Gaza Strip. I don't think it's actually in the Strip. I'm not sure that
they really know where Gerar is, whether it's actually a city or whether it's a region.
The maps are not very clear, so I presume that the scholars are kind of not really sure.
They're not in agreement.
Or not in agreement, yeah. And it says in verse two, and the Lord appeared unto him,
and which is Isaac, and said, don't go down into Egypt, dwell in the land which I shall tell you
of, sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and I will bless you. For unto you and unto your
seed, I will give all these countries, plural, and I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham,
your father. And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and give your seed all
these countries. And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. Because Abraham
obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments and my statutes and my laws. And Isaac dwelt in
Gerar. Okay. Isaac lived in that region that is in conflict right now. And God said to him,
I'm giving this to you and your descendants and all these countries that he promised, all the way
to the Euphrates, which I think only ever came into the possession of Israel under David. David
conquered all the way to the Euphrates and a little ways down into the Sinai. Now, there's a
big question as to where is this river of Egypt? And there are some people that say that it's
Awadi somewhere near that southern border that's currently the southern border.
And that's like a wash, Awadi?
Yeah. Awadi is like a dry riverbed that becomes a river when it rains.
You see that when you go out west here. If you're in Class Center, State 40. So you'll see the name
of Awadi here then.
Yeah. And even in our own valley, we have places that when it rains, it becomes a little stream.
But don't think that would be what God would say, what God would call a river. To me, there's only
one river of Egypt. I think it's the Nile. But that remains to be seen. I'm not going to die on
that hill. But you know. And this is 1900 BC. That's kind of the timeline, what it says here.
And so we're talking almost 4,000 years ago.
So that was when God promised to Abraham?
Yeah.
Okay. So 1900.
About 1900 BC.
Okay. So we're talking almost 4,000 years ago.
Almost 4,000 years ago. So that is when the covenant, you know, God made a covenant with
Abraham or Abram at this point to give the land.
Right. And then we know that he reiterated it also to Jacob. And Jacob told it to his sons
when they were in Egypt and said, now you're going to come out of here. God had promised them that
they would spend 400 years being oppressed in Egypt. And then they came out of slavery and
they came into the promised land under Joshua and so on. We don't need to go into all that history.
But I'm just saying that there is history that is verifiable archaeologically.
Yeah. There's more archaeological finds in Israel per square foot.
Yeah, it seems like.
Than probably anywhere else. Amazing.
And certainly that it connects to the Bible. If you search through YouTube, you will find
all kinds of information of archaeological finds that are happening now. They keep happening. They
keep finding things that agree with the word of God and agree with the fact that the Israelites
were there over the last 4,000 years.
Yeah.
Okay. So where did this Palestine thing come from? What happened? How did this happen?
We're just going to take a quick look at this history. So we know that when Israel went into
captivity with Assyria, shortly thereafter, some years thereafter, Judah went into captivity to
Babylon for 70 years. Then they came back. Some of them, some of them stayed there.
And there's what they call the diaspora, where the dispersion of the Jews went out through that 70
years and through the captivity of Assyria that Assyria brought on Israel. They dispersed
throughout the nations. And that's something God was in because they were disobedient. Okay?
God warned them and warned them and warned them and warned them. And it was like 400 years
from the time that Saul came in as king until they were sent out into Babylonian captivity.
So it's not like it happened overnight that God suddenly got mad.
Yeah.
Okay. It happened over a period of something like 400 years. So that's something like a
hundred generations. God kept giving them another chance and another chance.
And every time there would be a little bit of a revival and people would come back to God and it
would last for a generation or two and then they'd fall back.
And they'd get a bad king.
Yeah. But it's all because they didn't obey him in the first place and deal with all of the
Canaanites. Now I heard an interesting interview recently with Nehemiah Gordon and Rabbi Yehuda
Glick. And one thing that Rabbi Glick said that I thought really helped me understand the why of
Israel wiping out the Canaanites and why God said to wipe them out. It's because in Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, all five of the books of the Torah, in every book,
it's made clear that you're not supposed to kill anybody because we're made in the image of God.
So we're supposed to value life and valuing that life that comes from God. But what he said was
that the Canaanites did not value life and they were violent and they were killing all the time
and they were sacrificing their babies, their very own offspring, they're sacrificing to false
gods. So he said that's the reason why God said, okay, it's time to wipe them out because it's like
this. God said, don't murder. When he said, thou shalt not kill, he meant thou shalt not murder.
That's the Hebrew, don't murder. But then he also said that if a person murders,
their blood is supposed to be shed in order to take away the curse of the shedding of innocent
blood. Okay, one cancels the other. And that's why we as believers in Yeshua, we believe that
he paid the price, that Jesus paid the price for us on the cross. And his blood now substitutes
where in other circumstances where you would have to shed someone's blood. And it's not that I'm
necessarily against capital punishment. I think there are times when it's appropriate. But the
point is, that's the reason why the Canaanites had to be wiped out. It's cause and effect.
They were murderers. They were murders of their own children. And God wanted that whole thing wiped
out to cleanse the land of the murder of the shedding of innocent blood that had already taken
place on the land. So that's why the Canaanites had to be wiped out. Okay. So I thought that was
an interesting point that helped me understand a lot of what's going on. So when the tribe of Judah
came back from Babylon, and I'm sure that there were members of other tribes that came back as
well that had been dispersed in Babylon, when they came back and resettled the land, all went
well for a while until Alexander the Great showed up in something like 330 BC. And he was bent on
taking over the whole region. And when he died, then he separated, the land was separated by his
generals and different ones had a section. And then there was this horrible Antiochus Epiphanes
was one of the ones that took over that region. And he's the one that sacrificed a pig on the
altar and set up his own idol in the temple. And the Maccabees rose up and came back.
And they had the miracle of Hanukkah with the oil that was enough for one day lasting eight days.
And that's the area where it's like 400 silent years between the end of the Old Testament to
the start of the New Testament. Yeah, it's about 400 years of history there. Yeah, it's another 400
year history. I think it's interesting that there's these clumps of 400 years. And I've been studying
this and I'm interested, you just watch, just pay attention to where there's a 400 year thing,
because it's been 400 years since the Mayflower. I think that's an interesting little piece of
information. Anyway, that's a bunny trail, we won't go on. So when the Maccabees rose up and
there was a strong government set in place that the Jews were in charge for a season,
and then they asked the Romans for help against the Greeks. Well, that invited Rome to come and
take over. And then Rome became the oppressor. And so they were in charge when Jesus came.
And what happened was there were some other revolts that came after that, that the zealots,
the zealots, you may have heard the word zealot in your New Testament, right? So Simon the Zealot
was one of, and Judas Iscariot was a zealot too. But what happened was that there were these
revolts and Rome would come and crush them. And then there was a revolt in 135 AD, well, this is
after Rome had already destroyed the temple in 70 AD, but there was one final revolt. And Rome was so
done with the Jews that they came in and absolutely crushed, they crushed Judaism.
They made the vast majority leave, not everybody left. There were Jews left in place always,
there've always been Jews there. But Rome was so fed up that they no longer called the province Judea.
...Palestina.
They renamed it...
Danielle Pletka
...Palestina. They named it after the Philistines. That's who they named it after, the Philistines.
You remember Goliath of Gath was a Philistine, okay? Abimelek was a Philistine. And the
Philistines were troublemakers the whole time. The tribe of Dan wasn't successful getting rid of them.
So they just moved up north because it was too hard for them. They settled someplace else. They
didn't do their job. The Philistines should have been dealt with back then.
Rick
And what is part of their territory?
Danielle Pletka
Gaza.
Rick
Today, Gaza.
Danielle Pletka
Exactly.
Rick
That's their territory.
Danielle Pletka
Exactly. So Rome renamed the land, Palestina, as a slap in the face to the Jews. They wanted to wipe
off all memory of the Jews. They wanted it to never be called Judea again. And so they
slapped the Jews in the face, as it were, by renaming this after the ancient enemies of
Israel that had only lived in that southwest section of the land, you know, just right along
the Mediterranean, the Gaza Strip, and a little bit above that, Ashdod, Ashkelon. Those cities were
Philistine cities. And so Rome renamed the entire land Palestine or Palestina. And they called it
Syria Palestina because it was connected to Syria. So then in the 600s, the Muslims came. And there
was one... There was conquest after conquest with it. The Muslims came first and then the crusaders,
and then there was back and forth a bit. And then there were different groups of Muslims that wanted
to rule. So now we're going to cover more of the other side of the conflict in part two. I just
want to point out that, you know, at this point, the Muslims came. They did not call it Palestine.
They had their own names for it. I don't want to go into what they called it, but you can look
that up for yourself. And I just want to help you to understand why it's been called Palestine
and why we have this confusion now about it. It originally wasn't called Palestine.
And these British scholars, God bless them, and the European scholars that wrote things in the 17
and 1800s and early part of the 20th century, they were calling it Palestine because that's what it
said on the maps from Rome. It was called Palestine under Rome. So they didn't call it Judea when they
were writing their scholarly material. And I don't know why. They would talk about Palestine in the
time of Christ. Well, it wasn't called Palestine in the time of Christ. It was called Judea, even
though it was under Rome at the time, it was called Judea. So that's one of my little things
that bothers me, you know, that they would call it Palestine in the time of Christ. And it wasn't
called Palestine in those days. So that's why there's a lot of confusion because
scholars who have studied the Bible and have studied these writings of the scholars of the
17 and 1800s, you know, there was a lot of scholarly material that came out once the Bible became
available to the laymen and became into print. So it just created more confusion to continue to
call it Palestine. And then when the British came in 1917, and in 1920, when they documented things,
they called it Palestine, even though they were talking about making a homeland for the Jews,
they called it officially Palestine. So that's where the confusion has come. And we'll talk more
about the other side of things. But here's a little interesting piece of information that came into
my hands recently that there was an article that was written in 2007. And maybe you know about this,
but I didn't about a book. I'm no Latin scholar, but it's it was written in Latin. It's called
Palestina ex monumentis Veteribus Illustrata by Hadriani Rilandi. And Hadriani Rilandi was a
Dutchman that came in 1695 to the Holy Land to what he called Palestina, because he didn't know
any better. Yeah. That's what the Romans had last called it. That's what the maps said in their day.
Okay. And so he was a cartographer. That means he was a map maker. Kind of like Lewis and Clark
in this country. Right. So he went there on a journey. He was like a tourist, but he was a
cartographer. He wanted to make maps. And he was also a scholar of the languages. So he could speak
Hebrew. He could speak Arabic. He could speak Greek. He knew Latin. He wrote the book in Latin.
Okay. And it was published in 1714. And there are precious few of them out there. And you can find
pictures and so on online. I found some of the maps and printed them. I'm fascinated with the maps
because he was very, very careful to mark things according to what the Bible said, according to the
Talmud, according to the Mishnah, which are other Jewish writings in case you're not familiar with
those. But he made these amazing maps. And he also kind of did a census as he was going throughout
the land. He located all these little villages and counted the people in them, counted the number of
families and so on. And he recorded this information. And it's really amazing what he discovered.
But this particular article that is by Avi Goldreich, and it's originally published on
think-israel.org, and several people have copied it and posted it. These are some of his prominent
conclusions. And I'll just read a few of these things. Most of the settlement names originate in
the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, or Roman languages. In fact, till today, except to Ramla, not one Arabic
settlement has an original Arabic name. For instance, the name Nablus, that comes from the
Latin that means new city. And it's kind of Arabicized. It's not Latin anymore, but it's
not Latin anymore, but it's Arabicized. Sort of like when we Anglicize a word to make it fit in
English. Okay, so then it goes on to say, till today, most of the settlements names are of Hebrew
or Greek origin, the names distorted to senseless Arabic names. There is no meaning in Arabic to
names such as Akko, Haifa, Jaffa, Nablus, Gaza, or Jenin, and towns named Ramla, El-Haleel, and El-Quds
for Jerusalem lack historical roots or Arabic philology, which means, okay, they're not Arabic
sourced words. In 1696, the year Rilandi toured the land, Ramla, for instance, was called
Beit Ala from the Hebrew name Beit El. House of God. Yeah. So another point is that most of the
land was empty and desolate, and the inhabitants few in number and mostly concentrate in the towns
of Jerusalem, Akko, Tzvat, Jaffa, Tiberias, and Gaza. Most of the inhabitants were Jews and the
rest Christians. They were few Muslims, mostly nomad Bedouins. Nablus, known as Shechem, was
exceptional where approximately 120 people, members of the Muslim Nat-Sha family, and approximately 70
Samaritans lived. In the Galilee capital, Nazareth, lived approximately 700 Christians,
and in Jerusalem, approximately 5,000 people, mostly Jews and some Christians.
The interesting part was that Rilandi mentioned the Muslims are as nomad Bedouins who arrived in
the area as construction and agricultural labor, agriculture labor reinforcement seasonal workers.
Okay. Yeah. So this wasn't their home. They were just brought in.
Well, they were Bedouins. So they travel.
They would, you know, if they have their flocks, they're going to move with their flocks.
There's grass.
Right. They follow the grass.
Yeah.
In Gaza, for example, here's an interesting point. In Gaza, for example, lived approximately 550
people, 50% Jews, and the rest mostly Christians. Tiberias and Tzvat were mostly Jewish, and except
of mentioning fishermen fishing in Lake Canary, the Lake of Galilee, a traditional Tiberias
occupation, there was no mention of their occupations. A town like Um El Fahem was a village
where 10 families, approximately 50 people in total, all Christian, lived, and there was also
a small Maronite church in the village. So I just want to comment on this, that the people that were
living in that land at that time were perhaps called Palestinians. But I don't know that the
Ottomans actually called them Palestinians. I think they probably called them Arabs and Jews and
Christians because Palestine wasn't national name of a place. There was never a state of Palestine.
It was always a region that was under somebody else's control. And so that's why we have this
amazing confusion that's coming from a narrative that has no basis in history. And we'll talk more
about that in the next episode. But we want to talk a little bit more just for a few moments
about how to pray for Israel because this is an amazing, amazingly difficult, horrific,
horrific time. And the people of Israel are in mourning because of the massacre that happened
on October 7th. And everybody, it's a small country, so everybody knows somebody
that was lost in that. And now they're starting to lose some soldiers and everybody knows somebody.
And so the whole country is in mourning. And you're seeing a unity come where there,
in recent months before, there was quite a lot of turmoil where the left and the right were really
fighting each other. And so you have among the Jewish people, the Israelis, you have a lot of
differences of opinion. There are secular Jews. Among the secular Jews, there's divisions of
agnostics and atheists and, you know, there's some that are Buddhists and Hindus that have
gone looking for something else. And you'll have those that are kind of like, they know that there's
a God and they know that they should do something, but they might only just participate in the fast
on Yom Kippur and they don't practice anything else. Or then there's those that'll keep Shabbat,
but they'll never go to synagogue. And there's just, there's different levels, there's
different streams, just like we have multiple streams in Christianity, there's also multiple
streams in Judaism. So you've got all of these different people that are right now at least
somewhat unified for the purpose of mourning together and fighting together. And those who
are not typical of taking up arms, you know, the very Orthodox, they might not go into the army,
although some of them have, but they'll come alongside and they'll help. We just heard a story
recently of some of these folks that got together and brought a truck with washers and dryers. I
don't know how they did all this to have the water supply and the electric supply, but they
brought them to the front so that the soldiers could get their fatigues washed and dried and
they even ironed them for them. You know, they're coming alongside to help. They're going to do what
they can to help. So there's a unifying that's taking place, but they're all in mourning as well.
So this is a time when we need to pray for them, first of all, that they will unify
and put their eyes on their heavenly father. They'll put their eyes on the God of Israel
and they'll realize that we can't do this ourselves. We have to have the help of God.
And until they humble themselves and pray and seek his face, remember that 2 Chronicles 7,
14 was written for them. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and
pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will
forgive their sins and heal their land. The Lord spoke that. And so this is a message that needs to
get to every person, every Israeli needs to come to that place where they are humble themselves and
turn to their heavenly father. And as they're turning, many of them are going to also discover
that their Messiah has been there for the last 2000 years almost and has been available and is
their redeemer. This is a time you may have heard Chuck Pierce or some others talking about this
year that just came in with Rosh Hashanah or the Feast of Trumpets, that this new year is 5-7-8-4
and that number, it doesn't actually spell anything. Sometimes there's a word that comes out
because the numbers in Hebrew are also letters so you can spell things with it. But in this particular
case, some folks have looked at the Strong's Concordance Hebrew number 5-7-8-4 and they've
discovered that it is the word for chaff that is used in Daniel. And if you look at the picture of
chaff, you know, chaff is the husk or the covering that's around the grain that you have to beat it
to loosen it and then you throw it up into the air and the wind will blow away the chaff. And
you can liken that to the fleshly nature that we have compared to the Spirit. You know, you have to
kind of, sometimes you go through a beating in order to discover, oh, I guess my problem is that
I'm in the flesh instead of in the Spirit. And so Israel is going through this beating and I'm
thinking that other nations are doing that or our only nation, United States, I believe is in that
kind of a chaff-beating, threshing time that God is trying to deal with us and get us to wake up to
Him so that we can get down to the grain itself that has value. The grain is what you grind into
flour and that can become bread and feed the hungry. But chaff, you know, every once in a while
if you're eating some of that kind of really healthy bread that came from whole grains,
once in a while you'll find a little bit of that husk, that chaff in it and you just have to spit
it out, you know, it doesn't chew up. So we're in a time and Israel is in this time of this beating
and this threshing. I mean, yes, the enemy is doing it. It's a horrific time, but God doesn't
miss any opportunities to turn things together for good. That's what He does according to Romans 8.28.
So pray for Israel in this time. We know that God has a plan and it is an amazing plan. So we know
that God has promised this land to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And we want you to
understand God's heart for keeping His covenant. That's what He does. He's a covenant-keeping God.
And there's a wonderful scripture in the Psalms that says, you will arise and have mercy on Zion.
For the time to favor her, yea, the set time has come. And I just want to encourage you to go out
to our YouTube channel and we'll put a link to this in the show notes. Claren McQueen, a dear,
dear friend of ours and member of this ministry, also an amazing, amazing worship leader. He has
lived in Israel and he understands so much more than we do even of God's purposes for Israel and
what God wants to do and how He's doing it and how He's fulfilling His Word. So I want to encourage
you to go to the podcast that we did with him about this and also to the message that he preached
at our convention 2023 that so clearly outlines what is in God's heart and how Israel is a key
in God's plan and purpose in the whole earth. So get the rest of this and we're going to go into
the other side of the conflict in our next episode. It will be part two. And so tune in next time and
get the rest of the story the way the Lord has showed it to us to share with you so that you
understand both sides of this situation and be in prayer for Israel and be in prayer for the
hostages and be in prayer for the people that are really hostages to Islam. That's what we're going
to talk about next time. God bless you. Amen. Amen.
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God bless you with this overwhelming loving presence.