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October 10, 2025 | 23:57

Yael Eckstein joins Allen Jackson to discuss current events.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Culture & Christianity Conference | Allen Jackson Now | October 10, 2025

Yeah, yeah.
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Welcome back to tennessee.
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I feel right at home here.
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Shalom, everyone.
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If you're not familiar
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With jill, she is the president of the international fellowship
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Of christians and jews and does an amazing job
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Of helping the christian community,
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I think, understand
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The jewish people and the ways that we can participate.
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I think the last time you were with us was last october. yes.
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And i wish you had some of the children with you
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When you came. yes.
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And when they landed, it was their first time
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To come to murfreesboro.
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Imagine that.
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But i thought their questions to you
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When you landed in new york.
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To try to come to tennessee
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Would help frame this discussion for the people here.
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When they ask you about their reception, do you remember that?
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The first being my
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Nine year old son, when we land said when we landed in
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America was we were right outside of the airport and
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There were all the white strips in the sky from the airplanes.
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And he looked up and he said, mommy, look how many rockets
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Are being launched right now.
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And i looked and i said, praise god, we're in america.
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There's no rockets here.
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You don't need to worry.
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And i think the main thing that my israeli children felt
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When they came to america is that blessing of freedom,
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That blessing of hope, that blessing of diversity.
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And being in this church.
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One year ago,
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They definitely felt the blessing and love
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Of christians right here in nashville.
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But around the world,
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That defied the message
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That we're hearing in israel, that everyone hates us.
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And that say strong, faithfully,
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Boldly, with love and unapologetically.
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We love you, israel.
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We stand with you, israel.
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And that's really why i want to be here.
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Pastor, i just wanted to say thank you for that message
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That continues to reverberate all the way from this church
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To my home in israel.
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Well, we're glad you're here.
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She made the trip all the way from israel to be with us today.
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But the children were reluctant
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Whether they would be welcomed or we would be angry with them.
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That hurt my country hard.
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The children in israel would have that kind of uncertainty.
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You know, the world knows us from hollywood, in the media.
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And the
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You know, they think we all wear cowboy boots and hats,
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Or i'll meet my friends in israel
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And they say, oh, i've been everywhere in america.
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I said, where have you been?
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And they'll say, well,
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I've been to new york, miami and las vegas.
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In los angeles.
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And i'll say that one. that's it.
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That's all of america right there.
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You got the whole thing.
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So with the the current expressions
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Of anti-semitism in america, how is that heard in israel
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And how are the people responding?
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Well, when we talk about anti-semitism, pastor,
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We we all know that it's something
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Spiritual, right,
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That we could talk about
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The politics
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And we can talk about the policies
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And we can talk about the podcasters,
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And we can say going all the way back
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Throughout history, what it's in the name of.
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Why haman hated the jews, why i'm elected the jews, why
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The communists hated the jews, why the nazis hated the jews.
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And that was before israel was established.
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So today there's a new excuse of why they hate the jews.
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But i'll tell you most recently what i experienced.
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You know, in israel you can't go on vacation.
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To many places like you could in america.
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We're surrounded by syria.
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Not such a fun vacation place.
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We're surrounded by lebanon.
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Not so safe to go to. are surrounded by egypt.
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And so, for our family vacation this summer, we decided to fly
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An hour from israel to greece to get away a little bit.
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And it happened to be that we landed on the day of rage
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Against israelis.
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And so my husband and i were debating, do we go?
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Do we not go?
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My ten year old said, should i speak hebrew?
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What?
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I don't even know how to say so many words in english.
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My 16 year old was wondering
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If he should wear his kippah, his head covering my,
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19 year old, who's joining the army in six weeks,
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Said, what if they find out i'm bout to join the army
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And everyone was hesitant to go.
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And what i
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Realized, pastor, is that
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This is so clearly an ancient spiritual war
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That we're fighting today.
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Because no matter how you feel about russia, there's
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No russians who are attacked when they go abroad.
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No matter how you feel about iran,
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You couldn't be safe being an iranian.
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No matter how you feel about china,
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Chinese people are safe where they go around.
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It's only being in israeli that you're targeted,
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That it's not about israel, it's about a spiritual warfare
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That we all feel covering this land.
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And also the anti-semitism today isn't about jews.
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It's about jews and christians.
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It's about christians in the middle east being persecuted.
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It's about christians in africa being killed.
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It's about the terrorists themselves.
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That's the first we're going for the saturday people,
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And then we're going for the sunday people,
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That there are
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Shootings in synagogues and there are shootings in churches
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That first they're going for the little satan israel,
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And then they're going for the big satan america,
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That this is something that's so important to remember.
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This church right here is part of flags of fellowship,
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Which is the fellowship's project
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That we invited churches to plant israeli flags
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Because so many jews in america
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Are scared to wave the israeli flag
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That churches came and said, we want to wave it.
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We're not scared.
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We'll do it in solidarity because we see the people
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Who are burning israeli flags are burning american flags.
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The people who hate the jews hate the christians.
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They hate god.
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That's what it has to do with.
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And what i see here is, is a lesson that so deep
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Of learning from the past, you know, in the holy of holies,
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There were the set of tablets, right?
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The broken tablets and the whole tablets.
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And i think the message god
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Was trying to show us in the holy of holies was,
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If you don't remember the sins that you did,
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You can never repent.
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If you don't remember why those tablets were broken,
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You can't really keep the full tablets.
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And christians who are standing up today
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To say, i stand with israel to say
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We are in the same boat, to say, your god is my god.
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Your people are my people.
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Your land is my land.
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That's what i called the full tablets.
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Learning from the brokenness. we.
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Learning from the brokenness. we.
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So i think your work, you are so uniquely positioned
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Because you speak into the christian community
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And interact with a lot of christian leaders.
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The flags, the fellowship initiative is wonderful.
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How many churches this year
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Are going to participate in october?
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Over 1200 churches.
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Praise god.
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And what it tells me is something that, of course,
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Our dear friend charlie kirk of blessed memory,
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Something that i think he knew better than anyone.
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And we're feeling it now.
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The prophets foresaw a time.
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That the hunger will not be for bread,
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And the thirst will not be for water, but to hear the word
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Of the lord.
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In hebrew you say, laura, if la la la la
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La, least my diversion.
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And that's what the world is hungry for right now.
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And more people are looking.
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How can i connect to god?
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Nothing angry.
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God, the god who loves me
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But who told me how to live a good life.
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When we talk about israel and anti-semitism
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And judeo christian relations and values.
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This is what god told us is good for us.
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God told us, pray for the peace of jerusalem
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And you'll be blessed.
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God told us,
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Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the poor.
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And so at the fellowship we look in the scriptures and say,
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What does god want of us?
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And that's what we bring to fruition.
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The jewish people coming home from all four corners
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Of the earth.
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Do you know, since october
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7th, we've had flights almost every single day
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Bringing jews from south america, from ukraine,
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From across the former soviet union, from across the arab
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World, from france, coming home to israel.
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We're not leaving.
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We're reading the words of god, and we're saying, christians
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Are here to bring you home on the shoulders of the gentiles.
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And i think of the words in the new testament.
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Don't forget that you're grafted onto the rich olive
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Tree of israel.
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And more than.
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More than the roots need the branches.
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The branches need the roots.
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We're living in times where we need each other.
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I see the soup kitchen that was hit by a rocket.
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The fellowship soup kitchen.
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And you
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Know my mantra these past two years of running to bomb
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Shelters, being targeted, going to war zones is, lord,
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Let me turn my fear into faith.
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And when that soup kitchen was struck
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And i said, i'm going there, i'm going to figure out
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How to get meals to the people who need it,
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Because they are still going to go hungry tomorrow.
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If that soup kitchen isn't there to provide for them.
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And my staff and the israeli government,
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They said, you can't go there.
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It's less than a mile away from lebanon
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Where hezbollah terrorists are.
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There's been
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Thousands of rockets every day launched into the cities there.
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And i looked at them and i said,
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Are there people who are living there right now?
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Do they need food?
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Well, then i'm going.
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And when i went there,
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The message that i brought
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As i stood
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Outside that bombed out soup kitchen and said, tomorrow
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We're producing 5000 meals to distribute to the elderly here.
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I looked at them and i said, this isn't me.
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This isn't me.
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This is the silent majority.
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These are the christians.
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And there are millions of them
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Who are not only
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Reading the scriptures, but they're partnering with god
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To bring those words to life.
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They've never forsaken israel.
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They've never abandoned israel.
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And we are the voice on the ground
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That comes through serving
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During times of peace and during times of war,
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On behalf of christians who love israel.
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So we could talk about the anti-semitism.
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And it's a problem.
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It's a darkness that's coming over this world. but,
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Pastor, i believe that there are
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More people who stand for good than there are bad.
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I believe there's more people who stand for light
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Than darkness.
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I believe that there's
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More people who are willing to come together
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In love than to come together out of hate and light
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And bringing light.
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It's the best way and the quickest way to dispel
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The darkness.
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The darkness.
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So i'm curious, since october 7th, support
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For the fellowship and your efforts as it because,
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You know, the media is an echo chamber
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And far too often people choose clicks.
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So it's the extreme opinions that tend to get the notice.
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But has the support for the fellowship diminished?
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Has it been steady?
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Are you surviving? how are you doing?
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Well, what i have seen is that when we make ourselves
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Into a vessel, god fills it.
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And as the needs have come through, more and more
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The need for more bomb shelters, the need for more meals,
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The need for more bulletproof ambulances,
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There has been more and more christians
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Who are standing up and saying,
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I want to be part of saving lives.
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I want to be part of biblical prophecy.
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I want to be part of seeding into israel.
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I want to be part of the side
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That brings love and hope and not hatred.
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And so we've been able to provide over 3 million meals
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From our soup kitchens,
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From northern israel on the border
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With lebanon to southern israel, on the border
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With the gaza strip.
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We've been able
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To provide over one dozen bulletproof ambulances.
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We've been able to place thousands of bomb shelters.
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And, you know,
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You were talking before this
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About the resilience of the people of israel.
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And i heard what you were talking about
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When when someone's child goes to college,
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Where's the closest bomb shelter?
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And just the other day,
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I was my ten year old son, went out to go ride a bike.
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And when he went out to ride a bike, i said, shimi,
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You remember what to do if there's a siren.
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He said, of course i remember.
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I got off my bike
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And i lay on the ground and put my hands over my head.
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I said, and then what do you do?
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He said, and then i look to make sure
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I'm not in the street so a car won't, god forbid, not see me.
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I said, yeah, that's a good point.
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I said,
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And what do you do when you're laying there
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With the siren overhead?
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He said, mommy, what else would i do?
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I pray,
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And as we
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Hear the sirens, you know what i think about?
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I imagine it a shofar, a ram's horn,
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I imagine, had a spiritual awakening,
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A reminder to pray, a reminder that he
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Essential messages throughout the guardian of israel
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Neither slumbers nor sleeps.
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And as i'm able to run into my bomb shelter,
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I always think of finding shelter in his wings
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In the shadow of his wings.
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That our goal today, in such turbulent
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Times, has to be to turn fear into faith,
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To turn the hardships into light.
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And so the fellowship has built trauma centers
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In every single northern and southern israel city,
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Because we need that resilience to stay.
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But we don't call them trauma centers.
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We call them resilience centers,
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Because if you're focused on trauma,
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You're going to feel trauma.
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And if you're focused
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On resilience, you're going to feel resilient.
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And so what we want is that we might have had 35,000
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Rockets launched at israel in the past year and a half.
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We did.
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But you know what?
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In those moments where there are no sirens blaring,
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In those moments where we're not in our bomb shelters,
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Let us worship god with love,
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With hope, with faith, and with resiliency.
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And that's what the fellowship brings.
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And we're distributing, best to the first responders.
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During the 12 day iran war, the fellowship distributed
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Not approved, distributed over $2.5 million of aid
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On behalf of christians in america who were saving lives,
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Who were the guardian of israel, that neither slumbers
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Nor sleeps, who were there to see
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Me. comfort, comfort my people.
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And i remember
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Getting to the side of one of the worst attacks in bat yam,
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A very poor town right by tel aviv.
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And the fellowship staff
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And volunteers, we got there before the first responders,
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And we're on the ground as it was shaking
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And the sirens were blaring and a huge missile hit.
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We got there right after that.
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It destroyed four buildings.
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And as the heroic first responders were coming,
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The ground was still shaking,
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The rockets were still falling, the sirens were still blaring,
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And we were there
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Distributing bulletproof vests and helmets to them, saying,
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Thank you for being here to save lives.
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Thank you for being here to save lives.
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And somebody came to me and said, know
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There's a 92 year old holocaust survivor,
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A woman who fell on the way, running to her shelter.
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She doesn't have family. she has no way to get help.
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Could you help her?
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And within ten minutes, i had a food box
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And prepared meals. and we went to zelda's house.
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And there was no knocking on the door
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Because the door was broken
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From the impact of the rocket, and there were no rocket.
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There were no windows from the rocket attack.
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And i went inside and i said, zelda,
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And i
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See this 92 year old woman laying in bed.
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Her legs are full of sores.
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She has cuts all over her body.
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She can barely talk, but she looked up to me and said,
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How did you find me?
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And i looked at her and i said, i didn't.
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This is christians in america who have never forgotten you,
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Who are praying for you.
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And this is what they wanted sent you.
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This food, this food box, this meal.
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And she started crying
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And she said, yeah, oh, this isn't just saving my body.
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If i die tomorrow, i'll die happy knowing
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That i was not forgotten.
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And that's the message that you are sending
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Every single day as you pray here with your mouth
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And as you pray with your hands and your feet.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Here's a few thousand people on campus,
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But many more than that are going to see this.
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What would you like the american community in particular?
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The american christian community, to know about israel
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Today?
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Well, well, i always carry around this quote
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With me is from pastor bonhoeffer.
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And he said, being
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A follower of god is less about consciously avoiding
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Sin than about courageously and actively doing his will.
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This piece of paper is come with me around the world
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Because it's something i hope to live by.
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We live in a world where
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We're so tempted for easy spirituality.
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We're so tempted to go with what's hip, what's cool
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With what won't cause us issues, won't make us stand out.
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But god is very clear in his word.
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The story of israel isn't about politics.
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It's not about politicians.
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It's not about policy.
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It's about god's word.
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It's about god's word continuing to unfold.
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It's about god's will being done.
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It's about the words of our prophets that are coming alive.
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It's about a nation that's been reconnected despite all odds.
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The fellowship now is bringing home jewish people
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From the lost tribes of manasseh in india
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And dan in ethiopia.
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That's the story of israel.
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The story of israel is one of hope and faith of my daughter.
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She's going to the army in six weeks.
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May god
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Bless her and watch over her.
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And after october 7th, i looked at her and i said,
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My love, you could go and do volunteering at the hospitals
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Or with children,
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Which is very meaningful and impactful and needed.
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Maybe you'll reconsider if you want to join the army.
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And she looked at me like i was crazy.
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She said, mommy, the future of the only jewish
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Homeland in the entire world is on my shoulders.
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I'm the child.
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I'm the grandchild of a holocaust survivor
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Whose entire family was killed by the nazis.
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I'm the grandchild
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Of somebody who lost everyone.
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And the number of jews to date is still not the number of jews
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That there was before the holocaust, 80 years ago.
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Before the holocaust, there were 16.6 million jews globally.
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Today, there's not even 16 million.
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She looked at me.
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She said, i'm not going to defend the only land we have.
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And to me, that's the story of israel.
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The story of israel is when one of her closest friends
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From childhood, yishai, got killed in this war.
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20 years
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Old, he was married just two months before.
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And we went to the funeral
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And there were thousands of
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People there waving israeli flags and fellowship.
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Ambulances were there because it was such a hot day.
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People were passing out.
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We were treating them.
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And his widow got up and she said,
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This is a day that i have dreaded
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From the time that i got married.
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Everyone, someone they love, god forbid we should never know.
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Standing at their funeral.
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She said, but i told god, i promise god, if it ever happened
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That i would be standing up here
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Burying my beloved, i would open the funeral
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By saying, miss moore, let her die.
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Psalms of thanksgiving.
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And she said, i ask all of you right now
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To say psalms of thanksgiving, precise life for this country.
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And despite
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All the pain, to know that god is still in the story,
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And thousands of people together
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Said psalms of thanksgiving, i wish that was on the news.
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Amen.
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Thank you for traveling back to tennessee,
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And for reminding us that good will triumph over evil.
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And thank you for your hard work with the fellowship.
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Amen.
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And thank you for praying for the peace of jerusalem.
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We pray for you.
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Bless you.
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