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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: International Fellowship of Christians and Jews | Alen Jackson Now | April 7, 2025

Well, welcome to our program.
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Obviously, i'm not in nashville today on our normal set.
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We are at the national
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Religious broadcasters gathering in dallas.
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But i'm delighted to be with y'all
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And the international fellowship of christian and jews.
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It's good to be with you again.
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It is always such an honor to spend any time with you
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And to glean from your wisdom and inspiration.
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I don't know about the wisdom, but we were here
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Just a few moments ago celebrating,
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The christian zionist and their support for the land of israel.
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Can you tell us just a little bit about that?
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Sure.
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Well, first of all, this is my first time
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Here at the nrb, and so i am blown away by this gathering
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How much christian media there is in the world.
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Who knew?
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And the most incredible people that i meeting
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From all different walks of life,
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Even all different countries.
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So it is such a blessing to be here and see another side
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Of this christian support for israel.
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And what we see is that there are millions.
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I've heard the number
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Of 700 million christians around the world
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Who stand with israel.
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It's it's it's only of god
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That we could have gotten to this day.
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And so what i see here,
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Just at the nrb, is that there are thousands
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Here at the nabi representing this love of christians
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For american values, for judeo christian
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Values, for creating a better future for all of us.
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And part of that future, better future for all of us
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Is standing with israel.
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And so the panel that we had here, is in partnership,
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The international fellowship of christians
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And jews,
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Together with the jerusalem post,
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That we thought it was so important,
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Especially this year, to recognize the top
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Ten christian zionist leaders. wow.
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People like you who have gone against the tide to so bravely
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And boldly and unapologetically stand with israel
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And to really be leaders
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In the christian community, they say, if you are christian,
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You have a biblical mandate to pray
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For the peace of jerusalem and to stand with israel.
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And it's not a given after
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October 7th and the rise in anti-semitism.
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So the panel that we just, had and that you were,
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An obvious choice to be honored at is honoring
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And recognizing the top ten christian zionists
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Who have stood with israel since october 7th.
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Well, it's our honor, and i think we have to meet the,
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Assertiveness of the anti-semitism
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That we saw on university campuses
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With our own voices from the heartland of america.
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And i'm encouraged because those voices are rising.
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But we have a new administration yet.
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And with that, a whole new set of attitudes towards israel.
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We have hostages being released.
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Praise god.
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Which is encouraging.
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It's a bit discouraging to see their physical condition
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And some of the horrific stories that are coming out.
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Can you talk to us?
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I know you're much closer to that than i am.
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Tell us about the families and what's happening.
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Well, i think that the first thing
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To be able to understand
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The hostage situation is to understand israeli society.
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Now, i was at your church.
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I saw the words of the scripture as he named them and said,
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How good and how pleasant it is when brethren dwell together.
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I saw that in action in your church, and i.
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The only way,
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I guess, i could describe what's happening in israel,
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What has always happened
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In israel is that but for an entire country,
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We are a country the size of new jersey,
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A tiny country
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That has been fighting for our survival
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Since the day israel was established in 1948 is true.
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And don't be confused.
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There was a jewish majority
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In jerusalem for over 100 years before 1948.
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It's not that suddenly the jews came back.
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There was always a jewish presence in israel.
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My family goes back 11 generations in jerusalem,
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And now i have four kids.
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My father was the first generation
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In 11 generations born outside of jerusalem.
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My father was born in america. i was born in america.
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Now i have four children born
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In the mountains of jerusalem, continuing that lineage of,
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The vision of the bible.
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But to understand the hostage situation,
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You have to understand
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What this tiny country of israel represents.
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And what it represents is what your church represents.
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Brotherhood and standing together.
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When i was raised in chicago,
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I was taught don't talk to strangers.
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Now, my children, when i raised them
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When they were little,
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I taught them, if you need anything,
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You ask the person next to you.
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And when we would be at the park and one of my kids would fall,
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There would be five mothers and fathers
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Who is there helping them up before i would even get there?
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When there's a terror attack in israel,
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People run towards the terror attack
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As if they knew it was their brothers
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And sisters and mothers and fathers
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Who were in that terror attack.
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No one runs away from a terror attack.
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No one's thinking about themselves.
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They're only thinking about the others.
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So israel is a society
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Where we are all so interconnected as one family.
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And so then when you think about the invasions of october 7th,
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When you think about over 200 innocent people
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Being kidnaped from their beds
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And taken
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To the dungeons of gaza,
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When you think about how these hostages
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Who are coming home now, praise god
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That they're coming home, but how they've been abused
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And starved and held as bargaining bargaining tools
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By a terror organization,
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You realize how that touches every israeli.
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Just last week, we got back
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The bodies of the babies, the best brothers,
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One year old and three year old who who
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They weren't only kidnaped from their beds,
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They weren't only held by hamas monster.
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They were killed by being strangled by these terrorists.
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And when their bodies came back to israel,
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When i heard on the news,
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I had to pull over because i was crying so hard
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That i think what it represents, pastor allen, is
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Israel has always held on to
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Hope for peace, and we've seen that
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Come to fruition through the abraham accords.
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We've seen how there are moderate arab countries
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Who are willing to partner with israel
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For a better future for all of us,
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But we've been hoping that our neighbors in gaza,
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Our neighbors in judea
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And samaria,
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We are hoping that we could have peace with them
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In an october 7th.
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That hope was shattered,
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And even after that, we started to develop.
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Okay, maybe now they learned their lesson
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And they'll come back, and maybe now they'll be peaceful.
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Maybe now.
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And what we saw when they returned,
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The bodies of two babies
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Who were strangled to death by terrorists
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And the innocent civilians in the gaza strip.
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When when there were bodies brought to the gaza strip in
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October 7th.
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They were throwing stones at them.
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They were degrading them.
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And still a year and a half later,
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When they took
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The bodies of those babies to bring back to israel,
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All of the people of gaza came around
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And brought their babies
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To celebrate the success of killing jewish children.
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So, in short, we are so happy to get our hostages back.
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But it is a call for action.
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It's a wake up call.
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And as the international fellowship
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Of christians and jews, the only thing we can do
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Is go to these families.
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The hostages and say, you're not alone.
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We support them financially.
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We support them spiritually, emotionally,
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And we say
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We represent christians around the world who stand with you
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And will never forget your loved ones.
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And will never forget your loved ones.
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And your point about your family's heritage
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In the city of jerusalem and how long they've been there?
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The media doesn't help on this.
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You know, king david
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Made jerusalem the
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Capital of a jewish nation a thousand years bc,
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More than 1500 years before muhammad was even born.
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Jerusalem was a capital of a jewish state.
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So this notion about origins and who's been there,
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It's it's really a silly discussion. yeah.
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And i think the world
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And tragically, the christian world is very confused.
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We just don't know our history.
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But it's a such an important time that we stand together.
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I think the truth has made its way to the public square.
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Yes, because.
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Over the summer you pulled the curtain back
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And i thought when president trump,
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Made the comment that the declaration
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Really a few days ago,
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That what we've been doing in gaza for 70 years has failed,
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And we can't just rinse and repeat
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And spend a few billion dollars rebuilding it
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And then turning it back over to terrorist again.
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When he said it, there was such a clarity
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And that it's like we heard the truth.
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And we do have to change the pattern.
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That has to be a safe place for the israelis,
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A safe place for people of peace and no one else.
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Is that bringing hope to the people of the land? wow.
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Well, it's so important.
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So many things that you say always hold so much weight
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And have so much context associated with them.
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You talk about
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This was the birthplace, of course, of that,
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Where we go back to the scriptures
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And see there and that king david.
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And for a thousand years
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This was the kingdom of judea, with a small break in between.
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But you also talk about jesus was born.
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Of course, we we have the city of bethlehem,
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That when israel was ruling over bethlehem,
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It was 80% christian.
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In 1995, israel gave it to the palestinian authority
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And now go to bethlehem. excuse me. yes.
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And sit in the square. yeah. with the shopkeepers.
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Their families had been there for hundreds of years. right.
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And we drink a little turkish coffee. yes.
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And they would tell me stories about their children
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Who were studying in the states or wherever.
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And when these when the palestinians
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Took it over, they drove the christians out.
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Yeah.
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It was it's been it has not been a good transformation.
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It's under 15% christian now.
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And so we talked about jews in the middle east.
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But we have to talk about christian persecution
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In the middle east as well, to realize it's
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Not just the saturday people and the sunday people next.
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It's happening now.
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Just a few days ago, there were 70
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Christians beheaded by islamic extremists.
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And so it's so important to recognize that
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When we talk about gaza,
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When president trump says his plan for gaza,
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We have to realize this is creating a better future,
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Not just for israel, but for america,
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Not just for america,
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But for free muslims in the middle east who want peace.
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And so in the gaza strip,
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You have around 2 million palestinians.
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And what we have to remember also is that
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When there was a war in syria, the civil war in syria,
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There were around 6 million refugees.
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They were absorbed immediately by the arab world and by europe.
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With no complaint. with no.
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On the arab street, right, or from the un or from the ngos.
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No one said a word
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That they needed to be resettled in their historic homelands.
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Exactly. it was convenient for them.
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It was convenient. to invade europe. yep.
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Okay, i interrupted again.
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Yeah. no, i love this. this is conversation.
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The hebrew word for it is conversa.
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We're having a hard reset.
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That's wonderful.
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And so i think what we have to
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Recognize is trump's plan isn't very dramatic.
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What he's saying
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Is allow people to be able to move somewhere else
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If they want to. we're giving them that freedom.
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And just as the 6 million syrian refugees were able to go
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And find a new home.
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But what i want one,
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What i wonder
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And what i would like to see is all those countries
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Who care about the palestinians so much.
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Now, one of those countries
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Have opened up their borders to them.
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All of those countries who want israel to take care of
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The palestinian people in gaza
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After they invaded and killed our children
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And kidnaped our elderly
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And said that
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They're going to do it again and again and again and again.
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And then israel sends
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Humanitarian aid inside and feeds all of them,
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All of the countries who are saying
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We stand with palestine, not one of them have opened up
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Their borders to help the palestinian people.
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And so i think what we're seeing now is a recognition of
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They deserve the same treatment as everyone else,
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Which means they should have the ability
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To move somewhere else.
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And israel finally deserves peace, deserves
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Peaceful borders.
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And that's the message that i hear coming out of people
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Who recognize the threat
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And recognize that this threat is not limited to israel.
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Israel is america's boots on the ground.
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I met not too long ago with, servicemen of,
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America who are in the military,
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And they said, if israel wasn't here,
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We would have to have boots on the ground, american troops.
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True.
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And it's because israel is here defending american interests
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In the middle east that we don't have
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To have boots on the ground that we're in this together.
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And i can't stress enough
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It's very spiritual, but it's also very practical.
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Well, and when we hear the change
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Of policy coming from washington,
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It's not something radical.
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What's been radical is the policy
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That we've been implementing.
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President obama gave $300 million to build a concrete plan
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For the palestinian people.
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It doesn't take much imagination.
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We see all the tunnels in gaza
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To wonder if where the concrete has been going.
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They gave $50 billion to iran in cash,
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According to facebooks fact checkers.
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So i think it's a conservative number.
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And that policy has fueled terrorism and destruction
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And violence and murder and hatred.
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It isn't working.
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It hasn't brought peace or prosperity
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To the palestinian people or to the gaza strip.
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And so it's time for a new plan.
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And i think when we see a response
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To the iranian nuclear ambition, what i think
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Which i think is coming soon,
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Understand that's
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Really an act for the freedom of the iranian people.
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They're under a tyranny of the mullahs
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And don't it's an opportunity for that people.
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And the israelis,
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With your responses to hezbollah in the north,
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Is really an expression
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For freedom for people who have been under tyranny.
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And the world's got to we have to make a change.
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And president
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Trump has the courage,
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And i pray we're going to stand with you this time
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And bringing peaceful conditions for your children
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And the generation that follow them.
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Amen, amen.
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Something we've been saying even before october 7th is
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The israelis say
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The whole western world is screaming free gaza.
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And they're right.
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They're just missing two words free gaza from hamas.
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And i think that you are so spot on, pastoral.
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And when you say that it's the
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Civilians who are being held hostage by these terror groups,
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And we're seeing it from iran to lebanon, with with hezbollah
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To yemen, with the houthis, to every single place.
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We see that there is terror.
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What we should want to do is to free the individuals.
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And so i think a strong america means a strong world.
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And a strong partnership between israel and america
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Means hope for so many people who are right now oppressed.
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And what we can do at the fellowship is simply amplify
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The voice of christians and americans who feel this way.
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Because what we've seen is that the pendulum has shifted.
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It moves back and forth and back and forth.
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And right now we have such a strong voice
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For israel, of support, of encouragement,
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Of recognizing these threats and pledging that israel
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And america will stand together to counter these threats.
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But i think if there's one thing we've learned
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Is that we can't rely on our governments to be our voice.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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You. i promise you, you're not alone.
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Amen.
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And the mainstream media have made themselves irrelevant.
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Yeah, and that's becoming more clear with every passing day.
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That's why we do programs like this.
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I'm sure some of the people listening to us
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Are not familiar with the international
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Fellowship of christians and jews.
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I love the very practical expressions
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Of love and mercy that you show to the people of the land.
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For americans, they don't understand
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Why you need a bomb shelter next to a playground.
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Yeah.
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Explain a little bit about how you serve the people of the land
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And the bridge that's building between our communities.
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Well, the international fellowship
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Of christians
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And jews is an organization that's over 40 years old.
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And it was started by my father, i feel, in a blessed memory.
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And his goal was to create a tangible partnership
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That we can stand shoulder to shoulder always,
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And especially when one of us is down.
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The fellowship has stood with persecuted
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Christians in the middle east.
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When they were persecuted
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In iraq and afghanistan, they had escaped to jordan.
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We were in jordan helping those persecuted christians.
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And on a regular basis.
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What we do is we help.
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We look at the scriptures and we see
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Where does god call us to be?
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And it says very clearly
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That the jewish people should come home to israel,
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The ingathering of the jewish people.
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We've been bringing jewish
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People home to israel from all four corners of the earth
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Almost every single day for over 35 years.
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And since october 7th, almost every day
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We've had aliyah flights landing in israel
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That they are leaving ukraine, leaving ethiopia, leaving
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France, leaving south america and coming to israel,
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Even under threat, even as israel's in war,
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Because they say, this is my biblical homeland.
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We look at the scriptures
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And the scriptures say to feed the hungry.
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So since october 7th, we've distributed over 3 million meals
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From our soup kitchens alone to people in israel.
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I remember getting a call that one of our soup kitchens on
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The border with lebanon was hit by a rocket, and immediately
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I went up to carry out shmona to that town.
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And i went up on the roof
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Of the bomb shelter
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And looked at the whole going through and
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Held the shards of the rockets, and i said,
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I don't care what's happening tomorrow.
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We are producing the same amount of meals as we did yesterday,
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And within 24 hours, every single elderly
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Who is relying on us in that rocket
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Bombarded city got their meal.
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And so that's our pledge.
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Whether it's corona or whether it's rockets,
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Whether it's ballistic
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Missiles from yemen, whether it's an onslaught
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Of rockets and drones and missiles from iran.
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Throughout all of those attacks and crisises,
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The fellowship was on the ground in israel, serving the jewish
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People with basic life saving knees and saying,
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This is an act of love on behalf of christians
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Who will forever stand with you.
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That is an amazing day.
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I've been in israel a lot.
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Yeah, and what you do is such an amazing expression
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Of love and compassion and grace.
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Thank you for. that.
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Thank you, pastor allen.
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Thank you, pastor allen.
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Well, you
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And the ifc, i thank you for what you're doing.
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You were such a note of encouragement to us.
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And a light in our world, not just in the land of israel.
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Thank you, pastor al.
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And i know you've been in israel
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As rockets were falling
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After october 7th when everyone else canceled, you
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And your incredible wife said, we are going there now.
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And when i saw you, i said, are you scared? are you worried?
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You said, scared.
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I'm planning my next trip to bring my church.
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It's heroes like you that we need
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And that we are so honored to partner with.
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So i pray god gives you health and strength
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And wisdom and faith and support to continue your holy mission.
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Thank you.
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Then i want to talk to my friends at home
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For just one moment.
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We've got to go,
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And we hear about the courage of the israelis and standing up
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In the face of evil and helping one another.
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We've been cowards.
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We've been afraid we'd be called a name
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Where someone would say something about us,
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Or we would be canceled. in a social media.
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We're going to have to have the boldness to tell the truth
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About the land of israel, about the jewish people,
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About what god is doing in the earth.
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Let's not celebrate the courage of others.
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Let's decide to be courageous with the sphere of influence
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That god has given to us,
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And we will stand with our brothers
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And sisters in the land
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And we will see the blessings of god in a new way.
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Allen Jackson: International Fellowship of Christians and Jews | Alen Jackson Now

April 7, 2025 | 19:56

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