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Boots on the Ground | Iran Staggers Gaza Cracks | Boots on the Ground | July 3, 2025

In parallel to the negotiations for a deal to
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End the war in gaza, the idf end the war in gaza, the idi
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End the war in gaza, the ids end the war in gaza, the ids
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Stepping up the pace of operations and will tell you
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About the force deployment and the tasks that remain for the
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Idf in the gaza strip to start with, after less than a month
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Away from the front, the vision 99 has returned to operate in
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Gaza. the idf is also preparing for a siege on hamas terrorists
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And for a possible ceasefire, as these are the decisions that
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Were made in the israeli cabinet. elsewhere, gazan
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Revealed that hamas shoots at residents and spreads false
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Footage. welcome to boots on the ground. i'm your host, yair
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Pinto. and together with matti shoshani, we bring you all the
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Truth about what is happening in israel. the vision 98 has
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Launched a new operation in gaza city, alongside the vision 162.
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Before the ground entry, the air force eliminated dozens of
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Terrorists and already about i'm your announcer terror targets
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Have been struck, including from the sea. the idf estimates that
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Within a week or two, the goals of operation gideon's chariots
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Will be achieved. yet security officials are pressing the
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Political echelon to decide between the options of advance
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To a full conquest of the gaza strip, or withdrawalfavor of
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A hostage deal. hovering over these discussions is the fact
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That since the end of the ceasefire, 31 soldiers have
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Fallen in battle. prime minister benjamin netanyahu, contrary to
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The idf chief of staff's stance, prefers to reach a hostage deal
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First. after the american outline was rejected, a new
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Qatari proposal has been placed on the table to release ten
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Hostages and the remains of 18 who have died in captivity. tbn,
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Israel's senior middle east analyst matti shoshani, will
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Bring us information on why netanyahu is heading for a
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Decisive visit to washington. president trump, who will meet
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Him on monday, said i will be very tough with him about ending
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The war. the two leaders will coordinate enforcement policy to
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Prevent the renewal of iran's nuclear program, and will
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Discuss the region's futurafterd
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Elsewhere, united states ambassador mike huckabee
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Proposed from jerusalem. maybe the b-2 bombers should visit
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Yemen. the houthis in yemen after another houthi missile was
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Intercepted over israel, sending hundreds of thousands back to
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The shelters. and, of course, tbn israel's director, samuel
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Smadja, will bring us an in-depth interview directly from
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Our studio in jerusalem, amir pinto and this is your boots on
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The ground report, and a 635 of the war against hamas,
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Hezbollah, the houthis in yemen, the shiite militias in iraq, and
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The terror organizations in judea and samaria. all of them
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Are taking their orders from iran's revolutionary guards
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Corps, which is the head of the axis of evil, of what's left of
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The crumbling iranian regime. guys keep mobilizing for israel,
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Break, after which we'll return with all the information on the
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Situation in the middle east.
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>> the middle east is complicated. evil thrives here
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And wears many different faces.
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>> but in the middle of it all is israel, a tiny democracy
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Fighting for its life against extremist regimes and terrorist
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Armies that glorify death, not life.
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>> and yet somehow the world calls us the aggressor.
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>> because evil has the narrative and twisted the truth.
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>> and the west, while too often it believes the lies, because
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Comprehending such evil is hard. and when people can't understand
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It, they misplace the blame.
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>> this battle isn't just about israel. this is a threat to the
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Entire free world.
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>> because when the truth dies, freedom dies with it.
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>> so stand with israel, defend the truth, and make sure it gets
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Out to the entire world. go to ww. israel and donate now. our
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Future depends on it. thank you
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For coming back to us. and now we turn to tbn.tv, israel's
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Senior middle east analyst. marty shoshani marty. president
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Trump said that he and netanyahu should celebrate the strike in
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Iran. yet he also said he'll be tough with him about reaching a
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Deal to end the war in the gaza strip. so what's happening
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Behind the scenes?
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>> indeed, this is a fascinating time that we're living in
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Israel, and the us have beat the iranians to such a degree that
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We're now talking about reorganizing, reshuffling the
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Entire power dynamic of the middle east. in fact, president
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Trump is talking about taking everything that's happened in
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The last couple of weeks and pivoting that and pushing with
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That towards a new regional order. so here's what's been
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Happening over recent weeks. it's been fascinating. it's been
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Fast paced. it's been dramatic and historic all at the same
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Time. last week, in a swift 12 day attack, israel, with the aid
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Of the americans, brought down much of the iranian defenses and
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Much of the iranian ability to project power in the middle
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East. and the us, together with israel, is now looking to use
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That momentum to completely reshape the region that we're
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Living in. the key points that are on the table right now are
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Rebuilding a relationship with the iranians and more
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Importantly and more urgently for the people of israel.
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Rebuilding the situation in the gaza strip, reaching an
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Agreement, reaching a ceasefire. so how did we get to this place?
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How did we get to a place where, a week after we end a major
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Conflict against iran, we're now talking about reshaping power
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Dynamics, agreements and possibly another phase of the
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Abraham accords here in the middle east. well, let me tell
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You how we got to this very moment. the israeli and american
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Attack on iran, that 12 day blitz attack on the iranians. it
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Proved several points. it proved to the world that israel is able
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To stand for itself and fend for itself. it also proved that the
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Americans, both on the government level and on the
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Military level, are willing to back their words with very bold
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Actions. that's exactly what happened against the iranians.
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This is an isolated event. this is the end of a two year, almost
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Series, a year and a half long series of events that started
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With hamas. gaza continued with hezbollah, in lebanon, continued
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Wieshaping the region in syria and now the iranians. and
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Of course, in the interim period over there, there was a massive
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American strike on houthi targets in mostly northern
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Yemen. all of those attacks, all of those events together, signal
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To this region, signal to the powers that be in the world that
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Israel and specifically the us, are really willing to do what it
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Takes to reshape power balances and, more importantly, willing
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To stand up for what's right when it's needed, even if it
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Requires military action. and that's exactly what happened in
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The most decisive way possible. israel and the us stood up to
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The iranians, and now we're looking at a new situation, a
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New reality in which we can reshape the power balance in the
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Middle east. what's been interesting is that the biggest
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Peace for israel that has to be resolved is the hamas gaza
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Situation. and on that, unlike in previous times, the us is
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Completely standing behind and with israel one they floated
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Once again an agreement to which israel has agreed for a
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Ceasefire and an exchange of hostages and sort of an end to
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The war. but at the same time, us ambassador to israel mike
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Huckabee has said very clearly that he understands the equation
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Is more difficult than people perceive. and israel giving aid
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To hamas prolongs their control over the gaza strip. so for
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Once, we have this very, very strong sort of one side of the
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Aisle to the other support of israel within the us
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Administration and also a very, very large amount of pressure on
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Hamas to end the ongoing conflict. and that is good news
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For israel. that is good news for the hostages and good news
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For this region, because if we end the conflict with hamas, we
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Can move on to capitalizing on all the good that came out of
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The last year and a half, as far as projecting power for israel
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And for the us. and that good will be a season of stability, a
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Season where the forces of iran in this region are diminished
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And canceled out completely, and that brings trade agreements,
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That brings open seas for trade and economic growth, and that
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Brings a seaso peace that we didn't imagine would happen. i
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Know people love talking about peace in the middle east and
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Reshaping global order. et cetera, et cetera. and usually
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It's talked about as in something that's happening in
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The future. but let me tell you, we're living in a historic
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Season. we're living in a time where we get to capitalize on
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The bravery of israeli air force pilots and israeli soldiers, on
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The boldness of the israeli prime minister netanyahu and the
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Government beneath him, and the american president, donald
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Trump, and the people that he led in being able to take action
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In a swift and decisive way against an iranian enemy. and
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That action, that boldness, that violence, allows us now to be
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Talking about reshaping this region in a peaceful way. the
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Next weeks and the next months could be historic in a way that
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We've never seen in my lifetime. they could mean the entry of a
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New era of peace, of prosperity, and of stability in this region,
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Of rebuilding syria for the syrian people, of rebuilding
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Lebanon in a way that isn't controlled by hezbollah,
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Rebuilding the gaza strip for the people of gaza without hamas
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And taking away the nuclear threat of iran and bringing
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Stability and calm to this region that is needed it so
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Much.
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>> thank you very much, marty, for making order out of all of
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This chaos. and now we go to an emotional interview brought to
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You by tbn.tv israel's director, samuel smadja, live from
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Jerusalem, where he interviews edward graham.
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>> thank you. yeah. today we have the honor to have with us
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Edward graham. edward. thank you. thank you. thank you.
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Edward is the. maybe you tell your title.
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>> oh, i'm the chief operations officer at samaritan's purse. i
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Came to samaritan's purse about seven years ago, but dad had had
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Me spend different parts of the ministry. so i've only been the
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Ceo for really the last two years.
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>> so for us in israel, the last two years were very, very
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Critical from the beginning of the war. israel is going through
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A terrible, terrible time. and samaritan's purse and your team
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Came here to help. and my question is why?
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>> why? because we love israel. we love israel because of the
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Bible. because of his word.
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>> but you were willing to risk your people, send your people
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Here in the midst of everybody was leaving and you guys coming?
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>> well, that's what samaritan's purse does. it goes to my dad
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Will say. it goes to the fire. i was in the military. so
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Obviously we go to the sounds of the guns, we go where everyone
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Else is leaving or no one else will go. that's where
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Samaritan's purse goes, because it's like the story of the good
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Samaritan. we don't want to pass by anybody in the ditch.
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Everybody else walked around that man in the ditch. but the
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Samaritan stopped. and this is the same thing in war and
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Conflict, disease, pestilence. people will run from those
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Things. but those people that can't run, then't get away
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From it. they need our help. and that's why samaritan's purse,
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Because god has given us resources to go to the fire.
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>> and there's no doubt that you guys did a tremendous work here.
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You donated 42 ambulances, i think over over 20 were
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Bulletproof. yes. it's unbelievable. there are not too
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Many ministries around the world that stood up and came and did
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What you guys did.
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>> people always ask, how do you pick where we go? because
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There's conflict all over the world and we go to many places.
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As a kid, you know, a father would yell at you. my dad would
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Correct us, but my dad bends his finger when he talks to you, and
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We'd always tease when he pointed at you. i'd look at my
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Brother and be like, he's not pointing to me, he's pointing to
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You. but we call him bent finger opportunities. and dad says, go
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And go, love israel.
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>> you've been many years in the military. yes. you know the
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Region, you know the middle east, you know the area. can you
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Tell us a bit how do you see this whole conflict of the
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Middle east?
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>> i'm a student of the bible. i'm not an expert on scriptures
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By any means, because like you said, i was in the military. i'm
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Not. i didn't go to seminary, but i grew up studying
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Scriptures and i read the bible for myself. i believe that we're
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Living in the end times. it talks about these conflicts in
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The end times. but what i see conflict. i spent years in
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Afghanistan and iraq. i've been to syria and my military life
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Involved in counterterrorism operations. i was in special
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Operations. and so you see the evils of the world and what
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Happens. and with militant islam and what it's been doing
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Throughout the middle east, and it's like a dark cloud. and i
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Can't describe it. and i've watched things on screen. when
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You follow these evil men, you watch what they do and what
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They're a part of all day long. and then at night we have to go
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Get them. and you go into these houses and these rooms to
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Capture these men, and you feel the darkness, the evil that's
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There. and so this conflict and what happened in october just
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Two years ago, that is evil.
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>> how do you keep a sound mind and not getting into hatred and
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Bitterness?
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>> it's not easy, samuel. i had to struggle with that myself.
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But the founder of samaritan's purse, bob pierce, he started
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Another organization called world vision. one of his tenets
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Of the ministry is let your heart be pierced and broken by
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The things that break the heart of jesus christ. and what i
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Realized when i was hunting evil in my in my former life in the
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Military. i looked at these people after a while and i
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Realized jesus loves them and this breaks his heart, not what
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I was doing to them. i think good men and women need to be in
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Our armed forces. there's great men and women of great faith in
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The idf. there's great men of faith and women of faith in the
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Us military out there fighting evil, and we need that. but i
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Learned to surrender it, put it at the foot of the cross, and
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Surrender daily i struggle. sometimes i have memories. i
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Don't have whaey call ptsd, but i do have memories. and i
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Learned to surrender those and put them at the cross. but god
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Is bigger than those things. and but i also had to learn
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Forgiveness. and i realized that nothing i did in the military
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Lasted forever. death isn't permanent. what comes after
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Death is where you spend eternity. that's permanent. and
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I wanted to be part of the kingdom of jesus christ because
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That lasts forever. so i left the military and i finally said
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Yes to my father. he'd been asking for years to come help
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Him. and then i finally said yes.
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>> i think that the military was a great training for samaritan's
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Purse. the more i know about samaritan's purse is, it's like
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A huge army.
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>> yeah.
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>> it is.
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>> and you were going to conflict zones, but it is all
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About logistics and planning and preparing training. and so
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There's a lot of carryover. but i think leadership wise, i
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Learned about servant leadership in the military. i learned what
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We call in the military mission command. you give broad left and
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Right limits, but you give a task and purpose. and i don't
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Sit over their shoulder and watch them how to do it. i tell
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Them, this is what right looks like. this is what i want the
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End state to be. you guys go figure it out here. your
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Resources come back and tell me if you need more. and that's how
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A lot of runs samaritan's purse for my father. i've got an
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Incredible team. i didn't build the team. my dad did. god
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Brought this team. he assembled it. and there's so much talent.
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But they do it because they love their neighbors, and they want
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To serve in these conflict areas. and so it's an easy to
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Me. it's kind of an easy job. you just have to kind of bridle
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The racehorse and then let go of the reins and tell it to go.
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>> edward, your the son of and the grandson of. and usually
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Everybody talks about pastor's kids and things like that. can
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You tell us a bit of your testimony?
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>> yes, sir. i was at a billy graham crusade with my brothers.
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I was about five years old. we were out in california. we'd
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Been to an amusement park called knott's berry farm, and we were
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Playing with these little toy tanks, and my brothers were
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Teasing me that i was going to hell. and i guess that's what
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Graham's tease about, that you're going to hell because
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You're not a christian. so i walked in the hotel room and i
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Go, moell my brothers are wrong. and my mom looked at me,
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Goes, son, they're right. you are going to hell. and a mom of
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The year right there, you know? but my mom led me to the lord
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That day and not i was at a billy graham crusade. we were
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There, but my grandfather didn't lead me there. but it wasn't
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Until years later, and i grew up going to church, being part of
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Youth groups and studying. i never strayed from the lord, but
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It really wasn't until i went to the united states military
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Academy at west point that i. i found my first trials, and
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That's when my faith became my own. i made mistakes and i had
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To ask for forgiveness. but when that faith became my own, i
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Think that's what prepared me for combat. so it was really
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About my junior year at the military academy that i realized
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That god had called me to ministry. i thought it was in
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The military. i did it for 16 years, but it wasn't until much
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Later in combat, like i said, that i realized god had called
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Me to full time ministry here at samaritan's purse.
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>> and there are people in military, in the armed forces
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Watching us from all over the world. some of them are walking
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With the lord. some of them are going through terrible times,
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Hard times. it's very hard to raise a family when you're in
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One side of the world. your wife is in the other side of the
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World. you go through challenges. can you try to
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Encourage people or watching us?
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>> and i appreciate you giving me this opportunity. it's a
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Great question for me. i talked to you earlier about surrender
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And surrender and knowing that you're going to be a part of
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Things that are bigger than yourself, and you have to put it
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At the cross. if i've asked for forgiveness, god's forgiven me.
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I actually have to learn to forgive myself at times.
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Sometimes i held that too deep and i had. i had a hard time
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Letting go. but the biggest thing that i tell people, and
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Even if you're not a faith, you don't believe in the lord jesus
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Christ. or maybe you've strayed from it, is that. in my life,
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Growing up, even in a christian home and having great christian
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Parents. and going into combat and seeing the things that i was
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A part of, i've never really struggled with it. i've never
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Had. i maybe have what you call ptsd. i have those bad memories,
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But i don't struggle with it because it goes back to that
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Surrender. i surrender it, and surrender is a dirty word in the
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Military. it's dirty word and police force and law enforcement
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Doesn't matter. we don't like to surrender in that culture. we
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Think we can do it ourselves. we have this kind of macho bravado
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That we can shoulder it and do it. we're taught that in the
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Military just shoulder through it, work through it. and i
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Learned we're not meant to be alone. we were never meant to be
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Alone. god wants to have a relationship with us. he loved
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Us so much. he sent his only son. and when i realized that,
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And i was able to share it with my men, i call it earning the
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Knock at the door. i couldn't preach in front of my formation,
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But they could come to me and say, knock on my door and be
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Like, sir, i have a problem and i need to talk. and they would
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Come in and i could share my faith, and i'd always talk to
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Them about surrender. you've got to give it over. you can't do
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This by yourself. you. whether it's the things you've seen, the
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Things you've been a part of, your marriage, your finances,
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You give it to the lord. it's his. it's all his. so give it to
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Him.
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>> this morning we were at the dedication of an ambulance. it
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Was a family there that their son is still in, in gaza as a
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Hostage. you saw a lady that lost her husband. you saw so
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Much suffering. what's your reaction?
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>> i got to be honest. it breaks my heart. you know, we're here.
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When i was coming over here, i was flying on our memorial day
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Back in the united states. and that's where we remember our
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Service members. and i was going through my photos on my phone,
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And i was sitting there and i was going over friends that i've
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Lost from the military academy, rangers that worked underneath
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Me, soldiers that worked with me in my stryker unit in
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Afghanistan, that they died doing exactly what i told them
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To do. following my orders. i think of their families. i think
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Of their parents, their wives, their kids, and i know they hurt
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And they miss their loved ones. they go on each day while the
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Rest of us live our lives normal. and sometimes it's we
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Can easily slip and forget that there's other people that are
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Hurting and they miss their loved ones. and so hearing those
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Stories today, it made me actually think about my soldiers
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And my rangers that are no longer here themselves, but also
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Think about the torture and the horrors that some of these
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Families are still going through. and my heart does
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Break, but i ask god to surround them with his love. and this is
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Where i want the church to lift israel up in prayers. there's
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Still captives. there's so many captives, and the families don't
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Have word or they've gotten very little word. some don't know if
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Their loved ones are still alive. those broken families. we
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Need to be praying for the nation of israel and praying for
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A miracle that god delivers and brings these captives home. and
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For those that know their loved ones are not coming home, that
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They would feel the presence of god and they would know his love
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And mercy. this was not his plan, his purpose for them. this
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Is the result of evil and sin.
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>> edward, you're sitting here at the balcony of tbn. people
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Are watching you from all over the world. any message you want
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To tell people who are watching us? young people, soldiers,
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Whatever comes on your mind from jerusalem. this is your camera
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Here behind me.
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>> yeah. and i appreciate this opportunity. and what a view i
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Look right here in scripture comes alive when i look at this
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View. and you realize that jesus walked right here, but he died
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Right over there on on calvary, on the hill and the hill of
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Skulls. and i want listeners to know that god loves you and you
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May have a family member. you may have a child, someone that
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Served in the military, the armed forces, in the armed
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Forces, or that's in law enforcement. and they go through
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A lot of trials in life. but it is my prayer that they would
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Learn how to surrender. and i'm not just talking about something
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Temporary. i'm talking about something for eternal to give it
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To the lord and say, this is your life. use it as you want,
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And ths no better place for service in the military, no
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Matter what country you're serving. and whether it's here
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In israel with the idf, it's the united states somewhere
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Overseas. it is a great mission field. my grandmother, ruth
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Graham, is the one that first told me, god has brought you to
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The mission field. go make disciples of men. and there's
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Times i failed. there's a great pastor in beirut, lebanon, named
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Sammy dagger, and he said, edward, don't ever send anyone
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To the mission field. that's not bold for christ on their own
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Street, in their own community. if you're not leading your
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Family, your neighbor to christ, you're a coward and i don't want
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You. he was the first person that knew that i was going to
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Work in ministry. i was 14 years old, and maybe there was times i
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Was a coward. i was in firefights, more firefights than
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I can count. but i was a coward because i wasn't bold. i wasn't
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Leading my own family and my neighbor to christ. and so
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That's my hope and prayer for sitting here and watching. don't
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Be a coward. go change the world. the only way you can
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Change the world is sharing and preaching the gospel. it says it
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Pierces divideart like a two edged sword. that's what
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Scripture says. this world is divided. if you want to change
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It, preach the gospel.
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>> amen. edward, thank you for coming. thank you for what
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Samaritan's purse is doing in israel. please pass our love to
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All the team and to your friends. thank you for your
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Prayer and please continue to pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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And if you want to support samaritan's purse, their number
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Is on the screen. and back to you.
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>> thank you very much. this was tbn israel director samuel
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Smadja. and guys, i learned a lot. and now let's move on to
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Pray together for the peace of israel. but one second before we
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Begin, this is a short commercial break, after which
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We'll be right here. a war zone in the gaza strip, been under
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Fire by hamas terrorists. you don't have time to sit and drink
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Your coffee and wake up in the morning and get ready for the
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Day and prepare. so sometimes i woke up at two in the morning
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After an hour and a half of sleep, and you need to wake up
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Immediately and do your job and do it to perfection. or people
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Die.
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>> you literally have your life on the line. you don't know what
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Corner you turn and somebody got a gun pointed at you.
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>> so in order to wake up, i just took a pill and i really
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Felt the energy levels go up faster. the clarity of mind that
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Doesn't usually happen immediately when you wake up in
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The morning. and i don't remember taking much stuff with
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Me into the gaza strip. had my sleeping bag, a flashlight, and
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A vineyard bottle. so that's what i had with me.
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>> you're a young person. you're very healthy, but you still
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Think that vinea was helpful to get you to even a higher level
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Of performance?
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>> it's helping me to exceed my normal abilities. so let's say,
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You know, i'm at 100%. and that puts me 20. we're raising
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Three kids. you need to be sharp to make the right decisions.
00:26:35.828 --> 00:26:39.031
>> raising three kids may be equal to combat.
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>> a lot harder, a lot harder. listen, i'm still taking dinner
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Every day because i want to be there with my kids when they
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Grow old. i want to be able to dance at their wedding and carry
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My kids and my grandkids for years to come. and this is the
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Time to start. i mean, when you're young.
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Time to start. i mean, when you're young.
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Guys, thank you so much for coming back to us. and this
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Is the most important part o is the most important part f
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Is the most important part f the show, the praying together
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Because we serve an amazing god who listens to prayers. he loves
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Us, all of us in israel, in the united states, and wherever you
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Are watching this around the world, the whole reason that
00:27:25.118 --> 00:27:29.989
Israel is in the middle of the news on every country in this
00:27:29.989 --> 00:27:34.794
World is to show that god is still performing unbelievable,
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Amazing, biblical level miracles today, and he is the only reason
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That israel still exists is because god is faithful to the
00:27:44.938 --> 00:27:49.442
People of israel, and he will be faithful to each and every one
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Of you. so let's pray. but let's make it personal. let's pray for
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One hostage that is in the gaza strip to have the love of god in
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His heart. let's pray for a change of heart to the enemies
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Of israel and the enemies of america, that instead of sending
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Rockets, they will start praying for the peace of jerusalem and
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Loving on the jewish people. it's possible god can make it
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Happen. let's pray for the people of iran to have better
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Leadership during this very, very hard time. let's pray for
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Them to be strong and to be filled with god's love. let's
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Unite in prayer for the peace of jerusalem.
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