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Yael Eckstein: America, Israel, and Aid to Syrian Christians | Praise

October 6, 2025 | 55:22

Yael Eckstein, a humanitarian leader and CEO of the Fellowship, shines a light of hope and faith. From distributing aid in conflict-ridden areas to standing up against hatred and anti-Semitism, Yael's unwavering commitment to serving those in need demonstrates the power of unity and love. With a strong belief in God's guiding hand, Yael navigates through challenges and continues to spread joy, light, and blessings wherever she goes.

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Praise | Yael Eckstein: America, Israel, and Aid to Syrian Christians | Praise | October 6, 2025

>> coming up tonight on praise.
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>> when i went to kiryat shmona after our soup kitchen was hit
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By a rocket from hezbollah. it was scary to go there. the
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Rockets were still falling, and my staff and the israeli
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Government said, don't go there. are there people there who need
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Our food? are they living there in that war zone? yeah. okay,
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Well, then i'm going.
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>> tonight on praise from nashville humanitarian leader
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And president and ceo of the fellowship yael eckstein. and
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Now your host, tom newman.
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>> welcome to tonight's praise. my guest tonight is a special
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Guest and friend. she's very familiar to the tbn family.
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She's been on better together numerous times. she's been on
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Many praise shows with matt and maury and with sheila. and i
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Have the pleasure tonight of having her here with me. she
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Quotes more scripture than most of my friends. please welcome
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Yael eckstein. yael.
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>> shalom. tom, so nice to be with you here. what a blessing.
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>> and with you. there's so much going on in our world. one
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Of the things that usually happens on the praise shows or
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On better together, is you're asked a lot of questions. are
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You way in scripture on something? but something that's
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Not talked about a great deal is international fellowship of
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Christian and jews. and i wanted to spend a little bit of
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Time tonight not just having you quote some scripture or
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Join the 80s, but talk a little bit about what the fellowship's
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Doing, what its history is a little bit, and some of the
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Current projects. i think it's a great place to start.
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>> wow. well, i'm trying to hold myself back from quoting
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Scripture, but i don't think it's going to work.
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>> it's okay. roll.
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>> our audience is very familiar with scripture and i
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Think they all love that. so please feel free.
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>> well, the international fellowship of christians and
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Jews is very interconnected to scripture because my father,
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Rabbi yael eckstein of blessed memory, he started this
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Ministry because he was reading the psalms. he. had. how good
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And pleasant it is when brethren dwell together in
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Peace. and it was over 40 years ago. and he saw his brethren.
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He saw jack hayford and pat robertson, and pat boone, and
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All these leaders of the time who came and said, we pray for
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Israel, we love israel. we want to stand with israel, and we
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See the god of israel working. we want to be part of it. and
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That's continued today, of course, with matt and laurie,
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Who are heroes of israel and people like you, tom, that
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Through the international fellowship of christians and
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Jews, we are living the scriptures, feeding the hungry,
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Clothing the naked, sheltering the poor. and so wherever
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There's a crisis, i would say the international fellowship of
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Christians and jews is there to bring aid. we operate in 47
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Countries. we bring the jewish people home from all four
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Corners of the earth, just as it says in scriptures that, tom,
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I look at the words of isaiah and jeremiah, and then i look
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At the work that the fellowship is doing on the ground, helping
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The orphans and the widows, and being there to bring light and
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Hope to people's lives where they otherwise wouldn't have it.
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In the land where jesus was born and the land where jesus
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Walked, and the city that he had his his passover meal, his
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Final supper. it's something that at the fellowship we
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Believe that it's saving lives, but also saving spirits. and
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That's the biggest blessing in the world.
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>> i saw a clip with bishop lanier. he was flying in with a
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Group, i think it was from france that had just were just
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Coming back to israel. they were moving to israel. there
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Seems to be a lot of people from different parts of the
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World coming home to israel right now. is this an
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Unprecedented time where people are returning because there's
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So much i don't know what to say. discord challenges out
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There right now. what's going on?
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>> yeah, we're seeing jewish people coming home to israel,
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Just as the bible predicted from lots of countries for many
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Reasons. so they're coming home from france because they're
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Facing anti-semitism. they're coming home from the former
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Soviet union because there's war and persecution. they're
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Coming home from south america because there's extreme poverty.
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They can't even get food in the basics. but, tom, they're also
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Coming home from india because that's the lost tribe from
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Manasseh. they're coming home from ethiopia because that's
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The lost tribe of dan that we're living in, times where on
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One hand, there's extreme darkness that we all feel
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Physical darkness, spiritual darkness. there's spiritual
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Warfare and there's physical wars. but on the other hand,
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Tom, god makes his light shine even brighter in the darkness
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That from this turmoil, we're seeing his word come to
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Fruition in so many beautiful ways. and i think we could both
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Say also that we see so many christians and jews
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Rediscovering their roots, because i think we live in a
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Time right now where if you don't hold on to god, you have
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Nothing to hold on to, and more people are recognizing god is
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The answer. being connected to the spirit who's alive in each
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One of our lives is the answer. god saw us. he has a mission
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For us. and if you don't believe that these days are
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Very dark. so to see how many people are having this revival,
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Communities, countries, churches, synagogues, god's
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Word is alive, sometimes even brighter on the backdrop of
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Darkness.
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>> wow.
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>> you know, i think what's hard to keep into context is
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That the international fellowship of christian and
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Jews was active before the war in gaza happened. it was active
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In the ukraine before there was a war in the ukraine. but
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Whether there's war or whether there's peace, what you do has
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To continue and keep going. and i think most of our audience is
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Familiar with the the holocaust survivors. i mean, ifj has
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Headlined that significantly, that there are still holocaust
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Survivors, and you're still doing a great job with helping
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So many in the ukraine and in many places in the world, but
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Also in israel, those who have returned already. but but how
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Is it for you, yael, as you head this organization out? and
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It's grown significantly in these last few years, but so
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Has the need. so whether it's peace or wartime, how does how
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Does that impact you and what you with the organization has
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To do to meet the needs?
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>> yeah.
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>> tom, we are here for one reason. the fellowship and all
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Of our staff and volunteers are here to serve. and it doesn't
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Matter if it's peace or war. we have a calling to serve. we
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Were serving in ukraine before february 24th when the war
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Broke out. i was on the ground in kyiv two days before. and
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You know what? i was there not too long after, when the war in
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Ukraine broke out and every single airport in ukraine was
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Closed and there were jews who wanted to come home to israel.
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We brought them to moldova, but the moldovan airport was closed
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As well. and so we had them open it so that we can bring in
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A humanitarian plane. we brought in a plane filled with
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Humanitarian aid. it was the winter. it was cold. we brought
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In blankets and coats for babies and food for elderly and
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Medicine that they didn't have. we took off that humanitarian
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Aid from the plane, and moldova brought it into ukraine, and we
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Loaded that plane with as many jews as we could and brought
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Them home to israel. and every single day since the war began,
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We have been serving. we've been bringing food to the
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Hungry, clothes to the naked. we've been providing heat in
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The winter and helping the orphan and the widow in israel.
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Before october 7th, we were there, serving the least of
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These, and it didn't stop. on october 7th, it only
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Accelerated. and so we look at it as an obligation. but even
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More than that, we look at it as a privilege to be able to
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Look at an elderly woman in the eye who's orphaned from the
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Time she was younger because of the nazis, and she's never had
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Family, and she's never had anyone care for her. and to go
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In her final days and say, here's food from a christian
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Who loves you, to go to an orphan who's been traumatized
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From the war in israel and to bring them clothing for the
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Holidays, and they've never had new clothing before, and say,
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This is from christians who love you. there is no greater
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Way to proclaim god's goodness and love than by serving during
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Times of peace and during times of war. and that's what the
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Fellowship does.
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>> no, i think the the beauty of the judeo-christian ethic,
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You know, jesus words were the same, you know, to feed the
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Poor and hungry, you know, to look after them. and it's just
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It's just there are so many things that we focus and agree
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On. you know, i read the bible through every year and we are,
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You know, october 6th already. so but i'm still reading in the
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Old testament. so most of my bible is the same bible that we
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Share. and i just can't help but think of the things that
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Strengthen us and unite us in the cause of the way we look at
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Our world, how we take care of the poor, how we want to feed
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Those that are hungry and clothe those that are naked.
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It's it's the same things that our organizations, our
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Charities stand for. tbn does that all over the world. we
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Have so many of the people who have air time on tbn that talk
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About these same issues and how critical they are. i was
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Especially struck recently. i had a phone conversation with
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Bishop lanier, who i'm not sure of what his title is, with the
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Organization.
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>> chairman of our us.
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>> board.
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>> chairman of the us board. but i saw him in a clip that
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Was so powerful. he was standing on the border because
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He wasn't able to take his cameras where he was getting
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Ready to go. now, i called your guy, i think his name is eric,
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And i said, eric, i need to be able to show this. it's one
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Thing to talk about it. we've got to show it. watch this.
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This is ifc at work with our syrian brothers and sisters.
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>> israel's forces that have taken it upon themselves to
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Fight back jihadists so that the fellowship is taking more
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Food again and more medical supplies into syria. matter of
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Fact, the operation is so secret that we're not even
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Allowed to carry the camera that we're using now. i'm
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Taking my cell phone. the israeli defense forces are
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Willing to put their lives on the line for people who are
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Vulnerable. there are people who are trapped. no food, no
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Medicine, not even bury the dead. just minutes ago, we came
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Across the syrian border. we're standing probably in the sights
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Of someone's weapon. you are here. so these people have
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Something they haven't seen in a long time. hope. the blessing
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Is coming. the blessing is coming in a matter of moments.
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Food will be in the hands of druze and christians alike.
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>> it's funny.
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>> we just met 11 doctors who are here to treat christians
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And jews. the doctors here cannot even serve in hospitals
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Other places. it's that important that they have the
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Facility to save jews lives and christian lives. we're standing
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In the middle of a miracle. i thank you that christians and
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Jews are standing together. i thank you for the food and the
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Medical supplies that we have brought. i ask you, oh god, let
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The angels of heaven surround this people.
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>> our message.
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>> is that we will continue to love.
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>> amen, amen, amen.
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>> we will continue to give hope. we will continue to save
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Lives of our brothers and sisters, to let these druze and
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Christian communities inside of syria know they are not
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Forgotten. they shall live if we have anything to do about it.
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>> i don't know how you became aware of it, but i'd like to
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Hear a little bit of that story that the syrian christians were
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Being murdered, their churches, they had someone go in, do a
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Self explosive, you know, bomb. and it was disastrous in there.
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And the druze are being persecuted and killed. and i
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Remember the bishop talking about the significance that
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We've got to get food in there. and not only was ifc there to
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Load up the trucks and to provide the food, but the i.d.f
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Was the ones who brought it in. tell me, how in the world did
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You pull that off? how did you become aware of the situation,
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And how were you there to help these people in this time? and
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Then i saw the bishop actually talking to the people who had
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Family members who had just been murdered. so and, you know,
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That's that's not the fun part of this. the great part about
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This was ifc was there taking care of christians and druze on
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The ground, and they were bringing supplies from israel,
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Protected by the idf, to get that food supply in. tell me,
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How did how did that happen?
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>> well.
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>> tom, this is not a one way street. this is a fellowship.
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This is jews and christians standing together. and many
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People don't know about it. but christians are being persecuted
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Across the middle east. the population in bethlehem used to
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Be over 80% christian when israel was in charge, and now
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It's at under 10%. we see in syria, in lebanon, in iraq,
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Across the middle east and in africa, almost every single day
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There are christians being killed and targeted and
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Persecuted and murdered. and syria's right over israel's
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Border. we can't turn a blind eye. and so inside of israel,
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The fellowship has always helped christians. we built a
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Hospital in nazareth. we provide food boxes for
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Christmas. we're there for the christian community in israel,
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Just like we're there for the jewish community. and when i
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Saw what was happening right over israel's border in syria,
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I didn't know how it would be done, tom. but i said, we need
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To be there now to help them. and like, i love the story of
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Joshua, right where he looks up at the sky and he tells the sun
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To stop.
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>> yeah.
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>> that takes some serious. that's audacity. right?
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>> that's pretty bold.
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>> and sometimes i think about it. i use that as an
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Inspiration for me so often because i think about joshua.
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No, the sun was going to stop. he just knew he had no other
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Choice and he had to trust in god. and so he demanded
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Something. and you know what? god obeyed because his faith
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Was so strong that i said, i don't know how we're going to
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Get into syria to deliver aid to the christians, but that is
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What the fellowship's going to do. we saw, of course, the
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Assad government get overtaken. we saw a new syrian regime come
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In. we still don't know exactly what's going to be in syria,
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But we know that in january, there were over 1000 christians
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Who were killed, many of them in their churches, others in
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Their home. and they reached out to us. they said, we don't
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Have a medical clinic, we don't have any medicine. we don't
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Have any way to get aid. people that could be treated, some of
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Them with even antibiotics, would die because they didn't
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Have that. and we don't have food. we're cut off. and so the
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Fellowship turned to the i.d.f to the israeli defense forces,
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And we said, we'll provide the aid.
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>> how did you bring it in?
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>> that's got to be a story.
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>> hello? yeah. no. who do you call? you know.
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>> well, the fellowship is the largest philanthropic
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Organization on the ground in israel, and we don't get
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Involved in policy or anything like that.
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>> listen, i want to say something there.
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>> yeah.
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>> before i really knew you.
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>> yeah.
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>> and we're kind of checking. who are these guys? what do
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They do? and i have some friends in israel and was
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Calling around and samuel samaha, which everyone's.
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>> familiar with, you.
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>> and maddie and these guys who work with tbn frequently.
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And i said, who are these guys? what are they saying? well,
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Listen, when covid hit this country, the israeli government
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Asked if cj, who was so good at handling things at such an
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Economical value that they were the ones chosen to give the aid
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To israelis through the covid calamity. so i went, okay. if
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The jewish leadership trusts them at that level, you guys
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Are doing amazing work. so that's. that's that was a real
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Compliment.
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>> thank you. well, we believe that we have to work as
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Efficiently and effectively and cost effectively as possible,
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Using volunteers, using infrastructure on the ground
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That already exists. and so we've built life saving
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Projects on october 7th and almost every single day since.
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During covid, when there's a crisis that everyone else is
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Paralyzed, we look at it as our obligation and privilege to be
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Able to move in and save lives. and that's exactly what we did
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In syria. and so we built projects. we build projects.
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That's what we do. the fellowship builds projects. we
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Started the first national food program in israel that now
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There are around 50,000 families getting food from the
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Israeli government, because the fellowship built that project.
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We've built projects for children in orphanages. we've
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Built projects for battered women to get the help that they
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Need. we've built projects and then we give it to the
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Government, because what i realize is the government's
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Responsible, tom, what we're doing is charity. what we're
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Doing is taking very often the widow's mite to be able to give
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A meal, give a food box, $25 to bring a food box or or a soup
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Kitchen that's able to feed lots of people who need it. but
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We're not the government, but we are very effective in how we
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Distribute aid, because we make sure every single dollar goes
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To the right place. and so we're able to do that for the
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Government. so in syria, we've set up two medical clinics.
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We've provided emergency medical aid, everything from
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Antibiotics to anesthesia to medicine for all different
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Types of heart diseases that saving lives. and we've
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Distributed over 1500 food boxes to the christians in
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Syria. we need to stand together, tom. we need to stand
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Together.
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>> yeah. you know, i had a i had a few friends in hollywood,
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And one of them gave me a pitch once that talked about, you
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Know, when the twin towers fell. he said, the story we want to
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Tell is not the people who were running from the towers. it was
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The story of those who were running towards them. and they
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Saw that ifc is one of those organizations that run towards
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The disaster, towards the calamity, while so many others
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Run and flee. and i think i think that's important to note
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That.
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>> wow, it hits me so, so strong because it's something
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That i feel my own personal mission to be there on the
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Ground, because i have to lead this ministry. i have to see it
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Firsthand. and so i've put myself in many war zones and
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Many situations that have been scary. and my motto is always
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My job. and my mission is to turn fear into faith. and when
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I go out there, i'm able to bring faith and hope to people
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Who are suffering there with fear. so when i went to kiryat
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Shmona after our soup kitchen was hit by a rocket from
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Hezbollah, it was scary to go there. the rockets were still
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Falling and my staff and the israeli government said, don't
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Go there. and i said, well, are there people there who need our
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Food? yeah. are they living there in that war zone just a
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Mile away from lebanon, where there's thousands of rockets
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Being shot into their cities? yeah. okay. well, then i'm
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Going and and it's something that is a calling and a mission.
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And during the iraq war, when there were huge ballistic
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Missiles being shot into israel and one missile hit in a town
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Called bat-yam, a very poor town near tel aviv, and it
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Knocked down four buildings. and immediately the missiles
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Were still falling. i went with our volunteers and our staff to
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Distribute aid and the ground was shaking. tom. the ground
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Was shaking. there were no shelters there, and we got
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There before a lot of the first responders, and we were there
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As the rockets were falling to give them bulletproof vests and
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Helmets, because they were putting themselves in danger in
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Order to look for those bodies, the people that were buried
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Under the rubble. and so we distributed the flak jackets
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And helmets to the heroic first responders who were going in.
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And then we went in and delivered food to the elderly
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That were in the near vicinity. and for two miles, every single
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Window was broken. and i heard about this woman, zelda, 92
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Years old holocaust survivor, has no family.
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>> that's my granddaughter's name.
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>> wow.
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>> zelda.
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>> wow. well, zelda, all of her family was killed in the
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Holocaust. she was running to the running for her. she's 92
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Years old to the shelter when the rockets were falling, and
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She fell. and she was bedridden. nobody was able to bring her
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Any help. and i went to zelda and she was in her bed. she had
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Sores all over her legs, all over her arms. she was frail.
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And she said, how did you find me? i said, god hasn't
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Forgotten you, zelda, and neither have millions of
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Christians around the world. and there's rockets falling and
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Her windows are broken and she's laying in bed. she
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Started crying. she said, if i die tomorrow, i'll die happy,
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Because i'll know that i wasn't forgotten. that that's what we
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Do. we go in to war zones to serve. and you know what, tom?
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During that iran war and every single day of the war, since
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October 7th in israel, we continue to have rescue flights.
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We continue to have aliyah flights. israel is the only
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Country, i think, that it's in the middle of the war, and you
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Have rescue flights from other places bringing them to the war
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Zone because they just want to be home. they just want to be
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In the holy land. they just want to be part of the story.
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Because what we see through this story is that god's story
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Is still unfolding, that god's word is still alive, that god's
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Scriptures are not something of the past. it's something we're
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Living and feeling and taking part in every single day.
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>> it's alive and active and sharper than any two edged
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Sword, is.
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>> what we would say that.
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>> yes.
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>> well, yeah, we we really met when governor huckabee at the
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Time. now, ambassador huckabee had you on as a guest. and we
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We talked a little bit after that, and me and governor
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Huckabee talked. i was producing his daily show here
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For tbn, and we had such a good, immediate connection. and he,
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As you know, loved israel and loves israel and stands in the
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Middle of all things israel.
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>> yes.
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>> right now. and i remember as we got to know each other and
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Got to see that the good the fellowship was doing and began
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To share. and i introduce you to matt and laurie and, you
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Know, kind of the rest is history, as they would say. you
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Know, it was just interesting to watch the governor who went
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From someone who you were a guest to become an actual
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Spokesperson for the international fellowship of
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Christian jews. and i'll never forget. right after trump was
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Reelected as president, it was three days, maybe four days
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Later, i got a call from governor huckabee, and he and
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We had just lined up the next couple of years, we were
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Actually going to do a lot more on his weekend show, which is
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The saturday night and sunday night show on tbn at night. and
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We were all all was set. we had our sponsors already. we had a
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Great guest lined up. we were bringing in some really, really
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Exciting new musical guests. and he calls me and he goes,
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Tom, i've got a real wrench here that i'm throwing in the
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Gear box.
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>> and i said.
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>> that's all right. we can we can overcome it. tell me what
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We got. he goes, i got the one call that i couldn't say no to.
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I said, what are you talking about? and he says, well, i got
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A call from the president. and i said, what? he said, yeah, i
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Got a call from president trump. and he asked me the one thing i
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Couldn't say no to. he asked me to be the ambassador to israel.
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Wow, tom, i've been prepared my whole life for this job. and i
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Remember thinking, wait a minute, i've got a pretty big
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Staff who's doing all this. come. you know, we're already
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Down the road. what do you what do you mean? and i said you
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Said yes, didn't he? he said, yeah. i didn't have a long time
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To think.
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>> about it.
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>> he said he wanted to go to the press.
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>> pretty quick with that.
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>> and i said, so you said yes. he says yes. and i said, well,
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How long do we have gov. and he said, not long. he said, once
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I'm confirmed, no more tv.
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>> wow.
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>> no, that all that was shut down. and i remember just
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Processing with him for a long time. and then we took a moment
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And we took a couple of days to pray, and i called him and i
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Said, governor, who can we put in your chair? who would
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Represent israel? who would be the person that would carry the
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News and basically carry an audience? because he was very
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Popular?
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>> yeah.
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>> tbn family loved governor huckabee. he said, where are we
00:27:40.402 --> 00:27:43.138
Going to go here? and we both agreed it was charlie kirk.
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This is still very raw. i think, to all of us, after the
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Memorial and seeing his amazing wife erica, step up. but i want
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To show just a clip real quick of the handoff from governor
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Now ambassador huckabee to charlie kirk. i think it was
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Very precious moment.
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>> yeah.
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>> just watch.
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>> good evening. charlie kirk here. for many of you tuning in,
00:28:15.170 --> 00:28:18.606
I'm a new face, but you're used to seeing my guest today,
00:28:18.606 --> 00:28:21.910
Governor mike huckabee, host of huckabee today for the last six
00:28:21.910 --> 00:28:25.280
Months, he's brought his tv audience a clear moral compass
00:28:25.280 --> 00:28:28.283
To the biggest issues facing our country. but tonight marks
00:28:28.283 --> 00:28:32.187
A new chapter. governor huckabee has been tapped for an
00:28:32.187 --> 00:28:35.690
Incredible role. he has been nominated to be the next us
00:28:35.690 --> 00:28:38.293
Ambassador to israel. how amazing is that? so he's come
00:28:38.293 --> 00:28:41.362
To our home studio here in phoenix, arizona, you could say,
00:28:41.362 --> 00:28:45.066
To pass the baton because i'll be taking over his spot here on
00:28:45.066 --> 00:28:48.503
Tbn. governor huckabee, welcome to the very first episode of my
00:28:48.503 --> 00:28:52.307
New daily tv program, charlie kirk today.
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>> well, the only reason i'm willing to pass it off is
00:28:54.342 --> 00:28:57.445
Because i have to, you know, they don't let me have a side
00:28:57.445 --> 00:29:01.349
Hustle. if i do get confirmed by the senate and go to israel
00:29:01.349 --> 00:29:04.586
As ambassador. but honestly, charlie, i cannot think of
00:29:04.586 --> 00:29:08.089
Anyone in the entire world that i'm more excited about taking
00:29:08.089 --> 00:29:12.560
This on and being there for the people across the country and
00:29:12.560 --> 00:29:16.197
For that matter, across the world, because your message has
00:29:16.197 --> 00:29:21.069
Been so clear. it has been such an amazing thing to watch
00:29:21.069 --> 00:29:24.472
Turning point, and i just marvel at at the whole thing,
00:29:24.472 --> 00:29:28.977
Quite frankly, the viewers, they're in for a treat, and
00:29:28.977 --> 00:29:33.381
Their evening television viewing is about to get a whole
00:29:33.381 --> 00:29:36.384
Lot better than it was with me.
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>> well, thank you. and that means a lot, governor. and soon
00:29:38.520 --> 00:29:41.389
To be ambassador designate. we hope. and i've been watching
00:29:41.389 --> 00:29:44.125
You for years and coming on your program for years. and so
00:29:44.125 --> 00:29:46.995
It's a great honor, but very, very big shoes to fill. i will
00:29:46.995 --> 00:29:50.331
Never fill them completely. but and i love tbn and can't wait
00:29:50.331 --> 00:29:53.168
To reach this audience.
00:29:53.168 --> 00:29:54.702
>> so that was an amazing handoff. and charlie was filled
00:29:54.702 --> 00:29:58.339
With so much life, so much determination. and he brought
00:29:58.339 --> 00:30:03.511
So much life to so many. and he stood with us. and i remember
00:30:03.511 --> 00:30:09.918
Yael, it was just maybe just about two months ago. we spent
00:30:09.918 --> 00:30:15.123
We were with charlie in his offices there in scottsdale. we
00:30:15.123 --> 00:30:19.027
Had an amazing time.
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>> yeah.
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>> just sharing what god was doing. but charlie also brought
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Up some concerns about some anti-semitism that was rising
00:30:25.333 --> 00:30:29.571
And how younger americans weren't sure about the state of
00:30:29.571 --> 00:30:34.242
Israel, how they needed to be assured. and we had to
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Basically look at this and understand there's so much
00:30:37.345 --> 00:30:39.347
Propaganda out there. but yet charlie stood up. tell us a
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Little bit about that time when we were with charlie l, what it
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Meant to you and the things that charlie said that day.
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>> wow. well, first of all, i just want to. notice and shine
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A light on the fact, tom, that you are drawn to the people who
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Are connected to god, that you have eyes that see and ears
00:30:58.967 --> 00:31:03.972
That hear. and just the first second i saw you, i said, this
00:31:03.972 --> 00:31:09.210
Is a man that's connected to god. and when i hear what
00:31:09.210 --> 00:31:13.114
You've done with ambassador huckabee and with charlie kirk
00:31:13.114 --> 00:31:16.384
Of blessed memory and so many people that you've touched, i
00:31:16.384 --> 00:31:21.322
Feel like you have this special spirit that just lifts people
00:31:21.322 --> 00:31:24.392
Up and that you strengthen people. and i know i feel that
00:31:24.392 --> 00:31:28.496
I feel held up and strengthened by you. so first of all, thank
00:31:28.496 --> 00:31:31.132
You. thank you for everything you do for for the kingdom and
00:31:31.132 --> 00:31:34.502
For the world and for the spirit and for each one of us.
00:31:34.502 --> 00:31:38.273
The meeting with charlie kirk was one i will never forget.
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And i would say that even before he was brutally
00:31:42.410 --> 00:31:46.447
Assassinated, it was a life changing meeting for me. we
00:31:46.447 --> 00:31:51.219
Went to arizona. i was planning on being on his show. they said,
00:31:51.219 --> 00:31:54.255
Okay, you could have five minutes with him before the
00:31:54.255 --> 00:31:57.358
Show. i said, okay, i'll take what i can get. and he walked
00:31:57.358 --> 00:32:00.428
In and immediately we connected. immediately we connected.
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>> beautiful.
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>> we went two hours.
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>> didn't we? we went almost two hours. and i remember
00:32:06.567 --> 00:32:09.203
Someone came in and said, you know, charlie, you have a
00:32:09.203 --> 00:32:11.205
Schedule. he said, i control my schedule. i'm sitting with you.
00:32:11.205 --> 00:32:15.276
L yeah. and what he said there, some of which i feel
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Comfortable sharing and some of which i feel like is sacred and
00:32:19.347 --> 00:32:22.317
I'll hold in my heart forever, are things that have awakened
00:32:22.317 --> 00:32:26.921
My spirit to the reality that we're facing, both to the
00:32:26.921 --> 00:32:32.193
Beauty of what's happening right now, and the brotherhood
00:32:32.193 --> 00:32:36.531
And the unity, and also of the need for us to get out from
00:32:36.531 --> 00:32:41.402
Behind our screens and to interact. that's what stood out
00:32:41.402 --> 00:32:45.340
To me so much. charlie went to israel twice. he loved israel.
00:32:45.340 --> 00:32:50.244
It changed his life. and what we always spoke about was how
00:32:50.244 --> 00:32:53.247
Israel is the land of the spirit. israel is the land of
00:32:53.247 --> 00:32:56.117
The bible. politics. okay, it's a necessary evil if you ask me.
00:32:56.117 --> 00:33:01.022
But that's not what israel is about. israel is different
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Because it's the land of the scriptures.
00:33:04.826 --> 00:33:07.161
>> charlie said so many times, this is where the book comes
00:33:07.161 --> 00:33:10.131
Alive.
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>> yes, yes.
00:33:10.531 --> 00:33:11.799
>> yes, yes. and and so what? i feel charlie's legacy left for
00:33:11.799 --> 00:33:18.439
Me is how much we have to give to one another. what he taught
00:33:18.439 --> 00:33:23.111
Me is something i'll take with me my entire life. and the last
00:33:23.111 --> 00:33:26.981
Text message that we have is, is saying shabbat shalom to
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Each other. him writing me shabbat shalom, because on
00:33:30.184 --> 00:33:32.487
Friday night he would turn off his phone and spend time with
00:33:32.487 --> 00:33:36.290
His family and with his faith, and with his god and with his,
00:33:36.290 --> 00:33:40.228
Without any work around him, without any distractions. and
00:33:40.228 --> 00:33:43.197
That's exactly what i've done every single shabbat sabbath of
00:33:43.197 --> 00:33:47.135
My life, that there's so much to connect to and there's so
00:33:47.135 --> 00:33:50.271
Much to learn. but the main thing, i think, is that it's
00:33:50.271 --> 00:33:54.275
Possible to find inspiration and commonalities, and we have
00:33:54.275 --> 00:33:58.346
To just get out from behind our screen and talk to one another.
00:33:58.346 --> 00:34:02.517
You know, i feel it here in america. i was on the airplane
00:34:02.517 --> 00:34:06.354
And and everyone was was so nice, but no one was looking at
00:34:06.354 --> 00:34:10.992
Each other. yeah. you sit on the airplane for hours next to
00:34:10.992 --> 00:34:14.162
Someone and like, you don't even look at them.
00:34:14.162 --> 00:34:16.464
>> and i look.
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>> people stick their earbuds.
00:34:17.165 --> 00:34:18.800
>> in, their earbuds.
00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:19.467
>> pull out.
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>> their screens.
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>> and it's like you're in a different world. and i remember
00:34:21.969 --> 00:34:24.772
Always feeling the pressure. it's interesting. i would
00:34:24.772 --> 00:34:26.074
Always try to share my faith with someone when i was riding
00:34:26.074 --> 00:34:29.377
On an airplane. that was always a big thing, and my wife and i
00:34:29.377 --> 00:34:32.613
Would do that. we'd talk about and say, well, how did you do?
00:34:32.613 --> 00:34:36.451
And he said, my wife makes friends.
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>> yes, i.
00:34:37.585 --> 00:34:38.352
>> can attest to.
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>> that all.
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>> the time.
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>> and she'll talk about them. and she just recently she flew
00:34:41.489 --> 00:34:44.025
With beside an 89 year old woman. and before they got off,
00:34:44.025 --> 00:34:47.295
They decided somehow they were connected through some scottish
00:34:47.295 --> 00:34:50.131
Heritage. she came over to our home. she had her over to the
00:34:50.131 --> 00:34:53.167
Home when she was visiting someone in tulsa, and it was
00:34:53.167 --> 00:34:56.637
Just like, but putting down the screens.
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>> yeah.
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>> even though we don't agree on everything, to be able to
00:35:00.741 --> 00:35:05.546
Disagree.
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>> yeah.
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>> in a manner that lends credibility to the beauty of
00:35:07.748 --> 00:35:14.255
God's creation. we are each created by god with a purpose
00:35:14.255 --> 00:35:18.659
For a purpose. some people aren't aware of.
00:35:18.659 --> 00:35:21.362
>> that.
00:35:21.362 --> 00:35:22.530
>> but for us to be able to share that with one another and
00:35:22.630 --> 00:35:25.199
To give a person a chance to share what they think, it's so
00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:29.937
Important we've lost, it seems, the ability to be civil when we
00:35:29.937 --> 00:35:33.741
Have a disagreement or an opinion that is not equally
00:35:33.741 --> 00:35:37.278
Shared, and it's we've got to do something differently.
00:35:37.278 --> 00:35:40.548
>> yeah.
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>> i mean, we just have to there's got to be a way that
00:35:41.716 --> 00:35:45.486
Love makes a way, and we've got to love more deeply than we
00:35:45.486 --> 00:35:48.322
Hate. we've got to care more than we want to divide. we've
00:35:48.322 --> 00:35:52.126
Got to fight for something that people have stopped fighting
00:35:52.126 --> 00:35:55.897
For.
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>> he was so strong in his beliefs. he was so strong in
00:35:57.064 --> 00:36:01.102
His convictions, yet he didn't hate anyone else. and i think
00:36:01.102 --> 00:36:05.439
That's exactly where we need to get to, you know, rabbi sacks
00:36:05.439 --> 00:36:08.509
Of blessed memory. he said, god is of no importance unless he's
00:36:08.509 --> 00:36:13.047
Of supreme importance. and we don't ask, what has god done
00:36:13.047 --> 00:36:17.351
For.
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>> me today?
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>> he doesn't mean everything.
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>> he means nothing.
00:36:20.121 --> 00:36:21.222
>> if he doesn't mean everything, he means nothing.
00:36:21.222 --> 00:36:23.124
And we have to ask ourselves, what can i do for god today?
00:36:23.124 --> 00:36:26.427
And that's it. during those hard times that we have to look
00:36:26.427 --> 00:36:29.297
And say, not say what? what's god doing for me? say, what can
00:36:29.297 --> 00:36:32.266
I do for god? and during those hard times where we want to
00:36:32.266 --> 00:36:36.304
Lose faith, to say, actually, i'm going to make my faith even
00:36:36.304 --> 00:36:39.173
Stronger. and when we see someone who's doing something
00:36:39.173 --> 00:36:41.175
That's different than us, than we're upset with because it
00:36:41.175 --> 00:36:44.212
Goes against what we believe to to try to act like god would
00:36:44.212 --> 00:36:47.381
Act, which is to love, to explain, to have fellowship, to
00:36:47.381 --> 00:36:51.319
Sit with one another.
00:36:51.319 --> 00:36:53.588
>> you know, charlie was known as a political activist, but
00:36:53.588 --> 00:36:57.258
What he really was, he brought peace, love, life, joy. that's
00:36:57.258 --> 00:37:02.296
What he brought. and he never denigrated people. he let them
00:37:02.296 --> 00:37:06.367
Share. and he said, if you disagree with me, come to the
00:37:06.367 --> 00:37:09.270
Front of the line.
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>> yeah.
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>> those are the ones he brought to the front of the
00:37:11.439 --> 00:37:14.542
Line over and over and over. and when i've watched these
00:37:14.542 --> 00:37:17.011
Tributes from south korea, the congo, 100,000 people marching
00:37:17.011 --> 00:37:20.214
In london, i am charlie kirk. it's a thing being stated, you
00:37:20.214 --> 00:37:24.385
Know, and i'm just watching this. and now i watch his
00:37:24.385 --> 00:37:27.255
Beautiful, brave wife, erica stepped into the role of ceo of
00:37:27.255 --> 00:37:32.093
Turning point. they've got so much, so much ahead of them.
00:37:32.093 --> 00:37:36.063
And i set myself in agreement with erica and with the turning
00:37:36.063 --> 00:37:40.534
Point staff that charlie's passing has only ignited a.
00:37:40.534 --> 00:37:45.072
>> fire that.
00:37:45.072 --> 00:37:46.173
>> will grow brighter and brighter because that light is
00:37:46.274 --> 00:37:49.010
The power of god, the power of jesus shining through charlie
00:37:49.010 --> 00:37:52.480
And that love. we've got to do a better job of sharing and
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:56.217
Spreading.
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>> you know what it reminds me of? tom in the temple in the
00:37:57.451 --> 00:38:00.588
Holy of holies. there were the tablets, but not just one set
00:38:00.588 --> 00:38:05.259
Of tablets. there were the broken tablets and the whole
00:38:05.259 --> 00:38:08.162
Tablets. and, you know, there are so many questions. why do
00:38:08.162 --> 00:38:12.366
You need the broken tablets? and i think it's such a strong
00:38:12.366 --> 00:38:15.503
Message from god. it's only through the brokenness that you
00:38:15.503 --> 00:38:18.339
Can get whole. if we didn't have the broken tablets, we
00:38:18.339 --> 00:38:22.143
Wouldn't have the full tablets. we have to remember our sins
00:38:22.143 --> 00:38:24.612
And remember that we can repent. we have to remember that we can
00:38:24.612 --> 00:38:28.249
Fall and remember that we can build. we have to remember that
00:38:28.249 --> 00:38:31.052
Something can be destroyed. but from the darkness, we can build
00:38:31.052 --> 00:38:34.455
Something so beautiful that this is the holy of holies.
00:38:34.455 --> 00:38:38.659
This world is god's temple.
00:38:38.659 --> 00:38:41.529
>> that's a great transition for us because just yesterday
00:38:41.529 --> 00:38:45.766
We celebrated flags of fellowship in over 1200
00:38:45.766 --> 00:38:51.672
Churches, universities.
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>> praise god.
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>> all across the united states who were brave enough.
00:38:55.643 --> 00:38:58.746
>> yes.
00:38:58.746 --> 00:38:59.847
>> in solidarity enough to put up 1200 israeli flags,
00:38:59.847 --> 00:39:04.251
Sometimes intermixed with american flags, to celebrate
00:39:04.251 --> 00:39:08.255
Not only our unity, but in remembrance of what tomorrow
00:39:08.255 --> 00:39:12.560
Represents two years tomorrow. talk about the flags of
00:39:12.560 --> 00:39:17.231
Fellowship, how that idea came and how it's spreading.
00:39:17.231 --> 00:39:20.101
>> well.
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>> because.
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>> last year we had about 500.
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>> i think.
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>> and our goal was around 50.
00:39:24.071 --> 00:39:25.339
>> yeah, i know, i know.
00:39:25.339 --> 00:39:27.375
>> that it's god is working.
00:39:27.375 --> 00:39:28.576
>> so that's a problem. you've got people like rob in your
00:39:28.576 --> 00:39:31.379
Organization who are not going to sit on 50.
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>> it's true.
00:39:33.247 --> 00:39:34.448
>> they said, we can do better than that, tom. and we you.
00:39:34.448 --> 00:39:37.284
>> know.
00:39:37.284 --> 00:39:38.519
>> we started reaching out and boy, did people jump on board.
00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:41.122
>> yes.
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>> so here we are.
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>> over 12.
00:39:43.491 --> 00:39:44.658
>> you and robin, the superstar team. watch out world. but i
00:39:44.759 --> 00:39:46.527
Believe that's such a it's such a lesson in faith is you take
00:39:46.527 --> 00:39:50.030
The first step. god will do the rest. right? you take the first
00:39:50.030 --> 00:39:53.467
Step. you create something beautiful. you create something
00:39:53.467 --> 00:39:55.369
Holy. you create something that's pure and bringing light
00:39:55.369 --> 00:39:58.372
To the world. god will bless it. he'll make it bloom bigger than
00:39:58.372 --> 00:40:01.375
You ever imagined. you just have to take that first step.
00:40:01.375 --> 00:40:04.345
And flags of fellowship was an idea that we started last year.
00:40:04.345 --> 00:40:09.450
After october 7th, of course, october 7th. it was the worst
00:40:09.450 --> 00:40:12.486
Terror attack on israel in the history, the most amount of
00:40:12.486 --> 00:40:16.257
Jews killed since the holocaust in one day. and it was
00:40:16.257 --> 00:40:20.294
Something that changed israel forever and i think changed the
00:40:20.294 --> 00:40:23.297
World forever. we saw that ancient hatred and evil that
00:40:23.297 --> 00:40:28.269
Reared its head, and we're still trying to put it back in
00:40:28.269 --> 00:40:32.239
The bag. i think we're still feeling the ramifications of
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:36.243
That. and what we saw was that the people who were good and
00:40:36.243 --> 00:40:41.148
Praying for goodness and standing with the sanctity of
00:40:41.148 --> 00:40:44.385
Life were being silenced. i call it the silenced majority.
00:40:44.385 --> 00:40:50.057
And we saw that jews in america got scared to wave their
00:40:50.057 --> 00:40:55.162
Israeli flag.
00:40:55.162 --> 00:40:55.896
>> oh, the university situation.
00:40:55.896 --> 00:40:57.865
>> was completely.
00:40:57.865 --> 00:40:58.365
>> out of control.
00:40:58.365 --> 00:40:59.567
>> scared to wear a star of david, scared to show anything
00:40:59.567 --> 00:41:03.404
Jewish or israeli. and we saw that all of the universities
00:41:03.404 --> 00:41:06.974
And protests against israel, they weren't just against
00:41:06.974 --> 00:41:09.810
Israel. at every protest where they're burning an israeli flag,
00:41:09.810 --> 00:41:12.046
They're burning an american flag.
00:41:12.046 --> 00:41:13.514
>> you know.
00:41:13.514 --> 00:41:14.482
>> what, though? but it revealed something.
00:41:14.482 --> 00:41:16.417
>> to us. yeah.
00:41:16.417 --> 00:41:17.685
>> it revealed so many people in control of our universities.
00:41:17.685 --> 00:41:20.254
They had that seed in them.
00:41:20.254 --> 00:41:22.189
>> yeah.
00:41:22.189 --> 00:41:23.290
>> because that was being taught on those campuses. and
00:41:23.390 --> 00:41:25.092
When that incident happened, it just sparked and it was like
00:41:25.092 --> 00:41:28.963
They felt empowered.
00:41:28.963 --> 00:41:30.231
>> yeah.
00:41:30.231 --> 00:41:31.165
>> to do that.
00:41:31.165 --> 00:41:32.600
>> yeah.
00:41:32.600 --> 00:41:33.767
>> and so there's something wrong in that culture. whatever.
00:41:33.868 --> 00:41:35.269
Wherever that hatred comes from, whatever that seed is, i don't
00:41:35.269 --> 00:41:40.508
Know if you trace it back to haman. i don't know where
00:41:40.508 --> 00:41:43.010
Exactly that that traces. but while we're on that, i want to
00:41:43.010 --> 00:41:46.714
Ask a. question. because, as i said, i read through the bible
00:41:46.714 --> 00:41:50.184
Here in just a few days ago, i was finishing up the book of
00:41:50.184 --> 00:41:53.954
Esther. esther, when she approached the king and he gave
00:41:53.954 --> 00:42:00.394
Her the raised the scepter. so she approached. she asked them,
00:42:00.394 --> 00:42:04.398
Haman, and him to go to dinner. now, the first night, what was
00:42:04.398 --> 00:42:09.737
That first night about? because nothing happened that first
00:42:09.737 --> 00:42:12.273
Night, except that she asked him back for a second night to
00:42:12.273 --> 00:42:15.109
Come back. what? tell me from a jewish perspective what that
00:42:15.109 --> 00:42:19.013
First night is about?
00:42:19.013 --> 00:42:20.281
>> well, i think it's very much connected also to the flags of
00:42:20.281 --> 00:42:24.051
Fellowship, right? flags of fellowship. we had over 1.5
00:42:24.051 --> 00:42:29.156
Million israeli flags that were waving across america.
00:42:29.156 --> 00:42:33.093
Christians who said is israel and jews might be scared to
00:42:33.093 --> 00:42:37.097
Wave this flag, but we won't be scared. wave this flag. the
00:42:37.097 --> 00:42:40.367
Evil might burn this flag. we're going to wave it proudly.
00:42:40.367 --> 00:42:43.571
And that's joy and that's hope. and when there's joy and
00:42:43.571 --> 00:42:47.141
There's hope, nothing can knock it down. that is our greatest
00:42:47.141 --> 00:42:51.278
Weapon. and that goes exactly to the question that you asked.
00:42:51.278 --> 00:42:55.449
I once heard this beautiful teaching because everyone asked
00:42:55.449 --> 00:42:57.451
That question, what was that first night about and what
00:42:57.451 --> 00:43:00.254
Stands out to me? i once heard this beautiful teaching that if
00:43:00.254 --> 00:43:03.324
You read the book of esther, it says that haman came and he was
00:43:03.324 --> 00:43:09.496
Happy, says.
00:43:09.496 --> 00:43:10.164
>> that yes.
00:43:10.164 --> 00:43:11.966
>> esther saw he was happy, and even in the heart of someone
00:43:11.966 --> 00:43:16.470
Evil, if they have joy, if they have joy in their hearts, then
00:43:16.470 --> 00:43:22.176
The devil has a hard time knocking it down. joy is what
00:43:22.176 --> 00:43:27.081
Brings success, depression, anger, sadness. that's what
00:43:27.081 --> 00:43:33.220
Closes off our ability to receive blessings. and so
00:43:33.220 --> 00:43:36.090
Esther saw that haman was happy. she said, okay, i don't i don't
00:43:36.090 --> 00:43:40.160
Think this is going to work right now. okay, come back
00:43:40.160 --> 00:43:43.430
Tomorrow. and then you see everything for haman start to
00:43:43.430 --> 00:43:46.333
Go down and you see him go to his wife and even say, i'm so
00:43:46.333 --> 00:43:51.372
Upset. everyone worships me, everyone loves me. everyone
00:43:51.372 --> 00:43:54.341
Bows down to me. except for this one guy, mordecai. good
00:43:54.341 --> 00:43:58.178
Old mordecai. and it's something you know, as a public
00:43:58.178 --> 00:44:01.849
Figure who makes a lot of speeches and does a lot of
00:44:01.849 --> 00:44:05.285
Events and leads a lot of things. i think about that
00:44:05.285 --> 00:44:08.856
Story all the time, tom, because what i always think
00:44:08.856 --> 00:44:10.524
About is. i want to do good in the eyes of god. and if i could
00:44:10.524 --> 00:44:17.197
Also have the the approval of man, wonderful. but ultimately
00:44:17.197 --> 00:44:22.336
It's not about man. and if everyone agrees with you and if
00:44:22.336 --> 00:44:26.240
Everyone saying amen.
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>> and if.
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>> the audience of.
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>> one.
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>> it's the audience of one. and that's the message that i
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Learned from the story of haman and esther and mordecai and
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King xerxes is is two main things. number one, if you're
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Happy, god's going to bless you. you decide what you do with
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That, good or bad, but try whatever you can to find an
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Ounce of happiness in something. there's always something to be
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Happy about, even during hard times. saying that as a mother
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Who's lived during and through war for the past two years,
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Hiding in bomb shelters with my children is 35,000 rockets are
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Launched at my country. that's the size of new jersey. i've
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Had my fair share of darkness, but finding that light of joy
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Is what god blesses. and the second thing is to only be
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Focused on what god wants from you. don't be distracted from
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People that are trying to turn you off of that.
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>> wow.
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>> you know? the irony of haman, after speaking with his wife
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Building, she was the one who suggested building the gallows.
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>> yeah.
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>> right there. and i mean, i guess from where they were
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Sitting at dinner, they could see that, because that is when
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King xerxes said, hang him on those on that, those gallows. i
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Mean, there it was. so what, he intended for harm?
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>> yes.
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>> you know, we say that in our.
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>> scriptures.
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>> he what he intended from god used for good.
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>> yeah, yeah.
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>> and i just feel like when we when we walk and we live with
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The understanding that he's working all things to the
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Together for the good of those who love. him and are called
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According to his purposes. you know, when we look at our
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Mission and the things that god's calling each of us to in
00:46:12.379 --> 00:46:15.649
Life, god's working those things out. and a realization
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That hit me one time was that i just thought, you know, god
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Wants me to do his will more than i want to do it. and just
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Stop and think about that in a minute. so what does that mean
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To me? it means that god has the resources for everything
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He's called me to do already set aside. he's going to do
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Everything in his power. what is his power? it's almighty. it
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Is done. when god wants it, it will happen. so when people
00:46:48.549 --> 00:46:53.587
Sometimes stagger under, i had this vision. i believe the lord
00:46:53.587 --> 00:46:57.291
Spoke to me. i believe god asked me to do something. and
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Then they begin to shrink back. there's so many people with
00:47:00.227 --> 00:47:04.398
Gifts and talents and they've even heard from the lord. but
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Then they look at the magnitude of it and they shrink back.
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I'll never forget i was i was in a little church, you know,
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It was not a little church, a big church, the rock church in
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Virginia beach, the jimenez's were pastors. they did the big
00:47:18.478 --> 00:47:21.014
Washington for jesus marches. and when i was in that church,
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They had a prayer chapel up there. and we were doing a show
00:47:24.251 --> 00:47:28.255
We used to perform called toymaker's dream, and we toured
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The world with that for 16 years and saw hundreds of
00:47:30.257 --> 00:47:33.393
Thousands come to christ. and while we were in there praying,
00:47:33.393 --> 00:47:37.164
The lord spoke to me just completely out of the blue and
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Said, i want you to take this into the soviet union. now,
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This was while it was still the soviet union. this is pre 1988.
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Wow. and it was like and i was with my friend roger nix who
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Was there, and i said, roger, did you hear that? that was so
00:47:51.478 --> 00:47:55.182
Loud. the lord just spoke to me and said, we're supposed to go
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To the soviet union. he said, we can't go to the soviet union.
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That's kind of what everybody said, right? well, 11 months
00:48:01.855 --> 00:48:04.157
Later, we're touring the soviet union to pack out stadiums in
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Kyiv. at the time it was leningrad. it was before saint
00:48:07.694 --> 00:48:10.998
Petersburg again. and in moscow we saw hundreds of thousands of
00:48:10.998 --> 00:48:14.534
People come to christ and be able to share faith. wow. but
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It was a thing that i didn't shrink back. you have not
00:48:18.272 --> 00:48:22.509
Shrunk back for what's god's asked you to do. the world is
00:48:22.509 --> 00:48:26.146
Filled with more need than it ever has. people are perishing.
00:48:26.146 --> 00:48:30.117
People need more food. people need more help.
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>> yes.
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>> how do we do that right now? what is god speaking to you?
00:48:34.254 --> 00:48:36.556
Yeah. how are you rising up to what's ahead of you?
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>> well, tom, i have to tell you, because god is so good.
00:48:39.259 --> 00:48:44.498
This morning i was praying, and then i was journaling. and what
00:48:44.498 --> 00:48:47.167
I wrote was this. y'all just don't get in the way of god's
00:48:47.167 --> 00:48:52.439
Plans. he has his plan for you. he has his plan for what you
00:48:52.439 --> 00:48:57.144
Need to do. just don't get in the way of those plans and go
00:48:57.144 --> 00:49:01.048
With him when he leads. and this is exactly it. it's it's a
00:49:01.048 --> 00:49:05.352
Message that is so profound and so simple. yet i think the
00:49:05.352 --> 00:49:10.424
Secret to life don't get in the way of god's plans, whether
00:49:10.424 --> 00:49:14.394
It's the fellowship going into syria and, you know, so many
00:49:14.394 --> 00:49:18.665
People saying you can't go into syria. no, no, people need food
00:49:18.665 --> 00:49:21.335
And medical care. i'm going to find a way to go in syria,
00:49:21.335 --> 00:49:24.371
Because if god laid that on my spirit, that means that there's
00:49:24.371 --> 00:49:27.341
A way to make it happen. and during the ukraine war, when
00:49:27.341 --> 00:49:31.144
The airports are closed and everyone said, sorry, we can't
00:49:31.144 --> 00:49:34.247
Fly them out, no, if god made a promise, then there's going to
00:49:34.247 --> 00:49:38.518
Be a way and it continues to this day. what i feel god
00:49:38.518 --> 00:49:42.622
Calling right now, tom, are the words that were spoken so long
00:49:42.622 --> 00:49:47.394
Ago, yet are still reverberating from jerusalem
00:49:47.394 --> 00:49:51.331
Out to the world now. comfort, comfort my people. you look at
00:49:51.331 --> 00:49:57.204
How many christians are hurting right now alongside their
00:49:57.204 --> 00:50:01.508
Jewish brothers and sisters, and god tells us what the
00:50:01.508 --> 00:50:05.145
Antidote is to that to do good, to go out and bless people, to
00:50:05.145 --> 00:50:10.150
Feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to shelter the poor, to
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Provide for the weakest people, those who are having even a
00:50:13.587 --> 00:50:17.524
Harder time. and it's something that i believe in this world of
00:50:17.524 --> 00:50:21.595
Darkness. that's the light that each one of us can bring in our.
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>> we have the same marching orders, go into all the world
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And proclaim the good news.
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>> yes.
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>> that is exactly the same marching orders that we share
00:50:31.238 --> 00:50:34.041
In tbn family those of you at home, god doesn't just have a
00:50:34.041 --> 00:50:39.346
Few people that he's given a mission and assignment to, he's
00:50:39.346 --> 00:50:43.417
Called each of us. you are called just as surely as i'm
00:50:43.417 --> 00:50:46.420
Sitting here, called as yale is called. if you have had a
00:50:46.420 --> 00:50:51.224
Vision from the lord, the lord has spoken to you about
00:50:51.224 --> 00:50:54.094
Something, and you've sat back, you've shrunk back because it
00:50:54.094 --> 00:50:57.364
Looked hard. it looked impossible. it looked too
00:50:57.364 --> 00:50:59.232
Difficult. there's no way i don't have the resource. i
00:50:59.232 --> 00:51:02.035
Don't have the connections. we didn't either. we didn't either.
00:51:02.035 --> 00:51:05.939
We just refused to let the voice of god be silenced in our
00:51:05.939 --> 00:51:10.677
Life. don't let that silence stop you. there's people all
00:51:10.677 --> 00:51:14.314
Over this country and around the world right now saying i am
00:51:14.314 --> 00:51:17.317
Charlie kirk. why? because a good man was sacrificed for
00:51:17.317 --> 00:51:21.121
Someone who stood for something good. and that voice still
00:51:21.121 --> 00:51:24.024
Cries from the ground. we need to rise up. we need to be about
00:51:24.024 --> 00:51:28.962
The father's business. however, whatever god has spoken to you,
00:51:28.962 --> 00:51:32.699
Don't shrink back. this is the time for us as the church to
00:51:32.699 --> 00:51:36.369
Step up. this is the time for us as believers in the one true
00:51:36.369 --> 00:51:40.240
God and in jesus, to step up and be all that we're supposed
00:51:40.240 --> 00:51:44.111
To be. and if you're there right now and you've had a
00:51:44.111 --> 00:51:47.080
Vision and you've shrunk back, you have buried it. you've put
00:51:47.080 --> 00:51:50.517
That light, you've put that light underneath the bushel
00:51:50.517 --> 00:51:53.320
Basket instead of on top of it. can i challenge you tonight to
00:51:53.320 --> 00:51:57.491
Please bring that back out? look at it. get before the lord
00:51:57.491 --> 00:52:02.229
And repent. say, father, forgive me, for i have sinned.
00:52:02.229 --> 00:52:05.499
I have not walked with what you've asked me to walk with.
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Forgive me, lord, and give me the strength to pick this
00:52:08.435 --> 00:52:12.205
Mantle back up and to go about your business again. if that's
00:52:12.205 --> 00:52:16.143
You, would you just bow your heads right now in your living
00:52:16.143 --> 00:52:19.146
Room or wherever you are? not if you're driving, but wherever
00:52:19.146 --> 00:52:22.482
You are. and just listen to these words. and if it's you,
00:52:22.482 --> 00:52:25.352
Just repeat this prayer after me. would you do that, lord
00:52:25.352 --> 00:52:29.189
Jesus, i believe in my heart that you have spoken to me. you
00:52:29.189 --> 00:52:35.362
Have called me. you have set me apart for this thing. lord. i
00:52:35.362 --> 00:52:42.435
Repent for letting it fall to the ground. i ask you, lord,
00:52:42.435 --> 00:52:46.106
For strength. i ask you for courage to help me get back up
00:52:46.106 --> 00:52:52.145
And get on my way. and lord, as i walk out, this vision and
00:52:52.145 --> 00:52:57.184
This purpose and this calling, i just ask, lord, that you show
00:52:57.184 --> 00:53:01.154
Me the next step. you don't have to see the whole way, but
00:53:01.154 --> 00:53:04.124
Just ask him for the next step. and lord, i pray that you'll
00:53:04.124 --> 00:53:07.561
Enter that room wherever they are right now and confirm that
00:53:07.561 --> 00:53:11.631
You are there with them, that they are called. they are set
00:53:11.631 --> 00:53:14.201
Apart, that they are the chosen of god, and that you are
00:53:14.201 --> 00:53:18.138
Working all things together for their good. to see your
00:53:18.138 --> 00:53:22.042
Purposes fulfilled in this life. we pray that in jesus name, if
00:53:22.042 --> 00:53:27.113
You just prayed that prayer, let folks know that you're
00:53:27.113 --> 00:53:30.483
Ready to go. let them know. just talk with someone. call.
00:53:30.483 --> 00:53:34.387
Call a friend or a family member. bring them into the
00:53:34.387 --> 00:53:37.157
Room and just say, this just happened to me. i need to do
00:53:37.157 --> 00:53:40.160
That. and for those of you who have been touched by us, as
00:53:40.160 --> 00:53:43.430
We've talked about the international fellowship of
00:53:43.430 --> 00:53:45.966
Christian and jews active in 47 countries, we just celebrated
00:53:45.966 --> 00:53:50.403
Flags of fellowship at over 1200 universities and churches.
00:53:50.403 --> 00:53:55.141
They're doing a great work for the lord. the organization at
00:53:55.141 --> 00:53:58.311
The bottom is org. it's right there. contact them. give a
00:53:58.311 --> 00:54:02.482
Gift. let's help them accomplish what they're doing.
00:54:02.482 --> 00:54:05.418
They're helping our brothers and sisters all over the world.
00:54:05.418 --> 00:54:08.321
They're helping our christian brothers and sisters in syria
00:54:08.321 --> 00:54:11.057
Right now. they need our help. let's stand with them. yell.
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Any last closing words?
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>> may all of your prayers of your heart and your mouth be
00:54:17.097 --> 00:54:22.802
Answered tenfold. and may everyone watching this just
00:54:22.802 --> 00:54:26.106
Feel the peace of the lord, feel the calling of the lord
00:54:26.106 --> 00:54:29.509
And be awakened like the sound of the shofar, the ram's horn.
00:54:29.509 --> 00:54:35.115
May it awaken our soul and bring success in everything we
00:54:35.115 --> 00:54:39.119
Do to partner with god, to save lives, to bring light to this
00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:44.190
Dark world and to make him proud.
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>> amen.
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>> thank you. thanks, family. we'll see you next time. god
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Bless.
00:54:51.965 --> 00:55:01.941

Yael Eckstein: America, Israel, and Aid to Syrian Christians | Praise

October 6, 2025 | 55:22

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