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The truth about Israel and Gaza · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Should I side with Israel? Should I pray for Israel
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  Speaker 1: to turn back to God? Should I blame the people
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  Speaker 1: in Gaza? Or should I pray for them too? You
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  Speaker 1: feel the tension, the confusion, the pressure to choose a side.
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  Speaker 1: But what if the question is not whose side am
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  Speaker 1: I on? What if the real question is am I
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  Speaker 1: on God's side? In this message, we will break it
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  Speaker 1: down like never before, step by step, through scripture, through history,
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  Speaker 1: through God's heart. If you've ever felt confused about what
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says or how you should respond as a Christian,
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  Speaker 1: this will give you clarity. But now let me take
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  Speaker 1: you deeper. What if I told you that in five
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  Speaker 1: hundred eighty six b C. When Jerusalem burned under babylon siege,
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  Speaker 1: the prophets cried not for political victory, but for repentance.
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  Speaker 1: What if I told you that in a d seventy,
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  Speaker 1: when Rome destroyed the Second Temple, Jesus had all ready
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  Speaker 1: warned his people, not because he hated Israel, but because
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  Speaker 1: he longed for them to return to God. What if
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  Speaker 1: I told you that every time the land shook with conflict,
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  Speaker 1: Scripture pointed not to choosing a nation, but to choosing righteousness, mercy,
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  Speaker 1: truth and repentance. And what if I told you that
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  Speaker 1: long before modern borders, modern nations, or modern conflicts, God's
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  Speaker 1: heart was crying for both descendants of Isaac and descendants
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  Speaker 1: of Ishmael to know him. From Abraham's tent to today's headlines,
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  Speaker 1: this land has always been the center of spiritual warfare.
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  Speaker 1: Israel was chosen to reveal God, not elevated to oppress
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  Speaker 1: The nations around her, including the ancestors of Gaza's people,
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  Speaker 1: were never forgotten by God. He promised to bless all
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  Speaker 1: the families of the earth through Abraham. When violence erupts,
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  Speaker 1: God never celebrates bloodshed. He grieves it. Innocent blood always
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  Speaker 1: cries out to him just like ables. He holds every
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  Speaker 1: life as precious, Israeli and Palestinian alike. So should Christians
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  Speaker 1: support violence? No, should Christians ignore prophecy. No should Christians
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  Speaker 1: hate one side. Never. God calls us to stand where
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  Speaker 1: he stands on truth, justice, mercy, and prayer. He calls
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  Speaker 1: us to pray for Israel, not only for protection, but
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  Speaker 1: for repentance, for humility, for salvation, for their hearts to
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  Speaker 1: return to Him. And he calls us to pray for Gaza,
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  Speaker 1: for comfort, for healing, for protection of innocent people, for
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  Speaker 1: the revelation of Christ, for peace that human governments cannot create.
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  Speaker 1: You are not called to pick a political side. You
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  Speaker 1: are called to reflect God's heart. So today we will
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  Speaker 1: walk through scripture and history side by side. We will
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  Speaker 1: see what the Bible actually says. We will uncover the
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  Speaker 1: truth behind the conflict. We will remove fear, confusion, and bias,
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  Speaker 1: and we will learn how to stand with God even
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  Speaker 1: when the world demands you stand with a flag. This
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  Speaker 1: journey is not about choosing Israel over Gaza, or Gaza
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  Speaker 1: over Israel. This is about choosing God, choosing truth, choosing peace,
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  Speaker 1: choosing intercession. And before we go further, take a moment
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  Speaker 1: to breathe and prepare your heart. And if your spirit
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  Speaker 1: feels stirred, if something in you whispers, there's more to
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  Speaker 1: this than what the world is saying, you are exactly
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  Speaker 1: where you need to be. Deep Bible stories exists for
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  Speaker 1: one purpose, to take you past the noise and anchor
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  Speaker 1: you in the truth of God's word. When you are
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  Speaker 1: ready to go deeper into the heart of God. Our
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  Speaker 1: website and ebooks are there to strengthen your walk. Guide
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  Speaker 1: your stafeudy and help you see the world through the
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  Speaker 1: lens of the Bible. What comes next in this teaching
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  Speaker 1: will challenge you, steady you, and shift the way you
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  Speaker 1: see the entire conflict. Take a breath, let your heart settle,
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  Speaker 1: Let truth guide you forward. Long before the modern conflict,
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  Speaker 1: long before borders, nations and political arguments, the land now
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  Speaker 1: called Israel and Gaza was already trembling with destiny. The
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  Speaker 1: soil itself carries a story older than civilization, older than kingdoms,
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  Speaker 1: older than war. To understand why to day feels so chaotic,
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  Speaker 1: we must return to the beginning, to the dust where
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  Speaker 1: God placed his promise. The story begins around two thousand
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  Speaker 1: b C. When God spoke to a man named Abram
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  Speaker 1: in Mesopotamia and said, go to the land. I will
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  Speaker 1: show you. That land was Canaan, the region that includes
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  Speaker 1: modern Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and surrounding territories. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible does not call it wholly because of who holds it.
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  Speaker 1: It calls it holy because God chose it as the
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  Speaker 1: stage for his plan of redemption. The land is holy
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  Speaker 1: because God stepped into it, spoken it, promised through it,
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  Speaker 1: walked within it, and sent the Messiah from it, but
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  Speaker 1: holiness does not mean peace. Even in ancient days, this
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  Speaker 1: strip of land was across roads of empires. Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek,
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  Speaker 1: Roman armies marched across it. Because its geography connected three continents,
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  Speaker 1: it was a bridge between Africa, Asia, and Europe. Control
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  Speaker 1: of this land meant power, influence, and access. So war
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  Speaker 1: is not new here. This ground has been soaked in
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  Speaker 1: conflict for four thousand years. Even Gaza itself appears in
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  Speaker 1: scripture as early as the Book of Joshua. It was
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  Speaker 1: one of the strongholds of the Philistines, a coastal people
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  Speaker 1: who lived in what is now called the Gaza Strip.
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  Speaker 1: These ancient Philistines were not identical to modern Palestinians. History
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  Speaker 1: is far more complex, but the location itself has always
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  Speaker 1: been caught in tension. The Bible records battles, collapses, alliances, betrayals,
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  Speaker 1: and the rise and fall of kingdoms. The region has
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  Speaker 1: been contested since the days of Samson and David. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: about today's conflict is new. What is happening today is
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  Speaker 1: part of an ancient story, but the story becomes even
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  Speaker 1: deeper when God makes a covenant with Abraham, God promises
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  Speaker 1: him three things, a people, a land, and a blessing
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  Speaker 1: for all nations. Most Christians focus heavily on the first two,
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  Speaker 1: but the third word is the most important. God did
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  Speaker 1: not bless Abraham to elevate one ethnic group. God blessed
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  Speaker 1: Abraham to bring salvation to the entire world. Israel was
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  Speaker 1: not chosen because God preferred them. Israel was chosen because
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  Speaker 1: God wanted to reveal his character through them, his justice,
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  Speaker 1: his mercy, his holiness, his truth. Then comes a detail
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  Speaker 1: many Christians forget. God also blessed Ishmael, the ancestor of
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  Speaker 1: many Arab peoples. In Genesis seventeen, God promises Ishmael twelve rulers,
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  Speaker 1: a great nation, and his own measure of blessing. God
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  Speaker 1: never rejected Ismael. God never cursed his descendants. The tension
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  Speaker 1: between Isaac and Ishmael came from human fear, not divine hatred.
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  Speaker 1: The division in the Middle East today is rooted more
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  Speaker 1: in human history than in God's heart entries past. Israel
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  Speaker 1: grew into a kingdom, established Jerusalem, built a temple, and
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  Speaker 1: became a light to the nations, but also fell into
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  Speaker 1: idolatry injustice and rebellion. Prophets warned them again and again,
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  Speaker 1: if they abandoned God's ways, the land would vomit them out,
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  Speaker 1: not because God stopped loving them, but because covenant requires faithfulness.
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  Speaker 1: When Babylon invaded in five hundred eighty six b c.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't just a political collapse, it was a spiritual one.
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  Speaker 1: God called Israel to repentance, not revenge. The same happened
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  Speaker 1: again in a d seventy when Rome destroyed Jerusalem after
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  Speaker 1: rejecting Jesus, the Messiah. Jesus wept over the city, not
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  Speaker 1: because of politics, but because they missed the one who
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  Speaker 1: came to save them. He warned destruction would come, and
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  Speaker 1: it did not because God hated Israel, but because they
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  Speaker 1: turned away from the very salvation they prayed for. The
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  Speaker 1: pattern is always the same. When Israel walks with God,
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  Speaker 1: the land becomes stable. When Israel turns away, the land
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  Speaker 1: becomes restless. When nations around Israel rise in violence, God
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  Speaker 1: sees every cry just as clearly, and today the land
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  Speaker 1: is still restless, not because God's plan failed, but because
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  Speaker 1: humanity still wrestles with pride, sin, fear, and unbelief. Israel
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  Speaker 1: is still part of God's story, Gaza is still part
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  Speaker 1: of God's heart. Every soul in that land, Jewish, Muslim,
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  Speaker 1: Christian is seen by God, known by God, and loved
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  Speaker 1: by God. Christians are not called to love Israel's politics.
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  Speaker 1: We are called to love Israel's people and pray for
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  Speaker 1: their repentance. Christians are not called to curse Gaza. We
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  Speaker 1: are called to try out to God for the innocent,
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  Speaker 1: for the oppressed, for the wounded, and for the lost.
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  Speaker 1: When we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, we pray
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  Speaker 1: for everyone affected by its turmoil. Peace, in scripture is
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  Speaker 1: never one sided. Peace is wholeness for all people. The
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  Speaker 1: land is holy because God wrote his story there, not
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  Speaker 1: because any nation deserves it more than another. The holiest
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  Speaker 1: truth is this, Every person in that land needs God,
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  Speaker 1: every heart needs salvation, every family needs mercy, every child
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  Speaker 1: needs protection, every nation needs repentance. And when we understand
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  Speaker 1: why the land is holy, we begin to understand why
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  Speaker 1: the conflict is heavy and why the Christian response must
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  Speaker 1: be rooted in God's will, not human opinion. When you
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  Speaker 1: look at the headlines today, it's easy to think this
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  Speaker 1: conflict began a few years ago or a few decades ago.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is older, deeper, and more complicated. History
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  Speaker 1: in this land does not move in straight lines. It
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  Speaker 1: moves in cycles, cycles of faith and rebellion, peace and war,
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  Speaker 1: unity and division. And when you understand the full story,
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  Speaker 1: you begin to see that today's tension is not random.
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  Speaker 1: It is the echo of thousands of years of struggle, promise, rebellion,
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  Speaker 1: and spiritual warfare. The roots go back to Abraham's sons,
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  Speaker 1: Isaac and Ishmael. Scripture never portrays these two as enemies
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  Speaker 1: from birth. Their story is marked by pain, misunderstanding, and
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  Speaker 1: human decisions made in fear, not by God's rejection of
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  Speaker 1: one and acceptance of the other. Isaac carried the covenant
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  Speaker 1: line of the Messiah. Ishmael carried a blessing, destiny, and
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  Speaker 1: purpose of his own. God said Ishmael would become a
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  Speaker 1: great nation, and he kept that promise. Many Arab peoples
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  Speaker 1: trace their roots to him. So from the very beginning,
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  Speaker 1: the story isn't about God loving one son more than
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  Speaker 1: the other. It is about different roles within God's plan.
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  Speaker 1: Centuries passed, Israel became a nation, then a kingdom, then
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  Speaker 1: a fractured kingdom. At one point Israel the northern Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: and Judah the Southern Kingdom, were even at war with
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  Speaker 1: each other. This shows you something important. Violence in the
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  Speaker 1: land does not always come from outsiders. Sometimes the land
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  Speaker 1: breaks because the people inside it turn away from God.
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  Speaker 1: The Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom in seven hundred twenty
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  Speaker 1: two b C. The Babylonians conquered Judah in five hundred
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  Speaker 1: eighty six b C. The Persians allowed the Jews to return.
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  Speaker 1: The Greeks spread their influence across the region. The Maccabees
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  Speaker 1: revolted Rome took control shortly after. Through all these shifts,
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  Speaker 1: Gaza and the surrounding coastal regions were constantly pulled, pushed, occupied,
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  Speaker 1: and fought over. Empires used the land as a military passageway,
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  Speaker 1: a tax base, or a strategic port. Local people, Jews, Philistines, Arabs,
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  Speaker 1: Samaritans and others lived under powers far greater than themselves.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus was born, the land was under Roman rule.
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  Speaker 1: The conflict was not Jewish versus Arab. It was Jewish
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  Speaker 1: versus Rome, Zealots versus soldiers, and truth versus unbelief. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: entered a land already bleeding. He saw oppression injustice corruption
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  Speaker 1: and cruel leaders. Yet he did not lead a political uprising.
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  Speaker 1: He led a spiritual rescue. His message wasn't take back
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  Speaker 1: the land, but repent for the Kingdom of God is
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  Speaker 1: at hand. He knew the real battle was not against Rome,
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  Speaker 1: but against sin, hardness of heart, and spiritual blindness. After
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Resurrection, the Early Church was born in Jerusalem. Jews
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  Speaker 1: and Gentiles worshiped side by side. For a moment, unity
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  Speaker 1: looked possible, but in a d seventy Rome crushed a
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  Speaker 1: Jewish revolt and destroyed the Temple. Many Jews scattered across
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  Speaker 1: the world, Yet the land remained important to Jews, to Christians,
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  Speaker 1: and later to Muslims after Islam expanded in the seventh century.
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  Speaker 1: That means, for over one thousand, three hundred years, much
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  Speaker 1: of this territory was under various Islamic empires. During the Crusades,
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  Speaker 1: Europeans fought to reclaim the land. After that, the Ottoman
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  Speaker 1: Empire took control for four hundred years, then World War
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  Speaker 1: I ended Ottoman rule and Britain took over. By this time,
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  Speaker 1: both Jews and Arabs lived in the land, each with
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  Speaker 1: deep historical ties, each with hopes, fears, and claims. In
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  Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds, Jewish migration increased
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  Speaker 1: because of persecution in Europe. Many Arabs in the region
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  Speaker 1: feared losing their home. Tension grew after the Holocaust and
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  Speaker 1: World War II. The world supported a Jewish homeland, but
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  Speaker 1: doing so also displaced many Arab families. Pain grew on
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  Speaker 1: both sides. This is the part Christians must understand. Two
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  Speaker 1: peoples with deep roots in the same land have deep
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  Speaker 1: wounds in the same soil. The story is not clean,
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  Speaker 1: it is not simple, It is not one sided. Every
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  Speaker 1: generation since has carried that trauma. Wars happened in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty eight, nineteen sixty seven, nineteen seventy three, and more
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  Speaker 1: terror attacks, military strikes and politics failures added layer after
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  Speaker 1: layer of fear and anger. Gaza itself has changed hands
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  Speaker 1: multiple times, Egyptian rule, Israeli control, withdrawal, internal conflict, and
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  Speaker 1: eventually rule under Hamas Israel faces real security fears, Palestinians
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  Speaker 1: face real hardship and oppression. Innocent people suffer on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: No one wins in endless cycles of pain. So what
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  Speaker 1: does this history teach us? It teaches us that the
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  Speaker 1: conflict is too ancient, too deep, and too spiritual to
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  Speaker 1: be solved by taking sides. It teaches us that human
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  Speaker 1: solutions fail when hearts refuse to turn to God. It
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  Speaker 1: teaches us that every time violence rises, it reveals a
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  Speaker 1: deeper wound, the wound of a world separated from God's peace.
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  Speaker 1: History reveals this land is not just political ground, it
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  Speaker 1: is spiritual ground. Forces of darkness, pride, mad, hatred, and
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  Speaker 1: fear have battled over it for ages. Human leaders rise
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  Speaker 1: and fall, but the spiritual war remains. The Bible does
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  Speaker 1: not tell Christians to interpret this conflict through nationalism, ethnicity,
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  Speaker 1: or modern borders. The Bible teaches Christians to interpret this
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  Speaker 1: land through God's promises, God's justice, God's mercy, and God's
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  Speaker 1: prophetic lan And now that we understand the weight of history,
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  Speaker 1: we can begin to understand the deeper question, who are
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  Speaker 1: the children of Abraham in God's eyes? Today? To understand
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  Speaker 1: the conflict in Israel and Gaza through God's eyes, you
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  Speaker 1: must understand one of the most misunderstood truths in the
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  Speaker 1: entire Bible, who are Abraham's children? Because if we misunderstand
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  Speaker 1: this one truth, we misunderstand everything happening in the land. Today,
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  Speaker 1: we will believe God favors one ethnicity over another. We
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  Speaker 1: will take sides God never told us to take. We
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  Speaker 1: will defend political positions God never endorsed. But when we
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  Speaker 1: understand who Abraham's children truly are, everything comes into holy focus.
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  Speaker 1: The story begins over four thousand years ago when God
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  Speaker 1: called Abraham out of Mesopotamia and promised him something impossible,
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  Speaker 1: descendants more numerous than the stars, and a land where
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  Speaker 1: his plan would unfold. Abraham was old, Sarah was barren.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing about this promise made sense. Yet Abraham believed, and
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  Speaker 1: God counted that faith as righteousness. That moment, not the land,
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  Speaker 1: not the blood line, was the foundation of God's covenant.
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  Speaker 1: Then came Isaac, the son of promise. Then came Ishmael,
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  Speaker 1: the son born out of fear, confusion, and human impatience.
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  Speaker 1: People to day often twist this story into a narrative
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  Speaker 1: of hatred or divine favoritism, but scripture does not. God
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  Speaker 1: heard Ishmael crying in the wilderness. God comforted him, God
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  Speaker 1: blessed him. God promised he would become a great nation.
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  Speaker 1: God never rejected him. Ishmael's descendants, many of whom live
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  Speaker 1: in Arab majority regions today were never cursed by God.
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  Speaker 1: They were loved, seen, and included in God's plan for nations. Isaac, however,
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  Speaker 1: carried the covenant line, not because he was better, but because,
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  Speaker 1: through his descendants, the Messiah would come. That Messiah, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: did not come to create two families in war. He
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  Speaker 1: came to create one family, redeemed by his blood. But
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  Speaker 1: before we go to the New Testament, we must understand
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament tensions. Isaac and Ishmael were not enemies.
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  Speaker 1: Their descendants often clashed, yes, but the route was never ethnicity.
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  Speaker 1: It was spiritual calling, human pride, and historical wounds. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible is painfully honest about Israel's failures. They rebelled, doubted,
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  Speaker 1: worshiped idols, oppressed the poor, broke covenant, and ignored prophets.
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  Speaker 1: God corrected them repeatedly, not because he hated them, but
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  Speaker 1: because he loved them enough to discipline them. Centuries later,
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  Speaker 1: when Israel became a nation, they were surrounded by peoples
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  Speaker 1: who also descended from Abraham through Ishmael and other sons.
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  Speaker 1: Some of these peoples worshiped idols, others followed violent gods,
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  Speaker 1: others lived peacefully. History in this region was always complicated.
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  Speaker 1: It still is. Then Jesus came and he shattered every
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  Speaker 1: boundary of ethnicity, ancestry, and geography. In John eight, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: told religious leaders, if you were Abraham's children, you would
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  Speaker 1: do what Abraham did. That statement changed everything. He was saying.
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  Speaker 1: True children of Abraham are those who walk in Abraham's faith,
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  Speaker 1: not those who carry Abraham's dna. Then the apostle Paul
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  Speaker 1: takes this truth even deeper. In Romans, Galatians, and Ephesians.
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  Speaker 1: He declares that Abraham is the father of all who believe,
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  Speaker 1: not some all jew Arab, African, European, Asian. Anyone who
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  Speaker 1: believes in Christ becomes Abraham's seed. This is not symbolic,
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  Speaker 1: It is spiritual reality. Faith, not family tree, defines your
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  Speaker 1: place in God's promise. This means something powerful and humbling.
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  Speaker 1: A Jewish person who rejects Jesus is not automatically walking
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  Speaker 1: in Abraham's covenant, even if they live in the land.
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  Speaker 1: A Muslim in Gaza who cries out to God and
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  Speaker 1: places faith in Christ becomes a true heir of Abraham's promise.
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  Speaker 1: A Christian in America, Kenya, Brazil, or South Korea becomes
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  Speaker 1: Abramraham's descendant through Jesus. A Jewish follower of Jesus becomes
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  Speaker 1: a fulfilled heir of the original Covenant. An Arab follower
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus becomes a fully grafted branch into the same promise.
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  Speaker 1: The Cross destroys superiority, the Gospel destroys division. The Messiah
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  Speaker 1: creates one family. This is why Christians must be careful
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  Speaker 1: when discussing Israel and Gaza. We must not reduce God's
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  Speaker 1: promises to political borders. We must not assume God's love
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  Speaker 1: is tied to ethnicity. We must not think God blesses
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  Speaker 1: one people more than another. God cares about the heart,
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  Speaker 1: not the passport. God cares about faith, not ancestry. God
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  Speaker 1: cares about repentance, not nationalism. But this truth also brings
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  Speaker 1: us to a heart breaking reality. Many in Israel, Abraham's
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  Speaker 1: physical descendants do not yet know Christ. They carry history, identity,
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  Speaker 1: and but they do not carry salvation. This is why
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  Speaker 1: Christians must pray for Israel, not only for safety, but
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  Speaker 1: for repentance, for spiritual awakening, for the veil to lift,
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  Speaker 1: and for Jesus to be recognized as Messiah. This is
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  Speaker 1: not political. This is biblical. At the same time, millions
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  Speaker 1: of Arabs, including Palestinians in Gaza, also descend from Abraham
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  Speaker 1: and are deeply loved by God. Their suffering matters to him,
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  Speaker 1: Their tears matter to him, Their spiritual hunger matters to him.
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  Speaker 1: Their salvation matters to him. God is not blind to
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  Speaker 1: their pain. God is not silent about their oppression. God
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  Speaker 1: is not indifferent to their cries. So who are Abraham's
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  Speaker 1: children today? Not those with the right blood line, not
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  Speaker 1: those who live on the right land, not those who
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  Speaker 1: claim political authority. The children of Abraham are those who
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  Speaker 1: place faith in Jesus Christ, the Promised Seed. This truth
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  Speaker 1: breaks pride, This truth removes bias. This truth humbles the heart.
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  Speaker 1: This truth stops Christians from picking sides in war. This
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  Speaker 1: truth aligns us with God, not with governments. And now
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  Speaker 1: that we understand who Abraham's children truly are, we can
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  Speaker 1: finally answer the question the world keeps asking does God
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  Speaker 1: support violence from either side? When the world sees bombs falling,
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  Speaker 1: cities shaking, and families grieving, people rush to us the
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  Speaker 1: same question, whose side is God on? But the deeper question,
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  Speaker 1: the real question, is this, does God support the violence
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  Speaker 1: coming from either side. If we are going to understand
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  Speaker 1: God's heart toward Israel and Gaza, we must stop thinking
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  Speaker 1: like nations and start thinking like scripture. From the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the Bible to the end, God is painfully clear
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  Speaker 1: about one thing. He hates the shedding of innocent blood.
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  Speaker 1: Not dislikes it, not disapproves of it, hates it. In
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  Speaker 1: Proverb six, God lists seven things he detests, and one
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  Speaker 1: of them is hands that shed innocent blood. That means
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  Speaker 1: a child killed in Gaza matters to God just as
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  Speaker 1: much as a child killed in Israel. God does not
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  Speaker 1: view grief through national borders. He sees tears, not flags.
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  Speaker 1: Some Christians read the Old Testament and assume God must
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  Speaker 1: support every military act done by Israel, but that is
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  Speaker 1: not biblical. In the Old Testament, God judged Israel many
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  Speaker 1: times for violent actions he did not command. God told Israel,
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  Speaker 1: do not murder. God told Israel, do not oppress the stranger.
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  Speaker 1: God told Israel, do not forget justice, mercy, and humility.
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  Speaker 1: When Israel ignored these commands, God sent prophets to rebuke them,
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  Speaker 1: nations to discipline them, and even exile to humble them.
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  Speaker 1: So supporting Israel in scripture was never about supporting everything
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  Speaker 1: Israel did. It was about supporting what God commanded, justice, righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and obedience. On the other side, some assume God hates
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  Speaker 1: Arab peoples because some engage in violence, but that is
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  Speaker 1: not biblical either. God blessed Ishmael. The Bible shows that
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  Speaker 1: God holds individuals and nations accountable, not ethnic groups. So
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  Speaker 1: the suffering of Palestinians matters deeply to God. Their lives matter,
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  Speaker 1: their grief matters, their future matters. So what does God support?
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  Speaker 1: God supports justice. God supports mercy. God supports righteousness. God
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  Speaker 1: supports repentance. God supports peace. God supports truth. But God
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  Speaker 1: never supports violence rooted in hate, revenge, or human ambition.
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  Speaker 1: When King David fought battles, he didn't move because of
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  Speaker 1: political strategy. He moved because God instructed him. And even then,
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  Speaker 1: when David shed too much blood, even bloodshed in battle,
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  Speaker 1: God refused to let him build the temple. That is
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  Speaker 1: how seriously God takes bloodshed. When Jesus came, he shifted
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  Speaker 1: the entire conversation. Jesus did not come as a military messiah.
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  Speaker 1: He did not rally Israel to revolt. He did not
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  Speaker 1: encourage violence to reclaim land. Instead, he said, put away
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  Speaker 1: your sword. He healed the ear of a Roman soldier
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  Speaker 1: who came to arrest him. He showed that the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God is not advanced through violence, but through repentance, humility,
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  Speaker 1: and truth. But Jesus never ignored injustice either. He confronted corruption,
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  Speaker 1: He challenged oppressive leaders, stood between the weak and the powerful.
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  Speaker 1: He carried both truth and compassion. That is the posture
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  Speaker 1: Christians must carry today. So how should Christians view the
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  Speaker 1: violence happening in Israel and Gaza right now? With grief,
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  Speaker 1: with prayer, with brokenness, with humility, with scripture, not with
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  Speaker 1: political rage. Does God support Israel defending itself, But he
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  Speaker 1: does not support cruelty, pride, or in justice from any nation.
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  Speaker 1: Does God see the suffering and gazer, Yes, he hears
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  Speaker 1: their cries, just as he heard ishmaels. He sees every orphan,
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  Speaker 1: every widow, every desperate voice praying for safety. God is
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  Speaker 1: near to all who suffer, not some. Does God support terrorism? Never?
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  Speaker 1: God is against the shedding of innocent blood, no matter
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  Speaker 1: the reason or the identity of the attacker. Violence done
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  Speaker 1: in the name of evil power, or hatred will always
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  Speaker 1: bring God's judgment. Does God excuse Israel simply because they
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  Speaker 1: are Israel? Never? In scripture, Israel faced judgment more than
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  Speaker 1: any other nation, not because God hated them, but because
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  Speaker 1: they were held accountable to the light they received. Does
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  Speaker 1: God excuse Gaza because they suffer? No. God sees their
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  Speaker 1: pain but still holds every leader accountable for wickedness, oppression,
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  Speaker 1: and harm. The Bible does not paint God as a nationalist.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible reveals God as a righteous judge. He does
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  Speaker 1: not bend his standards for any nation, not ancient Israel,
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  Speaker 1: not modern Israel, not any Arab nation, not any government anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: The true question is not is God on Israel's side
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  Speaker 1: or is God on Gaza's side? The true question is
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  Speaker 1: who is on God's side? This is exactly what Joshua
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  Speaker 1: learned when he saw a heavenly figure standing before him
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  Speaker 1: with a drawn sword. Joshua asked, are you for us
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  Speaker 1: or for our enemies? The answer was shocking neither. God
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  Speaker 1: does not take sides in human conflicts. God takes his
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  Speaker 1: own side and calls all people to align with his will.
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  Speaker 1: And now that we understand God's stance on violence, we
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  Speaker 1: can ask the question every Christian must wrestle with, how
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  Speaker 1: should we respond when war irrupts? When war breaks out,
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  Speaker 1: the world demands that you choose a side. People argue, accuse, insult,
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  Speaker 1: and pressure you to support one nation over another. But
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  Speaker 1: Christians do not answer to the world. Christians answer to God.
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  Speaker 1: And if we belong to God, our response cannot look
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  Speaker 1: like everyone else's response. Our voice cannot echo online noise.
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  Speaker 1: Our heart cannot follow political tribes. Our reactions must reflect
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God, not the kingdoms of this earth.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing Christians must understand is this, Our identity
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  Speaker 1: is not Israeli, Palestinian, American, African, or European. Our identity
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  Speaker 1: is in Christ. And when your identity is in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: you seek conflict through a completely different lens. You are
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  Speaker 1: not guided by nationalism. You are guided by scripture. You
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  Speaker 1: are not guided by emotion. You are guided by truth.
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  Speaker 1: You are not guided by public pressure. You are guided
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  Speaker 1: by the Holy Spirit. So what does Scripture tell us
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  Speaker 1: to do when the world is on fire? The Bible
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  Speaker 1: commands us to seek justice, not revenge, to love, mercy
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  Speaker 1: not cruelty, to walk humbly not proudly, to pray for
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  Speaker 1: our enemies, not hate them. Jesus told his followers to
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  Speaker 1: love not only their friends, but also those who stand
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  Speaker 1: against them. That means a believer cannot dehumanize Israelis nor
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  Speaker 1: dehumanize Palestinians. A Christian cannot celebrate the death of any
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  Speaker 1: person God created, even if the world justifies it. Believers
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  Speaker 1: mourn every innocent life because God mourns every innocent life.
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  Speaker 1: Christians must also stay grounded in truth. The Bible warns
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  Speaker 1: us not to be swept away by rumors, anger, or fear.
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  Speaker 1: In times of conflict. Misinformation spreads faster than peace. People
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  Speaker 1: shout opinions louder than facts, and the enemy loves confusion.
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  Speaker 1: He uses chaos to divide churches, poison relationships, and distract
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  Speaker 1: believers from their real calling. So when Christians respond, we
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  Speaker 1: must be slow to speak and quick to listen. We
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  Speaker 1: must weigh everything against scripture, not emotion, not media, not propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: We must also guard our hearts. Jesus said that in
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  Speaker 1: the last days, the love of many will grow cold.
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  Speaker 1: War or has a way of freezing compassion. It has
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  Speaker 1: a way of making us numb to suffering. If the
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  Speaker 1: suffering belongs to people we don't identify with. But the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel refuses to let our hearts grow cold. The Gospel
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  Speaker 1: commands us to care deeply, even when caring is uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: It commands us to see human beings, not political categories.
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  Speaker 1: It commands us to weep with those who weep in
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  Speaker 1: Israel and in Gaza. Christians must also pray for leaders.
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  Speaker 1: All leaders. God can turn hearts, expose wickedness, and restrain evil,
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  Speaker 1: but He often does so through prayer. Praying for leaders
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  Speaker 1: is not agreeing with them. It is asking God to
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  Speaker 1: guide them, restrain them, correct them, and influence their decisions
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of the innocent. Whether those leaders are Israeli, Palestinian, regional,
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  Speaker 1: or global, Christians must pray that God will move in
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  Speaker 1: their decisions. Yet, the most important response Christians must give
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  Speaker 1: is to pray for God's will, not ours, to be done.
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  Speaker 1: We are not God. We do not understand every layer
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  Speaker 1: of this conflict. We do not see every motive, every plan,
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  Speaker 1: every spiritual force at work. But God sees the entire story.
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  Speaker 1: God knows every detail. God hears every cry. God alone
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  Speaker 1: knows the path to justice and peace. That is why
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  Speaker 1: Christians must pray Lord Let your will be done in Israel,
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  Speaker 1: Let your will be done in Gaza. Let your will
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  Speaker 1: be done in every heart affected by this war. Christians
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  Speaker 1: must also pray for salvation for both peoples. Scripture says
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel is for every nation, tribe, people, and language.
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  Speaker 1: That includes Jewish people who do not yet see Jesus
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  Speaker 1: as Messiah. That includes Palestinians who have never heard the
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  Speaker 1: true Gospel. That includes every person caught between violence and fear.
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  Speaker 1: Christians are not called to pray for victory in war.
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  Speaker 1: We are called to pray for victory and hearts, for
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of God to break chains, reveal truth, and
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  Speaker 1: bring people to repentance. And we must remember this. Our
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  Speaker 1: loyalty is not to a government. Our loyalty is to God.
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  Speaker 1: That means when governments fail, when nations sin, when leaders
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  Speaker 1: act unjustly, Christians do not defend them blindly. We call
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  Speaker 1: all people on both sides to righteousness. We call all
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  Speaker 1: people on both sides to turn to God. We stand
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  Speaker 1: with God's standards, not human agendas. So how should Christians
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  Speaker 1: respond to this conflict? With compassion, with truth, with humility,
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  Speaker 1: with prayer, with a broken heart for every person's suffering,
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  Speaker 1: with a longing for the Gospel to reach every corner
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  Speaker 1: of this land with eyes fixed on God's will. And
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  Speaker 1: once we understand our role, we can finally understand our responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: Why must Christians pray for peace when war fills the
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  Speaker 1: land God once called holy? Many believers wonder why pray
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  Speaker 1: for peace? Will it even matter? But peace is not
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  Speaker 1: an optional request in scripture. Peace is a command. Peace
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  Speaker 1: is God's will, Peace is God's heart. Peace is the
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  Speaker 1: reflection of his kingdom, and peace is the only atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: where healing, repentance, truth, and salvation can grow. That is
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  Speaker 1: why Christians must pray for peace. Not only peace in Israel,
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  Speaker 1: not only peace in Gaza, but peace in every heart
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  Speaker 1: trapped in fear, trauma, and uncertainty. In Psalm one hundred
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, God comes his people to pray for the
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  Speaker 1: peace of Jerusalem. But this prayer was never meant to
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  Speaker 1: be political. It is not a call to pray for
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  Speaker 1: military victory. It is a call to pray for spiritual restoration.
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem was the place where God chose to reveal his presence.
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  Speaker 1: If Jerusalem was in chaos, the hearts of God's people
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  Speaker 1: were in chaos. If Jerusalem was divided. God's people were divided,
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  Speaker 1: So praying for the peace of Jerusalem meant praying for
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  Speaker 1: God's people to return to him. That command still stands today,
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  Speaker 1: not because modern Jerusalem is righteous, but because God longs
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  Speaker 1: for Israel to come home to him. Peace in Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: is not the absence of war. Peace in Jerusalem is
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  Speaker 1: the presence of repentance. Peace is what happens when hearts
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  Speaker 1: bow to God, not when enemies bow to armies. Peace
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  Speaker 1: in Jerusalem means Israel returning to their mislaes, not simply
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  Speaker 1: securing their borders. But what about Gaza? Should Christians pray
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  Speaker 1: for peace there too, absolutely, without hesitation, without political hesitation,
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  Speaker 1: without fear of criticism. Why. Because God is near to
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  Speaker 1: the broken hearted in Gaza, just as he is near
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  Speaker 1: to the broken hearted in Israel. God mourns the loss
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  Speaker 1: of every innocent life. God hears the cries of every
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  Speaker 1: terrified mother. God sees every wounded child. God is not
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  Speaker 1: blind to borders. He is a father to every soul
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  Speaker 1: he created. Scripture commands us to pray for all people everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: lifting holy hands, without anger or prejudice. Peace matters because
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  Speaker 1: war hardens hearts. War creates hatred where there was none.
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  Speaker 1: War creates fear that lasts for generations. War creates trauma
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  Speaker 1: that shapes children into wounded adults who continue the cycle.
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  Speaker 1: Peace matters because he stops the chain reaction of brokenness.
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  Speaker 1: Peace gives room for the Gospel to breathe. Peace gives
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  Speaker 1: room for truth to spread. Peace gives room for forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: to rise. Peace gives room for families to heal. Peace
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  Speaker 1: gives room for people to think clearly instead of reacting
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  Speaker 1: in fear. Peace matters because Jesus is the Prince of peace,
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  Speaker 1: not the prince of war, not the prince of nationalism,
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  Speaker 1: not the prince of ideology. His kingdom advances through truth, love, repentance,
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  Speaker 1: and righteousness, not bombs, hatred, or revenge. When Jesus returns,
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  Speaker 1: Scripture does not say he will reward nations for military victories.
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  Speaker 1: It says he will judge the world in righteousness, gather
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  Speaker 1: his people, and establish peace that cannot be broken. Peace
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  Speaker 1: matters because it is the only thing strong enough to
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  Speaker 1: break spiritual blindness. In times of war, people close their hearts.
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  Speaker 1: They cling to identity, survival, and pain. But in times
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  Speaker 1: of peace, the soil softens the heart listens, the wounded
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  Speaker 1: become open to hope again. The Gospel takes root more
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  Speaker 1: easily when guns fall silent. Peace matters because peace is
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  Speaker 1: the will of God. The Bible never tells believers to
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  Speaker 1: pray for ongoing war. It never tells us to pray
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  Speaker 1: for one side to crush another. It never commands us
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  Speaker 1: to pray for political domination. It commands us to pray
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  Speaker 1: Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as
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  Speaker 1: it is in heaven. In heaven, there are no bombs,
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  Speaker 1: no borders, no hatred, no division, only righteousness, truth, mercy,
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  Speaker 1: and glory. Praying for peace is praying for God's Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: to break through into this wounded world. Peace also protects
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  Speaker 1: the innocent. Both Israelis and Palestinians suffer trauma that will
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  Speaker 1: shape their children for decades. Every life lost creates a
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  Speaker 1: wound no treaty can heal. Peace protects the vulnerable, the fearful,
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  Speaker 1: the forgotten. Peace is an act of mercy toward those
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  Speaker 1: who have no voice in war. Peace matters because the
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  Speaker 1: enemy hates it. Satan thrives in chaos, hatred, lies, and revenge.
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  Speaker 1: He fuels division, He whispers fear, he spreads misinformation. He
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  Speaker 1: blinds nations with pride, but peace destroys his influence. Peace
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  Speaker 1: reveals truth, Peace exposes lies. Peace protects the soul. Peace
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  Speaker 1: interrupts the enemy's plan to turn hearts cold and hopeless.
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  Speaker 1: Peace matters because God still has a plan for this region.
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  Speaker 1: Israel has a destiny spiritual awakening. The Arab world has
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  Speaker 1: a destiny revival and redemption. The Gospel has already moved
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  Speaker 1: powerfully in the Middle East, even underground, even in daysure
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  Speaker 1: war tries to silence that. Peace allows it to grow.
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  Speaker 1: This is why Christians must pray for peace, not as
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  Speaker 1: an empty slogan, but as a spiritual weapon. Peace in
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  Speaker 1: Israel means hearts opening to their Messiah. Peace in Gaza
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  Speaker 1: means hearts opening to the Savior. Peace in the region
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  Speaker 1: means the Gospel can run freely, heal wounds and reconcile enemies.
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  Speaker 1: Only God can create this kind of peace. And this
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  Speaker 1: is why the next question becomes unavoidable. What about innocent blood?
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  Speaker 1: How does God see it? When images of destruction appear
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  Speaker 1: on screens around the world, When the cries of children
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  Speaker 1: echo through broken streets, when families search rubble for loved ones,
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  Speaker 1: One question rises above all others. How does God see
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  Speaker 1: the innocent blood being shed in Israel and Gaza. This
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  Speaker 1: question cannot be answered by news reports or political leaders.
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  Speaker 1: Only scripture can tell us how Heaven responds to human suffering.
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  Speaker 1: And when the Bible speaks about innocent blood, it speaks
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  Speaker 1: with fire. The first murder in human history, Abel killed
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  Speaker 1: by his brother Cain, sets the tone for everything that follows.
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  Speaker 1: God did not say Abel's blood disappeared into the dirt.
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  Speaker 1: He said Abel's blood cried out from the ground. That
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  Speaker 1: means innocent suffering has a voice in Heaven. God hears it.
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  Speaker 1: God responds to it. God holds those responsible accountable. Innocent
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  Speaker 1: blood is not silent. It reaches God's throne with urgency, grief,
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  Speaker 1: and demand for justice. In the present conflict, innocent blood
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  Speaker 1: is being shed on both sides. Israeli families slaughtered, Palestinian
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  Speaker 1: families bombed, children, orphaned, mothers, grieving father's, broken streets, destroyed hospitals, overwhelmed,
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  Speaker 1: fear dominating lives that did nothing to deserve such pain.
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  Speaker 1: And God sees every single one of them. Not one
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  Speaker 1: tear drops unnoticed, not one life is forgotten, not one
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  Speaker 1: cry goes unheard. God's heart breaks for every innocent person,
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  Speaker 1: whether they live in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Gaza City, carn Eunice,
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  Speaker 1: or any village caught in the cross fire of human rage.
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  Speaker 1: Christians must understand this clearly. God does not divide innocent
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  Speaker 1: suffering by nationality. He does not comfort Israeli tears more
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  Speaker 1: than Palestinian tears. He does not love Palestinian children less
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  Speaker 1: than Israeli children. God does not value one ethnicity above another.
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  Speaker 1: He is a father to all people. He created every soul.
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  Speaker 1: He breathed life into every child. When one innocent person dies,
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  Speaker 1: Heaven grieves. In the Old Testament, God repeatedly warns nations,
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  Speaker 1: including Israel, that he will judge them for shedding innocent blood.
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  Speaker 1: When Israel drifted into corruption, he sent prophets to rebuke them,
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  Speaker 1: saying your hands are full of blood. God did not
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: spare Israel from judgment simply because they were Israel. He
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: held them to a higher standard, because they were given
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  Speaker 1: greater revelation. That means modern Christians cannot defend violence simply
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: because Israel is involved. God does not excuse wrongdoing based
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: on identity. At the same time, God also judged nations
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  Speaker 1: that harmed Israel unjustly Babylon, Assyria, Edom, Felistia, Moab. Not
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  Speaker 1: because Israel was perfect, but because God hates cruelty. He
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  Speaker 1: hates revenge, he hates violence done against the defenseless, He
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  Speaker 1: hates oppression, and he holds every nation accountable for how
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: they treat the vulnerable. That means God also sees every
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  Speaker 1: Palestinian civilian suffering under political corruption, militant extremism, and the
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: horrors of war. He sees their hunger, their fear, their
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  Speaker 1: lost homes, their destroyed futures. God is near to them
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  Speaker 1: even when the world is not. The Bible says God
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  Speaker 1: is close to the brokenhearted and saves those crushed in spirit.
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  Speaker 1: That includes grieving Israelis that includes grieving Palestinians. God is
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: not nationalistic. God is righteous, and this is where Christians
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  Speaker 1: must be extremely careful. You cannot defend the shedding of
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: innocent blood on either side. You cannot turn your heart cold.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot let political loyalty harden compassion. You cannot allow
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: misinterpreted prophecy to excuse cruel You cannot call yourself a
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  Speaker 1: follower of Christ while ignoring the cries of the wounded.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Jesus himself entered a world filled with innocent suffering. Roman
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  Speaker 1: soldiers slaughtered babies in Bethlehem trying to kill him. Innocent
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  Speaker 1: blood was spilled in the very land he came to save.
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  Speaker 1: He wept over Jerusalem because he saw destruction coming. He
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  Speaker 1: healed the oppressed, he defended the weak. He stood against
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: leaders who abused power. If Jesus walked the land to day,
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  Speaker 1: he would weep over Gaza and Jerusalem alike. Innocent Blood
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  Speaker 1: demands that Christians prayed differently, not for victory, not for revenge,
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  Speaker 1: not for political dominance, but for mercy, healing, justice, protection, repentance,
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  Speaker 1: and salvation. Innocent Blood demands that Christians pray for every
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  Speaker 1: wounded heart, every grieving family, every terrified child, every desperate mother,
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  Speaker 1: every hopeless farm on both sides of the wall. Innocent
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  Speaker 1: Blood also reminds Christians that the true enemy is not Israel.
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  Speaker 1: It is not Gaza, it is not Judaism, it is
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  Speaker 1: not Islam. It is not governments or civilians. The true
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  Speaker 1: enemy is Satan, the thief who comes to steal, kill
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  Speaker 1: and destroy. He fuels hatred, stirs fear, spreads lies, and
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  Speaker 1: blinds hearts with rage. He wants generations locked in pain
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  Speaker 1: so they never find peace, but innocent blood cries out
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  Speaker 1: for something more truth. And this leads us to the
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  Speaker 1: next question every Christian must answer, does prophecy explain today's conflict?
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  Speaker 1: Whenever war erupts in Israel or Gaza, Christians around the
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  Speaker 1: world begin asking the same urgent question, is this prophecy?
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  Speaker 1: Some believe every headline is a direct fulfillment of scripture,
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  Speaker 1: Others fear we are witnessing the start of the end times,
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  Speaker 1: and still others dismiss biblical prophecy altogether, calling everything coincidence.
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  Speaker 1: But the Bible is not silent. God did not leave
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  Speaker 1: his people confused. Prophecy does not give us every detail,
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  Speaker 1: but it does give us a framework, a lens, and
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  Speaker 1: a warning. The first thing Christians must understand is this
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  Speaker 1: not every conflict in Israel is a sign of the
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  Speaker 1: end times. Throughout history, the land has seen hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: wars Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Crusaders, Ottomans, British armies,
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  Speaker 1: neighboring nations, internal uprisings. If every war meant the end
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  Speaker 1: was near, the world would have ended centuries ago. God
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  Speaker 1: is not asking us to panic. He is asking us
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention. But we must also understand this. Prophecy
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  Speaker 1: does explain the spiritual atmosphere of today, not by predicting
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  Speaker 1: specific battles, but by revealing patterns, and those patterns are
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  Speaker 1: unfolding before our eyes. Prophecy reveals that Jerusalem would be
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  Speaker 1: a cup of trembling to all nations, a place the
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  Speaker 1: world cannot ignore, a city that attracts global tension and
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  Speaker 1: spiritual conflict Zechariah twelve two. That is exactly what we
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  Speaker 1: see to day. Every nation watches, every government reacts, every
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  Speaker 1: media outlet covers it. Jerusalem remains the most spiritually sensitive
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  Speaker 1: city on earth because God placed his name there. Prophecy
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  Speaker 1: reveals that the Jewish people would return to their land
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  Speaker 1: after being scattered among the nations Ezekiel thirty six to
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven. That happened in the twentieth century, after nearly
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  Speaker 1: two thousand years. No other people in history have been
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  Speaker 1: scattered worldwide and then returned to their original homeland with
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  Speaker 1: their ancient language restored. This does not mean Israel is
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  Speaker 1: spiritually right. It means God is keeping his promises, even
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  Speaker 1: while Israel remains spiritually blind. Prophecy reveals that the nations
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  Speaker 1: surrounding Israel would remain in tension with her, not because
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  Speaker 1: of politics, but because of spiritual history Psalm eighty three,
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel thirty five. Today Israel is surrounded by nations with grief, trauma, pain,
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  Speaker 1: and long memories, and God sees the suffering on every side.
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  Speaker 1: Prophecy reveals that war, fear, rumors, deception, hatred, and division
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  Speaker 1: will increase as the world moves closer to the return
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  Speaker 1: of Christ Matthew twenty four. These things do not point
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  Speaker 1: to a calendar date. They point to a spiritual climate,
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  Speaker 1: and we are living in it. But here is where
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  Speaker 1: many Christians go wrong. They take these prophecies and use
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  Speaker 1: them to justify war, hatred, or coldness of heart. They
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  Speaker 1: say this must happen, so we don't need compassion. They
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  Speaker 1: say this is prophecy, so we don't need to pray
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  Speaker 1: for peace. They say this is the end, so people's
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  Speaker 1: suffering doesn't matter. That is not biblical, that is not Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: that is not the Spirit of God. Prophecy is not
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  Speaker 1: an excuse for apathy. Prophecy is a call to urgency, repentance, compassion,
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  Speaker 1: and prayer. Prophecy is meant to break pride, not inflame it.
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  Speaker 1: Prophecy is meant to draw Christians closer to God, not
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  Speaker 1: closer to political arguments. Prophecy is not about choosing sides
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  Speaker 1: in war. Prophecy is about choosing to stand faithfully with
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  Speaker 1: God as the world shakes, and prophecy something else. It
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  Speaker 1: reminds us that both Israel and Gaza need salvation. Prophecy
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  Speaker 1: reveals a future where many Jewish people will recognize Jesus
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  Speaker 1: as Messiah Zechariah twelve ten Romans eleven. It also reveals
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  Speaker 1: that people from every nation, including Arab nations, will worship
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  Speaker 1: before God's throne Isaiah nineteen twenty three to twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: That means God has a redemptive plan for both peoples.
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  Speaker 1: Conflict today does not cancel God's promises. It does not
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  Speaker 1: stop his mercy. It does not erase his love for
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  Speaker 1: each family caught in this storm. But there is another
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  Speaker 1: side to prophecy, a sobering side. The Bible warns that
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East will remain unstable until the Prince of
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  Speaker 1: Peace returns. Human governments cannot create lasting peace. Political agreements
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  Speaker 1: may pause violence, but they cannot heal hatred or remove
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  Speaker 1: spiritual blindness. Only Jesus can bring true peace, and until
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  Speaker 1: he comes, the land will continue to wrestle spiritually. So
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  Speaker 1: does Prophecy explain today, Yes, not by pointing to specific
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  Speaker 1: bombs or specific leaders, but by revealing the spiritual battle
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  Speaker 1: underneath the surface. The shaking of the land is real,
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  Speaker 1: the tension is ancient, the warfare is deep. But Prophecy
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  Speaker 1: also gives hope. God will fulfill his plan. God will
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  Speaker 1: call all nations to himself. God will reveal truth to
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  Speaker 1: hearts that seek him. God will establish peace that cannot
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  Speaker 1: be broken. And understanding Prophecy prepares us for the next question,
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  Speaker 1: the question at the center of every believer's struggle. How
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  Speaker 1: should Christians see Israel? What does the Bible actually teach?
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  Speaker 1: If Prophecy reveals the spiritual patterns behind us in today's conflict,
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  Speaker 1: then the next question becomes impossible to avoid. How should
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  Speaker 1: Christians see Israel? Not politically, not emotionally, not through the
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  Speaker 1: lens of media or culture, but through the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: Because the way Christians see Israel determines how we pray,
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  Speaker 1: how we speak, and how we represent God's heart In
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  Speaker 1: a world filled with tension, The first truth Scripture teaches
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  Speaker 1: is simple but often misunderstood. Israel is chosen, but not
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  Speaker 1: because they are better. God did not choose Israel because
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  Speaker 1: they were more righteous, more powerful, or more deserving. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: God says the opposite. I did not choose you because
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  Speaker 1: you were great, he told them, but because of my
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  Speaker 1: promise and my love. Israel's calling is based on God's faithfulness,
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  Speaker 1: not their perfection. From Abraham to Moses to David to
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  Speaker 1: the Prophet, Israel's story is one of mercy, not superiority.
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  Speaker 1: God chose them to reveal his character, his holiness, his justice,
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  Speaker 1: and his plans for redemption. They were meant to be
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  Speaker 1: a light to the nations, a people who showed the
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  Speaker 1: world who God is. But instead of shining that light,
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  Speaker 1: many times they turned away, fell into idolatry, embraced in justice,
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  Speaker 1: and ignored God's warnings. God disciplined them not because he
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  Speaker 1: rejected them, but because he loved them. The second truth
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  Speaker 1: is this, Israel's unbelief breaks God's heart. Jesus wept over
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem not because of Roman politics, not because of land issues,
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  Speaker 1: but because the people who waited for the Messiah could
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  Speaker 1: not recognize him When he stood before them, He said,
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  Speaker 1: how often I longed to gather you, but you were
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  Speaker 1: not willing. That cry still echoes today. Many Jewish people
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  Speaker 1: remain spiritually blinded. They honor Moses, but do not see
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  Speaker 1: the one Moses wrote about. They study the prophets, but
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  Speaker 1: do not see the fulfillment standing in front of them.
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  Speaker 1: This is why Christians must pray for Israel, not only
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  Speaker 1: for protection, but for repentance, for the lifting of spiritual blindness,
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  Speaker 1: for hearts to soften, and for eyes to see Jesus
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  Speaker 1: as Messiah. It is not anti Israel to pray for
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  Speaker 1: Israel's repentance. It is biblical. God desires that his people
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  Speaker 1: return to Him, and every revival in Scripture begins with repentance.
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  Speaker 1: The third truth is often forgotten. Israel is not innocent
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  Speaker 1: simply because they are Israel. Some Christians believe supporting Israel
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  Speaker 1: means ignoring injustice or wrongdoing committed by Israeli leaders, but
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  Speaker 1: this is not what the Bible teaches. God judged Israel
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  Speaker 1: more severely than any other nation when they oppress the poor,
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  Speaker 1: shed innocent blood, or acted proudly. He sent prophets to
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  Speaker 1: rebuke kings. He sent drought famine and exile. He did
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  Speaker 1: not say you are Israel, therefore everything you do is right.
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  Speaker 1: He said you are Israel, therefore you will be held accountable.
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  Speaker 1: That means Christians should support what God supports righteousness, justice, humility,
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  Speaker 1: and reject what God rejects cruelty, pride, and injustice. True
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  Speaker 1: support is not blind allegiance. True support is praying that
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  Speaker 1: Israel returns to God, walks in righteousness, and embraces the
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  Speaker 1: Messiah they were promised. The fourth truth is this Israel
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  Speaker 1: is still part of God's plan. Paul writes in Romans
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  Speaker 1: eleven that Israel has experienced a partial hardening until the
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  Speaker 1: fullness of the nations comes in. He also declares that
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  Speaker 1: God is not finished with them. He has not rejected them.
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  Speaker 1: He has a plan to bring many Jewish hearts back
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  Speaker 1: to himself. There will be a future turning, a future awakening,
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  Speaker 1: a future recognition of Jesus as Messiah. This is not political,
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  Speaker 1: This is prophetic, and Christians should long for the day
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  Speaker 1: when Israel sees the one they have pierced and mourns
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  Speaker 1: in repentance. But the fifth truth is equally important. God
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  Speaker 1: also sees and loves the nations. Surrounding Israel. Christians must
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  Speaker 1: never think God's heart stops at Israel's border. He loves Egyptians,
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  Speaker 1: he loves Jordanians, he loves Lebanese, he loves Syrians, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: he loves Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza.
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  Speaker 1: God promised Abraham that through him all nations would be blessed,
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  Speaker 1: not just one, through Jesus, God op and the Covenant
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  Speaker 1: to the entire world. That means salvation is offered to
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  Speaker 1: Jew and Arab, to Israeli and Palestinian, to every nation
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: under heaven. So how should Christians see Israel today? Not
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: as perfect, not as politically superior, not as spiritually complete,
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  Speaker 1: but as a people chosen by God to reveal his glory,
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  Speaker 1: A people in need of salvation just like everyone else,
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  Speaker 1: A people with a calling but not yet walking in
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  Speaker 1: its fullness. A people we honor not because of current decisions,
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  Speaker 1: but because God set his promise upon them long ago.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Christians must see Israel with love, but Christians must also
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: see Israel with truth. Love without truth becomes flattery, Truth
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  Speaker 1: without love becomes cruelty. But truth with love becomes alignment
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  Speaker 1: with God. And once we understand how to see Israel.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: One final question emerges with equal wait, Sir, is God
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  Speaker 1: in war? Does He abandon those who suffer? When bombs
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: fall and buildings collapse, When parents bury their children, when
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: fear becomes the daily language of an entire region, when
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  Speaker 1: death seems louder than hope, people begin asking a question
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  Speaker 1: that shakes the soul. Where is God in war? If
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  Speaker 1: God is loving, why does suffering continue? If God is powerful,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: why doesn't he stop it? If God cares, why does
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  Speaker 1: innocent blood cry out with no end? These questions are
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  Speaker 1: not new. Israel asks them when Babylon invaded, Jerusalem asks
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  Speaker 1: them when Rome destroyed the temple. Egypt asks them during plagues,
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  Speaker 1: as Syria, Persia, Greece and Rome ask them during their
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  Speaker 1: own wars. Palestinian families ask them today, Israeli families ask
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  Speaker 1: them to day, and Christians around the world ask them
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  Speaker 1: every time the land trembles again. But Scripture does not
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: leave without answers. To understand where God is during war,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: we must understand how God works, how people choose, and
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: how spiritual warfare unfolds. The first truth is this God
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  Speaker 1: is always present, even when the world is in chaos.
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  Speaker 1: He does not abandon people in war. He draws near.
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  Speaker 1: He hears every cry, he counts every tear. He comforts
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  Speaker 1: the crushed in spirit. He walks through the fire with
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: the suffering. Even when people feel alone, he is there,
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  Speaker 1: close enough to catch every breath of pain. The second
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: truth is harder but necessary. War is the result of
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: human sin, not God's cruelty. God did not create war.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Human rebellion created war. Human pride, human hatred, human fear,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: human greed, human corruption, human revenge. The Bible says, what
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  Speaker 1: causes fights and quarrels among you desires that battle within you.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: Every war begins in the human heart, long before it
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: begins in the streets. If all people obeyed God, walked
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: in his ways and loved their neighbor, war would not exist.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: But humanity resists. God rejects his commands and chooses sin,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: and sin always leads to destruction. War is not proof
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: that God is absent. War is proof that humanity is broken.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: The third truth is deeply sobering. War exposes spiritual warfare
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: that most people never see. Scripture shows that nations rise
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: and fall under the influence of unseen powers. Daniel saw
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: spiritual beings influencing kingdoms. Paul said, our battle is not
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: against flesh and blood. That means the conflict in Israel
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: and Gaza is not just political, It is spiritual. It
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: is ancient. It is fueled by forces that want to
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: destroy peace, truth, unity, repentance, and salvation. Satan loves war
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: because war destroys families, hardens hearts, fuels hatred, blinds nations,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: and silences compassion. But God is not powerless. In the
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: face of this. He works inside the chaos to pull
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: hearts toward him, to protect the innocent, to whisper hope
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: into the darkness, and to draw nations back to repentance.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: The fourth truth. God uses suffering not to harm, but
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: to call people back to himself. Every prophet cried out
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: this message. When nations abandon God, destruction follows. Not because
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: God delights in pain, but because distance from God leads
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: to brokenness. War becomes a wake up call, a shaking,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: a warning, a reminder that the world is fragile and
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: humanity needs salvation. When Israel turned away from God, he
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: allowed nations to discipline them, not to destroy them, but
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: to bring them back. When surrounding nations acted violently, God
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  Speaker 1: warned them too, He judged Assyria for cruelty, He judged
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  Speaker 1: Babylon for pride, he judged Edom for hatred, he judged
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  Speaker 1: Felistia for bloodshed. He does not ignore evil from any nation.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: So where is God in war? He is warning, he
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: is calling, he is drawing hearts, He is offering mercy
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: in the middle of chaos. He is grieving with the grieving,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: comforting the broken, and urging nations to repent. But the
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: fifth truth is the most beautiful of all. God will
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  Speaker 1: one day end all war. Isaiah saw future where swords
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: would be hammered into plowshares, where nations would not learn
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: war anymore, where people would walk in the light of
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: the law. Revelation shows a future where God wipes every tear,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: where death is defeated, where peace is eternal. This peace
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: will not come through human politics, not through military strength,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: not through negotiations, not through borders, not through alliances. It
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: will come through the return of Jesus, the only one
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: capable of ending the cycle of hatred that human sin creates.
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  Speaker 1: Until that day, Christians must understand this. God is present
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  Speaker 1: in war. God is working in war. God is comforting
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  Speaker 1: in war. God is calling in war. God is preparing
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: the world for the Prince of Peace. And now that
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: we know where God stands in the midst of suffering,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: one final question remains the question that reveals the responsibility
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: of every believer. What must the church do in this moment?
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: In the moment when the world is dividing, when scream
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: for allegiance, when nations tremble and people choose sides with anger,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: the Church stands at a cross roads, not a political
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: cross roads, a spiritual one, because the question God is
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: asking his people right now is not which side are
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: you on? The question is will you stand with my heart?
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  Speaker 1: What the Church does in this moment matters more than
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: what nations do. God is watching his people, Heaven is
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: listening to the prayers of believers, and Scripture gives us
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: a blueprint for how the Church must respond when Israel
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: and Gaza are trembling. First, the Church must return to truth.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Not political truth, not emotional truth, not cultural truth, but
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: the truth of God's Word. We cannot let news cycles
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: interpret scripture for us. We cannot allow political pressure to
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: shape our theology. We cannot let our emotions rewrite what
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: God has spoken. The church must open the Bible, listen
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  Speaker 1: to the Holy Spirit and anchor itself in eternal truth.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: God's word is clear. He loves every nation, He mourns
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: every innocent life. He calls all people to repentance. He
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: desires mercy, justice, humility, and peace. Second, the Church must
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: return to intercession, real intercession, not prayers rooted in nationalism,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: not prayers rooted in bitterness, not prayers rooted in pride,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: but prayers rooted in God's will. The Church must pray
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: for Israel to repent, for Gaza to be protected, for
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: the innocent to be shielded, for leaders to be humbled,
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  Speaker 1: for lies to be exposed, for the Gospel to spread,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: for God's will to be done. Not our opinions, not
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: our preferences, not our alliances. God calls his people to
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: stand in the gap, to cry out on behalf of
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: the land, to pray against violence, to pray for mercy,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: to pray for hearts to soften on both sides. Third,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: the Church must walk in love, real love, Love that
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: refuses to demonize either side. Love that mourns with Israeli
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: families and mourns with Palestinian families. Love that sees the
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: image of God in every human being, whether Jewish, Arab, Christian, Muslim,
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  Speaker 1: or secular Love that does not shrink back from truth,
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  Speaker 1: but also does not lose compassion. Love that does not
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: celebrate destruction. Love that does not justify cruelty, Love that
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: moves believers to action, feeding the hungry, supporting ministries in
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: the region, giving to relief efforts, helping rebuild lives shattered
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: by war. Fourth, the Church must speak with wisdom, not
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: with quick rec actions, not with inflammatory statements, not with
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: careless words. The Bible says life and death are in
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: the tongue, and right now the world is drowning in
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: careless words. The Church must speak differently. We must speak
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: with clarity, with humility, with grace, with scripture, with a
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: heart that reflects Jesus, a heart that calls people to
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: the truth without tearing them apart. Fifth, the Church must
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: prepare for revival. In the middle of chaos. Many Jewish
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: people will turn to Jesus. Many Muslims in the region
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: will encounter the Living Christ. Many hearts broken by war
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: will become hearts open to salvation. Scripture promises that God
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: will pour out his spirit on all flesh in Israel,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: in Gaza, in surrounding nations, and in every corner of
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  Speaker 1: the world. Times of shaking often precede times of awakening.
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  Speaker 1: War cannot stop the gospel, Darkness cannot silence truth. The
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is already moving across the Middle East in
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  Speaker 1: ways that cannot be stopped. Finally, the Church must remember
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus is coming not to take sides, not to
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  Speaker 1: elevate one nation above another, but to rule with justice,
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  Speaker 1: to establish peace, to gather his people, and to end
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  Speaker 1: war forever. Our hope is not in political agreements, not
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  Speaker 1: in military power, not in human leaders. Our hope is
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  Speaker 1: in the return of the Prince of Peace. So the
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  Speaker 1: Church must stand awake, alert and faithful, pointing people to Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: not to ideologies, to repentance, not to rage, to salvation,
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  Speaker 1: not to sides. And now, with the weight of truth
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  Speaker 1: before us, the Church must do what the world cannot do.
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  Speaker 1: Turn to God prayer. Far Though you see Israel, you
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  Speaker 1: see Gaza, You see every tear, every fear, every broken home,
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  Speaker 1: every wounded heart. You see the suffering of the innocent,
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  Speaker 1: the cries of the hungry, the shaking of nations, and
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  Speaker 1: the confusion of the world. We ask not for sides,
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  Speaker 1: but for Your will. We ask not for human victory,
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  Speaker 1: but for your mercy. We ask not for political dominance,
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  Speaker 1: but for peace that only you can bring. Turn Israel
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  Speaker 1: back to you, open their eyes to see their Messiah,
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  Speaker 1: protect their people, heal their land, Lead them to repentance,
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  Speaker 1: and show mercy to Gaza. Shield the innocent, to comfort
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  Speaker 1: the broken hearted. Expose every lie, break the chains of oppression.
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  Speaker 1: Reveal your son to those who have never known his love.
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  Speaker 1: Bring peace that human hands cannot create. Bring justice that
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  Speaker 1: human courts cannot produce. Bring healing that human minds cannot understand.
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  Speaker 1: Bring revival that reaches jew and Arab alike. And make
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  Speaker 1: your church faithful, bold, humble, loving, prayerful, and anchored in
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  Speaker 1: your truth. Not guided by politics, guided by the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: not shaped by culture, shaped by the Cross. Lord, Let
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  Speaker 1: your will be done in Israel, in Gaza, in the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East, and in every nation under Heaven. Amen.