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HOW DID PERSIA BECOME IRAN_ _ The Truth No One Told You _ Bible Documentary · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: The nation that freed the Jewish people from slavery became
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  Speaker 1: the nation that swore to wipe them off the map.
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  Speaker 1: Same land, same bloodline, same soil. How did Persia, the
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  Speaker 1: empire God chose, the kingdom He used to rebuild Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: become Iran? The Persian people rescued Israel from captivity under
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  Speaker 1: the Babylonian Empire.
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  Speaker 2: They freed the Jewish slaves.
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  Speaker 1: They returned the sacred temple vessels that had been stolen.
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  Speaker 1: They funded the rebuilding of the second temple with their
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  Speaker 1: own treasury. Iran and Israel were allies, not rivals, not strangers, allies.
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  Speaker 1: And today, that same nation chants, death to Israel, in
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  Speaker 1: its streets. Something changed, and it wasn't just the name.
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  Speaker 1: Four empires, 2,600 years. And every stage of this transformation
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  Speaker 1: was written down centuries before it happened. In this video,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to trace the full story of how
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  Speaker 1: Persia became Iran. But what you are going to discover
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  Speaker 1: goes far deeper than politics and far deeper than history.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to this nation was fought and is still
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  Speaker 1: being fought in a realm most people never consider. And
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  Speaker 1: if you love the Bible and you love the truth,
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  Speaker 1: Stay with us, because by the end of this video,
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  Speaker 1: your eyes will be open to something you cannot unsee.
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  Speaker 1: To understand what Persia became, you have to understand what
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  Speaker 1: Persia was. In 586 BC, the Babylonian Empire under King
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  Speaker 1: Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Solomon's Temple, burned Jerusalem to the ground, and
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  Speaker 1: dragged the Jewish people into exile. This was not merely
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  Speaker 1: a military defeat. It was the collapse of everything God
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  Speaker 1: had promised them. The temple, the place where heaven touched earth,
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  Speaker 1: where the glory of God had descended in fire and cloud,
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  Speaker 1: was rubble. The city of David was ash. The people
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  Speaker 1: who had been told they were chosen, protected, set apart,
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  Speaker 1: were now slaves in a foreign land, sitting by the
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  Speaker 1: rivers of Babylon and weeping. For 70 years, Israel ceased to.
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  Speaker 2: Exist as a nation.
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  Speaker 1: 70 years of silence. 70 years of waiting for a
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  Speaker 1: promise that seemed broken beyond repair. And then a man
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  Speaker 1: named Cyrus rode out of the mountains of Persia and
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  Speaker 1: conquered the most powerful empire on earth. 150 years before
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  Speaker 1: Cyrus was born, the prophet Isaiah wrote these words, not approximately...
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  Speaker 1: not in vague symbolic language, but by name. Isaiah 45,
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  Speaker 1: verses 1 through 4. This is what the Lord says
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  Speaker 1: to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take
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  Speaker 1: hold of to subdue nations before him. I summon you
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  Speaker 1: by name and bestow on you a title of honor,
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  Speaker 1: though you do not acknowledge me. God called a pagan
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  Speaker 1: king by name a century and a half before he existed.
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  Speaker 1: And the title he gave him, anointed, is the Hebrew
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  Speaker 1: word Mashiach, the same root word used for Messiah. In
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  Speaker 1: 539 B.C., Cyrus conquered Babylon, exactly as Isaiah had written.
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  Speaker 1: And what did this foreign king do the moment he
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  Speaker 1: held the most powerful throne on earth? He issued a
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  Speaker 1: decree recorded in Ezra chapter 1, verses 2 and 3.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all
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  Speaker 1: the kingdoms of the earth, and he has appointed me
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  Speaker 1: to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.
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  Speaker 1: Any of his people among you may go up. Cyrus
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  Speaker 1: freed the Jewish people. He returned the sacred temple vessels
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  Speaker 1: that Nebuchadnezzar had stolen, cataloged, numbered, and carried back to Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 2: He funded the rebuilding of the temple.
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  Speaker 1: With resources from the Persian treasuries. a pagan king who
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  Speaker 1: did not worship the God of Israel, becoming the most
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  Speaker 1: significant instrument of Israel's restoration in five centuries. And this
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  Speaker 1: is not only scripture. In 1879, archaeologists excavating the ancient
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  Speaker 1: city of Babylon discovered a clay cylinder now housed in
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  Speaker 1: the British Museum. The Cyrus Cylinder records, in Cyrus's own words,
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  Speaker 1: his policy of freeing captive peoples and returning them to
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  Speaker 1: their homelands and temples. Archaeology confirmed what Ezra chapter 1
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  Speaker 1: had said. Etched in clay, 2,500 years ago. This is
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  Speaker 1: who Persia was. The nation God chose to rescue his
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  Speaker 1: people when no one else could. Cyrus is the only
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  Speaker 1: Gentile in the entire Bible that God explicitly calls his anointed.
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  Speaker 1: Not Nebuchadnezzar, despite being called God's servant. not Alexander the Great,
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  Speaker 1: despite fulfilling prophecy to the letter.
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  Speaker 2: Cyrus alone.
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  Speaker 1: A man outside the bloodline of Abraham, outside the covenant
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  Speaker 1: of Moses, outside the lineage of David, given the most
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  Speaker 1: sacred title in the Hebrew vocabulary. This was not an accident.
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  Speaker 1: This was God stamping the land of Persia with a
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  Speaker 1: divine purpose.
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  Speaker 2: He did not.
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  Speaker 1: Merely use Cyrus the way a craftsman uses a tool,
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  Speaker 1: He publicly honored Cyrus in the prophetic record. 150 years
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  Speaker 1: before Cyrus drew his first breath, God was making a statement.
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  Speaker 1: This nation, this land, this people, set apart for my purposes,
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  Speaker 1: which makes what comes next so devastating. Persia carried the
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  Speaker 1: fingerprints of God and was fought over by something determined
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  Speaker 1: to erase them. Same land. Same bloodline, same soil, but
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  Speaker 1: a very different spirit was watching. Before Persia turned against Israel,
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  Speaker 1: there was one more act of salvation on that soil,
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  Speaker 1: one so dramatic, so impossible, so specific in its details
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  Speaker 1: that the Jewish people celebrated to this very day. A
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  Speaker 1: generation after Cyrus, the Persian Empire had grown into the
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  Speaker 1: largest the world had ever seen. 127 provinces stretching from
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  Speaker 1: India to Ethiopia. The capital city was Susa, and archaeologists
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  Speaker 1: have excavated that palace. The layout matches the Book of Esther,
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  Speaker 1: detail by detail. The great courtyard described in Chapter 1,
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  Speaker 1: the inner court where Esther risked her life, the gate
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  Speaker 1: where Mordecai sat, the stones themselves confirm the story, Inside
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  Speaker 1: the palace of King Xerxes, known in the Hebrew text
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  Speaker 1: as Ahasuerus, a young Jewish orphan girl named Esther had
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  Speaker 1: been chosen to be queen of the empire. She had
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  Speaker 1: not revealed her identity. She had not revealed her people.
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  Speaker 1: She was hidden, positioned by a providence she could not
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  Speaker 1: yet see, inside the most powerful court on earth. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: a man named Haman, the king's highest official, had devised
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  Speaker 1: a plan to annihilate every Jewish man, woman, and child
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  Speaker 1: in the empire.
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  Speaker 2: A decree was signed. A date was set.
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  Speaker 1: The genocide was ordered and sealed with the king's own ring.
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  Speaker 1: Esther has not eaten in three days. She has called
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  Speaker 1: every Jew in the city to fast with her.
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  Speaker 2: She knows the law.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone who approaches the king uninvited can be executed on
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  Speaker 1: the spot. the law made no exception for the queen.
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  Speaker 1: She is an orphan girl, raised by her cousin Mordecai,
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  Speaker 1: standing in Persian shoes, about to walk down a hallway
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  Speaker 1: that might be the last hallway she ever walks. She
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  Speaker 1: is not doing this for power. She is not doing
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  Speaker 1: this for recognition. She is doing this because if she
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  Speaker 1: does not walk through that door, her people die. Esther
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  Speaker 1: chapter 4 verse 16 says, If I perish, I perish.
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  Speaker 2: She walks in. The king extends his scepter. She lives.
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  Speaker 1: She reveals her identity. She exposes Haman's plot. And the
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  Speaker 1: entire plan is reversed. Haman is hanged on the very
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  Speaker 1: gallows he had built for Mordecai. The Jewish people are saved.
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  Speaker 1: The festival of Purim is established to mark the day
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  Speaker 1: their destruction became their deliverance. The book of Esther says,
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  Speaker 1: is the only book in the Bible that never mentions
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  Speaker 1: God by name. And yet, God's fingerprints are on every page,
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  Speaker 1: every coincidence, every timing, every reversal. The hidden hand of
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  Speaker 1: a God who never abandoned his people, even in the
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  Speaker 1: land of their enemies. Haman was not simply a powerful
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  Speaker 1: official who harbored anti-Semitism. The Bible tells us in Esther
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  Speaker 1: chapter 3, verse 1, that Haman was an Agagite, a
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  Speaker 1: descendant of Agag, the king of the Amalekites. Go back
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  Speaker 1: to 1 Samuel chapter 15. God commanded King Saul to
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  Speaker 1: destroy the Amalekites completely. Saul won the battle, but he
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  Speaker 1: disobeyed God. He spared King Agag. He kept him alive.
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  Speaker 1: And because of that one act of disobedience, the Amalekite
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  Speaker 1: bloodline survived. It survived the centuries. It survived the exile.
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  Speaker 1: And it surfaced inside the Persian Empire in the form
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  Speaker 1: of a man named Haman, who rose to the second
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  Speaker 1: highest seat of power in the world and used it
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  Speaker 1: to sign a death warrant for every Jewish person alive.
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  Speaker 1: The enemy Israel failed to eliminate in the wilderness showed
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  Speaker 1: up again in Persia to finish the job. The spiritual
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  Speaker 1: enemy of Israel does not die when empires fall.
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  Speaker 2: It relocates. It adapts.
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  Speaker 1: It waits for another throne. Persia, under Cyrus, saved Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Persia under Haman almost destroyed Israel, both on the same soil,
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  Speaker 1: both under the same empire, the same land producing both
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  Speaker 1: the greatest rescue and the most calculated genocide attempt in
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  Speaker 1: Israel's history up to that point. Same land, same bloodline,
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  Speaker 1: same soil, salvation and destruction on the same throne. And
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  Speaker 1: the prophet Daniel, living in this same empire... saw something
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  Speaker 1: that neither Cyrus nor Haman could see. He saw what
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  Speaker 1: was fighting behind the kings, not the political surface, not
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  Speaker 1: the human drama, the invisible war underneath all of it.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel was an old man by this point. He had
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  Speaker 1: served under Babylonian kings and Persian kings. He had survived
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  Speaker 1: lion's dens and political purges. He had seen empires rise
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  Speaker 1: and fall and rise again. And yet, In Daniel chapter 10,
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  Speaker 1: he fasts for 21 days, not eating bread, not drinking wine,
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  Speaker 1: not anointing himself, seeking understanding from God about the future
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  Speaker 1: of his people. On the 21st day, an angel appeared
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  Speaker 1: to him beside the Tigris River. The description is almost
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  Speaker 1: impossible to hold in the mind. A figure with a
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  Speaker 1: face like lightning, eyes like flaming torches, arms and legs
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  Speaker 1: like burnished bronze, a voice like the sound of a multitude.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel fell to the ground. The men with him fled.
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  Speaker 1: He lay there with no strength remaining. And then the
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  Speaker 1: angel said something that reframes everything we have seen in
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  Speaker 1: this video. Daniel chapter 10, verses 12 and 13.
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  Speaker 2: Do not be afraid, Daniel.
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  Speaker 1: Since the first day that you set your mind to
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  Speaker 1: gain understanding, and to humble yourself before God, your words
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  Speaker 1: were heard, and I have come in response to them.
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  Speaker 1: But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days.
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  Speaker 1: Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me,
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  Speaker 1: because I was detained there with the prince of Persia.
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  Speaker 1: Read that carefully. The prince of Persia was not a
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  Speaker 1: human king. Daniel was living under Cyrus, the man God
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  Speaker 1: had called his anointed. There was no human opposition standing
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  Speaker 1: between Daniel and God's answer. What was blocking the angel
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  Speaker 1: was not political. It was spiritual, a demonic principality, a
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  Speaker 1: dark entity assigned to the territory of Persia, so powerful
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  Speaker 1: that it held back an angel of God for three
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  Speaker 1: full weeks, so powerful that Michael the archangel himself had
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  Speaker 1: to be deployed as reinforcement. This passage reveals something that
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  Speaker 1: most Bible readers pass over in a single verse and
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  Speaker 1: never fully reckon with. Behind every nation, there is a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual dimension. Behind every empire, invisible powers are at work.
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  Speaker 1: Earthly thrones have spiritual architects. Political decisions are shaped by
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  Speaker 1: principalities that human eyes cannot see. This is not mythology.
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  Speaker 1: This is not metaphor. This is the Bible pulling back
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  Speaker 1: a curtain that most of history keeps closed. Persia was
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  Speaker 1: God's chosen instrument under Cyrus. But the entire time, even
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  Speaker 1: during the Golden Age, even during the reign of the
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  Speaker 1: king God had named and honored, there was a demonic
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  Speaker 1: power fighting for that territory, contesting God's purposes, attempting to
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  Speaker 1: corrupt the very nation God had used for salvation. This
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  Speaker 1: is the answer to the question, no history book can explain.
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  Speaker 1: Why did Persia, the nation God honored above all earthly kingdoms, change?
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  Speaker 1: Why did the land that produced Cyrus eventually produce Haman?
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  Speaker 1: Why does the same soil keep producing both rescue and destruction?
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  Speaker 1: It was not simply politics. It was not merely culture.
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  Speaker 1: It was a spiritual war, a war Daniel saw a
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  Speaker 1: war being fought over the soul of a nation across centuries.
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  Speaker 1: And over the long course of history, the prince of
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  Speaker 1: Persia won. But here is what almost no one catches
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  Speaker 1: in this passage. After telling Daniel about the prince of Persia,
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  Speaker 1: the angel says this, Daniel 10, verse 20, Soon I
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  Speaker 1: will return to fight against the prince of Persia, and
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  Speaker 1: when I go, the prince of Greece will come. the
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  Speaker 1: angel revealed the entire succession of world empires through the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual entities that governed them. Persia would fall, and the
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  Speaker 1: next principality, the Prince of Greece, was already waiting in
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  Speaker 1: the wings. God did not show Daniel a political forecast.
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  Speaker 1: He showed him the spiritual architecture of human history, the
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  Speaker 1: invisible order behind the visible world. Nations do not merely
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  Speaker 1: rise and fall because of economics and military strength. They
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  Speaker 1: rise and fall because of wars being fought in dimensions
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  Speaker 1: the human eye cannot see. The prince of Persia that
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  Speaker 1: detained God's angel in Daniel chapter 10 is the same
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  Speaker 1: spirit that would work across centuries, corrupting, reclaiming, redirecting, turning
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  Speaker 1: God's instrument into God's adversary. The Persian Empire that Cyrus
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  Speaker 1: built would fall, exactly as Daniel saw. And the long
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  Speaker 1: journey from that fall to the nation we recognize today
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  Speaker 1: would be the darkest chapter in the history of that land.
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  Speaker 1: The Persian Empire did not fade quietly. It was shattered,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bible had described exactly how, centuries before the
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  Speaker 1: first sword was drawn. Daniel chapter 8 records a vision.
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  Speaker 1: a powerful ram with two horns charging west and north
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  Speaker 1: and south. No animal could stand against it. Then from
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  Speaker 1: the west, a goat with a prominent horn between its eyes,
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  Speaker 1: moving so fast across the earth that its feet did
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  Speaker 1: not touch the ground. The goat strikes the ram. The
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  Speaker 1: ram's horns are broken. The ram is trampled. The goat's
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  Speaker 1: single horn then shatters and splits into four. God interpreted
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  Speaker 1: this vision for Daniel directly. Daniel 8, verses 20 and 21.
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  Speaker 1: The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of
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  Speaker 1: Media and Persia. The shaggy goat is the king of Greece,
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  Speaker 1: and the large horn between its eyes is the first king.
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  Speaker 1: In 331 B.C., Alexander the Great crushed the Persian army
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  Speaker 1: at the Battle of Gaugamela, the greatest empire the world
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  Speaker 1: had known, the empire that freed the Jews, the empire
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  Speaker 1: God called his anointed, fell to a 25-year-old Macedonian king
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  Speaker 1: in a single engagement. Alexander then died young, and his
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  Speaker 1: empire split into four kingdoms, exactly as Daniel's vision described.
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  Speaker 1: Secular scholars have spent centuries arguing this prophecy must have
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  Speaker 1: been written after the events it describes. The Dead Sea
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  Speaker 1: Scrolls do not cooperate with that argument. Copies of Daniel
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  Speaker 1: found among them are dated to well before Alexander's conquest.
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  Speaker 1: There is no credible middle ground. Either this is the
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  Speaker 1: greatest literary forgery in the history of ancient documents, or
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  Speaker 1: it is exactly what it claims to be, prophecy written
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  Speaker 1: by a man who saw the future because God showed
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  Speaker 1: it to him. After Alexander, The land of Persia changed
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  Speaker 1: hands three times over the next six centuries. Each new
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  Speaker 1: empire brought new rulers, new languages, new ambitions. And yet,
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  Speaker 1: something survived every conquest. The ancient Persian identity refused to die.
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  Speaker 1: The Zoroastrian faith endured. The memory of Cyrus endured. Conquerors
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  Speaker 1: came and went, but the soil remembered what God had
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  Speaker 1: done on it. In 636 AD, at the Battle of Al-Qadisiyah,
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  Speaker 1: the Sassanid Persian Empire was crushed by Arab armies advancing
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  Speaker 1: under the banner of a new religion. What followed was
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  Speaker 1: not merely a military occupation. It was a spiritual replacement.
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  Speaker 1: The ancient Zoroastrian fire temples, some of them burning continuously
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  Speaker 1: for centuries, were extinguished or converted into mosques. Zoroastrian priests
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  Speaker 1: were silenced. Persian libraries containing generations of accumulated knowledge were destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: The people were given limited options, convert, pay a subjugation tax,
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  Speaker 1: or face the consequences. Within two centuries, the land where
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  Speaker 1: Cyrus had freed the Jews, where Esther had saved a nation,
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  Speaker 1: where Daniel had seen the invisible war, was unrecognizable in faith,
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  Speaker 1: in governance, and in spiritual orientation. The prince of Persia
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  Speaker 1: was no longer fighting from the shadows. He had claimed
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  Speaker 1: the territory openly. Then, in 1935, the last echo of
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  Speaker 1: the biblical name was erased. Reza Shah Pahlavi asked the
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  Speaker 1: international community to stop calling his country Persia and begin
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  Speaker 1: using Iran. The word Iran means land of the Aryans,
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  Speaker 1: a nationalist ethnic identity reaching back to pre-Islamic Persian roots,
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  Speaker 1: chosen during an era of European fascist influence and pan-Aryan ideology.
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  Speaker 1: The name that God had written into scripture, the name
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah used, the name Ezekiel used, the name that appears
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  Speaker 1: in the prophetic record across multiple books, was officially removed
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  Speaker 1: from the world map. But God did not update his text.
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel 38 still reads Persia, not Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Persia.
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  Speaker 1: Because God does not recognize the rebranding. He sees through
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  Speaker 1: the name change to the territory, the people, and the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual war that was never finished. Same land, same bloodline,
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  Speaker 1: same soil. the name erased, the faith replaced, the fire gone.
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  Speaker 1: In 1979, something happened in Iran that has no parallel
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  Speaker 1: in modern history. Not a coup, not a gradual shift,
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  Speaker 1: a complete spiritual reversal, overnight, of a nation of 40
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  Speaker 1: million people. The Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, had been modernizing
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  Speaker 1: Iran for decades. Western alliances, infrastructure investment, a functioning relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Israel. Under the Shah, Iran and Israel shared intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: traded openly, and maintained formal diplomatic ties. More than 80,000
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  Speaker 1: Jewish people lived in Iran in relative peace and prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: The Israeli embassy operated in Tehran. Iranian officials traveled to Jerusalem. Then,
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  Speaker 1: Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile in February 1979. Within months,
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  Speaker 1: everything reversed. Death to Israel became a national slogan, not
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  Speaker 1: a protest chant, but a governmental position embedded in revolutionary ideology.
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  Speaker 1: The Israeli embassy in Tehran was handed to the Palestinian
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  Speaker 1: Liberation Organization the very next day after the revolution consolidated power.
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  Speaker 1: Universities were shut down for three years. Music was banned.
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  Speaker 1: Ancient Persian cultural festivals were suppressed as incompatible with Islamic
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  Speaker 1: revolutionary identity. The Jewish population of Iran collapsed, from 80,000
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  Speaker 1: to fewer than 8,000 in the years following the revolution.
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  Speaker 1: The nation that Cyrus had built to be a blessing
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  Speaker 1: to God's people had become the primary financier of their destruction.
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  Speaker 1: Iran funds Hamas. responsible for the October 7th massacre. Iran
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  Speaker 1: funds Hezbollah, decades of attacks on northern Israel. Iran funds
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  Speaker 1: the Houthis. Iran has launched direct ballistic missile strikes on
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  Speaker 1: Israeli territory. The transformation was total. If you understand Daniel
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  Speaker 1: chapter 10, then 1979 is not a mystery. It is
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  Speaker 1: the completion of a process that began before Alexander's conquest.
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  Speaker 1: The prince of Persia did not retire when the Sassanid
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  Speaker 1: dynasty fell. Spiritual principalities do not dissolve when empires collapse.
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  Speaker 2: They wait. They corrupt. They reclaim.
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  Speaker 1: And in 1979, the claim was finalized. The thread that
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  Speaker 1: had persisted, the remnant of tolerance, of coexistence, of the
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  Speaker 1: ancient Persian spirit that God had once publicly honored, was cut.
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  Speaker 1: But now, Here is what no one is talking about.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the part of the story that will
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  Speaker 1: change the way you see everything we have covered. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: in Tehran, a young woman is reading a Bible she
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  Speaker 1: downloaded on a secret application. She has never been inside
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  Speaker 1: a church. She has never met a pastor face to face.
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  Speaker 1: She could be arrested, imprisoned, or worse for what she
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  Speaker 1: is reading. The Islamic Republic makes the penalties for apostasy
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  Speaker 1: and Christian evangelism severe and enforceable. But she found him.
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  Speaker 1: Not in the mosques, not in the revolution, not in
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  Speaker 1: the slogans. In the words of a God who named
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  Speaker 1: her nation before she was born, and she is not alone.
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  Speaker 1: The fastest growing church in the world today is not
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  Speaker 1: in America. It is not in South Korea. which has
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  Speaker 1: historically been the benchmark for rapid Christian growth.
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  Speaker 2: It is in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Millions of Iranians are leaving Islam and turning to Jesus Christ, underground,
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  Speaker 1: in secret, at personal risk that most Western Christians cannot imagine.
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  Speaker 1: House churches meeting in living rooms, believers discipled through encrypted messaging.
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  Speaker 1: A revival happening in the nation that officially denies it
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  Speaker 1: is possible. The prince of Persia claimed the territory, but
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  Speaker 1: the god who named Cyrus before his birth, who positioned
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  Speaker 1: Esther in the palace before the crisis came, who showed
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  Speaker 1: Daniel the invisible war before it was fought, is counterattacking
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  Speaker 1: on the same soil, one soul at a time, in
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  Speaker 1: the same land where he has always fought. The battle
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  Speaker 1: for Persia is not over. Everything we have covered leads here,
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  Speaker 1: every chapter. Every turn, every reversal, the entire 2,600-year arc
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  Speaker 1: has been moving toward this. Ezekiel 38, verses 5 and 6. Persia, Cush,
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  Speaker 1: and Put will be with them. Gomer and all its troops,
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  Speaker 1: and Beth Togarmah from the far north, and all its troops,
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  Speaker 1: the many nations with you. God named Persia, not Iran, Persia,
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  Speaker 1: as part of the final military coalition that will come
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  Speaker 1: against Israel in the last days, led by Gog, from
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  Speaker 1: the land of Magog, from the uttermost parts of the north.
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  Speaker 1: This coalition includes the territory of modern Russia, modern Turkey,
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  Speaker 1: modern Iran, Sudan, and Libya. And Ezekiel wrote their assembly 2,600
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  Speaker 1: years before the alliance existed. In January 2025, Russia and
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  Speaker 1: Iran signed a 20-year comprehensive strategic partnership treaty, the deepest
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  Speaker 1: formal military alliance in the history of the two nations.
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  Speaker 1: Turkey's leadership has publicly called for Israel's devastation. The nations
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel named are not drifting toward alignment. They have signed documents.
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  Speaker 1: The Persia of Cyrus freed Israel. The Persia of Ezekiel
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  Speaker 1: 38 marches against Israel. Same name, same territory, opposite mission.
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  Speaker 1: The full arc of the spiritual war completed. But here
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  Speaker 1: is what most people never notice. It is not only who.
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  Speaker 2: Is on Ezekiel's list. It is who is not.
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel chapter 38 verse 13. Sheba and Dadan and the
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  Speaker 1: merchants of Tarshish will say to you, Have you come
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  Speaker 1: to seize plunder? Sheba and Dayton are the ancient territories
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  Speaker 1: of the Arabian Peninsula, modern Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states.
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  Speaker 1: They do not fight. They watch from the sidelines and
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  Speaker 1: ask questions. In 2026, the nations absent from Ezekiel's coalition
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  Speaker 1: are the precise nations that have signed peace agreements with
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  Speaker 1: Israel or maintain quiet cooperation. Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain.
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  Speaker 1: The nations present on the list are the precise nations
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  Speaker 1: in active hostility toward Israel. Ezekiel drew this map when
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  Speaker 1: none of these modern nations existed, when there was no
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  Speaker 1: Israel to be.
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  Speaker 2: At peace with.
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  Speaker 1: When there was no Israel to be at peace with,
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  Speaker 1: when the Arabian Peninsula was desert tribes with no embassies
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  Speaker 1: and no treaties, the absence is as prophetic as the presence.
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  Speaker 1: The God who wrote Cyrus' name into Isaiah's scroll 150
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  Speaker 1: years before Cyrus was born, named Persia in the final
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  Speaker 1: battle before that battle had a date. He tracked one
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  Speaker 1: nation across 26 centuries with a precision that leaves no
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  Speaker 1: room for accident. Every stage written, every stage fulfilled or fulfilling.
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  Speaker 1: And the same God who tracked one nation with that
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  Speaker 1: kind of precision is the same God who sent His
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  Speaker 1: Son to track you across every year of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Empires rise, empires fall, principalities fight for territory. But Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ did not come to save an empire.
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  Speaker 2: He came to save you.
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  Speaker 1: Same land, same bloodline, same soil. And the God who
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  Speaker 1: named Persia knows yours. His invitation is not bound to
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  Speaker 1: any nation, any government, or any revolution. It is personal,
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  Speaker 1: it is open, and it has not expired. If this
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  Speaker 1: video opened your eyes to the full picture of share
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  Speaker 1: this story is one chapter in a much larger book
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  Speaker 1: that is writing itself right now. Comment below what part
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  Speaker 1: of this story shocked you the most.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you. Until next time.