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Why is Greenland dominating the news? · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Greetings, and welcome to Dinnison Forum's Daily Article Podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Chris Elkins, new rating today's Daily Article, authored by our CEO, Dr. Jim Dinnison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Greenblun is the world's largest island.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, until recent months, I don't remember seeing even a single headline about it in the news.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, it's hard to miss them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: President Trump recently told reporters at the White House, quote,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: whether they like it or not, because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland and we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quote, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the administration's goal is to buy the island.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The U.S. could also boost its military presence in Greenland.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or it could take the island by force, but since the semi-autonomous region is part of NATO Allied Denmark, such an invasion could imperial NATO itself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Why such interest in a sparsely inhabited island 3,000 miles from the US?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: According to the Trump administration, Greenland is now critical to Western security.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Vice President J.D.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Vance said last week, the entire missile defense infrastructure is partially dependent on Greenland.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A opinion columnist John McLean agreed, writing in the Hill, quote,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Greenland matters because the Arctic matters, melting ice has turned what was once eight frozen buffer into a contested corridor, shipping lanes are emerging, subsea cables snake across the ocean floor, missile paths shorten, surveillance gaps grow, Russian knows this, China knows this, both are investing heavily in Arctic presence, infrastructure, and influence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The U.S. can either treat Greenland as a distant curiosity, or ask what it actually is, a forward position in a region that will define future power balances.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quote, Whatever our view of this issue, it highlights the fact that any nation's first concern is and will always be with national security.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But nothing we can do secures us perfectly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Government strategists thought our massive naval installation at Pearl Harbor would protect
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  [SPEAKER_00]: not cause us to enter it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We thought our oceans and superpower military might would protect us from a homeland invasion until 9-11 proved as wrong.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There is ultimately only one answer to our perennial quest for security.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll warn you in advance that you may find my proposal simplistic and naive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But as I'll try to explain, that's precisely the problem.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Many readers of the New Testament know that Matthew wrote
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What we might miss, however, is the fact that he needed to show Jesus to be there only Messiah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: False Messiahs were common in the day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The New Testament refers to three of them, Judas in Acts 5, verse 36, Judah the Galilee in, in verse 37,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and an unnamed Egyptian in Acts 21, verse 38.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, in Matthew 9 alone, the writer documents five Acts Jesus performed that only the true and divine Messiah could accomplish.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In Matthew 9, verses 1 through 8, he forgave a paralytic sin and healed his body as proof.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In vs. 2322, he healed a woman who had been sick for 12 years and whose disease had been incurable, which is also recounted in Mark 5 vs. 26.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We read in Matthew 9 vs. 25 that he raised a dead girl to life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In verses 27 through 31 of Matthew 9, he healed two blind men, and as we read in verses 32 and 33 of Matthew 9, he exercised a demon thus healing a man who had been mute.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, Jesus did what only Jesus could do, now he wants to do the same for us and through us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Around AD95, Clement of Rome wrote an epistle to the Corinthians in which he included this prayer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You are the god of all flesh.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You behold what is hidden in the depths.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You see all that men do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You give help to those in peril and rescue those without hope.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By your action made visible the everlasting structure of the universe and set the earth on its foundations.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For all generations, you have been faithful and just in your judgments and wonderful in your power and majesty, wisely you have created and wisely you have kept things in being.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All that we see shows your goodness to all who trust you, you are faithful, kind and merciful.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Clement therefore asked, come Lord, let your face shine upon us so that we may peacefully enjoy all good things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: May your powerful hand be a roof over our heads, and may your strength preserve us from all wrongdoing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Free us, Lord, from those who hate us without cause.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Give peace and harmony to us, and to all the inhabitants of the earth, as you gave them to our
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  [SPEAKER_00]: you alone give us these gifts and confer these favors on us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Why should we make Climitz prayer hours today?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our God has the power to defeat the mydiast armies as referenced in 2nd Chronicles 20 vs 1 through 30 and rulers, referenced in Acts 12 vs 1 through 24.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: From Psalm 4 verse 8, we know that we can ask him for security only he can provide, then trust him to walk with us through our gravest dangers, promised in Isaiah 43 verses 13, and redeem them for his glory and our good revealed in Romans 8 verse 28 and Philippians 1 verse 6.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But we can also ask him to change the hearts of those who endanger our world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: From Jonah chapter 3, we know that what God did in Nineveh
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He has the power to do in any nation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If he could turn Constantine the Great to himself and the Roman Empire with him, he can turn any ruler and any empire from war to peace.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, as John Wesley once observed, God does nothing but an answer to prayer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Wesley may have had James 4 verse 2 in mind, you do not have because you do not ask.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: would God do more to prevent war and advance peace in our fractured world if only his people would ask him to?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Right now, you may be thinking this is too simplistic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That asking God to bring the warmongers of our time to repentance and peace to our planet is naive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But is it?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 2 verse 4 reveals that one day, God shall decide to
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  [SPEAKER_00]: neither shall they learn war anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Could our intercession bring that day one day closer to this day?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And could our prayer for peace draw our hearts closer to the prince of peace who still calms the storms of our souls?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The way we answer our questions will determine the answers today.