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President Trump announces two-week ceasefire in Iran war · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Greetings on this Wednesday, April the 8th, 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Dinnison forums, daily article podcast, written today by Cultural Apologist Dr. Jim Dinnison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Chris Elfkin's narrator.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: President Trump announced on true social late yesterday afternoon that he would quote, suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks, subject to Iran's agreeing to complete immediate and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He added that the U.S. is very far along with a definitive agreement concerning long-term peace with Iran and peace in the Middle East, and stated that a two-week period will allow the agreement to be finalized and consummated.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Trump's announcement delayed why he had warned would be an attack that would cause a whole civilization to die tonight never to be brought back again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Daiida Basada Gachi, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs, responded with a statement on behalf of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: quote, If attacks against Iran are halted, our powerful armed forces will cease their defensive operations.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Harmus will be possible via coordination with Iran's armed forces and with due consideration of technical limitations.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: quote, this is obviously good news for the people of Iran and for those in neighboring states who terror on had threatened to attack if attacked by the U.S. stock features in the U.S. surge over a thousand points this morning while oil plunged and while much with Iran has changed in a day, much is not.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Prior to Mr. Trump's announcement yesterday, Iranian officials called on young people to form human chains around the country's power plants.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Iranian media showed people gathering outside electricity stations in response.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so, as with their massacre of thousands of protesters earlier this year, Iran's leaders are once again willing to sacrifice their people to protect their regime.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Conversely, they believe that America will not attack civilians as they do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What explains the difference?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The answer points to the one change in Iran that can secure its peace in the present and beyond.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Prior to the first-graded awakening, colonial America was trapped in moral and spiritual malaise.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The spiritual fervor of the pilgrims and Puritans who had settled in the new world was gone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: not one in 20 claimed to be a Christian.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Samuel Blair, a pastor of the day, said religion lay as it were dying and ready to expire its last breath of life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When commentator wrote, the new generation had forgotten God, immorality, the bautary, and self-interest ruled.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: worried about the next world, even those who held to the externals of religion, had lost the heart of it, in quote, into such spiritual darkness stepped courageous evangelical preachers, such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield, convinced that salvation comes only through the new birth of personal commitment to Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They, and their fellow evangelists began warning
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and they did, in massive numbers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The gospel led them to personal salvation and sanctification, unifying the body of Christ, and setting it on a mission in the New World.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On Verch took up humanitarian causes, caring for the poor, sick, ED and uneducated.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Visionaries took the gospel to Native Americans and African Americans, many of whom were slaves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Several evangelical colleges were founded, causing literacy rates to rise.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The children of the first great awakening became the fathers of the American Revolution and our nation's commitment to the equality of all people as poorly as we have sometimes kept it is nonetheless at the heart of our national ethos.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By contrast, the Iranian regime used its people as a means to apocalyptic ends.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As I have often written, the country is led by despots bent on the destruction of Israel and the West as a catalyst for the return of the body, their Messiah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They enabled Hamas in its murderous October 7th invasion of Israel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They foment terrorism around the globe.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If they were to possess nuclear weapons, they would endanger us all.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine, however, the difference if Iranians leaders had a Damascus road experience and turned from persecution to preaching.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine the difference if multitude of Iranians turned from the hypocrisy and barbarism of their leaders to the love and grace of Jesus Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine the difference if a spiritual awakening akin to the one that swept colonial America were to sweep the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine the difference for the world if Iran and its leaders were to embrace the one true Savior and love their neighbors as themselves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you pray about this war, I believe the Lord will burden your heart as He has burdened mine to pray for the eternal souls of the Iranian people.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just like you and me, they are loved by the Savior who died for all of us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the most moving scenes in a great awakening, a film about the Ministry of George Whitfield, takes place in a coal field in England.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He evangelists assembles his portable pulpit so he can preach to the miners.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of them tells the preacher he's not wanted here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not wanted, but needed, Whitfield replies.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The miners then throw stones at him, letting his face and lips.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whitfield spits blood from his mouth, turns to the crowd, and implores them to turn from such sin and embrace the Savior.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The man who threw the first stone falls to his knees in repentance, and the crowd follows.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In his journal, Whitfield wrote, when taste of Christ's love in the heart will make a men's for all.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let us pray urgently for