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Out of Zion with Susan Michael - The Dark Spiritual Truth Behind Antisemitism (What the Bible Warns Us About) · LifeAudio

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey there, welcome to this week's Out of Zion podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Dr. Susan Michael.
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  Speaker 2: And today we are going to continue our series talking
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  Speaker 2: about the problem of antisemitism. But this is really important today.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to stick with me as we're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about the biblical explanation for antisemitism. I know
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  Speaker 2: that most of my listening audience are Christian. It's really
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  Speaker 2: important that you understand the the spiritual background to anti-Semitism
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  Speaker 2: so that you know what to do.
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  Speaker 3: Let's take a break and hear a message from one
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  Speaker 3: of our sponsors. Welcome to the Israel Answers series, connecting Israel,
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  Speaker 3: the Bible, and you. Join Susan Michael as she explores
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  Speaker 3: timely issues and current events from a scriptural perspective to
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  Speaker 3: equip the Christian world with a balanced and biblical response.
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  Speaker 3: Be sure to subscribe for future episodes, which will ignite
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  Speaker 3: your faith and bring the Bible to life in your
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  Speaker 3: everyday world. Now, let's join Susan with your Israel answers.
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  Speaker 2: So let's review, first of all, the problem in case
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  Speaker 2: you haven't been listening the last few weeks. Antisemitism is
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  Speaker 2: just absolutely exploding around the world since the October 7,
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  Speaker 2: 2023 attack on Israel. And a new survey released by
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  Speaker 2: Combat Antisemitism Movement found that 57% of Jewish Americans have
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  Speaker 2: experienced antisemitism in the last year. So that's the equivalent
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  Speaker 2: of like 3.3 million adults and maybe 250,000 children have
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  Speaker 2: experienced antisemitism. Here in the United States... That's just unacceptable.
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  Speaker 2: It's astounding. And this is why it's so important that
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  Speaker 2: we understand the problem. Anti-Semitism is no longer just out
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  Speaker 2: in the fringes, whether it's the far right or the
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  Speaker 2: far left. It's now moving into the mainstream. And that's
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  Speaker 2: where you and I live. And that's why we need
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  Speaker 2: to understand it and guard against it. Recent elections in
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  Speaker 2: New York and in Michigan proved that it's moving into
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  Speaker 2: the mainstream. It's now a part of political discourse and campaigns.
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  Speaker 2: On the right, we have significant voices claiming to be
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  Speaker 2: Christian and yet espousing anti-Semitism. So how is all this happening?
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  Speaker 2: Because we have foreign funding and we have the invasive
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  Speaker 2: influence of social media. We talked all about this in
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  Speaker 2: the last two weeks. So today I just want to
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  Speaker 2: reiterate how big the problem is that we have here
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  Speaker 2: in the United States, even in K-12 and in our
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  Speaker 2: education system, we have anti-Semitism so bad that our teachers'
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  Speaker 2: unions are espousing it. So coming up in the ranks
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  Speaker 2: here in America is a new generation who have been
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  Speaker 2: schooled in socialism, Marxism, Islamist, jihadist ideology, and anti-Israel thought.
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  Speaker 2: So they're skeptical of Christianity. They're skeptical of America, of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: of Western civilization even. Some of them are even being
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  Speaker 2: primed to want revolution. So I may be looking at
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  Speaker 2: a glass half empty, and you prefer to look at
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  Speaker 2: it as half full. It's not all that bad. But
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  Speaker 2: I must sound the alarm. that we have a big problem.
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  Speaker 2: And this is why I want to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: as Christians, we understand it. Because, you know, the people
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  Speaker 2: that committed the worst crime in human history, which was
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  Speaker 2: the Holocaust of 6 million women, men, children, babies, elderly Jews,
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  Speaker 2: the people that perpetrated that, they were not monsters or
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  Speaker 2: from another planet. They were often highly educated, cultured people,
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  Speaker 2: But they had been brainwashed to think that what they
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  Speaker 2: were doing was right. So if they live today, they
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  Speaker 2: would probably tell you how that they're doing this in
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  Speaker 2: the name of helping the Palestinian people or that they're
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  Speaker 2: stopping genocide or some other trumped up charge. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Nazi soldiers had their minds poisoned by anti-Semitism and they
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  Speaker 2: chose to commit the most heinous of crimes in human history.
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  Speaker 2: in the name of a greater good. So don't think
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  Speaker 2: that it cannot happen again.
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  Speaker 1: It can.
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  Speaker 2: And unless we do something to stop current trends, I'm
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  Speaker 2: really afraid that it will happen. So first, let's start
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  Speaker 2: with what is anti-Semitism? It is bigotry towards Jews. It's
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  Speaker 2: hatred of Jewish people. Then there's something called Christian anti-Semitism.
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  Speaker 2: And that's when a professing Christian uses the Christian scriptures
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  Speaker 2: to denigrate Jewish people and support anti-Semitic tropes and conspiracy theories.
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  Speaker 2: So I just want to lay those definitions out there.
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  Speaker 2: And now, you know, I want to talk about the
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  Speaker 2: nature of anti-Semitism. So there's a reason why the historian
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  Speaker 2: Robert Wistrick calls anti-Semitism the longest hatred because this evil
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  Speaker 2: pursuit of the Jewish people has continued for millennia, and
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  Speaker 2: every time it seems to be dying out, it reinvents
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  Speaker 2: itself with a different look, a different name, for a
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  Speaker 2: different generation. But we recognize it by its goal, which
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  Speaker 2: is always at the end of the day, to rid
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  Speaker 2: the world of the Jewish people. Now, no time, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have time today to review the whole history
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  Speaker 2: of anti-Semitism so I can demonstrate to you how that
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  Speaker 2: in different times in history, it came out like a virus.
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  Speaker 2: It mutated and took a different look. That's why we
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  Speaker 2: have for you today a free download on anti-Semitism. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to link to it in the show notes below,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll talk about it again at the end of
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  Speaker 2: today's broadcast. That little downloadable, it's very easy to read.
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  Speaker 1: It's quick.
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  Speaker 2: But it will give you an overview of the history
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  Speaker 2: and the different types of anti-Semitism that we've seen throughout history.
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  Speaker 2: So all that just to say that today, the main
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  Speaker 2: face of anti-Semitism is political anti-Semitism. It's anti-Zionism. It's against
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  Speaker 2: the Jewish state of Israel. And since a Jewish state...
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  Speaker 2: runs antithetical to the ruling philosophies of today. What are
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  Speaker 2: the ruling philosophies? Secularism and globalism. And so Israel is
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  Speaker 2: a Jewish state, it's a religious state, and it's a state,
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  Speaker 2: it's a nation. So it runs against the grain of
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  Speaker 2: globalism and secularism. And that's one reason that being anti-Israel
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  Speaker 2: is actually good gaining wide acceptance today because our young
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  Speaker 2: people are being schooled on the importance of secularism and
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  Speaker 2: globalism along with other things. And Israel's made to look like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the bad guy. So now, not all criticism
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  Speaker 2: of Israel is anti-Semitic. However, criticism of Israel crosses over
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  Speaker 2: and becomes anti-Semitic.
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  Speaker 1: When it first.
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  Speaker 2: Delegitimizes the state, it questions its right to exist, and
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  Speaker 2: when it uses anti-Jewish rhetoric and stereotypes, and when it
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  Speaker 2: judges Israel by a different standard than for other countries,
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  Speaker 2: and lastly, when it becomes an excuse to attack local
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  Speaker 2: Jewish individuals and institutions, that's when you know that it's
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  Speaker 2: not just criticism of a policy, It's actually anti-Semitism questioning
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  Speaker 2: the right of Israel to exist and accusing it of
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  Speaker 2: the most horrendous violations of human rights. So one cannot
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  Speaker 2: demonize a nation, though, without it being a demonization of
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  Speaker 2: the people. And that's why, even though it's anti-Israel, it
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  Speaker 2: ends up being against the Jewish individual as well, because
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  Speaker 2: the people of Israel are a subset of the global
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  Speaker 2: Jewish people. And so demonizing the state of Israel is
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  Speaker 2: demonizing the people that it's made up of. Also, anti-Zionism
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  Speaker 2: is just legitimizing other forms of anti-Semitism. So it's not
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  Speaker 2: the only form out there today.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: There's all kinds of forms of anti-Semitism. But anti-Zionism is
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  Speaker 2: unleashing them. It's giving them the right to come out
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  Speaker 2: of the woodwork, to come out of hiding, and to
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  Speaker 2: rear their ugly head. So today, you know, during the Nazis,
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  Speaker 2: the Heil Hitler was almost a way of just saying,
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  Speaker 2: we support his policies and death to the Jews, but
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  Speaker 2: they would just say Heil. Heil Hitler. Today, what's the slogan?
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  Speaker 2: Palestine will be free from the river to the sea. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what's that? That's genocide of the people of Israel. That's
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  Speaker 2: what that slogan is calling for. But it sounds so
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  Speaker 2: much more acceptable when it's about Palestine will be freed Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we want freedom for everybody, right? That's not what they mean.
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  Speaker 2: They mean that Palestine will be free of the Jews.
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  Speaker 2: So now after October the 7th, 2023, there's just been
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  Speaker 2: an explosion of anti-Semitism.
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  Speaker 1: All around the world.
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  Speaker 2: And even our Christian young people are being bombarded with
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  Speaker 2: it constantly on social media and sometimes on their college campuses.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's feeding a growing movement of within Christian
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  Speaker 2: circles of being anti-Israel.
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  Speaker 3: Let's take a break and hear a message from one
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  Speaker 3: of our sponsors. Welcome back to the Out of Zion
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  Speaker 3: podcast with Susan Michael.
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  Speaker 1: So this is now, that's my introduction.
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  Speaker 2: Now I want to talk to you about the biblical
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  Speaker 2: explanation for this. Anti-Semitism is not just.
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  Speaker 1: A social thing. problem or a a.
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  Speaker 2: Ancient hatred that acts like a virus it is spiritual
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  Speaker 2: and this is what we have to understand it is
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  Speaker 2: an evil spiritual force that's why it's able to mutate
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  Speaker 2: that's why it's able to resist and exist and go
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  Speaker 2: in hiding and come out because this is evil and
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  Speaker 2: in psalm 83 to from the Old Testament, Psalm 83.
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  Speaker 2: It talks about this war against God himself.
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  Speaker 1: Just to paraphrase the first few verses, it says.
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  Speaker 2: O God, those who hate you have declared, let us
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  Speaker 2: cut them off as a nation, that the name of
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  Speaker 2: Israel will be remembered no more. Now, doesn't that sound familiar?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, those words were written, what, 3,000 years ago?
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  Speaker 2: And yet the enemies of God are saying still today,
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  Speaker 2: let's cut Israel off as a nation that her name
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  Speaker 2: will be remembered no more and Palestine will be free
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  Speaker 2: from the river to the sea. Wow. Another verse, now
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about a scripture out of the
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  Speaker 2: New Testament, the book of Revelations. I know Revelation is
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  Speaker 2: quite difficult to understand. It uses a lot of imagery
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  Speaker 2: and allegory, and you don't know what was from the past,
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  Speaker 2: what's from the future, what's from now, and there's all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of different interpretations. But I want to tell you,
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  Speaker 2: if you will sit down and read through Revelation 12 tonight,
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  Speaker 2: I really recommend you do it because you will realize
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  Speaker 2: the imagery here is a reflection of history and of
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  Speaker 2: what's happening today.
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  Speaker 1: It is astounding.
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  Speaker 2: So the vision that John has here is of a
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  Speaker 2: pregnant woman, and she's adorned by the sun and the
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  Speaker 2: moon and the 12 stars. Well, the 12 stars, of course,
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  Speaker 2: depict the 12 tribes of Israel. So this woman, the
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  Speaker 2: pregnant woman who is to give birth to the male
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  Speaker 2: child who is destined to rule the world, Obviously, the
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  Speaker 2: pregnant woman is Israel. She is going to give birth
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  Speaker 2: to the male child. And it says, sitting at her
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  Speaker 2: feet is an evil dragon. And he is there to
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  Speaker 2: devour the male child. But what happens is, it says
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  Speaker 2: that the male child is whisked up to heaven. And
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  Speaker 2: then the woman is protected.
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  Speaker 1: And there's this.
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  Speaker 2: Great war going and the dragon is cast down to earth,
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  Speaker 2: and it says he goes after the woman, and he
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  Speaker 2: is so enraged with her. And it says a flood
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  Speaker 2: comes out of his mouth to get the woman, but
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  Speaker 2: he can't.
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  Speaker 1: She's protected.
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  Speaker 2: The earth like swallows up the flood. Now let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about this for a minute. What comes out of a mouth?
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  Speaker 1: Words. Words.
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  Speaker 2: And here this dragon out of his mouth is a
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  Speaker 2: flood coming after this woman. And it says he had
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  Speaker 2: so enraged with her.
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  Speaker 1: Why? Because of her connection to the male child.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: And her connection isn't over. Yes, she gave birth to
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  Speaker 2: the male child. But we know that the Hebrew prophets
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  Speaker 2: all foretell of the day when that Messiah, that male child,
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  Speaker 2: comes to earth and rules and reigns. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: day the evil in the world is over. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why this dragon is so opposed to this. And it
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  Speaker 2: says if he can't get to her, so what does
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  Speaker 2: he do? He goes after her other offspring, those with
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  Speaker 2: the testimony of Jesus. You see, Israel also gave birth
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  Speaker 2: to the church. And we are also associated with that
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  Speaker 2: male child. And so the same evil spirit that is
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  Speaker 2: persecuting and going after the Jewish people, seeking to annihilate them,
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  Speaker 2: is the same spirit persecuting the church around the world.
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  Speaker 2: We are in this together. And I want to point
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  Speaker 2: out something very, very interesting in the middle of this
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  Speaker 2: description of this happening. It calls the evil dragon the
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  Speaker 2: accuser of the brethren. Now, isn't that what anti-Semitism is
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  Speaker 2: all about? False accusations against the woman. False accusations, lies, propaganda, slogans, accusations, accusations, accusations.
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  Speaker 2: That's what this evil dragon does.
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  Speaker 1: Is so good at. Interesting, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: To me, that is the greatest description and imagery of
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  Speaker 2: the power and the nature of anti-Semitism. Now, a few
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  Speaker 2: chapters later in Revelation 16, there's another very interesting vision
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  Speaker 2: that John has. And there are actually frogs that come
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  Speaker 2: out of the mouth of the dragon the mouth of
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  Speaker 2: the beast, and the mouth of the false prophet. Now
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  Speaker 2: once again, what comes out of mouths but words? And
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  Speaker 2: it says that these frogs go out in order to
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  Speaker 2: lead the nations to the great battle of the end times.
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  Speaker 2: So these frogs have gone out to repeat these accusations
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  Speaker 2: and these slogans. And their goal is is to get
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  Speaker 2: the nations to turn against Israel. Another great picture of
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  Speaker 2: what's going on. And, you know, I always think of frogs.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of when you think of a frog?
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  Speaker 2: I think of just their.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it sounds like they're just croaking all night long,
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  Speaker 2: the same thing over and over. And I just picture
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  Speaker 2: this evil... spirit it says that they are spirits of
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  Speaker 2: demons is what revelation 16 calls him has gone out
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  Speaker 2: around the world repeating these accusations and slogans and anti-semitic
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  Speaker 2: tropes against the people of israel and against any of
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  Speaker 2: us that stand with them or support them so that
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  Speaker 2: is the best biblical explanation of what we have happening
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  Speaker 2: in our day And I just want to bring this
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  Speaker 2: to a close with a word of warning. Because the
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  Speaker 2: prophet Isaiah talked about a day when the world would
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  Speaker 2: no longer be based on truth and fact. Instead, in
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah 5.20, he warns, he says, Woe to those who
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  Speaker 2: call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for
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  Speaker 2: light and light for darkness. who put bitter for sweet,
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  Speaker 2: and sweet for bitter. So I just want to warn you,
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  Speaker 2: I hope students are listening to me, young people, don't
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  Speaker 2: repeat these lies and slogans that you're hearing. Inform yourself,
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  Speaker 2: because this evil dragon is not just a threat to
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  Speaker 2: the Jewish people, but to all of us. He wants
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  Speaker 2: to deceive the whole world. Revelation 12 says he wants
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  Speaker 2: to deceive the whole world, and he wants to turn
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  Speaker 2: that world against Israel. So don't fall for his lies.
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  Speaker 2: Don't let him use you in this scheme. And stand
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  Speaker 2: against the wiles of the enemy. First in prayer, I
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  Speaker 2: want to invite you to participate in the International Christian
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  Speaker 2: Embassy Jerusalem. We have a daily prayer meeting by Zoom
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  Speaker 2: every morning, U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Time. It's led by our Jerusalem headquarters.
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  Speaker 2: We also have an ongoing prayer watch and the u.s
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  Speaker 2: branch takes three or four hours every week as a
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  Speaker 2: part of that watch so if you want to get
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  Speaker 2: information on our prayer activities so you can be a
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  Speaker 2: part of actually praying with others and being part of
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  Speaker 2: an army and not be there just by yourself we'll
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  Speaker 2: try to put a You can just go to our website, icejusa.org,
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  Speaker 2: and look under events and for our prayer events. But secondly,
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  Speaker 2: beyond prayer, I really encourage you to inform yourself. So
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  Speaker 2: we have a free download for you on anti-Semitism. I
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  Speaker 2: urge you to get it. Pass it out to your friends,
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  Speaker 2: to your friends in your Bible study, at your church,
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  Speaker 2: on your campus. sign up for our emails, get our books.
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  Speaker 2: We have so many resources. We really have more resources
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  Speaker 2: than any Christian organization working in support of Israel and
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  Speaker 2: with the Jewish people. So I encourage you, inform yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Do not be caught up by this evil scheme. So
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  Speaker 2: now next week I'm going to be talking about what
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  Speaker 2: is actually making some Christians vulnerable to antisemitism.
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  Speaker 1: Very important.
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  Speaker 2: So I invite you back here next week. And until then,
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  Speaker 2: God bless.
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