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Watchman on the Wall - The Cauldron (Part 1) · KNEO Podcast

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  SPEAKER_01: The Middle East has been called a powder keg.
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  SPEAKER_01: But what if there's more happening there than politics and armies and competing nations?
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  SPEAKER_01: Today, we're looking beyond the headlines to explore the spiritual and supernatural forces connected to this ancient land and why what happens next could affect every one of us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's our host, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Larry Sparjamino, with author Terry James.
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  SPEAKER_03: Greetings to all of our listeners.
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  SPEAKER_03: Terry and I have been in conferences together.
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  SPEAKER_03: We've had great fellowship down through the years.
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  SPEAKER_03: In fact, we've just been having great fellowship before this broadcast on the telephone.
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  SPEAKER_03: Today we're going to speak about his newest book, Cauldron, Supernatural Implications of the Current Middle East.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I think that full title is very, very significant, as we'll see.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, friends, what is happening in the Middle East is part of a vast satanic conspiracy.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's also proof of God's grace, power, and love.
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  SPEAKER_03: We must never forget that God is still on the throne, and prayer changes things.
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  SPEAKER_03: And Brother Terry, thank you so much for being our guest.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, Larry, thank you so much.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's such a privilege and a blessing to be with you as always.
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  SPEAKER_02: I just love being in your company, whether uh electronically over the radio or or in person.
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  SPEAKER_03: I have to say this publicly.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, you've written several really great books, and I mean that wholeheartedly, but I believe that Cauldron is perhaps the best in terms of getting the reader into current events, getting the reader into prophecy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh you deal with Middle East issues, Bible prophecy.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I really think that this is your magnum opus in terms of being very helpful to a very, very broad spectrum of readers, and I think that's uh one of the things that you try to accomplish.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely, it was.
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  SPEAKER_02: We tried to present this in simplified terms, yet in very in-depth, as I think you will agree, the book goes.
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  SPEAKER_02: I tried to do it in simplified terms.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now I use not the royal we in saying that, but I had such wonderful help from Angie Peterson from Dana Neal and from others who have helped me do the research and the editing and so uh it is a it is a joint effort, and I think it's one that I pray I pray the Lord will uh use to pay off in terms of of uh bringing a greater knowledge to uh to actually where this all came from, where it is now, where it's going with regard to Israel and Middle East war and peace issues.
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  SPEAKER_03: I certainly would have to also add that I think it's a what should I say, a monument to God's faithfulness and you know to the fact that you have yielded yourself to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, you've been a great inspiration to me.
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  SPEAKER_03: We do have a lot of new listeners, and I'm sure that many of them are not aware of the fact that you're blind and that you've been blind for many years, yet you have uh, like I say, yielded yourself to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_03: You've been a vessel of truth and mercy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh like I say, you're an inspiration, and I know that all of our listeners will be very interested in getting the book and also hearing hearing the broadcast, because I found as a pastor of many years that there's usually someone out there, maybe many people out there, who are wrestling with some disability, and maybe they're angry at God and the fact that by God's grace you have overcome it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like I say, you're a you're a tremendous inspiration to me and I'm sure to many others.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, that's so kind of you to say so, and the Lord has been so good to me, and I mean he's worked miraculously in my life.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_02: Just briefly uh tell the the listeners that that whenever whenever I found out that I was losing my because of a r degenerative retinal retinal disease called uh retinitis pigmentosa, which uh the rods and the cones and the retina just literally disintegrate and it's a hereditary disease.
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  SPEAKER_02: When I learned about that, well I was a young man with a young family to raise, and of course I didn't think too highly of the prospects, and I I begged the Lord to take take this disease from me, and you know, just like Paul.
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  SPEAKER_02: I asked the Lord to take that from me.
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  SPEAKER_02: I I I believe Paul's problem was it was the eyesight problem myself.
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  SPEAKER_02: And um and I pr I asked him a number of times, and of course the answer was no, I'm not gonna take it from you.
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  SPEAKER_02: But then I I prayed um a prayer, a very simple prayer, and I meant it from my heart to please if you can't if you're not gonna take the disease from me, then please take uh all the anxiety.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's where the miracle occurred, and uh I haven't had one moment's uh anxiety since I I really mean that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh I haven't had any anxiety.
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  SPEAKER_03: Praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_03: I remember it was in June, I believe June 23rd of 2012, uh, you and I were in a conference in uh Fort Smith, Arkansas.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was the first conference that uh I was in with you when you had used a PowerPoint, and I'm thinking, this has got to be a miracle.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, here's a man who cannot see, but uh you're you're speaking and showing slides, and I say, God is so good, and my brother Terry James is so wonderful, what a great man of God, and I don't mean to brag on you, I'm certainly lifting up the Lord, but you have certainly you've been a a vessel and an instrument in his hands, and that's so wonderful, brother.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, thank you again, and that's because uh God has put such wonderful people like yourself, and as I just mentioned, my colleagues who are like daughters to me, those girls are, and and some other people, and uh people put people in my life that help me, and God will always do that.
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  SPEAKER_02: He will always make sure that that no matter what your disability, that you he will give you what you need to carry on his work.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean that's a God given guarantee, so so just take heart with that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, what a what a word of of encouragement because I've I've been a pastor for many years and I I get a lot of calls on the eight hundred line here at Southwest Radio Church.
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  SPEAKER_03: There are there are people out there really, really struggling.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't want to minimize the uh the challenges that they face, and yet you're a living example of the truth that we see in the Bible, that God's grace is sufficient.
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  SPEAKER_02: So Absolutely, Larry, and you remember uh my story about how I died three times clinically from a widowmaker heart attack, and and God gave me a wonderful vision of, I believe, the cloud of witnesses of Hebrews twelve, verses one and through two.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so God has been good to me.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's he's so wonderful.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, Terry, I know our listeners want to hear some things about cauldron.
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  SPEAKER_03: Cauldron is certainly a fitting name for a book that is a treatment of what's going on in the Middle East, but what about the subtitle, Supernatural Implications of the Current Middle East?
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  SPEAKER_03: Why have you given the the book this subtitle?
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, it's spiritual battle, Larry.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's what it means.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's it's spiritual from from the get-go.
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  SPEAKER_02: In other words, this goes all the way back to the the great conflict in heaven when Lucifer decided to try to usurp the throne of God, put his throne above throne of God, his star above the throne of God.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so it goes all the way back.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a s it's a supernatural battle from the very beginning.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's Ephesians chapter six, verse twelve, where we struggle not against flesh and blood, but against uh powers and principalities, against dark forces in high places and so forth.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so supernatural implications of the current Middle East just simply means that we are in a supernatural battle going all the way back to the time of when God had to evict the fallen angels from heaven, they came down to earth.
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  SPEAKER_02: They came down to Satan decided to be very jealous and decided to uh invade uh the human realm.
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  SPEAKER_02: He um of course seduced Eve into disobeying and eating from the forbidden uh from the fruit of the forbidden tree.
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  SPEAKER_02: She gave the fruit to her husband and he ate, and that's where of course sin entered the fallen bloodline entered.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it's supernatural from that standpoint.
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  SPEAKER_02: It comes all the way forward through the fact that well, we'll probably get that into that with another question maybe, but Genesis three fifteen where God promised a savior from this sin, as in someone who would provide the uh redemption that God wanted man to have uh from this fall in the Garden of Eden.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so it's a supernatural battle from then all the way through to the present time which we find ourselves in, and that is there's a supernatural rage, a satanic rage against uh the people of Israel, and because God had chosen them as the people to wh through whom to bring the Savior into the world, the Messiah.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a supernatural battle going on right now that we see in the in the Middle East, and it'll it'll continue right up to the very end of the age, and so we'll probably get into some of that as we talk further about Cauldron, which I I again I believe is is a book that will give people a really good understanding of where we've been in the past regarding the supernatural implications and and and every other aspect where we are right now with regard to all the things going on in the Middle East and the terrifying prospects of nuclear war and all of this, and then where it's all headed with regard to the peace treaty going into the time of the tribulation and Armageddon and Christ's wonderful return.
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  SPEAKER_03: You talk in your book, and of course it ties in with the subtitle, but you talk about the war behind the war in the Middle East, and then you've got a really I think it's uh it's super in the sense the way it really puts it down into plain language.
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  SPEAKER_03: You've got a heading, talk about a wrestling match.
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  SPEAKER_03: And you uh it's it's tremendous.
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  SPEAKER_03: You say the issues of war and peace in the Middle East have developed from this great cosmic wrestling match.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I think you know, the more I look at current events, things happening in our country, especially in our president administration, things happening in in Israel, that there's got to be more to it than just uh human anger, confusion, misunderstanding, in fact.
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  SPEAKER_03: One of the things that I've noticed, and you've probably noticed it too, because you're on top of of what's happening, that there are lots of so-called Christian ministries that are becoming increasingly anti-Semitic.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I'm thinking, ye guys, what's happening?
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, of course, we see this in the Word of God, but you you know, when you talk about that cosmic wrestling batch, we see it.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's going on right now.
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  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely it is, and you know, and and I think the most one of the most manifest or telling things uh about all of this is that we are seeing it in the church.
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  SPEAKER_02: The one forum, I guess you'd say, that that should be most understanding of the things going on, and most supportive of Israel, because they are God's chosen people, regardless of their foibles and their falling in so many ways, the church should understand this.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's plainly there in God's word, so there there's a deliberate, deliberate choice there not to believe what God has said.
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  SPEAKER_02: And this is from the very heart of the church.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now I go all the way back to thinking about now, I I I think Dr.
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  SPEAKER_02: James Kennedy was one of the great Presbyterian guy, he's one of the great great preachers of our time when he came to the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_02: He seemed to have, however, a complete lack of understanding when it came to the nation Israel.
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  SPEAKER_02: He supported Israel in a general sense as a right to a nation, but he saw no no future uh application prophetically to Israel.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, this is this is part of, of course, the reform theology.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so it's it's quite a troubling thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think it's part of the overall apostasy that is prophesied for the last days.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, you're absolutely right.
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  SPEAKER_03: In fact, I was richly blessed by Dr.
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  SPEAKER_03: Kennedy's ministry and am still blessed.
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  SPEAKER_03: But you may remember several years ago I wrote a book on preterism or against preterism.
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  SPEAKER_03: I do.
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  SPEAKER_03: I remember I quoted Dr.
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  SPEAKER_03: Kennedy, some of his very unbelievably bad statements, and I had so many listeners.
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  SPEAKER_03: I remember one from upstate New York, Ithaca, someplace like that, who couldn't believe it.
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  SPEAKER_03: He said, Can you give me the documentation?
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_03: So I got my book out and looked up the footnote and had the documentation.
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  SPEAKER_03: And he said, Oh, I'm gonna write a a letter to Coral Ridge or whatever it is, Presbyterian Church in Florida.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_03: And and I always do point out that uh I have been richly blessed by Dr.
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  SPEAKER_03: James Kennedy.
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  SPEAKER_03: No question about it, right.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_03: And yet on that point, I think he was really a hundred miles or more off the target speaking about Dr.
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  SPEAKER_03: Kennedy and what a great blessing he was, but how I believe wrong he was on this matter of Israel in prophecy.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_03: And I found that that's true for some reason with with so many.
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  SPEAKER_03: In fact, this new Christ at the checkpoint conferences that you know Brother Paul Wilkinson from England has been uh doing some great research on, it's just staring us in the face.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_02: It absolutely is.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_02: And again, uh it is against the the the supernatural attack we're talking about that it's being it's part of the overall attack that Satan is launching against the the church in particular, I think, in this case.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_03: You're absolutely right.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_03: But you know, uh uh Terry, there is a certain event in scripture you point to in trying to give the reader of Cauldron understanding about where the hatred for Israel first began.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_03: Let's get into that a little more deeply.
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  SPEAKER_02: Of course, it first began, I think, with, as we said, in the garden in Genesis chapter three, verse fifteen, when God promised a Messiah to the come uh to to save mankind.
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  SPEAKER_02: And he chose, of course, the nation Israel uh later on when uh we know about Jacob and Abraham, Jacob and uh Isaac and Jacob, that is, and so it it just uh started back then and it kept on.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_02: We know of the struggles that uh all of those people had against Satan and his um and his attacks.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_02: And it continues on up to uh to the modern times and and it's still going on today.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_02: We we know that Israel ha from the moment that uh it was scattered following the last great I guess you say diaspora diaspora when uh Hadrian kicked them out in I think it was what was it, uh one thirty AD following Masada and all of that, um that um that they were scattered into the whole world and uh this the hatred has been um has been raging ever since.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_02: We know we talk know about the nine uh fourteen ninety two uh uh demand uh in Spain that they either submit to Christianity to their version of Christianity or die.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_02: And so many of 'em were drowned in the ocean, many of 'em were scattered again all over the world.
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  SPEAKER_02: At the same time, of course, that Christopher Columbus was uh searching uh for the new world.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_02: And uh so this satanic hatred uh we know never let up and and of course it came to kind of a culmination, I think.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_02: We know uh during the Nazi years when Hitler c came to power and there was a another distinct uh effort to completely eradicate them to you know, his great genocide that put together by Himmler and Goebbels and the rest.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_02: It just continues and and whenever they following World War Two, after the Nazis and the Axis had been defeated, Israel uh of course, God miraculously re-established them exactly as he said he would re-establish uh the nation in in uh May fourteen, fifteen nineteen forty eight at midnight.
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  SPEAKER_02: So the nation came back, but they they faced obstacles from the very moment they entered the land back in the early uh nineteen hundreds and to this point following World War Two.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_02: Satan continued to rage against them at Muslims, well, Muslims, the Arab nations all around Israel came against them at every point as they tried to establish uh re-establish their nation.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_02: It just has not let up.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_02: I mean we know in nineteen forty-eight, of course, there was great wars, they were trying to establish the nation.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_02: There was a war in nineteen fifty-six when Gamel Abdul Nasra of Egypt came against them.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_02: Uh another great effort in nineteen sixty-seven, which Israel of course did uh do a preemptive action there, but they were about to be attacked.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_02: And again, uh Israel defeated its enemies miraculously.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then again in what nineteen fifty-six, nineteen sixty-seven, then again in nineteen seventy-three, and war Sadat led another coalition against Israel, and again it was a little bit stronger battle this time, but again Israel uh was victorious as still a nation, still gonna be a nation, but Satan has not let up his not let up in his effort to rid the world of this nation that that brought Christ into the world, uh, to save the world.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_02: I think and I think that's all uh part of uh Satan's plot as we may talk about later.
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  SPEAKER_02: He can somehow defeat the promises God made to Israel, that he can somehow get himself out of an awful mess, which is his destiny with uh the lake of fire.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_03: You're absolutely right, and what I love about your book, Cauldron, you speak about all of these, oh, big national events, attacks of nations on Israel, but you also have some really interesting stories.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_03: You you speak about what happened a few years ago, the bodies of two Israeli boys, one an immigrant from Maryland, they were bludgeoned to death by rocks uh in a cave in the West Bank.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_03: Uh the boys, uh one was thirteen, the other was fourteen, they had gone on a hike near their home in the West Bank settlement of Tacoa.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_03: They were seized, presumably by Palestinians and killed.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_03: And uh in fact, uh I remember that the newspapers quoted police as saying the boys' heads were so badly disfigured that facial identification was impossible.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_03: So this is a rage, okay?
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely satanic rage.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_03: It's a satanic rage.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, of course, as uh the Lord Jesus says in John 8, uh he was a murderer and a liar from the very beginning, and he's still doing that, and uh a lot of his lies, there's so much of that today uh against uh Israel.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_03: Uh that's continuing.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_03: In fact, uh you also point out the uh incident with the Mavi Mara, the uh Turkish uh cruise ship.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_03: The incident was characterized as a brutal attack by the Israelis against civilians.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_03: It was nothing of the sort.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_03: So So uh Satan is alive.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_02: You uh you at Cephas Radio covered that very well, and uh it was not a uh uh you're you're correct there.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_03: We see everything uh that you're talking about in Cauldron.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we see it all in the Bible, and we see it in current events, and friends, that's why you need a copy of this book, Cauldron Spiritual Implications of the Current Middle East.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: We'll hear more from Terry James on our next program.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: The Middle East is boiling, and what happens next could change the world.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: But behind the wars, the politics and headlines, could there be a deeper spiritual battle unfolding?
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: In Cauldron, Supernatural Implications of the Current Middle East, you'll explore the biblical and supernatural forces connected to this ancient region and why the struggle surrounding Israel and the Middle East matters far beyond its borders.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: This book will help you look past the nightly news, recognize the spiritual dimension of today's events, and better understand them through the lens of Scripture.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're watching the Middle East and wondering where is all of this headed, you need to read Cauldron.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: Don't just follow the headlines.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: Understand what may be behind them.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: Order Cauldron today at swrc.com or call 1-800-652-1144.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: Get informed, get equipped, get your copy today.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: Larry Stamm, author, evangelist, and Jewish follower of Jesus, is here to share how you and I can effectively and lovingly share our faith with family and friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shalom friends, Larry Stam here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So glad you are joining us as we continue in our teaching series, Serving in His Court: Biblical Principles for Personal Evangelism from the Heart of a Coach.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: In our last segment, we introduced Understanding and Engaging Different Worldviews.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: We spoke about the fact that it's very important to understand our audience so that we will have both an informed and a more effective witness.
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  SPEAKER_00: In short, it's important to understand our audience so as to effectively contextualize the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mentioned last time the example of the Apostle Paul in the Scriptures, namely from the book of Acts, when he went to the synagogues on the Shabbat, he would witness to Jewish people from the Scriptures, the Old Testament.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: They were very familiar with the Word of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: While when he was engaging pagans and philosophers and others, if you remember Paul in Acts chapter 17 on Mars Hill at Athens, he witnessed to the pagans, the philosophers, and others by talking about general revelation, talked about all creation is created by the Creator God, and that all human beings are creations of God.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: He went from general revelation to all creation proclaims his glory to specific revelation.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Paul would contextualize the gospel even for philosophers, pagans, and others.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we're going to continue as we think about understanding our audience.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to help us understand that what we want to do with each of these worldviews that we're going to briefly examine is we want to ask four basic questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is a simple way to examine not only our Christian worldview, but it's a way to hold up our Christian worldview against other worldviews that are in conflict with the Christian worldview.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the reality is all of us may be wrong, but all of us can't be right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you get that?
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: We all can be wrong, but we all can't be right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because every philosophy, worldview, and religion has truth claims that by their very nature exclude other truth claims.
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  SPEAKER_00: We get that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here are the questions that we can measure worldviews by.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, does the worldview or how does the worldview answer the question, where did we come from?
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  SPEAKER_00: The second question used to evaluate a worldview is, how does this worldview provide meaning?
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  SPEAKER_00: The third question is, what moral framework does the worldview provide?
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  SPEAKER_00: And ultimately the last question is, what is our ultimate destiny if we follow or adhere to this specific worldview?
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  SPEAKER_00: So those are four questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are hooks, if you will, ways to get a handle on examining different worldviews and philosophies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the reality is as human beings, we can get lost in the weeds.
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  SPEAKER_00: We could be overwhelmed when I say a word like spiritism and polytheism.
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  SPEAKER_00: Books and books and books and books are written.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we want to get down to the basics.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want in our coffee shop apologetic as Christians, we want to have a basic understanding of the worldview and answer these basic questions that the worldview has to address.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if it doesn't, we expose it in its error.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where do we come from?
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  SPEAKER_00: How does it provide meaning?
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  SPEAKER_00: What moral framework does it provide?
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we adhere to this worldview, what is the ultimate destiny?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where do we go when we die?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is the question.
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  SPEAKER_00: The better we understand our audience and the worldview that they adhere to, the more informed we're going to be in our witness to them, and the more effective we're going to be in contextualizing the gospel for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, friends, that was a lot to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope this has been helpful to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, may the Lord Jesus richly bless you and keep you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shalom.
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