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The Biblical Origin of HATRED Between ISRAEL and IRAN _ It All Started With ABRAHAM · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: The biblical origin of hatred between Israel and Iran. The
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  Speaker 1: hatred between Israel and Iran did not start with politics.
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  Speaker 1: It started in the Bible. And what you are about
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  Speaker 1: to discover will change the way you see the news forever.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone thinks this is about land, about oil, about nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 1: It is not. The origin of this conflict is 2,500
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  Speaker 1: years old. and it is written in Scripture with terrifying precision.
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  Speaker 1: But here is what will shock you. 2,500 years ago, Persia,
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  Speaker 1: the ancient empire that became modern Iran, was the nation
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  Speaker 1: God used to save Israel. They freed the Jews from
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  Speaker 1: Babylonian captivity. They funded the rebuilding of God's temple with
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  Speaker 1: Persian gold. And God called their king Cyrus by the
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  Speaker 1: most sacred title in all of Scripture. Messiah. So how
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  Speaker 1: did the empire that once restored Israel become the regime
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  Speaker 1: that now vows to annihilate it? What turned a savior
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  Speaker 1: nation into a sworn enemy? And what does the Bible
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  Speaker 1: say will happen next? The answer is written in prophecy,
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  Speaker 1: recorded in history, and unfolding on your screen right now.
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  Speaker 1: This is the biblical origin of the hatred between Israel
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  Speaker 1: and Iran. Before Israel and Iran were enemies, they were family,
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  Speaker 1: same blood, same ancestor. It is right there in Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter 10. After the great flood, Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham,
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  Speaker 1: and Japheth, became the forefathers of every nation on earth.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 10 is the very first map of the world's peoples.
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  Speaker 1: Every civilization, every empire that would ever rise... traced back
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  Speaker 1: to one of those three men, and buried inside that
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  Speaker 1: ancient genealogy are two names that most people read right past.
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  Speaker 1: The first is Elam, son of Shem. His descendants, the Elamites,
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  Speaker 1: migrated east and settled in the fertile lowlands of southwestern
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  Speaker 1: Iran near the Persian Gulf. They were not a minor tribe.
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  Speaker 1: They built great cities, They raised powerful armies. They developed
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  Speaker 1: their own language and their own civilization. The Elamites rivaled
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  Speaker 1: even Babylon and Assyria. The second name is Madai, son
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  Speaker 1: of Japheth. His descendants, the Medes, settled in the rugged
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  Speaker 1: mountains of northern Iran. Independent, fierce, hardened by the terrain.
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  Speaker 1: Mountain people forged into warriors. Over time, the Medes built
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  Speaker 1: a kingdom powerful enough to challenge the greatest empires of
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  Speaker 1: their age. Here is what almost nobody notices. Elam and Arphaxad,
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  Speaker 1: the direct ancestor of Abraham, are both sons of Shem,
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  Speaker 1: brothers from the same father. The ancestors of Iran and
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  Speaker 1: the ancestors of Israel came from the same household. They
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  Speaker 1: were family before they were enemies. But tension appeared early.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 14 records the first international war in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Four eastern kings formed a coalition, and leading them was Chedorlaomer,
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  Speaker 1: king of Elam. They invaded Canaan, plundered cities, enslaved peoples,
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  Speaker 1: and captured Lot, Abraham's nephew. Elam was the first nation
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  Speaker 1: in all of Scripture to attack God's people of faith.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham did not stand by. With only 318 trained men,
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  Speaker 1: he pursued the eastern kings, attacked them by night, and
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  Speaker 1: defeated them. He rescued Lot, freed the captives, and humiliated
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  Speaker 1: the coalition. Same family tree, already at war. What is
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  Speaker 1: it about this land and these peoples that keeps pulling
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  Speaker 1: them into conflict across 4,000 years of history? But the
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  Speaker 1: table of nations was only the root. The real fracture
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  Speaker 1: happened one generation later, inside Abraham's own tent. God made
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  Speaker 1: Abraham a promise so big it was impossible, and then
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  Speaker 1: he made him wait so long it became unbearable. God
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  Speaker 1: took Abraham outside at night and said, Look up, count
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  Speaker 1: the stars if you can. So shall your descendants be.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham believed. He had already left his homeland, his family,
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  Speaker 1: everything he knew, to follow a God he could not see.
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  Speaker 1: But Sarah was barren. Genesis 11 verse 30 states it
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  Speaker 1: plainly before the journey even begins. The promise of a
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  Speaker 1: great nation had been made to a man whose wife
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  Speaker 1: could not conceive. Five years passed. Ten years. Every month
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  Speaker 1: was another month of silence from heaven. The promise was
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  Speaker 1: still there. The child was not. So Sarah made a
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  Speaker 1: decision that still echoes through the centuries. She offered her
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  Speaker 1: Egyptian servant Hagar to Abraham as a surrogate. The code
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  Speaker 1: of Hammurabi already regulated this exact arrangement. It was culturally legal.
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  Speaker 1: And the text simply says, Abraham listened to the voice
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  Speaker 1: of Sarah. Notice what is missing. No prayer. No asking God.
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  Speaker 1: No waiting for an answer. Just a human solution to
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  Speaker 1: a problem God had promised to solve himself. And that
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  Speaker 1: one decision is still shaping the world 4,000 years later.
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  Speaker 1: Hagar conceived and began to look at Sarah with contempt.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah retaliated harshly. The Hebrew word used is the same
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  Speaker 1: word that later describes the Egyptians' oppression of the Israelites.
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  Speaker 1: The cruelty was severe enough. that Hagar fled into the desert, pregnant, alone.
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  Speaker 1: That is not a journey. That is a death sentence.
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  Speaker 1: But God met her at a spring on the road
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  Speaker 1: to Shur. Hagar became the first person in all of
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  Speaker 1: Scripture to receive a visit from the angel of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Not a patriarch, not a priest, a runaway slave girl.
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  Speaker 1: God promised her descendants beyond counting and told her to
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  Speaker 1: name the child Ishmael. which means God hears. But the
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  Speaker 1: angel also spoke a prophecy over the child, his hand
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  Speaker 1: against everyone, everyone's hand against him. He will live in
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  Speaker 1: hostility toward all his brothers, a prophecy of perpetual conflict
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  Speaker 1: spoken before the child drew his first breath. Ishmael was born.
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  Speaker 1: For 13 years, he was the only son, the heir,
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  Speaker 1: loved by his father. Then God appeared again, Abraham was ninety-nine,
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  Speaker 1: Sarah was ninety, and God said, Sarah will bear a son.
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  Speaker 1: His name will be Isaac. The covenant goes through him,
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  Speaker 1: not Ishmael. Abraham fell face down. He laughed. And then
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  Speaker 1: he begged, If only Ishmael might live under your blessing.
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  Speaker 1: That is not a negotiation. That is a father pleading
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  Speaker 1: for the son he already loves. God heard him. Ishmael
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  Speaker 1: would be blessed. twelve princes, a great nation. But the
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  Speaker 1: covenant belonged to Isaac, only Isaac. The blessing was shared,
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  Speaker 1: the covenant was exclusive, and that distinction fractured everything. Isaac
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  Speaker 1: was born. At his weaning feast, Sarah saw Ishmael laughing.
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  Speaker 1: The Hebrew is ambiguous, playing or mocking. Either way, Sarah's
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  Speaker 1: reaction was final. Cast out that slave woman and her son.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham woke before dawn, packed bread, filled a water skin,
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  Speaker 1: and sent his firstborn into the desert. No farewell recorded,
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  Speaker 1: no embrace, no tears, just a father walking back into
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  Speaker 1: his tent, alone. Hagar walked until the water ran out.
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  Speaker 1: She placed Ishmael under a bush, walked a bow shot away,
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  Speaker 1: just far enough that she would not have to watch
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  Speaker 1: him die, and wept. But God heard the boy. He
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  Speaker 1: opened her eyes. She saw a well. Ishmael survived. He
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  Speaker 1: grew up in the desert of Paran. He became an archer.
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  Speaker 1: His twelve sons became twelve princes, the Arab tribes, a
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  Speaker 1: nation born from an expulsion. Isaac fathered Jacob. Jacob received
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  Speaker 1: the name Israel. His twelve sons became the twelve tribes,
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  Speaker 1: two bloodlines, two destinies, one father. The Bible records one
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  Speaker 1: final meeting between the brothers. Genesis 25 verse 9. Isaac
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  Speaker 1: and Ishmael standing over Abraham's body in the cave of Machpelah.
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  Speaker 1: Both old men now. Separate lives. Separate nations. Just two
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  Speaker 1: sons burying a father they both loved. No words recorded.
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  Speaker 1: No reconciliation. Just silence. Two nations. One father. One wound.
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  Speaker 1: But the nation born from that wound was about to
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  Speaker 1: become God's greatest instrument of rescue. What if the most
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  Speaker 1: important friend Israel ever had was a pagan king? And
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  Speaker 1: what if God called him by name 150 years before
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  Speaker 1: he existed? To understand this, you need to know what
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  Speaker 1: happened to Israel first. Jerusalem was destroyed. The temple was
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  Speaker 1: burned to the ground. The Jewish people were dragged into
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  Speaker 1: exile in Babylon for 70 years. They lived as captives
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  Speaker 1: in a foreign empire. They wept by the rivers of Babylon.
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  Speaker 1: They waited. But before any of it happened, God had
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  Speaker 1: already declared two prophecies about Persia. The first was in
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah chapter 13 verse 17. God announced that he would
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  Speaker 1: stir up the Medes against Babylon. The very people who
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  Speaker 1: would become half of the Persian Empire were named as
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  Speaker 1: God's instrument of judgment against the nation that would destroy Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: God named the executioner before the crime was even committed.
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  Speaker 1: The second prophecy was even more astonishing. Isaiah 44 verse
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  Speaker 1: 28 God said of a king not yet born, He
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  Speaker 1: is my shepherd, and will accomplish all that I please.
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  Speaker 1: He will say of Jerusalem, Let it be rebuilt, and
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  Speaker 1: of the temple, Let its foundations be laid. God named
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  Speaker 1: the king, named the city, named the temple, 150 years
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  Speaker 1: before Cyrus drew his first breath, and God did not
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  Speaker 1: just speak the prophecy. He raised Persia quietly, one generation
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  Speaker 1: at a time. Deoses united the scattered Medes into a
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  Speaker 1: single kingdom. His descendants reformed the army and forged alliances.
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  Speaker 1: The Medes helped destroy Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire,
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  Speaker 1: in 612 B.C. God was building the instrument from the
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  Speaker 1: mountains of Iran, preparing it for a purpose that would
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  Speaker 1: not be revealed until the night Babylon fell. Daniel, a
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  Speaker 1: teenage prisoner inside Babylon, watched these visions take shape. In
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  Speaker 1: Nebuchadnezzar's statue dream, the silver chest and arms represented meadow Persia.
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  Speaker 1: Two arms, two peoples, one empire. Then the bear vision
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  Speaker 1: in Daniel chapter 7. A massive bear raised up on
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  Speaker 1: one side with three ribs between its teeth. Each rib
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  Speaker 1: was a real conquest. The first rib was Lydia. Cyrus
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  Speaker 1: defeated Croesus, the richest man in the ancient world. The
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  Speaker 1: second rib was Babylon itself. The third rib was Egypt. Cambyses,
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  Speaker 1: son of Cyrus, defeated Pharaoh at the Battle of Pelusium.
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  Speaker 1: Three ribs, three empires. three fulfillments of a single vision.
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  Speaker 1: Then the ram in Daniel chapter 8, two horns, one
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  Speaker 1: taller than the other, Media and Persia. But Persia dominates.
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  Speaker 1: The night Babylon fell is one of the most dramatic
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  Speaker 1: moments in scripture. King Belshazzar hosted a feast for a
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  Speaker 1: thousand nobles. In his arrogance, he ordered the sacred vessels
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  Speaker 1: looted from God's temple in Jerusalem to be brought out.
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  Speaker 1: They drank from them and toasted false gods. Suddenly, a
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  Speaker 1: hand appeared and wrote on the palace wall, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Aparsin.
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  Speaker 1: The king turned pale. Daniel was summoned. God has numbered
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  Speaker 1: the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.
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  Speaker 1: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.
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  Speaker 1: That same night, Cyrus diverted the Euphrates River and entered
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  Speaker 1: Babylon through the dry riverbed. The gates stood unlocked. Belshazzar
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  Speaker 1: was slain. Babylon fell exactly as Isaiah had prophesied, and
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  Speaker 1: then Cyrus did something no conqueror had ever done. He
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  Speaker 1: issued a decree. The Jews could go home. He financed
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  Speaker 1: the rebuilding of the temple. He sent Jewish leaders back
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  Speaker 1: to Jerusalem with royal support and Persian gold. Isaiah chapter
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  Speaker 1: 45 verse 1. This is what the Lord says to
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  Speaker 1: his anointed, to Cyrus. The word anointed in Hebrew is Mashiach, Messiah.
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  Speaker 1: God used the same word for a pagan Persian king
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  Speaker 1: that he would later use for Jesus Christ. Think about
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  Speaker 1: what that means. A king who did not know God
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  Speaker 1: was called by God's most sacred title because God was
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  Speaker 1: sovereign enough to use whoever he chose to accomplish his purposes.
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  Speaker 1: Persia did not conquer Israel. Persia did not enslave Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Persia rebuilt Israel. Persia saved Israel from Babylon. But inside
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  Speaker 1: that same empire, something ancient and deadly was rising, and
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  Speaker 1: it had been waiting for centuries. King Xerxes ruled from
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  Speaker 1: the magnificent city of Susa. He opened his reign with
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  Speaker 1: a 180-day display of imperial power, a banquet for all
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  Speaker 1: his nobles and officials. Then he invited all the people
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  Speaker 1: of Susa to a seven-day celebration. At its height, he
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  Speaker 1: summoned Queen Vashti to display her beauty before his guests.
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  Speaker 1: She refused. The king was humiliated before his entire empire.
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  Speaker 1: Vashti was removed from the throne. His advisors proposed a solution.
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  Speaker 1: Search the entire kingdom for the most beautiful young women.
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  Speaker 1: Bring them to the palace. Each candidate would undergo a
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  Speaker 1: full year of preparation... before being presented to the king.
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  Speaker 1: One of those young women was Hadassah, a Jewish orphan
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  Speaker 1: raised in secret by her cousin Mordecai. In the palace,
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  Speaker 1: she was given a new name, Esther. The king chose
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  Speaker 1: her above all others. He did not know she was Jewish. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: a man named Haman rose to the highest position in
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  Speaker 1: the empire. Everyone bowed to Haman, everyone except Mordecai. That
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  Speaker 1: refusal ignited a rage so consuming that punishing one man
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  Speaker 1: was not enough. Haman plotted genocide. Every Jewish man, woman,
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  Speaker 1: and child in the Persian Empire. He convinced the king
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  Speaker 1: to seal the decree with the royal ring. A date
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  Speaker 1: was set. The machinery of annihilation was in motion. Here
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  Speaker 1: is the detail that changes everything. Esther chapter 3 verse
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  Speaker 1: 1 calls Haman... the Agagite. That is not just a
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  Speaker 1: family name. Agag was the king of the Amalekites, and
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  Speaker 1: Amalek was the grandson of Esau. God declared eternal war
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  Speaker 1: against Amalek in Exodus 17. King Saul was commanded to
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  Speaker 1: destroy Agag and the Amalekites completely in 1 Samuel 15.
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  Speaker 1: He did not. He spared the king. What happens when
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  Speaker 1: an ancient enemy survives? He resurfaces. Generations later. in a
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  Speaker 1: new empire, wearing a new name, but carrying the same hatred.
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  Speaker 1: The hatred inside the Persian court did not come from Persia.
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  Speaker 1: It was imported by a spiritual enemy older than the
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  Speaker 1: empire itself. Esther knew the law. Enter the throne room
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  Speaker 1: uninvited and you die, unless the king raises his scepter
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  Speaker 1: in that single moment. She had not been summoned in
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  Speaker 1: thirty days. She put on her royal robes, walked through
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  Speaker 1: the doors, stood before the throne, and waited. The king
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  Speaker 1: raised his scepter, but Esther did not rush. She invited
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  Speaker 1: the king and Haman to a banquet, then to a
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  Speaker 1: second banquet. She let the tension build. She let Haman's
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  Speaker 1: arrogance grow. And at that second feast she released the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Our enemy is this wicked man, Haman. The king's face
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  Speaker 1: burned with fury. Haman was hanged on the very gallows
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  Speaker 1: he had built for Mordecai. The day marked for annihilation
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  Speaker 1: became Purim, a day of victory celebrated to this day.
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  Speaker 1: The spirit of Amalek does not die. It just changes hosts.
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  Speaker 1: Centuries pass. Rome rises. Persia fades from the center of
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  Speaker 1: the biblical story, but not from God's plan. Matthew chapter 2.
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  Speaker 1: Magi from the east arrive in Jerusalem, Persian scholar-priests, men
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  Speaker 1: of science, astronomy, and ancient writings, men who almost certainly
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  Speaker 1: studied the scrolls Daniel left behind when he served in
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  Speaker 1: the courts of Babylon and Persia. And Daniel left them
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  Speaker 1: something extraordinary. Chapter 9 verse 25 contains a precise mathematical calculation.
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  Speaker 1: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem until the arrival of Messiah the Prince, there shall
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  Speaker 1: be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. These men did not
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  Speaker 1: follow a star on impulse. They had done the calculation.
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  Speaker 1: They knew the time had come, and when the star appeared,
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  Speaker 1: it confirmed what the scrolls had already told them. They
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  Speaker 1: crossed hundreds of miles of desert carrying three gifts, each
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  Speaker 1: one a declaration, gold proclaiming his kingship frankincense recognizing his divinity,
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  Speaker 1: myrrh foreshadowing his death. Jerusalem's own scholars had memorized Micah
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  Speaker 1: 5 verse 2. They knew the Messiah would be born
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  Speaker 1: in Bethlehem. They did not move five miles down the
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  Speaker 1: road to check. Persians crossed deserts to kneel. Persia freed
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  Speaker 1: God's people. Persia rebuilt God's temple. And Persia was the
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  Speaker 1: first to honor God's Son so Persia saved Israel rebuilt
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  Speaker 1: the temple honored the Messiah then how did it become
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  Speaker 1: Israel's greatest enemy the answer is in Daniel chapter 10
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  Speaker 1: and most Bible teachers will not touch it. What if
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  Speaker 1: the real war between Israel and Iran is not happening
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  Speaker 1: on earth at all? Daniel had been fasting for 21 days,
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  Speaker 1: mourning over Jerusalem, no rich food, no meat, no wine.
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  Speaker 1: He prayed, he waited, and on the 21st day, something
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  Speaker 1: appeared on the bank of the Tigris River. The description
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  Speaker 1: in Daniel chapter 10 is unlike anything else in Scripture.
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  Speaker 1: A man dressed in linen, his body like gleaming beryl,
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  Speaker 1: his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his
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  Speaker 1: arms and legs like burnished bronze, his voice like the
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  Speaker 1: roar of a vast multitude. Daniel collapsed. The men standing
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  Speaker 1: with him could not see the figure, but terror overtook them,
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  Speaker 1: and they fled. Daniel lay on the ground with no
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  Speaker 1: strength remaining. The being touched him and spoke. From the
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  Speaker 1: first day that you set your mind to gain understanding
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  Speaker 1: and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard.
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  Speaker 1: I was sent because of your words. But the prince
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  Speaker 1: of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for 21 days.
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  Speaker 1: Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me. Stop.
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  Speaker 1: a heavenly messenger sent by God in direct response to
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  Speaker 1: Daniel's prayer on day one was blocked, opposed, held back
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  Speaker 1: for three full weeks, not by a human army, not
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  Speaker 1: by a Persian king, by a spiritual entity called the
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  Speaker 1: Prince of the Kingdom of Persia. This is not a
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  Speaker 1: human king. This is not a general. This is a
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  Speaker 1: fallen angelic being, a territorial spirit assigned over the Persian
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  Speaker 1: empire to and he was powerful enough to hold back
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  Speaker 1: a messenger from God for 21 days. It took the
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  Speaker 1: archangel Michael himself to break through. Nations do not just
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  Speaker 1: have political rulers. According to Daniel chapter 10, they have
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  Speaker 1: spiritual rulers. Principalities, powers, territorial forces operating in a dimension
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  Speaker 1: that human eyes cannot see and human weapons cannot reach.
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  Speaker 1: While Cyrus was signing decrees on earth to free Israel,
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  Speaker 1: in the heavens, a demonic power was fighting to stop it.
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  Speaker 1: The battle over Israel is not just geopolitical, it is cosmological.
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  Speaker 1: This is why no peace deal works. This is why
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  Speaker 1: every ceasefire eventually breaks. You cannot negotiate with a principality.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot sign a treaty with a fallen angel. For
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  Speaker 1: a thousand years after Cyrus, Persia stayed largely favorable to
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  Speaker 1: the Jewish people, and then, almost overnight, everything changed. After
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  Speaker 1: Cyrus and Esther, Persia remained friendly for centuries. Jewish scholars, merchants,
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  Speaker 1: and leaders held positions of influence throughout the empire. The
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  Speaker 1: Talmud itself was compiled on Iranian soil under Persian and
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  Speaker 1: Parthian rule. Jewish life thrived there for generations. This was
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  Speaker 1: not a hostile relationship. This was a partnership. But in
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  Speaker 1: the 7th century, Arab armies conquered the Sasanian Persian Empire. Persia,
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  Speaker 1: Zoroastrian for over a thousand years, became Islamic. And with
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  Speaker 1: that shift came a critical change. Under Islam, Ishmael was
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  Speaker 1: no longer the rejected son. He was the favored son,
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  Speaker 1: the true heir. A non-Arab nation inherited an Arab grievance,
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  Speaker 1: and with it, the original wound from Abraham's tent reopened
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  Speaker 1: on Persian soil. Even then, open hostility toward Israel was
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  Speaker 1: not immediate. The true transformation wouldn't come for another 13 centuries.
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  Speaker 1: In the 1950s and into the 1970s, Iran under the
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  Speaker 1: Shah was secular, modernizing, and openly allied with Israel. Iranian
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  Speaker 1: oil flowed to Israel. Israeli experts worked in Iran. Intelligence
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  Speaker 1: agencies cooperated. El Al flights connected Tel Aviv and Tehran.
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  Speaker 1: A photograph of Tehran in 1975 looked like Paris. Modern, open, cosmopolitan.
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  Speaker 1: Then came 1979. The Shah was overthrown. Ayatollah Khomeini returned
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  Speaker 1: from 14 years of exile, and within months, everything reversed.
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  Speaker 1: Israel's embassy was seized and handed to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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  Speaker 1: The Star of David was torn down. Khomeini declared the
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  Speaker 1: destruction of Israel not just policy, but religious obligation. A
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  Speaker 1: sacred duty for every Muslim on earth. the same streets
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  Speaker 1: that welcomed Israeli diplomats now hosted death to Israel marches.
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  Speaker 1: The same intelligence apparatus that worked alongside the Mossad now
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  Speaker 1: built Hezbollah, funded Hamas, and armed Islamic Jihad. A nation
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  Speaker 1: that was God's instrument of redemption became a nation calling
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  Speaker 1: for Israel's annihilation, not over decades, within a single year.
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  Speaker 1: Was that just politics? Was that just revolution? Or was
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  Speaker 1: something else at work? Was the Prince of Persia rising again?
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  Speaker 1: The Bible does not just record what Persia was. It
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  Speaker 1: predicts what Persia will do. And the prophecy has not
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  Speaker 1: been fulfilled yet. 2600 years ago, the prophet Ezekiel described
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  Speaker 1: a war that has not happened yet. And Persia is
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  Speaker 1: named first on the list. In Ezekiel chapter 38, God
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  Speaker 1: tells the prophet to set his face against Gog, of
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  Speaker 1: the land of Magog, and prophesy against him. A massive
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  Speaker 1: coalition of nations will rise in the latter days against Israel.
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  Speaker 1: They will come like a storm. They will cover the
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  Speaker 1: land like a cloud. The allies are listed by name. Persia,
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  Speaker 1: modern Iran, named first, then Cush, which is Sudan and Ethiopia,
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  Speaker 1: then Put, which is Libya and North Africa, then Goma
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  Speaker 1: and Beth Togarmah, regions associated with Turkey and the Caucasus,
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  Speaker 1: and Gog of Magog leading them, widely linked by scholars
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  Speaker 1: to a powerful northern coalition, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Sudan, Libya.
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  Speaker 1: Read Ezekiel's list, then read today's headlines. The overlap is
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  Speaker 1: not a coincidence. The Iran-Russia military alliance is active and deepening.
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  Speaker 1: Iranian drones have been supplied to Russian forces. They share intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: They conduct joint operations. Iran's proxy network stretches across the region.
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  Speaker 1: Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen.
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  Speaker 1: Turkey has been shifting its allegiances steadily away from the West.
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  Speaker 1: Sudan and Libya remain open to influence from Moscow and Tehran.
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  Speaker 1: And now, with the Islamic Republic in crisis following February 28th,
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  Speaker 1: the question is not whether this coalition will form. The
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  Speaker 1: question is what comes next. The coalition Ezekiel described 2600
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  Speaker 1: years ago is forming in real time, nation by nation,
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  Speaker 1: alliance by alliance. exactly as written. But the prophecy does
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  Speaker 1: not end with the invasion. It ends with God's response.
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  Speaker 1: They will not succeed. God intervenes directly. Earthquakes, fire, confusion
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  Speaker 1: so severe the armies turn on each other. And then
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel 38 verse 23. I will make myself known in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that
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  Speaker 1: I am the Lord. The Persia that saved Israel under Cyrus,
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  Speaker 1: the Persia that protected Israel under Esther, will attack Israel
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  Speaker 1: under Gog. The ark is complete. Every nation in Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: chapter 49 receives a prophecy of destruction. Every nation except one.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah 49 verses 34 through 39 contain a prophecy against Elam,
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  Speaker 1: the ancient name for southwestern Iran. And this is unlike
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  Speaker 1: any other oracle in the chapter. This is a two-sided prophecy.
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  Speaker 1: One side is judgment. The other side is something no
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  Speaker 1: one expects. Side 1. I will break the bow of Elam,
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  Speaker 1: the mainstay of their might. The Elamites were legendary archers.
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  Speaker 1: The bow was not just a weapon. It was their identity,
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  Speaker 1: their pride. the foundation of their military power. Today, Iran's
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  Speaker 1: missile program is their bow, their ballistic missiles, their drones,
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  Speaker 1: their nuclear ambitions. That is the mainstay of their might.
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  Speaker 1: And God says He will break it. I will bring
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  Speaker 1: disaster upon them, my fierce anger. I will set my
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  Speaker 1: throne in Elam and destroy from there king and officials.
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  Speaker 1: God does not say he will destroy Elam and move on.
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  Speaker 1: He says he will set his throne there. A throne
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  Speaker 1: means rule. A throne means sovereign authority. A throne means
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  Speaker 1: established presence. What if this is not just judgment but
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  Speaker 1: a divine takeover? Then comes side two, the verse that
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  Speaker 1: changes everything. But in the latter days, I will restore
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  Speaker 1: the fortunes of Elam, declares the Lord. Read every other
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  Speaker 1: oracle in Jeremiah 49. Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, Hazor. Every
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  Speaker 1: nation receives judgment. Period. Final. No reversal. Elam is the
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  Speaker 1: only nation that receives a two-sided prophecy, judgment and restoration.
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  Speaker 1: That is not a literary accident. That is not a
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  Speaker 1: poetic flourish. That is God declaring that Iran's story does
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  Speaker 1: not end in ashes. After the breaking, rebuilding, after the judgment, restoration...
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  Speaker 1: After the bow is shattered, something rises that no missile
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  Speaker 1: program could ever produce. And if you think that restoration
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  Speaker 1: is only a distant future promise, what is happening inside
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  Speaker 1: Iran right now might change your mind. Right now, in
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  Speaker 1: a basement somewhere in Tehran, a group of Iranians are
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  Speaker 1: whispering the name of Jesus. They could be arrested. They
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  Speaker 1: could be executed. The Islamic Republic has made clear what
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  Speaker 1: happens to those who leave Islam. And yet they keep meeting.
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  Speaker 1: Every week, more people come. They pass around hand-copied portions
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  Speaker 1: of scripture. They pray in whispers. And when new believers
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  Speaker 1: show up for the first time, they almost always say
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. I saw him in a dream. He
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  Speaker 1: told me to find you. Iran today has one of
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  Speaker 1: the fastest growing underground Christian movements on earth. Estimates range
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  Speaker 1: from hundreds of thousands to over one million secret believers.
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  Speaker 1: House churches are multiplying across the country despite active government persecution.
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  Speaker 1: Pastors have been imprisoned. Some have been executed. The pressure
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  Speaker 1: is constant and severe. And the church keeps growing. Every
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  Speaker 1: crackdown produces more converts. Every arrest produces more witnesses. The
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  Speaker 1: Islamic Republic is fighting a war it does not know
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  Speaker 1: how to win. The phenomenon of dreams and visions is
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  Speaker 1: especially striking. Iranians from every background, former Muslims, academic students,
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  Speaker 1: even former Revolutionary Guard members report direct encounters with a
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  Speaker 1: figure dressed in white who identifies himself as Jesus. He
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  Speaker 1: speaks to them by name. He tells them to seek
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  Speaker 1: out other believers. These accounts are not isolated rumors. They
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  Speaker 1: are documented by multiple mission organizations and confirmed by Iranian
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  Speaker 1: church leaders both inside and outside the country. Something is
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  Speaker 1: happening in Iran that no political analyst can explain and
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  Speaker 1: no government decree can stop. I will restore the fortunes
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  Speaker 1: of Elam, declares the Lord. That promise was written over 2,600
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  Speaker 1: years ago. And it is being fulfilled right now in
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  Speaker 1: basements and safe houses and secret gatherings across the nation
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  Speaker 1: the world fears most. The bow is being broken. Sanctions,
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  Speaker 1: military setbacks, internal unrest. The regime's grip weakening year after year.
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  Speaker 1: But while the structures of Iranian power crumble from the outside,
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  Speaker 1: something is being built from the inside that no missile
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  Speaker 1: program could ever produce. The prophet Zechariah described a day
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  Speaker 1: when the nations that once rose against Israel would ascend
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  Speaker 1: to Jerusalem to worship the Lord and celebrate the Feast
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  Speaker 1: of Tabernacles. Nations that launched missiles will one day bring offerings.
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  Speaker 1: Nations that funded terror will one day join in worship.
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  Speaker 1: Iran could be among them. The same land that produced
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  Speaker 1: the prince of Persia could one day produce a generation
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  Speaker 1: that kneels before the king of kings. That is not
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  Speaker 1: wishful thinking. That is what the scripture says. The prophecy
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  Speaker 1: is not just future, it is present. God set his
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  Speaker 1: throne in Elam, and some Iranians have already found it,
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  Speaker 1: in whispered prayers. In hand-copied scriptures, in dreams that cross
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  Speaker 1: every border and bypass every law and reach into the
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  Speaker 1: darkest corners of the most closed nation on earth, what
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  Speaker 1: God declared through Jeremiah is unfolding right now. Quietly, unstoppably,
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  Speaker 1: one dream at a time, in the very nation the
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  Speaker 1: world fears most, God is doing something no government can stop.
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  Speaker 1: The restoration of Elam is not coming. It has already begun.
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  Speaker 1: So let me ask you this. Do you believe Iran's
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  Speaker 1: biblical story will end in war or in restoration? Tell
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