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John Haller: Report On Current Events, Archaeology In Israel · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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  And now, here's your host, David Firazzo.
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  All right, family and Christ, thank you so much for tuning in.
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  We've got our friend John Haller back with us and freshly back from Israel.
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  He's got some pretty amazing things to tell about some of his observations when he was there,
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  Brother, thank you so much for your time and what you're able to share today. We appreciate it.
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  It's good to be with you, David. Yeah, didn't you just, was it last night on the night before I saw
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  you guys doing a live round table? How many of those do you do? That was, we did that on November 12th
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  with Patrick Wood, Bridgillette, Scott Townsend, and David Bowen. And I will do another one on
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  December 10th. So we're trying to do them about every four weeks just because we don't, we do about
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  two to two and a half hours and we don't have time to even scratch the surface on everything
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  happening and the technology market, the B system space. So it's pretty incredible.
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  A lot happening and a lot to keep up with. But let's start with your trip. I think you sent me
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  some a couple scriptures one in Zechariah, one in Nehemiah, but talk about wherever you want to start
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  from what your observations were in Israel. So you know, I'm what you would call a Christian Zionist
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  and we'll talk a little bit later about I think some of the bad theology that's leading to a
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  lot of the fracturing on the conservative right in America. The mega, a lot of people on the
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  mega right, well, we'll talk about the mega right are going completely anti-Israel, anti-Jew,
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  anti-Zionist, and the examples are pretty legion, but it was an incredible time to be there.
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  The first thing I did was I led a tour for two weeks, then I came home for about a week and a half
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  and then I went back for about 10 days. So I it was a lot of flying to, you know, I didn't want it,
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  I, Pam couldn't go so I thought I wouldn't leave her at home alone for a month. What's going on in
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  Israel is, you know, it's interesting they're in the midst of a war and I could share stores
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  that they did a podcast with somebody and I talked about the first two days of my trip and we
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  went about two and a half hours as you can imagine that I would do. But let me just share a few
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  stories. In the midst of this and everybody thinks of Israel as kind of a monolithic place,
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  one thing that's amazing about Israel is, is particularly in Jerusalem, but this is true in
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  Ashtode and Ashkalan and Tel Aviv, along the Mediterranean and other cities we went to a
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  frot which is between Jerusalem and Hebron. It's a Jewish settlement area. They're building 7,000
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  new homes in a frot. In Jerusalem you go down Jaffa street, one of the main roads and it's a solid
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  construction zone for three miles. The traffic in Jerusalem is as bad as anything I've ever seen.
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  They're building tunnels, more light rail, all of this, but it's just,
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  if stuff is almost to the point of a stand still all the time in Jerusalem. I mean you have a mile
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  and a half from your hotel to the old city where we were for the media summit and it can take an hour,
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  hour, 25 minutes to get a mile. And I even, I can walk a mile and that's funny too because
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  we're walking around Jerusalem and all of the, all of the directions on Google maps,
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  walking directions all the time they say, mostly flat. There's not a flat spot anywhere in that
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  city. It's, it seems like it's more up than down, but you know we walked out into the old
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  Ottoman train station to get dinner the other night and it's probably a 75 story building
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  elevation change in a mile and less than a mile downhill. Of course you have to walk back up
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  and so we took a cab after dinner, but it's incredible. The amount of construction is just
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  absolutely shocking and you look at through some of the barriers that these things that they're
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  building and the foundational holes are five, six, seven, nine stories deep that they've built,
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  so they're building very big buildings in these places. And I don't know what the traffic is
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  going to be like when Beckett's done. They say that redoing things are going to take five years
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  to get the white rio and tunnels and things that they want built. Wow. But so just a couple things.
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  So one of the things we did on the media summit that I was there, we traveled to different places.
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  We went to the Gaza Amboa, went to some of the kibbutz that was attacked. We went to the Nova
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  Festival. I did the same thing on my tour. We went to a different kibbutz. And at the one we went
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  to on our tour, Faraza, you can see there's just bullet holes in machine gun and RPG explode.
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  You can see where people died. So for example, at Faraza there were 925 residents on October 7th,
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  68 were killed, 18 taken hostage. And when we were there, this is before we were there while
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  Trump came. But in fact, both times he's been a Jerusalem. I've been there for some reason. But
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  it may be stalking me. But the two of the hostages, the twin brothers, were still held hostage.
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  Of course, they've been since been released. And I'll talk about that in just a moment. But
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  the level of destruction that you see there, for example, at Niraaz and other kibbutz that we went to,
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  there's one sign there that kind of tells everything you need to know. It says,
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  Gush Kateef. It's a road sign. There's somebody put on top of the building pointing towards Gaza.
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  So when you're at the fence on the kibbutz, on the western fence, the Gaza border fence is about
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  maybe a half a mile away. And then you can see the buildings beyond that. And every now and then
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  you'll hear these massive explosions going off, even after the ceasefire and everything because
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  they're still terrorists and tunnels. But this Gush Kateef sign really says a lot because in 2005,
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  the Bush Cheney administration, under the guys, well, we're smarter than everybody else. We're
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  going to force you to make peace with the Palestinians. And so we force them to evacuate every
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  Jew from Gaza. And it wasn't just every live view. It was every dead Jew. They dug up the
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  bodies and brought them out of Gaza. Gaza became completely Jew free. And so I asked,
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  shortly after I saw that sign, I was talking to, I believe he was the first first responder to
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  get to the Nova Festival. And this is a battle hardened guy, a peer-to-proof fought in 11 and wars.
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  And that type of thing. And he was out in a hard time describing what he saw when he got to that
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  Nova Festival, 364 killed, hundreds more injured bodies piled up everywhere. And so they have
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  these memorials to each person there. And the families come there on Shabbat and actually have
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  their Shabbat dinner at the memorial that's set up where their child died. It's kind of hard to
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  describe. But I asked him about that Bush-Kateef sign. And he said, I suggest, well, maybe October
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  7th doesn't happen if Jews hadn't been evacuated from Gaza. And he said, no, no, it's not maybe. It
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  would not have happened. But our government participated in that and forced them to leave Gaza.
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  So it was interesting when on my tour we went to Gaza and then we came back to Jerusalem. So this
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  is the first thing that I'll talk about. We had dinner and then we said we're going over to the
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  city of David. This is an incredible archaeological site. Really 25 years ago, nothing had been
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  excavated. Now they've excavated. And we were able to walk most of the pilgrimage road. Most
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  groups aren't able to do that yet. We also went to what they call temple zero. We know there was
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  the first temple and the second temple, but they found an earlier temple in Jerusalem at the city
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  of David in the place that it should be. So they call it was excavated starting in 2010
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  by L.H. Crown. So this is very recent. And it's called temple zero because it's the temple of
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  Nukhizadek, where Abram came to give an offering to Nukhizadek. And there's no doubt about it. And
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  it's a very unique structure. It's different than all the other pagan temples that they found
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  in the Middle East. And I think L.H. Crown conclusion is correct. In fact, they've carbon dated
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  organic material, you know, pots and that type of thing that they found that were used in sacrifices
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  to about 1900 BC, which is the time of Abraham. Wow. And so this is a confirmation. So you're,
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  I mean, so you're sitting there right in all this history. But in the city of David,
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  one thing that they've excavated is this big wall. And it's the wall of Nehemiah. Nehemiah
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  built this wall. And by the way, David, there is no doubt this is the wall of Nehemiah.
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  Excavated in the city of David. So we walked over to the city of David. And it's about 50 stories
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  up, 50 stories down, up some more, and then down some more to get there. And I mean, it's only,
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  I don't know, six tenths of a mile. So you're working, it's a workout to get over there. And then
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  you get to the city of David. And it's about seven stories down to the seats that they have for
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  this light show. And the light show was called L.A. Luya. But so here we are city in the city of
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  David watching a laser light show, you know, with pyrotechnics and all the stuff. And the story
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  is the story of Nehemiah projected on the wall of Nehemiah in the city of David.
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  Seeth. And while we're there, the negotiations are going on about the release of the hostages.
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  And we are there during Sukkot, the feast of booze. So everything is a madhouse. There are special
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  shabbats all the way through Sukkot. But so in Nehemiah aid, it talks about the fact that while they
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  were doing the wall, they found the book of the law. And they brought the book of the law out,
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  that they had lost. They had not seen this for a long time. It had been discovered just like
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  today they're discovering the city of David where Solomon's palace was, where David's palace was,
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  the temple of McKisodeck, the pilgrimage road from the pool of Psylone to the temple mount that
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  you can walk or as soon as most everybody will be able to walk on. It's just about that probably
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  next year or open. But so in the context of the feast of booze, this light show about Nehemiah
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  that we've just watched, there's a verse in Nehemiah 8 verse 17. And it says this, the entire
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  assembly of those who had returned from the captivity, the captivity to Babylon, made booze and lived
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  in the booze. In other words, it was Sukkot and they were celebrating Sukkot after coming back from
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  captivity. We're there when they're releasing hostages from captivity. And then it says this,
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  the sons of Israel had in need indeed not done so and not keeping the feast of booze from the days
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  of Joshua, the son of none to that day. And there was exceedingly great gladness. And I guess
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  I'm just trying to say that there's this pattern that happened at the time of Nehemiah and then we
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  were living the fulfillment of it, the modern fulfillment of it while we were sitting there in the
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  city of David. It was a very emotional, very incredibly biblical. So I meant it says, and he read
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  from the book of the law of God, daily, from the first day to the last day. And so they celebrated
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  the feast and there was this massive celebration going on in Israel in the midst of a war,
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  they're at war with people. So there was one other, I've had two other quick stories. So we went
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  up to the Lebanon border to Matulla the day after we were there right on the border, they're bombing
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  all the new Hezbollah positions that are being reestablished up there. It was nice that they waited
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  until we had finished our thing up there. Then we went over to the Golan border with Syria.
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  And you can look over to the mountains, a place called Sueda, where the Al Jilani regime,
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  the Al Shara regime, the new regime in Syria is persecuting Christians and Druids.
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  And it was hard for me to watch this meeting with President Trump in Al Shara, this former
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  Al Qaeda ISIS guy in the White House yesterday. This is very bad optics. I don't understand what's
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  going on. And as a lawyer, I try to think through all the possibilities. I cannot think of any
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  possibility under which this was a good thing that happened yesterday. The optics were very bad.
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  But they brought into us to talk to us a lady from module Shams. And about a year ago,
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  there was a Hezbollah rocket that hit a soccer field at module Shams and killed 12th
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  Trilver. And one of whom was the 11-year-old daughter of the lady who talked to us.
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  The father was there. He couldn't talk. It was one of the most moving, emotional things I've
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  ever seen in my life as she talked about her 11-year-old daughter who spoke four languages.
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  Druid, Hebrew, Turkish, and had taught herself a fourth language German because she wanted to
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  go to law school in Germany. She was 11 years old. She was killed by that rocket. And then there
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  was also with them another father. His son was on the soccer field but was missing for a couple
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  days. They could not figure out what happened. I don't know how to describe this other than
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  they finally found pieces of his body. He was blown to bits by the Hezbollah rocket.
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  And so this is a real war in a real place going on. And this is a story that was repeated over
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  and over as we went around Israel. So the last Sunday I was there on the tour. I met my friend
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  Rodi Harrell at Christchurch in the old city. And we went on a walking tour. So we went down.
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  And he said, I want you to see what happened here. He showed me there's a reproduction of the
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  Mottaba map. It's over in Mottaba, a church in Mottaba, Jordan. It's a mosaic done around 3,
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  400 AD. It's the oldest map of the Middle East. But one thing that's interesting is that I think
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  this relates to some of the other things we want to talk about is that the map is of Jerusalem
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  and the Holy Land but something's missing. The Temple Mount. So even back in 3 or 400 AD,
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  they were trying to erase the Jewish character of the Holy Land from the Holy Land. And it was
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  the Christians who were doing it. So he took us over to the Herva synagogue. It took me over to
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  the Herva synagogue, which is only reopened in the last year or two. And there's another big
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  synagogue that was just rebuilt and reopened. They were completely destroyed in 1948 war of
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  independence by Jordan who took over the old city of Jerusalem, occupied the old city of Jerusalem
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  and completely destroyed the Jewish quarter of the old city. So that's why when you go to the old
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  city today, the Jewish quarter has a lot of new buildings on it. And there's a movie there that
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  about what happened in the 1948 war and about the surrender that took place. So Roddy took me
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  down to the place where the surrender happened. And on the way down there, there's a memorial to a
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  mass grave that used to be there of 28 people, including a 10-year-old IDF soldier who was killed in
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  a 1948 war rabbi and his wife. We're all buried there. Now they've since been, the bodies have been
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  relocated, but there's a memorial there. And then there's a square. The square is in front of what
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  they call the house of Rothschild. It was a house for the poor people that the Rothschild family had
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  built there in the Jewish quarter. And it's still standing. And in the front of the square,
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  there were people, old people, young people walking around and there were kids playing soccer
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  and that type of thing. It was an incredible site and then my friend Roddy said, look at that.
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  And over on the wall, if you stayed at the house of Rothschild and you look to the left,
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  there's a wall and on the walls of Bible verse. And everywhere we went, we saw IDF soldiers.
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  They were down at Nova. They were there. They were at the goal on border or a Syria. They're getting
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  educated about the history of Israel to motivate them for the very serious fight in which
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  they're engaged. We saw some at Nova. They said, yeah, we came here today to remember and to get
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  motivated because we're going into Gaza to fight tonight. Wow. And so this is, I mean, you know,
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  these are like young, they're young people. They're, you know, 19, 20, 21, 22 years old. Some of
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  them are married have young families. But then Roddy said, look at that. Look at those two
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  Orthodox soldiers standing there by the Bible verse. And they were literally meaning against the
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  wall weeping because of the verse and what was going on there. So there's a prophecy of Zachary.
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  And I'm not saying that this prophecy has been fulfilled yet. But these prophecies are kind of
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  unfolding right in front of us. And so in Zachary chapter 8 verses 4 and 5, it says this, and this
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  is the verse that's on the wall in Hebrew because I went and I took a picture of it in Google
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  translated and translated. This is what it says. Thus says Yahweh of host old men and old woman
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  will again sit in the streets of Jerusalem. Each man with his staff in his hand because of age.
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  And the streets of this city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.
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  That was going on right in front of me. And so we're in the midst of this. And by the way,
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  that's one of about 150 or more stories that I could tell you just from this trip. The trips to
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  Israel are so faith reaffirming, but understand that they're in the midst of a propaganda where I will
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  give you an example. So I had not been up to nobleness where the biblical city of Shekham is,
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  we went to Joshua's altar, the actual altar of Joshua on Mountty Ball, the Mount of Curses,
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  in nobleness. Biblical Shekham, where Joseph's tomb is, the amount of blessing is Mount Gershine.
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  But to go to Joshua's altar, we had to get, we went with a couple of Jewish groups to share the
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  cost of the bus we had to with bulletproof windows. And we had to go in there under on a back road
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  under IDFS court with soldiers and everything. And then as we were walking the mile or so from
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  where we parked to Joshua's altar to talk about it, we had drones flying overhead. So they're in
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  the midst of a war. But as they looked around nobleness having been there about eight years ago with
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  Joel Kramer, the amount of building in these Arab villages in places like Nobleness. And then when
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  we went to a fraught in Bethlehem right across the valley, right on the other side of Solomon's
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  pools from a fraught, there's all these new apartment buildings. And we went to Shabbat in a fraught
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  we came out. And when you look back at the, a fraught, it's a condominium, a giant condominium
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  buildings and complex. All the lights in the windows are on. You look across the valley at these
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  brand new apartment buildings. And this was true in Nobleness, it was true in your Shiloh,
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  it was true in Bethlehem. There is not a single light in any window in any of these new buildings
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  at night. Why is that? It's a complete propaganda operation to make it look like there are more
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  Arabs living there than there are. I saw this eight years ago up near the
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  biblical city of I, the archaeological site, Big Neighborhood like Beverly Hills, nobody lives
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  there. These apartment buildings, nobody lives there. It's a propaganda op by the UN and UN
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  associated NGOs to make it look like there are more Palestinians because they don't want Israel
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  to think that, well, we can just make a one-state solution because they say, well, there'll be
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  more Arabs than Jews. It's a complete falser. So, and now we have all these people
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  talking about it, we have Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, we have the people on the right,
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  even Bannon's war room has gone completely anti-Israel. They'll say they're not, but they are,
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  they're lying if they say they're not. And I saw video on a YouTube channel from a guy named
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  Steve the tour guide. I'm going to try to interview him here in the next couple of weeks.
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  It's an excellent interview about what's going on? Where is this coming from? And so Steve
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  has pretty well educated and he said, this is a revival of pre-Vaticant to Catholicism,
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  which is very anti-Israel because what pre-Vaticant to Catholicism was that the Jews collectively
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  are guilty for all time for killing Christ, not just the people who orchestrated at the time,
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  like the New Testament teachers, but it's a, and so this, we're in the midst of that. So,
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  Diana West and Lee Smith at Tablet have new articles about how to sustain. And this is,
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  this is what Pat Buchanan talked about. And everybody poo-pooed him back in the 80s, like,
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  oh, Pat, you're in the anti-Semite, you're a Jew hater. One of the people who did that, I have
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  the video of him. It's what you didn't find it on C-SPAN. A guy criticizing Pat Buchanan's
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  Jew hatred for being anti against the Zionist aspect of Israel. We're establishing Israel in the land.
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  That video is from a guy named Tucker Carlson. So what's happened is there's this revival of this
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  pre-Vaticant to Catholicism that is extremely anti-Jew in anti-Israel.
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  So, John, we're out of time, but I want to send people to tabletmag.com. Jeff, if you could just
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  bring up the page of that article so people can go look that up. Very interesting. One of the quotes
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  in there, Trump didn't inherit Buchanan's legacy. He is a repudiation of it. And it's very
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  interesting, some things that I wasn't aware of about Buchanan. Well, you know, anti-Semitism.
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  It's not new, and we shouldn't be surprised, but the growth of it in America is concerning. John
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  Haller, next time we're going to have to do two episodes, brother, but thanks for your time. We'll
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  see you on a round table or we'll keep in touch. Thanks, brother. God bless you, friends, and as always,
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  keep speaking the truth about things that matter.