What The Bible Says About The Protection Of Israel And Are They God’s “Chosen” People

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Radio. Well, welcome, I'm
Bill Martinez and we are live. The

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question that stands before us is what
does the Bible say about the protection of

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Israel and are they really God's chosen
people. Well, my good friend doctor

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Alex McFarlane's going to join us in
just a moment. He's the recognized youth

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culture and religion expert, and he
takes on the questions many are asked these

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days in light of the Israel Hamas
War. In addition to the title,

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many are asking under what circumstances if
any is war condoned, isn't war considered

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murder? Is this current attack on
Israel part of the end times? How

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do we find God's assurance during these
times rather than becoming overwhelmed with fear.

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And what is the best way to
share our faith in an empathetic way during

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these tumultuous times. Join us right
now as we bring on doctor Alex McFarlane

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to the show. Alex, welcome, good to have you with us.

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Well, thank you, Bill,
I appreciate your time. I've got such

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a great respect for you as a
communicator and thinker, and it's always an

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honor to be with you. Well, you're very kind. We just flashed

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up a couple of your books.
Of course you have authored. What are

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you up to? I mean,
you're spinning them out like biscuits these days,

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close to thirty one twenty books and
be over twenty. Of course you've

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got a book one of the books. Of course, one of my favorites

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is when you're answering questions, and
you've got a series. This is one

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of two that answers questions, and
of course your most recent one as well,

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right right, Yeah, In fact, I just saw yesterday where the

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most recent book, one hundred Bible
Questions and Answers for Families. It's in

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walmart Sam's Club, Borns and noble
and so it's really an honor to be

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able to get God's truth out into
the secular public square. Well and more

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than ever, it is so important. And I think that what's happening right

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now in our world, alex is
an opportunity to confront the narrative, to

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confront the lies, to confront evil, because if there's ever been a clear

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demarcation between good and evil, it's
what's standing in front of us right now,

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isn't it. Well, it really
is. And you hit the nail

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on the head bill with the word
narrative, because there's there's a narrative,

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a politically correct woe narrative that's really
being foisted on the American people in the

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world. But history, reality,
and certainly scripture is quite a bit different

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than the narrative exactly. Well.
And the thing is is whether it's universities

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today, you know, prestigious universities
that are carrying a narrative. You think

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these institutions that are supposed to be
known for their intellect or at least in

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search of have been indoctrinated some of
these kids, I say, you know,

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I'm saying to our audience, you
need to discern that the kids here

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in America are kind of you know, riding the wave. They're caught up

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in the narrative here. But the
other kids who come from the Middle East,

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alex As, you know, who
are you know, generationally, they're

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indoctrinated, I mean from the date
of their birth. They're indoctrinated that they

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must hate Israel and hate Christians.
And this is, you know, clearly

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what we're seeing here. And this
is why you've got the likes of Tom

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Cotton and Marco Rubio saying that the
government, our US government should send the

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hate back where it originated, because
we have imported hate into our culture.

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It's in the classrooms of our higher
classrooms of academia. And this is not

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going to serve the American idea or
the American people well in the end run.

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Yeah, you know, I'm just
hoping Bill that the way that some

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many on the left and certainly the
squad and like AOC and ilhan Omer and

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to lead. Yeah, yeah,
I'm just hoping that American Jews that have

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just uncritically voted Democrat for decades,
I'm hoping they'll see that the Democrat Party

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that they have so you know,
religiously served and I would say, in

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many cases blindly served, the Democrat
Party does not care one stitch about the

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Jewish people now or the state of
Israel. There have been voices, and

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I have to give credit where it's
due. I am pleased with what I've

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heard from Biden in the last few
days about his support for Israel. But

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my goodness, the very same social
justice voices that you know would have us

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believe they are the champions of human
rights have stood with baby killing, genocidal

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terrorists, and against the sovereign nation
of Israel. And I'm just hoping that

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will open the eyes of some people. Well, even the mainstream media,

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which isn't new Alex said, when
you go back in World War Two,

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it was the mainstream media that gave
cover to Stallin and Adolph Hitler for many

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years. And this includes the newspaper
record for our country, which is a

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sad commentary. And here we are
they are buying quote unquote into that narrative.

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As we talked about where Hamas is
putting themselves in the position of a

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victim. Well it's in order to
do that, you've got to square up

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a lot of things here to put
them in a position of victimhood because they

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were the ones that came through the
gates. They were the ones that invaded

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Israel and attacked innocence. Two hundred
and sixty kids out enjoying the final day

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of the joy of the Torah festival
and they get gunned down, women being

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raped and dragged in the streets of
Gaza. You know, Holocaust victims murdered,

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children in their beds, murdered and
decapitated. That to me doesn't speak

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of victimhood. No, oh,
my goodness. No. And you know

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what, before the war even began, Hamas was in Gaza, taking people's

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car keys, threatening people basically,
and Bill, the only adjective that I

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can muster for this is wicked.
Yes, this is wicked, premptively preventing

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people from leaving, picking a fight
with Israel, starting a war, and

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then making sure that there would be
maximal civilian casualties. You know, there's

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the moral sensibilities of any thinking human
being. Certainly there is the scriptural compassion

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that believers in God and the Bible
would understand. But then there are just

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the Geneva Conventions and what constitutes the
rules of engagement during war. To the

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left, to the Democrats, to
anybody that is a rational adult. You

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have to recognize Hamas and Hesbellah,
and these Islamic people are terrorists. They

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care not for truth or the human
condition. And let me say, Israel

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has the right to national defense.
They have the right to defend what's theirs.

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And these terrorists, they must be
stopped. And over here in the

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West they must be in at least
in the public square, and in good

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conversation they must be condemned. Well, we must measure our level of empathy,

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you know, Alex, because what
happens is the Middle East, particularly

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the Arabs and Palestinians, have taken
full advantage of our grace and mercy.

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You know, we have been forgiven, We've been loved by God Almighty,

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who's extended so much grace and forgiving
our sins. And we want to naturally

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extend that to others. You know, it's a blessing that God's blessed us

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with and we want to extend it
to others. But we also need to

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be wise and discerning, not to
cast pearls before swine. In other words,

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don't offer your blessing to someone who
doesn't appreciate it. Appeasement has never

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worked. It's a violation of true
compromise and agreement. And what you're you're

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hoping to do is to change the
hearts of men that have already been so

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preconditioned. In fact, I was
just talking with doctor George Barna earlier this

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week and he reminded us about a
worldview. Alex and I know you're well

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aware of this, is that a
worldview is cemented in the mind of a

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child by the age of thirteen.
Okay, And so here you are here

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in America. I mean, we've
got our issues in terms of belief in

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God and a worldview. Everybody's got
a worldview. But you need to pause

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for a moment and determine for yourself
what kind of worldview view do you hold.

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Do you hold a biblical worldview?
Are you holding to a cultural worldview

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or with the Muslim nations, are
you holding to a worldview that promotes the

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manifesto of Muhammad, which is all
about the full and total annihilation of the

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State of Israel and all Jews.
And then the next step is America in

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all people of faith and Christians.
Right, Well, yeah, and you

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mentioned the grace and mercy of America. But let me also say, the

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naivete In many ways, American leaders, certainly American academics, are very naive.

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And I remember I well remember after
nine to eleven, Bill I was

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speaking at a number of university campuses
and I was condemning terrorism. They were

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saying, well, you know,
these are people of good faith. Well

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not like you think. I mean, they are human beings. They're made

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in God's image and as a human
being, you know, all people have

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worth and value and dignity. But
the ideology, the software program that we

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call Islam breeds within people, this
scorched earth mentality. I mean, Islam

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in and of itself is aggressive and
violent, and I would say genocidal.

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But then what makes it worse is
I mean, you've got people believing that

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if they die in the cause of
Jiha, they go to an instant heaven

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of seventy to virgins. I mean, if ever there were, as the

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Bible says, quote, doctrines of
demons, the teachings and living out of

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Islam is it. But let me
just say this for just a minute,

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let me let me just interject this. It's interesting that you know here it

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is this religion appeals to the lust
of man and the carnality of man,

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you're going to end up with seventy
two virgins, which I think is quite

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interesting because Jesus himself when they were
talking about heaven, when he was talking

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with the Pharisees and some of his
apostles, they asked about remember the guy

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or the woman who is married to
seven brothers. Each of the brothers died

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and and and they say, well, you know, she went through each

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of the seven brothers. And they
asked Jesus, they said, well,

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when she dies and goes to heaven, who's the husband? Who is she

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married to? And Jesus says,
you know, in a sense, you're

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naive, you don't understand. And
what's going on. He says, in

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heaven there will there will not be
a need for marriage. Marriage is not

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going to exist in heaven. So
consider that, reconcile that with what you

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know the Arabs are told, what
the Muslims are told, that they will

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go to heaven and find seventy two
virgins. Yeah, it's a very chauvinistic

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view of heaven and one not at
all in touch with scriptural reality. You

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know, the Islamic promise of heaven, not only the seventy two virgins,

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but that you can drink all the
wine you want, and you want get

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intoxicated or pass out. I mean, it's just a very carnal view of

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heaven. Whereas you know, as
Jesus said, the Kingdom of Heaven is

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like this. I mean, it's
going to be a place where in righteousness

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dwells. But here's the thing.
Muhammad was born around five seventy one a

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d. Islam started about six twenty
two a d well The Jews had been

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in their land for twenty five hundred
years before the birth of Mahmet. So

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by historical precedent, and you and
I, as believers in scripture, would

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say, by divine right. You
know Exodus nineteineteen verse five, God told

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Israel, I have chosen you out
from my special possession among all the peoples

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of the earth. So the land
of Israel belongs to Israel and belongs to

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God. First, well, true, yes, right, yes, go

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ahead, it does belong to God. But in Genesis twelve, God had

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promised Abraham. And again, you
know, two and a half millennia before

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the existence of Islam. So God
had told Abraham, I'm going to make

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of you a great nation everywhere your
foot treads, this land is yours,

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and through you all the families of
the earth will be blessed. And that

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was the Abrahamic promise from God that
through the Jewish people would come to Messiah.

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That's Jesus Christ. But here's the
thing God said, I will bless

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them that blessed the incur those who
curse the you know, Bill, in

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the Six Day War of nineteen sixty
seven and then in the Yam Kippur War

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of nineteen seventy three. Whenever Israel
is attacked, not only are the enemies

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vanquished, but Israel comes out better. As I'm sure you know. During

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the Six Day War, which was
just a miracle, fifty eight to one

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were the odds. Oh yeah,
the numbers were incomprehensible, you know it

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really the stats on Israeli casualties versus
the casualties of those invading nations. It's

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like a miracle story out of the
Old Testament exactly. And Israel increased their

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landholdings and so Bill, isn't it
a puzzlement that the very same progressive,

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liberal, woke social justice people that
want to speak as if they have the

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moral high ground they are advocating for
the Palestine Islamic aggressors, Israel is not

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the aggressor here. They are exerting
self defense, which biblical ethics and you

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know, moral thinkers throughout history have
acknowledged people and nations have the right to

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self defense exactly, and so Israel, you know, whether you're a Christian

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or not, just as an observer
of a nation defending itself against an unprovoked

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attack, Israel has the right to
fight and defend itself and I pray God

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that they do amen. Talking with
doctor Alex MacFarland, recognized author, youth

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culture and religion expert, Alex,
you know, the thing is again the

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history of Israel as such. And
we've been saying on both our shows radio

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and television that God does not need
a real estate agent. Does he as

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well said God does not need a
real estate agent. No, the earth

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is the Lord's and the fullness therein. But at the same time, you

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know, God has laid out decrees, do you know. It's interesting In

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Matthew twenty eight eighteen through twenty when
Jesus is giving the church the Great Commission,

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he says, all authority is given
to me in heaven and Earth,

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and the word there, interestingly,
really means jurisdiction. This world is God's

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turf, but he sends the Christians
out to proclaim the Gospel, as we

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do. But this is God's world, and God's word dictates his plans for

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this world and for all people.
But may we talk for a second about

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ideology and worldview, because your view
of reality will shape your priorities and your

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behaviors. Now, a Judeo Christian
worldview, or at the very least,

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a worldview that believes in moral objectivity. We believe there is truth, Humans

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can know truth. Humans have an
obligation to live truth. We are to

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do that which is moral and refrain
from that which is immoral. But let's

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just think about these things in terms
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truth, and morals. Reality is
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Truth is not subjective or relative.
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And then morals morals aren't fluid and
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and so Bill, what's so hard
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last twenty five years is we've lived
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reality, truth and morals has changed. And why is that. Well,

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it's changed for a number of reasons. Look, there've always been liberals and

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academics and voices that were out of
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the nineteen sixties it's been like in
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celebrities in the media have been just
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I live as I want to live. There is no truth that I

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must submit myself too. I define
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We're in really a militant relativism and
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doing. This is why you know, the ideas of man. You know,

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they spot out their ideas and God
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the beginning of all this is that
the infrastructure of holiness and all that God

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had desired for his creation. You
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people of Israel, well, but
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degree, we may not be capital
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chosen by God nonetheless, and He's
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in which to live in, for
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with a with a caveat. It
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the beginning. In the beginning God, it was he who created all things.

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He created a structure, and do
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know, all these institutions in the
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maybe a pig and a poke.
It might it might create something of

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good. Do you think that you
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that he would specifically because everything else, you know, in the first couple

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of chapters of Genesis. This is
what blows me away, is that God

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didn't say, well, I think
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measure it this way. It'll only
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everything was down to the Cuban.
It was down to the specific, you

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know, the specific details of everything. And He did this in creating earth.

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And yet we get people today that
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own eyes and put their own ignorance
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matter, and for those who are
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We laugh with God over this because
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stuff is coming and basically it's silly. On one hand, On the other

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hand, Alex And I think you
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they're defying God Almighty. Oh yeah, well, and in John ten thirty

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five, I mean Jesus said the
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all right, here's the thing.
There are a number of world views that

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you never would get if you read
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outside stimuli. You know, I
think about things like transgenderism, gender fluidity,

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and gay marriage. You would never
get that just by reading God's revealed

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word. Now what grieves my heart
is we've got theological liberals that have infected

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many a seminary, many a formally
religious school. You would never never get

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evolution by reading the Bible. You
would never get moral fluidity by reading the

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Bible. But yet here are the
things the standards being relaxed, like universalism,

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relativism, I make up my own
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redefinition of family. Now I want
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reason I guess I'm being as passionate
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times. I mean, America needs
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revival and a spiritual awakening. You're
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look, there's always been pagans and
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soapbox of the public square. But
what allowed these things to get a foothold

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over the last twenty five thirty years
Bill two things, the breakdown of the

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family and the weakening of the church. Now, nearly one hundred years ago,

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the communist and the secular humanists that
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they said, it'll never happen.
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the Christian family and the church.
Antonio Gromsky seventy plus years ago,

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well one hundred years ago. Really
the communist atheists, he challenged his fellow

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Marxists, we must quote make the
long march through the institutions exactly now.

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The conventional wisdom is, and I've
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mentioned doctor George Barna, He's a
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But the conventional wisdom is kids are
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away to the university, and the
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back and they don't get married.
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the inverse of that. And there
were a couple of books How the West

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Really Lost God by Bradford Wilcox and
Mary Eberstadt, and then How Civilizations Die

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by a man named David Goldberg,
and others I can end that are not

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necessarily preachers or Christians even, but
secular sociologists and historians. Here's the thing.

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There always were liberals in classrooms,
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have never worked a real job mostly
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of reality but theory. But the
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fifty years, no fault, divorce, More and more and more and more

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kids are raised not under the same
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soccer and extracurricular activities gives way to
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Bill I was a youth pastor in
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I was at one of the most
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I mean, we had a youth

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group that we had seventy five teens
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on Sunday morning, we had one
of the It was viewed as one of

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the best youth groups in the city
of Greensboro. And yet I always knew

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that it was church unless something better
came along, exactly. And every mission

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trip, every retreat, everything we
ever did. I knew that until those

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kids were on the bus, that
soccer could preempt what we were doing,

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ballet whatever. And then moms and
dads come to me and they're like,

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oh, I don't understand it.
I've sent my child to U and C

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Chapel Hill and now after one semester
they're an atheist. Well, it's because

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Jesus and being a disciple never was
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bedroom, door household exactly. So
here's what I'm saying is we in America

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have just about lost Christianity because for
about twenty five thirty years, we had

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the likes of Bill Hybel, Andy
Stanley, you know, Rick Warren,

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Russell Moore and if these your friends, forgive me, but we've had Christianity

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light, Yes, Christianity light instead
of Jesus is Lord and Savior, God

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and King, and every day I
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And so I'll give you G.
K. Chesterton. He said, it's

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not that Christianity has been tried and
found wanting. It's that Christianity has been

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found difficult and left untried. That's
why our world is unraveling. Well,

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and what you point out here,
Alex, is that how much time I

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mean, some of these parents may
say, look at you know, Alex,

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I sent my kids to your class, you know, in your youth

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group, and you have them out
of a week, you might have them

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for maybe an hour, hour and
a half. The parents have them every

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day, and you can't help think
of, you know, the Jewish prayer

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of the Shamah that reminds them,
you know, three times a day at

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least, that they are to have
this conversation about God with their children when

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they're lying down, when they're at
dinner, when they're walking out out in

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the country, that at every opportunity
they should be talking about God. Well,

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you know, what are we doing
comparatively when you think about what is

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in the minds of these children as
they grow up. I mean, you

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know, if it's not TV,
it's social media. They're on these handheld

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devices now, spending as much as
ten hours a day that is what is

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forming their worldview, Alex. And
it's no wonder because the preponderance of what's

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being put out there by the culture
is highly secular and it is it is

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an offense to God, it is
anti God. And we are where we

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are right now because we've turned our
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you know, for a long time
we talked about being at that you

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know, the tipping point. Are
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the way things are happening with such
rapidity, Alex, is that we're beyond

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that tipping point, because, as
you know, when you're beyond the tipping

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point, the downward thrust and influence
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that's where we are. We're on
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been self serving and is paying the
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I mean, it's beyond the human
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We need a revival, you know, Mark nine twenty six. Jesus says

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something's are only accomplished by prayer and
fasting. And you know, let me

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just say, folks, if you
love America, you care about Israel,

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you care about the future of young
people. As long as you are able

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to do it, and your doctor
says you're healthy. Do a three day

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fast, drink water of course,
dehydrated, do a forty day fast,

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and watch God do things. Maybe
somebody watching this build they need to pray

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by name for a prodigal who needs
to come back to God, family and

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reality. But the other thing I
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know, and our heart is heavy. I mean, we don't like it

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when people are being killed, and
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course some one hundred and twenty two
verse six is that we're to pray for

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the peace of Jerusalem. Here's the
point I do believe, and I'm happy

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to be on record unequivocally stating what
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we're very near the return of Jesus
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instability of the world, the immorality, the rise of wars and rumors of

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wars, and sexual sin and immorality, all of these things are indicative of

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the fact that Satan is very busy
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His destination is the like of fire, and it's coming quickly. But Bill,

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I say, let's get our house
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on Jesus, Let's faithfully serve him. Let's care about Israel, but let's

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do all that we can do to
get people under the sound of the gospel,

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whereby they can put their trust in
Jesus Christ is coming soon. Yeah.

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Alex have an attitude of well because

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even doctor Graham when he was asked
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the last days and he quickly responded, which I think kind of shocked the

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reporter because Billy Graham says, it's
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so really punctuating you know, this
timeline, not that we're predicting any time,

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but look at the signs, look
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there have been those in in biblical
history that have been students of time on

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the signs of the times, and
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know that God said that there will
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but that we're to be vigilant,
and we're to be vigilant to the

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point of not so much. And
this is what concerns me a little bit

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here, Alex. And some people
think, well, you know, I've

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got my I've got my salvation squared
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my seat belt, my crash almond
and waiting for Jesus to come back.

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earlier, which is key to this, is that must be in front of

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a parade, you know, going
into the kingdom. You know, we

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have got to bring others into the
truth of God, into understanding. You

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know what is hanging in the balance
here. You know, we're talking eternity.

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It's a choice. It's black and
white, just as it is right

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now. We're at that distinct and
clear, discern arnable crossroads of good and

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evil. And that's what's beyond is
that it will have good with God or

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will have evil with the evil one. It's your choice. Yeah, well

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you're right about that. And Billy
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last of the last days. Do
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with Christ's ascension and then Pentecost.
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God at various and sundry times spoke
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days has spoken through his son Jesus
Christ. Well, if two thousand years

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ago, if those were the last
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be some of the last of the
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three, he talks about perilous times
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the indicators have been the wiring of
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about you can't buy or sell,
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and inclusion evaluations of businesses, and
of course the breakdown of morals. We

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talk about all these things in our
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biggest miles mile post bill May fourteen, nineteen forty eight, the regathering of

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the Jews, the restarting of the
nation of Israel. My goodness, and

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I'm so glad that within twelve to
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ago, President Harry Truman said,
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Israel. I got to tell you, with the rebirth of Israel seventy five

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years ago, in five or six
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hey, the Trump is going to
sound we are near the return of

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Christ. Well, I've maintained that
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in the Bible. Whoever heard of
a nation being birthed in one day and

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another one of the fulfilled prophecies and
promises of God on that day and on

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that day, I saw it as
the our hand of God's prophetic clock was

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set at that moment and what we've
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don't know if you agree with this. Are minutes and seconds heading to the

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final chapter of the Book of Revelations. Yeah, I agree, And here's

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how it's going to play out.
I firmly believe it. I mean,

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the points of orthodoxy on which all
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Yes, and the Kingdom of Christ
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run by evil men will be vanquished
and subjugated. And as you know,

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there was a Quaker min around eighteen
thirty who painted a picture called the Peaceable

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Kingdom, and it's based on Isaiah, I think Isaiah eleven six. But

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you know, the infant child will
safely play next to the adders, den,

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the lion and the lamb will lie
down together, and there will be

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nothing in my holy mountain that defiles
and that painting. I've seen it in

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many churches. There is coming quote
the peaceable Kingdom. But here's what's going

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to happen, the Rapture, the
seven year Tribulation, the Battle of Armageddon,

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Christ's return, one thousand year millennium, new heavens and new Earth.

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And to everybody that might watch this
bill, let me just say, and

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it's no cliche, it's reality.
But Jesus is as close by as a

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prayer. And the Bible promises that
if we turn to Christ and we say,

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Lord, I am sorry for my
sins. Lord, I believe you

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are. You claim to be the
son of God, and you died on

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the cross for me, And Lord, I'm asking you forgive my sin,

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save my soul. Jesus be my
lord and leader. The Bible says that

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if we do that, and folks, it's not the word so much as

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the sincerity of your heart, because
you're admitting you're a sinner. You're acknowledging

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that Jesus, the Son of God, paid your sin debt on the cross,

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and you're putting your faith in him. If people call out to Jesus

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today, he said, the one
who comes to me, I will in

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no way reject. That's John six
thirty seven. Bill, people today could

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either come to the Lord or come
back to the Lord. Anyone watching this

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broadcast, if you put your faith
in Jesus Christ, he will forgive you.

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He will become that friend that sticks
closer than a brother. And folks,

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you can be ready. You know, whether you die as we all

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will, or Christ returns, or
Heaven forbid a nuclear bomb or something goes

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off and kills half of humanity,
but look, your soul will be saved

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if you put your trust in Jesus. And Bill, I would just urge

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everyone watching this to do that today. Well you know, I look at

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it this way, Alex. This
is what we call in a point of

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time. This very moment in time
has been appointed the fact that you have

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been given unction, and I believe
the Holy Spirit has led you to remind

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us of that reality and that choice. Now. For some people who are

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watching today or who will watch subsequently, because there are people who will download

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the show and watch it at their
convenience, that's fine. This could be

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your pointed time, and this may
be the last time that you hear the

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most important message that you could ever
hear. The world is in case.

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We're so confused right now. We
don't know the difference between a man and

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a woman. This is how absurd
it is. We have a Supreme Court

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justice on the court that could not
define, or refuse to define what a

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woman is. We've got young children
being violated with puberty blockers and chemical castrations

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and physical disfigurement that their lives are
ruined forever because you've got these scientists,

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these mad scientists and medical professionals and
these psychologists that think they know better than

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God, and they're putting the lives
of these children in absolute peril, keeping

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them locked into a life of medication
and pharmaceuticals, and they will not have

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children. What is their future like? It's like, you know what it

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reminds me of a little bit here, Alex is that just as Satan freaked

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out when he knew that Jesus was
coming and he used Herod to kill all

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the babies right in Bethlehem. You
know, I believe that Satan knows that

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the answer for God's next chapter is
coming in the form of a child.

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And what is he doing. He's
doing everything he can to make impure,

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you know, God's holy children,
and to spoil the seed and to do

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everything he can to eradicate God's promise
so that he could stand up on his

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own mountain and claim that God is
a liar. Right, yes, well,

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John ten ten. The Bible says
that Satan comes to steal, kill

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and destroy, and Bill, I
know, I quote a lot of Bible,

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But folks, the Bible is God's
eternal truth. Jesus Christ said in

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MEA through twenty four thirty five,
Heaven and earth will pass away, but

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the Word of God is forever.
So understand this. Satan desires to steal,

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kill or destroy. But God has
come that we might have not only

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everlasting life, but abundant life.
Exactly and again, you know, to

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everyone watching this, the most important
thing ever, the most important thing you'll

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ever do, is make sure that
you have Jesus Christ in your life.

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But one other perk if you will. One of the benefits of being a

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believer and accepting God's word is that
we know what's going on in the world.

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I mean, we know the land
of Israel belongs to Israel. We

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know that as we get closer to
the culmination of history, that evil men

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will wax worse and worse. Sadly, there are people that know they're in

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the service of Satan, and then
there are people that are just foolishly dupes

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and they might not know it,
but you know, ideas matter. There

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was a man you probably interviewed him, RC. Sproll, the late great

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figure, and he probably was a
guest on your show, Doctor Sproll.

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I interviewed him and he died,
I don't know four or five years ago,

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but he said this. He said, ideas have consequences, and that's

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true. I mean, if you
believe that we just all evolved out of

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Darwin's primordial soup, then you're going
to assume life has no purpose. Right.

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If you don't believe in God and
a moral conscience, you're not really

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going to believe in ethical or moral
boundaries. However, if you accept that

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God exists, God has revealed himself
to this world, and God has shown

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us how to be saved. He's
also shown us how we ought to live,

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and as Francis Seffer said, how
now should we live and how should

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we not live? If you believe
there is truth and a God before whom

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we will all give an account,
that will vastly change how you live and

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prioritize your life. So ideas Sproll
was right. Ideas have consequences, And

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Bill, I think we are living
in history's most vehement crossfire, the battle

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of ideas and beliefs. Well,
those are the seeds, right, I

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mean, here we are, We're
made in God's image. We can be

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co creators with God, for good
or evil. Right, And so it

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starts the ideas bubble up, you
know, from the heart. And are

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they going to be something for good, something that's going to represent life and

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liberty, or are they going to
offer you know, something of our own

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carnal and own personal expression, just
as Lucifer did when he was residing with

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God. Right. Yeah, you
read Isaiah fourteen in the Old Testament.

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See, Lucifer wanted to be God. Bill, I could summarize history almost

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in this way. Satan could not
kill God, so he's tried to harm

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those made in God's image. You
know, whether it's Cain killing Abel the

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first murder, or whether it's pornography
that dehumanizes and objectifies people, or human

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trafficking, or terrorism or leftist utopianism
teaching kids that you know, we can

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craft some global village and it's just
a pipeline and a force. Look,

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Satan could not kill God, although
he tried, and he conned one third

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of the angels into joining him in
a failed coup attempt of heaven, and

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Lucifer was cast out of heaven became
Satan. The angels that tragically foolishly joined

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Satan in an overthrow attempt of heaven
they are now demons all around us.

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But here's the thing. Satan has
tried to devalue, humanize, demoralize,

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and murder those made in God's image. He is a failure. He is

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beaten. And I'll tell you if
it's all the proof you need, and

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it should be a great encouragement to
each one of us till we see our

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Lord. But the tomb is empty
exactly Christ, Yeah, I mean Jesus

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is a lie. Here here's the
thing. Let's talk for just a moment

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about what we know. If Jesus
arose and the evidence is compelling that he

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did, this proves a number of
things. If Jesus arose and and that's

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the only explanation for the empty tomb, all of the known data, well,

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then God exists. Jesus is the
Lord. Salvation is possible. The

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Bible is God's word, and the
Man that ever rose from the dead repeatedly

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authenticated scripture. Life on purpose,
Life has meaning. Now destiny for Satan,

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for the sinner, for the saved. If Jesus arose, then Satan

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is defeated and he is headed for
the lake of fire. For the sinner,

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there's a warning of a coming judgment
day. But for the saved,

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there's God's presence here and a home
in heaven hereafter. Now, there are

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a lot of evidences you and I
could give, and I know you and

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I both we love to talk apologetics. But folks, let me say this.

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The tomb was left empty so that
your life could be made full.

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Right, Jesus is alive, and
Bill one of the reasons that I'm so

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glad to know the word of God, for you know, a lot of

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reasons, but not the least of
which is to know what's going on exactly.

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It wouldn't it be a frightening world
if we had no clue what was

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playing out before us? Yeah,
and this is why God gave us,

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you know, the gift of prophecy, and gave us his word that we

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can see timing again. I mean, when you check all the prophetic word

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of the Bible two thirds, it's
been estimated has been fulfilled one thousand percent,

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so we're waiting on another third.
So as I tell people all the

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time, what are the chances that
God's batting average of one thousand percent is

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going to be relevant to that remaining
third? Right? Exactly? God has

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a really good track record of keeping
his promises. Amen. Amen, Alex,

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we got a couple of minutes left. I want to give you an

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opportunity, you know, talk about
your books. We've been putting up two

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of the twenty books up on the
screen, including one hundred Bible Questions Answers,

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and that was I guess the first
one, and you've got a follow

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up to that, and then also
your other recent book, The Assault on

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America. Yeah, well, thank
you so much. You know, the

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one there, one hundred Bible Questions
and Answers came out two years ago and

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these are based on, you know, questions we've gotten through radio shows and

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different things. Just yesterday, people
begin to send me photos around the country.

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The follow up book, which has
kind of a navy blue cover,

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one hundred Bible Questions and Answers for
Families, that's in Walmart and Sam's Club

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in Barnes and Noble and a lot
of places across America. I give God

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the glory again, actual questions from
actual people, bill even a first grade

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boy. And by the way,
doing events, I give God the praise.

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We've been in front of a quarter
million teenagers in the last twenty years.

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I can tell a child's hand writing
for one thing. I can tell

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if it's a boy or a girl, because girls have way better penmanship than

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guys. But a first grade boy
asked this question, why did God create

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people? And why did God create
me? Isn't that something a first grader

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asking what many of the philosophers have
asked? You know, why am I

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here? And what is my purpose? Exactly? There was a girl,

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She was about a fourth or fifth
grader. A young girl wrote, why

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did God allow people in the Old
Testament to have multiple wives? That's a

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pretty good question. So in the
book one Hundred Bible Questions and Answers for

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Families, we take one hundred questions
from children, teens, young adults,

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married couples. How do I resolve
conflict in a healthy, God honoring way?

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How do I build a Christian family? How do I impart a biblical

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worldview? To my kids, how
do I grow? How do I get

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my prayers? And how do I
learn to pray with power? Bill,

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We just believe these resources will our
prayer at least is that they would be

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a resource to encourage people of all
ages in their walk and their witness for

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Christ. Well, doctor Alex McFarlane
is always you, bless us and thank

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you so much. Now where can
they go for more information? Well,

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just I'll give two websites my name
alexmcfarland dot com and then our youth club's

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Viral Truth Viraltruth dot com. I
love that. That's great, doctor McFarland.

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As always, you're a blessing my
friend. Thank you so much for

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being with us. Appreciate you.
God bless you, Bill Martinez, thank

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you for your time. Well,
our thanks to doctor Alex McFarland for being

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with us today. For more information
to be a part of this mighty movement

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to return to God and to save
our country. Check it out, Bill

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Martinashow dot com. May God bless
you and keep you and make His face

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shine upon you. May He be
gracious unto you and give you peace.

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Go and have a great day.
Thank you so much for being with us, God bless