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Israeli Palestinian War
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Hi, I'm Dave DeWitt, and today I'd like to comment on the theology of the Palestinian-Israeli
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war, which began in October 7, 2023.
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First of all, this war is not a biblical-in-times prophetic event.
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The war in Israel, which began in October 7, 2023, is not what Jesus predicted in Matthew
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24 when he said, you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars, nor is it what is referred
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to as the beginning of birth pangs in verse 8.
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Jesus' comments in Matthew 24 are about his second coming.
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There is no observable connection between this war and prophetic-in-times sequence of
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events in the Bible.
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There's a clear-in-times sequence of events described in Daniel 2, 7, and 9, in Matthew
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24 and 25, and in the book of Revelation.
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Each adds some detail, but all describe the same sequence.
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This Palestinian-Israeli war is not that sequence.
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There's also nothing in our current situation that would indicate this war is part of in-times
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prophecy.
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For example, there's no global government, no global religion, no global economy where
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we purchase things with the mark of the beast.
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There's no global antichrist leader, and we're not seeing the global judgments of God upon
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the earth yet.
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We can see that we're moving toward those things, but we're not there yet.
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We do not need to force-fit things into what the Bible says, but the Bible says will unfold
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just the way the Bible says it will, by the hand of God.
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Could this war lead to war with Iran, which could lead to war with Russia, which could
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lead to war described in Ezekiel 38 and 39?
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Of course, we don't know what will lead to what, but if it sounds like this war involves
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the same places as Ezekiel war, remember that basically all the wars of Israel since 1948
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involve similar places.
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Next, I'd like to ask the question, why are the Jews such a hated people?
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Why is there even such a thing as anti-Semitism?
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I suggest the Jews are hated because they're the people through God gave us the Bible.
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They're seen as the people of the Bible.
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Here's an interesting thing.
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There are liberal progressives all over the world who support the Palestinians and oppose Israel.
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Why do we see gatherings like liberal campus groups demonstrating in support of the Palestinians,
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even in support of Hamas?
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The answer, the liberals give, is along the lines of Palestinians are being oppressed
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by the Jews.
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In other words, they transport their woke theory into the Israeli-Hamas conflict.
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Now, that's spread over into the Muslim groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis
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in Yemen.
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But there is another very puzzling question in this whole debate.
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Why do liberal progressives all over the world oppose Israel?
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Who are the liberal progressives?
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I know of no other example where liberal progressives are dramatically opposing other liberal progressives.
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For example, in America, there are four liberal Democrat women in Congress who call themselves
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the Squad.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a representative from New York, is usually the main speaker
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of the Squad, and she's not a Palestinian or a Muslim.
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The liberal progressive political view of the Squad align with most liberal progressive
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Jews in New York, whose views are nearly identical with the liberal progressives in Israel.
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This is true of the liberal progressives demonstrating against Israel all over the world.
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Their views align with most of the Jews in both America and Israel, pro-homosexual, pro-abortion,
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pro-feminism.
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For example, some say Tel Aviv is the homosexual capital of the world.
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Also Israel is among the first to put women in the military, resulting in a high rate
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of pregnancy, with abortion available if they wish to continue on as soldiers.
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The Palestinians, and all the Muslim terrorist groups, on the other hand, are extremely opposed
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to all of those things.
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For example, in some cases, Palestinian Muslims, and certainly those under the leadership of
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Hamas or Hezbollah, do not allow women to go out in public without being covered and
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accompanied by a man.
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They do not allow a woman to drive a car or receive higher education.
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So why are the S.Q.U.A.D. and the liberal campus groups all over the world supporting
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the Palestinians and opposing Israel, the nation who aligns with their liberal beliefs?
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The young women demonstrating for Palestinians on college campuses would be imprisoned or
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killed if they went to Palestinian territories controlled by Hamas or Hezbollah.
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They go out in public without having their head covered, and they're not accompanied
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by a man.
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They're driving cars, they're pursuing higher education, supporting abortion, LGBTQ rights,
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and feminism.
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They would be immediately eliminated in the Palestinian territories controlled by Hamas
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they're demonstrating for.
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I want to say it again, I know of no other example of liberal progressives demonstrating
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against liberal progressives who believe the same as they do in supporting the group that
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would violently eliminate them.
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The only place these liberal progressive women would be safe in the Middle East is in Israel.
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The answer is clear.
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The war, carried by TV stations, YouTubes, and other social media, will not admit, or
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do they understand, the obvious.
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This is a war against the Bible.
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This is about the Koran opposing the Bible.
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The very liberals hate Israel because they are the people who gave us the Bible.
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And their very existence in the land of Israel validates the truth of the Bible.
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The land itself is a testimony to the accuracy of the Bible.
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It seems that the liberal progressives of our world hate the Bible so much they're willing
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to overlook all their views to support those who oppose the Bible.
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Although the Jews often refer to the Bible as their claim to the land, most people involved
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in this war don't think about the Bible.
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Many civilians have no idea at all about the philosophical or theological, or theology
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behind the war.
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But some do, the Hamas leaders yelling Allah Akbar do, and Satan does.
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Paul reminded us, for our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
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against powers, against world forces of darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness
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in the heavenly places.
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In 2 Corinthians 4, he said, in whose case the God of this world has blinded the minds
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of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel, of the glory
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of Christ, who is in the image of God.
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There's only one answer that makes any sense, and that answer always makes sense when understanding
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the liberal progressive agenda.
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There is only one thing liberal progressives and Palestinian jihadists have in common.
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They hate the Bible.
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And that hatred dominates everything else.
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That hatred is coming from Satan.
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Next I want to say we should support Israel as a nation because they are God's chosen
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people, not because they're good people or better people.
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There are four reasons we should support the Jews in their possession of the land.
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1.
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God gave the land to Abraham, not to the Canaanites, Isaac not to Ishmael, Jacob not Esau.
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The first people who immigrated into the land, as far as we know, were the Canaanites, who
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were the descendants of Canaan, the cursed grandson of Noah from Genesis 9.25.
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But God called Abraham out of all the people of the earth after the scattering of the Tower
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of Babel and led him into Canaan, saying he'd give him the land.
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2.
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The second reason we should support Israel is God promised Abraham he would multiply
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his descendants.
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Abraham believed God in Genesis 15.6 and proved it by being willing to sacrifice his son Isaac.
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God stopped him and provided his own sacrifice.
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But then God said, by myself I have sworn to declare as the Lord, because you have done
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this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son, indeed, I will greatly bless
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you and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sands
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which are in the seashore, and your seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.
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In your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed because you have obeyed my
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voice.
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3.
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Third, God selected this place for his people as a land for which the Lord your God cares
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according to Deuteronomy 11.12.
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After 430 years in Egypt, God led the Israelites, by a stent in the wilderness for their disobedience,
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into what Moses called the place in which the Lord your God will choose for his name
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to dwell.
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4.
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God has plans for Israel that include their future in the land.
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Through Jeremiah, God told Israel, Jeremiah 29.11 and 14.
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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity,
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to give you a future and a hope, I will restore your fortune and I will regather you from
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all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and
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I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
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We must understand that the Jews are not individually saved by being Jewish, or that individual
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Jews are better than individual Gentiles, or that Jews treat Palestinians well.
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We only need to understand that God has a future plan for Israel as a nation, and it's
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a good idea to remember that God told Abraham, I'll bless those who bless you, and the
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ones who curse you I'll curse.
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Next we need to understand that the Jews involved in this war are not the Jews involved at the
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second coming.
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Since there's been a dispersion of the Jews by the Romans in AD 70 and finally in 132,
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and a regathering of Israel as a nation in 1948, many preachers are saying these Jews
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are that regathering.
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This is often done referring to Jesus' statement in Matthew 24, 34, this generation will not
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pass away until all these things take place.
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I suspect Jesus' words, this generation, are referring to the human race, or possibly
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the Jews alive during the tribulation before the second coming, which would be the immediate
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context.
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But the Jews who returned and formed a nation in 1948 are not the return of the remnant
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of the Jews involved at the second coming.
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We know this because the Jews involved at the second coming are not atheists, secularists,
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or progressives.
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Unlike today's Jews, those who return when Christ returns are repentant of their sin.
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They're believers in Jesus Christ as their Messiah.
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Through Zechariah, God said, I'll pour out on the house of David and on his inhabitants
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of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication, so that they'll look on me who they have perished
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and they'll mourn for him, for as one mourns for an only son, and they'll weep bitterly
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over him, like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.
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Jesus said that at his second coming he'll send forth his angels with a great trumpet
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and they'll gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of the sky to
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the other.
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We can conclude that the war of October 7 is not an end times event.
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In conclusion, it's important to understand that the war which began on October 7, 2023,
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I'd like to say what it is and what it is not.
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It's not about Jews being better people or having a more just cause for the war.
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We should support the Jews because they're genealogically chosen people of God.
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There are many practical reasons for this, including territorial disputes and long-term
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hatred, but this is all the consequences of one basic issue.
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It was declared loud and clear by the killers and kidnappers yelling, Allah Akbar.
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This is a war against the God of the Bible.
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A basic question here is, why do liberal progressives support Islamists, who are dramatically opposed
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to nearly everything the liberal progressives teach?
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Answer, Jesus said, you're seeking to kill me, the man who told you the truth.
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What the world hates is the truth of the word of God.
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What the Muslims have in common with the rest of the world is they hate the Bible.
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In the end, like all of Satan's battles, it's all about the Bible.
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Thank you for listening.
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A longer paper on the subject with footnotes for the quotes is available on our website
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relationalconcepts.org.
