October 13, 2025 • 40 mins
Hostages are finally coming home as Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire framework—but what’s really in the deal, who gets credit, and what comes next? Todd breaks down the reported numbers on released hostages and detainees, the unanswered enforcement questions, and why peace requires strength. We also look at Trump’s visit to Israel and remarks to the Knesset, media spin around his role, and the deeper historical and spiritual roots of the conflict. Plus, quick hits on Day 13 of the Schumer shutdown and the fight to protect National Guard pay. Stick around for sponsors focused on biblically responsible investing, a conservative business directory you can actually use, and a natural wellness partner cutting through the noise.
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Well, that is right, my friends. I hope you had
a great weekend. It is my pleasure to be back
here today, back at it on this Monday. Oz is back.
She was shocked that we get through Friday without her.
I can't say I blame her too much on that,
but she is back at it today. This is her
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let you know when that day gets here. But anyway,
today what I want to get to I want to
talk first and foremost, First and foremost about this hostage release,
this cease fire. I want to talk about Trump. Trump's
of course traveled over to Israel for this announcement and
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for speaking to the Kanesset and all of these sorts
of things I want to go through basically a short
history and of what happened to get us here, and
just kind of go through this particular issue. Also, we're
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I welcome those of you who are on the left
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the time. I'm not. Honestly, I don't. I don't care.
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We've got a lot of problems from politicians and both parties.
I think the problems that we have coming from the left,
who make their home in the Democrat Party are substantially bigger,
bigger threats to our quote unquote democracy, for our liberty,
for our way of life. But there are certainly problems
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on the Republican side as well. I'm not just someone
who's an apologist for the Republican Party. That's not how
I look at this. And there's blame to place at
the feet of the Republican Party individual Republicans. Over the
course of time. But this isn't one of them. This
government shutdown is Chuck Schumer's shutdown. If you think I'm wrong,
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just a little ways here. I'm not going to go
back to the beginning of this conflict between the Israelis
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and Islamic extremists, but we're gonna start October seventh, twenty
twenty three. You remember that Hamas invaded Israel. They snuck
across the border with weapons AK forty seven and other
weapons and attacked innocent Israelis. We're talking citizens. They went
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to a music venue and attacked, shot, captured, killed, raped,
did all sorts of unspeakable things to people who were
attending a concert. They went to homes, to family homes,
destroyed families, tore families apart, killed members of the families, kidnapped,
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abducted others. This happened two years a little bit over
two years ago, October seventh, twenty twenty three. They abducted
approximately two one hundred and fifty hostages during its attack
on Israel. Now fast forward to today. Recent, well this
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past week, Israel and Hamas have negotiated a cease fire
in the release of the remaining hostages. Up until this
point in time, approximately one hundred and fifty hostages had
been released one hundred and forty five to one hundred
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and fifty five, that's the estimate. About seventy to ninety
of those have been confirmed dead this week. This week,
just now today, twenty living hostages were released under these
new ceasefire terms. I believe I saw that there are
twenty eight twenty eight. Yeah, there it is in my
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notes twenty eight deceased hostages whose bodies are are still
to be recovered or handed over to the Israeli government
and to families and so forth. So that accounts for
all of the remaining hostages held by the terrorist organization Hamas. Now,
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in addition to that, Israel is planning on releasing approximately
two thousand I think it may be closer to nineteen
hundred Palestinian detainees. That's the framework. Now, this is considered
phase one of the cease fire framework and agreement. It's
a broader plan to bring peace to the area. It
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covers things like disarmament, it covers things like reconstruction of
this area, and it also covers things regarding the future
governance of Gaza, which is a major problem Hammas. Listen,
Hamas has been elected. They were chosen by the Palestinians
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to represent them. Now, is there are there other shenanigans involved?
Where their threats and all that? I mean, listen, these
Hamas is evil. Hamas is a terrorist organization. I don't
know how else to make this any clearer to Hamas.
Hamas is the embodiment of evil. My friends, they're the
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ones who created this and caused this. Of course, sty'll
cite all other sorts of reasons in rationale that supposedly
and they're deranged thinking or at least from their narrative,
justifies the atrocious acts of wickedness and evil that they
that they unleashed on the Israelis just a little over
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a little over two years ago. So there is going
to be a transitional authority that has international that includes
international oversight from the United States, from Egypt, and from
Katar who mediate the situation. The way that this is
going to be enforced remains a little bit uncertain. There's
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not a firm system that's in place yet at least
that is being reported that can confirm and verify the
disarmament portion of this agreement, the oversight for AID, or
just policing this situation in general. There's a regional summit
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that has been planned to finalize the reconstruction and the
details of governance. And so that's kind of in a nutshell,
what's happened here. Now. What I want to say here
first and foremost is I listen. I listened to the
left a lot. I'm on TikTok let me say this.
Let me just throw this in there today. I'm not
going to spend a lot of time on this. Earlier
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this year, earlier this year, late last year, earlier this year,
we were having tremendous success in reaching new folks on TikTok.
I mean, we were getting thousands of new follow up
a month for a few months on TikTok end of
last year, beginning of this year. And I don't know
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what happened. I'm not gonna get I'm not gonna whine
about whatever's happened on TikTok. I'm just telling you, as
I think about as I think about this and some
of the comments that I've heard on TikTok, I'm not
sure what we're gonna do with our TikTok channel. There's
two options. We've been we've been locked into. We've been
locked into the world of leftists. We're on the wrong
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side of TikTok, as people say, and this goes deep,
This goes into the algorithm, this goes into well some
some other things like shadow banding and so forth. Again,
I'm not windus telling you. I'm telling you, but I
used I use TikTok for one reason. Now because our
growth has completely stagnated there. We've been flatlined for basically,
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I don't know, the last six months, and we're and
our videos are just getting in front of people who
are rabid leftists, Which is fine because that's where I
share with you some of the things that I hear.
In fact, i'll put those in the newsletter that you
can subscribe to for free, and we talk about some
of these things. But this is where I get some
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of some of the things I tell you about the left.
Is I see it. I mean, some of these folks
are rabbit and out of control. It's not the only
place I see it. It's not the only encounters I've
had with the left. I've had my share of encounters
with the left over the past g thirty years now
or so twenty five anyway. Anyway, the point here is
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to say, the point here is to say in those circles, well,
first of all, I don't know what I'm gonna do
with TikTok. We may we may continue to use it
just to pull some content that you'll find entertaining in
the newsletter, or we might stop using it for a
while to see if we can reset the algorithm and
actually get in front of conservatives on there and actually
grow and get our message out and use that platform.
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But anyway, the point here is to say, right now,
I hear a lot of things on TikTok, and one
of the things I hear is is kind of a
mockery of Trump. Trump. Trump needs to you know that
this guy's written the art of the deal and he
doesn't know what he's doing. Right. This is the argument
for Trump against Trump. I should say, as though we
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didn't have a president the four previous years, what, by
the way, did Biden ever negotiate? What did he ever negotiate?
I mean, it looks like he negotiated allegedly good deals
for his son Hunter, good kickbacks for his family. But
what did he ever negotiate that was in the best
interests of this nation? Did he negotiate an end to
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or did he prevent the invasion of Ukraine by Russia?
Did he prevent what happened on October seventh? No, he
did not. He did not end those things. Now you
can say Trump has it ended the war in Ukraine either,
which listen, I understand, But them lying here is to say,
at least be consistent, at least be consistent. Trump has
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been involved. This country has been involved in a lot
of peace agreements lately, and this is one of them. Now,
the left, of course, will minimize Trump's role in this,
but the reality remains clear that these things happen. These
sorts of things happen with Trump in office. They did
not happen with Joseph Robinette Bribery in office. And so
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the reality is is that Trump had a role. Now,
is Trump going to is Trump going to, I don't know,
say his role was central. Is there a chance that
Trump over exaggerates the role he has, certainly, But is
there a chance that the media and the left is
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going to underestimate the role Trump had. Absolutely, And that's
kind of the reality of the situation here. Now we'll
tell you this. It is unequivocally, undoubtedly confirmed that the
US acted as a central mediator between Israel, Egypt, and
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Qatar to secure this ceasefire and the exchange of hostages. Now,
what isn't clear is how much personal leverage or direct
negotiation Trump used with both sides. However, it does say
something that he is speaking at the Israeli kanesse it
in fact that was happening prior to my coming on
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this program today. So there was diplomatic pressure that was
employed by the United States coordination, pushed by other countries
as well, but of course the United States of America
is the big player. There's no doubt about this. Trump's
out there talking about this being the quote historic dawn
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of a new Middle East. He of course takes credit
for the ceasefire. He deserves some credit. The question can
be the fair question can be how much credit should
he get? But he certainly had a role in negotiating
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about the peace peace in the Middle East. Our pastors
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spoke briefly, very briefly on this yesterday, and I concur
with what he said. I mean, piece is always piece
is always something that we should seek to achieve. Right.
I'm reminded of Ronald Reagan's statement or the way that
he talked about achieving peace through strength. You can't achieve
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peace if you don't have some capacity to make sure
that peace is actually enforced. I'm reminded, you know, of
the days when there might be a fight at school
or whatever, a bully on the playground, so to speak.
The way to stop a bully isn't to say pretty please,
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You're not You're not just trying to have peace at
all costs. You have to have peace that uses both
the carrot and the stick. Right, You've got to have
you got to have strength in order to have peace.
You can't You can't have peace with your enemy if
they don't have respect for you. That's a key component.
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I'm reminded of fights that I interfered with, the fight
in particular years ago, when I was in college. Anyway,
you don't break up fights or prevent fights. If the
bully thinks the bully can beat the tar out of you.
You've got to have some ability to be strong in
the face of that. The Bible talks about blessed, blessed
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are the peace makers, Right, blessed are the peace makers.
You don't want to be a peace keeper where you're
thinking about how do I keep there from being controversy
and conflict and disagreement. You say, look, they're gonna be
the disagreement. But here's the line, dude, we're not doing this.
This is an unacceptable line, Hamash. You're going to release
the hostages. You're going to do that. We're gonna have
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other steps, and we're gonna look at the things that
you're looking to achieve as well, because we're going to
negotiate some framework here that both sides can live with,
that both sides are looking to desire in some capacity,
but we're going to enforce the There has to be
an enforcement mechanism if you're really someone who's interested in
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making peace. And so that's what we've got here. Now,
I will say in another sense that we know and
I don't want to get into the whole history of this.
We've done this before. In fact, I've considered having guests
on here who know him. What's much more about this
than I do talk about the level and depth of
the history of there, And maybe I do this for
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a little bit. It's we've got a couple of minutes here,
but the depth of the historical chasm and the divide
and the tensions. I mean, this truly goes back, it does.
It goes back to Abraham and Isaac and Ishmael, all
thousands of years ago. Abraham in fact, I saw a
clip of Trump's speech today when he says, you know,
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Jerusalem is the city of the three great faiths, and
that would be Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As Trump was
referring to them, he called them the abraham faiths, the
Abrahamic faiths. And there's a reason for that, because all
three claim Abraham as a patriarch. Of course, for the
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Jewish people, it's obvious Abraham was well, was the one
that in the biblical narrative that God called to be
the father of many nations. He was the father of Isaac.
Isaac was the father of Jacob. Jacob was the father
well Jacob became his name was changed to Israel. That's
where we get this. That's where we get the name
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and the narrative, the information about who these people are,
and the Christian faith says that Abraham, Abraham was the
of course the father of just like I said, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
and of course the twelve tribes of Israel. But in
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addition to that, Abraham served as a kind of a
spiritual representation of all the children that God would have,
of all peoples around the world, Jews and Gentiles, people
who weren't Jewish through Jesus Christ his son, and the
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Muslims say that Abraham, Abraham of course was the father
through his wife's maid servant, Hagar was the father of
Ishmael as well. Ishmael, of course, is where the narrative
for Muslim for Islamic teaching begins. He's in the descendants
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of bringing the message or the Quran and the Islamic
faith and Muhammad and all this. That's where that kind
of I guess the branches split from Abraham. So but
this goes back deep. It's deep to that particular problem.
I'm just out of time. The segment got to take
a break. My friends, sit tight back here in just
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a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Before the break, we
were just touching a little bit on the I guess
the level and the depth and how far back this
problem can actually be traced, the tensions between well, between
Islam and Judaism in particular, we were talking about Abraham
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conversation about a little bit about the history here and again,
I'm probably gonna move us off the point of getting
to the other topics I do want to get to,
or at least shorten our ability to talk about them.
But it does matter because peace should be pursued in
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the what are you supposed to do? Right? The Bible
has verses like where it says that people talk about peace, peace, peace,
but there will be war, war, war, and so. On
the one hand, depending upon your perspective from a biblical,
biblical viewpoint, you might think, man, this is how do
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you even approach this? But peace should be pursued. Peace
should be pursued. But we also have to be realistic
about this and understand that this problem runs deep and
that the hatred. The hatred runs incredibly deep. The hatred
of the Jewish people is incredible deep, and it's tied
I don't care what anybody says, listen, well, I'll get
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into that in a moment, but it's tied to the
nation of Israel's relationship historical relationship with the God of
the Bible, with Yahweh, and people hate God. I know
that that sounds harsh. Look, there are people who are
genuinely disillusioned, confused, and things like that. But there are
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also people who have set themselves up in direct opposition
to Almighty God. They hate him because they don't like
his rules, they don't like I mean, you take this
back to, you know, really the Garden of Eden or
the Fall of Lucifer, where there's this desire, there's this
desire for God's created beings when they some of them,
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I would say, all of us, all of humanity to
a point here, we all have a desire. It's under
our sinful nature to be kind of the boss of
our own lives. And to some extent, I mean we
all certainly we have the freedom to choose, but in
the greater sense, in the greater sense, the Bible says,
you're either slaves to sin or your servants of Christ.
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And that's the choice that we have to make. And
so when there is so much hatred for the God
of the Bible, it's not surprising that it's directed at
the people through whom the message of the Bible was delivered,
and the people who try to live in accordance with
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the Old Testament covenant. That's what Israel has tried to
do Now that does not mean hear me say this,
That does not mean that there's no wrong Israel can do.
That's not the case. But as a Christian to overlook
or to just kind of brush off the fact that
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this is who the original Covenant, the Old Testament Covenant
was with is. You just can't brush that off. That's
that's that's a big deal. This was part They were
chosen by God to be the lineage that ultimately led
to Christ, who ultimately sacrificed himself for the sins of everyone,
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not just in that particular particular lineage. So there's hatred.
The hatred there is as deep as the hatred gets.
Because the hatred just isn't about you know, petty jealousies
or disdisagreements with another individual. This goes to the core
of our existence. Am I submitting to the God of
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the universe or am I going to be God myself?
Am I going to define what is right and wrong?
Or am I going to subject myself to the one
who determines, through the moral law, through his creation, through
his will, what is right and what is wrong? And
there is this great tension. Now you add to that,
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you add to that, this tensions that the two groups
are saying. You know, one of them says the promise,
that promise of God to Abraham went through Isaac, which
it did biblically through the Jewish tradition. That is the
correct tradition, the correct that's accurate as to what happened.
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But you have an entire group of people also that
believe that that blessing, that lineage went through Ishmael. And
it's just it's fascinating to look back at the history
of this because if you know the story in the
Old Testing about Abraham, he had a wife named Sarah.
God promised them that they were going to have descendants
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as numerous as the stars in the sky and sands
on the seashore. By the way, I don't know if
you realize this, but scientists tell us that there are
more stars in the sky than there are sands on
the seashores, dramatically more, which is mind blowing to me.
But nonetheless it's a big, big number. Was the point.
That's what God was trying to tell Abraham and Sarah.
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But they were old, they were too old to have children,
so Abraham kind of took matters. Abraham and Sarah. It
was actually Sarah's idea. Sarah came to Abraham and said, look,
you know, I've got this maid servant. You and I
can't have a child. God promised this one. We've waited
for a while, nothing's happened. Why don't you go and
have a baby with her? And maybe that's what, you know,
maybe that's the way that this is all going to
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work out. And that's what Abraham did. And of course
you can imagine what it caused. It caused jealousy and
contention and just all these sorts of things to the
point to where Sarah and Hagar was her maid servant.
Sarah basically got to the point where she said, I
don't want Hagar and Ishmael around anymore. This was after
she and Abraham actually conceived and had Isaac. I want
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to say it was thirteen years it was some number
of years later, and so she said, I want him
out of here, and I don't want I don't want
the inheritance of my son to be at risk because
Ishmael's hanging around here and all this. We're getting old, Abraham,
you know, we're not going to be around forever sort
of thing. So Abraham basically sent them sent them on
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their way, and you know that this is where that
split happens. And the Muslim faith and tradition says that
Abraham actually took Ishmael up to the Mount Mariah, which
is right there in Jerusalem, right there where you'll find
the Temple mount today, right where Jesus was crucified two
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thousand years ago in that same area. The biblical story
is that he took Isaac, his son that he bore
with Sarah, the promised one that God had promised as
a descendant. But the Islamic story is that he took
Ishmael up the mountain. In fact, I've heard stories I
forget the apologist who told a Muslim leader there. It
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was actually a Muslim leader that was involved to some
degree in some terroristic things. He sat down and had
conversation with him, and he said, basically, I thought it
was a beautiful thing. He said, you know, you all
believe that Abraham took Ishmael up the mountain. Others believe
he took Isaac up the mountain. But until we realize,
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until we realize that he sent his own son to
die right here on these mountains, Jesus Christ. This tension
and turmoil is going to exist. But this runs deep.
This runs very, very deep. And again, he might have
peace for a season, my friends, and I hope we do,
and I hope that this improves the situation, but the
reality is that this is much much deeper, and candidly,
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I don't know how you ever, I don't know that
it's even remotely solvable in the long term. Again, hopefully
we have a long period of peace here. But the
reality is, while we should certainly try to make the
peace and find peace and absolutely get the release of
these hostages, we have to have our eyes wide open
as to what we're really dealing with. And now I've
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got to take a break. My friends. Sit tight back
in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. I'm not
going to get to the other topics today. I'm just
not I should have known this coming in. I mean
that maybe we'll talk in the closing minutes. Just mentioned
a couple things, so I'm probably not going to get
to the thirteenth day of the government shutdown. I definitely
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am not going to get to the conversation about the
National Guard troop pay. I guess I can mention that
Trump has ordered the I guess the Pentagon to basically
find ways to make sure that the troops are paid
because they're now I think the fifteenth is payday and
Trump saying, look, we're not going to cut the pay
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of troops, which is apparently part of the shutdown, which
that's a whole other discussion. The craziness that's involved with that.
Why are we paying some people and not everybody? Well,
does Congress get paid? I can't remember if they actually
do now or not. I think that they do, but
maybe I'm wrong. But why are we paying some people
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not others? I mean, it's almost clearly designed by the
people who put together the rules to inflict pain on
certain people for political political advantages. Anyway, not gonna be
able to get into that today because of this discussion.
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can be traced back to the Bible. And this is
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something you know that The Bible is a collection of
sixty six individual books, and there's a story. There's a narrative,
the narrative of the Old Testament, the Hebrew Scriptures, if
you will, The first thirty nine books of the Bible
tell the story, tell the story of by and large
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this particular people, not exclusively, but very early on. I mean,
we had Adam and Eve, we had Noah, we had
not long after that. Early into the chapters of Genesis,
you got Abraham being called Abraham, getting this promise about
Isaac and being the father of many nations. And then
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you've got the story of God working with the people
of Israel, the nation of Israel too well to set
themselves apart, to give them a land, which is the
same land that we're talking about today. I mean in
general terms. I mean it's the same place. It's just
you know, we're talking about Hamas they got the strip,
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the West Bank. There's other places in Israel, but that's
we're talking about that spot. Talking about Jerusalem, We're talking
about maybe the Temple mounts and all these things. Mount
Mariah we talked about that in the story of Abraham
and Isaac and so. But the narrative of the Old
Testament is is God using that people to prepare the way,
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to prepare the way for the Messiah. And it's so rich.
I've this is the second time I've gone through this
Bible study, which I highly recommend, and which by the way,
I'm considering doing something where we could have people if
you want to go through that study together, we might
be able to. I don't know, to kind of do
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it together after the first of the year anyway, that's
just on my mind. I don't know that we'll do that,
But the point is even if we don't, it's a
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But the narrative of the story leads us to Christ,
to Jesus. The birth of Christ is really the hinge
point of the Old and the New Testament. So now
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there's four hundred years of silence at the end of
the Old Testament before we start hearing about Mary and
Joseph and John the Baptist and Jesus. But the rest
of the book, the rest of the New Testament, the
twenty seven books of the New Testament, talk about starting
in the Gospels, the Life, the Death, the Resurrection of Jesus,
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talk about what happened, how the message spread, what the
early Church did, and it's a series of letters about
how the church should behave, how they should interpret the things.
Now that there's a the Messiah has come, the Messiah
that died once for all, not like the sacrificial land
that had to be sacrificed every year on the day
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of Atonement, which just passed by the way not too
long ago. But you have all this, this story, and
then you end end with a book of prophecy apocalyptic
literature called the Book of Revelation. Well, you'll hear some
of these things piece piece piece, war, war, war, and
all this sort of thing, and these things matter, and
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we start to see this at least you can tell
that this narrative is you know, what part of it's
playing out. We don't know. People can have their opinions,
but we can see that the nations and the types
of tension clearly exist today. And so that's why it matters,
and that's why it's tied in. And this issue runs incredibly,
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incredibly deep, back to the faiths of people that can
be traced back for thousands and thousands of years. Folks,
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a great weekend. It is my pleasure to be back
here today, back at it on this Monday. Oz is back.
She was shocked that we get through Friday without her.
I can't say I blame her too much on that,
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today what I want to get to I want to
talk first and foremost, First and foremost about this hostage release,
this cease fire. I want to talk about Trump. Trump's
of course traveled over to Israel for this announcement and
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for speaking to the Kanesset and all of these sorts
of things I want to go through basically a short
history and of what happened to get us here, and
just kind of go through this particular issue. Also, we're
on day number what is it, thirteen, day thirteen of
the government shutdown, the Schumer's shutdown, by the way, and listen,
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I am not a defender of the Republican Party all
the time. I'm not. Honestly, I don't. I don't care.
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We've got a lot of problems from politicians and both parties.
I think the problems that we have coming from the left,
who make their home in the Democrat Party are substantially bigger,
bigger threats to our quote unquote democracy, for our liberty,
for our way of life. But there are certainly problems
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on the Republican side as well. I'm not just someone
who's an apologist for the Republican Party. That's not how
I look at this. And there's blame to place at
the feet of the Republican Party individual Republicans. Over the
course of time. But this isn't one of them. This
government shutdown is Chuck Schumer's shutdown. If you think I'm wrong,
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just a little ways here. I'm not going to go
back to the beginning of this conflict between the Israelis
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and Islamic extremists, but we're gonna start October seventh, twenty
twenty three. You remember that Hamas invaded Israel. They snuck
across the border with weapons AK forty seven and other
weapons and attacked innocent Israelis. We're talking citizens. They went
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to a music venue and attacked, shot, captured, killed, raped,
did all sorts of unspeakable things to people who were
attending a concert. They went to homes, to family homes,
destroyed families, tore families apart, killed members of the families, kidnapped,
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abducted others. This happened two years a little bit over
two years ago, October seventh, twenty twenty three. They abducted
approximately two one hundred and fifty hostages during its attack
on Israel. Now fast forward to today. Recent, well this
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past week, Israel and Hamas have negotiated a cease fire
in the release of the remaining hostages. Up until this
point in time, approximately one hundred and fifty hostages had
been released one hundred and forty five to one hundred
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and fifty five, that's the estimate. About seventy to ninety
of those have been confirmed dead this week. This week,
just now today, twenty living hostages were released under these
new ceasefire terms. I believe I saw that there are
twenty eight twenty eight. Yeah, there it is in my
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notes twenty eight deceased hostages whose bodies are are still
to be recovered or handed over to the Israeli government
and to families and so forth. So that accounts for
all of the remaining hostages held by the terrorist organization Hamas. Now,
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in addition to that, Israel is planning on releasing approximately
two thousand I think it may be closer to nineteen
hundred Palestinian detainees. That's the framework. Now, this is considered
phase one of the cease fire framework and agreement. It's
a broader plan to bring peace to the area. It
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covers things like disarmament, it covers things like reconstruction of
this area, and it also covers things regarding the future
governance of Gaza, which is a major problem Hammas. Listen,
Hamas has been elected. They were chosen by the Palestinians
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to represent them. Now, is there are there other shenanigans involved?
Where their threats and all that? I mean, listen, these
Hamas is evil. Hamas is a terrorist organization. I don't
know how else to make this any clearer to Hamas.
Hamas is the embodiment of evil. My friends, they're the
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ones who created this and caused this. Of course, sty'll
cite all other sorts of reasons in rationale that supposedly
and they're deranged thinking or at least from their narrative,
justifies the atrocious acts of wickedness and evil that they
that they unleashed on the Israelis just a little over
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a little over two years ago. So there is going
to be a transitional authority that has international that includes
international oversight from the United States, from Egypt, and from
Katar who mediate the situation. The way that this is
going to be enforced remains a little bit uncertain. There's
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not a firm system that's in place yet at least
that is being reported that can confirm and verify the
disarmament portion of this agreement, the oversight for AID, or
just policing this situation in general. There's a regional summit
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that has been planned to finalize the reconstruction and the
details of governance. And so that's kind of in a nutshell,
what's happened here. Now. What I want to say here
first and foremost is I listen. I listened to the
left a lot. I'm on TikTok let me say this.
Let me just throw this in there today. I'm not
going to spend a lot of time on this. Earlier
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this year, earlier this year, late last year, earlier this year,
we were having tremendous success in reaching new folks on TikTok.
I mean, we were getting thousands of new follow up
a month for a few months on TikTok end of
last year, beginning of this year. And I don't know
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what happened. I'm not gonna get I'm not gonna whine
about whatever's happened on TikTok. I'm just telling you, as
I think about as I think about this and some
of the comments that I've heard on TikTok, I'm not
sure what we're gonna do with our TikTok channel. There's
two options. We've been we've been locked into. We've been
locked into the world of leftists. We're on the wrong
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side of TikTok, as people say, and this goes deep,
This goes into the algorithm, this goes into well some
some other things like shadow banding and so forth. Again,
I'm not windus telling you. I'm telling you, but I
used I use TikTok for one reason. Now because our
growth has completely stagnated there. We've been flatlined for basically,
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I don't know, the last six months, and we're and
our videos are just getting in front of people who
are rabid leftists, Which is fine because that's where I
share with you some of the things that I hear.
In fact, i'll put those in the newsletter that you
can subscribe to for free, and we talk about some
of these things. But this is where I get some
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of some of the things I tell you about the left.
Is I see it. I mean, some of these folks
are rabbit and out of control. It's not the only
place I see it. It's not the only encounters I've
had with the left. I've had my share of encounters
with the left over the past g thirty years now
or so twenty five anyway. Anyway, the point here is
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to say, the point here is to say in those circles, well,
first of all, I don't know what I'm gonna do
with TikTok. We may we may continue to use it
just to pull some content that you'll find entertaining in
the newsletter, or we might stop using it for a
while to see if we can reset the algorithm and
actually get in front of conservatives on there and actually
grow and get our message out and use that platform.
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But anyway, the point here is to say, right now,
I hear a lot of things on TikTok, and one
of the things I hear is is kind of a
mockery of Trump. Trump. Trump needs to you know that
this guy's written the art of the deal and he
doesn't know what he's doing. Right. This is the argument
for Trump against Trump. I should say, as though we
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didn't have a president the four previous years, what, by
the way, did Biden ever negotiate? What did he ever negotiate?
I mean, it looks like he negotiated allegedly good deals
for his son Hunter, good kickbacks for his family. But
what did he ever negotiate that was in the best
interests of this nation? Did he negotiate an end to
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or did he prevent the invasion of Ukraine by Russia?
Did he prevent what happened on October seventh? No, he
did not. He did not end those things. Now you
can say Trump has it ended the war in Ukraine either,
which listen, I understand, But them lying here is to say,
at least be consistent, at least be consistent. Trump has
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been involved. This country has been involved in a lot
of peace agreements lately, and this is one of them. Now,
the left, of course, will minimize Trump's role in this,
but the reality remains clear that these things happen. These
sorts of things happen with Trump in office. They did
not happen with Joseph Robinette Bribery in office. And so
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the reality is is that Trump had a role. Now,
is Trump going to is Trump going to, I don't know,
say his role was central. Is there a chance that
Trump over exaggerates the role he has, certainly, But is
there a chance that the media and the left is
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going to underestimate the role Trump had. Absolutely, And that's
kind of the reality of the situation here. Now we'll
tell you this. It is unequivocally, undoubtedly confirmed that the
US acted as a central mediator between Israel, Egypt, and
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Qatar to secure this ceasefire and the exchange of hostages. Now,
what isn't clear is how much personal leverage or direct
negotiation Trump used with both sides. However, it does say
something that he is speaking at the Israeli kanesse it
in fact that was happening prior to my coming on
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this program today. So there was diplomatic pressure that was
employed by the United States coordination, pushed by other countries
as well, but of course the United States of America
is the big player. There's no doubt about this. Trump's
out there talking about this being the quote historic dawn
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of a new Middle East. He of course takes credit
for the ceasefire. He deserves some credit. The question can
be the fair question can be how much credit should
he get? But he certainly had a role in negotiating
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about the peace peace in the Middle East. Our pastors
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spoke briefly, very briefly on this yesterday, and I concur
with what he said. I mean, piece is always piece
is always something that we should seek to achieve. Right.
I'm reminded of Ronald Reagan's statement or the way that
he talked about achieving peace through strength. You can't achieve
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peace if you don't have some capacity to make sure
that peace is actually enforced. I'm reminded, you know, of
the days when there might be a fight at school
or whatever, a bully on the playground, so to speak.
The way to stop a bully isn't to say pretty please,
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You're not You're not just trying to have peace at
all costs. You have to have peace that uses both
the carrot and the stick. Right, You've got to have
you got to have strength in order to have peace.
You can't You can't have peace with your enemy if
they don't have respect for you. That's a key component.
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I'm reminded of fights that I interfered with, the fight
in particular years ago, when I was in college. Anyway,
you don't break up fights or prevent fights. If the
bully thinks the bully can beat the tar out of you.
You've got to have some ability to be strong in
the face of that. The Bible talks about blessed, blessed
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are the peace makers, Right, blessed are the peace makers.
You don't want to be a peace keeper where you're
thinking about how do I keep there from being controversy
and conflict and disagreement. You say, look, they're gonna be
the disagreement. But here's the line, dude, we're not doing this.
This is an unacceptable line, Hamash. You're going to release
the hostages. You're going to do that. We're gonna have
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other steps, and we're gonna look at the things that
you're looking to achieve as well, because we're going to
negotiate some framework here that both sides can live with,
that both sides are looking to desire in some capacity,
but we're going to enforce the There has to be
an enforcement mechanism if you're really someone who's interested in
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making peace. And so that's what we've got here. Now,
I will say in another sense that we know and
I don't want to get into the whole history of this.
We've done this before. In fact, I've considered having guests
on here who know him. What's much more about this
than I do talk about the level and depth of
the history of there, And maybe I do this for
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a little bit. It's we've got a couple of minutes here,
but the depth of the historical chasm and the divide
and the tensions. I mean, this truly goes back, it does.
It goes back to Abraham and Isaac and Ishmael, all
thousands of years ago. Abraham in fact, I saw a
clip of Trump's speech today when he says, you know,
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Jerusalem is the city of the three great faiths, and
that would be Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As Trump was
referring to them, he called them the abraham faiths, the
Abrahamic faiths. And there's a reason for that, because all
three claim Abraham as a patriarch. Of course, for the
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Jewish people, it's obvious Abraham was well, was the one
that in the biblical narrative that God called to be
the father of many nations. He was the father of Isaac.
Isaac was the father of Jacob. Jacob was the father
well Jacob became his name was changed to Israel. That's
where we get this. That's where we get the name
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and the narrative, the information about who these people are,
and the Christian faith says that Abraham, Abraham was the
of course the father of just like I said, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
and of course the twelve tribes of Israel. But in
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addition to that, Abraham served as a kind of a
spiritual representation of all the children that God would have,
of all peoples around the world, Jews and Gentiles, people
who weren't Jewish through Jesus Christ his son, and the
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Muslims say that Abraham, Abraham of course was the father
through his wife's maid servant, Hagar was the father of
Ishmael as well. Ishmael, of course, is where the narrative
for Muslim for Islamic teaching begins. He's in the descendants
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of bringing the message or the Quran and the Islamic
faith and Muhammad and all this. That's where that kind
of I guess the branches split from Abraham. So but
this goes back deep. It's deep to that particular problem.
I'm just out of time. The segment got to take
a break. My friends, sit tight back here in just
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a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Before the break, we
were just touching a little bit on the I guess
the level and the depth and how far back this
problem can actually be traced, the tensions between well, between
Islam and Judaism in particular, we were talking about Abraham
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that's just how this is portrayed. So I want to
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my friends. All right, let's get back here to the
conversation about a little bit about the history here and again,
I'm probably gonna move us off the point of getting
to the other topics I do want to get to,
or at least shorten our ability to talk about them.
But it does matter because peace should be pursued in
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the what are you supposed to do? Right? The Bible
has verses like where it says that people talk about peace, peace, peace,
but there will be war, war, war, and so. On
the one hand, depending upon your perspective from a biblical,
biblical viewpoint, you might think, man, this is how do
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you even approach this? But peace should be pursued. Peace
should be pursued. But we also have to be realistic
about this and understand that this problem runs deep and
that the hatred. The hatred runs incredibly deep. The hatred
of the Jewish people is incredible deep, and it's tied
I don't care what anybody says, listen, well, I'll get
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into that in a moment, but it's tied to the
nation of Israel's relationship historical relationship with the God of
the Bible, with Yahweh, and people hate God. I know
that that sounds harsh. Look, there are people who are
genuinely disillusioned, confused, and things like that. But there are
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also people who have set themselves up in direct opposition
to Almighty God. They hate him because they don't like
his rules, they don't like I mean, you take this
back to, you know, really the Garden of Eden or
the Fall of Lucifer, where there's this desire, there's this
desire for God's created beings when they some of them,
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I would say, all of us, all of humanity to
a point here, we all have a desire. It's under
our sinful nature to be kind of the boss of
our own lives. And to some extent, I mean we
all certainly we have the freedom to choose, but in
the greater sense, in the greater sense, the Bible says,
you're either slaves to sin or your servants of Christ.
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And that's the choice that we have to make. And
so when there is so much hatred for the God
of the Bible, it's not surprising that it's directed at
the people through whom the message of the Bible was delivered,
and the people who try to live in accordance with
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the Old Testament covenant. That's what Israel has tried to
do Now that does not mean hear me say this,
That does not mean that there's no wrong Israel can do.
That's not the case. But as a Christian to overlook
or to just kind of brush off the fact that
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this is who the original Covenant, the Old Testament Covenant
was with is. You just can't brush that off. That's
that's that's a big deal. This was part They were
chosen by God to be the lineage that ultimately led
to Christ, who ultimately sacrificed himself for the sins of everyone,
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not just in that particular particular lineage. So there's hatred.
The hatred there is as deep as the hatred gets.
Because the hatred just isn't about you know, petty jealousies
or disdisagreements with another individual. This goes to the core
of our existence. Am I submitting to the God of
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the universe or am I going to be God myself?
Am I going to define what is right and wrong?
Or am I going to subject myself to the one
who determines, through the moral law, through his creation, through
his will, what is right and what is wrong? And
there is this great tension. Now you add to that,
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you add to that, this tensions that the two groups
are saying. You know, one of them says the promise,
that promise of God to Abraham went through Isaac, which
it did biblically through the Jewish tradition. That is the
correct tradition, the correct that's accurate as to what happened.
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But you have an entire group of people also that
believe that that blessing, that lineage went through Ishmael. And
it's just it's fascinating to look back at the history
of this because if you know the story in the
Old Testing about Abraham, he had a wife named Sarah.
God promised them that they were going to have descendants
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as numerous as the stars in the sky and sands
on the seashore. By the way, I don't know if
you realize this, but scientists tell us that there are
more stars in the sky than there are sands on
the seashores, dramatically more, which is mind blowing to me.
But nonetheless it's a big, big number. Was the point.
That's what God was trying to tell Abraham and Sarah.
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But they were old, they were too old to have children,
so Abraham kind of took matters. Abraham and Sarah. It
was actually Sarah's idea. Sarah came to Abraham and said, look,
you know, I've got this maid servant. You and I
can't have a child. God promised this one. We've waited
for a while, nothing's happened. Why don't you go and
have a baby with her? And maybe that's what, you know,
maybe that's the way that this is all going to
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work out. And that's what Abraham did. And of course
you can imagine what it caused. It caused jealousy and
contention and just all these sorts of things to the
point to where Sarah and Hagar was her maid servant.
Sarah basically got to the point where she said, I
don't want Hagar and Ishmael around anymore. This was after
she and Abraham actually conceived and had Isaac. I want
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to say it was thirteen years it was some number
of years later, and so she said, I want him
out of here, and I don't want I don't want
the inheritance of my son to be at risk because
Ishmael's hanging around here and all this. We're getting old, Abraham,
you know, we're not going to be around forever sort
of thing. So Abraham basically sent them sent them on
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their way, and you know that this is where that
split happens. And the Muslim faith and tradition says that
Abraham actually took Ishmael up to the Mount Mariah, which
is right there in Jerusalem, right there where you'll find
the Temple mount today, right where Jesus was crucified two
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thousand years ago in that same area. The biblical story
is that he took Isaac, his son that he bore
with Sarah, the promised one that God had promised as
a descendant. But the Islamic story is that he took
Ishmael up the mountain. In fact, I've heard stories I
forget the apologist who told a Muslim leader there. It
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was actually a Muslim leader that was involved to some
degree in some terroristic things. He sat down and had
conversation with him, and he said, basically, I thought it
was a beautiful thing. He said, you know, you all
believe that Abraham took Ishmael up the mountain. Others believe
he took Isaac up the mountain. But until we realize,
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until we realize that he sent his own son to
die right here on these mountains, Jesus Christ. This tension
and turmoil is going to exist. But this runs deep.
This runs very, very deep. And again, he might have
peace for a season, my friends, and I hope we do,
and I hope that this improves the situation, but the
reality is that this is much much deeper, and candidly,
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I don't know how you ever, I don't know that
it's even remotely solvable in the long term. Again, hopefully
we have a long period of peace here. But the
reality is, while we should certainly try to make the
peace and find peace and absolutely get the release of
these hostages, we have to have our eyes wide open
as to what we're really dealing with. And now I've
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got to take a break. My friends. Sit tight back
in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. I'm not
going to get to the other topics today. I'm just
not I should have known this coming in. I mean
that maybe we'll talk in the closing minutes. Just mentioned
a couple things, so I'm probably not going to get
to the thirteenth day of the government shutdown. I definitely
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am not going to get to the conversation about the
National Guard troop pay. I guess I can mention that
Trump has ordered the I guess the Pentagon to basically
find ways to make sure that the troops are paid
because they're now I think the fifteenth is payday and
Trump saying, look, we're not going to cut the pay
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of troops, which is apparently part of the shutdown, which
that's a whole other discussion. The craziness that's involved with that.
Why are we paying some people and not everybody? Well,
does Congress get paid? I can't remember if they actually
do now or not. I think that they do, but
maybe I'm wrong. But why are we paying some people
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not others? I mean, it's almost clearly designed by the
people who put together the rules to inflict pain on
certain people for political political advantages. Anyway, not gonna be
able to get into that today because of this discussion.
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this Bible talk about this today? What's the relevance. The
relevance of this, I mean the relevance is that this
traces itself back to that period of time. This is
a This is a story that literally can be found
can be traced back to the Bible. And this is
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something you know that The Bible is a collection of
sixty six individual books, and there's a story. There's a narrative,
the narrative of the Old Testament, the Hebrew Scriptures, if
you will, The first thirty nine books of the Bible
tell the story, tell the story of by and large
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this particular people, not exclusively, but very early on. I mean,
we had Adam and Eve, we had Noah, we had
not long after that. Early into the chapters of Genesis,
you got Abraham being called Abraham, getting this promise about
Isaac and being the father of many nations. And then
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you've got the story of God working with the people
of Israel, the nation of Israel too well to set
themselves apart, to give them a land, which is the
same land that we're talking about today. I mean in
general terms. I mean it's the same place. It's just
you know, we're talking about Hamas they got the strip,
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the West Bank. There's other places in Israel, but that's
we're talking about that spot. Talking about Jerusalem, We're talking
about maybe the Temple mounts and all these things. Mount
Mariah we talked about that in the story of Abraham
and Isaac and so. But the narrative of the Old
Testament is is God using that people to prepare the way,
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to prepare the way for the Messiah. And it's so rich.
I've this is the second time I've gone through this
Bible study, which I highly recommend, and which by the way,
I'm considering doing something where we could have people if
you want to go through that study together, we might
be able to. I don't know, to kind of do
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it together after the first of the year anyway, that's
just on my mind. I don't know that we'll do that,
But the point is even if we don't, it's a
great study. It's called the Bible Recap by Tara Lee Cabble.
But the narrative of the story leads us to Christ,
to Jesus. The birth of Christ is really the hinge
point of the Old and the New Testament. So now
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there's four hundred years of silence at the end of
the Old Testament before we start hearing about Mary and
Joseph and John the Baptist and Jesus. But the rest
of the book, the rest of the New Testament, the
twenty seven books of the New Testament, talk about starting
in the Gospels, the Life, the Death, the Resurrection of Jesus,
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talk about what happened, how the message spread, what the
early Church did, and it's a series of letters about
how the church should behave, how they should interpret the things.
Now that there's a the Messiah has come, the Messiah
that died once for all, not like the sacrificial land
that had to be sacrificed every year on the day
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of Atonement, which just passed by the way not too
long ago. But you have all this, this story, and
then you end end with a book of prophecy apocalyptic
literature called the Book of Revelation. Well, you'll hear some
of these things piece piece piece, war, war, war, and
all this sort of thing, and these things matter, and
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we start to see this at least you can tell
that this narrative is you know, what part of it's
playing out. We don't know. People can have their opinions,
but we can see that the nations and the types
of tension clearly exist today. And so that's why it matters,
and that's why it's tied in. And this issue runs incredibly,
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incredibly deep, back to the faiths of people that can
be traced back for thousands and thousands of years. Folks,
I've got to go, got to run SDG
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