The topic today is,
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"The Jew, The Arab
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and Jerusalem."
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I've got some
great Jewish friends.
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I've got two
doctors who take care of me,
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and keep me going.
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One of them is
Orthodox, one is Liberal.
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They're just great
doctors and great friends.
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You know the carpet
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we've got here in this building.
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Well, this carpet was
laid by a Muslim from Syria.
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He's got his
carpet shop in Glendale.
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He's just the nicest person.
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You know why he is in America?
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To escape religious
bigotry and persecution.
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You've all heard of
King Hussein, haven't you?
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The King who
was the great leader
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of the nation of Jordan.
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I was in Jordan
preaching on one occasion,
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preaching in the church.
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The pastor said to me,
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"My house got
blown up by extremists,
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by Muslims who are extremists.
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And they murdered my wife
and they murdered my daughter."
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And he said, "When I came to,
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when I recovered
consciousness in the hospital,
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there was a man
standing beside me."
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And he said, "I was amazed,
as I recovered consciousness,
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it was King Hussein."
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The leader of the
nation and he said,
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"My Christian
brother, in the name of God,
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in the name of
Allah, I be seek you,
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forgives us for this--
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this awful crime
against you and your family."
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He said, "I can't restore
your wife or your daughter."
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But he said, "I'll
do anything I can do."
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He built him a new home,
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paid for all of
his medical bills.
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So I want you to know
today, I don't think it's right
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to put people just in categories
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and say that they--
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because they belong
to a certain category
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that's different to
ours, they've got to be wrong
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and they've got to be bad.
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The topic is, The Jew,
the Arab and Jerusalem.
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Please take your Bible
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and turn with me to
the Book of Isaiah 9:6
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in the Old Testament to the Book
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of Isaiah 9:6,
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Bible says, if you got it.
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It says, "For unto
us a Child is born,
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Unto us a Son is given:
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And the government
will be upon His shoulder.
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And His name will be
called Wonderful, Counselor,
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Mighty God, Everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace."
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We're gonna talk about
this a little bit more,
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as we go through
the program today.
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But if there is
any place in the world,
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that needs peace,
it's the Middle East.
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I've been there more times
than I can remember to Babylon,
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to Israel, and to Iraq,
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and to Syria, Jordan,
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Lebanon, Kuwait and Iran.
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If there's any place
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that needs hope,
and help, and peace,
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it's this land, the
cradle of civilization.
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Here we have the
great land of Iran,
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which is a, an Islamic state.
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And the people there
practice form of Islam,
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which is called Shia.
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Down over here,
you have the great land
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which is a close ally to
the United States of America
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Saudi Arabia.
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And their religion is--
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No, it's not the opposite,
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it's simply just
a different brand
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of the Islamic faith
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it is the
religion of the Sunni's.
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And you can Google all of this,
look up sometime Wahhabism,
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Wahhabism,
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couple of hundred years ago
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in the hot desert
sands of Saudi Arabia,
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there was a so called
prophet by the name of Wahhabi.
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And he gave us ISIS.
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It's an extreme fanatical form
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of Islam.
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You can read about it
in the book that is called,
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"The Kingdom,"
chopping of people's heads,
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women being
nothing, a sin to laugh.
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Special religious police
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who stand at the doors
of the homes of the people.
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No driving a
motor cars by women.
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The Saudi government
reached an arrangement
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with the
Wahhabis, did you know this?
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That the Wahhabis
would support the monarchy
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if the monarchy would support
their distorted form of Islam.
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And also,
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if the
government of Saudi Arabia
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would so support it
that they would export it,
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not only support it
but export it to the world.
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We know
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today that the Saudi
government has spent--
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You can read this
in the Huffington Post
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more than a
hundred billion dollars
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on the export of this
fanaticism, Wahhabism.
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And these of
course are the people
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who have become the
enemies of the world
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in ISIS.
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Now these countries here
are really what you would call
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theocracies.
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They believe that God is
the head of their nation.
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They do not believe as
Americans and as Englishmen
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and Australians
and New Zealanders,
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and a few other nations believe
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in the separation
of church and state.
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Neither do they
believe in the First Amendment.
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They don't have those things,
and so these are theocracies,
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a little bit like
the children of Israel
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in the Old Testament,
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where people are put to
death because they break the law
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and they have a law, the
Old Testament had the Torah
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and they have Sharia law.
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And then you have
the state of Israel,
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just a tiny
little place over there,
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and even though it is
not a perfect theocracy,
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it's something like a theocracy
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because you do
have the combination
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of church and state,
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and you have
limited religious liberty.
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For instance, I could
not go to the land of Israel
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and hold an evangelistic series.
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And neither can you do it
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in any of the
countries of the Middle East,
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and yet, this part of the world
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is in fact the cradle
of civilization my friend.
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Come with me in the
Bible to Genesis Chapter 2,
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the very cradle of civilization,
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Genesis 2:10 and onwards.
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I want you to
notice these verses
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somewhat in a new
and different like today.
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"Now a river went out of
Eden to water the garden,
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and from it parted and
became four riverheads.
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The name of the first is Pishon,
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It is the one that encompasses
the whole land of Havilah,
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where there is gold--"
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I don't know where that is.
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"And the gold of that
land is good, Bdellium,
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and the onyx stone are there.
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The name of the
second river is Gihon,
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it is the one which encompass
is the whole land of Cush."
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And the land of Cush as you know
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is the southern part of Egypt.
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So it would appear
that this is the Nile River
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and then verse 14 says,
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"The name of the
third river is Hiddekel,
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it is the one that goes
towards the east of Assyria.
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The fourth is the Euphrates."
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And so what we are basically
talking about from this text
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is the Middle East,
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it is called, "The
Cradle of Civilization."
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It seems is so
civilization started
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in this part of the world.
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It was the home
of Adam, Abraham,
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Isaac, Ishmael, Daniel,
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the Jews, the Arabs,
the Persians, the Iranians,
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Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad.
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These large areas
have been conquered
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and ruled by the Assyrians,
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the Babylonians, the
Persians, the Greeks,
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the Romans, the
Pharaohs, the French,
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and more recently the British.
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The country of Iraq, at
least the borders of the country
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was drawn up by
Winston Churchill,
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one evening as he
was having dinner.
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He did it on a paper napkin
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and hence the problems we have
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in the Middle East today.
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This is the
birthplace of civilization.
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What surprises
Americans and Australians
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and English people today
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is this that
during the Middle Ages,
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the Middle East was
the most progressive
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and the most
tolerant place in the world.
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Did you know this?
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Greatest doctors Alexandria,
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the greatest scientists
and the greatest freedoms
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Christian and Jews
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fled from Roman Catholic Europe
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and found refuge
in the Middle East,
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under the Muslims.
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Because the Muslims
had far more freedom,
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far more tolerance,
and far more prosperity
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than Catholic Europe.
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Today, it is a
seething cauldron of strife,
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hatred and fanaticism.
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Whatever happened
to the Prince of Peace.
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What about ISIS and Wahhabism?
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Now, I want you to think
again of the statement we made
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in one of our earlier meetings
if genuine prophecy exists.
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Now this is a
profound statement.
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If, if genuine prophecy exists,
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then the main
issues of the age are met.
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If there is
indeed genuine prophecy,
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then there is
evidence that there is God.
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Somebody said, "God
died in the 19th century,
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and man died in
the 20th century."
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The death of God always
leads to the death of man.
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But if genuine prophecy exists,
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then the main
issues of the age are met.
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Today we are going
to consider a prophecy,
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I ask you to be the judge
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that confounds the
skeptic and the unbeliever.
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Firstly, before we
get into the prophecy,
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we're going to have a
look at the origin of the Jews
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and the Arabs
where they came from.
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Would you come over
here to Genesis 16:1 to 12?
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Genesis 16:1, to 12,
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"Now Sarai, Abraham's wife
that born him no children..."
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That was a
disgrace in those days.
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"She had he had an
Egyptian maid servant
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whose name was Hagar.
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So Sarah said, Abram, "See now,
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the Lord has restrained
me from bearing children.
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Please, go in to my maid,
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perhaps I shall
obtain children by her."
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And Abram heeded
the voice of Sarai."
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Then Sarai, Abram's wife,
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took Hagar her
maid, the Egyptian,
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and gave her to her
husband Abram to be his wife."
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This is when
the trouble started.
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"And Abram had dwelt ten
years in the land of Canaan.
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So he went in to
Hagar, and she conceived.
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And when she saw
that she had conceived,
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her mistress became
despised in her eyes.
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Then Sarai said to
Abram, "My wrong be upon you!
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I gave my maid
into your embrace,
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and when she saw
that she had conceived,
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I became despised in her eyes.
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The Lord judge
between me and you."
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Now it starts.
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"So Abram said to Sarai,
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"Indeed your
maid is in your hand,
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do to her as you please."
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And when Sarai
dealt harshly with her,
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she fled from her presence.
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Now the Angel of
the Lord found her
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by a spring of
water in the wilderness,
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by the spring
on the way to Shur.
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And He said,
"Hagar, Sarai's maid,
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where have you come
from, and where are you going?"
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And she said, "I am fleeing
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from the presence
of my mistress Sarai."
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So the Angel of
the Lord said to her,
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"Return to your mistress,
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and submit
yourself under her hand."
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Then the Angel of
the Lord said to her,
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"I will multiply your
descendants exceedingly,
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so that they shall not
be counted for multitude."
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And the Angel of
the Lord said to her:
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"Behold, you are with
child, And you shall bear a son.
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And you shall
call his name Ishmael,
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Because the Lord has
heard your affliction.
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He shall be a wild man,
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His hand shall be
against every man,
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and every man's
hand against him.
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And he shall dwell
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in the presence
of all his brethren."
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So Ishmael was
the son of Abraham,
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the father of the faithful,
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and an Egyptian
girl by the name of Hagar
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because Sarai
couldn't have children.
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Now look at Genesis 17:15 to 21,
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as we take up the story.
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Genesis 17:15 to 21,
"Then God said to Abraham,
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"As for Sarai your wife,
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you shall not
call her name Sarai,
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but Sarah shall be her name.
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And I will bless her and
also give you a son by her,
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then I will bless her,
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and she shall be
a mother of nations,
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kings of peoples
shall be from her."
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And Abraham fell on
his face and laughed,
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and said in his heart,
"Shalla child be born to a man
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who is one hundred years old?
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And shall Sarah,
who is ninety years old,
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bear a child?"
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' Somebody said mercy?
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And verse 18...
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I couldn't face it myself.
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"And Abraham said to God,
00:16:19.74\00:16:21.88
"Oh, that Ishmael
might live before You!"
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Then God said: "No, Sarah
your wife shall bear you a son,
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and you shall
call his name Isaac.
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I will establish
My covenant with him
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for an everlasting covenant,
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and with his
descendants after him.
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And as for
Ishmael, I have heard you.
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Behold, I have blessed
him, and will make him fruitful,
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and will
multiply him exceedingly.
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He shall beget twelve princes,
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and I will make
him a great nation."
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And so here is the
family feud the warfare
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that started
about 4000 years ago.
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Now come to Genesis 13:14 and 15
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and you will see how
difficult the situation becomes.
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Genesis 13:14 and 15,
"And the Lord said to Abram,
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after Lot had
separated from him:
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"Lift your eyes now
and look from the place
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where you are,
northward, southward,
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eastward, and westward,
for all the land which you see
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I give it to you and
your descendants forever
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I give it to you and
your descendants forever."
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Can you see a problem here?
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Can you see why they are
fighting in the Middle East?
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Almighty God
says, here are two boys,
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are they the
descendants of Abraham.
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Well, God says, "I'm going
to give you the Promised Land
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and I'm going to
give it to your children."
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So when the Jews read
this they say, "It's ours."
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The West Bank is ours.
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We're not going
to be conciliatory
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because God gave it to us.
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And the children of Ishmael say,
00:18:16.83\00:18:20.26
"This is our land.
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And we will spill
our blood for it."
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I want you to
notice on the screen
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this little diagram
here you have Abraham,
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who is the father
of the family feud.
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He took Hagar and
she gave him Ishmael,
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and from Ishmael came the Arabs
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and most of the
Arabs not all of them.
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Most of the Arabs are Muslims
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not, not all of
them but 90 percent,
00:18:56.77\00:18:59.93
but through the Arabs
came the Prophet Mohammed,
00:18:59.97\00:19:05.31
as they say,
"Peace be upon him."
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Then on the other side,
00:19:09.14\00:19:11.28
you've got wife
number one Sarah,
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and when she's about 90,
00:19:15.35\00:19:19.32
by the grace of God
00:19:19.35\00:19:22.82
and the creative
energy of the Holy Spirit,
00:19:22.86\00:19:28.80
she has a baby and she got--
00:19:28.83\00:19:30.90
No wonder, she was laughing
and the baby's name is Isaac,
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and from Isaac comes the Jews
00:19:36.44\00:19:39.51
and from the Jews
comes the Messiah,
00:19:39.54\00:19:44.31
Christ the Lord.
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The children of
Israel long before Muhammad
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was slaves down
in the land of Egypt.
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And went about 1400
B.C. they arrived at Jericho.
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We believe the Exodus took place
00:20:06.90\00:20:10.21
according to 1 Kings
Chapter 6 and other passages.
00:20:10.24\00:20:14.58
We believe the Exodus
took place in 1450 B.C.
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most likely on
March 17 of that year
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but be that as it
may, they came up,
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came up out of
the land of Egypt,
00:20:27.59\00:20:31.03
they crossed the Red
Sea, or the Sea of the Reeds,
00:20:31.06\00:20:37.57
and they came to a
town by the name of Jericho,
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and this was the open
door or the closed door
00:20:43.37\00:20:47.84
to the land of Palestine
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and what's this
derivation Palestine,
00:20:51.55\00:20:55.82
Philistine,
00:20:55.85\00:20:58.35
the Philistines
or the Philistines
00:20:58.39\00:21:01.12
gave us the land of Palestine.
00:21:01.16\00:21:05.76
You know this,
of course don't you?
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I've been there, to
this part of the world
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to Jericho on many,
many different occasions.
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I got goose bumps
00:21:16.47\00:21:17.97
when I went
there on my last visit
00:21:18.01\00:21:20.74
because I was there
to look at the walls.
00:21:20.78\00:21:24.71
The Bible says, "The
walls of Jericho fell down."
00:21:24.75\00:21:29.78
And there is
overwhelming evidence
00:21:29.82\00:21:31.85
that the walls of
Jericho did fall down
00:21:31.89\00:21:35.62
but what gave me
00:21:35.66\00:21:37.83
a tremendous thrill of discovery
00:21:37.86\00:21:40.26
was the discovery
of this human skull.
00:21:40.30\00:21:46.40
A human skull that was
in the wall at the base,
00:21:46.43\00:21:51.37
right at the base of the wall.
00:21:51.41\00:21:55.08
Something unusual
had happened in Jericho,
00:21:55.11\00:21:57.68
they had a storm.
00:21:57.71\00:22:00.12
And as the flood
waters had rushed through,
00:22:00.15\00:22:02.92
it had dislodged
this human skull.
00:22:02.95\00:22:07.46
I thought was it an Israelite,
00:22:07.49\00:22:12.03
or was it one of the
inhabitants of Jericho.
00:22:12.06\00:22:16.46
But one thing is
certain my friend,
00:22:16.50\00:22:18.63
there was a Jericho,
00:22:18.67\00:22:20.44
and the walls of
Jericho fell down.
00:22:20.47\00:22:24.51
Can I tell you a story?
00:22:24.54\00:22:27.94
There was a headmaster or
the principal of the school
00:22:27.98\00:22:32.21
and he was teaching a class,
00:22:32.25\00:22:35.22
but in Australia,
until, they may still do it
00:22:35.25\00:22:37.82
but when I went to
school in Australia,
00:22:37.85\00:22:40.59
your minister would come
and visit you once a week,
00:22:40.62\00:22:44.26
and he would
teach a Bible class.
00:22:44.29\00:22:46.39
The Baptist minister would come
00:22:46.43\00:22:47.93
and the Catholic
priest would come
00:22:47.96\00:22:49.33
and the Methodist minister,
the Adventist minister,
00:22:49.36\00:22:52.43
and one day this
little boy was in the class.
00:22:52.47\00:22:58.57
And the minister said to
him after telling the story
00:22:58.61\00:23:01.21
of the overthrow of Jericho
he said, "Now, our children
00:23:01.24\00:23:05.11
who broke down
the walls of Jericho?"
00:23:05.15\00:23:07.15
There was a long silence,
00:23:09.62\00:23:12.25
then one little boy
with red hair put up his hand
00:23:12.29\00:23:14.89
and he said,
"Please sir, I didn't."
00:23:14.92\00:23:18.19
Well, a man went
along so the headmaster
00:23:23.87\00:23:25.77
and he said, "Look, I
was teaching Bible class
00:23:25.80\00:23:29.30
in your school today,
and I had an excellent class
00:23:29.34\00:23:33.17
and I asked him the question,
00:23:33.21\00:23:34.54
"Who broke down
the walls of Jericho?"
00:23:34.58\00:23:37.05
And a little boy put up his hand
00:23:37.08\00:23:38.85
and he said,
"Please sir, I didn't."
00:23:38.88\00:23:41.78
The headmaster said,
"What did he look like?"
00:23:41.82\00:23:44.62
He said, "He had a
shock of red hair."
00:23:44.65\00:23:47.06
Well, said the headmaster,
"That's the Jenkins' boy,
00:23:47.09\00:23:50.29
if he said, he didn't do
it, then he didn't do it.
00:23:50.33\00:23:53.53
He comes from a
most excellent family,
00:23:53.56\00:23:55.50
he didn't do it."
00:23:55.53\00:23:58.53
Anyhow, the headmaster wrote
to the Department of Education
00:23:58.57\00:24:05.37
and told them the story
00:24:05.41\00:24:07.71
and in fact, I
think it was the minister
00:24:07.74\00:24:11.51
who wrote to the
Department of Education,
00:24:11.55\00:24:13.21
told him the story
00:24:13.25\00:24:14.58
and deplored the
ignorance of these children.
00:24:14.62\00:24:17.22
And after a year or
two, he got back a letter
00:24:17.25\00:24:19.39
from the government that said,
00:24:19.42\00:24:20.76
"Dear sir, I
refer to your letter
00:24:20.79\00:24:23.59
concerning the
vandalism at Jericho.
00:24:23.63\00:24:27.66
I've contacted the
Jenkins' boy and the headmaster
00:24:27.70\00:24:30.37
and I'm satisfied
that neither did it.
00:24:30.40\00:24:34.37
The Department of Education
cannot accept responsibility
00:24:34.40\00:24:37.41
for this shameful incident.
00:24:37.44\00:24:40.18
However, in view of
the unusual circumstances,
00:24:40.21\00:24:42.64
the Department of Education
00:24:42.68\00:24:44.01
is prepared to
pay half the costs
00:24:44.05\00:24:46.05
for repairing the damage."
00:24:46.08\00:24:47.62
This part of the world
00:24:53.22\00:24:54.66
is sacred to
three great religions
00:24:54.69\00:24:58.13
and we're thinking particularly
of the great city of Jerusalem.
00:24:58.16\00:25:04.10
The derivation of the name
going back to the Canaanites
00:25:04.13\00:25:07.44
means, "City of Peace,"
00:25:07.47\00:25:11.54
it is loved by the Jews,
Christians, and the Muslims.
00:25:11.57\00:25:17.61
They believe it
is a sacred place
00:25:20.58\00:25:25.09
in the mind and the plan of God.
00:25:25.12\00:25:29.62
It is a city of prophecy.
00:25:29.66\00:25:33.46
It is a city
00:25:33.50\00:25:34.90
to which came a
Jew 2000 years ago,
00:25:34.93\00:25:41.57
who was destined
to change the history
00:25:41.60\00:25:44.67
and of course of the world.
00:25:44.71\00:25:48.78
That will be in our next program
00:25:48.81\00:25:51.25
when we talk about
The Cursed Prophecy.
00:25:51.28\00:25:56.95
When we talk about the
Jew, the Arab and Jerusalem.
00:25:56.99\00:26:02.79
Hello, friend.
00:26:13.34\00:26:14.70
I'm John
Carter, in Havana, Cuba.
00:26:14.74\00:26:18.11
I'm standing here in
Revolutionary Square.
00:26:18.14\00:26:22.48
This great square is dedicated
00:26:22.51\00:26:24.68
to the great
communist revolution under Fidel
00:26:24.71\00:26:27.95
that came to this
country back 50, 60 years ago.
00:26:27.98\00:26:32.22
This place is still
undergoing a revolution.
00:26:32.25\00:26:36.22
We've come to check out
the reality of the situation.
00:26:36.26\00:26:40.86
Freedom of Speech is
not allowed here still.
00:26:40.90\00:26:44.37
Preaching the
gospel out of doors
00:26:44.40\00:26:46.67
is not allowed here,
00:26:46.70\00:26:48.24
still whatever you
hear about reconciliation,
00:26:48.27\00:26:51.64
nothing has really changed.
00:26:51.67\00:26:54.61
We've been told, we cannot
run public campaigns in Cuba
00:26:54.64\00:27:00.35
in any part of this world.
00:27:00.38\00:27:03.18
We can run meetings in churches,
00:27:03.22\00:27:05.65
that's allowed.
00:27:05.69\00:27:07.02
So what are we going to do?
00:27:07.06\00:27:08.52
We're going to
support the people of God
00:27:08.56\00:27:10.13
in this part of the world.
00:27:10.16\00:27:11.53
We're going to
step through those doors
00:27:11.56\00:27:13.73
as God opens those doors.
00:27:13.76\00:27:16.50
We're not going to
come and cause a commotion
00:27:16.53\00:27:20.97
and cause trouble
to the people of God.
00:27:21.00\00:27:24.01
We will work diligently
and as wise as serpents
00:27:24.04\00:27:30.01
and as harmless as doves.
00:27:30.05\00:27:32.85
Stand with us in the
preaching of the gospel,
00:27:32.88\00:27:35.72
where ever it is, stand with us.
00:27:35.75\00:27:38.15
Write to me, P.O. Box 1900,
00:27:38.19\00:27:40.59
Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
00:27:40.62\00:27:43.02
In Australia, write
to me at the address
00:27:43.06\00:27:45.36
which is now appearing
on the screen at Terrigal.
00:27:45.39\00:27:49.10
And let us go forward
00:27:49.13\00:27:50.87
for a mighty
spiritual revolution,
00:27:50.90\00:27:54.14
as we take the Gospel of Christ
00:27:54.17\00:27:57.34
to the lost around the
world as God opens the doors.
00:27:57.37\00:28:01.61
This is John Carter,
in Revolutionary Square,
00:28:01.64\00:28:05.78
in Havana, Cuba,
saying to you God bless you
00:28:05.81\00:28:09.68
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00:28:09.72\00:28:11.95
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