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Caption transcript for “Chaim Malespin”

• 00:11 ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪
• 00:15 David Hart: Thank you so much for joining us today.
• 00:16 As you can see, we're not on our typical set, but hi guys, we're
• 00:20 glad you're with us today.
• 00:21 You're just back from Israel, yes?
• 00:24 Caleb Colson: Man, what a trip that was.
• 00:26 And we have filmed so many important interviews at such a
• 00:31 timely moment in history, when Israel is at war with her
• 00:34 enemies, and the whole world is decrying Israel and the IDF as
• 00:38 being these barbarians, these-- committing genocide,
• 00:43 and all these terrible things.
• 00:44 But we want to tell you the truth of what's going on.
• 00:46 Joshua Colson: And it's easy to tell the truth when you go to
• 00:48 the source, so we are gonna go to the source of some amazing
• 00:50 interviews that you're about to watch to hear directly from
• 00:52 those people on what's happening.
• 00:56 Caleb: Today we travel to the modern megacity
• 00:59 of Tel Aviv, Israel.
• 01:00 Even with a population of nearly 4.5 million, the thoughts of the
• 01:05 war with Hamas is still on everyone's mind.
• 01:08 Fortunately, we are being afforded the rare opportunity of
• 01:12 meeting at a local IDF base to speak with their spokesman.
• 01:16 As our crew busily prepares us for our interviews, we meet our
• 01:19 contact, Noam, with the IDF Public Diplomacy Office.
• 01:24 Coincidentally, our arrival today just so happens to occur
• 01:28 on Yom HaShoah, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• 01:33 Noam leads us to the bomb shelter where we will conduct
• 01:37 our interview.
• 01:38 ♪♪♪
• 01:43 Joshua: Now, this may seem like a normal conference room to you,
• 01:46 but I assure you, this is not someplace you're forced to have
• 01:49 a meeting or a Zoom call in.
• 01:51 This is a very specific, very protected room that we're in
• 01:54 right now.
• 01:56 In fact, if anything were to happen on the surface, we would
• 01:58 be safe and probably not even know it happened.
• 02:00 Caleb, what's going on today?
• 02:02 Caleb: We're at a IDF base.
• 02:05 We contacted the FIDF.
• 02:07 Joshua: These are the spokespeople for the IDF that
• 02:09 handle that information.
• 02:11 Caleb: So, we came to interview people, and today is Yom
• 02:13 HaShoah, this is the Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• 02:16 And in exactly five minutes the sirens are gonna sound outside,
• 02:22 and the entire country comes to a standstill.
• 02:24 Everybody's quiet for two minutes in remembrance of the
• 02:27 6.5 million Jews that were lost, and we thought we were gonna be
• 02:30 able to get outside to witness this event, but we are now
• 02:34 locked inside because we had done the interview.
• 02:36 You're asked, why can't you go in and outside?
• 02:38 Because of security.
• 02:39 This is how stringent they have to be to protect themselves.
• 02:44 That's what they're worried about, because you don't know
• 02:47 the coming in and out, the security, and they need to make
• 02:49 sure that their soldiers are safe during this time of silence
• 02:53 and remembrance so that they can honor their ancestors who died
• 02:58 during the Holocaust.
• 02:59 [sirens wailing]
• 03:04 male: On your feet, gentlemen.
• 03:07 Joshua: We can actually hear the sound down here.
• 03:09 We thought maybe we couldn't.
• 03:11 [sirens wailing]
• 03:21 [sirens wailing]
• 03:29 ♪♪♪
• 03:39 ♪♪♪
• 03:49 ♪♪♪
• 03:59 Israel Hanna: Father God, as we stand here, we ask you to bless
• 04:02 the nation of Israel and its people.
• 04:04 Draw them closer to you than they ever would imagine.
• 04:08 Pour out your Spirit upon this nation and its people and give
• 04:12 them victory over their enemies.
• 04:14 May our country in the United States of America never ever
• 04:17 forsake her, but always draw closer, closer to her, and
• 04:21 support her in the days ahead.
• 04:23 We thank you for this moment of time and for being here together
• 04:27 with the IDF soldiers in this land of Israel.
• 04:34 Caleb: Hello, we are here with Dasha, a lone soldier in
• 04:37 the IDF.
• 04:38 How are you doing today?
• 04:40 Dasha: I'm good, thank you so much.
• 04:41 Caleb: So, explain to our audience what is a lone soldier?
• 04:43 What is your rank?
• 04:45 What do you do?
• 04:46 Dasha: I am a soldier in the IDF Spokesperson Unit, and more
• 04:49 specifically in the IDF Public Diplomacy Office.
• 04:52 And in the IDF spokesperson unit in general, we take care of
• 04:58 communications and how we present the IDF to the media.
• 05:03 And in the public diplomacy office, more to do with
• 05:07 diplomatic relations with other countries.
• 05:10 Joshua: I can only imagine that in diplomatic relations,
• 05:12 obviously, since October 7 you've been very busy.
• 05:15 We know that that's changed a lot of the course of what
• 05:18 everybody was doing before that date.
• 05:20 For you specifically, with that happening, what was your plan
• 05:24 kind of before October 7 veered your path?
• 05:27 Dasha: Well, for me specifically, I'm currently in
• 05:31 the course Nativ, which is a course that-- where you convert
• 05:35 to Judaism, and on the 8th of October I was supposed to
• 05:38 start it.
• 05:39 So, as far as it goes personally, I was-- I-- the
• 05:43 plans completely changed and the course was postponed.
• 05:46 But as for the work in the idea of Public Diplomacy Office,
• 05:52 there was a lot more of it, and nothing changed really
• 05:57 drastically, just there was just more work.
• 06:00 And we did our best, and--
• 06:04 Caleb: What made you wanna come to Israel?
• 06:06 You weren't born in Israel, you're a lone soldier, explain
• 06:09 what that means and why you wanted to come here.
• 06:12 Dasha: I was born in Russia, grew up in Thailand, but I did
• 06:17 live here for two years with my parents, and I got a taste of
• 06:22 what the Israeli culture is like.
• 06:24 And I guess I fell in love, and I wanted to come back, and I
• 06:29 knew that being a soldier is a big part of the Israeli culture
• 06:34 and being Israeli, and I didn't want to miss out on that.
• 06:38 It was important for me personally.
• 06:40 Joshua: That's an incredible perspective.
• 06:42 You wanted to be part of the culture, and that's why
• 06:44 you joined.
• 06:46 And it's an interesting time too, because obviously Israel
• 06:49 has gone through many different conflicts and wars since 1948.
• 06:54 What, for your generation, has this meant?
• 06:57 We've heard that in America it was the 9/11 for Israel.
• 07:01 What was-- what were you feeling, as new to the country,
• 07:05 new to Judaism, now this happens?
• 07:09 Dasha: It was definitely very scary and shocking at first,
• 07:13 because I came from a country where sirens aren't a thing, and
• 07:20 Israel is in itself a small country, and the army is a
• 07:25 smaller country in a small country.
• 07:28 So, it's definitely-- it affects-- I have no doubt that
• 07:32 it affected everybody personally, and person knowing
• 07:34 my friends, even who-- the friends who have not-- who
• 07:39 aren't combat soldiers, it's still is a big shock.
• 07:43 And it's still every day, it's-- it hasn't changed.
• 07:48 And we-- there's no pill that we're given to believe that
• 07:57 everything will be okay.
• 07:59 We are the people that have to make it be okay, and it's tough.
• 08:04 But I think it's what gives us the power and gives us the unity
• 08:10 that we have in the IDF, I think that's how-- that's the reality.
• 08:14 Joshua: It's a very important perspective that the
• 08:16 responsibility of saying if we don't make it okay, it's not
• 08:20 just gonna be okay.
• 08:22 And for your generation, that you're so young to be able to
• 08:25 have to understand that and live that out is a huge deal.
• 08:27 One of the saddest things for us, because we were here October
• 08:30 7 when it happened as well, was to go back to America and then
• 08:33 to hear immediately the antiSemitic viewpoints being
• 08:37 thrown out, the lies being spoken.
• 08:39 Why is it so important that Israel has a right to defend
• 08:42 their borders and their people in times like this and that it's
• 08:45 not a bad thing that y'all are standing up against this kind
• 08:48 of tyranny?
• 08:49 Dasha: Exactly, that's the only option that we have, and that's
• 08:52 what we do.
• 08:53 And that's what my friends are doing who are 18, 19 years
• 08:57 of age.
• 08:59 I'm 21, but still there's no-- it's not a big difference.
• 09:01 And that's, I think, the biggest difference in the teens here in
• 09:07 Israel and teens anywhere.
• 09:09 I mean, Russia, Thailand, there's no-- our reality is
• 09:13 very different.
• 09:14 Caleb: What would be your message to America?
• 09:16 Because antiSemitism in all the college campuses, like we said,
• 09:21 it's overflowing, and a lot of people say it's due to a lack of
• 09:26 education, that they're being indoctrinated.
• 09:29 They don't even know what their-- their chants, their
• 09:32 slogans are, what they really mean.
• 09:34 What would you say to America?
• 09:36 What's your message to them on why it's all a lie?
• 09:41 What's the truth in this situation?
• 09:43 Dasha: I'd say it's a problem, and my only wish would be for
• 09:48 people to be more at least aware of how much they might not know
• 09:52 or how much they don't know.
• 09:54 And I wish people would be more willing to learn more about what
• 09:58 is really going on and that we don't have any other option,
• 10:05 that's what we're doing in this war is we protect our civilians,
• 10:10 we protect our soldiers, and every civilian in Israel has a
• 10:15 son or daughter that is a soldier, so it's very
• 10:18 interconnected, and there's no-- you can't divide the Israeli
• 10:23 society and the IDF.
• 10:26 We do what we have to do, right?
• 10:28 And that's the message that I want to say, that this is our
• 10:32 only option, and it's not like-- it's not like anywhere else in
• 10:36 the world or like in the US at all.
• 10:39 Joshua: Now, many of you at home probably know this, and some of
• 10:41 you may not.
• 10:43 But if you live in Israel, you have to, it's mandatory, be a
• 10:45 part of the army at 18 years old.
• 10:46 Man, child, woman, everybody, 18.
• 10:49 But no matter how emotionally ready you are, one of the very
• 10:53 interesting things when we came down here, meeting all of the
• 10:55 young people of the IDF here that look like they should be
• 10:59 going to hang out with their friends at the mall, they're
• 11:01 defending their nation on a daily basis, doing their part.
• 11:04 And with everything else going on and the amount of hate that
• 11:07 has been spewed against the nation of Israel in this time
• 11:10 period, I can't imagine the pressure of being 21 years old
• 11:13 and this your first assignment.
• 11:15 But this is something that we try to relay, and we're gonna
• 11:17 continue to relay, that antiSemitism is of the devil.
• 11:21 It is a lie that the devil is trying to propagate against
• 11:24 God's people.
• 11:25 And Israel has a right to defend their nation, their sovereign
• 11:29 nation, and nobody has the right to tell them otherwise.
• 11:31 Caleb: Amen.
• 11:33 Joshua: Why is Hamas fighting Israel?
• 11:35 Why are you guys having to defend yourselves?
• 11:39 Noam: In 2005 Israel gave back to the Palestinian
• 11:44 Authority Gaza.
• 11:46 They just went out, they made every single Jew who lived there
• 11:49 get out of the Strip, Gaza Strip, and live in Israel.
• 11:53 And after a year the Gaza residents decided to go to a
• 11:58 vote and voted Hamas as its--.
• 12:01 Caleb: Government.
• 12:02 Noam: It's government, exactly.
• 12:04 So, and since then Hamas is ruling the Gaza Strip, really
• 12:07 ruling all of the 2 million people who live there.
• 12:11 And they just hate Jews, there's no easier way to say it.
• 12:17 They just hate Jews.
• 12:18 They don't want to see Israel be a country.
• 12:21 They don't want to see the right of Jewish people to have
• 12:24 a state.
• 12:25 They just don't want to see us here.
• 12:26 And that's the easiest answer I can give you, and it's very
• 12:31 difficult to see people abroad just saying Israel-- Palestine
• 12:34 will be free, because it means that Israel will be annihilated.
• 12:37 That's how they see it.
• 12:38 Caleb: But they have their, you know, like you said, in 2005
• 12:42 they had their own territory given to them.
• 12:45 No Jews there, no one encroaching upon them, their own
• 12:48 freedom and liberty to decide whatever they would want to out
• 12:51 of life.
• 12:53 But yet it's not enough for them.
• 12:54 They're still-- they just want to annihilate.
• 12:57 Noam: It's not enough for them, but in the end, even if the Gaza
• 13:00 Strip would have been able to be another Singapore, would have
• 13:03 been to be a country with a lot of money which they get a lot of
• 13:08 money, could have been an amazing country, a phenomenal
• 13:12 tech country.
• 13:14 But they don't wanna be.
• 13:15 They are ruled by hate.
• 13:17 They just want-- the Hamas just makes everybody there
• 13:21 hate Israel.
• 13:22 People joined Hamas, the terrorist organization, and they
• 13:26 just don't wanna see Israel be here.
• 13:28 Caleb: Well, this is very interesting, because we've heard
• 13:31 from you guys, the IDF, the ID F and Israelis are literally one,
• 13:36 because everyone has served in a way.
• 13:39 There's no removing one from the other.
• 13:42 It's still in your brains.
• 13:43 If you're an Israeli, then you have been in the IDF at one
• 13:46 point in your life.
• 13:48 Is that the same way for Gaza?
• 13:50 People say, "Oh, these are innocent civilians," but they
• 13:54 don't have a uniform, they still go and they fight
• 13:56 against Israelis.
• 13:58 Hamas is kind of integrated into their lifestyle.
• 14:00 It's their way of thought.
• 14:02 It's their way of living.
• 14:03 How can you se-- can you separate one from the other?
• 14:06 First of all, it's very difficult.
• 14:09 It's not that you can say that you're in the IDF, and there's a
• 14:13 way to check that.
• 14:14 In the end, if you are an IDF soldier, people can check that
• 14:18 in Israel in the second.
• 14:20 But in Hamas, it's very difficult to see who is
• 14:26 combating, who isn't, and it's more difficult for the-- also
• 14:29 the soldiers who are going inside Gaza, because we want to
• 14:33 minimize the harm, we wanna minimize harm for civilians.
• 14:36 But when we don't have possibility, when Hamas
• 14:39 interrogates itself in civilian residency, it's difficult.
• 14:44 Israel will still sees people who aren't with arms as innocent
• 14:49 civilian, people still see them as people who they don't want
• 14:51 to harm.
• 14:52 But it's more difficult for us to change it, like, to make sure
• 14:56 that people who are in Hamas are in with weapons, didn't
• 15:01 infiltrate into Israel on the 7th of October is not gonna be
• 15:04 harmed, because we wanna make sure that we can minimize the
• 15:07 harm for civilians, innocent civilians.
• 15:10 Joshua: Fighting is a great thing to defend, but there is
• 15:14 another stance which you're taking, which is to be able to
• 15:16 speak the truth and to educate and to inform.
• 15:19 And so, I said that to the young lady that we interviewed before
• 15:24 you, I wanna be like you when I grow up, because I wanna be in
• 15:26 that position of understanding the self-responsibility.
• 15:29 I encourage you as you go on to keep spreading the truth and
• 15:33 standing for what's right, and just thank you so much for what
• 15:35 you're doing for Israel, for the Jewish people around the world.
• 15:37 It's an honor to sit here with you.
• 15:39 Noam: Thank you so much.
• 15:40 Caleb: Thank you, Noam.
• 15:43 Kirsten: We are so thankful for the IDF and the two that you
• 15:46 just interviewed.
• 15:47 Oh my goodness, I don't know if it's that I'm getting old, but
• 15:50 they look so young.
• 15:53 They're kids, they're well-spoken kids, but they're so
• 15:57 young out on the front lines, amazing.
• 16:00 Caleb: Yes, and their maturity level surpasses what kids are
• 16:04 in America.
• 16:05 It's pretty sad, the disinformation that's truly
• 16:08 going on about Hamas being these freedom fighters.
• 16:10 It's all just a lie.
• 16:11 The intention of Satan is to steal, kill, and destroy, and
• 16:15 it's even written into their charter to kill every last Jew.
• 16:17 So, this is the truth of what's really going on.
• 16:19 Joshua: It's important that we give so that we can continue the
• 16:22 messages of what's happening on the front lines here.
• 16:25 Kirsten: I agree, and we are going to continue our program
• 16:28 with an interview with someone that isn't just a special guest,
• 16:31 but more of a family member of this ministry.
• 16:35 Let's go back to Israel.
• 16:39 Caleb: We are heading south to a military base in Re'im in the
• 16:44 Gaza envelopes, more dangerous place right now.
• 16:47 They are literally invading Rafah right now, IDF are
• 16:50 fighting, trying to gain a foothold against the terrorists.
• 16:53 And this is where we plan to meet our good friend,
• 16:56 Chaim Malespin.
• 16:57 He has been a friend of Zola Levitt Ministries for years, and
• 17:00 he's the head of the Aliyah Return Center.
• 17:02 Joshua: I don't think I've ever met a man that has more energy
• 17:04 to do more things at once.
• 17:06 He's got a smile, he always has something to say, he's got
• 17:09 scripture to give, and at the same time he's going through
• 17:11 tunnels and fighting this war.
• 17:14 This is an incredible man with an incredible perspective.
• 17:16 He's always up to date on what's happening second by second.
• 17:18 Well, because he's on the front lines.
• 17:21 So, let's go see what he's up to today, because it could
• 17:23 be anything.
• 17:26 Caleb: I'm here with Sergeant Major Chaim Malespin.
• 17:29 You know him, we know him, the ministry knows him, but he is
• 17:32 coming from his busy schedule going in and out of Rapha to
• 17:35 talk to us.
• 17:37 What a blessing. This is a fantastic day.
• 17:39 Chaim Malespin: It's, yeah, thank you for coming here.
• 17:41 I know it's dangerous times.
• 17:42 I'm glad you're here, not afraid to get hit by a rocket.
• 17:45 Joshua: We're just excited that we're not gonna have to lose a
• 17:47 Zoom call.
• 17:48 You know, we're always so dependent on the internet to see
• 17:50 your face, and now you're right here like a foot in front of me.
• 17:52 Chaim: Here we are.
• 17:53 It's a pleasure to-- in physical reality.
• 17:57 Caleb: And you're all suited up, you are-- this is your gear,
• 17:59 ready to go in.
• 18:01 What's your mission today?
• 18:02 I mean, I know you can't tell me, but you're going in and
• 18:04 out of Gaza every day.
• 18:05 Chaim: Yeah, tunnels, it's really a mission is-- so we're
• 18:08 the combat engineer corps, elite unit for special missions.
• 18:10 And the special missions that regular soldiers don't normally
• 18:13 handle are, like, tunnels.
• 18:14 Tunnels, it's a specialty.
• 18:17 There is, you know, could be poisonous, it could be-- not
• 18:19 poisonous gas, but explosives, it could be gas that kills you,
• 18:23 it could be motion-activated, sound-activated explosives.
• 18:27 There's all kinds of variety, TATP, regular TNT, homemade
• 18:32 explosives, Chleemagore mines, tripwires, you name it.
• 18:37 So, you got to be able to go there, use certain technologies
• 18:40 to try to find it.
• 18:41 Of course, the explosives smelling dog, we'll know if in
• 18:43 that entrance of a tunnel there he'll sit down, and it's like,
• 18:47 okay, all right, let's find another way.
• 18:49 Drilling for the tunnels.
• 18:50 People kind of know how we do it.
• 18:53 America may well want to hire me one day for the Mexico, Texas.
• 18:58 Joshua: Number one, this was not offered by my
• 19:00 guidance counselor in high school.
• 19:01 Number two, my dog does none of that, so this is things
• 19:03 that we will need in America at some point.
• 19:05 Chaim: Yeah, and not only that, you deal with all kinds of
• 19:08 combat on the way to or from these terrorist infrastructures,
• 19:12 the tunnels are terrorist infrastructure.
• 19:14 There's other infrastructures, as you probably know, some of
• 19:16 them in the most unexpected places, like a kindergarten.
• 19:19 I myself found a tunnel right in a hospital myself, and all kinds
• 19:24 of places you find these tunnels with so many missiles, so many
• 19:28 RPGS, rocket propelled grenades, and so on and so forth in a
• 19:32 school, in a UN school.
• 19:33 It's a very complicated reality, and people can watch TV and have
• 19:38 opinions and watch YouTube, but when you're in the midst of it
• 19:41 to fight for your very children's lives and your home
• 19:44 from, you know, the apocalypse, the Nazi zombie apocalypse.
• 19:49 You don't want that.
• 19:50 Caleb: Its doomsday, you're really dealing with life and
• 19:52 death scenarios every day, and it seems like people want to
• 19:56 kill you everywhere you go.
• 19:58 But God has protected you thus far.
• 20:00 You're a family man, you have kids, you have a reason to keep
• 20:05 going, but so does everyone here, that everyone has a stake
• 20:09 in this game, if you will.
• 20:11 It's not a game, and you all are living it, but this is
• 20:14 your home.
• 20:15 You can't leave your home.
• 20:17 Chaim: It's true, you can't.
• 20:18 It's a tiny country, the size of New Jersey, and with the enemies
• 20:20 in the north-- I don't know if you've been up to Metula or
• 20:22 Kiryat Shmona yet, and you start to see--.
• 20:24 Caleb: Not in a while, not since the war started.
• 20:27 Chaim: Now you'll see so many barrages.
• 20:28 Now, the news has kind of suppressed it.
• 20:30 The barrages, here you see the barrages hitting from Hamas
• 20:33 still and Islamic Jihad and Izz ad-Din al-Qassam and all those
• 20:37 groups, there's more.
• 20:39 Al Shabaab.
• 20:40 And so, you have all this happening, but in the north
• 20:42 Hezbollah is really, really hammering right into people's
• 20:45 houses, through their kitchen window, exploding houses with
• 20:49 very precision guided missiles, you know.
• 20:52 And so someone was saying, "Well, it's not rocket science."
• 20:55 I'm like, "Well, no, actually, it exactly is."
• 20:58 Literally, they're getting higher in the rocket science in
• 21:02 Hezbollah than Hamas, they're actually even more dangerous.
• 21:06 And so, they've got 150,000 missiles aimed at all
• 21:10 over Israel.
• 21:11 They can hit all over Israel.
• 21:12 Joshua: It's so easy for people today to sit at home
• 21:14 on the internet, on their phones, whatever they're
• 21:15 doing, and spew hate and lies.
• 21:17 They're reposting things that they don't understand
• 21:19 anything about.
• 21:20 They may be showing up to a rally or being hired to go
• 21:22 to a rally to promote those lies.
• 21:24 What I'm so impressed in is that you are not only fighting this
• 21:27 fight physically, but you're standing up for the truth.
• 21:29 You're getting online, you're posting videos, you're
• 21:31 consistently since the war started sharing truth daily so
• 21:35 that people are not led into deception through all
• 21:38 the misdirection.
• 21:39 And that's the responsibility of all of us, but you're here on
• 21:41 the frontlines.
• 21:42 Chaim: Amen, and I will address, you didn't ask this, but God
• 21:45 loves the Arabic people.
• 21:46 He loves them.
• 21:47 He wants the Arab people-- and look at Saudi Arabia, they want
• 21:49 to do-- they want to engage in a peace treaty.
• 21:51 Look at what happened with Jordan, peace.
• 21:52 Look at even Anwar El-Sadat in Egypt.
• 21:56 And, of course, now the enemy is trying to overturn that and
• 21:58 trying to paint Israel as some person that wanted-- did we
• 22:02 start this war?
• 22:03 Everyone seems to have forgotten how this even started, why are
• 22:05 we in this situation?
• 22:06 You know, and how did it continue and promise
• 22:09 to continue?
• 22:10 And the rockets that still continue on people's houses,
• 22:13 they can't go back to their houses under this many rockets.
• 22:16 And it's called a, I think it's an anarchy, a man of
• 22:20 lawlessness, maybe.
• 22:21 You see how it was before we evacuated the 21 cities,
• 22:25 small villages and town we evacuated in 2005.
• 22:28 That's when I went in the army, 2005.
• 22:30 And they were saying we're getting out, Ariel Sharon, our
• 22:32 Prime Minister, General, he became Prime Minister, we're
• 22:34 getting out of Gaza, we're removing everything, but we can
• 22:37 leave them infrastructure.
• 22:39 We'll leave them greenhouses, we'll leave sewage, things,
• 22:41 we'll leave-- what they did, they blew it up, they destroyed
• 22:44 it, they brought through Raphia all kinds of weapons and even
• 22:48 from Pyongyang, North Korea, and from Iran, of course, and old
• 22:53 weapons from the Cold War, from Russia to Iran through Raphia
• 22:56 and started using that against-- so it just shows me that, that
• 22:59 oppression needs to end.
• 23:00 Those young people, 2005, I'm already older now.
• 23:05 Caleb: We're all older, we're all getting older.
• 23:06 Chaim: And that was 2005 when I went.
• 23:09 And since then those young people have been raised in this
• 23:12 pain and suffering.
• 23:14 We were gone, we were gone from the scene.
• 23:16 Caleb: You couldn't protect them.
• 23:17 Chaim: We couldn't help them anymore, but their evildoers got
• 23:20 stronger and stronger and oppressed them.
• 23:21 And I think it's time for them to be free of this time and for
• 23:26 a new season to arise where they will--
• 23:28 and God's using all of us.
• 23:30 And to wrap up, I think that prayer is so important.
• 23:34 I mean, you know, prayer, and not just in a church building.
• 23:39 You can pray at home, you could pray in the car, you could pray
• 23:42 on your way to work for everyone that's here.
• 23:46 The people that are under oppression in Gaza, and there's
• 23:48 believers in Gaza.
• 23:50 There are Christians, all kinds of, there's Catholics, there's
• 23:53 Baptists, there's different kinds inside Gaza, and they've
• 23:57 run to the safe areas that we've put.
• 23:58 You probably know, we purchased almost 200,000 tents.
• 24:01 Each one can fit about 12 people.
• 24:03 And so, that's well over 2 million people
• 24:05 that can go to this area.
• 24:08 It's not nice to have to go to a tent after you've already
• 24:10 had to move from your house.
• 24:11 And that house has probably been involved in a full on conflict
• 24:14 and probably is damaged in some way.
• 24:17 No one likes this.
• 24:18 Israel doesn't like this.
• 24:20 I don't like this.
• 24:21 But then on the other hand, what do you do, nothing?
• 24:23 Is that-- you should not defend your home?
• 24:25 And it took me a long time to really realize the Bible talks
• 24:29 about defend the defenseless, stand up for the-- against
• 24:33 the oppressor.
• 24:34 Yeshua didn't say everybody be wimps and do nothing.
• 24:36 And that's Yeshua's big plan is, no, you have to defend the
• 24:40 defenseless, like a good shepherd.
• 24:42 And I said this on Fox News, and I said this in a few places
• 24:45 where shepherds have sticks.
• 24:46 Sometimes you have to-- sometimes you have to use your
• 24:49 shepherd stick and defend the lambs from the mouth of
• 24:52 the wolf.
• 24:53 And that's what I intend to do, and destroy all these tunnels.
• 24:58 David: If you've been on a tour with us to Israel, you've been
• 25:01 on the bus with Chaim.
• 25:02 And on location with him, we love his passion for Yeshua.
• 25:07 It's just hard to believe that he is in tunnels, blowing
• 25:10 tunnels up right now, guys.
• 25:12 Hard to believe that, isn't it?
• 25:14 Caleb: He is the real deal, and he's fighting for the freedoms
• 25:18 of not just the Israelis, but the people in Gaza too.
• 25:20 His heart is for everyone.
• 25:22 He truly embodies the love and compassion of Yeshua.
• 25:25 And it's God's will to save the Arab people too.
• 25:28 You know, the-- all the citizens of Gaza, they are indoctrinated
• 25:33 from a young age to hate the Jewish people.
• 25:36 We're talking preschool, they are told lies and an alternate
• 25:39 history concerning the land of Israel.
• 25:42 And so, we have to understand that this is a spiritual battle.
• 25:45 It's gonna take prayer and it's gonna take the truth.
• 25:47 And the only thing that can fight that kind of hate is the
• 25:50 love of Yeshua.
• 25:52 You know, scripture says in 1 Timothy 2:4 through 6,
• 25:54 "God wants all people to be saved and to come
• 25:58 to a knowledge of the truth.
• 26:00 For there's one God and one mediator
• 26:01 between God and mankind,
• 26:03 the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself
• 26:04 as a ransom for all people."
• 26:07 Joshua: God has called of us to share this truth, to stand for
• 26:10 it, to share his love.
• 26:11 This specific ministry has been doing that for over 45 years.
• 26:15 This is your ministry.
• 26:16 It's not our ministry.
• 26:17 You who have been giving, you who have been praying, you who
• 26:20 have been believing for the message of Yeshua that has been
• 26:22 going out to his people and to people around the world, and we
• 26:25 want to continue doing this.
• 26:27 So, we're asking you guys to pray, ask the Holy Spirit how
• 26:30 you can continue to be a part, how you can give of your
• 26:32 finances, how you can give of your prayers, how you can share
• 26:35 these episodes with your friends who don't know about the
• 26:38 ministry or who have questions or maybe they're deceived about
• 26:41 what's happening over in the Middle East right now.
• 26:43 Share the truth, take a stand for what's right so that in
• 26:46 these times we can spread that love of Jesus, of Yeshua, that
• 26:50 is going to change the hearts and lives of men and women all
• 26:54 over this earth.
• 26:55 It is our call and our responsibility, and thank you so
• 26:57 much for the faithfulness over these years.
• 27:02 Kirsten: We have more next week, interviews coming from Israel.
• 27:06 Everything is so incredibly timely, and yes, we are so
• 27:09 thankful that you make these programs possible by donating.
• 27:14 Here we go, more things to come, but we have to end
• 27:17 today's program.
• 27:19 Caleb: And as you go, sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:22 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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