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• 00:58 David Hart: We're so glad you've joined us today
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• 01:00 I'm David Hart.
• 01:02 Kirsten: I'm Kirsten Hart. Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:03 Kirsten: We are in our series "Warrior King," all about
• 01:06 King David, and today we'll be discussing King David's
• 01:09 relationship with Saul.
• 01:12 It wasn't a good one.
• 01:13 David: Pretty rough.
• 01:15 Kirsten: I mean, he--right?
• 01:16 He ran for his life from this guy.
• 01:17 Jeffrey: Well, like your husband said,
• 01:19 it was rough and tough and tumble.
• 01:21 David was anointed king, but Saul thought
• 01:23 he already had the job.
• 01:25 And you can see how that thing is setting up.
• 01:27 Don't we all have problems, David, in our relationships
• 01:30 with people, or don't a lot of us anyway have
• 01:32 that difficult person there in our web?
• 01:34 David: Sometimes we think we have it so bad, but then we hear
• 01:36 about people like David, what he went through.
• 01:39 Jeffrey: Maybe we can learn how to get
• 01:40 the better of it today.
• 01:41 David: I believe so.
• 01:43 In fact, right now, let's go to our dramatic reenactment
• 01:45 and teaching from Dr. Seif.
• 01:49 male narrator: It had happened before to King Saul.
• 01:52 A dark evil spirit had settled on his soul once again,
• 01:55 leaving him utterly distraught.
• 01:59 David meant well in playing a tune, but it did little more
• 02:03 than further torment the troubled king.
• 02:12 David was gone for now, but the evil spirit remained,
• 02:17 taunting him without mercy.
• 02:23 Jeffrey: I am sure that it was extremely painful for David.
• 02:29 And I want you to get the point as well,
• 02:31 and why is that?
• 02:32 Because it can be extremely painful for us,
• 02:35 and what's that, pray tell?
• 02:37 When we are not only abandoned by friends and associates,
• 02:40 not only disappointed but out and outright betrayed.
• 02:44 It's tragic.
• 02:46 Sometimes there are people, we serve them well in response
• 02:48 to which we get not just disrespected,
• 02:52 but they unleash forces upon us that look to knock
• 02:55 the legs out from underneath us.
• 02:57 Sometimes we can take our friends and weigh 'em
• 02:59 in the scales and they can come up wanting, and why is that?
• 03:03 Because much as we try and love them, they come after us
• 03:06 with a vengeance, and that's tragic, isn't it?
• 03:10 That we have to be on the defensive,
• 03:11 that we have to be on the ready against friends,
• 03:14 people that we serve, people that we've loved.
• 03:17 That's where the warrior king David, well,
• 03:19 he's not a king yet, but that's where he finds himself.
• 03:22 And maybe this is his training on the way to be the king.
• 03:25 What do I mean by that?
• 03:27 You know the story.
• 03:28 David entered into a world against the backdrop
• 03:31 of Saul's demise.
• 03:33 Saul was vested with authorization to be the king
• 03:35 to lead the people, but he wasn't leading the people,
• 03:37 he was bleeding the people.
• 03:39 He was feeding off of them instead of feeding them.
• 03:41 And why is that?
• 03:43 Well, it was all about the house of Saul.
• 03:44 It was all about him benefiting from the position that he had
• 03:48 instead of using his energies to be of a benefit
• 03:51 to the community.
• 03:52 Well, God finally says, "I can't work with this man anymore.
• 03:54 He just won't repent. He's not teachable."
• 03:58 So the word to Saul from the prophet Shemu'el
• 04:01 is "Enough already."
• 04:03 The Lord went to someone else, Dawid, David, and he found
• 04:07 in him some stock that he could raise up and use.
• 04:10 Now what's interesting, part of David's being raised up was him
• 04:14 to have this titanic struggle with the man
• 04:17 that he began serving.
• 04:20 And isn't that tragic?
• 04:21 I don't know if you've ever found yourself in a place where
• 04:23 the world has turned on you.
• 04:25 Here, we're in a home where there's some love,
• 04:27 people working together, and you'd have heard
• 04:29 the expression that a man's home is his castle,
• 04:32 and the reason why that is is sometimes the world
• 04:34 outside can be so very precarious, very tumultuous,
• 04:38 so we retreat into the confines of our own home.
• 04:40 But what do you do when your own home, when your own safety zone
• 04:43 turns on you?
• 04:45 David had that happen.
• 04:46 His whole world turned upside down,
• 04:48 and he learned to rely on God.
• 04:50 But the same God that he was relying upon was the one
• 04:52 who was counted upon to send the troubles.
• 04:56 If you look in 1 Shemu'el chapter 19
• 04:59 we're told in verse 9:
• 05:02 [speaking foreign language]
• 05:07 "And an evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul."
• 05:10 I don't know that God's in the business of dispatching demons.
• 05:13 The point is the Lord allowed it to happen.
• 05:15 And so why is it that the Lord allows bad things to happen
• 05:19 to good people or why he allows his people to have
• 05:22 bad people assault them?
• 05:24 Well, we learn to trust in him, to be sure.
• 05:26 It seems to me that if we're gonna be champions,
• 05:29 we have to learn to bear underneath difficult burdens
• 05:31 and weights and that makes us in the process.
• 05:35 David was a king.
• 05:36 He had to learn his craft, learn about trusting in God,
• 05:39 learning about how God could deliver from bad people
• 05:41 and bad circumstances.
• 05:43 David learned that, and he became the warrior.
• 05:46 He was forged in the furnace of affliction.
• 05:50 There were many things that David learned, by the way,
• 05:52 because of the difficulties that he experienced,
• 05:54 difficulties that served him well.
• 05:56 And I want you to know that the difficulties that you experience
• 05:59 in life, if you're walking with the Lord,
• 06:01 can serve you well as well.
• 06:03 And why do I say that?
• 06:05 Because Scripture says that all things, even Saul things, says:
• 06:08 "All things work for the good of those who love God
• 06:11 who are called according to his purpose."
• 06:14 I have a Saul in my life, one or two to tell you the truth,
• 06:17 and you probably do as well.
• 06:19 But you know what?
• 06:21 If you have the Lord in your life, that's plenty good to get
• 06:23 the better of life's challenges.
• 06:26 It's easy to feel alone, isn't it sometimes, when you feel
• 06:28 you're running away from people's spears?
• 06:31 But that's not all the story with Saul and his family.
• 06:34 I think you know, if you read the Bible you learn that Saul
• 06:37 had a son, Yonatan, Jonathan, a man,
• 06:41 a different sort altogether.
• 06:43 It's interesting inasmuch as Saul was hell bent on destroying
• 06:46 David, David had endeared himself, not only to Jonathan
• 06:49 as a best friend, a great friend, we're gonna look at him
• 06:51 in a moment, but not just that.
• 06:53 But even Saul's daughter fell in love with David.
• 06:56 Go figure.
• 06:58 An upside-down world, isn't it?
• 07:00 And sometimes an upside-down world is the kind of world
• 07:02 that God uses to get his people right-side up.
• 07:05 And so when we look at the story of our warrior king David,
• 07:09 we learn about Davidic leadership in Goliath-like times
• 07:11 and we learn how he used difficulties to make that man
• 07:14 who he was.
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• 07:20 Jonathan: David and I had become the best of friends,
• 07:23 despite my father's attempts to have him slain.
• 07:26 David remained intensely faithful to the throne.
• 07:31 Our friendship had now become the one link
• 07:33 that kept him alive.
• 07:35 We laughed together.
• 07:37 Perhaps in doing so, hoping to forget my father's rage.
• 07:43 David asked me to be loyal and kind.
• 07:45 I agreed, knowing I could never find a better friend, one who,
• 07:52 in the future, would replace my father as the king of Israel.
• 08:02 Jeffrey: The word "fraternity" comes from the Latin
• 08:04 word "frater" which means brothers.
• 08:08 And as you may well recall from the biblical text,
• 08:11 [speaking foreign language]
• 08:14 "Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brethren
• 08:17 dwell together in unity."
• 08:19 So you might recall that people need people.
• 08:22 Yeshua Jesus is on record saying, "By this all men will
• 08:26 know that you are my disciples, by your love for one another,"
• 08:30 by your fraternity.
• 08:32 When I think of the story of David and Yonatan,
• 08:35 Jonathan and David, I'm reminded of a relationship there that,
• 08:39 to me, is just fantastic.
• 08:42 And by the way, it's rare amongst men these days,
• 08:45 outside of the theater of combat, I should say.
• 08:48 Men go off to war, men forge bonds when men struggle together
• 08:56 against a common foe.
• 08:58 I never served in the army, but I have a career
• 09:00 in law enforcement.
• 09:02 I know that there's a kind of fraternal bond amongst men who
• 09:05 bear arms in defense of home and hearth in the police force,
• 09:09 that there's a lifelong bond that cops share,
• 09:13 and by the way, it's all over the world.
• 09:15 I can go to another continent and talk to a cop about cop
• 09:18 stuff and we are instant buddies.
• 09:21 There's something about braving the same kind of hazards
• 09:24 that forms bonds.
• 09:26 And men need those bonds.
• 09:30 Tragic, outside of war, males develop relationships in war
• 09:36 where they learn to work together.
• 09:38 We cultivate skills on reliance, responsibility, and then
• 09:42 we leave that world and go into civilian life
• 09:44 and it's every man for himself.
• 09:46 And there's something in that. Males feel something missing.
• 09:50 There's a vacuum.
• 09:51 There's something that needs fixed, and why is that?
• 09:55 Because a man is alone and men were not made to be alone.
• 10:01 Strange as that might sound, there's a void in the heart
• 10:04 that men have that can't be filled by a woman.
• 10:08 Now, I know I can be misunderstood in saying that.
• 10:10 It wouldn't be the first time. And I can get bad mail.
• 10:13 "Oh, I don't believe it," but it's true.
• 10:16 Men need men. Now I think it's problematic.
• 10:18 Ain't it like the devil to sexualize that?
• 10:21 I think that indeed is problematic.
• 10:23 When I look here in the sacred text to see about the sacred
• 10:26 bond between men, let's not even think of sexualizing that.
• 10:30 I believe the Bible legitimizes relationships between Adam
• 10:33 and Eve, not Adam and Steve, but I want you to see this.
• 10:37 In Shemu'el, 1 Samuel chapter 20 and verse 16:
• 10:42 [speaking foreign language]
• 10:46 "And Jonathan made a covenant,"
• 10:50 [speaking foreign language]
• 10:53 He made a covenant with David, and we're told in verse 17:
• 10:58 "And Yonatan caused David to swear for the love that he had
• 11:02 for him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul."
• 11:09 I believe there's a longing for that, by the way.
• 11:12 I believe there's a need for that.
• 11:14 I can't tell you how, as a police officer, I would love
• 11:16 just to sit around in uniform with other men.
• 11:19 Maybe there was a fight, there was an incident, something we
• 11:24 worked together to break up, and then there's a kind of
• 11:27 camaraderie where we connect and we process what happened
• 11:30 and, oh, for the joy of that.
• 11:32 And to me, it's tragic how that's missing
• 11:34 outside of that culture.
• 11:36 You know, I've had some experience serving as
• 11:38 a firefighter as well where we debrief,
• 11:41 you don the bunker gear, you--
• 11:43 you know, most people are smart enough to run from a fire;
• 11:45 some people are dumb enough to run into it.
• 11:47 But there's a guy--I say that tongue-in-cheek, of course.
• 11:49 They're not dumb; they're heroes.
• 11:51 The point is that when people work together in a common cause
• 11:54 and a common struggle, it forges alliances
• 11:56 that wouldn't otherwise be there, and we need that.
• 12:00 I believe that God's people need to recover that.
• 12:04 The Bible says:
• 12:05 [speaking foreign language]
• 12:08 "How good and pleasant it is when brothers
• 12:10 dwell together in unity."
• 12:11 Hear me, mister, you might have a lot of talent,
• 12:14 but you are not going to excel, you're never going to reach
• 12:18 what you could otherwise be if you forever wanna
• 12:22 go it alone in life.
• 12:24 Find good friends, cultivate those bonds.
• 12:27 Be faithful to each other. David and Jonathan did that.
• 12:30 It's a moving story.
• 12:32 Never mind my words, read the Bible itself and learn how David
• 12:36 was the better for his associations with Jonathan.
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• 14:05 Now, let's go back to Israel to our dramatic reenactment where
• 14:08 we see the demise of Saul and then we get
• 14:11 to hear more teaching from Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
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• 14:18 Jeffrey: It was a slaughter field.
• 14:20 Never before had King Saul ever witnessed such carnage.
• 14:25 The Philistines had killed his three sons, and now
• 14:29 in the last moments of this hopeless battle,
• 14:33 the wounded king pleaded for his own death.
• 14:37 Loyal to the end and gripped with fear,
• 14:41 his armor bearer refused the king's plea.
• 14:44 And so it was that Saul would use his sword one last time.
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• 15:05 Jeffrey: The expression "to fall upon one's sword"
• 15:09 speaks of someone taking their own life,
• 15:12 and we're at a place in David's life where he's learned
• 15:16 that his nemesis has fallen upon his own sword.
• 15:21 Saul is dead and Jonathan along with him.
• 15:28 For my money, Saul could have died a lot sooner and that would
• 15:32 have been okay, because the God's honest truth is
• 15:35 I didn't like that man soon as I met him in biblical literature.
• 15:39 At least, not long after I read him,
• 15:42 I realized there was something wrong with that man.
• 15:44 Jonathan, on the other hand, you just can't help
• 15:48 but fall in love with him.
• 15:50 I just--I love that guy and I say that at the risk
• 15:52 of being misunderstood.
• 15:55 In any case, David here is confronted with the fact that
• 15:58 both are dead and it's monumental in the biblical text.
• 16:05 The Samuel text is clear that David had every reason
• 16:09 to wanna kill Saul and he never exercised his prerogative.
• 16:14 David's conduct is sterling, and why is that?
• 16:17 Because he won't take it upon himself to be given to executing
• 16:24 his superior officer in that social system.
• 16:28 He spends 13 years not fighting Saul but running from him,
• 16:32 and now as he's running, he's overrun with the fact
• 16:35 that Saul is dead.
• 16:37 We come upon that story in 1 Shemu'el, 1 Samuel,
• 16:43 very simply and in verse 4 at the end, Saul and the armies
• 16:49 is engaged in a clash with the p'liysh'tiy,
• 16:52 with the Philistines, and it doesn't go Saul's way.
• 16:56 And we're told finally in verse 4:
• 16:59 [speaking foreign language]
• 17:06 "Therefore Saul took his sword, and he fell upon it."
• 17:10 He was mortally wounded and he said, "Enough already."
• 17:14 The battle's gone horribly.
• 17:16 He experiences the death of his own around him.
• 17:20 It's tragic at one level.
• 17:22 We're told then in verse 7, very simply:
• 17:26 [speaking foreign language]
• 17:31 "And Saul and his sons were dead."
• 17:37 What's interesting for my money is the way
• 17:39 that David responded to it.
• 17:42 As I'd said, the way I perceive it, Saul could have died
• 17:45 a lot earlier and that would have been okay.
• 17:48 I would imagine David could have been tempted to just deep--
• 17:51 you know, breathe a deep sigh of relief,
• 17:53 but it wasn't the nature of the guy.
• 17:55 David, and this is really interesting, I think,
• 17:58 and it's evident and you'll hear David in his own words,
• 18:01 David was mournful over it.
• 18:03 David had been running from that man for 13 years,
• 18:06 and you know what?
• 18:08 God used that tough guy to grow up David.
• 18:12 God used the Saul, he used it all, wars with his own,
• 18:15 wars with the Philistines, to make that man
• 18:18 the man that he was.
• 18:20 And great leaders are great bleeders.
• 18:22 That is to say, we all have scars under our shirts.
• 18:26 And they make us the people that we are.
• 18:31 David's leadership was forged in the furnace of challenge.
• 18:37 David makes peace with his nemesis, if you will,
• 18:40 and you know, there's the old Spanish expression, "adios,"
• 18:43 which doesn't mean goodbye.
• 18:44 It is goodbye but it means "To God," and I think
• 18:47 that David gave his struggles over a long time beforehand.
• 18:50 And now he eulogizes Saul and Jonathan, and I want you
• 18:54 to hear this in 2 Samuel chapter 1.
• 18:58 He says in verse 23: "Saul and Jonathan,
• 19:02 the lovely and the pleasant."
• 19:06 How can David describe Jonathan and his father as
• 19:11 "the lovely and the pleasant"?
• 19:13 You know why?
• 19:15 I mean, you can be vexed over somebody that's really
• 19:18 been messing you up for years, you know?
• 19:20 But you make peace with it and you just say, "God, whatever."
• 19:26 I think it's striking that David himself did much the same.
• 19:28 He says in verse 26: "I'm distressed for thee,
• 19:31 my brother Jonathan."
• 19:33 David learned to forgive and give it over to God,
• 19:36 and he was able to go on to greatness.
• 19:38 Would that we did likewise.
• 19:44 Kirsten: I for one am so appreciative that God was so
• 19:47 good to give us a Bible, a book, that can read--
• 19:51 we can read about people's problems.
• 19:53 And I think we think we're the only ones that walk
• 19:55 through things now in this time.
• 19:58 And David dealt with jealousy and horrible relationship
• 20:03 situations with Saul that we're seeing.
• 20:05 Jeffrey: Are you talking about him or him?
• 20:07 I mention that because, David, isn't it true
• 20:09 that life is a continuum?
• 20:10 We're disappointed by people to out and outright betrayed.
• 20:14 Don't we find ourselves in there on more than one occasion?
• 20:16 David: I'm guilty of running and not stopping
• 20:19 and listening to God.
• 20:21 Have you ever done that?
• 20:23 Jeffrey: Well, unfortunately, yes.
• 20:24 It's part of the human condition and here, David, of course,
• 20:26 he himself is shackled by the human condition.
• 20:29 He's not, you know, poster boy of perfection by any stretch.
• 20:32 He's not Jesus Christ.
• 20:34 But he finds himself as a man with a good heart.
• 20:36 David with a good heart, like David Hart.
• 20:39 David: It's like a song.
• 20:40 Jeffrey: And he definitely has that going for him,
• 20:42 and he just invokes the ire of a guy who's jealous of him,
• 20:45 who goes after him.
• 20:47 Have you ever been tangled up with someone that just was mad
• 20:50 at you for reasons real or imagined?
• 20:54 Kristen: I don't know if we're supposed
• 20:55 to do that on air.
• 20:57 I really can't name names, but yes.
• 20:59 I mean, that's--
• 21:00 Jeffrey: No, not names but just let's face it.
• 21:02 I'm asking the question, not that I know your business,
• 21:03 but I know the answer's gonna be yes,
• 21:05 because you've spent some time on the planet.
• 21:07 I mean, it's not a lady image, but if guys took
• 21:09 their shirts off, we all have stab marks there.
• 21:12 We've all been wounded.
• 21:13 You can't go through life without getting beat up
• 21:15 a little, and here, David got beat up a lot.
• 21:17 David: And I wanna say, too, it happens in ministry
• 21:19 with pastors and staff members.
• 21:22 It's sad to say but, yes, we've been through that.
• 21:25 Jeffrey: Yeah, people think, well,
• 21:27 if you're anointed, then you're not gonna have problems.
• 21:29 Well, David is anointed and look what happened to him.
• 21:31 And by the way, Jesus is the Anointed One.
• 21:33 Look what happened to him. There are challenges in life.
• 21:36 That's the bad news.
• 21:38 The good news is that we know the world is difficult
• 21:43 from the first three minutes of reading the Bible.
• 21:45 It's a perfect God who makes his way into a perfect world
• 21:50 in order to help people in it.
• 21:52 That's gospel 101 and when we look at the story,
• 21:56 in David we see how God watches over his word
• 21:59 to perform it, how God vindicates him
• 22:02 and how God leads David onward, difficulties notwithstanding.
• 22:06 Kirsten: And in the death of Saul, as we've seen
• 22:10 from the reenactment today, David still loved him.
• 22:15 David, in his way, respected Saul.
• 22:18 I mean, I don't think I would have been as good as David was.
• 22:23 Jeffrey: To that point, I think the biblical authors
• 22:25 go out of their way to say that David's rise to power,
• 22:29 it's not like he undermined Saul to get where
• 22:32 he was going, number one.
• 22:34 And he expresses no joy at his demise.
• 22:37 That does say something about the man.
• 22:39 Kirsten: Big. Jeffrey: Yeah, it does.
• 22:41 David: Great. So much more of this to come.
• 22:43 Please stay with us.
• 22:45 ♪♪♪
• 22:55 [singing foreign language]
• 23:03 ♪ In the holy city of Jerusalem ♪
• 23:09 ♪ we will pray for peace, shaalu shalom. ♪
• 23:23 Kirsten: You just heard about our tours
• 23:25 that we have two times a year.
• 23:27 Now, I have to introduce you to someone
• 23:29 that just went on a tour.
• 23:30 This is one of my favorite people in the whole wide world.
• 23:34 This is Belin.
• 23:35 She does this every week and you style our program.
• 23:39 But you--you went. This was her first time.
• 23:42 She just went on our tour.
• 23:44 Belin Parks: How exciting.
• 23:45 I've been sitting here on the show, working now
• 23:47 for seven years and this was my first trip.
• 23:49 Kirsten: And I've gotta say she's really fun on the tour.
• 23:51 We have, right, we have fun?
• 23:53 Belin: We had so much fun.
• 23:55 Kirsten: We had so much fun on the bus.
• 23:56 We laugh.
• 23:58 Belin: I made 82 friends who, you know, it was wonderful.
• 24:01 Kirsten: And I've just-- got to just--
• 24:03 I know we just have a minute,
• 24:04 but you've brought your dad's Bible, right?
• 24:06 Belin: Yes, I went in honor of my father.
• 24:08 I went on a pilgrimage for him.
• 24:11 Kirsten: And did you-- you read that Bible there?
• 24:14 Belin: I left it there. Kirsten: Did you?
• 24:15 Belin: Yeah.
• 24:17 Kirsten: Tell people just real quick why do they need to go.
• 24:20 Belin: Listen, I have been in Sunday school my whole life,
• 24:23 but now Sunday school is alive.
• 24:26 I have seen it with my own eyes. I know what it looks like.
• 24:31 And it just came to life for me and it was wonderful.
• 24:35 It was a life-changing experience.
• 24:38 Kirsten: It's hard to explain it in words, isn't it?
• 24:40 Belin: You can't explain it. Kirsten: I know.
• 24:42 You've got--
• 24:44 Belin: Gotta go!
• 24:45 Kirsten: Go with us. Go with us.
• 24:47 Belin: Save your money.
• 24:48 Give up your Starbucks, give up lunches, whatever it takes.
• 24:50 Go to Israel. You'll never be the same.
• 24:53 Kirsten: This is Belin on our program.
• 24:55 I love her.
• 24:56 You're one of my favorite people ever.
• 24:58 Now, another favorite person that we get to deal with
• 25:00 in "Zola Levitt Presents," he's Chaim Malespin.
• 25:04 Let's go to him now in Israel.
• 25:07 ♪♪♪
• 25:14 Chaim Malespin: Joel chapter 2.
• 25:15 Our prophet talks about a time when the Spirit
• 25:17 will be poured out on all flesh.
• 25:19 Isn't that amazing?
• 25:21 But do we understand that it's connected intrinsically
• 25:22 to the restoration of this land?
• 25:24 Remember in 1906 when Ben-Gurion first shows up here,
• 25:27 he starts the Watchman movement or what's called Hashomar
• 25:30 to develop agriculture here?
• 25:32 And what happens right after that?
• 25:33 In 1906, April 9, the outpouring of the Holy Ghost
• 25:36 at Azusa Street Mission, William Seymour,
• 25:39 Richard Asbury, it was amazing.
• 25:41 You remember the War of Independence, 1948, here,
• 25:43 where God supernaturally protected Holocaust survivors.
• 25:46 A bunch of militias got together,
• 25:48 and somehow we survived.
• 25:50 Well, what happens after that?
• 25:52 1948 to 1952, the Latter Rain movement.
• 25:55 Great spiritual renewal.
• 25:57 Six-Day War, 1967.
• 25:59 You remember we were outnumbered two to one with soldiers?
• 26:01 The Iraqi, Syrian, Jordanian, Egyptian armies,
• 26:04 United Arab Forces, had a huge advantage over us
• 26:07 with military weaponry, double the amount of tanks,
• 26:10 four times the amount of aircraft,
• 26:12 but you know, we were supernaturally spared.
• 26:15 What happens?
• 26:17 The Jesus movement all over the US from the West Coast.
• 26:20 Let's go and look and fast forward to 70 years
• 26:25 since the Declaration of Israel.
• 26:27 What will happen? What will God do?
• 26:30 Let me tell you.
• 26:32 Outpouring is intrinsically linked to the restoration.
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• 26:49 Jeffrey: Thank you, Chaim. Chaim's a great guy.
• 26:52 He keeps an upbeat attitude in a downbeat world.
• 26:56 Israel's a tough place, but he loves the Lord
• 26:58 and loves the people and deals with the problems, doesn't he?
• 27:01 David: He loves Yeshua with all of his heart.
• 27:03 He's on fire for him.
• 27:04 Jeffrey: Yes, and he reminds me of King David who kept
• 27:06 a good heart in bad circumstances.
• 27:08 David: That's right. Jeffrey: Yes.
• 27:09 Hope you learn from this series, from this man, David,
• 27:12 King David.
• 27:14 As you go now, shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:18 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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