“My Parents Met in Auschwitz” with Siman Tov Allalouf (55)

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Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit promised

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in Joel 2.28, and we equip for the outpouring so that we may engage in the outpouring.

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I'm Philip Bus.

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And I'm Sharon Bus.

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Welcome to our podcast today.

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We have a very special guest today, Siman Tov Al-Aluf from Israel.

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And we are going to be hearing some very amazing things that have been his experiences in life

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where he's been meeting with the Holy Spirit and having his own personal outpourings.

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So we want to welcome our guest, Siman Tov.

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Let me just welcome you to the podcast.

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Shalom.

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Shalom.

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You are one of these wonderful, special people.

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Everybody on the planet is special, but you're one of these special ones that God has picked

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out as his special chosen people.

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And you told us a story before we got started.

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Tell us about how your parents met.

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This is quite a story.

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My father was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Thessaloniki, Greece.

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My name, Siman Tov, is my grandfather's name, who used to be the kosher butcher for Thessaloniki

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in the 1800s.

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In the middle 40s, the Nazis invaded Greece and ultimately got to Thessaloniki, where

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my father was.

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And out of that community, there was an estimated 80,000 Jewish people living in that city at

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the time.

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But you know, they ignored a prophetic word that came years earlier from a man named Jabotinsky

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came there.

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He actually traveled all over Europe, warning Jewish communities, saying that the Lord is

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saying go home to Palestine now.

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Wow.

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He's saying very dangerous is coming.

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But Thessaloniki was one of the cities that literally, symbolically threw him out and

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rejected his message.

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Oh no.

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And so when the Nazis actually did come and that word was fulfilled, they were the most

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devastated Jewish community in all of Europe.

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97% of the population were exterminated in Auschwitz.

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So my father, who was married before the Nazis came in, had two children.

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Him and his wife and their family all got on a boxcar, went to Auschwitz.

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And it began quite tragically because within two hours of their arrival, the two children

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and his wife were dead.

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And my mother, about a year later from Romania, the Nazis actually came into that region twice.

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The first time they took many of the Jewish people out into the forest and up into the

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mountains and either shot them.

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My mother's case, the first time they took her, they took her up into this mountain in

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January, it was freezing cold and had them cross over this river saying that anybody

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makes it to the other side of the river, you're free to go.

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So my mother was one of the very few out of thousands that survived going into that ice

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cold water.

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And her hands were cramped and bent and distorted her whole life as a result from frostbite,

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the same with her feet.

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But then eventually the Nazis came back again realizing that many of the Jewish people were

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still there and rounded them all up and put them on boxcars and sent.

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That's how she got to Auschwitz.

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So you know, my father's job was to take the corpses out of the barracks every morning

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and pile them up by the garbage.

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So as a result, it gave him access to the discarded food that the soldiers were eating

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there and he would take that and barter for cigarettes and cigars.

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And my mother's job was cleaning the officer's quarters of the SS.

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So she risked her life stealing these cigarettes and cigars and was exchanging them for the

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potato skins and whatever that my father got out of, or who became my father, out of the

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garbage.

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Oh my.

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Wow.

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So they met in Auschwitz.

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Yes.

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At the end they were liberated by the Russians in January of 1945.

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You know, my parents didn't get married there, but many of the people that survived, it was

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about maybe 8,000 people still alive when the Russians came in.

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Many of them took rags and bedsheets and made a hoopa and just grabbed a hold of somebody

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they'd never seen before in their life and got married.

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Wow.

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Primarily for survival.

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But you know, my mother, before she came there, both my parents came from ultra-orthodox families

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and my mother had some very unique experiences as a child, even died at the age of nine and

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went to heaven.

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Wow.

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And she said she was so angry when they were praying and praying up a storm and she came

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back into her body, she was so angry that they brought her back.

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But she had an encounter with God in heaven there.

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And you know, even when in the last days in Auschwitz they were taking the people to the

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crematorium alive and they would line up and they'd throw them into the crematorium alive.

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My mother had such confidence that God would rescue her and he did three times.

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Wow.

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And other people thought she was kind of crazy, but she said, no, I know God will rescue me

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and she's trying to help them to believe, but many of them were just so filled with

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fear.

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Yeah.

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So yeah, growing up as a child, my mother would talk about God continuously and just

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and always remind me how he rescued her from, you know, most of the young women that went

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to Auschwitz were raped within a matter of days.

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My mother was never touched.

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Glory to God.

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And she knows it was God's hand of protection.

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So wow, that's kind of the atmosphere I grew up.

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My parents were really messed up from the camps.

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So we grew up in a very dysfunctional family.

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My mother very much trusting God.

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My father saying if there's a God and he allowed that to happen, I don't want to know him.

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Oh my.

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But both of them, my mother came to faith first and then, well actually my sister, then

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my mother, then me and then four months before my father passed away, he came to faith.

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Wow.

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Praise God.

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So yeah.

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So when you say came to faith, you're talking about came to faith in Yeshua.

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In Yeshua, yes.

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Jesus.

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Well, actually we never even used the word Yeshua back then.

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It was Jesus.

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Sure.

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Oh, okay.

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But now Yeshua's living in Israel.

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Yes, of course.

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But you weren't raised in Israel or were you raised?

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In Toronto.

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I was a little more than two years old.

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My parents left Israel and immigrated to Canada.

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You were born in Israel?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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In Haifa.

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My mother, when I was born, the British in 1947 or 48 built Rambam Hospital, which is

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still in use today in Haifa.

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It's right on the sea.

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She thought she got to go to a luxury hotel because in the maternity ward, you look out

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the window and the water was right there.

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Beautiful.

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Beautiful.

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So how did you come to faith?

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It's a long story.

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Most of my life, my mother was very bitter about the German people, very angry, used

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to refer to the German people in very derogatory ways.

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Understandably.

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And, you know, I grew up hearing these stories, especially from my mother, from my father

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was not in the picture all the time.

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And you know, all of that for almost 40 years.

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But when I was almost 40 years old, I had gone to visit her in Toronto.

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And when I was approaching her building, the seniors building, there was a man sitting

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at bench with her and he was getting up and saying goodbye.

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I'll see you later.

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My mother say yes.

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And so when I got to her, I said, who's that guy?

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He was already walking quite a few hundred feet away.

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She said, my friend.

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And why was I so curious as he said goodbye in a very distinct German accent?

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So I said, your friend, what are you talking about?

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Are you crazy?

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And she said, yes, he's my friend.

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And to even push it a little further, she says, I love him.

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And she wasn't referring to a romantic love, but just I said, you've lost your mind.

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I started getting quite angry.

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I said, my whole life, you're telling me about how they destroyed our family and made life

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so terrible.

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And now you love them?

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And she started weeping.

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I said, what's going on?

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And she had just come to faith in Yeshua probably about, I don't know, three or four months

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before.

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I didn't know.

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And she started in her weeping.

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She's saying, how can I not forgive after all of God has forgiven me?

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I said, you're nuts.

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I actually used some very terrible language.

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And she would not back down.

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I said, you know what?

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I can't stay here.

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I'm not going to listen to this.

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And I walked away.

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I actually almost ran away furious because my whole life she told me how much these people

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were to be despised.

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And now she's telling me she loves them.

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And that she's forgiven them.

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And that kind of put a little crack in my stony heart because I knew something radical

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has happened to my mother.

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This is not just the result of some kind of a watching a movie or something.

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Something has changed.

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But I still was very angry.

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That was probably the beginning of my eyes to begin to open and come to faith.

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And it was a year later.

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We were actually, my mother had sciatic issues in her legs for years.

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And there was one thing that really helped her.

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When I was about 16, we drove to Glenwood Springs, Colorado to these hot springs and

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it really helped her.

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So she was in severe pain back in 1988.

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I still wasn't a believer.

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No, I was 89.

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I wasn't a believer.

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And we were sitting in a cottage north of Toronto and I said, let me see if I can arrange

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for a trip to Glenwood Springs.

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I was out of work at the time.

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And it just all fit together.

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We found extremely good price.

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And we drove to Buffalo and then flew to Chicago and then on to Denver, Colorado.

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And you know, I originally booked it for 12 days and we were at the Buffalo airport.

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I was thinking 12 days might not be enough.

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So I whispered to the woman, I said, is there any chance of extending that?

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And she got quite upset.

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She said, you got one of the best deals on earth.

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She said, you can't make change.

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I said, okay, okay, well, I'll just leave it.

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And about 10 seconds later, she whispers and said, listen, I'll give you one more day.

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Is that good?

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I said, okay.

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So we flew to Denver.

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At the end of 12 days, my mother said, that's enough.

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I can't take another one of those mineral baths.

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She said, I've had enough.

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And she said, let's go home.

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I said, if we hadn't have changed anything, we could have flew home today.

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So we drove into Denver, hoping that maybe I could switch the flight.

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And we got there and there was a brand new hotel next to the Stapleton airport.

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And this is leading to something.

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And when we got there, my wife said, why don't we just stay in this hotel tonight instead

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of going through all of that and trying to get the tickets?

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So we did, and we got this beautiful room on the top floor and it looked directly at

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the runway.

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So after we checked in, we're standing on like a balcony and we watched our flight,

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flight 232 from Denver to Chicago pull up and it took off.

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And we went off to, and my mother's sitting there reading the Bible.

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I said, throw that thing in the garbage.

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Or I will.

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And she said, no, no, be careful.

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Don't say things like that.

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And we went out to Kmart just to look around and I didn't know what to do in Denver.

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And when we walked into Kmart, they had a whole wall covered with televisions.

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And we walked in, I saw this, what looked like a dramatic scene in an action movie.

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And we walked up in this big ball of fire and we're standing there and I'm looking

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at the price tags and I realized it's not a movie, it's a news report.

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And they're reporting that flight 232 United Airlines, which I flew from Israel to here

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last week, just crashed in Sioux City, Iowa.

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And my mother's saying, say, that's God that saved your life.

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Wow.

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I said, I almost wanted to argue, but something was, everybody in row nine where we were supposed

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to sit were all killed instantly.

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Wow.

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And a number of people survived the crash.

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Some people were jumping out of the airplane at 200 miles an hour as they're coming in

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for a landing.

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They had lost one of the engines, lost all of their hydraulic, and made a movie out of

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it.

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Oh my.

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But that was another dramatic event that prepared me for salvation.

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So that's kind of the way it went.

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So it's quite the story.

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I'll tell you, after a few of those things, there was no question in my mind, this God

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really loves me, regardless of how rotten I really am.

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So yeah, it was just the fall within, I don't know how many months later I came to faith.

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My wife was, we were living in Florida and I was in Toronto.

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You know, I went to see a friend that was involved in some serious fraud with me.

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And so I went to his house to get the money that he had collected for me.

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And he had a radical encounter with the Holy Spirit the night before.

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Oh my.

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I think you're praying, mama.

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His wife was in the kitchen, furious.

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I had helped, I used to be a union executive for the Canada Post Office.

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And I had prepared a briefing for him to try and save his job because they had fired him

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and they were going to issue criminal charges.

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And we just wanted to keep him out of jail.

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They didn't expect anything more than that.

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But he was in the shower, she said, look at what's on the table.

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So I read it.

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They had offered him thousands, like almost $45,000, his job back, his seniority and everything,

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if he would withdraw that petition for arbitration that they had submitted.

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And when he came out, he said, I can't take it, it's dirty money.

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I'm looking at it, I said, what the heck are you talking about?

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He said, I can't take it.

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So his wife was going wild.

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She said, if he doesn't take it, I'm going to kill him.

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And she was not joking.

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She was dead.

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So we went into the basement and he told me, he said, listen, somebody came into my bedroom

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at about four o'clock in the morning and slapped me in the chest and pulled me into an upright

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position.

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I'm looking at it and periodically he'd stop saying, I think I'm losing my mind.

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I'm sitting there thinking, I think you're losing your mind.

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He said, when I opened my eyes, there was nobody in the room.

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And he ultimately came down the stairs into the basement after searching the upstairs

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of the house, thinking the only places whoever had broken into the house could be is down

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there.

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And when he got to the final step, he's telling me how he froze in such fear for what he felt

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like was ours, but it was only a matter of seconds.

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And he said, all of a sudden somebody started to pour like a bucket of warm honey all over

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him.

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And he said, he felt love like he'd never experienced in all his life.

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And he said, whoever you are, back off, you're going to kill me.

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And I'm sitting there thinking, how can love kill somebody?

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And it was in that situation.

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We had never seen a Bible.

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We had never heard the gospel.

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Wow.

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And the two of us came to faith there.

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Look at that.

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Yes.

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You'd never seen a Bible.

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You'd never heard the gospel.

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No.

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Seems to me God pours out his Spirit on people, even without our help as evangelists, you

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know?

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Yes.

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But I'm sure that it's a result of prayer.

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Somebody was praying.

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My sister, my mother, my sister was already in the faith at least 10 years, was praying.

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So yeah, I remember going back home, back to Florida a week later.

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And when I walked in the house, my wife looked at me and said, what the heck have you been

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doing?

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I said, what do you mean?

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She says, you're not the same.

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I said, I don't know for sure.

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But I said, something happened.

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It's got something to do with God.

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We didn't know what had happened.

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Wow.

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And she said, get out of the house.

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You're not going to bring that in.

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It was crazy.

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Oh my.

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It's not the reaction I was expecting.

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Now, was she Jewish too?

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No.

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Okay.

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She actually left, but came back before it got dark.

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And for four years, it was a pretty rough ride.

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Wow.

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She got saved four years later.

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Oh my.

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In the Toronto revival.

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Oh my.

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Oh, I love it.

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I love it.

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Praise the Lord.

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Wow.

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Wow.

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And then the Lord moved on you at what point to make Aliyah, to become a citizen of Israel?

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That's a bit of a journey, but just the thought, you know, in 1990, after I got saved, we came,

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we went to Israel for a visit.

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The kids and my brother-in-law, we all went.

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We went to Greece first and visited my father.

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And from there we went to Israel.

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And my brother-in-law, who was with us two times, he had an open vision of Yeshua walking.

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So we were in Nazareth in this, I remember we were in this hotel or motel and we had

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just killed this great big bug that was crawling up the drapes.

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And there was a whole bunch of commotion.

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The kids were up on the beds screaming.

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So we killed this thing and thing calmed down.

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And I went into the next, it was like a suite with two rooms.

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And I was in with my wife and all of a sudden I could hear my brother-in-law weeping.

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I came out and I said, what's going on?

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He said, look, he pointed out the window.

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He says, there's Jesus.

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Wow.

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I looked, I didn't see him.

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He's not seeing him now.

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But he was seeing him.

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Wow.

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And then three, four days later we went to the Galilee and we were at Capernaum.

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And he, again, I find him weeping.

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I said, what's going on?

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I said, he said, and he pointed into that ancient synagogue there.

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He said, he's there.

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Wow.

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So he had a couple of radical encounters.

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And my kids and I got baptized there in the Jordan River.

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Wow.

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My wife was furious because that was the journey.

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And something started stirring.

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I said to my wife, I said, I think the Lord might be saying it's time to move back to

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Israel.

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She said, when hell freezes over, I'm not going to live here.

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And in 1997, that church in Toronto that I was a part of, the pastor called for a 40-day

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fast.

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I had never done one in my life, never thought I could.

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And we started this fast in about halfway through the 40 days.

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I felt God ask me, would you like to go to Israel?

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I said, yeah, I'd like to.

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We were broke.

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I was about to get laid off.

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And I wanted to see how are you going to pull this one off?

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And I said, yes, like a little kid.

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If somebody, I was back in this trailer down into an icy pit, it was very cold though.

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And I outlawed and said, yes, I'll go to Israel.

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And the next day I called a travel agent.

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She said, when do you want to go?

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I said, whatever's the cheapest.

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That's when I'll go.

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And she called back a couple of days later.

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She said, listen, if you go on this day or this day, the day before, day after, it's

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going to cost significantly more.

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But if you go on this day, which just happened to be the 40th day of the fast.

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Oh, wow.

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So I broke the fast in Jerusalem.

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So when I started, who even imagined?

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So we went, the last 10 days we were sleeping in a garage.

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It was cold, man.

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We were sleeping in the garage every morning.

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The next garage, the guy started his car and filled it up and we're choking on the exhaustion.

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But there was a presence of God that was so tangible.

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I'd wake up every morning shivering, but just in the glory, in his presence.

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And I'd say, Lord, I'll live in this garage for the rest of my life if you'll stay here

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with us.

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Wow.

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And I remember we got out of bed that morning really quick and put on our clothes.

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I was sleeping with my clothes on and we came outside.

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It was right next door to the YMCA.

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And my wife turned to me and said, I don't know what's going on, but she says we're home.

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Wow.

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Now was she a believer by then?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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She was a believer by then, a couple of years at that point.

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And the grace of God just flowed over her, filled her up.

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So yeah, that's the following year we moved back to Israel.

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It wasn't such a, it was the hardest year, the next few years, the hardest time of our

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life.

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You know, sometimes people think that when God leads you into something that it's always

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like paradise.

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It's like Paul, you know, come over, you saw in the vision, come over to Macedonia and

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help us.

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Yeah.

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And he ends up in jail.

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So she spent two years crying.

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But now it's, it's home.

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Wow.

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It's home.

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Glory to God.

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So now the Lord has spoken to you to come here now.

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What's going on in the Holy Spirit?

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What's the Holy Spirit saying?

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You know, 2010, I'll try and make it really short.

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Take whatever time you need.

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I just, I heard about this call for prayer from a guy named Dutch Sheets and felt that

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America was on a slide downward spiritually and it was time for the body of Christ to

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gather and to pray corporately and call out and plead with God that he would move and

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turn things around.

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And when I read it, I sent it to some friends in Mississippi because I really felt it was,

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it was from God.

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And the next day they wrote back said, we prayed and we're convinced God's saying go.

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But while we were praying, we felt God saying you should come as well.

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And we were broke, which is in Israel, that's quite common for.

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And I went to, I don't know, a few days saying, God, how are we going to do?

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Is it you?

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And then he confirmed in a very profound way using Facebook, but I won't get into all that

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but I was convinced, convinced he was saying go.

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And we booked a flight to go and we got to the US, we flew to Memphis and then he met

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us and then a couple of days later we drove up to Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

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That's where the, but I missed one thing.

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Before we left, they actually canceled the event and I struggled with God.

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I said, God, where are we going?

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The reason though, prayer meeting, they canceled it because he didn't have enough money or

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something and I really felt God was saying, who asked you to go there, man or me?

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He said, go.

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So we did.

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And the other people that we went with, Ron, that's actually who we're staying with up

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until this morning in Missouri because he now lives in Missouri.

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We drove up in a motor home and his wife and my wife were in the car behind and so we were

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just busy talking.

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I didn't realize where we were geographically, but when I crossed, when he crossed over the

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Mississippi into Missouri, the spirit of God came all over me and I began to prophesy to

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Missouri that there was a move of God unequaled in history that mankind has never seen before.

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And I just went on and on for about five, 10 minutes and then finally I calmed and we're

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looking at each other with our eyes wide open wondering what just happened.

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And we went to this prayer meeting which was out in the ranch, 105, 107 degrees from like

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eight o'clock in the morning till eight o'clock at night.

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I didn't think I'd survive.

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That's hot.

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Yeah.

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And a guy, a man named Dick Rubin is the one that took up the leadership part of it and

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he was teaching.

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I had never met him before.

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So how other people showed up too?

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Yes, like 1300 people showed up to a canceled event.

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I love it.

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So from 37 states and I think it was six or seven nations were represented there.

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And so it was a very unique time of prayer and at the end of it all, we were looking

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at, I became part of their leadership team there because I even spoke there, which was

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totally unplanned and especially by me.

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But God was up to something and they invited us to come back and we did another little

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five day thing at their conference center there.

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But when I came back into Missouri again from a different direction, I was driving, no,

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my wife was driving.

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We crossed the Mississippi River.

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I'm not consciously thinking about where we are and what's cooking, but as soon as we

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crossed back into Missouri again, the Holy Spirit came in great power and I just began

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to speak to the state of Missouri and the heartland of the United States.

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And I felt God was saying, America, I've not forgotten you.

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I'm going to visit you and move once again like you've never seen before.

490
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,680
I can't remember the words.

491
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:53,120
I was in tears and in so many different ways over the next three or four years, God has

492
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:57,440
spoken to me directly and to some of the other people.

493
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:03,840
Lila Trujune was in Dick Rubin and actually Dick ended up coming and living on that ranch,

494
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:10,160
did meetings there regularly for several months, maybe even a couple of years.

495
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:16,200
So there's this expectation that's been growing and I've been, last year I was just asking

496
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,400
the Lord, when are you going to move in Missouri?

497
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:25,160
Will I get a chance to see or anything?

498
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:30,040
Quite often when I ask why questions, God doesn't answer.

499
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:38,080
But in July last year, we were driving from the Gaulead down to Jerusalem and God's Spirit

500
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,680
just came into the car in a very tangible way.

501
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,880
And I felt He was saying, go.

502
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:50,560
He showed me this man that we went to Missouri with the first time and who now has moved

503
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:57,840
out of Mississippi and lives in Missouri, not far from where the prayer meeting was.

504
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,360
I said, God, what are we doing there?

505
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:07,640
And I just completely understood that it has to do with what's about to come.

506
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:08,640
When?

507
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:09,920
How?

508
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,720
I don't know.

509
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:17,080
But it was a very powerful encounter with the Spirit of God.

510
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:22,240
When we got home, I bought a ticket to go to Canada and we went there and we were there

511
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:27,920
for six weeks and God's fingerprints were all over it.

512
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:35,440
But then I allowed my own questioning and I was just starting to think, it doesn't make

513
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:36,440
sense.

514
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:37,440
What am I going to do there?

515
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,400
I was sitting in a trailer there and God, what are we going to do in a trailer in the

516
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,960
middle of nowhere?

517
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,200
And all this human reasoning and we didn't go.

518
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,280
I disobeyed and we went back to Israel.

519
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:58,000
And that's why the Holy Spirit began to challenge me about a month ago that obedience has nothing

520
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:07,880
to do with our understanding, our approval, will it fit into my plans?

521
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:15,680
And I spent some days just apologizing and repenting and I really felt, and God confirmed

522
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,880
it to a friend in Greece and here we are.

523
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:24,260
And people, before we even got here, said, yeah, we're ready, let's go.

524
00:33:24,260 --> 00:33:25,800
God pour out your Spirit.

525
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,040
Let the fire fall.

526
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:29,800
I said, I don't know.

527
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:35,680
I said, this isn't going to be a work of a man and this isn't going to be orchestrated

528
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,240
or arranged by a man.

529
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:39,960
God's got a plan and he does.

530
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:47,320
I could spend the next 20 minutes, if not more, just telling you about ways that God

531
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:48,320
has confirmed.

532
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:54,880
You know, we have some good friends in Israel that were there for almost 35 years.

533
00:33:54,880 --> 00:34:02,160
They had radio station, they pastored both Arabic and Hebrew speaking congregations and

534
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,160
then opened up another radio station.

535
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:12,360
But about less than a year ago, January of this year, they felt led to move to Missouri

536
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,280
and they're moving and they're living in the Ozarks.

537
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,480
I forget the name of the little town they're close to.

538
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:24,840
And just before we left to come last week, their daughter, who runs a Christian bookstore

539
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:33,200
in East Jerusalem, an outreach to the Muslim people there, she called me.

540
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,680
I've seen her before but never talked to her.

541
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:41,480
And she said, we would like you to come over and pray with us and talk because we want

542
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,320
to know why you're going to Missouri.

543
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,200
And when we got there, we talked for a bit and she said, listen, we have got a strong

544
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,600
draw to go to Missouri.

545
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:58,720
And we know several different couples that God has spoken to them get going to Missouri.

546
00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:00,920
Into the Ozarks in particular.

547
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:09,320
And so just over and over, there are people that are being drawn into the region.

548
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:10,320
God's getting ready.

549
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:15,000
I don't know when God's ready, who knows the time in the hour.

550
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,840
But it's definitely, we're getting close.

551
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,880
Some people are saying America's done and God's written it off.

552
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:23,880
I don't believe that.

553
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:24,880
No, we don't even.

554
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:25,880
No, we don't.

555
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:31,480
And it's definitely, it's not because we're really good guys and he's going to reward

556
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:36,200
that but now it's just the love of God that's in his son.

557
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:37,320
He's not finished here.

558
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:43,480
I think there's going to be some real stormy times for America in the days ahead.

559
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:50,280
But in the midst of it, somehow, and I think we'd be foolish to try and describe what it's

560
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,840
going to look like or when it's going to begin.

561
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,720
But it's close.

562
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:55,720
Very close.

563
00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:56,720
It is.

564
00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:01,320
And yeah, I just, I love the presence of God.

565
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:02,320
Yes.

566
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,640
It changes everything.

567
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:13,160
Many a time when we were in all kinds of situations, both emotionally and financially and you name

568
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:17,800
it and then God shows up and everything changes.

569
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,680
And so that's why I just want to be where he's at.

570
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:21,680
Yes.

571
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:22,680
Amen.

572
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:23,680
Exactly.

573
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:30,600
So we're here and then I realized that Mary, Lois and Gene were here because of the situation

574
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,720
in Israel and not being able to come in.

575
00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:37,800
So I wrote to them and he said, yeah, he said, if you come in the area, come on over.

576
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,680
We've got a bed for you to lay down.

577
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:40,680
So here we are.

578
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,240
We're glad you're here.

579
00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:43,240
Amen.

580
00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:49,520
And just that's why, you know, just a day, two days before I left, I met this man and

581
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,720
he asked me why we were going.

582
00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:52,720
I said, I'm not sure.

583
00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:55,320
I told him a little bit of what I just said to you.

584
00:36:55,320 --> 00:37:01,600
He talked about Cory Ten Boom's prophecy, which I had never heard about seeing all these

585
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:12,920
angels from horizon to horizon over the Ozarks and how this is going to be a region of refuge.

586
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:18,240
And other people have added, I don't know if it was actually from her or if they've

587
00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:24,760
just led to, but they actually believe it not only will be a place of refuge, but it'll

588
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,640
be a place of restoration in the spirit.

589
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:28,640
Amen.

590
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,640
That's why we're here.

591
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:31,640
Beautiful.

592
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:32,640
Beautiful.

593
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:33,640
Well, hallelujah.

594
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:40,720
We can hear in your stories how, how there's been a contending for the faith, contending

595
00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:46,880
to, to get people saved, get you saved, get you into the family of God, which was God's

596
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:52,000
plan to begin with and how he's been equipping you as you followed him.

597
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,500
You didn't know anything.

598
00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:59,000
You started out with just, you were a blank sheet and God has been pouring into you and

599
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,960
pouring into you and pouring into you, pouring into you so that he can pour through you in

600
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:04,960
the days to come.

601
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,680
I mean, I'm sure he's already been pouring through you.

602
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,400
He's put you in a glorious place.

603
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:15,440
I know it's not an easy place to live in Israel, but it's, it's a tremendous place that, that

604
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,800
is on his map.

605
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,400
It's right in the back of the Bible.

606
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,440
There's maps of Israel.

607
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,920
That's where it, it's where everything has happened.

608
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,520
You know, it's the center of the earth.

609
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:35,320
It's the center of God's heart, you know, his, his heart and, and the pupil of his eye,

610
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:41,240
you know, it's, this is this, don't stick your finger in God's eye for goodness sakes,

611
00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:45,920
but it's exciting to hear how, how God has been working in your life and how he's taking

612
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:50,640
you into this next thing where he's going to be pouring out his spirit, whether, whether

613
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:57,200
you're going into that region for the purpose of contending or equipping or actually engaging

614
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:04,560
in the outpouring at this time, God's going to show us as, as time goes on, but it's exciting

615
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,080
that you're engaged, that you're, that you're obeying.

616
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:09,960
You've heard the Lord and you're obeying.

617
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:16,840
One of the reasons, one of the understandings, at least in a very partial, simple way that

618
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:23,960
I have, why, why is it necessary for someone from Israel to come and participate in what

619
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,360
God is doing and what he's going to do?

620
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:34,600
And you know, Dick Rubin, he, one of the things he was known for is he draws out of scripture

621
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:40,720
God's patterns and, and he was saying, if you'll do things according to the pattern

622
00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:44,600
of God, the glory will fall.

623
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:50,600
Many churches, many pastors didn't comprehend or understand what he was getting at, but

624
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:56,760
you know, he spoke to Moses, he said, Moses, get the people together.

625
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:04,600
I want you to build a tabernacle in the wilderness and build it exactly according to the pattern

626
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,920
that I give you.

627
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:12,160
Don't deviate and I'll anoint each one of the people that's involved that are going

628
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:17,040
to produce the curtains and the, and the implements that will be in the tabernacle.

629
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:22,560
But he said, if you'll build it according to the pattern which I've given you, I will

630
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,280
come and dwell in your midst.

631
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,100
And Moses did.

632
00:40:27,100 --> 00:40:33,560
And for many years it was a meeting place for the house of Israel and the God of Israel

633
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,420
out in the wilderness.

634
00:40:35,420 --> 00:40:42,440
And many years later, after Israel came into the land, David said to the Lord, said, I

635
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,080
want to build you a temple.

636
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:49,360
I want to build a place for you to come and dwell here in Jerusalem.

637
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:55,000
And I'm abbreviating, but in essence, God was saying, okay, but not you, you've got

638
00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:00,240
too much blood on your hands, but your son, Solomon.

639
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:05,740
And he gave David a pattern by which to build that temple.

640
00:41:05,740 --> 00:41:12,120
And when he went to Solomon before his death, he said, here is the plan and the pattern

641
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:19,960
by which God said this temple is to be constructed, do it exactly in accordance to this.

642
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:20,960
And he did.

643
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:26,720
And the presence of God came, filled the temple, says to the point where none of the priests

644
00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:30,800
could stand, they all fell on their face.

645
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:39,720
One more time in Ephesians, in the New Testament, God talks about a dwelling place and there's

646
00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:43,160
a pattern to it.

647
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:53,680
Ephesians 2.11-22, Paul is writing to the church in Ephesus to Gentiles, but he's describing

648
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:59,280
to them what we now today refer to as the one new man.

649
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:09,560
And he said, you who were in times past, depending on the translation or before or historically,

650
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:10,560
Gentiles.

651
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:16,560
So, there's a change, there's a transformation that takes place when you come to Christ,

652
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,040
when you come to Yeshua.

653
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:26,600
You actually lose your identity as a Gentile because it says in verse 19, before that he

654
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:33,080
says that you were foreigners outside of the promises and covenants of God without hope

655
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,960
and without God in the world.

656
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:41,040
But he says now because of the blood of Yeshua, you are no longer foreigners, but you are

657
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:49,320
fellow citizens of the commonwealth of Israel and partakers of those promises and covenants.

658
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:56,480
And he says, I'm building you together, I'm paraphrasing, both Jew and Gentile, assembling

659
00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:05,200
you together as living stones to create a dwelling place where I may come and dwell.

660
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:10,640
The church for too long has been satisfied with visitations.

661
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,760
God says, I want to come and live with you.

662
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:13,760
Yes, habitation.

663
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:14,760
Yes.

664
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:15,760
Habitation.

665
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:16,760
Yes.

666
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:24,560
And so, if you want to break it down into like, into a physical picture kind of thing,

667
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:30,760
here when you're mixing concrete to build, to lay the foundation of a house, if you put

668
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:36,620
too much stone in or not enough concrete or too much sand or not enough sand, the strength

669
00:43:36,620 --> 00:43:41,640
of that foundation will be compromised.

670
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:49,240
So when you mix both the Jew and the Gentile, that's when you have this place, this dwelling

671
00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:50,240
place.

672
00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:53,040
That's the pattern that God has given us in Ephesians.

673
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,960
Yeah, we're all one in Christ Jesus.

674
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:56,960
Yes.

675
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,640
So why did we come?

676
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:06,560
If anything at all, we're part of that ingredient that's going to be put into this mixer that's

677
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:11,560
going to create the dwelling place for him right here on earth.

678
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:12,560
Just obey God.

679
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:13,560
Hallelujah.

680
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:14,560
That's right.

681
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:15,560
Just obey God.

682
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,000
Well, thank you so much for being with us today.

683
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:23,140
We are really looking forward to hearing the reports of what God is going to do in the

684
00:44:23,140 --> 00:44:24,520
days to come.

685
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:29,040
In the meantime, would you just, would you pray over the people that are listening to

686
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:33,440
this and just let the Holy Spirit pray through you?

687
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,920
Father, where else can we go?

688
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,320
Lord, if we search the heavens, you're there.

689
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,680
If we go to the depths, you're there.

690
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,920
And Lord, just as the apostles once said, where else can we go?

691
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,440
You alone have the words of eternal life.

692
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,920
Father, I just pray for each and every one that's listening right now.

693
00:44:54,920 --> 00:45:01,320
Lord, some that may be struggling with whatever their issues are, whether they're physical,

694
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:05,680
emotional, whether there's an illness, if it's financial.

695
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:12,960
Father, I just pray because where you are, there's a lack of nothing.

696
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:18,320
Lord, I just invite you to come and be exactly where each one of your children that are listening

697
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:19,320
right now.

698
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:24,820
Lord, that you would come and just take up space with them there.

699
00:45:24,820 --> 00:45:27,680
Give them that assurance no matter what they're facing.

700
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,720
Lord, you're the answer.

701
00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:30,720
Yes.

702
00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:31,720
Thank you, Father.

703
00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:34,160
It's not that you have an answer, you are the answer.

704
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:35,160
That's right.

705
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:36,160
Yes.

706
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:37,160
Amen.

707
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:38,160
So Lord, we give you praise.

708
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:43,920
Lord, I just speak a word of encouragement to each and every one saying that greater

709
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:47,200
and brighter and more beautiful days lie ahead.

710
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:48,200
Yes.

711
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:54,040
So Lord, I just pray that you would come and fill your people.

712
00:45:54,040 --> 00:46:00,080
Your word says that we are to be filled and continuously filled with your Holy Spirit.

713
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,080
Yes.

714
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:05,720
Lord, make us vessels that are overflowing with who you are.

715
00:46:05,720 --> 00:46:10,920
And Lord, let that overflow just go into the streets and touch those who are without hope

716
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:14,440
and trapped in sin in this world.

717
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,600
God, you're not finished.

718
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:20,280
You're not finished in America and you're not finished with each one of your children.

719
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:24,920
And we just declare that today in the name of your son, Yeshua.

720
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:25,920
Amen.

721
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:26,920
Amen.

722
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:27,920
Amen.

723
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:28,920
God bless you.

724
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:33,920
Thanks so much.

725
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:39,880
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