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male announcer: Welcome to
"Our Jewish Roots" with

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insightful Bible teaching from
Israel with Dr. Jeffrey Seif.

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This week, we see how
disobedience led to defeat

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on "Joshua: More
Than a Conqueror."

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David Hart: Welcome
to "Our Jewish Roots."

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I'm David Hart.

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Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.

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Jeffrey Seif: And I am Jeffrey
Seif and we are over

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halfway through
with our series, yes?

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Kirsten: It's a good one.
We're learning so much.

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Thank you.

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Jeffrey: Well, thank
the good Lord.

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You know, I probably shouldn't
even say it as "our series."

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Ministers talk about
"their messages,"

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authors talk about
"their books."

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Bible teachers should just
talk about "this story,"

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that is to say the story on
the menu today

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isn't our story, it's not
even our series.

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It's a biblical story and
there's some gory

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in today's story, yes?

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Kirsten: But it is our roots.
I mean, it's our Jewish roots.

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We are to learn--be inspired
but also learn and today we

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are learning about one man's
greed and disobedience, how

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it affected everybody else.

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Jeffrey: Yeah, it's a bad story.

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David: Yup, Dr. Seif will be
teaching on location

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in Israel but right now let's
go to Joshua's story

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of unexpected loss
on the battlefield.

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Joshua: Jericho was
a miracle but why?

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Why did Achan have to stay
in the memories of victory

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by hoarding all that
silver and gold?

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Adonai, you are forgiving
in our succeeding loss

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at the city of Ai.

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A lesson learned but I grieve.
I so grieve the loss of my men.

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male: Sir, our loss at Ai
was not your fault.

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You rent that cloak because
Achan coveted

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the plunder of Jericho.

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Joshua: But I'll never forget
36 men lost forever

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because of greed.

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The Lord gave us Jericho
but he never ever said

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that we could
keep the bounty.

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It belonged to the
Lord, all of it.

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And the city of Ai would
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if not for the simple
plunder of Achan.

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Let this be a reminder.
May it never happen again.

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male: There are only
3000 in that city.

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We should have taken it easily.

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Joshua: If, and only if, the
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with our efforts.

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"It is not by might,"
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Come.

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We can still take
the city of Ai.

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Sit.

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Let me show you
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We are here, Ai is here.

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You will lead your men to the
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this side of Bethel and
wait until I summon you.

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male: And you, sir?

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Joshua: I will lead my men
the following day north

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and will camp here.

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In the morning, my men will set
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city, whereupon the men of
Ai will see us and pursue us.

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male: An ambush.

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The city will be left vacant,
unarmed.

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Joshua: Yes, but you will not
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I turn and raise my spear.

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Then you will set
the city on fire.

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They will see the smoke
ascending, then my men and I,

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we will attack the confused
lot, utterly destroying them.

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male: Magnificent plan, sir.
The battle is ours.

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Joshua: Learn this lesson:
the plan is not mine

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and it is not yours.

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The battle is the Lord's.

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Jeffrey: It's been
a miraculous journey.

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The Jordan River has dried up
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mighty walls of Jericho
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with heaven-sent cunning,
Joshua leads his men

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to yet another victory
at the city of Ai.

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Jeffrey: Ai went
up in flames, finally.

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Israel got burned beforehand,
however, and in another sense,

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and we're gonna tell
that story here today.

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It's a tragic story, actually.

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Victory's one
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In the Bible we get a
little bit of both.

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Actually, in the Scripture
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victories so far: the parting
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the Israelites crossing through.

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Yes, that's 17 verses for that.

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If you look at the miracle
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a sum total of 27
verses for that.

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The battle of Ai, a small city,
it shouldn't have taken much.

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It was a tragedy.

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Eighty-one verses by my
reckoning for that

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in the Hebrew Bible.

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Why is it that something that
went horribly wrong initially,

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that should have been relatively
easy, why does the text

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give so much attention to that?

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I wanna look at that because
there's a lesson to be

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learned from that,
in my opinion.

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And I think that Joshua wants
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there's so much spent on
a world that went bad.

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But first, however, you look at
the end of chapter 6 in

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the book of Joshua, it ends
on a good note:

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[speaking in Hebrew]

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"And the Lord was with Joshua,"
and so it seemed, obviously

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after a great miracle,
we're told,

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[speaking in Hebrew]

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"and his fame spread
throughout the land."

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It ends on a very good
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By the time we get to chapter 7
we leave a triumph

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and we go to a tragedy.

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It should have
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The literature tells
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The next stop on the train was
a city called Ai, a small town.

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Dispatch a small group for
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Should have been easy,
but it went bad

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and people wondered why.

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Why failure?
Why does it happen?

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Well, we're told in verse 1:

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[speaking in Hebrew]

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We're told, "The children of
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concerning the devoted thing."

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Want to explore that for two
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what's the devoted thing?

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That is that the spoils of war
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who were enacting the
war, that it was to be

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wholly devoted over to God.

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The other thing that's
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"The children of Israel
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But not really.

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I say that because
when you read on:

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[speaking in Hebrew]

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"And took Achan of the
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[speaking in Hebrew]

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As it goes on to say
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It's interesting there was one
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they all were held to
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That is to say they went to war.

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They weren't
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They weren't supposed to
take spoils of war, booty.

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They weren't to have it.
This is a religious issue.

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It's not to be--this
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for self-aggrandizement.

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It's not a time for self-gain.

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But he saw some loot and he took
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the command, contrary to what
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a great loss for the Hebrews.

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The rabbis, out of this,
look at what's referred

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to as collective responsibility:
one man sins, as I'd said,

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they all pay the price.

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And in the Jewish world, this
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It's understood that every
Hebrew carries the name.

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Everyone's an
ambassador of the people.

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I liken it to, you know, if
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a bad plumber, rips people off,
so they'll say, "Listen,

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we'll never call that
plumber again."

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But if the plumber's wearing a
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he rips the people off, doesn't
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"Ah, those Jews."

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There's a sense in which he
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and that certainly
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The imperative for individuals
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to keep their word, that
sterling virtue, the more so

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in antiquity, was inculcated
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There was a premium when acting
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didn't mean just to go to
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or a synagogue on Saturday.

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To be righteous meant to live
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that is to say above reproach.

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That is to say
following instruction.

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And in this case here,
don't seize that

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which doesn't belong to you.

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It comes in different forms:
robbery, you're taking it from a

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person; theft, you're taking
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robbery, you're taking it off
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taking it from inside of
a dwelling, I should say.

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There's different ways in the
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that we speak of seizure.

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It's interesting in the Hebrew
Bible where the whole notion

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of theft, taking what
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is--it's egregious in so many
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The battle of Ai which should
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it turned out bad.

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The Hebrews were
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Later, they're gonna
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It's gonna be noted in the
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That's gonna be dealt with
and then we'll go on to good

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success, a story that we'll look
at in the next segment

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as we look at being more
than a conqueror.

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♪♪♪

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waiting for a sign to know that
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But I wanna tell you right
now you watching us

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We host tours two times a year,
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Fantastic tours, we'd
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David: Yes, also we love
bringing you our dramatic

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reenactments each week, Dr.
Seif's teaching in Israel.

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We could not do that without
your support so we just wanna

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say thank you so much.

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Right now, let's go to Dr.
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in Joshua chapter 7.

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Jeffrey: After Achan was found
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And with that lesson learned and
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the children of Israel again
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And there's a kind of
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It lacks the miraculous
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the crossing of the Jordan
earlier and we saw with Jericho.

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There, it's clear there's
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Here, you have the angel of
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the people of the Lord but
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a kind of creative
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The name of the game is to
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of the city so Joshua kind
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He strategizes to
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They had already defeated the
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assault where the Hebrews
retreat and those in Ai

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come out of the city
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Meanwhile, there were
others sat in ambush

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and when the city's
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They burn the city.

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now they're squeezed in both
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is there is a decisive victory
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who survives the battle,
is executed afterward.

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Now, I don't want to
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That's not the point here.

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And I don't even think it's the
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because it's bookended
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more so than it is a
military victory.

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I mention that because in the
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I developed it a little more
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there was a problem with
Achan who disobeyed,

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and the disobedience
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enjoy good success.

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more than a conqueror.

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between success and compliance.

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It seems to be the case because
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the appendage to it in the
8th chapter, it's interesting.

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In verse 30 I wanna look at
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there's something here
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We're told in the Hebrew Bible:

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[speaking in Hebrew]

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That is, "After this,"
we're told that "Joshua

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built an altar to the Lord."

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We saw fire to begin with
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one now but here,
in this--

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[speaking in Hebrew]

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[speaking in Hebrew]

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And there's an altar that's
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write the mission, the Torah.

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what are we looking at here?

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Are we looking at just
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There are these stones that
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some say miraculously.

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after the death, then you have
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obeying Torah takes precedence.

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wrote there upon the stones

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a copy of the law of Moses--"

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[speaking in Hebrew]

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"That he wrote before
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the children of Israel."

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wants us to understand to
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There's a correlation between
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obeying the command.

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"Shema Yisrael,"

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"Hear, O Israel."

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Yeshua's on record over and

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again saying, "He who has
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Of course, people have ears
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Hear it that you may do
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There's the next step.

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You have to begin by
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and the doing translates
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That is to say, follow
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[speaking in Hebrew]

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Solomon, the king of Israel,
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a collection of short,
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There's a genre, a type
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interliterature,
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"Hear, my son, your
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Obey your mother's teaching."

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And here's the heavenly
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commended in the biblical text.

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There's an imperative
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worship's important and what's
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worship is a minister that opens
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them and they're commended to
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Because there really is a
correlation when it comes to

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success in life between hearing
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Good things can happen, not
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in the case of this
conquest at Ai.

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Not just to the--not just to the
people like me but people like

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you, all of us, when we hear,
when we do, like Joshua then,

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we can be more than conquerors.

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Jeffrey: Chaim Malespin is an
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Forces and I had an opportunity
to sit down and talk to him

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about being more
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Here, particularly, he gave
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of learning to strategically
think outside of the box.

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Jeffrey: Serge, good to
be with you today.

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Thank you for being here.

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Chaim Malespin: Thank you
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Jeffrey: A question: the battle
of Ai, very, very strategic.

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I mean, it seems to me there
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Defense Forces that's
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There's genius there.

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How much of an emphasis
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in military today?

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Chaim: Absolutely there is.

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problems, even doing something
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conventional way, such as in
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they said, "Let's do a water
bridge that floats on

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the water and drive the
tanks across and let us

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surround the third army
of the Egyptians."

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ever work?"

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But we did.

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We carried that out and that
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Sinai Peninsula and--which
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But it's thinking
outside the box.

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Jeffrey: Yeah, strategy and
a little bit of chutzpah, yes?

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Chaim: Precisely.

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Jeffrey: Now, I wanna pivot
from that because we're watching

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this program, people are
watching it, and they need

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biblical medicine for
their life's assorted hurts.

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Would people do well to learn to
think outside of the box,

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to get some creative solutions,
and move forward with those?

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Chaim: Well, absolutely; and
I think a lesson from the

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Bible is when you trust in your
commander, he's our commander,

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of course, Yeshua
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but he's also our commander.

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And when something is said,
we have to say, "I will see

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this mission through and
I will trust the orders

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that I've been
given from above."

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Windgate--this man,

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he's a Christian man.

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You'd think, "Why would he
care about training the IDF?"

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He started when it was
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the Lehi, and the Haganah.

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British Army orders sometimes.

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Would train these guys and he
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is Gideon Spring, and he got so
inspired by how these biblical

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characters were able to go and
advance and take ground

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and see the mission to
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Jeffrey: People have to learn
to think strategically, yes,

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and it's great to be
around strategic thinkers.

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Chaim: It is.
They're inspirational.

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To this day, I'm close friends
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commanders of mine in the army.

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Jeffrey: We're looking to
get some of that inspiration

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and some of that
strategic thinking in Joshua.

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Thank you for helping us
pin some things down today.

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Chaim: Thank you for having me.

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♪♪♪

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♪ A land of milk
and honey, ♪

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♪ a land to call your own. ♪

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♪ I give to you my promise, ♪

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♪ I give to you my own. ♪

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♪ And these
are my commandments, ♪

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♪ I give to you this day. ♪

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♪ The Lord thy God
commands you ♪

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♪ to follow in his way. ♪

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♪♪♪

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♪ His everlasting promise, ♪

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♪ his promise cannot fail. ♪

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♪ The people of the Torah, ♪

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♪ the people of the Word. ♪

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♪ The kingdom
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♪ the kingdom of the Lord. ♪

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♪ A Promised Land
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♪ a Promised Land
that's true. ♪

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♪ The land I gave
to Abram, ♪

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♪ that land I give to you. ♪

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♪♪♪

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♪ His everlasting promise, ♪

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♪ his promise cannot fail. ♪

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♪♪♪

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♪ His everlasting promise, ♪

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♪ his promise cannot fail. ♪

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♪♪♪

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David: That is music from
our founder, Zola Levitt.

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And also, Dr. Seif, you sat
down with Chaim Malespin.

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We love spending time with him.
He's a brother.

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Jeffrey: Yes, and a soldier, and
he made some great points too

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that really dovetail with the
story today and that is that

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you can see Joshua getting plans
that are strategic in nature

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and that not only is
important in battles long ago.

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Similarly, Chaim gives voice to
strategic thinking and planning

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that goes behind the
Israeli Defense Forces today.

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Sometimes we just get stuck in a
way of thinking and being but

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we need to step back and think
outside of the box, get a little

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creative and move forward
based on new ways of thinking.

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I mean, we need to
do it in our life.

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There was a feeling that
we needed to do that

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in our ministry, in fact.

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If anybody that calls "Zola
Levitt Presents" calls "Our

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Jewish Roots" it's the same
people that answer the phone.

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The mail goes to the same place,
it's the same set, but God

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blessed Zola went on to his
reward over a decade ago.

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We thought we needed to be
a little more strategic.

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Zola Levitt was all about
presenting our Jewish roots so

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let's go with the message, even
in the absence of the messenger.

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It's something strategic but
necessary in order to advance

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in the new economy, yes?

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David: I was gonna say many
of us watching today, and I can

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relate to this, we haven't been
a soldier, our son has,

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but how can we relate
to this story with Joshua

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as we haven't been
in the military?

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Jeffrey: Well, I haven't been a
soldier either, but I have

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a career in law enforcement
serving on the streets as

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a patrol sergeant and in
command at a police academy.

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And I don't wanna
overstate that.

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I haven't been off in a
battlefield, save

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for the urban jungle itself.

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While it's true if someone
has those experiences, they can

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relate to military stories, but
life's a struggle at the end of

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the day for all of us and we
all have bad circumstances

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to overcome, difficult people to
overcome, and if God has

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a call on our life, hell has an
assignment against us,

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we all have an adversary
at the end of the day.

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David: I'm sorry to say this but
it happens even in the church

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that we have to go through
some battles once in a while.

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Jeffrey: Because a church
is constituted with people.

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Once I told a chief of police
complaining about an officer,

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"If you want perfection, if
Jesus Christ wants to come

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and wear your uniform
you're good to go.

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Other than that, all
you have are mortals."

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Kirsten: Well, on mortals,
it's mortals that have done

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something wrong that God said,
"Do not take plunder."

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He took plunder, he was
disobedient, he tried

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to hide it, and it
affected everyone.

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That's my personal
takeaway from this.

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We don't think it
affects other people.

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Jeffrey: That notion of
collective responsibility,

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I mean, what people do,
there are certain sins.

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You know, someone
committing--can commit

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adultery and God will
forgive with repentance.

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It doesn't mean
your children will.

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At the end of the day, there
are consequences to actions.

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Happily, with the good news
we all, however, have

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the opportunity to press
a reset button and

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that's good news for all of us.

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Kirsten: It is.

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Jeffrey: [sighing]
It's all over; what a story.

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Hey, thanks for helping
us tell it, by the way.

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We really
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Thanks either way.

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As you go now, shaalu
shalom Yerushalayim.

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Kirsten: Pray for the peace
of Jerusalem.

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