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It's time for the Line of Fire with your host, biblical scholar and cultural commentator Dr. Michael Brown, your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity.

Call 866-34 Truth to get on the line of fire. And now, here's your host, Dr. Michael Brown.

Welcome friends to the line of fire.

As Israel is at war with Hamas,

as there is now great suffering on all sides in the region.

It's so important as God's people.

We understand the times, we understand the seasons,

we understand how we should

respond. Michael Brown, so glad to be here with you in these urgent times. Friends, by God's grace,

we are standing as watchmen on the wall. After decades of being in the Lord over 50 years now, I can't remember a time in my life where I felt any more that we're here for such a time as this.

So friends, we're here to help equip you and strengthen you and empower you so that you know how to engage.

So whatever you're doing, whether you're pastoring a congregation,

whether you're a student on a campus,

in a hostile environment to your faith,

whether you're in the business world, home right now,

raising kids, whoever you are, we are here to help equip

and strengthen you.

I've got a lot of material to cover as we address the question, why should Christians

even care about Israel? Why should Christians especially be praying for Israel? It does not mean that we

don't care about the Muslim people in the Middle East. It does not mean that we don't care

about the suffering of the civilians in Gaza right now. It does not mean that we don't pray for the salvation of people

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