Welcome to the Prophecy Prose Podcast. I'm Jeff Kinley Long with Todd Hampson, and our special guest today is Amir Sirfati.

And Amir is from Israel, of course, and he's a native Israeli and a former major in the Israeli Defense Forces.

He's the founder and president of Behold Israel, which is a nonprofit ministry, that provides

access to news and information about Israel from a biblical and prophetic standpoint.

It is married and he has four children and resides in northern Israel.

And he's also the author of a brand new book called The Day Approaching an Israeli message of

warning and hope for the last days published by Harvest House

publishers. And Amir joins us today from Israel. Amir, thank you so much for being on the

Prophecy Prose podcast. Oh, thank you. It's my pleasure, and I hope that it will bless many.

Amen. Well, let's jump into it. Amir, we're introducing, hopefully,

your ministry to a lot of people who, even though your ministry is global, worldwide, literally

hundreds of thousands of people following you and hearing your weekly

prophecy updates and that sort of thing.

But in case some of our listeners hadn't heard about you before, we thought maybe we'd

start by if you could just briefly share how you came to Christ and then we'll start there.

Yeah, I'll gladly do that.

Well, I grew up in foster care since my parents

divorced when I was very young. I was just three years old. Growing up in foster care was not the

best thing ever. And at some point at the age of 17, having no hope in my life, I thought,

this is not for me. And I wanted literally to kill myself.

I planned it carefully, and just before I did that by consuming tons of pills, something stopped me.

I mean, I know today who it was, but then I didn't, and I decided to give the world one last chance. That time,

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