Hi Gary Stearman coming to you from the studio's Prophecy Watchers and in studio with us today

is an old friend and somebody you know you've seen him many times.

Avi Lipkin from Israel. Hi Avi.

Great to be back.

It's always great to have you back and one of the reasons we love to talk to you is because you live in Israel.

You live, in fact, tell people where you live exactly relative to Jerusalem.

Okay, well, I live in a little town called Kedar.

Kedar is really a bedroom subdivision of Malayadumim.

Maladumim is actually a what they call a settlement, but it's a city. It's 40,000 people, halfway between Jerusalem and the northern tip of the Dead Sea. And we are on Highway 1, right off of Highway 1. We're about 20 minutes from Jerusalem driving and about half an hour driving from the Dead Sea. And we have a beautiful desert.

And you can drive for hours in the United States through the deserts or mountains.

And the topography doesn't really change.

In Israel, you go from the coast, which is like Houston.

You go to the hills, which is like the hill country, in Jerusalem, which is like hill country.

And then you go down the other side of Jerusalem and you're in the desert like you're in a

Phoenix, Arizona or New Mexico, and then you have the Dead Sea, which is like Salt Lake,

you know, and all of that is like within one hour of driving. Things happen fast. It's a

microcosm. It is. And Israel is a beautiful country. I think Israel is the safest country. My son, Aron, has lipintours, and he brings a lot of Christian and messianic groups to Israel, and of course Jewish. He even brings Muslims to Israel. But he's very busy, and the land is very, very attractive for people from all faiths.

Now I wanted Avi to tell you where he lives just from the point of view of his perspective

because he's going to talk about things that we wonder about here in America. We hear about the

Saudis. We hear about the Iranian Ayatollahs. And we read about them in the news, but we really, we're far enough away from all this that we really can't quite figure out what's going on.

Give us a kind of a thumbnail of how you see events developing in Israel right now.

Okay.

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