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We now continue airing my wonderful conversation with Rabbi Jonathan Khan for the Dayspring Christian Academy.

Here it is.

Now, Eric, I saw this happen in my own lifetime.

When I was a new believer, and actually this was the event that forced me to tell my parents I was a believer in Jesus, I went to Washington.

And the thing was, there was a time in you, I'm sure you remember it, when it looked like America's fallen apart. Carter was president. We were having double-digit inflation, double-digit employment. We were on gas lines. Everything was fallen apart. And we had 52 American hostages in Iran. And every day we turn on the television and say, death to America,

death to America. Then Carter sent in a rescue thing. They crashed, and it was disaster. A gloom was on America. And they were saying it was the most important thing. You need to focus,

Jonathan. The most important thing, Carter never sent a mean tweet in his life.

All right.

Focus on what's important.

We'll give him that.

Go ahead.

Of course, there were no tweets, but we'll give him that.

All right.

So, all right.

So what happened was at that same moment, Christians gathered from around the country,

and they came to the Washington Mall, and they prayed with one scripture.

The scripture was, if my people. They kept saying again and again and again, I remember being there. What year was that? That was, that was

1980, 1980. If my people, if my people, I was there. I was a new believer. And I remember

two prayers. One is everybody grabbed their hands and they said, Lord, where we were helpless

with these hostages and over a year,

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