Welcome to the podcast, everyone. Mando Gonzalez here in studio with a great friend Bill Salas.

And we're going to be looking at what has been happening, certainly in the Middle East,

specifically Israel. As you all know, October 7th, a war started. And one of the things that Bill

did, he wrote a great article for our magazine in the February

2024 magazine where he looked at things at the events in

2023 and also kind of gave some information at what he

thought could happen in 2024. So Bill, welcome.

Yes, exactly. And centered in the Middle East primarily. We took a look at

what happened last year in 2023 and projected, well, what then could that platform and, you know,

spring into in 2024. Yeah, you know, and what you're saying, Bill, too, is that there's,

there's so many passages of scripture that you've been writing about and that speak about,

again, these scenarios that are happening, which again, could happen.

Nobody's saying this will happen.

But the other thing, too, is that when people look out and they wonder, Israel is at the center

of everything.

And I want to talk about that for a moment because as we get to the end of the age,

God keeps Israel at the center of world events.

And we know that in the tribulation, it's Jeremiah 30 verse 7.

It's the time of Jacob's trouble.

So let's talk about that.

Why does God keep Israel centered? Well, one of the primary

reasons in the end times is God has big plans for little Israel, and we find that in Ezekiel,

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