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Hey, guys, I wanted to do something special for the next couple of weeks, and I'm sure that this video is a little bit shaky because I'm doing it on my iPhone.

I'll try to do it with a better camera equipment in the next few days.

But I am on my way to Israel.

So I'm in Dubai right now, long story, but in order to make the Israel trip work,

we had to fly through Dubai.

We had to stay overnight here in Dubai.

It's about 1 o'clock in the morning right now and it is hot.

It's probably 95 degrees Fahrenheit at the moment and we have about 14 people in this hotel

right behind me.

You see the Hampton Inn in Dubai.

We're about 20 minutes from beautiful Dubai airport.

We're going to be actually coming back to Dubai in at the end of our Israel trip.

So we'll go to Israel tomorrow and then we'll come back the end of next week.

But I wanted to take a little hiatus from our Matthew study and just talk you through some of the sites of Israel and talk through just some

things that that are going to be highlights for us over the next couple of weeks. But I thought,

you know, on this first episode, I just want you to kind of walk with us on this journey. So here

I am in Dubai. It's been an incredibly busy day. We left after church yesterday. And I personally flew from D.C. to Newark and then Newark all the way here to Dubai. I got here about three hours ahead of our group. I came to the hotel, figured out the train system, came to the hotel, checked everybody in, and then took the train back to the airport,

met them when they arrived off of their various flights.

And I think we've got all the sheep in the sheep coat for the night,

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