Well, welcome to episode two of season 12 of the Prophecy Prose podcast.

If you call it the last episode one, you'll recall that we're doing this entire series,

this entire season on the nation of Israel. And it is in the news nonstop still

from everything stemming from October 7th. Jeff, what can you say about that? We're going to

talk about Israel in the news and kind of where it all started. Yeah, well, you know, Zecharias

tells us that in the very last days, Israel is going to be like a heavy stone, that people

are going to try to lift it and they're going to throw their backs out because it's just, it's

permanent. You know, Israel's permanent. Going to be like a cup that causes the nations to reel

like a drunken man. And all that to say is two things. Number one, Israel is the focal point

of the end times. And then secondly,

that Israel cannot and will not be defeated. And so that, we know that's going to happen in the end,

but it's like, well, here we are. And what we're seeing right now, I think, is the ramp up to

really the severity of those prophecies being fulfilled in the last

days, Todd, but that tells us that we're in that season. Where we are, we don't know exactly

in terms of exact timing. And, you know, people are always wanting to want us to give them the

inside scoop on where and when. And listen, we want to be very cautious about

that, not to say that the rapture couldn't happen today. It could. But we don't want to be

predictive. We want to say what the Bible says. But we know we are in that season. But if we rewind

back, I mean, it really helps to get sort of a, the backstory, if you will, to Israel

and how Israel came about in the first place and when all that happened. So to do that, Todd,

we got to go all the way back, really to Genesis and to the Garden of Eden because originally,

I mean, God had a, wanted to have a special particular

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