tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67684537858841428002024-03-13T05:56:30.772-07:00God's Peace PlanDennis Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04811603886409132448noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768453785884142800.post-68897129500084458702014-07-15T10:50:00.001-07:002014-07-15T10:50:03.510-07:00
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Chapter 3<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Who Are the Ashkenazi Jews
(a.k.a. “Khazars”)?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Isaiah 11:13 states, “<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ephraim will not be jealous of
Judah, nor Judah hostile<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">toward
Ephraim</span></b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">” </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hosea 1:11 states, ”<b><span style="color: navy;">The people of Judah and
the people of</span></b><span style="color: navy;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Israel
will be reunited…</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">” </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">We’ve identified Palestinians as being
descendents of <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Ephraim. Next, we need to identify “Judah”. To do this,
we'll trace the path of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Ashkenazi/Khazar/Eastern European Jews from the Holy Land to
southern Russia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">It’s important to restate having a physical ancestry traced
back to the Holy Land <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in no way supports wicked acts committed by either Israeli
Jews or Palestinians. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Physical ancestry simply establishes fundamental rights of
both peoples to reside <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in the Holy Land. Once that’s established, religious laws in
the Bible and Qur'an <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">direct both Ashkenazi Jews and Palestinians how to live
peacefully alongside each <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">other in each group's allotted share of the Holy Land. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We'll start with a
question: Did the Romans really drive out large numbers of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Jews after Jewish revolt in 70 A.D. and the <span class="yshortcuts">Bar Kochba rebellion</span> in 132-135 A.D.? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Or, were only a few Jews killed while most remaining
inhabitants (i.e., today's <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Palestinians) remained in place? If there was no revolt and
subsequent mass <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">expulsion of Jewish tribes, then Ashkenazi Jews are as
likely to be Israelites as <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Hindus from India. If this were the case, if a vast majority
of Jews remained in <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the Holy Land following the rebellion, there'd be few or no
Jews of the Diaspora <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">needing to return. It would discredit the claim of several
million Ashkenazi Jews <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in Israel and around the world that they are descendents of
native Israelites. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">It would mean the Palestinians’ genetic makeup is the
standard for determining <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">whether someone's ancestors came from the region. It would
also mean Muslims <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">would never be at peace with or accept alien invaders who
had no prior God-given <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">rights to be there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To answer this
question, try <span class="yshortcuts">Googling (do a “search”) for</span>
"Bar Kochba rebellion". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Here's two links to start with: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts"><u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt</span></span></u></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/revolt1.html" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts"><u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/revolt1.html</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">.
Reading these <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and other sources will establish in a scientific, historical
sense that the Bar Kochba <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">revolt did take place, it was put down with extreme brutality,
and large numbers of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Jews were driven from <span class="yshortcuts">Judea and
Galilee</span>. It'll also show that Samaritans, who <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">inhabited the central region of the Holy Land, did not
revolt and were not expelled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>addition,<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span>the Qur'an,<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>hadiths<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>(sayings<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>of<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Muhammad<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>not<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>included<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>in<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>the Qur'an),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and history of Islam provide witness to the presence of a
large expatriate Jewish <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">community in the early 7<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> century (600's A.D.)
living in the locale of Mecca and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Medina. They also provide a historical account of what
motivated the Jewish tribes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">who lived there to flee from
their centuries-old refuge in exile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>Mecca and Medina, which together were the cradle of Islam, sit on the
Western <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">edge of the Arabian peninsula, a short distance southeast of
ancient Israel--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">just outside the borders of the Roman Empire. How did such a
large number of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Jews migrate there, and when and why? There's no record in
either the Bible or <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Qur'an of Israelites being taken captive to Mecca. So, they
weren't descendents <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">of Israelites transplanted earlier by the Assyrian and
Babylonian Empires. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Their captives were resettled far to the east in Iran (Elam)
or across the Arabian <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">desert in Babylon, northern Iraq or Syria. There's no other
logical explanation for <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">such a large community of Jews to live outside their
homeland unless they'd fled <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">there to get away from the Romans. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, here's an
account from the Qur'an referring to either the Jewish revolt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">of 70 A.D. or the Bar Kochba revolt of 132-135 A.D.:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 17:4-8, God; <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">4<span style="color: navy;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">And We solemnly
declared to the children of Israel in the Book,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">“Twice surely will
ye enact crimes in the earth,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and with great
loftiness of pride will ye surely be uplifted.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">5<span style="color: navy;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">So when the menace
for the first crime came to be inflicted,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">We sent against
you Our servants with terrible prowess;<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and they searched
the inmost part of your abodes, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and the menace was
accomplished.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">6<span style="color: navy;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">Then We gave you
the mastery over them in turn,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">increased</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">you</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">in</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">wealth</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">and</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">children,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">and</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">made</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">you</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">a</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">most</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">numerous</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">host.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">7<span style="color: navy;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">“We said, “If ye
do well, to your own behoof will ye do well:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and if ye do evil,
against yourselves will ye do it."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">And when the
menace for your latter crime came to be inflicted,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><u><span style="color: navy;">then We sent an
enemy to sadden your faces</span></u><span style="color: navy;">,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and to enter the
Temple as they entered it at first,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and to destroy
with utter destruction that which they had conquered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">8<span style="color: navy;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">"<u>Haply your <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">will </span>have
mercy on you</u>!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">if ye return</i> We will return:…"</span></b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Verses 5-6 refer to Babylonians, and Daniel
being raised to head advisor to the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Babylonian king. It
may also refer the event Jews celebrate at Purim, where a <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Persian politician
tried to have Jews exterminated, but had the tables turned on <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">himself and his
backers instead. Verses 7 & 8 speak about another enemy coming, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">twice entering the
Temple, and then utterly destroying the land they conquered. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">That enemy must be
the Roman Empire--no one else accomplished the feat prior <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">to Muhammad reciting
the first Qur'an.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note how after
entering the Temple the<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">second time that the
conquerors, "<u><span style="color: navy;">destroy with utter destruction
that which they <o:p></o:p></span></u></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><u><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">had
conquered</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">". That what
got the Jewish tribes moving.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Verse 8 reads, "<span style="color: navy;"> "<u>Haply your <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">will </span>have mercy on you</u>! but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">if ye return</i> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We will
return:…"</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Here, the word
"return" has several possible meanings. It could <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">mean "returning"
to God through obedience or perhaps repeating ("returning to") <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">a previous error. In
either case, God also "returns", either to reward or punish <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">them. A third, more
likely, possibility exists. Verse 8 immediately follows the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">account of the
Romans utterly destroying the Jewish Israelites, so "return" <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in this instance
more aptly fits "returning" refugees. This interpretation agrees <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">with widespread
Jewish and Christian beliefs that the large scale return of the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Ashkenazi Jews after
World War II had prophetic significance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, Western and Islamic history and the
Qur'an agree the Romans devastated <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the parts of the
Holy Land occupied by the Jewish tribes, i.e., Judea and Galilee. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Together, these
establish that a huge Diaspora followed the defeat of the Jews<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in 70 A.D. and 135
A.D. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next question to be answered is: Where
did these exiles go, and how would <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">they have arrived
in Khazaria (south Russia between the Aral and Black Seas)?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While many Jews were already settled
in lands elsewhere in the Roman Empire <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">at the time of the
Bar Kochba revolt, it made no sense whatever for refugees <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">fleeing the fighting
to go directly into the heart of the empire slaughtering them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The logical choice
for someone from Judea was to stay near water and travel <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">southeast across
what's today Jordan to the eastern shore of the Gulf of Aqaba, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">then follow the
coastline south until the Gulf of Aqaba merges into the Red Sea. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Traveling further
south brought the refugees outside the Romans' grasp and to <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the environs of
Mecca and Medina). For refugees from Galilee it made more sense <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">to flee north and
eastward to Syria and <span class="yshortcuts">Iraq.</span> It's a historical
fact and common <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">knowledge that large numbers of Jews settled in
Babylon--that's where a lot of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the <span class="yshortcuts"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Talmud</span></span> was written.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, many of the fleeing Jewish tribes
settled nearby their lost homeland, which subsequently was occupied almost
continuously by the Romans (the Eastern or <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"Byzantine"
Roman Empire after the original empire split in two) for roughly the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">next five hundred
years--until Muslims took over. There was a brief period in the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">early seventh
century when the Persian Empire helped Jews temporarily to regain <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">control of
Jerusalem, but the Byzantine Empire retook it five years later. So, for <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">almost the entire time
prior to the spread of Islam it wasn't safe for Jewish <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">refugees to return
to the Holy Land. Consequently, they were still in Mecca and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Medina when Islam
arrived on the scene. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, comes the difficult part: explaining
why Jewish tribes left centuries-old <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">havens to travel
north to southern Russia (aka "Khazaria "). It's not hard finding<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
</span>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">evidence of good
reasons for an exodus of Jews from Muslim lands back in the<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">seventh and eighth
centuries. What's difficult is including this information in an<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">article meant to
promote peace rather than making prospects for peace between <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Muslims and Jews
seem like an impossible dream. So, before providing negative <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">evidence of why many
Jews migrated north to Khazaria, we'll first see ample <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">proof that peace
between Jews and Muslims is a valid and viable alternative.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The Qur’an Supports Interfaith Peace<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 5:69;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Verily, they who
believe (Muslims),<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and they who
follow <u>the Jewish religion</u>, and <u>the Christians</u>, …—<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">whoever</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">of</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">these</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">believeth</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">in</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">God</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">and</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">the</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">last</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">day,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">and</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">doeth</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">that</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">which is right,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">shall have their
reward with their Lord:…"<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 3:113-114;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">113</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"> Yet all are not alike: <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Among the people
of the Book is an upright folk,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">who recite the
signs of God in the night-season, and adore:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">114</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <span style="color: green;">They believe in God and the Latter Day, and
enjoin justice, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and forbid evil,
and speed on in good works. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">These are the
righteous </span></b><span style="color: #003366; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>whatever
their religion</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sura 5:69 and Sura 3:113-114 prove Jews and
Christians who do their religions <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">correctly are
"upright", "righteous", and "believe in God",
i.e., they're "faithful"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">according to the
Qur'an. Now, let's take this understanding and apply it in the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">following passage to
what's happening in the Holy Land… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 49:9-10;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">9 </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">If two bodies of the faithful</span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>i.e.,"good" Jews and Muslims</i>]</span><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">are at war,</span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">then make ye
peace between them;<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and if one of
them wrong the other, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">fight against
that party which doth the wrong,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><u><span style="color: green;">until they
come back to the precepts of God</span></u><span style="color: green;">;<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><u><span style="color: green;">if they come
back</span></u><span style="color: green;">, <u>make peace between them with
fairness</u>, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and act
impartially; God loveth those who act with impartiality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10<span style="color: green;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">Only <u>the
faithful are brethren</u>; <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">wherefore <u>make
peace between your brethren</u>;<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and fear God,
that ye may obtain mercy."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The meaning of the term "Islam" is
"submitting to God". Muhammad was saying <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">people who follow
other religions properly are also submitting to God, i.e., they're<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"Muslims"
of a different sort. That's partly the reason for the following passages:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 2:256;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><u><span style="color: green;">Let there be no compulsion in religion</span></u><span style="color: green;">.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><u><span style="color: green;">Now is the right way made distinct from error</span></u><span style="color: green;">."<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 3:20;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">SAY to those who
have received the Book, and to the common folk,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"Do ye
surrender yourselves unto God?"<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">If they become
Muslims, then they are guided aright:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">but <u>if they
turn away—thy duty is only preaching</u>, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and God's eye is
on His servants."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately for us
today, the Qur’an contains a strong message of forgiveness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 5:13;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">But for breaking
their covenant <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">We have cursed
them </span></b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>"the
children of Israel"</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">…<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">But forgive them,
and pass it over: <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">verily, God
loveth those who act generously!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 41:34;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">…Turn away evil by what is better, and lo!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">he between whom and thyself was enmity,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">shall be as though he were a warm friend."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No permanent enmity need exist between
Muslims and either Jews or Christians. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">It's a choice people
make, even if millions choose "wrong" and teach others to do <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"wrong".
Now, on to examining the darker side of relations between Jews and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Muslims that led so
many Jews to depart the Middle East long ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">THE REASON MANY JEWS FLED FROM MUSLIM LANDS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Relations between Muslims and Jews over the
centuries and in different places <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">weren't uniformly
good or bad. Much of the time, Jews received better treatment<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in Muslim lands than
in Christian. However, at times their relations with each other <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">were awful. When that
happened, Jews feared for their lives. Terrified people are <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">apt to flee places
if the people who terrify them are stronger than themselves. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The hadiths attest
that many Jews did indeed go into exile. Whether they became <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">terrified as a
result of their own misdeeds or someone else's fault isn't the issue. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">We're simply going
to see that Jews who opposed Islam had extremely sufficient <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and dire motivation
to flee the Middle East and make a bee-line north to Khazaria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Relations between Muslims and Jews began to
deteriorate after Muhammad left<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Mecca to live in
Medina (called "Yathrib" at the time) in 622 C.E. There were three <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">significant Jewish
tribes living in Medina almost 500 years after the Romans <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">drove out their
ancestors; the "Bani Qaynuqa", "Bani Nadir", and "Bani
Quraiza".<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">In a short span of
time after Muhammad arrived in Medina, the three Jewish <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">tribes were gone.
The Bani Qaynuqa and Nadir were exiled and their possessions <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">taken from them. A
leader of the Bani Nadir named "Ka`b bin al-Ashraf" was <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">murdered/executed
after being tricked into leaving his "castle" under orders <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">from Muhammad. An
account of this may be found in the al-Bukhari collection of <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">hadiths in book 5,
passage #369. It's also recorded by Muslim sources that this <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">act terrified other
Jews. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If that wasn't enough, after being accused
of betraying Muslims to the Meccans, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">every adult male
member of the third tribe, the Bani Quraiza, was executed and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">their women and
children divided among the Muslim army. As news of this spread <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">(along with the
spread of Islam), many Jews naturally would want to leave. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Try doing a computer
search of "Ka`b bin al-Ashraf", "Bani Qaynuqa", "Bani
Nadir", <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and "Bani
Quraiza".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You'll have loads of
references to look up and a much clearer <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">understanding of the
predicament the world faces today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These actions against the Jews of Medina
weren't unprovoked, and it's <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">necessary to
understand the historical context in which they happened. It was <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">an unfortunate event
directed towards a specific person and group threatening <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the early Muslims'
security, but it's been taken by many Muslims as being meant <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">globally and for all
time. Knowledge of this isn't hidden from Israeli Jews, even<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">if Western people
are ignorant of it. It means that if they're put between a rock <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and a hard place,
Israelis will likely be desperate enough to resort to using “nukes”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">We need to get this
one "right" for everyone's sake.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here's a brief
account of the historical context for what happened: In Islam's <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">early days, Muslims were opposed by Mecca's polytheistic
Arab rulers, whose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">armies together greatly outnumbered that of the Muslims of
Medina. For several <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">years the Meccan rulers tried to entice the Jewish tribes
into an alliance against <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the Muslims. Muslims were in a very precarious position,
outnumbered by the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Meccan army and threatened from within by the high
likelihood of a large fifth <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">column (the Jewish tribes of Medina). The manner in which
Muslims handled the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">internal threat sent Jews on a new exodus north (and
elsewhere).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alright, I've done
what I can to prepare you for the anti-Jewish parts of the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Qur'an and hadiths. Now, here's some examples of these:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 5:13 (speaking about Jews);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">But for breaking their covenant <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">We</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">have</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">cursed</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">them</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: navy;">[<i>"the</i></span><i><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">children</span></i><i><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">of</span></i><i><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">Israel"</span></i><span style="color: navy;">]</span><b><span style="color: green;">,</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">and…hardened</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">their</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">…Thou</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">wilt</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">not</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">cease</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">to</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">discover</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">deceit</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">on</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">their</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">part,</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">except</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">in</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">a</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">few</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">of</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">But forgive them, and pass it over:…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There's two important things to note here:
first, while<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>"children
of Israel" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">applies to Jews, it applies to
Palestinians as well, who are also descended <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">from Israelites. Then, we have
this…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 5:51;<span style="color: green; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">O believers! take not the Jews or Christians as friends.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">They are but one another's friends.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">If anyone of you taketh them for his friends, he surely is
one of them!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Sura 5:51
appears to describe the way many Christians side with<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Jews <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in the Holy Land today, when it was originally spoken it
referred to events of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Muhammad's time. It’s meant neither eternally or globally.
Otherwise, passages <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">you read four pages earlier under the heading “<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Qur’an Supports Interfaith <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Peace</span>” make
no sense. However, there’s no contradiction if the negative passages <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">are directed at the actions of a specific group of Jews at a
specific time and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">location. Once the Jewish tribes were exiled from Medina and
Mecca, they'd look <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">for allies to oppose the spread of the nation/religion that
exiled them. Christians <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">(i.e., the Byzantine Empire) were likewise seeking allies to
oppose the spread of a <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">competing religion. The negative passages primarily apply to
the political situation <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">of that era, even if they appear to fit what's going on
today, too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Next, two prophecies that appear deadly to Jews--and are deadly the way <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">they're taught to Muslims. In
both, “<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Isã</span>”, the Arabic
equivalent of “Jesus”,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">has just defeated the “Dajjãl”
(“the Antichrist”) and an allied Jewish army<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in the West Bank. Here they are… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sunan Ibn-I-Majah<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>p.384 #4077;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">…Thus Allãh would
defeat the Jews<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and there would
be left nothing that Allãh has created<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">with</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">which</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">a</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">Jew</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">would</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">hide</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">himself</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">but</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">Allãh</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">would</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">make</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">that</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">thing</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">speak:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">neither a stone,
nor a tree, neither a wall nor a beast<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">but a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gharqad</i>) (a thorny tree).<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: green;">So it is one of
their (Jews’ tree)</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">-and</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">would</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">not</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">pronounce</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">(the</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">presence</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">of</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">a</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">Jew),</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">but</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">it</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">would</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">pronounce:</span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">'O Muslim
servant of Allah, this is a Jew. Come and kill him."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here's another… Sahih Muslim Chapter MCCV p.1510m<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#6981-85;<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The Jews will be
deflated with the help of Allah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">There will be no
place for them to hide;<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">they will not be
able to hide behind any stone, wall, animal or tree<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: green;">– except the
boxthorn (al-Gharqarah)</span> <span style="color: green;">- without saying, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">'O Muslim
servant of Allah! here is a Jew, come and kill him!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These, together
with other hadiths, are taught in a literal sense to mean killing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and/or expelling all Jews in the
Holy Land. When mass numbers of people have <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">their minds patterned to believe
this way, peace is impossible. Add together the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">hadith in which the Jew Ka`b bin
al-Ashraf is deceived and killed, and it's easy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">to see how dangerous these
passages may be if misinterpreted. I'll touch on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">this subject in a later article.
Here, we're following the path of the Jewish<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">exodus from the Holy Land, not
teaching Islamic theology. What's important<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">to know is that there is a
peaceful path out of this mess and that Jews had a <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">very good reason to keep moving
north ahead of the advancing Islamic nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">KHAZARIA<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now, we come to the final leg of the journey of the Jewish tribes from
the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Holy Land north to southern
Russia. The map of Khazaria below graphically <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">demonstrates why Jews emigrated
to Khazaria when relations with their Arab <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">neighbors soured. As Islam
spread, the Jewish tribes originally exiled from Medina <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">would have had to keep on the
move. Many would have traveled north to join with <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the large Jewish community in
Babylon. Once Islam moved north to Babylon, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Khazaria was the most logical
place for them to go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">MAP
OF KHAZARIA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">©<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Unknown<span style="color: red;"> </span>-<span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://www.sott.net/image/image/12171/Khazaria.jpg"><span style="color: #003399;">http://www.sott.net/image/image/12171/Khazaria.jpg</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>The net result of Islam’s rise in
the late 600’s A.D. was that Jews weren’t very <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">welcome in Mesopotamia anymore. And
here’s where Khazaria comes in. Khazaria <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">existed from 652 A.D. until 1016 A.D., when Russia conquered
them. In 740 A.D., <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the Khazar king made Judaism the
state religion of Khazaria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This, at
just the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">time Jews needed to leave Mesopotamia. If you were a Jew
back then, you could <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">travel hundreds of miles through dangerous territory to
Europe to face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">persecution by Christians or stay at home and face
persecution from Muslims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Or you could make a much shorter bee-line due North where
you’d be welcome <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in Khazaria. Where would you go?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the course of the next four centuries,
the Jewish refugees intermixed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">with the Khazars, who were
primarily of Turkish descent (i.e., Hittite, but with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">a bit of Mongol blood and
whoever else had invaded the region). So, the genetic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">gulf between half-brother
Israelites grew and grew. In addition, since many<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Samaritans were Canaanites
absorbed into the tribe or people from elsewhere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in Mesopotamia who’d been
transplanted by the Assyrian Empire into Samaria,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">it’s no surprise the genetic
connection between Palestinians and Ashkenazi Jews<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">is so vague and elusive. The point
is, holding Ashkenazi Jews to a standard of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">how closely they resemble
Palestinians is asking the wrong question and applying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">an unfair measure. We know the
Romans did what they did. The defeated Jewish<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Israelite tribes had to go
somewhere. Certainly, they didn’t flee to Rome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">With the rise of Islam, common
sense tells us where many would go—i.e., Khazaria.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The following three prophecies
all refer to returning Ashkenazi Jew Israelites…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Jeremiah 23:5-8;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">5<b><span style="color: navy;"> "The days are coming," declares
the LORD,…</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">6<b><span style="color: navy;"> …<u>Judah will be saved and Israel will
live in safety</u>. …<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">7<b> <span style="color: navy;">"So then, the days are coming,"
declares the LORD,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"when people will no longer say,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">`As</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">surely</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">LORD</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">lives,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">who</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">brought</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Israelites</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">up</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">out</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">of</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Egypt,'<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">8<b> <span style="color: navy;">but they will say, `As surely as the LORD
lives,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of
the north<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and out of all the countries where he had banished them.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Then they will live in their own land."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The "land of the north"? In the
Bible, that phrase is used to describe the<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Assyrian Empire,
whose territory included southern portions of what later<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">became known as
“Khazaria”. The following prophecy is a near duplicate…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Jeremiah 16:14-15;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">14<b> <span style="color: navy;">"However, the days are
coming," declares the LORD,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"when men will no longer say,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">`As</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">surely</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">LORD</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">lives,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">who</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">brought</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Israelites</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">up</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">out</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">of</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Egypt,'<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">15<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">but they will say, `As surely as the LORD lives,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and out of all the countries where he had banished them.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">For I will restore them to the land I gave their
forefathers."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next prophecy refers to the confusion
over Ashkenazi origins and claims<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">that they’re alien
interlopers posing as Israelites.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Isaiah 49:20-21;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">20 <b><span style="color: navy;">The</span></b></span><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">children</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">born</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">during</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">your</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">bereavement</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">will</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">yet say in your hearing,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">‘This place is too small for us; give us more space to live
in.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">21<b><span style="color: navy;"> Then you will say in your heart, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">‘Who bore me these </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">[<i>Ashkenazi Jews/Khazars</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Who brought these up?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I was left all alone, but these—where have they come from?’
”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plenty of Palestinians and their
sympathizers claim Ashkenazi Jews aren't <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Israelites. The questions, “<span style="color: navy;">’Who bore me these</span>?”, <span style="color: navy;">Who
brought these up?</span>”, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and “<span style="color: navy;">where
have they come from?</span>” sound like the people today who deny <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Ashkenazi Jews’ rights to be in
the Holy Land. They believe Ashkenazi Jews <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">have no prior history
whatsoever in the Holy Land, and they base that judgment <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">on the lack of common genetics
with Palestinians. But, as we saw in the previous <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">chapter, the Israelites are
composed of many peoples, so a direct correspondence <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">of the genetics of Palestinians
and Ashkenazi Jews is a flawed standard upon which<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">to make a fair and accurate
judgment. However, it's interesting to note that God <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">apparently noticed this
confusion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">One last question:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve seen evidence
that the Romans did indeed attack Judea and Galilee and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">that people fled. We’ve seen evidence the descendents of
many of these people <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">made their way north to Khazaria. But, we still haven’t received
proof that not all <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Israelites were Abraham’s physical descendents, which is
necessary to explain <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the genetic gulf separating the two groups. Following are
examples of accounts <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">which prove Canaanites remained in the land (mostly in the
proximity of the tribal <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">lands of Ephraim and Manasseh, later called “Samaria”).
There’s also proof that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">outsiders from other parts of Mesopotamia were imported into
Samaria by the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Assyrian Empire. These peoples remained to become part of
the mixed population <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">that the Bible calls, “Samaritans”, and which 2000 years
later we call “Palestinian”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">First, a commandment from Deuteronomy:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Deuteronomy 23:7-8;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">7 <b><span style="color: navy;">Do not abhor an Edomite, for he is your
brother.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Do not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as an alien in
his country.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">8 <b><span style="color: navy;">The third generation of children born to
them<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">may enter the assembly of the LORD.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Egyptians were
permitted into the assembly of Israelites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the following
account from Joshua, “Gibeon” and the other cities mentioned<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">were located in the far northwest of Benjamin’s allotment
(in the central region of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Canaan, which also included Jerusalem). The Hivites’ cities
lay next to Ephraim’s <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">southern border, which at times overlapped and included some
of these cities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Joshua 9:3, 6, 17-18, 26-27;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">3 …<b><span style="color: #0000cc;">the people
of Gibeon </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Hivites/Canaanites</i>]</span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">…</span></b>6<b><span style="color: #0000cc;">…went to
Joshua…and said…<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"We have come from a
distant country; make a treaty with us."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">16 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Three days after they made the treaty
with the Gibeonites,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the Israelites heard that they were neighbors, living
near them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">17 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">So the Israelites set out and on the
third day came to their cities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth and Kiriath Jearim.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">18 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">But the Israelites did not attack them,</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">because the leaders of the assembly had sworn an oath to
them…<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and for the altar of the LORD…And that is what they are
to this day.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">11 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Within Issachar and Asher, <u>Manasseh
also had Beth Shan, Ibleam</u><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><u><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and the people of Dor, Endor, Taanach and Megiddo</span></u></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">,<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">together with their surrounding settlements…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">12 </span><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Yet the Manassites were not able to occupy these towns,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">for the Canaanites were determined to live in that
region.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">13 </span><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out
completely.”</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the Manassites were unable to
drive out the inhabitants, the inhabitants<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">must have been numerous. Those preceding two passages prove Canaanites <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">remained in the land, The next passage proves other peoples unrelated to
Abraham <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">were also part of the population mix that later became known as
“Palestinians”:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">2 Kings 17:23-24;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">24 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Cuthah, Avva, Hamath and Sepharvaim <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">They took over Samaria and lived in its towns."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many foreigners were present in what was
formerly the northern kingdom, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">“Israel”,
that the northernmost district became known as “Galilee of the Gentiles”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Isaiah 9:1; <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Nevertheless,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">there</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">will</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">be</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">no</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">more gloom for those who were in
distress.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">In the past he humbled the land of
Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">but in the future he will honor
Galilee of the Gentiles,…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s enough proof Israelites weren’t a
genetically “pure” population where <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">everyone was
physically descended from Abraham. Now that we know this, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">we need proof that
the Jewish tribes that were later evicted by the Romans <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">had remained
separate from their neighbors, both within Canaan and outside it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Proof
the Jews of Judea remained apart from their neighbors<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>A much misunderstood passage in
Deuteronomy lies at the root of this… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Deuteronomy 6:14,
7:1-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">6:14 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Do not
follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you;</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">7:1 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">When…God
brings you into the land you are entering to possess…<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">3 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Do not
intermarry with them </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>the inhabitants</i>]</span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Do not give your daughters to
their sons<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">or take their daughters for
your sons,</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">4 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">for they
will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods,…”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jews
were commanded not to intermarry with their neighbors. Why? Is God<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">racist? Or was it something else? At the time
this commandment was given to the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Israelites, the worship of “other gods” of
that region entailed human sacrifice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">To “serve other gods” included the practice
of ritual cannibalism. When the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Israelites turned to worship of other gods,
you find numerous mentions of this. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I won’t print them out here—this book is long
enough already. Instead, here’s <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">some passages anyone can research on their
own: <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Psalms 16:4, 106:35-39, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jeremiah 3:6-10,
Ezekiel 20:21-31, 23:36-39. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The
injunction against marrying <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">outside the tribe had nothing to do with
genetics or race. It had to do with <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">horrible cultural practices the neighboring
societies engaged in. The following <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">account from the book of Numbers proves the
injunction in Deuteronomy 7 isn’t <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">about racism. Here’s the account where God
allegorically spits in racists’ faces…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Numbers 12:1-14;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">1 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Miriam and Aaron began to talk against
Moses<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">[ <i>“Cush” is the Bible name for what we today call
“Sudan”.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">M</span></i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">oses <i>had intermarried outside the tribe with an African woman.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What did God think of this?</span></i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> ]</span><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">2 <b><span style="color: #993366;">"Has the LORD spoken only through
Moses?"</span><span style="color: #0000cc;"> they asked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #993366; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Hasn't he also spoken through us?"</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And the LORD heard this.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">3 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">(Now Moses was a very humble man,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">4 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">At once the LORD said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam,</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Come out to the Tent of Meeting, all three of
you."</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">So the three of them came out.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Numbers 12:1-14;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">5 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Then the LORD came down in a pillar of
cloud;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">he stood at the entrance to the Tent and summoned Aaron
and Miriam.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When both of them stepped forward, </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">he said,</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"Listen to my words: "When a prophet of the LORD
is among you,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">7 <b><span style="color: navy;">But</span></b></span><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">this</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">is</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">not</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">true</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">of</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">my</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">servant</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Moses;</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">he is faithful in all my house.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">8 <b><span style="color: navy;">With him I speak face to face, clearly
and not in riddles;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">he sees the form of the LORD.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant
Moses?"<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">9<b> <span style="color: #0000cc;">The anger of the LORD burned against
them, and he left them.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">10<b> <span style="color: #0000cc;">When the cloud lifted from above the
Tent, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">there stood Miriam—leprous, like snow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had leprosy;</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">11<b> <span style="color: #0000cc;">and he said to Moses</span><span style="color: #993366;">, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #993366; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"Please,
my lord, do not hold against us the sin we have so foolishly <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">12 <b><span style="color: #993366;">Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its
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<b><span style="color: #993366; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">mother's
womb with its flesh half eaten away."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">13 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">So Moses cried out to the LORD,</span></b>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #993366; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"O God, please heal her!"</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">14 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">The LORD replied to Moses,</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"If her father had spit in her face,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">would she not have been in disgrace for seven days?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Confine her outside the camp for seven days;<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">after that she can be brought back."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Bible necessarily touches on the issue of racism, because racism is a human <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">issue we must grow out of. The message of the
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">is that it disgusts and infuriates God. It
can be very easy to get confused when<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">God says, “Stay away from those people
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">“because” and think it’s the people
themselves. Apparently, that mistake was<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">made by the Jewish tribes. That’s why the
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">9 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Samaritan
woman said to him</span></b><span style="color: #0000cc;"> </span><span style="color: green;">[<i>Jesus</i>]</span><span style="color: #0000cc;">,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">"You</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">are</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">a</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">Jew</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">and</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">I</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">am</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">a Samaritan</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">woman.</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">How</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">can</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">you</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">ask</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">me</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">for</span></b><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">a drink?"<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">(For Jews do not associate with
Samaritans.)”</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you’ve learned,
Ephraim and Manasseh intermixed with the surrounding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">peoples and those the Assyrians imported. The mistake
concerning genetics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and righteousness is evidenced in the next two passages…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Matthew 3:7-9;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">7 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">But when he </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>John the Baptist</i>] </span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them:…</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">8 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Produce
fruit in <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">keeping with repentance.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">9 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">And do not
think you can say to yourselves,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">`We have Abraham as our
father.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">tell</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">you</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">that</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">out</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">of</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">these</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">stones</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">God</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">can</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">raise</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">up</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">children</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">for</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Abraham.”</span><span style="color: #0000cc;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">John 8:33-39;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">33 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">They</span></b> <span style="color: green;">[<i>some Jews speaking with Jesus</i>]</span> <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">answered him,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"We are Abraham's descendants and have never been
slaves of anyone.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">How can you say that we shall be set free?"<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">39 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">"Abraham is our father,"
they answered.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On some level, the mistake concerning race
as opposed to behavior as the<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">reason for staying
separate appears to have become ingrained in some of<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the Jewish tribes.
Perhaps it was because their ancestors had been held in <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">captivity for over
400 years by Egyptians, and Ephraim and Manasseh and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">most of their
neighbors had a degree of Egyptian ancestry. (Remember, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ephraim and
Manasseh’s father,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Joseph,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">married an Egyptian (Genesis 41:45).) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">In that case, the
mistake becomes much more human and understandable. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Lots of peoples
who’ve been oppressed feel a sense of moral superiority over <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the people who
oppressed them. It’s a human error.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Galatians 3:26-29, Paul;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">26 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus,</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">27 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">for all of you who were baptized into Christ<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">have clothed yourselves with Christ </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>and his teachings</i>]</span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">28 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">There is neither Jew nor Greek </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>no racism, no nationalism</i>]</span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">slave nor free, male nor female,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">for you are all one in Christ Jesus.</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black;">29 </span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">If you belong to
Christ, then you are Abraham's seed,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">and heirs according to the promise.”</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 30:22;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">And among His signs are the creation of the heavens and of
the earth,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and your varieties of tongues and color. Herein truly are
signs for all men."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 22:34;<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: green;">And to every people have we appointed rites,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">that they may commemorate the name of God…"<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One final note:
Wherever the Jewish tribes fled, their descendents only have<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">a legitimate claim to the share of the Holy Land belonging
to Judah, not Ephraim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The Ashkenazi share of the Holy Land is only in the half
granted to the “Jewish”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">side of the Israelites, not the Palestinian part.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I’ll
close by first thanking God, who directed me to this knowledge and what to <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">do with it. I also thank all the wonderful,
kind-hearted people who’ve assisted<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in this endeavor. I pray our efforts will
help others enjoy the fruits of peace. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I also pray the </span>spirit of peace
compels readers to share this peace plan with <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">others.
That’s how the word spreads and change happens. Pass it on!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re planning a
peace conference in Jerusalem in 2012. If you’d like more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">information or to contact us regarding the peace plan,
please send an e-mail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">to <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="mailto:Gods_Peace_Plan_for_the_Holy_Land@yahoogroups.com"><span style="color: #003399;">Gods_Peace_Plan_for_the_Holy_Land@yahoogroups.com</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Psalm 122:6-9,
David;</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">6<b> <span style="color: green;">Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"May those who love you be secure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">7<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">May there be peace within your walls and security within your
citadels."</span></b><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">8<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"Peace be within you."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">9<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I will seek your prosperity."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">…No pay do I ask of you for this.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Verily it is no other than the teaching for all creatures."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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</span>Since this work would have little impact without the specific basis for
a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">peaceful solution being written
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">it’s fair to say all real credit
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">for the scriptures in the first
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">put it as, “All glory goes to
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</span>If anyone ever reprints this for profit, God had better get a righteous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">share to distribute to resettling
people in the Holy Land and helping the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">poor elsewhere whenever possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Direct
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="mailto:Gods_Peace_Plan_for_the_Holy_Land@yahoogroups.com"><span style="color: #003399; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Gods_Peace_Plan_for_the_Holy_Land@yahoogroups.com</span></a></span><span style="color: #333399;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dennis Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04811603886409132448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768453785884142800.post-25479875825082680252014-07-15T10:45:00.000-07:002014-07-15T10:45:08.303-07:00Chapter 2 Who Are The Palestinians?
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Chapter 2<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Who Are The Palestinians?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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we'll look at proof that Palestinians are descendents of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">ancient Israelites. As we do, we must remember that simply
because their <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">ancestry can be traced back to the Holy Land in no way and
at no time supports <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">wicked acts committed by Palestinians and for that matter,
wicked acts committed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">by Israeli Jews.<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Physical<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span>ancestry<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>simply<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>establishes<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>the<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>fundamental<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>rights<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>of both <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">peoples to live side by side in the Holy Land. Once that’s
established, laws in both <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the Bible and Qur'an direct both peoples on how to live
peacefully together. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The Bible also instructs Christians to help the process by
being even-handed in <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">their support of both factions of Israelites. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">providing</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">proof</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">Palestinians</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">
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</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">Israelites,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">it's</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">
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</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">we</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">understand <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">why</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">proof</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">is</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">necessary at</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">all.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">Aren't</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">we</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">supposed</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">to</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">separate Church</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">and</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">State?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Perhaps in domestic matters, but not international. Religions
shape the way large <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">groups of people think and act. If we fail to take that into
account in our dealings <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">with other nations, we'll not only be perceived as arrogant,
culturally insensitive <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">imperialists, we'll also be ineffective in attaining peace. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the case of the Holy
Land, the Bible's Old Testament is used to convince<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">many Jews and Christians it's sacred behavior to deprive
Palestinians of land <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">rights, commit genocide against them, and to support their
governments in <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">carrying out these policies. The only peaceful alternatives to
change this are<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">1) convince believers to abandon their religions, or 2) outvote
members of these <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">religions and so make them irrelevant in making policy, or 3)
demonstrate with <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">their own sacred books that these should be read in a manner
that doesn't <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">promote genocide or land theft. Anything else ends in violence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Option 1 isn't likely
to work and Option 2 has yet to be successful. This article <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">follows Option 3. There's a saying that "the truth will set
us free". Learning the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">truth, that Palestinians are Israelites along with Israeli Jews,
will free millions <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">of Christians and Jews to change their political stance to one
requiring their <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">governments to support the rights of both parties evenhandedly.
These believers' <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">change of direction may well be the deciding difference in how
elections in the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">United States and in the Holy Land turn out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">minds of Jews and Christians to the point they'll support
killing Palestinians <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and/or deny them land rights in the Holy Land. This will give us
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">scope of the problem. We'll start with two passages from
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">G</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">enesis 12:1-3;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">1<b><span style="color: navy;"> The LORD had said to Abram </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>a.k.a. "Abraham"</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"Leave your country, your people and your father's
household<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and go to the land </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">[<i>what's today Palestine/Israel</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> I will show you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">2<b><span style="color: navy;"> "I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">3<b><span style="color: navy;"> <u>I will bless those who bless you</u>, <u>and
whoever curses you I will curse</u>;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.5pt; mso-text-raise: 3.5pt; position: relative; top: -3.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By itself, the promise given to Abram in
Genesis 12:1-3 would serve Arabs<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">equally well as Jewish
Israelites, as Arabs are also descendents of Abram <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">(through his son,
Ishmael). However, a passage in Genesis 17 changes all that…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Genesis 17:19-21;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">19 <b><span style="color: navy;">Then God said,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">"Yes,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">but</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">your</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">wife Sarah will bear you a
son,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">and you will call him Isaac.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting
covenant<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">for his descendants </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">[<i>including Jacob, father of
the Israelites</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">
after him.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">20</span><i><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></i><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">for</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ishmael</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">[<i>son</i></span><i><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">of</span></i><i><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Abram</span></i><i><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and</span></i><i><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">father</span></i><i><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">of</span></i><i><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Arabs</span></i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">]</span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">have</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">heard</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">you:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I will surely bless him;<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I will make him fruitful and will
greatly increase his numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">He</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">will</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">be</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">father</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">of</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">twelve</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">rulers,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">will</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">make</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">him</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">into</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">a</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">great</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">nation. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black;">21 </span><b><span style="color: navy;">But my covenant I
will establish with Isaac</span></b> <span style="color: green;">[<i>Jacob's
father</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;">…"</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Genesis 12 and 17 together
appear to provide God’s sanction for Jews to deny <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Palestinian land rights and for Christians to give one-sided support to
Israel—<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">because Palestinians are perceived to be Arabs, not Israelites. However,
according <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">to Genesis 12:3, if Palestinians are Israelites, whenever a U.S.-made
bomb kills a <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Palestinian on land granted him by God's covenant with Abraham, America
is cursed <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">by God. Looking at the state of our nation, perhaps the curse is real.
And the next <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">one, too… Zechariah 2:8-9, the Lord Almighty;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">8 <b><span style="color: navy;">"…for whoever touches you</span> </b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Israelites</i>]</span><b> <span style="color: navy;">touches
the apple of his eye--<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <u>I will surely raise my hand against them</u>…<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me."</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">Then, we come to Genesis 15, which is as problematic as Genesis
12 and 17…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Genesis 15:18-21;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">18 <b><span style="color: navy;">On that day the LORD made a covenant
with Abram and said,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"To your descendants I give this land,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates--<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">19<b><span style="color: navy;"> the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites,
Kadmonites, </span></b>20<b><span style="color: navy;"> Hittites, Perizzites,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">Rephaites,</span></b>
21 <b><span style="color: navy;">Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and
Jebusites."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Genesis 15 is the basis upon which radical
"Zionists"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lay claim to
virtually the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">entire Middle East. In Genesis 15 it appears God granted
Jewish Israelis rights <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">to Jordan,<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Saudi<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Arabia,
Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, as well as the Holy Land. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Fortunately, the primarily Arabic people living in these
countries are virtually <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">all technically Israelites, too. (We'll see how this
happened later in the chapter.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Consequently, since these lands are already occupied by
"Israelites", there's no <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">reason to support conquest by one Israelite faction over
another faction. Nothing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in the Bible remotely suggests outsiders are to take sides
in an Israelite civil war. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now we come to
Bible passages that appear to support genocide against <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Palestinians. These passages appear to be horrific, and are
well worth further <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">examination to see whether they can be reconciled with the
archaeological record <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and the goal of peaceful co-existence between Ashkenazi and
Palestinian. We'll do <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">that in-depth in a later book. Right now, it's important you
know such passages <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">exist and that you see how crucial it can be for peace that
Palestinians are seen <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">as being Israelites, not outsiders. Here's two examples of
genocidal passages… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Deuteronomy 25:19;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Do not forget!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A literal reading
certainly appears to support genocide against Amalekites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Since some Jews refer to Palestinians as Amalekites, one can
readily see the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">danger of genocide associated with this passage. Here's
another passage…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Deuteronomy 20:10-18;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">10 <b><span style="color: navy;">When you march up to attack a
city, make its people an offer of peace.</span></b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">11 <b><span style="color: navy;">If they accept and open their
gates, all the people in it shall be subject <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">to forced labor and shall work
for you.</span></b> 12 <b><span style="color: navy;">If they refuse to make peace
and <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">they engage you in battle, lay
siege to that city.</span></b> 13 <b><span style="color: navy;">When the LORD
your God <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">delivers it into your hand, put
to the sword all the men in it.</span></b> 14 <b><span style="color: navy;">As
for the<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">women, the children, the
livestock and everything else in the city, you may <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">take these as plunder for
yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">your God gives you from your
enemies. </span></b>15 <b><span style="color: navy;">This is how you are to treat
all the <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">cities</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">that</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">are at a distance from you
and do not belong to the nations nearby.</span></b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">16 <b><span style="color: navy;">However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is
giving you as an <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">inheritance,
do not leave alive anything that breathes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">17</span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Completely</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">destroy</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">them--the</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hittites,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Amorites,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Canaanites,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Perizzites,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hivites</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Jebusites--as</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">LORD</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">your</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">God</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">has</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">commanded</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">you.</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">18</span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Otherwise, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">they
will teach you to follow all the detestable things </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">[<i>i.e., human sacrifice</i>]<b>
<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">they
do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b>Like them or not, these and like
passages, when read and applied literally, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">provide religious sanction for genocide--if Palestinians
aren't Israelites. Now, we <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">have a clearer understanding of the value of proving
Palestinians are Israelites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Without that, the sacred books will continue to be used to
keep millions of Jews <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and Christians on a path leading to mass death and misery in
the Middle East and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">elsewhere. We can't wish away the sacred books or the
negative effect they've <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">played in shaping genocidal attitudes in millions of people.
We can either concede <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">how they're used to demagogues and have them continually
used to promote war, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">or we can see if their message (and followers) can be
redirected to a path of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">peaceful coexistence. Fortunately, this is possible, it's
just a matter of choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this instance,
there are two ways to redirect problematic Bible passages <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">towards peace. The first method is very direct and easy to
do: simply prove that <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Palestinians are Israelites. Since none of the problematic
passages are directed <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">against Israelites, proving Palestinians are Israelites
effectively removes them <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">as targets of Biblical wrath of any form. Since virtually
everyone in the area<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">today is officially an "Israelite", this method
directs the negative message and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">its effects against only people of the past. That's what
we'll do in this chapter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other way to
detoxify the Bible's account is to reconcile it with science,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">i.e., archaeology. By doing this, we can determine whether
genocidal passages are <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">meant literally or allegorically. Seriously. If offending
passages are allegorical,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">not literal, they can be "disarmed". Here's two
examples of this principle: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Proverbs 25:21-22;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">21 </span><b><span style="color: blue;">If</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">your</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">enemy</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">is</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">hungry,</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">give</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">him</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">food</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">to</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">eat;</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: blue;">if</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">he</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">is</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">thirsty,</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">give</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">him</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">water</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">to</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">drink.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">22<b> <span style="color: blue;">In doing this,
you will heap burning coals on his head,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and the LORD will reward
you."</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Hosea 6:5-6;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">5<b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I killed you with the words of my mouth;<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">my judgments flashed like lightning upon you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">6<b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously,
"burning coals" is meant allegorically as "shame" or a
"burning"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">conscience. In Hosea 6, God "kills" with words
because "He" desires "mercy, not <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">sacrifice" of humankind. In general, the archaeological
record doesn't match a <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">literal reading of the Old Testament's "genocide".
What appears more historically <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">correct is a gradual assimilation by Israelites of prior
cultures—allegorical <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"genocide", i.e., removing one's enemies by
befriending them. Which interpretation <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">makes more sense? One that reconciles with science or one
that doesn't?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, on to proof
Palestinians are Israelites. No one can rightly deny that the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">genetic heritage of Canaanites, Philistines, and Arabs is
present in the Palestinian <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">gene pool alongside that of many other ancient peoples of
the area. However, in <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">many cases, Israelite blood from the tribes of Ephraim and
Manasseh is included <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in this genetic mix. Consequently, according to the Bible
and Qur'an, Palestinians <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">have equal rights in the Holy Land with Ashkenazi Jews. In
addition, even those<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Palestinians without direct Israelite heritage are supposed
to be recognized as <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">full Israelites, according to both sacred books. In other
words, Israeli Jews who <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">say "God gave this land to us, not Palestinians"
have no justification from the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Torah and Prophets unless the "us" includes
Palestinians--with equal rights--too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's
time for some history. Jacob (a.k.a. "Israel") is father of the
Israelites". <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">He had twelve sons; six by Leah (his first
wife), two by Rachel (his second wife), <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">two by Bilhah (Rachel's</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">handmaiden)</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">two</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">by</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Zilpah</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Leah's</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">handmaiden)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Genesis</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">35:22-26). Each of his
sons became head of a tribe of "Israelites". <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">sons</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Leah,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bilhah</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Zilpah</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">were</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">jealous</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">their</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">brother</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Joseph</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(who was<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rachel's eldest son). Following Judah's (Leah's</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">fourth</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">son) advice,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">rather than <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">kill Joseph, they sold</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">him</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">band</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">merchants</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Genesis</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">37:12-28).</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Joseph</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">was</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">taken</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Egypt, where</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">he</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">married</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">an</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Egyptian</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">named</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Asenath</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Genesis</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">41:45,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">50).</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">She</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">bore</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">him</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">two</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">sons,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"Manasseh"</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">first, then</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"Ephraim".</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Arabs</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">are</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">descended</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">from</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Abraham</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hagar,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">who was Egyptian, also (Genesis 16;1 & 15,
25:9-18). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Because both Asenath and Hagar were Egyptian,
Joseph's descendents are the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">same genetic mix as Arabs.</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That's why Joseph's Israelite descendents <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">(Palestinians) are often mistaken for Arabs. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jacob accepted Joseph's sons
into his family</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">(Genesis</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">48:5-20). Joseph's <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">sons were each given a separate inheritance in Canaan (Deuteronomy
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Joshua 14:1-5, 16:1-17:17, Ezekiel 48:5-6), making the </span>Israelites<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"> essentially <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">thirteen tribes. Moses, God’s representative, authorized Joshua to set
tribal <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">boundaries (Deuteronomy 31:7-13). Boundaries are one form of Bible
"covenant". <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Joseph’s portion lay in the central region and ran</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">from</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">the</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Jordan</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">River</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">west</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">to</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">the</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Mediterranean</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Sea</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">and</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">from</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">the southern edge of the Sea of Galilee to just</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">north</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">of</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Jerusalem</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">(Joshua</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">16:1-9,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">17:10-11).</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>Eventually, the Israelites united as a kingdom, "Israel",
under King Saul, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">who</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">was</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">followed by kings David and Solomon. After Solomon
died, "Israel" <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">split into two kingdoms,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"Judah" in the south and
"Israel" in the north. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">From this point on, the name "Israel"
refers to the</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">northern</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">kingdom only,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">an area half the size of Solomon's
"Israel". "Judah" was comprised</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">tribes Judah, Benjamin, and Simeon.
"Israel" (the</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">northern</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">kingdom)</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">was</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">comprised</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of the tribes Ephraim
and Manasseh (hereafter</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">collectively</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">called</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"Ephraim"), Reuben, Asher, Naphtali,
Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, and Gad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">all</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">prophets</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(other</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">than Moses or the Psalmist) lived</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">after</span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the split,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">whenever reference is made to "Israel" as</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">either the region or its inhabitants,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ephraim</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">must be included.
However,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">sometimes</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">other</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">tribes</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">aren't</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">included as <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"Israel". Examples of this</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">are found i</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">n Isaiah and Jeremiah, where separate<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">messages</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">are</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">directed</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"House</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Israel"</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"House</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Judah". <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">722</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">B.C.,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the Assyrian (Iraqi)</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Empire
conquered the northern kingdom of <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Israel. Afterwards, they renamed Ephraim and
Manasseh's land, "Samaria". <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The Ephraimite ruling
class was exiled, but most common people were not. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">This is a crucial
distinction and source of much misunderstanding regarding<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">whether Palestinians are
Israelites. 2 Kings 17 apparently says every last <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Ephraimite was exiled by
the Assyrians. If so, then Palestinians are outsiders, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">not Israelites, and
subject to all the negative passages you read earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">2 Kings 17:5-6, 23-24;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">5 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">king</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">of</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">Assyria invaded
the entire land</span><span style="color: green; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></b><span style="color: green; layout-grid-mode: line;">[<i>Israel</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">marched against Samaria<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">and…</span></b><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">6<span style="color: #0000cc;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">…captured Samaria
<u>and deported the Israelites to Assyria</u>…<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">23</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><u><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">So</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">the</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">people</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">of</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">Israel</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">were</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">taken from
their homeland <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><u><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">into exile in Assyria</span></u><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">, <u>and they are still there</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">24 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah,
Avva, Hamath and Sepharvaim <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">They took over Samaria and lived in its towns."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taken
literally, 2 Kings 17:5-6, 23 appears to say </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">every Ephraimite was carried <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">off into exile,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">leaving not a single soul behind. This has virtually no historical <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">precedent for a country the size of Israel, especially when the
conquerors were <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">limited to foot soldiers and cavalry.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Also, exiling everyone wasn't advantageous to
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the conquerors. The usual practice was to destroy the ruling class</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">for</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">control</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to scare potential adversaries, yet leave the poor behind for</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">slaves and profit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">That's what we see in the following example of Judah's exile by the
Babylonians…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">2 Kings 25:21, 11-12;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">21 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc;">So Judah went into captivity, away from her land."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">Nebuzaradan</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">the</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">commander</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">of</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">the</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>Babylonian</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">guard</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">carried into exile <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc;">the</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">people</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">who</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">remained</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">in</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>Jerusalem</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc;">,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">along</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">with</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">the</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">rest</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">of</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">populace<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and
those who had gone over to the king of Babylon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12</span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;"> But</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">commander</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">left behind some of the poorest
people of the land<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">to
work the vineyards and fields."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>verse<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>11<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>says all Jews were
exiled, verse 12 qualifies that, saying poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">people<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span>remained<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>to<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>work<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>the<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>fields. The Assyrians
did the same thing with the Ephraimites. Definitive proof of that follows…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">2 Chronicles 30:1,
6;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">1 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Hezekiah sent word to all
Israel and Judah and also wrote letters to <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Ephraim and Manasseh,
inviting them to come to the temple of the LORD <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in Jerusalem and celebrate
the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">6 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">At the king's</span></b> <span style="color: green;">[<i>Hezekiah</i>]</span> <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">command,
couriers went throughout Israel <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and Judah with letters from
the king and from his officials, which read:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"People of Israel, return to the LORD,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the God of Abraham, Isaac and
Israel,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><u><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">that he may return to you who
are left</span></u></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><u><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">who have escaped from the hand
of the kings of Assyria</span></u></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">7 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Do not be
like your fathers and brothers,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">who were unfaithful to the
LORD, the God of their fathers,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">so that he made them an object
of horror, as you see.”</span></b><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>King Hezekiah ruled
the southern kingdom of Judah at the time the Assyrian<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Empire destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">2 Chronicles 34:9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">9<b><span style="color: #0000cc;">
They went to Hilkiah the</span></b><span style="color: #0000cc;"> </span><span class="yshortcuts"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">high priest </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and
gave him the money that had been brought into the </span></b><span class="yshortcuts"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">temple of God</span></b></span><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">,
which the Levites who were the <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">doorkeepers had collected from
<u>the people of Manasseh</u>, </span></b><span class="yshortcuts"><b><u><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">Ephraim</span></u></b></span><b><u><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> and</span></u></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <u>the
entire remnant of Israel</u> and from all the people of Judah and <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Benjamin and the inhabitants
of </span></b><span class="yshortcuts"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">Jerusalem</span></b></span><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">."</span></b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The "<u>Holman Bible Atlas</u>" (page 139) states,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Though Sargon II (722-705 B.C.), successor to Shalmaneser V,
claims <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">credit for the capture of Samaria,
the Bible implies that Shalmaneser was <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">primarily responsible for the final
destruction of the Northern Kingdom Israel <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">(2 Kings 17:5). During Sargon’s
early reign many Israelites were deported and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">resettled in the upper Habor Valley
(Gozan), near Nineveh at Halah, and as <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">far away as Media (2 Kgs 17:6; 1
Chr. 5:26). Sargon’s inscriptions mention <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">27,290 captives taken from
Israel…Some Israelites fled southward, seeking <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">refuge in Jerusalem, <u>but most
had to suffer the indignity of Assyrian <o:p></o:p></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">occupation in the newly formed
Assyrian province of Samaria."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ephraimites remaining in Samaria mixed</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">with</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">foreigners</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">the</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Assyrians</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">resettled</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">from</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">the</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">"nations", as</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">it</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">is</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">written…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Hosea 7:8, God;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">"Ephraim mixes with the nations; <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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Sec<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">o</span>nd Babylonian Empire <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">ar<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">o</span>se. In 586 B<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">.</span>C<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">.</span>, the Babylonians defeated and exiled the
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">the</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">southern</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">kingdom.</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Samaritans</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">then</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">violated</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">the</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">borders, occupying vacant land<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">belonging</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">to</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Judah,</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">breaking</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">the</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Covenant</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">(see</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Jeremiah</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">31:31-32). However, as a <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">consequence of Judah’s unfaithfulness (1 Chronicles 9:1-3), God gave land
rights <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">as <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Israelites</span> to the
Samaritans who moved into the vacated areas during the<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Babylonian captivity…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Ezekiel 47:21-23, God; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">21 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">"You are to
distribute this land among yourselves<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">according to the
tribes of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">22 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">You are to allot
it as an inheritance for yourselves<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><u><span style="color: red;">and for the
aliens who have settled among you and who have children</span></u><span style="color: red;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><u><span style="color: red;">You are to
consider them as native-born Israelites</span></u><span style="color: red;">;<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red;">along</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">with</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">you</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">they</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">are</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">to</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">be</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">allotted</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">an</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">inheritance</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">among</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">the</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">tribes</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">of</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red;">Israel</span></u><span style="color: red;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">23</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">In</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">whatever</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">tribe</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">the</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">alien</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">settles,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">there</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">you</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">are</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">to</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">give him his inheritance,” <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">declares the
Sovereign <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">LORD</span>."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ezekiel 47
technically covers any non-Israelite in the Holy Land today and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">also has tremendous redemptive value for the people of the
entire Middle East. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">One covenant that appears impossible to resolve peacefully
is…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Genesis 15:18-21;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">18 <b><span style="color: navy;">On that day the LORD made a covenant
with Abram and said,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"To your descendants I give this land,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates--<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">19<b><span style="color: navy;"> the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites,
Kadmonites, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">20<b><span style="color: navy;"> Hittites, Perizzites, </span></b></span><b><span style="color: navy;">Rephaites, </span></b>21<b><span style="color: navy;">
Amorites, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Canaanites,
Girgashites and Jebusites."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>believe<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Genesis<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>15<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>gives<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Jewish Israelis
rights to Jordan,<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Saudi<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Arabia,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, as well as the Holy Land. However, we
must remember at<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">least<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span>30,000<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Ephraimites<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>were<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>resettled<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>all over<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Iraq<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>over<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>two<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>thousand<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>years<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>ago. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">By<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>being
exiled and spreading their seed for the next 2000 years, the Israelites <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"took possession" of all the lands eastward and
northward to the Euphrates. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">By mixing, the sons of Ishmael and Isaac became one! Ezekiel
47 provides legal <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">recognition to mixed-bloods and aliens as Israelites.<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Since people<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>of<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>mixed<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Arab/Israelite<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>blood<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>already
live there, Genesis 15's promise is fulfilled<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>by the<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">region's<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>current<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span>inhabitants, with no need for Jewish Israelites to dispossess <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">other Israelites. This helps
explain how the following prophecy comes to pass…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Isaiah 19:23-25;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">23<b><span style="color: navy;"> In that day
there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The Assyrians will go to Egypt and
the Egyptians to Assyria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The Egyptians and Assyrians will
worship together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">a blessing on the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">25<b><span style="color: navy;"> The LORD
Almighty will bless them, saying,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Blessed</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">be</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Egypt</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">my people,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Assyria my handiwork,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and Israel my inheritance."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's likely
Ephraim's seed spread from Assyria to other parts of the world, too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">What's important as far as peace in the Holy Land is
concerned is that Ephraim is <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">also in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and throughout the
Middle East. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 66 A.D., the
Jews of Judea and Galilee revolted against Rome, which led to <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the siege of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple in 70
A.D. Sixty two years <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">later,<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span>in 132<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>A.D.,<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>the<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Jewish<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>tribes of Judea and
Galilee again revolted<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>against<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>the<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Romans in the<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>"Bar Kochba" rebellion. This was<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>put<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>down<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>in<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>135<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>A.D.,<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>after which <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>tribes
associated with Judah were expelled from both Galilee and Judea.<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The Samaritans never revolted, so they weren't exiled. They
remained in Samaria <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">(later to become<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>"Palestine") as the "stump in the land" in
the next prophecy…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Isaiah 6:13, God;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">And though a tenth remains in the land</span><span style="color: lime; layout-grid-mode: line;"> </span></b><span style="color: green; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>during the Babylonian captivity</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">,</span><span style="color: lime; layout-grid-mode: line;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">it will again be laid waste</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: green; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>by the Romans</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">.</span><span style="color: lime; layout-grid-mode: line;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">so <u>the holy seed</u> </span></b><span style="color: green; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>Ephraim—the Samaritans</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: lime; layout-grid-mode: line;"> </span><u><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">will be the
stump in the land</span></u><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">."…<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">…where "stump" means the remaining Israelites (Samaritans)
after the rest of <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the family tree (Judah and associated tribes) was cut down. After the
Romans <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">drove out the Jewish Israelites, their Samaritan half-brothers moved in,
along <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">with Edomites and later, Arabs. Centuries later, the descendents of the
early <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Samaritan converts were the Christians in the Holy Land whom the
crusaders <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">were supposedly coming to save. Centuries later the land was called
"Palestine" <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and the people first known as Ephraimites, then Samaritans, now became
known <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">as "Palestinians". Same people, name change only. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next, let's look at
prophecies<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>which
indicate Palestinians are descendents of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Ephraim and Manasseh and the salvation God promises them.
Please note the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">lands from which the refugees return. By precisely pointing
out in ancient<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">prophecies specific lands where Palestinian exiles live
today, we know God is <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">present here, today, watching us, perhaps even testing us to
see how believers <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">choose to receive Divine counsel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Zechariah 10:6-8, God;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">6<b> <span style="color: navy;">"I
will strengthen the house of Judah </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Ashkenazi
Jews</i>]<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">and
save the house of Joseph </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Palestinians</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I
will restore them because I have compassion on them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">They
will be as though I had not rejected them,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">for
I am the LORD their God and I will answer them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">7<b><span style="color: navy;">
The <u>Ephraimites</u> </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Palestinians</i>]<b>
</b></span><b><span style="color: navy;">will become like mighty men,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and
their hearts will be glad as with wine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">Their</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">children</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">will</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">see</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">it</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">and</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">be</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">joyful; their hearts will
rejoice in the LORD.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">8 <b><span style="color: navy;">I
will signal for them and gather them in.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Surely
I will redeem them; <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">they
will be as numerous as before."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">So,
God promises salvation for both Palestinians and Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Not
one or the other--both groups of Israelites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Isaiah 11:10-13; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">10 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">In
that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the
nations will rally to him, and his place of rest will be glorious."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">11<span style="color: navy;"> </span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second
time <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">to</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">reclaim</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">remnant</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">that</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">is</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">left</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">of</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">his</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">people</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">from</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">Assyria</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>northern<b> </b>Iraq</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;">, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush</span><span style="color: navy;"> </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Sudan</i>]</span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">from Elam</span><span style="color: navy;"> </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Iran</i>]</span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">, from
Babylonia</span><span style="color: navy;"> </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>southern
Iraq</i>]</span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">, from Hamath </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Syria</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">and
from the islands of the sea </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>expatriate
Palestinians worldwide</i>]</span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">."</span><span style="color: navy;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">[ <i>Note that the lands from where the exiles return are
predominantly Muslim--the places Palestinians fled to after 1948, 1967, etc</i>.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">12<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the
exiles of Israel;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">he</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">will</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">assemble</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">scattered</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">people</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">of</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">Judah</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">from</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">four</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">quarters</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">of</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">earth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">13<span style="color: navy;"> </span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Ephraim's jealousy will vanish, and Judah's enemies will
be cut off;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Ephraim</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">will not be jealous of Judah, nor Judah hostile toward
Ephraim."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note the ongoing
dissension among the Israelite tribes Judah and Ephraim,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">i.e., Israeli Jews and Palestinians. God reached out his
hand the first time by <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">bringing Judah's descendents home after WWII and the Jewish
Holocaust. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The phrase "second<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>time" refers to Palestinians and their
Holocaust,<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>or<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>"Nakba".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If verse<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>11 applied<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>to<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Jewish<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Israelites, the<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>refugees would<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>return<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>from<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Europe, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">not the places Palestinians fled to after 1948. This
indicates God is bringing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Palestinians home this "second time".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">6<b><span style="color: navy;">
There will be a day when watchmen cry out on the hills of Ephraim,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">'Come,
let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.' "<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">8 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">See, I will bring them from the land of the north<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and gather them from the ends of the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">Among</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">them</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">will</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">be</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">the</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">blind</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">and</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">the</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">lame,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">expectant</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">mothers</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">and</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">women</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">in</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">labor; a great
throng will return.</span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">9<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <span style="color: navy;">They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them
back.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">will</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">lead</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">them</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">beside</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">streams</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">of</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">water</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">on</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">a</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">level</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">path</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">where</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">they</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">will</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">not</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">stumble,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">because I am Israel’s father</span></u><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">,</span></b><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>and <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ephraim</span> is my firstborn son</u>."<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Zechariah 10:9-10, God;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">9 <b><span style="color: navy;">Though
I scatter them among the peoples, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">yet
in distant lands they will remember me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">They
and their children will survive, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><u><span style="color: navy;">and
they will return</span></u><span style="color: navy;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">10 <b><span style="color: navy;">I
will bring them back from Egypt <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">and
gather them from Assyria </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>whose
territory encompassed Iraq & Syria</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">I
will bring them to Gilead </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Jordan's
"East Bank"</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;"> and Lebanon,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and
there will not be room enough for them."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ephraim returns
from "distant lands" and from Muslim countries like Egypt, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Syria, and Iraq. Please note many exiles return to Jordan
and Lebanon, primarily<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Muslim countries where Jews would be unlikely to settle, but
where Palestinians <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">who'd received compensation for their land would happily
settle. Now, two more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">prophecies regarding salvation for Palestinians from the
Bible… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Hosea 11:8-12;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">8 <b><span style="color: navy;">"How
can I give you up, Ephraim? <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">How
can I hand you over, Israel?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">How
can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">My
heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">9<span style="color: navy;"> <b>I
will not carry out my fierce anger, <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">nor
will I turn and devastate Ephraim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">For
I am God, and not man--the Holy One among you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I
will not come in wrath." <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not “come in
wrath”? According to Jeremiah, Isaiah, Hosea, and Zechariah, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">God loves "Ephraim" (that is, Palestinian
Israelites) and promised them salvation <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">alongside the Ashkenazi. Obedience is what’s necessary, not
nuclear devastation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Hosea 11:8-12, cont.; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">10<span style="color: navy;"> <b>They will follow the LORD </b></span><span style="color: green;">[<i>by following God’s statutes</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;">;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">he
will roar like a lion. When he roars, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">his
children will come trembling from the west.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">11<span style="color: navy;"> <b>They
will come trembling like birds from Egypt, <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">like
doves from Assyria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I
will settle them in their homes," declares the LORD.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">12<b><span style="color: navy;">
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit…"<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In verse 12 above
and elsewhere, scripture says Ephraim backslid and would <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">pay the cost with exile. But Palestinians are not alone in
backsliding. Consider the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">continual expansion of Israeli settlements into the West
Bank as you read this…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Hosea 5:10; <b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Judah's leaders are like those who move boundary stones…"<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">However,<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>the prophecies indicate God's will is for both Palestinians and
Ashkenazi <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Israeli Jews to receive forgiveness and salvation. That's
the subject of the next <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">two prophecies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Ezekiel 37:16-22, God;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">16 <b><span style="color: navy;">"Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">'Belonging to <u>Judah and the Israelites associated with
him</u>.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Then take another stick of wood, and write on it,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">'<u>Ephraim's stick</u>, <u>belonging to Joseph</u><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><u><span style="color: navy;">and all the house of Israel associated with him</span></u><span style="color: navy;">.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">17<b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">Join</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">them</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">together</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">into</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">one</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">stick</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">so</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">that</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">they</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">will</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">become</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">one</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">in</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">your</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">hand."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">18<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b><span style="color: navy;">"When</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">your</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">countrymen</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">ask</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">you,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">'Won't</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">you</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">tell</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">us</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">what</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">you</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">mean</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">by</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">this?' <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">19<b><span style="color: navy;">
say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I
am going to take the stick of Joseph--which is in Ephraim's hand--<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and
of the Israelite tribes associated with him,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and
join it to Judah's stick, making them a single stick of wood, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and
they will become one in my hand.'"<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">[<i>It
looks like God supports a "One State/Two Sub-State" solution.</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">20<b><span style="color: navy;">
Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">21<b><span style="color: navy;">
and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I
will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I
will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">22<b><span style="color: navy;"> <u>I
will make them one nation in the land</u>, <u>on the mountains of Israel</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">There
will be one king over all of them <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><u><span style="color: navy;">and
they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms</span></u><span style="color: navy;">."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[<i>It's interesting to note the "Road
Map" proposed by George Bush contradicts<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><i><span style="color: green;">verse
22 and by so doing separates the tribes and creates permanent enmity</span></i><span style="color: green;">.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Jeremiah 31:31, 33-34, God;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">31<b> <span style="color: navy;">"The time is coming," declares the LORD, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">"when I will make a new covenant <u>with the house of
Israel</u> </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Ephraim/Palestinians</i>] </span><b><u><span style="color: navy;">and with the house of Judah</span></u><span style="color: green;"> </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Ashkenazi Jews</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">33<b><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">"This</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">is</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">covenant</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">I</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">will</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">make</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">with</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">house</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">of</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">Israel</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">after</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">that</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">time,"<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">declares the LORD.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"I will put my law in their minds and write it on their
hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I will be their God, and they will be my people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">34<b><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">…For</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">I</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">will</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">forgive</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">their</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">wickedness</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">and</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">will</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">remember</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">their</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">sins</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">no</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">more."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>T</span>here's more prophecies on the same
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">move on to the final witness on behalf of the Palestinian
people, Jesus Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">We'll travel next to the New Testament account of Jesus and
the Samaritan <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">woman at Jacob's well in John 4…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">John 4:9-13<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">9 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Samaritan woman said to him </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>Jesus</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">"You</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">are</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">a</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">Jew</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">and</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">am</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">a Samaritan</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">woman.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">How</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">can</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">you</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">ask</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">me</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">for</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">a drink?"<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">(For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">10 <b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Jesus answered
her,</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"If you knew the gift of God and
who it is that asks you for a drink,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">you would have asked him and he would
have given you living water."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11</span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"> <b><span style="color: purple;">"Sir,"</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">woman</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc; layout-grid-mode: line;">said,</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">"you</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">have</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">nothing</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">to</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">draw</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">with</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">and</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">well</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">is</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">deep.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">Where can you get this living water?</span><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">12</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">Are you greater than <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">our father Jacob</span></span></u><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>who gave us the well and drank
from it himself</u>,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: purple; layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">13 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0000cc;">Jesus answered,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">14 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">but whoever drinks the water I give him will never
thirst."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>By referring to Jacob as the
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Israelite heritage. No one but an Israelite is descended
from Jacob, and Jesus <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">didn't correct her on that point. If, as some believe,
Samaritans are full-blooded <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Gentiles put there hundreds of years earlier by the
Assyrians after every last <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Israelite was exiled, then Jacob (or his heirs) could not
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Samaritans. The Samaritans would have taken possession of a
deserted town and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">their "father" would have been the king of
Assyria, not Jacob. In verses 17-18 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Jesus told the woman details about her past no one but God
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">have known. Jesus accepted the Samaritan woman's claim to
Israelite heritage by <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">listening to her testimony and not correcting her. This is
no accident. John 4 is <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Jesus' testimony that Palestinians are Israelites,
descendents of Joseph's sons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Ephraim and Manasseh. The account in John 4 continues with
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">telling<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>her<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>friends<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>about<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Jesus<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>and<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>with<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>many<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>of<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>them<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>accepting<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>him<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>as<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>the<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>Messiah…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>Jesus</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: #0000cc;">because
of the woman's testimony, </span><span style="color: purple;">"He told me
everything I ever did."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">40</span><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">So</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">when</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">Samaritans</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">came</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">to</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">him,</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">they</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">urged</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">him</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">to</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">stay</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">with</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0000cc;">them,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and he stayed two
days. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"We
no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: teal;">for</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">ourselves,</span></b><b><span style="color: teal; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">and</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">we</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">know</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">that</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">this</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">man</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">really</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">is</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">Savior</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">of</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: teal;">world."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many Samaritans
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">what he did as he sent the apostles out on their missions…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Matthew 10:5-6, Jesus;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">5<b>
<span style="color: red; layout-grid-mode: line;">"Do not go among the
Gentiles <u>or enter any town of the Samaritans</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">6<b> <u><span style="color: red;">Go rather to the
lost sheep of Israel</span></u><span style="color: red;">."</span></b></span><b><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">other Gentiles and just said "Gentiles". By making
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Jesus indicated they were Israelites other than the Jewish
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Samaritans<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>were<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>accepting<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>his<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>gospel,<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>they weren't
"lost". Instead,<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span>Jesus<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>sent
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Samaritan, even though his family tree indicated ancestry
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">How could this be unless the "Jews" in John 8
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">that they knew Samaritans were their half brothers?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">The Jews answered him</span></b> <span style="color: green;">[<i>Jesus</i>]</span><span style="color: #0000cc;">,</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"Aren't we right in saying that you are a Samaritan
and demon-possessed?"<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">who accepted him. This theme is carried forward into the
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">When they had testified and
proclaimed the word of the Lord, Peter and John <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">returned to Jerusalem,
preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we can see that
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Israelite tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, and those who
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">members of the Israelites, anyway, according to Ezekiel
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<b><span style="font-size: 48pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">God's Peace Plan<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-text-raise: 3.5pt; position: relative; top: -3.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Robert
Leon Mendelson<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Copyright
December 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All rights reserved.
However, anyone may legally copy any part of this proposal <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and share it with others, as long as no money or other form
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and/or barter is involved. Eventually, when there are any
proceeds, they'll go to <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">God's Peace Plan for the
Holy Land<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All high-lighting
by use of boldface type, italics, underlining, color, and font size<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">have been added by myself unless specifically noted
otherwise. All Bible passages <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in this book are from the New International version (NIV),
but were cross-checked <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">with the "King James", "New American"
(Catholic), and "New World Translation" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">versions for accuracy. All Old Testament passages were also
cross-checked with <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"<u>The Jewish Study Bible</u>" and "<u>The
Torah: The Five Books Of Moses</u>".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All passages from
the Qur'an are from the J.M. Rodwell translation, but were<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">cross-checked for accuracy with the M. Pickthall and M.H.
Shakir translations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">While text for all three versions is virtually identical,
literary style of the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">M.Shakir and Pickthall versions is somewhat archaic [less
readable], so they’re <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">used only to verify accuracy of Rodwell's translation.
However, Rodwell's version <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">only numbers every tenth verse, so verse numbering from
Pickthall is used, instead. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wherever you see
the word “Sura”, the passage is from the Qur’an. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Otherwise, the passage is from a book in the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To remain
objective, personal titles that may offend any of the three faiths<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">have been omitted. Proper names only are used unless a cited
source includes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">a personal honorific in the passage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“God’s Peace for the Holy Land*”? Isn’t that
a presumptuous title? Please allow<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">me to explain.
First, since the sacred books of Judaism, Christianity and Islam<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">provide the
guidelines supporting this solution, and since I wasn’t the one who <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">wrote them, calling
them “God’s” seems fair. That’s why the words “presented by” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">precede my name on
the title page. Second, this book in no way proselytizes or <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">puts one religion
above another. Nor does it openly or subtly encourage anyone to <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">convert to anything.
What it does is take into account something without which <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">attaining peace in
the Holy Land (Israel/Palestine) will forever be unattainable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">That “something” is
the sacred messages delivered to each of the peoples involved <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in the dispute. In
this case, referencing the sacred books is more than some dry, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">scholarly exercise
or even a gesture of courtesy. Without taking the sacred books <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">into account, peace
in the Holy Land will be near, if not completely, impossible.</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What it boils down
to is this: there are two groups of people, Palestinians and<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ashkenazi Jews
(a.k.a. “Khazars”/“Eastern European Jews”) living in the Holy Land<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and who appear to be
genetically unrelated. In general, the belief systems <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(religions) of both
groups seem to direct them to subjugate and/or expel the other <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">group based on their
being alien interlopers. Since millions of participants believe<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">this, and because
their beliefs lead to acts of violence, finding a solution that <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">permits peace
requires referencing their sacred literature.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some may say the conflict has nothing to do
with religion, but if this were so, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jews wouldn’t claim
“God gave us this land”. There’d be no point in doing so if it <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">had no importance to
people. And Iran, a Persian nation, would have little interest <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">in a conflict
concerning Semitic peoples several hundred miles away. It’s the <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">religious connection
that brings Muslims of diverse backgrounds together in <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">support of
Palestinians. Nor would millions of American Christians support Israel <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">without that support
based on how they’re taught to read their Bibles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Palestinians and their supporters believe
Palestinians have indigenous rights<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to the land. Jews
see Palestinians as outsiders who occupied their land after<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">they’d been defeated
and exiled by the Romans about 2000 years ago. Most<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Christians agree with
that point of view, so they support Israel. Unless both<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">parties can trace
concurrent historical roots there, the sacred traditions of<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">all involved parties
will continually be used to promote conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About using the term “Holy Land”; All land on
this Earth is holy. But, rather <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">than spell out
“Israel and the West Bank and Gaza” or saying “Israel” and <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">offending
Palestinians or “Palestine” and offending Israelis, since people are<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">already are familiar
with “the Holy Land”, we’ll go with that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Genetic testing has found only the vaguest
connection between Palestinians <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and Ashkenazi Jews.
Certainly not the extent one would expect if they were all <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">descended from a
common forefather a few thousand years ago. Nor is there <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">much, if any,
archaeological evidence that can prove anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">physical evidence
can disappear over time, and that tribes migrate from one area <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">to another. We also
know many tribes/cultures are mixed race, where everyone <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">may not descend from
a (recently) common ancestor. All these elements are<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">present in the
mystery of where the Ashkenazi originated. The same holds true <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">for Palestinians. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
it could be proved both groups were mutual parties to an ancient land-sharing <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">agreement, peace would be much easier to achieve.
Then, neither side would be <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">perceived as thieves and villains. Neither
side’s religion would command them to <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">harm the other. People everywhere would act
much more even-handedly towards<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">members of either group. On the other hand,
if this can’t be proven, continued <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">misery and wars overseas are inevitable.
Perhaps even the mega-death nuclear <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Armageddon so many Fundamentalists believe in
might occur. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only way to prove both groups belong and
have an ancient agreement is<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">through referencing
their sacred books, both those unique to each group and<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">those all parties
share in common. To some extent, the sacred books contain <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">historical accounts.
When adversaries of different faiths agree on the same <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">historical account
found in one book, that’s powerful, though circumstantial, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">evidence the account
is true. In addition, if the account in one religion’s book<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">supports the
historical claims of their adversaries from another religion,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">that’s also powerful
circumstantial evidence. Ironically, when we consult the <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">sacred books, we
find the Bible provides proof Palestinians belong and Muslim <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">sacred literature
provides the key proof Ashkenazi Jews belong. These topics <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">are covered in depth
in chapters 2 and 3. Once this is proven, the sacred books <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">go further,
providing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the details for peace along
the lines of this peace plan, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">which is presented
in chapter 1.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While there’s value in evidence found in books special to a particular
religion,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">when it comes to formulating a peace
agreement, it’s much better if it’ comes<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">from a sacred source all parties hold as
sacred. As it so happens, Judaism, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Christianity, and Islam all share a portion
of sacred literature in common and <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">all disregard it in general. The shared
sacred literature is the Old Testament. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite the fact many people perceive the Old
Testament as being “Jewish”, <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">in practice it has as much impact on most
Jews as it does with either Christians <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">or Muslims. Both Orthodox and Hasidic Jews
rely more heavily on books written <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">after the Old Testament, which include the
Talmud and Mishnah, as well as an<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">oral tradition. Nevertheless, a Jewish adage
says to “Kiss the Torah” brings one <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">prosperity and a long life. “Kissing the
Torah” means connecting back to the <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Old Testament. So, Jews should be more open
to a peace plan from a sacred <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">book from their roots, not one dictated by
the New Testament or Qur’an.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
Christians, the Old Testament has mixed value. They’re taught that Jesus <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">freed them from the Law (i.e., Old
Testament), so the emphasis is much greater <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">on the New Testament. Despite that, Jesus
made the following statement…<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Matthew 5:17-19, Jesus;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">17<b> <span style="color: red;">"Do not think that I have come to
abolish the Law or the Prophets;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have not come to
abolish them but to fulfill them. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">18<b> <span style="color: red;">I tell you the truth, until heaven and
earth disappear, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">will by any means disappear from
the Law until everything is accomplished. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">19<b> <span style="color: red;">Anyone who breaks one of the least of
these commandments <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and teaches others to do the same <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">but whoever practices and teaches these commands <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">will be called great in the kingdom of heaven."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
may argue that Jesus freed people from the Law, but that was only if they <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">accepted him as Christ. Otherwise, they’d
still be under the Law (Jews), which <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">hadn’t passed away. It still held for Jews.
He then said anyone teaching people—<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">especially Jews—to break those commands would
be “least in the kingdom of <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">heaven”. So, there ought to be some value for
Christians in listening to what the <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Law says regarding Jewish people in their own
land. Consequently, Christians <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">should be able to support a Peace Plan
crafted by God for Jews and Palestinians <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">in the book their ancestors revered. Next, we
come to Islam and most Palestinians. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sura 29:46;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">Dispute not…with people of the
Book;</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">And say ye, "We believe in
what hath been sent down to us</span> </b><span style="color: navy;">[<i>Qur’an</i>]</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">and what hath been sent down to
you. </span></b><span style="color: navy;">[<i>Old & New Testaments</i>]<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">Our God and your God is
one,..."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 2:136;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">Say ye: "We believe in God,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">and that which hath been sent down to <u>us</u> </span></b><span style="color: navy;">[<i>Qur’an</i>]</span><b><span style="color: green;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">and</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">that</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">which</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">hath</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">been</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">sent</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">down</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">to</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><u><span style="color: green;">Abraham</span></u></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">and</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><u><span style="color: green;">Ishmael</span></u></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">and</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><u><span style="color: green;">Isaac</span></u><span style="color: green;"> and</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><u><span style="color: green;">Jacob</span></u><span style="color: green;"> and the <u>tribes</u> </span></b><span style="color: navy;">[<i>Joshua</i>]</span><b><span style="color: green;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><u><span style="color: green;">and</span></u><span style="color: green;"> in that was given
to <u>Moses</u>, and to <u>Jesus</u>,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><u><span style="color: green;">and</span></u><span style="color: green;"> that which was
given to <u>the prophets</u>, from their Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><u><span style="color: green;">No difference do we make between any of them</span></u><span style="color: green;">."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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</span>There are many other instances in which Muhammad told his people that<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the books of the Bible were confirmed. Again, one can argue theology,
but <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Muslims have a choice as to whether they wish to read the Qur’an for
life or <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">for death. Making use of the Old Testament for a solution meant for the
<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">members of both tribes currently in the Holy Land in no way places
Muslims <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">in other lands under any constraints in their own land. The following
passage <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">is quite specific regarding the value of the Old Testament—properly
applied;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sura 46:12;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">But before the Koran was the Book
of Moses, a rule and a mercy;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">and this Book confirmeth it (the
Pentateuch)—in the Arabic tongue—<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">that those who are guilty of that
wrong may be warned,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">and as glad tidings to the doers
of good."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“glad tidings” to “doers of good”. Muslims are supposed to be “doers of
good”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Using Old Testament Law for the descendents
of those it was originally given to <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">in the same land in which it was originally
received doesn’t violate shariah in the <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">least. </span>Muhammad recited a verse
including a reference to David (from the Bible)</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 6:85;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">And we gave him Isaac and Jacob, and guided both aright;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">and We had guided…among the descendants of Abraham, David …”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>David said something pertinent to the situation:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Psalm 19:9-11, David;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">9<b><span style="color: green;">…The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether
righteous.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">10 <b><span style="color: green;">They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">11 <b><span style="color: green;">By them is your servant warned;</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">in keeping them there is great reward.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And last, an Old
Testament prophecy of particular interest for Muslims <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">throughout the Middle East from Isaiah…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Isaiah 19:25;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The LORD Almighty will bless them, saying,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">[<i>Iraq</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> my handiwork,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and Israel my inheritance."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is value for
all people to make use of this wonderful tool for peace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Without it, well, the next two passages sum up what Muslims
will do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The first passage explains how the situation in the Holy
Land is seen by <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Muslims worldwide and how it effects their relations with
America.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sura 60:7-9;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">7</span> <b><span style="color: navy;">God
will, perhaps, establish good will between yourselves<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">and those of them whom ye take to be your enemies:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">God is powerful: and God is gracious, merciful.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">8</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> God doth not forbid you to deal with kindness and fairness<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">towards <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">those</i> who
have not made war upon you on <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">account
of your religion,</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">or driven you
forth from your homes:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">for God loveth
those who act with fairness.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">9</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> <u>Only doth God forbid you to make friends of those who</u>,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: navy;">on account of
your religion</span></u><span style="color: navy;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: navy;">have warred
against you</span></u><span style="color: navy;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: navy;">and have driven
you forth from your homes</span></u><span style="color: navy;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: navy;">and have aided</span></u><span style="color: navy;"> </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>America & the West</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> <u>those</u> </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>Israel</i>] </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: navy;">whom drove you
forth</span></u><span style="color: navy;">:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and whoever maketh
friends of them are wrongdoers."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Palestinians
weren’t allowed to return to their homes after the war in 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Then, after the 1967 war, more Palestinians were displaced.
The majority of<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Palestinians are Muslims, and whether rightly or wrongly,
injustices committed<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">by Israel against Palestinians are perceived as injustices
against Muslims as a<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">religion. According<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>to<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>this<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>belief,<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>verse<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>9 forbids all Muslims
from making peace <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">with either Israel or anyone who supports Israel until this
issue is resolved.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">To understand what this next one is saying, understand that
when Jews follow<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the Torah and Old Testament, they’re included as “faithful”,
too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sura 49:9-10;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">9<b>
<span style="color: green;">If two bodies of the faithful are at war, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">then make ye peace between them;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">and if one of them wrong the other,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><u><span style="color: green;">fight against that party which doth the wrong</span></u><span style="color: green;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><u><span style="color: green;">until they come back to the precepts of God</span></u><span style="color: green;">;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><u><span style="color: green;">if they come back</span></u><span style="color: green;">, <u>make
peace between them with fairness</u>,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">and act impartially; God loveth those who act with
impartiality.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">10<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green;">Only the faithful </span></b><span style="color: navy;">[<i>those
who obey God's statutes</i>]</span><b><span style="color: green;"> are brethren;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">wherefore make peace between your brethren;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green;">and fear God, that ye may obtain mercy."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The command to
Muslims is for un-ending war until all parties abide by the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“precepts of God”.
For Israelites, the precepts for sharing the land were placed<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">in the Old
Testament. There was no need for covenants regarding land sharing <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">in the Holy Land to
be duplicated in the Qur’an. Nor does referencing them in<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">any way make a
Muslim disobedient to God. On the contrary—it enables them <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to receive God’s
mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps as a brief
antidote to all the doom and gloom Armageddon prophecies <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">we’re all <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">tired of,
here’s some prophecies foretelling good…<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hosea 11:9;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I will not carry out
my fierce anger, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">nor will I turn and
devastate Ephraim </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>Palestinians</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For I am God, and
not man--the Holy One among you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I will not come in wrath."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Isaiah</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">54:13-14; </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">13<b> <span style="color: navy;">All your sons
will be taught by the LORD,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and great will be your children's peace.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">14</span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> In righteousness you will be established:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Terror will be far removed;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>it will not come near you."</span></b><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Isaiah 55:12; <b><span style="color: navy;">You
will go out in joy and be led forth in peace;…"</span></b></span><b><span style="color: navy;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Isaiah 19:23-25;</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">23<b> <span style="color: navy;">In that day there will be a highway from
Egypt to Assyria.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">24<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">a blessing on the earth.</span></b><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">25<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The LORD Almighty will bless them, saying, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Blessed
be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and
Israel my inheritance."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For peaceful,
salvation prophecies to come true along with the doom and gloom <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">prophecies, the latter are fulfilled allegorically through
the destruction of ungodly <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">systems and governments which oppress people, not literally
by nuclear war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Which way do you think God wants them fulfilled?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Jeremiah 31:31,
32, 1;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">31</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> "The time is coming," declares </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the LORD,</span><span style="color: navy; font-variant: small-caps;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">"when I will
make a new covenant<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">with the house of
Israel and the house of Judah.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">32</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> It will not be like the covenant I made with their
forefathers<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">when I took them
by the hand to lead them out of Egypt,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">because they broke
my covenant,…"<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> "At that time," declares the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">"I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they
will be my people.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to verse
32, this new covenant for Israelites will be different than <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the first one because both parties broke the old covenant.
That’s why their <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">descendents are still fighting today. Things change. Some
elements of their new <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">covenant will be different than the last one. Now, let’s see
what that looks like…</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">CHAPTER 1</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">GOD’S PEACE PLAN FOR THE
HOLY LAND<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Summary</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">of</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Key</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Points</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">of</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the</b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Plan</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Create a new nation, "Israel" composed
of Israel, West Bank, & Gaza,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with two
Sub-States/tribal areas called “Judah” and “Ephraim”,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>respectively. Each tribal area will have
its own civil government. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Judah" consists of what we call
"Israel" today, "Ephraim" consists of <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the West Bank and Gaza. Boundaries are the
same as pre-1967 War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jerusalem will be the undivided national
capital. Jerusalem’s security will be <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>handled by an international peace force
mutually agreed upon by both parties. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The international peace force will remain
until Israel’s new “Congress” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>unanimously agrees on returning these
duties to Israel’s control.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hebron’s security issues will be handled the same as with Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4. All Palestinians and all Israelis, Jew, Arab,
or otherwise, will be recognized as <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>citizens of the new, re-united, state of
Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Right of Return. All Palestinians may return to live in the land and be
citizens. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Palestinians who’ve had land confiscated
in the West Bank or Gaza will have <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their land returned. Palestinians who’ve
had land confiscated in Judah’s portion <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will receive financial compensation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6. Israeli settlers in settlements in the West
Bank and/or Gaza are<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to receive new
homes within "Judah’s" territory.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7. <span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">All
citizens from either group who haven’t killed civilians of the other tribe <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>may purchase land in either tribal area,
i.e., anywhere in the entire country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Freedom of religion in both tribal areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
national army made up of both tribes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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government, with a democratically-elected "Congress" <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">One Nation<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ezekiel 37:22,
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">I will make them one nation in the land…<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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kingdoms."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Isaiah 19:23-25;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">24<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In that day Israel will be the third, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">along with Egypt and Assyria </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">[<i>Iraq</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, a blessing on the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Blessed</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">be</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Egypt</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">my</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">people,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Assyria</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">my</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">handiwork,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Israel</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">my</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">inheritance."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
prophecy in Ezekiel mandates a united nation of Israelites called “Israel”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">However,
accepting “Israel” as the nation’s name is a bit problematic for Muslims, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">even <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">though it’s the name used in the prophecy
foretelling peace with Iraqis and <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Egyptians. However, it’s quite fair and
appropriate that name be used. It’s not <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">particularly complimentary, but it is
truthful. “Israel” literally means, “he struggles <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">with God”. The original “Israel”, a man named
“Jacob”, was given the name as a <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">description for something he did in Genesis
32:22-30. Jacob/Israel is said to have <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">wrestled with a man?/angel?/God? It’s an
earned title. Here’s part of verse 28:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">“Your name will no longer be
Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">with God and with men and have
overcome.”</span></b> The people of the Holy Land have <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">struggled with each other and God for
thousands of years. Sadly, they’ve earned <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">that title. That’s probably why God selected
the name in the first place. I’m sure <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">it has nothing whatsoever to do with
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Two Sub-States Within One
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The new, united
nation of "Israel" includes the modern-day state of Israel,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the entire West Bank and Gaza, with one national government
(described later), <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and two tribal areas, "Judah" and
"Ephraim", each with it’s own civil administration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Here are some logical reasons (God may have others): <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">A One-State, united nation with one democratic vote for
every citizen sounds fair, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">but in reality it isn’t. Since there are many more
Palestinians than Israeli Jews in <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the Holy Land, One Nation/ One Vote by definition means the
Israeli Jewish tribe <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">loses all sense of self-government and security. Considering
all that tribe has gone <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">through over the last 2000 years, that’s something they’ll
never agree to. Nor are <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Palestinians willing to be dominated by Israeli Jews. But a
Two-State solution is <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">also unworkable. A Two-State solution requires dividing
Jerusalem, and neither <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">party will cede control of their special sacred place to the
other. On top of that, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">certain passages of the Qur’an can be read as forbidding the
existence of a <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">religiously exclusive non-Muslim state. Even if religious
freedom is the law in the<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Jewish portion, many Muslims will see it as Jewish-only and
continue battling. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Perhaps that’s why the following prophecies describe One
State/Two Sub-States.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To understand the
next prophecy, it’s important to know a brief bit of history.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">After “conquering” Canaan, the land was divided twelve ways
by the Israelite <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">tribes. Then, they were united under kings Saul, David, and
Solomon as “Israel”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">After Solomon, the kingdom divided in two, the northern part
being called “Israel”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and the southern part, “Judah”. The dividing line was just
north of Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Samaria” was the
heartland of the northern kingdom of Israel, and in tribal days<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">it was called
“Ephraim” and “Manasseh”. The prophecy makes this distinction<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">between the “houses”
of “Israel” and “Judah”. The “Israel” of verses 1-22 refers<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to the single people
as a whole (hence, “all of the clans”), but in verse 22,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the two separate
“houses” refers to the divided kingdoms, or Judah (Israeli Jews)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and the Palestinians
as “house of Israel”. This is discussed further in Chapter 2.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Jeremiah 31:1,5,21,22,31 God;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> "At that time," declares the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">"I will be
the God of all the clans of Israel, and they will be my people."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">5</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">21</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> …Return, O Virgin Israel, return to your towns.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">22</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> How long will you wander, O unfaithful daughter?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: navy;">The L<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">ord</span> will create a new thing on earth<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">—<u>a woman will
surround a man</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">31</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
<span style="color: navy;">"The time is coming," declares </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the LORD</span><span style="color: navy; font-variant: small-caps;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-variant: small-caps;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: navy;">"when I will make a new covenant<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">with the house of
Israel and the house of Judah.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"a
woman will surround a man"</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">?<span style="color: navy;"> </span>What is that? Well, it has to do with a new<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">covenant between the tribes. The prophecy is looking to the future. If
that<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">future is now, Palestinians are in the weaker position, Israeli Jews in
the<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">stronger, ruling over the other. So, allegorically, Palestinians are the
“woman“ <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and Israeli Jews the “man”. This prophecy describes the West Bank and
Gaza <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(two distinct territories) surrounding modern Israel/Judah. The allegory
of <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">both peoples being a “man” and a “woman” is carried out in more than one
place. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A good example is Malachi 2:10-16, which makes no sense unless the
husband <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and wife mentioned in it allegorically represent both groups. Still, this
is hardly <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">definitive. A much clearer description was given in Zechariah 9…<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Zechariah 9:10, 12-13, God;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> I will take away
the chariots </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>light
vehicles used for war</i>]</span><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">from
Ephraim<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and the war-horses </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>tanks</i>] </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">from Jerusalem </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>capital city of ancient Judah</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> ,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and the battle bow
will be broken…<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first part of the prophecy describes
peace being made between “Ephraim”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(representing
Palestinians) and “Jerusalem”, capital of Judah or modern-day Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Zechariah 9:10, 12-13, God, cont.;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> Return to your fortress, O prisoners of hope;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">even <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">now </span></span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>over 2000 years ago</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">I announce <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">that <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I </span>will restore <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">twice as much</span></span><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>as the "Road Map"
offers</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">13</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> I will bend Judah as I bend my bow and fill it with
Ephraim."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In verses 12-13, Judah (modern-day Israel)
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This graphic description didn’t occur in 1948. Judah’s “bow” was <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">incomplete.</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nor</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">does</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">this describe a Palestinian state with only
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">as the "Road
Map" presented by former U.S. president George Bush proposed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Actually, it appears
God is saying, “If you’ll listen to me, Palestinians should receive <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">double</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">that—the</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">entire</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">West</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bank!”</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That’s</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">how</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“fill”</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Judah’s</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“bow”</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">with</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Ephraim”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Isaiah 61:7, God;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">Instead of their shame my people will receive a double portion,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">and instead of disgrace they will rejoice in their inheritance;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">and everlasting joy will be theirs."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ephraim will not be jealous of
Judah,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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Small Sticks and One Big Stick”</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">15<b> <span style="color: navy;">The word of the LORD came to me:</span> </b>16<b> "<span style="color: navy;">Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, `Belonging
to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.' Then take another stick of
wood, and write on it, `Ephraim's stick, belonging to Joseph and all the house
of Israel associated with him.'</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></b><span style="color: black;">17<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: navy;">Join them
together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">18</span><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"When</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">your</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">countrymen ask you,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">`Won't you tell us what you mean
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">19<b> <span style="color: navy;">say to them, `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I am
going to take the stick of Joseph--which is in Ephraim's hand-<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah's stick, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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them a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.' <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">20<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hold before their eyes the sticks
you have written on</span></b><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">21<b>
</b></span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and say to
them, `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">nations
where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">them
back into their own land.</span></b><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">22<b>
</b></span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I will make
them one nation in the land, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">on the
mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and
they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A basic problem
with the 1948 borders dictated by the U.N. is the division of <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Jerusalem, with one tribe (Ephraim/Palestinians) being given
a choke-hold on the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">other tribe’s (Judah/Jews) access to their most sacred spot
and previous capital. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">In view of Jews’ past experience of being denied rights to
worship at the Wailing <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Wall (and Temple Mount), it’s unreasonable to expect them to
cede full control to <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Palestinians. Nor for similar reasons will Palestinians
accept continued control by<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Israeli Jews. Fortunately, a fair solution is provided in
the book of Ezekiel…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ezekiel 45:1-4, 6;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> "When you allot the land as an inheritance,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: navy;">you are to
present to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord </span>a portion of
the land as a sacred district</span></u><span style="color: navy;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide</span></u><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the entire area will be holy</span></u><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> Of this, a section 500 cubits square is to be for the
sanctuary,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">with 50 cubits
around it for open land.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">3<span style="color: navy;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the sacred district, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">measure off a
section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">In it will be the
sanctuary, the Most Holy Place."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>The Temple Mount. Both
Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Wailing Wall</i>]</span><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">4</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> It will be the sacred portion of the land for the priests,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">who minister in
the sanctuary and who draw near to minister before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">It will be a place
for their houses <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">as well as a holy
place for the sanctuary.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">6</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> "You are to give the city as its property an area
5,000 cubits wide<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">and 25,000 cubits long, adjoining the sacred portion;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">it will belong to <u>the whole
house of Israel</u>."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[“</span><i><span style="color: navy;">the whole house of Israel</span></i><span style="color: green;">”
= <i>both Israeli Jews & Palestinians</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">]<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A cubit is a unit of length equal to 1.5 feet
(18 inches). A mile is 5280 feet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">25,000 cubits x 1.5 = 37,500<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>37,500/5280 = 7.1 miles<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">20,000 cubits x 1.5 = 30,000<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>30,000/5280 = 5.68 miles<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So, an area 7.1 miles long and 5.68 miles
wide…<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">"you are to
present to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>...as a sacred
district,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">...the entire area
will be holy."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's pretty much
the entire size of present-day Jerusalem. While Jerusalem must eventually be
returned to full control by Israel, believers all over the world <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">also have a legitimate rights to access and security to the
Temple Mount and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">other sites. Following is the rationale for this …<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Genesis 17:4-6;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4<b> <span style="color: green;">"As for me, this is my covenant with you:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">You
will be the father of many nations.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; tab-stops: 6.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">5<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">No longer will you be called
Abram; your name will be Abraham,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">for I
have made you a father of many nations.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></b><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">
</span></b><b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">…I will make
nations of you, and kings will come from you."</span><span style="color: green;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Romans 4:16-17,
Paul;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">16</span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Therefore, the promise comes by
faith, so that it may be by grace <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and may be guaranteed to all
Abraham's offspring<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">--not only to those who are of
the law<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><u><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">but also to those who are of
the faith of Abraham</span></u></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">He is the father of us all.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">17</span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0000cc; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">As it is written: "I have
made you a father of many nations."</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“many nations”.
Provision must be made that access to the sacred sites be <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">granted to members of all faiths to worship God in Jerusalem
and all shrines <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">must be fully maintained and protected--eternally. Until the
peace has taken root <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and flourished, to avoid further discord security for the
city should be handled <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">by an international peace force agreed upon by both parties.
At the point in time <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">where the “Congress” of the new, united nation of Israel
unanimously agrees to a <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">resolution granting this authority to the nation, control of
security in Jerusalem <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">can responsibly be returned to the inhabitants.
Interestingly, a prophecy in Isaiah <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">states that when the people make peace within the guidelines
presented in the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">sacred books, the city and nation will be freed of terrorism
and other violence…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Isaiah 54:11,13-15,
God;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11 </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">"O afflicted city </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>Jerusalem</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">lashed by storms and not
comforted,…<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">13</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> All your sons will be taught by the </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>words of the</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and great will be
your children’s peace."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">14</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> In righteousness </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>following God’s laws</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> you will be
established:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">Tyranny will be
far from you; you will have nothing to fear.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">Terror will be far
removed; it will not come near you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">15</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">whoever attacks
you will surrender to you."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">be </span>no more need for "<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">martyr </span>brigade" suicide attacks
or IAF air <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">strikes. With the arrival of <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">justice,</span> those committing violence will be seen as <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">servants of Satan, not heroes! There will be no more
crushing occupation by Israel <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and no more terrorism by either party. If God promises to
put an end to terrorism<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and tyranny, what believers will want to incur divine wrath
by opposing peace?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consider that
Jerusalem of Ezekiel’s day was a fraction of the size mentioned <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in Ezekiel 45. It reached the dimensions prophesied by
Ezekiel only in the present <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">day. Add to that the two passages from Jeremiah and
Zechariah which perfectly <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">describe<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>the<span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>geographical
and political situation today,<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>even down to the<span style="font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span>"Road Map"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">taking half the West Bank from Ephraim. Perhaps this is
God’s way of telling us <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">this is the Divine blueprint for peace and we’re meant to
follow it! <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Perhaps David’s <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">prayer for
Jerusalem’s peace will be answered at last…<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Psalm 122:6-9,
David;</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6<b> <span style="color: green;">Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"May those who love you be secure.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">7<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">May there be peace within your walls and security within your
citadels."</span></b><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">8<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Peace be within you."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">9<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I will seek your prosperity."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">All Palestinians And Israelis Are Citizens<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
Palestinians are Citizens<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Ezekiel 47:21-23;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">21</span> <b><span style="color: navy;">"You are to distribute this land among yourselves<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">according to the tribes of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Isaiah 11:11, God; <span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">from</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">Babylonia</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: green; layout-grid-mode: line;">[<i>Iraq</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">from</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">Hamath</span></b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: green; layout-grid-mode: line;">[<i>Syria</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">,</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">and</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">from</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">the</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">islands</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">of the sea<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: green; layout-grid-mode: line;">[<i>Palestinian expatriates in USA
and Great Britain</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Hosea 11:11, God;<span style="color: navy;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">They will come trembling like birds
from Egypt, like doves from Assyria.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; layout-grid-mode: line;">I will settle them in their
homes," declares the LORD."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Zechariah 10:6-10, God;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">6<b><span style="color: navy;"> "I will strengthen the house of Judah </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Israelis</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">and save the house of Joseph </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Palestinians</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">I will restore them because I have compassion on them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">They will be as though I had not rejected them,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">for I am the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>
their God and I will answer them."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">7<b><span style="color: navy;"> The Ephraimites </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>Palestinians</i>]</span><span style="color: navy;"> <b>will become like mighty men,<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">and their hearts will be glad as with wine.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will
rejoice in the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">8<b><span style="color: navy;"> I will signal for them and gather them in.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Surely I will redeem them; they
will be as numerous as before.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">9<b><span style="color: navy;"> Though I
scatter them among the peoples,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">yet in distant lands they will
remember me.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">They and their children will
survive, and they will return."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">10<b><span style="color: navy;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I will bring them
back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I will bring them to Gil</span><span style="color: navy;">ead </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>"East
Bank" of Jordan</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">and Lebanon </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>some
returnees will settle here</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">and there will not be room enough</span><span style="color: green;"> </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>in Palestine</i>]<b>
</b></span><b><span style="color: navy;">for them."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, the prophecies in the Old Testament of
the Jewish portion of the Bible<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">say Palestinians will
return, according to G-d. This means if Jews wish to <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">“Kiss the Torah” to
ensure a long and prosperous life, then they must accept <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Palestinian “Right of
Return” in some form. But what form will that be?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously, in the area that is to be the
Palestinian homeland (West Bank<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">and Gaza) any
Palestinian who has lost land to Israel must have it returned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">But does this also mean
that all (or most) Jews must vacate their homes,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">even in their share of
the Holy Land? Or does it mean something else? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">Perhaps Palestinian
refugees from areas that are Judah’s share might <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">receive financial compensation
along with the right to purchase land <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">anywhere within the
nation. Verse 10 of Zechariah 10 clarifies this issue:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Zechariah 10:10, God;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I will bring them back from Egypt
and gather them from Assyria.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I will bring them to Gil</span><span style="color: navy;">ead </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>"East
Bank" of Jordan</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">and Lebanon </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>some
returnees will settle here</i>]</span><b><span style="color: navy;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy;">and there will not be room enough</span><span style="color: green;"> </span></b><span style="color: green;">[<i>in Palestine</i>]<b>
</b></span><b><span style="color: navy;">for them."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If many of the
returnees are re-settling in Lebanon and Jordan, then <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">they must have received compensation and used it to purchase
nearby land. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Otherwise, they’d simply have re-settled in their old homes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This solution is
fair in that it respects land-rights for everyone, even though<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">possession of the land shifted over time. Old land rights
are respected along <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">with newer ones.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Reparations<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A flat rate will be set for all land. The
price per acre will be set at</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">current</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">average</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">cost of land in modern-day "Israel"
north of Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Downgrading the cost
by including non-arable desert land in the Negev isn’t fair. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The land taken from
Palestinians was in the more valuable northern half of the <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">country, and that’s
what people should be compensated for. Fifty percent (50%) <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of all contributions
from overseas to either the nation of Israel or organizations <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">within Israel should
be devoted to the reparations fund for any confiscated land. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Anyone who produces a legal deed for confiscated land in
Judah is eligible for <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">remuneration at the set rate. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If money for reparations comes from foreign
contributions, what happens <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">if the contributions
dwindle because of economic distress overseas? And is it <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">fair that the burden
should be carried by the working and middle classes as well <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">as the wealthy? This
situation was evidently foreseen by God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Isaiah 49:23;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Kings will be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">They will bow down before you with
their faces to the ground;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">they will lick the dust at your
feet.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Then you will know that I am the
LORD;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">those who hope in me will not be
disappointed."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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</span><b><span style="color: navy; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Isaiah
60:10-12,16;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">10<b> <span style="color: navy;">"Foreigners will rebuild your
walls, and their kings will serve you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Though in anger I struck you, in favor I will show you
compassion.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">11<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Your gates will always stand open, they will never be shut, day or
night,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">so that men may bring you the wealth of the nations--<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">their kings led in triumphal procession.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">12<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">it will be utterly ruined.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">16<b> <span style="color: navy;">You will drink the milk of nations and
be nursed at royal breasts.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Then you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."</span></b><b><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please note in
verse 16 that the “milk of nations” comes from “<u>royal breasts</u>”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Not “poor peoples’ breasts”, nor “working” or “middle class”
“breasts”. These "kings <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and queens" include royalty of both Muslim and European
nations. Since the wealthy <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">who’ve made money selling armaments live like “kings” and
“queens”, they’re included <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">as well. If any royal families want God to bless them
they'll have to live up to what <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the prophecies say. I'm not going to go further into the
prophecies regarding this <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">issue at this time, some from the Bible, some from
Muhammad’s prophetic hadiths.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">God has given us
free-will and is testing people. Suffice it to say, some kingdoms <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and wealthy will do
the right thing and survive. Others won't. Either way, funds will <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">become available.
Remember<b><span style="color: green;"> </span></b></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Isaiah 60:12;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will
perish;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">it will be utterly ruined."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">So be it.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Rights Of Israeli Settlers
In The West Bank<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israelis living in settlements in the West
Bank have rights as Israelites, too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The southern part of
the West Bank, which will be ceded to Ephraim, was property <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of the tribe of
Judah. Two thousand years after Judah was expelled by the <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Romans, no legal
deeds exist for their land. These undocumented yet legitimate <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">rights should be
transferred to the Israeli settlers. The settlers were put in the <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">West Bank in large
measure by the government of modern-day Israel. So, the<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">responsibility for
providing land for these people should fall on that government <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">as well. Perhaps
with peace, some of the land reserved for military bases could<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">be used for civilian
housing, instead. In any case,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
reparations fund must <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">provide new homes
for them, too--within the newly agreed upon borders of Judah.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Rights Of Citizens To Own
Land Anywhere In Israel<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All citizens of
Israel without prior convictions or pending trials for killing <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">members of the other tribe have the right to purchase land
anywhere within <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Israel. That settles "Right of Return".
Compensation will be given to those <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">whose land was confiscated so they can buy land. No innocent
Israeli or<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Palestinian will be denied rights to own land anywhere in
Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peace requires
avoiding acts of vengeance by members of one tribe against<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">members of the other. For the next fifty years anyone,
including Palestinian <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"fighters" or "soldiers" of the Israeli
Defense Force (IDF), who has killed <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">unarmed civilians of the other tribe should not be allowed
in the other tribe’s <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">territory. The only exception to this is if specific
permission is given by the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">other tribe’s government. People shouldn’t have to worry
killers roam freely <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">among them. Nor is it desirable that people who’ve committed
such acts become <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">victims of vigilante justice, provoking yet more bloodshed.
Moses set the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">principle for this law in the Torah, in the Book of Numbers;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Numbers 35:6,12,26-28;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">6</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
<span style="color: navy;">Six of the towns…will be cities of refuge,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">to which a person
who has killed someone may flee.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
<span style="color: navy;">They will be places of refuge from the avenger,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">so that a person
accused of murder may not die<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">before he stands
trial before the assembly </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>Judgment Day</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">26</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">…if</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">the</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">accused</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">ever</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">goes outside the limits <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">of the city of
refuge to which he has fled<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">27<span style="color: navy;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and the avenger of
blood</span></b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>Tribal government</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">finds him outside the city,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">the avenger of
blood </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>Tribal
government</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">may…* <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>arrest the accused, try, and
carry out the legal sentence for the crime</i>]</span><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">28</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> The accused must stay in his city of refuge </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>his tribe's territory</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">until the death of
the high priest**;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">only after the
death of the high priest may he return to his own property."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">*</span><span style="color: green;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the Old Testament, the closing clause of
Numbers 35:27, actually reads,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">states the</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"> "avenger of
blood may" "</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">kill the accused without being
guilty of <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">murder". </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It’s been replaced
here with “</span><i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">arrest
the accused, try, and carry out <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the
legal sentence for the crime</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”. It’s permissible for the Law to be updated <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to abolish the death penalty, but it’s also possible for the death
penalty to <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">remain in place. That’s up to the people to decide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">**</span><span style="color: green;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In this case, "death of the high
priest" will be taken as meaning the next <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Year of Jubilee
after the coming of peace—a 50 year limit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hebron<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The city of Hebron
in the southern West Bank requires special attention.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Hebron is burial site of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, so it's sacred <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">to both tribes. Historically, Hebron was part of Judah's
land. Now, Judah must <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">cede Hebron to Ephraim. To avoid further discord while
respecting sacred rights, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">administration of Hebron should be handled in the same
manner as Jerusalem, i.e., <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">an international peace force mutually agreed upon by both
parties will security<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">until Israel's Congress unanimously agrees to a resolution
granting this authority <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">to the new, re-united state of Israel. When the former
enemies are in accord with <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">one another, they should handle their own business. Safe
road access for tribal <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">members of Judah to Hebron is to be provided by the
international peace force.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Freedom Of Religion<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sura 2:256;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">"Let there be
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">no</span> compulsion in religion.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">Now is the right
way made distinct from error.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b>THE
GOLDEN RULE<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “Golden Rule”,
which translates as, “Treat other people the way you <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">want other people to treat you” is a part of all three
religions. Islam has the<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">most to-the-point directive regarding freedom of religion,
which you just <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">read. It’s not said quite as clearly in the Bible, so the
Golden Rule suffices.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">If a Jew or Christian wants religious freedom for
themselves, their sacred<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">literature indicates they should support religious freedom
for others, too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Full freedom of religion in both tribal areas must be national law.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Integrated Military Forces<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Historically, and
according to the Law, all Israelites were required to do their <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">share in national defense. Therefore, Palestinians must be
integrated into the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">national army in regular and growing numbers, with cultural
sensitivity and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">forgiveness required for basic training. If Americans
(descendants of <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Yankees <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and Confederates) can serve their country together, so can
Israelites.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Isaiah 11:13, God;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">Ephraim’s jealousy
will vanish, and Judah’s enemies will be cut off;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ephraim</span></u><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> will not be jealous of <u>Judah</u>,
nor <u>Judah</u> hostile toward <u>Ephraim</u>."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note that "Judah’s enemies [i.e.,
"Muslim" terrorists] will be cut off". <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is how to end
the scourge of terrorism--God's way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">GOVERNMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b>"CONGRESS"<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Revelation 4:4;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">and seated on them were twenty-four elders."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Revelation 20:4;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">I saw thrones
on which were seated <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">those who had been given authority to judge."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Congress" will have one house with twenty-four members, with
two <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">representatives for each tribe. Historically, Reuben and Gad
were together <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">with Manasseh in Gilead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They were taken captive together by the Assyrians <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">in 1 Chronicles 5:23-26 to land in eastern and western
Assyria (Iraq). These <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">would have mixed over time and are fairly represented by any
Arabs or others <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">who may have joined the Samaritans at a later date. The
other eight tribes <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">were expelled together by the Romans. Israeli Jews are the
descendents of <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">these tribes. Therefore, sixteen "elders" would
come from the Israeli side <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and eight "elders" from the Palestinian side.
However, in Isaiah, God states,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Isaiah 61:7;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Instead of their shame my people will receive a double
portion,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and instead of disgrace they will rejoice in their
inheritance…"<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Revelation 4:4;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: #0000cc;">and seated on them were twenty-four elders."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Palestinians are
the ones dispossessed of their inheritance, the prophecy<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">refers to them. So, double their representation to sixteen,
making a total<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">of 32 members, then reduce that to 12 for each tribe, making
24 total.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b>PRESIDENT<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hosea 1:10-11, 2:21,23;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">1:10 <b><span style="color: navy;">"Yet
the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">which cannot be measured or
counted.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In the place where it was said to
them, `You are not my people,'<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">they will be called `sons of the
living God.'<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">11 <b><u><span style="color: navy;">The people
of Judah and the people of Israel will be reunited</span></u><span style="color: navy;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and <u>they will appoint one
leader</u> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and will come up out of the land,
for great will be the day of Jezreel."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">2:21</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <b><span style="color: navy;">"In that
day I will respond," declares the LORD—“…<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">23 …<b><span style="color: navy;">I will say to those called `Not my
people, ' `You are my people';<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and they will say, `You are my God.' "<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><b><span style="color: navy; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Forgiveness For Past Sins<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">For
there to be peace, forgiveness is a must.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sura 5:13;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">But for breaking
their covenant We have cursed them </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i> <i>Israelites</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and have hardened
their hearts…<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">Thou wilt not
cease to discover deceit on their part, except in a few of them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">But forgive them,
and pass it over:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">verily, God loveth
those who act generously!” "<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sura 49:9-10;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">9</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> If</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">two</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy;">bodies of the faithful are at war,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">then make ye peace
between them;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and if one of them
wrong the other,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">fight against that
party which doth the wrong,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">until they come
back to the precepts of God;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">if they come back,
make peace between them with fairness,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and act
impartially; God loveth those who act with impartiality.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> Only the faithful are brethren;…"<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i>Remember, Sura 5:69 says Judaism properly followed is a form of
Islam,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">so Jews worshipping properly are
considered brethren of the Faithful</span></i><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">]<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10 cont.;</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"…wherefore make peace between your brethren;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and fear God, that
ye may obtain mercy."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both parties of Israelites have acted deceptively
towards each other.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Each has behaved
dishonorably at times. Nevertheless, when both parties<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">return to the
statutes of God, for the faithful, war must cease.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sura 5:8;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">O believers!
stand up as witnesses for God by righteousness:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">and let not ill-will
at any, induce you not to act uprightly.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">Act uprightly.
Next will this be to the fear of God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">And fear ye God:
verily God is apprised of what ye do."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Palestinians acknowledge brotherhood
with Jews as fellow Israelites<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">by descent from
Ephraim, they're entitled by Jewish and Islamic laws to<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ephraim's tribal
lands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ephraim & Manasseh’s Land In Joshua’s Time<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To view the map displaying tribal boundaries
set by Joshua for Ephraim and <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Manasseh, and the ten tribes associated with Judah, click on
the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">following link…</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gods_Peace_Plan_for_the_Holy_Land"><span style="color: #003399;">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gods_Peace_Plan_for_the_Holy_Land</span></a>.
</span></b>Go to the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">"Files" section, where you'll find "Map of
the Holy Land" in both WORD and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">ADOBE formats. Joshua, Moses’ authorized successor, details
name of cities <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and geographical features marking borders allotted Ephraim
and Manasseh…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Joshua 16:1-4;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> The allotment for Joseph <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">began</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the</i> Jordan<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">of Jericho </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>just north of Jerusalem</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">, east of the
waters of Jericho,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and went up </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>north</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> from there
through the desert <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">into the hill
country of Bethel.</span></b><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> It went on from Bethel (that is, Luz),<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">crossed over to
the territory of the Arkites in Ataroth,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">3</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> descended westward to the territory of the Japhletites<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">as far as the
region of Lower Beth Horon and on to Gezer,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">ending at the</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> </span></i></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i> Mediterranean</i> ]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> </span></i><span style="color: navy;">sea.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">4</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> So Manasseh and Ephraim, the descendants of Joseph,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">received their
inheritance."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Joshua 17:10-11;<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">10</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> On the south the
land belonged to Ephraim, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">on the north to Manasseh.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">The territory of Manasseh <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reached the sea</i> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and bordered Asher on the north </span></b><span style="color: green; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[<i>just below the Sea of Galilee</i>]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and Issachar on the east.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">11</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"> Within Issachar
and Asher, Manasseh also had Beth Shan, Ibleam <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">and the people of Dor, Endor, Taanach and Megiddo, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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with their surrounding settlements <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy;">(the third in the list is Naphoth)."<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ancient
boundaries run like this: First, lump modern Israel and the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">occupied territories together to make one country. On a
present-day map draw <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">a line running east/west from the Jordan River to the
Mediterranean Sea <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">starting a little north of the West Bank and just south of
the Sea of Galilee. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">That’s the north border of Ephraim and Manasseh's lands. Tel
Aviv and Haifa <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">are located south of this line. The southern border of
Ephraim and Manasseh <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">began just north of Jerusalem, again running west from the
Jordan River to the <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Mediterranean Sea. All of the West Bank south of this,
including Hebron and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Bethlehem, belonged to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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