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"Well, let me ask you to turn in your Bibles to 2 Kings 7, and we're going to read verses 1-20. 2 Kings 7, beginning in verse 1, this is the infallible, inerrant word of our God. Then Elisha said, hear the word of the Lord, thus says the Lord, tomorrow about this time, a saith of fine flour should be sold for a shackle, and two saith of barley for a shackle at the gate of Samaria. So an officer, on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God and said, look, if this thing be, and he said, this is Elisha now talking, and he said, in fact, you shall see it with your eyes, or you shall not eat of it. Now there were four lepers, men at the entrance of the gate, and they said to one another, why are we sitting here until we die? If we say, we'll enter the city, the famine is in the city, and we'll die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live, and if they kill us, we shall only die. And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. And when they'd come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise, no one was there. For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses, the noise of a great army. So they said to one another, look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us. Therefore they arose and fled at twilight and left the camp intact, their tents, their horses and their donkeys, and they fled for their lives. And when the lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank and carried from it silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried some from there also and went and hid it. Then they said to one another, we're not doing right. This day is a day of good news and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them saying, we went to the Syrian camp and surprisingly no one was there, not a human sound, only horses and donkeys tied in the tents intact. The gatekeeper called out and they told it to the king's household inside. So the king arose in the night and said to his servants, let me now tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we're hungry, therefore they've gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the camp and they'll catch them alive and get into the city. And one of his servants answered and said, please let several men take five of the remaining horses which are left in the city. Look they may either become like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it or indeed I say they may become like all the multitude of Israel left from those who are consumed. So let us send them and see. Therefore, they took two chariots with horses and the king sent them in the direction of the Syrian army saying, go and see. And they went after them to the Jordan and indeed all the roads was full of garments and weapons which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and told the king and the people went out and plundered the tents of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shackle and two seahs of barley for a shackle according to the word of the Lord. Now the king had appointed the officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate but the people trampled him in the gate and he died just as the man of God had said who spoke when the king came down to him. So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king saying, two seahs of barley for a shackle and a seah of fine flour for a shackle shall be sold tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria. And that officer had answered the man of God and said, now look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could such a thing be? And he had said, in fact, you shall see it with your eyes but you shall not eat it. And so it happened to him for the people trampled him in the gate and he died. The grass withers and the flowers fade but the word of our God endures forever. Let's pray. Our Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you that it is true truth and we pray that that truth would reach into the minds and hearts of your people this evening and we ask this in Jesus' name, amen. Well, there's congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ. You may recall from last week that I said from chapter 6 verse 24 all the way down through the end of chapter 7 where we're dealing with a text that hangs together. It's a single narrative. I chose to divide it up for practical reasons but I do want you to know this, the chapter break, chapter 7 is a bit arbitrary. Now on the previous Lord's Day, we focused on chapter 6 that highlights some of the implications of Israel's desperate predicament. The Syrian army had besieged Samaria which meant there was a blockade around the entire city, nothing going in and nothing going out. And just as the siege intended, it created in Samaria a catastrophic famine where something as unsavory and unappetizing as a donkey's head or dove dung cost an absolute fortune. So the people simply had nothing to eat. Now you'll remember from last week the implication of their predicament was much worse than donkey heads and dove dung. King Jehoram went out and he was inspecting the city walls and he encountered an evil. That's truly breathtaking. There were mothers who were killing and eating their children and it's important to pause here and remember what we learned last week, that Syria besieging Samaria, the famine and even that grotesque cannibalism were actually implications of Israel's predicament. Their predicament, their actual problem is that on account of their idolatry and disobedience, they had fallen under God's covenant curses. Now if you want to explore God's covenant curses as they relate to this passage, you can check them out at Deuteronomy 28 verses 52 through 57, Leviticus 26 verses 27 through 29. We looked at that passage last week. The point is God had given them over and he's pulled back his hand of restraint and we're Well even Jehoram seemed to be shocked by the events and he made a show of tearing his clothes so that people could see he seemed to be mourning and then underneath the clothes on the outside he was wearing sackcloth on the inside and that of course is a garment typically associated with repentance and his repentance was a sham. We know that because instead of seeking out God's prophet for a word of direction or a word of comfort or a word of deliverance, the king's impulse was to have Elisha murdered. He actually sent an assassin to take Elisha's head but of course the prophet of God to whom God reveals himself knew what was happening and barred the door from the messenger and assassin. And as the men held the door, the king showed up right on the heels of the assassin likely wanting to make sure that the job got done and we began to learn there near the end of chapter 6 that the reason Jehoram was filled with bitter anger toward Elisha is because he's the one who told the king that those events that Samaria was experiencing were the Lord's judgment and that he must repent and wait on the Lord. And now having learned what those women were doing Jehoram's done waiting and chapter 6 ends with Jehoram making it clear that from his perspective the one to blame for this whole sordid mass is Yahweh. It's his fault. Look there at the end of verse 33 in chapter 6. Surely this calamity is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer? Most of Israel is living in spiritual darkness choosing to worship false gods. Samaria is enduring God's just covenant curses and they aren't at all bashful in telling their king that they're engaged in the worst imaginable kind of evil, cannibalism. And King Jehoram no longer has patience to wait for Yahweh and the reason he wants to take Elisha's head is because he can't get to Yahweh's head. And one of the most surprising truths that unfolds when we make the transition to chapter 7 as great and shocking as Samaria's sin is, as great and shocking as Jehoram's sin and impatience is, we come to something more shocking, something that's gloriously shocking. We learn that God's grace and patience eclipses their sin and impatience. We're getting a picture that God's grace is greater than all our sin. I mean the king is at Elisha's house to kill God's prophet and God's going to announce through his prophet a message of good news. That's why I entitled the message this week and last week Hope for the Cursed and that's what we pick up this evening. Look there at verse 1, it sets the stage. Then Elisha said hear the word of the Lord, thus says the Lord, tomorrow about this time a saya of fine flour shall be sold for a shackle and two sayas of barley for a shackle at the gate of Samaria. He said don't miss this. Elisha provides a kind of double affirmation to make it clear what he's about to speak is a divine message. Hear the word of the Lord and then thus says the Lord. It was a way of saying this is God's word you're hearing, don't miss this. This isn't just my voice you're hearing, you're hearing God's voice. And the message from Yahweh is that in just 24 hours there will be relief. Prices will return to normal, commerce will resume at the marketplace, at the gate, at the entrance of the city. It's amazing news and it's nothing less than God's good news of deliverance to people who utterly don't deserve it. Of course the news is so amazing and so good that Jehoram's captain is convinced it's simply too good to be true. And listen to the poetic way he describes his skepticism. Look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven could this thing be? The captain sure knew how to turn a phrase didn't he? But his eloquence simply masks his rank on belief. God's made a glorious promise. He's offered good news in a context of utter despair and hopelessness but that's not for him. He can't make sense of it so he just settles in his doubt. God can't possibly do this thing. And by the way we can rightly criticize this captain but isn't that a thought that plagues our minds often? We hear the promises of God and in the back of our mind. We think God can't really do this thing can he? I think we can struggle with that as well. Well as hope begins to emerge here in chapter seven we also do get this word of judgment. Because where there's salvation there's going to be judgment. And so Elisha tells the captain you're going to see God pour out this promised abundance on his people. You'll see the promise fulfilled but you won't participate in the cursed estate. And we'll see when we get to the end of the chapter that not only is God's word of promise and salvation fulfilled but there's always his word of judgment so sort of hold that thought for a couple minutes. Now Elisha didn't tell Jehoram or his officer how God would fulfill his promise but we're sort of privy to what's going on. You know it's something they used to do in the older movies. Meanwhile over here and that's sort of what we get. Meanwhile over here we find God's rescue and deliverance is going to begin in an unlikely place and with some unlikely man. We're told in verse three that there are four lepers who are at the gate of the city. That's an interesting place to be because lepers were driven out of the city and they wouldn't have been normally hanging out at the gate. They would have been pressed beyond it. So you have to think it's because there's a blockade and because the gate's closed they've gotten over there. Because lepers ordinarily can't enter the city where God's people dwell because they're unclean. So the gates shut up tight. But here's the thing, they're in this weird predicament where they can't get into the city to get away from the Syrians. They're sort of pushed between the Syrian and Samaria and they're in a desperate place. And they start to take stock of their situation and they apply some leper logic. If they stay at the gate they'll die. They think if we manage to find a way to get into the city and this famine continues we'll die. On the other hand if we go to the Syrian camp we could very well die. I mean they may very well kill us but at least there, there's this slim possibility, just a slim possibility that they might let us live. So having weighed their options leper logic said we're going to the Syrian camp. And we're told there in verse five, and they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp to their surprise no one was there. And what a surprise it must have been. They certainly thought when we get to the camp we're going to be in grave danger. But they're not. And they must have wondered what in the world has happened. And again we're privy to what God was doing. Yahweh had made the Syrians here what sounded like a great army, an army with a mighty cavalry and they heard these incredible sounds. It's hard to contemplate the volume, the decibels that must have been thundering outside of Samaria. And the Syrian soldiers they're sure that Jehoram has hired mercenaries to come from the Hittites and the Egyptians and the Syrians were so terrified at these loud sounds of soldiers and armies that they don't even bother breaking camp. They simply beat feet out of there leaving behind their tents, their livestock, even their gold and silver. What they heard struck terror in their hearts and then they fled for their lives. It's really something isn't it? And you'll remember we learned this just a couple weeks back. It shows us the story of the sovereignty of God over his enemies and ours. God had blinded the Syrians to protect Israel and especially to protect his prophets. God was feeding intelligent reports to Elisha again to protect his people and protect his prophets. Now he overcomes their enemies with the sounds of a great military. Again, behind this is God's willingness to fight for his people, to ensure this victory for his people. Whether it's blinding, deafening sounds, secret intelligence reports, God is fighting the battles of his people. And when the lepers, again they don't really know this. We know this, but the lepers don't know this. They enter the abandoned camp and they experience what will be for them. A life changing, transforming reversal of fortunes. In that moment they went from poverty to plenty. And basically they're granted all the benefits of the spoils of war without ever having to lift a finger to fight it. And as soon as they get their bellies full of food and drink they actually start stockpiling gold and silver. One moment these poor four lepers were destitute and the next moment they've got a fully funded retirement account. And this really is one of those passages that you read and you can't help but see all kinds of gospel reflections, right? I'm sure some of those have come to your mind. Let me just mention a couple. First, the lepers were transformed from a state of desperation to a state of salvation. They were little more than the walking dead, right? Now they have life and they have it abundantly and it was all God's doing. It was the sheer undeserved grace of God. These lepers didn't deserve any kindness from God and yet they're the objects of the exceeding kindness of God. And this certainly describes how God saves sinners, doesn't it? It's a little picture of that. How God saves sinners and grants us new life in Christ. Even when we were the walking dead, dead in trespasses and sin, God made us alive together with Christ by grace. You've been saved, Ephesians 2.5. And we've been raised up and seated with Christ in the heavenly places so that in the coming age we will see the exceeding riches of God's grace for us in Christ, Ephesians 2.7. Grace and riches are what deliver us from the dead lepers experienced. It's only a faint blip on the radar screen compared to the grace and riches God provides us in Christ. And again, we don't lift a finger and the victory is won for us and we enjoy that inheritance forever. A second way we see a gospel reflection is that the lepers experienced sovereign grace. Now it's obvious as day just reading through this passage that the lepers good fortune is clearly God's doing and all of God's doing. But there's a little detail in the text that seems to be inserted here to show us just how precisely God's orchestrating these events. It says in verse 5, the lepers left for the Syrian camp at twilight. And then we see in verse 7, it was right at twilight that the Syrians fled. By the way, this word twilight in the whole Samuel, Kings, Chronicle narrative is used three times. Once back in 1 Samuel 30 and then twice here. So this word is meant to catch our attention. The lepers left at twilight. The Syrians left at twilight. And perfect timing. It's not arbitrary, not accidental, and not coincidental. It's to highlight that God's working out the purposes of his will to bring a salvation to these lepers right down to the precise time that one leaves and the other shows up. God's superintending over the details to provide salvation and an undeserved inheritance to the lepers. And then we see and isn't that what we have? In Christ we have obtained an inheritance having been predestined according to him who works out all things according to the counsel of his will. Ephesians 1. There are a number of little gospel gems here, but I'll leave it there. The lepers, they're enjoying their new fortune. And some are very critical of the lepers because it took them a while to realize this, but they do realize something. They realize while they're enjoying God's blessing, there are still people inside Samaria who are starving. And so in verse 9 they said to one another, we're not doing right. This day is a day of good news and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. Indeed it is a day of good news and they want to proclaim it. You know it's interesting, we heard something of that in Psalm 96 this morning, didn't we? Psalm 96 verse 2. Sing to the Lord, bless his name, proclaim the good news of his salvation from day to day. These lepers, they've experienced that good news and they want to proclaim it to the folks in Samaria. The word good news in Psalm 96 and in 2 Kings 7 is from the root word that means that's besor or besorah. And it's the Greek translation of that word is probably one you've at least heard echoes of. It's euangelizumai, it's the evangel, it's glad tithings, it's good news, it's gospel. And for these lepers having personally experienced this good news, it's their impulse to go and tell others and they know if we don't do that we'll be guilty of being stingy with the good gift God's given them. Now you could probably arrange a whole sermon around what this teaches about evangelism and frankly some very wonderful expositors have done that but we don't have time but you could ground a whole sermon on evangelism from this text and you wouldn't be stretching the text. You could describe how these lepers were beggars who had nothing to eat and all they were looking for was scraps and once they had been given bread they wanted to go and tell other beggars where they could find bread. You could work that kind of thing out or you could point out that the lepers were outsiders who are now saved and go to tell insiders, right? Because these are the people who weren't allowed into communion and fellowship with the covenant community and now they're the ones with the gospel. I was talking to someone very recently within the last couple of weeks and I mentioned to them that America receives the second highest number of missionaries of any country in the world, right? So again the harvest is plentiful and those of you who like and have been blessed by the ministry of Alistair Begg, he came to this country some 30 plus years ago to be a missionary and you know what he identified as his mission field? The evangelical church.
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"Well, let me ask you to turn in your Bibles to 2 Kings 7, and we're going to read verses 1 -20. 2 Kings 7, beginning in verse 1, this is the infallible, inerrant word of our God. Then Elisha said, hear the word of the Lord, thus says the Lord, tomorrow about this time, a saith of fine flour should be sold for a shackle, and two saith of barley for a shackle at the gate of Samaria. So an officer, on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God and said, look, if this thing be, and he said, this is Elisha now talking, and he said, in fact, you shall see it with your eyes, or you shall not eat of it. Now there were four lepers, men at the entrance of the gate, and they said to one another, why are we sitting here until we die? If we say, we'll enter the city, the famine is in the city, and we'll die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live, and if they kill us, we shall only die. And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. And when they'd come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise, no one was there. For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses, the noise of a great army. So they said to one another, look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us. Therefore they arose and fled at twilight and left the camp intact, their tents, their horses and their donkeys, and they fled for their lives. And when the lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank and carried from it silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried some from there also and went and hid it. Then they said to one another, we're not doing right. is This day a day of good news and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them saying, we went to the Syrian camp and surprisingly no one was there, not a human sound, only horses and donkeys tied in the tents intact. The gatekeeper called out and they told it to the king's household inside. So the king arose in the night and said to his servants, let me now tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we're hungry, therefore they've gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the camp and they'll catch them alive and get into the city. And one of his servants answered and said, please let several men take five of the remaining horses which are left in the city. Look they may either become like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it or indeed I say they may become like all the multitude of Israel left from those who are consumed. So let us send them and see. Therefore, they took two chariots with horses and the king sent them in the direction of the Syrian army saying, go and see. And they went after them to the Jordan and indeed all the roads was full of garments and weapons which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and told the king and the people went out and plundered the tents of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shackle and two seahs of barley for a shackle according to the word of the Lord. Now the king had appointed the officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate but the people trampled him in the gate and he died just as the man of God had said who spoke when the king came down to him. So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king saying, two seahs of barley for a shackle and a seah of fine flour for a shackle shall be sold tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria. And that officer had answered the man of God and said, now look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could such a thing be? And he had said, in fact, you shall see it with your eyes but you shall not eat it. And so it happened to him for the people trampled him in the gate and he died. The grass withers and the flowers fade but the word of our God endures forever. Let's pray. Our Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you that it is true truth and we pray that that truth would reach into the minds and hearts of your people this evening and we ask this in Jesus' name, amen. Well, there's congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ. You may recall from last week that I said from chapter 6 verse 24 all the way down through the end of chapter 7 where we're dealing with a text that hangs together. It's a single narrative. I chose to divide it up for practical reasons but I do want you to know this, the chapter break, chapter 7 is a bit arbitrary. Now on the previous Lord's Day, we focused on chapter 6 that highlights some of the implications of Israel's desperate predicament. The Syrian army had besieged Samaria which meant there was a blockade around the entire city, nothing going in and nothing going out. And just as the siege intended, it created in Samaria a catastrophic famine where something as unsavory and unappetizing as a donkey's head or dove dung cost an absolute fortune. So the people simply had nothing to eat. Now you'll remember from last week the implication of their predicament was much worse than donkey heads and dove dung. King Jehoram went out and he was inspecting the city walls and he encountered an evil. That's truly breathtaking. There were mothers who were killing and eating their children and it's important to pause here and remember what we learned last week, that Syria besieging Samaria, the famine and even that grotesque cannibalism were actually implications of Israel's predicament. Their predicament, their actual problem is that on account of their idolatry and disobedience, they had fallen under God's covenant curses. Now if you want to explore God's covenant curses as they relate to this passage, you can check them out at Deuteronomy 28 verses 52 through 57, Leviticus 26 verses 27 through 29. We looked at that passage last week. The point is God had given them over and he's pulled back his hand of restraint and we're Well even Jehoram seemed to be shocked by the events and he made a show of tearing his clothes so that people could see he seemed to be mourning and then underneath the clothes on the outside he was wearing sackcloth on the inside and that of course is a garment typically associated with repentance and his repentance was a sham. We know that because instead of seeking out God's prophet for a word of direction or a word of comfort or a word of deliverance, the king's impulse was to have Elisha murdered. He actually sent an assassin to take Elisha's head but of course the prophet of God to whom God reveals himself knew what was happening and barred the door from the messenger and assassin. And as the men held the door, the king showed up right on the heels of the assassin likely wanting to make sure that the job got done and we began to learn there near the end of chapter 6 that the reason Jehoram was filled with bitter anger toward Elisha is because he's the one who told the king that those events that Samaria was experiencing were the Lord's judgment and that he must repent and wait on the Lord. And now having learned what those women were doing Jehoram's done waiting and chapter 6 ends with Jehoram making it clear that from his perspective the one to blame for this whole sordid mass is Yahweh. It's his fault. Look there at the end of verse 33 in chapter 6. Surely this calamity is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer? Most of Israel is living in spiritual darkness choosing to worship false gods. Samaria is enduring God's just covenant curses and they aren't at all bashful in telling their king that they're engaged in the worst imaginable kind of evil, cannibalism. And King Jehoram no longer has patience to wait for Yahweh and the reason he wants to take Elisha's head is because he can't get to Yahweh's head. And one of the most surprising truths that unfolds when we make the transition to chapter 7 as great and shocking as Samaria's sin is, as great and shocking as Jehoram's sin and impatience is, we come to something more shocking, something that's gloriously shocking. We learn that God's grace and patience eclipses their sin and impatience. We're getting a picture that God's grace is greater than all our sin. I mean the king is at Elisha's house to kill God's prophet and God's going to announce through his prophet a message of good news. That's why I entitled the message this week and last week Hope for the Cursed and that's what we pick up this evening. Look there at verse 1, it sets the stage. Then Elisha said hear the word of the Lord, thus says the Lord, tomorrow about this time a saya of fine flour shall be sold for a shackle and two sayas of barley for a shackle at the gate of Samaria. He said don't miss this. Elisha provides a kind of double affirmation to make it clear what he's about to speak is a divine message. Hear the word of the Lord and then thus says the Lord. It was a way of saying this is God's word you're hearing, don't miss this. This isn't just my voice you're hearing, you're hearing God's voice. And the message from Yahweh is that in just 24 hours there will be relief. Prices will return to normal, commerce will resume at the marketplace, at the gate, at the entrance of the city. It's amazing news and it's nothing less than God's good news of deliverance to people who utterly don't deserve it. Of course the news is so amazing and so good that Jehoram's captain is convinced it's simply too good to be true. And listen to the poetic way he describes his skepticism. Look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven could this thing be? The captain sure knew how to turn a phrase didn't he? But his eloquence simply masks his rank on belief. God's made a glorious promise. He's offered good news in a context of utter despair and hopelessness but that's not for him. He can't make sense of it so he just settles in his doubt. God can't possibly do this thing. And by the way we can rightly criticize this captain but isn't that a thought that plagues our minds often? We hear the promises of God and in the back of our mind. We think God can't really do this thing can he? I think we can struggle with that as well. Well as hope begins to emerge here in chapter seven we also do get this word of judgment. Because where there's salvation there's going to be judgment. And so Elisha tells the captain you're going to see God pour out this promised abundance on his people. You'll see the promise fulfilled but you won't participate in the cursed estate. And we'll see when we get to the end of the chapter that not only is God's word of promise and salvation fulfilled but there's always his word of judgment so sort of hold that thought for a couple minutes. Now Elisha didn't tell Jehoram or his officer how God would fulfill his promise but we're sort of privy to what's going on. You know it's something they used to do in the older movies. Meanwhile over here and that's sort of what we get. Meanwhile over here we find God's rescue and deliverance is going to begin in an unlikely place and with some unlikely man. We're told in verse three that there are four lepers who are at the gate of the city. That's an interesting place to be because lepers were driven out of the city and they wouldn't have been normally hanging out at the gate. They would have been pressed beyond it. So you have to think it's because there's a blockade and because the gate's closed they've gotten over there. Because lepers ordinarily can't enter the city where God's people dwell because they're unclean. So the gates shut up tight. But here's the thing, they're in this weird predicament where they can't get into the city to get away from the Syrians. They're sort of pushed between the Syrian and Samaria and they're in a desperate place. And they start to take stock of their situation and they apply some leper logic. If they stay at the gate they'll die. They think if we manage to find a way to get into the city and this famine continues we'll die. On the other hand if we go to the Syrian camp we could very well die. I mean they may very well kill us but at least there, there's this slim possibility, just a slim possibility that they might let us live. So having weighed their options leper logic said we're going to the Syrian camp. And we're told there in verse five, and they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp to their surprise no one was there. And what a surprise it must have been. They certainly thought when we get to the camp we're going to be in grave danger. But they're not. And they must have wondered what in the world has happened. And again we're privy to what God was doing. Yahweh had made the Syrians here what sounded like a great army, an army with a mighty cavalry and they heard these incredible sounds. It's hard to contemplate the volume, the decibels that must have been thundering outside of Samaria. And the Syrian soldiers they're sure that Jehoram has hired mercenaries to come from the Hittites and the Egyptians and the Syrians were so terrified at these loud sounds of soldiers and armies that they don't even bother breaking camp. They simply beat feet out of there leaving behind their tents, their livestock, even their gold and silver. What they heard struck terror in their hearts and then they fled for their lives. It's really something isn't it? And you'll remember we learned this just a couple weeks back. It shows us the story of the sovereignty of God over his enemies and ours. God had blinded the Syrians to protect Israel and especially to protect his prophets. God was feeding intelligent reports to Elisha again to protect his people and protect his prophets. Now he overcomes their enemies with the sounds of a great military. Again, behind this is God's willingness to fight for his people, to ensure this victory for his people. Whether it's blinding, deafening sounds, secret intelligence reports, God is fighting the battles of his people. And when the lepers, again they don't really know this. We know this, but the lepers don't know this. They enter the abandoned camp and they experience what will be for them. A life changing, transforming reversal of fortunes. In that moment they went from poverty to plenty. And basically they're granted all the benefits of the spoils of war without ever having to lift a finger to fight it. And as soon as they get their bellies full of food and drink they actually start stockpiling gold and silver. One moment these poor four lepers were destitute and the next moment they've got a fully funded retirement account. And this really is one of those passages that you read and you can't help but see all kinds of gospel reflections, right? I'm sure some of those have come to your mind. Let me just mention a couple. First, the lepers were transformed from a state of desperation to a state of salvation. They were little more than the walking dead, right? Now they have life and they have it abundantly and it was all God's doing. It was the sheer undeserved grace of God. These lepers didn't deserve kindness any from God and yet they're the objects of the exceeding kindness of God. And this certainly describes how God saves sinners, doesn't it? It's a little picture of that. How God saves sinners and grants us new life in Christ. Even when we were the walking dead, dead in trespasses and sin, God made us alive together with Christ by grace. You've been saved, Ephesians 2 .5. And we've been raised up and seated with Christ in the heavenly places so that in the coming age we will see the exceeding riches of God's grace for us in Christ, Ephesians 2 .7. Grace and riches are what deliver us from the dead lepers experienced. It's only a faint blip on the radar screen compared to the grace and riches God provides us in Christ. And again, we don't lift a finger and the victory is won for us and we enjoy that inheritance forever. A second way we see a gospel reflection is that the lepers experienced sovereign grace. Now it's obvious as day just reading through this passage that the lepers good fortune is clearly God's doing and all of God's doing. But there's a little detail in the text that seems to be inserted here to show us just how precisely God's orchestrating these events. It says in verse 5, the lepers left for the Syrian camp at twilight. And then we see in verse 7, it was right at twilight that the Syrians fled. By the way, this word twilight in the whole Samuel, Kings, Chronicle narrative is used three times. Once back in 1 Samuel 30 and then twice here. So this word is meant to catch our attention. The lepers left at twilight. The Syrians left at twilight. And perfect timing. It's not arbitrary, not accidental, and not coincidental. It's to highlight that God's working out the purposes of his will to bring a salvation to these lepers right down to the precise time that one leaves and the other shows up. God's superintending over the details to provide salvation and an undeserved inheritance to the lepers. And then we see and isn't that what we have? In Christ we have obtained an inheritance having been predestined according to him who works out all things according to the counsel of his will. Ephesians 1. There are a number of little gospel gems here, but I'll leave it there. The lepers, they're enjoying their new fortune. And some are very critical of the lepers because it took them a while to realize this, but they do realize something. They realize while they're enjoying God's blessing, there are still people inside Samaria who are starving. And so in verse 9 they said to one another, we're not doing right. This day is a day of good news and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. Indeed it is a day of good news and they want to proclaim it. You know it's interesting, we heard something of that in Psalm 96 this morning, didn't we? Psalm 96 verse 2. Sing to the Lord, bless his name, proclaim the good news of his salvation from day to day. These lepers, they've experienced that good news and they want to proclaim it to the folks in Samaria. The word good news in Psalm 96 and in 2 Kings 7 is from the root word that means that's besor or besorah. And it's the Greek translation of that word is probably one you've at least heard echoes of. It's euangelizumai, it's the evangel, it's glad tithings, it's good news, it's gospel. And for these lepers having personally experienced this good news, it's their impulse to go and tell others and they know if we don't do that we'll be guilty of being stingy with the good gift God's given them. Now you could probably arrange a whole sermon around what this teaches about evangelism and frankly some very wonderful expositors have done that but we don't have time but you could ground a whole sermon on evangelism from this text and you wouldn't be stretching the text. You could describe how these lepers were beggars who had nothing to eat and all they were looking for was scraps and once they had been given bread they wanted to go and tell other beggars where they could find bread. You could work that kind of thing out or you could point out that the lepers were outsiders who are now saved and go to tell insiders, right? Because these are the people who weren't allowed into communion and fellowship with the covenant community and now they're the ones with the gospel. I was talking to someone very recently within the last couple of weeks and I mentioned to them that America receives the second highest number of missionaries of any country in the world, right? So again the harvest is plentiful and those of you who like and have been blessed by the ministry of Alistair Begg, he came to this country some 30 plus years ago to be a missionary and you know what he identified as his mission field? The evangelical church.
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"Hi, you're listening to the Abundant Encounters Podcast and this is Mary Marcengill. We're so honored to have you and just quickly before we get started, I wanted to remind you to rate this podcast and give positive reviews anywhere you're listening, Apple, Google and others. Just talk about what you're experiencing or especially any encounters that you felt like you had during an episode. Also, we'd really appreciate it if you could take five seconds right now to pray for our podcast and ministry to succeed. Five seconds might not sound like much, but we believe that our collective prayers will make a massive difference and protect and prosper these ministries efforts to glorify and exalt Jesus. Our hope is simple, that people have real encounters with Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit. Please join us now for just five seconds to pray. Thank you so much. Here's Josh. Thank you for joining us on this new episode of Abundant Encounters Podcast. We're so glad that you're here. Thankful that people are choosing intentionality to encounter God and lately our audience has been growing and it just seems like, you know, somehow without us doing much different, there's a little fire starting and we're really grateful for that. Thank you for praying for our ministry if you join in with that and thank you for just being intentional to meet with God. Abundant Encounters is what we see as a kingdom cause. More Christians need to experience more Jesus and experiencing is different than knowing about, hearing about, learning about. Experiencing takes us into a relationship and so it's beautiful and you know, we're just making an effort at this thing, it's not like we're perfect but we want to provide space, we want to help anyone that has the intention to find a space to meet with God. So we believe faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God, that's Matthew 18. And so we read the scriptures before we get into an exercise because we believe it increases faith in our hearts and yeah, so you get hearing ears and your faith increases. So I'll pray and we'll get right into this. Just connect right now, like be present. I say this a lot but God's presence is in the present moment, he's right here. So if we're off in the past somewhere off in the future, it's just, it's not as easy to connect with the presence and the presence is something that some of us tangibly we can feel it but there's some kind of knower inside of you that really gets that you're connecting with the presence of God. It's just like if your dad's in the room, you know, good or bad relationship, there's some connection, you know, but with God, of course, you know, he is so good and our connection with him is critical and we absolutely have to have a connection with the father. Jesus knew this, he like, he became a person and he's like, I know what these guys need. They need you. I mean, they need you and I know this to such an extent that I'm willing to give my life for it so that they will be able to connect with you. Check out John 17, Jesus praying that we would have the same access that he had to the father. He wanted this for us. Jesus was all about encounter. Yes, Lord. So yeah, Lord, we shake off the day. We are connected to you. We're present. Yeah. Just feel where you are. Yeah. Consider like what you're feeling, what you're seeing. Identify three things that you're seeing. Be present. Three things that you're hearing. You're hearing my voice. Yeah. Identify some things you might be tasting. Huh. Yeah. Yeah. And spiritually discern what's going on. You're feeling connected. It's the presence inside, outside, both. Yeah. See, now you're seated in heavenly places and you're fully connected to where you are right now. Yeah. So we just pray from this place, Lord. Spirit and truth, Lord, we come to you. We love you, Father. We want all that Jesus paid for. I bind up anything that would hinder our time together in a loose heaven all around us in Jesus' name. Let heaven pour out all around us. We receive you, Father. You and you alone, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God. There's only two chapters left in the Book of Daniel we're reading in the Passion Translation. Isn't that exciting? The Book of Daniel. I know they're working on completing the whole Bible in the Passion Translation. They're getting closer. I think the Book of Jeremiah is coming out soon. So anyway, just excited for them. And we'll get started here in Daniel chapter 11, kingdoms will rise and fall. I will now reveal the truth to you. Three more kings will rise to power in Persia. A fourth will come who will be much richer than all the others. His great wealth will cause his power to grow until his empire wages war against all the kingdoms of Greece. Then a royal king will arise who will govern a vast empire and do whatever he pleases. But at the zenith of his power, his empire will be shattered and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Though not to his descendants, it will not be as powerful as when he ruled it. For his dominion will be uprooted and will be passed on to others who are not his descendants. The Egyptian and Syrian Treaty. The king of Egypt will grow powerful, but one of his commanders will rise to become even more powerful and rule a kingdom greater than his. Then after some years have passed, an alliance will form. And in order to ensure the peace, the daughter of the king of Egypt will marry the king of Syria. However, her grip on power will not last for long and the king too will lose his throne. In those days she, her husband, her child and those who escorted her to Syria will all be killed. Yet later, one of her family members will rise to become the king of Egypt. He will come against the defenses of the walled city of the king of Syria and defeat the Syrian armies. He will plunder their wealth and take it back to Egypt as spoils. All their precious gold, silver, vessels, idols and statues. For some time he will leave the kingdom of Syria in peace. Eventually, the king of Syria will invade the kingdom of Egypt. But he will have to retreat to his own country. The king's son will prepare for war, assembling a powerful group of warriors. One of his sons will swiftly advance, sweeping over the land like a powerful flood. Their armies will press forward and fight all the way to the strong walled fortress of the king of Egypt. Then the king of Egypt will fly into a rage and set out to launch an offense against the king of Syria who will have an immense army on his side. However, the king of Egypt will conquer the Syrian forces. The king of Egypt will be filled with pride over his victory and of the many tens of thousands of soldiers he slaughtered. But he will not continue to be victorious. Then the king of Syria will recruit an even larger army than before. And after some years, he will advance a second time with a massive army fully equipped with weapons and supplies. At that time, many will take up arms against the king of Egypt. Renegades from among your own people will rebel in the hope of realizing the vision, but they will fail. Then the king of Syria will advance and build up siege ramps to capture a strongly fortified city. The Egyptian forces will not stand their ground. Even their elite troops will not be strong enough to resist. The invading king of Syria will do as he pleases and no one will be able to resist him. He will occupy the land of splendor and all of it will be under his control. Then, with the might of his entire kingdom, he will resolve to conquer Egypt by cunningly making a peace treaty with the king of Egypt. The king of Syria will offer one of his daughters in marriage to the king of Egypt in order to defeat his kingdom. But his plan will fall apart and will not work to his advantage. The king of Syria will next turn to the coastlands and capture many cities. But a foreign commander will put a stop to his arrogance and make him suffer the consequences of his defiant insolence. He will then retreat to the well protected fortresses of his own country. In time, he will be defeated, lose his grip on power and disappear. His successor will send out a tax collector to maintain the wealth of his kingdom. In a short time, however, the king will die, though not in the heat of battle.
WBBM Newsradio
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"Com. Good morning, I'm Rachel Pearson and these are the top stories on news radio wbm. Thousands fill Saint Peter's square in the Vatican as Pope Francis celebrates Easter mass this morning. This is Carolina garibay. Police are looking for the gunman who fatally shot a teenage girl on Chicago south side. A warning has been issued by police following several mail carriers who were robbed at gunpoint across the city, plus more reaction heard to the decision by a Texas judge to suspend approval of an abortion medication that's been available for over two decades. M sports, completion of the suspended third round of the masters underway, the cubs and White Sox both won black hawks, however lost. AccuWeather said that shaping up to be a sunny afternoon are high today 68° tonight's low 47°. It's 8 31 Pope Francis celebrated Easter Sunday mass with tens of thousands of pilgrims and tourists at Saint Peter's square this morning. The square was awash in color from thousands of spring flowers trucked in from the Netherlands at the end of the mass, the pontiff delivered what's known as the orbi at orbi. It's an address, which means to the city and to the world. He spoke about conflict in Ukraine The annual message is frequently used to talk about the evils of war and injustices around the world. Closer to home, police are looking for the gunman who fatally shot a teenage girl early this morning on the south side. Police say the 15 year old girl was found just before 1 a.m. in the Washington heights neighborhood near a 106th in south sangamon street, officers say the girl was found in the back seat of a car with a gunshot wound to the back of her head. She was taken to University of Chicago medical center where police say she was pronounced dead. Carolina garibay one O 5 9 wbm there's a long prison term awaiting a suburban man who is part of a group that racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in charges on other people's credit cards. The neighborville man recruited post office employees to steal credit cards from the mail, he then used them to make bogus purchases 30 year old Davy Heinz is getting 9 years in prison for the crime. It was a conspiracy that the feds dubbed operation cash on delivery. The neighborville sun reports, the postal workers would get cash or other items in exchange for the credit cards. Over about a year and a half, Heinz and other people stole more than 650 credit cards and racked up more than $450,000 in fraudulent purchases. The feds say Heinz committed the crimes while on supervision for a prior conviction on bank fraud. Cisco coda one O 5 9, wbm. Chicago police issued a warning after a dozen U.S. Postal Service mail carriers were robbed at gunpoint in areas across the city. Those robberies happened in the afternoon and evening hours during the months of March and April. In each case, one to three armed suspects approached mail carriers on a sidewalk and demanded their postal keys by threatening force that before fleeing in a waiting vehicle. Reaction continues to be heard following Friday's decision by a federal judge in Texas to suspend approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, which was on the market for more than two decades. Katie Glenn, the state policy director for the Susan B. Anthony pro life America group says they have actively been working on gestational protections. We're going to continue the fight that we have been in for 49 years and even before that. And our hopeful that judge Kevin got it right and that other courts will agree with that. Judge casm and appointee of former president Trump had a long track record of opposing abortion and LGBTQ rights before the U.S. Senate confirmed him in 2019. The Israeli military said it attacked targets in Syria early today after 6 rockets were launched from Syrian territory in two batches toward Israel in a rare attack from Israel's northeastern neighbor. Officials said after the second barrage of three rockets, they initially responded with artillery fire into the area in Syria from where the rockets were fired. Later, the military said Israeli fighter jets attacked Syrian army sites, including a compound of Syria's fourth division and radar and artillery posts, this follows days of escalating violence in the region. Don't forget, wbm and thousands of other stations plus literally millions of podcasts are all available on the free Odyssey app. That's AUD AC Y we'll have the answer
Evangelism on SermonAudio
"syrian army" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"They came back and entered another tent and carried off things from it and went and hid them. And then they said to one another, we're not doing right. This is a day of good news if we are silent and wait until morning punishment will take us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. And so they came and called to the gatekeepers in the city and told them we came to the camp of the Syrians and behold there was no one to be seen or heard there. Nothing but horses tied in the donkey's time in the defenses they were. And then the gatekeepers crawled out and it was told 2000 households and they came rose in the night and said to a sermon is I'll tell you what the Syrians have done was they know we're hungry and therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country thinking when they come out of the city we shall take them alive and get them from the city. In one of the servants said, let some men take 5 in the remaining courses seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel we've already perished. Let us ascend and see and they took two horsemen and the king and sent them after the army of the Syrians saying go and see and so they went after them as far as the Jordan behold all the way was littered with garments and equipment, the Syrians had thrown away in their haste and the messengers returned and told the king and then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians and solar sail of fine flour with sole for shekel and two Sears of Marley for a shekel according to the word of the lord. We're going to stop the reading there. You can read the rest of the things you find it interesting, but for the sake of our time in our meditation, I'm going to stop with this passage. It's always a dilemma when you're preaching on these historical narrative to choose which how you're going to approach text and their number of ways you can approach this passage the first thing that comes to mind is that you see that the situation in which the Israelites find themselves is a consequence of their disobedience and their set, right? Because if you know the scriptures, you know that deuteronomy, chapter 28, the lord had promised blessings or curses, depending on if the people were obedient or disobedient to the word. And amongst the curses, there was even a warning about cannibalism to which the people are reduced. I mean, they're so hungry in a city that they're willing to be their children. I mean, that's the frightening as it gets. And another way you might look at the passage and if you know the context from the previous challenges, here's another example of the lord manifesting himself to a people that did not call on his name. Just as a couple chapters earlier in chapter 5, he showed himself by a vision he gave the prophet elisha in that the Syrians, the angels surrounding the city, you have another case here where they intervened and scared the Assyrians off by making them hear some noise from the Supernatural realm. So he did manifest himself in a way through the pagan people who did not call upon his name. Matthew Henry said that notices from the invisible world are either reassuring or terrifying according to one's relationship with the lord. So that's another way you might analyze this text in the context. But I have chosen perhaps arbitrarily to concentrate on these plight of these four leopards in chapter 7. Because these guys are philosophers, in my opinion, and I'm going to tell you why. These guys have come to a realization that the only true thing in life that we're all sure of in fact there are two things that Franklin said, there are only two certain things certainties in life, death, and taxes. I can't do anything about your taxes, but we have a solution for that. That's the only thing that ultimately any of us assure love. Martin heidegger to famous German philosopher from the last century said that man is a being for death. What all is said and done that's the reality. I mean, we're all here now and sometime in the near future. And who remembers the name of your great grandfather? Nobody because he's gone. So now the lepers realized that they realized there is no man's land. They said, we stay here. We're going to starve. But you're going to see a series. They may kill us. Well, at least it'll be faster as the prophet Jeremiah said aside from the sword in my feminine it's quicker. But they're lucidity the lucidity of these beggars contrasts with the I'd say the psychosis of many of our contemporaries. People don't want to own up to the fact that we're all destined to agree. It's a result of our sense. There was a famous piece of theater by the Romanian playwright Eugene UNESCO as heroin to remain most of his career in France. He did a play called the king dies during play by the way, I saw it on the stage of Brown university. And province. In the whole thing of the play is this omnipotent king in this fictitious land who orders everything that happens, and then one day his doctors come up to him and tell him he's dying. And he says, no, I haven't decreed it. But that's the reality. And the whole play is his struggle with this the fact that his powerful is against he can do nothing against it. If you see the play, by the way, in the future, it's really brilliant to wait when I start at Brown university. The last scene in the king is on his phone in the middle of the play, the lights getting dimmer and dimmer and they're all the house lights go up near the pitch blackness. But that's immense psychotic reaction to death. There's another great piece of cinema. The famous 1957 movie by the Swedish director of Bergman called the 7th seal. Now, if you've never seen that kill, you've got to see it. It's in Swedish but subtitles, but it's about an ocean Chevy, obviously a knight who's come back into standard, probably Sweden in the Middle Ages, and he just came back from the crusades and he's been seen death all the time. And he's riding with his valet in the whole film. It's like life is a journey. And he's going through Sweden, which has been devastated by the plague and people are dying like flies all over the place. And he periodically sits down and plays chess with the character whose name is death. And he makes a deal with death. He says, if I win, you let me go and that says nobody needs me though. You know what I mean? And that's the reality. There's some great lines at one point. He's riding with his valet and is a guy leaning against a rock. You can see the back of his foot and his dog sitting there and he says that his valet was a very cynical guy nieces, you know, making fun of his master's spiritual search. He says, go ask that guy if this is the right road to stop him. And he goes over and he talks to the guy and the guy doesn't answer so he grabs him by the wood and turns around and it's a cadaver. You guys have been dead for several days and so they keep on the master asked to be said, well, the guy give you directions in the valley says, well, the truth is, he wasn't very talkative. And he said, well, what do you mean, you said nothing? He says, no, he said very little, but he was most eloquent. I mean, the only reality is that. So here we are. And people don't want to own up to it. But these beggars, the lepers are lucid. They know that they're faced with death. And they decide, as I said, to throw themselves on the mercy of the Syrians rather than rather than say a star to death. And then what happens? They get to the Syrian cap and the Syrians have left the camp in French. We've got an expression that you know, if you should have got, that works so brilliantly in French, I regret my wife was laughing. But anyway, they left the camp in suddenly these guys who were two inches from starving to death are multi millionaires because they are in possession of all the provisions that the Syrian army had brought to sustain themselves during the siege. And as I say, some of these sieges lasted months and there's even cases of laughing over a year. So if gold and silver and food for a whole army, these guys were two inches away from that. So how do they react? Well, they react the same way any of us would. They start filling their stomachs and stuff in their pockets and party time and they went from death to millionaires in a second. And then suddenly they have a realization that most of us should relate to right with chapter 7 verse 9. Then they said to one another, we are not doing right. This is a day of good news if we are silent and wait until the morning light punishment will overtake us. Now let us go up and tell the king's household the back is realized whether or not it's stated explicitly implicitly there's a provision in God's law, which is also found curiously enough in French law in German law and andorran law and or a little country between France and Switzerland. But it's not present and I've inquired with many American attorneys about this and Anglo Saxon Jewish prudence. And that provision is called in non assistance of the personal danger. And it means basically you can be indicted for not coming to the help of someone who is in trouble when you have the possibility now this law was evoked not in recent history. You probably if you remember the Princess Diana car crash in France when she got killed about 20 years ago, the French police were going to indict the Italian paparazzi who were chasing them and standing around taking pictures of the car crash rather than helping out. The law is theoretically on the books in France. It's really invoked. If some of you familiar with the famous television series Seinfeld, the very last one that they did, the very last episode, the whole Seinfeld gang in Jerry in the land and Kramer and Georgia standing around watching some guy being robbed and they just watching and don't intervene. And somehow their own Massachusetts saw this law is not on the books as far as I know, but they wanted to the prosecuting authorities wanted to prosecute them for non assistance and that's not helping an endangered person. And in their French civil code and the automobile regulations. If you were driving on a highway and there's an accident, you are obliged by law to stop and help out. Otherwise, you can be indicted. Now, in this country, I currently works backwards. If you do help out and something happens, you can be indicted unless the state has what they call a good Samaritan clause. And I knew a physician from one of our supporting churches in Pittsburgh who stopped to help an accident victim, the guy died anyway, and the family was suing the doctors, which is crazy. But I mean, so you are obliged to help out. Now, now the lepers have come to the camp and they are suddenly rich in the realize that they're keeping all of the wealth for themselves. They said, this is not right. What we're doing. They've understood that it is their moral obligation to go help the people in the city who are starving to death, lest they starve. So that's what they go ahead and do. This is a day of good news, the tech says incidentally the word good news is in hebrews. And the Greek is UN yelling and the gospel. This is a date of gospel. We have the good news. So they're going to go and tell the people in the city and how do people in the city react? Well, they think it's too good to be true. They said, no, there's a trick. They're trying to hide the Syrian army's hiding and they're going to catch us when we get out. Now, think of it with regards to the gospel. This is a day of good news if you don't stop to help the people who need the good news, you could be invited. And this president, I'm sure this principle is present all over the gospel. Think of a good Samaritan text in parable. Jesus talks about the priest and the levite. And the good Samaritan passage is the man on the road to Jericho against beat up and as a preset goes by and has to leave. I can go by and they don't stop to help out. Then the Samaritan subs to help out. What Jesus doesn't tell you that if they've been a French policeman on the corner, he could arrest, stop those rascals, the priest of elite for not helping out based on that principle, non assistance. You don't have power. You want to go past the go to the text from Esther. Who knows if it's not such a day as this, if she didn't help out in the case of the Jewish people who are going to be exterminated, punishment below that they heard and who knows if you haven't come to power for such a time as this. So you've got a similar situation. As I said, I see that principle over all over the scriptures. Now, if you know the Bible wealth and you know the book of Ezekiel, God tells Ezekiel, you're a watchman. And one a wicked to repent. And he doesn't do bad for him, but at least you'll have saved your skin, but if you don't warn him, he's going to he's been up there as anyway, and I'm going to ask you an account for his blood. So this principle is all over the scriptures, but you're going to share the good news, so how does it apply to us? I think it's pretty obvious, right? If you know Jesus is your savior, you have the good news of Salvation. And the people around us, guess what? They don't all know Jesus as their savior. We have the bread of life, and the people around us, they are starving. Spiritual donkey head and pigeon dog, the stuff that they read, the stuff that they believe in, its spiritual donkey head and the pigeon dumb. And we have the bread of life. I would say sort of dung in cheek that we chop in this good the whole wheat variety. I mean, look at them. So I can do it. We're going to bread of life and the other people are starving to death. So it loses us to share the good news with those around us. And if we don't, punishment will overtake us. I didn't write it. So I'm just rewarding success. So how does how do we apply that? I once said, I would always finish assuming with the directions we use section in French, we say the multiply. This is the reality that dogmatic reality is that people around us are starving at a diet of spiritual donkey head and pigeon dung, and we have the gospel of Jesus Christ. So it removes us to share it with those around us and if we don't, who knows what's going to happen, so how do you go about applying that? Well, I get three suggestions for use. First of all, consider any opportunity to consider an opportunity to share the good news, in other words, start every day and it's a dangerous prayer you need to make, but try and asking the lord to lead you to those people with whom he would have you share something that they be able to give you someone that they may be wrong. But don't be careful, as I said, that's a dangerous prayer because it's one that the lord tends to honor more often and quickly than others. When I sometimes, he's going to answer that parade in a way that you don't want to do something. I mean, I said, lord, lead me to hope you would have me speak this day and maybe I'll snap at my wife or say something not to charitable and I'm not feeling particularly spiritual. And sure enough, it happens every time I'll be in the train at South Florida. I use a tri rail from Miami up to West Bank. I use it all the time with my bicycle and I get on the train and someone sits next to me and for whatever reason I end up having a conversation and I know I'm going to share to gospel and I'm thinking to myself I'm not feeling particularly spiritual right now because of the way I just handle my wife. So but why does and yet the person needs to hear the gospel. So what is the conclusion the effectiveness of the gospel to bring people to the faith does not depend upon our sanctification or lack thereof and they'll give you wrong the lord wants you to treat your wife better and he wants you to be sanctified of your sins, but the gospel message in and of itself comes through sinful people that we are. And it's still powerful for bringing people to the faith. So make that prayer every day and ask the lord to lead you with whom you would have. The person with whom you would have you to speak and work at school or wherever and don't think that your lack of sanctification is going to be an independent because they'll totally spirit uses all kinds of scoundrels, right? Like us. Second. Directions to use. First pray that the lord would lead you to the right people. Secondly, consider and I took this from our own campus group same directed doctor Bill bright and then I admired for a number of reasons. Consider any significant the lengthy one on one experience with someone as a provincial opportunity to share gasping. I say significantly, I fly an airplane all the time. I spend hours. I get on a plane next to somebody, and I'm going to be sitting next to him for depending on where I'm going four or 5, 6, 8 hours, the wood didn't put that person there by chance. So if you have an opportunity in a few locations like it's easy to be the talk to people, I can talk baseball. I like all kinds of sports, but eventually you get to the gospel. There's always a way. So consider that a providential opportunity. Now, if the person puts on the sleep mask, the headphones, I say, all right, I bought them off the hook and not have to say that. But most of the time, people, especially when the plane goes through some turbulence, you know, I tell them, opening line, I says, you don't have to play them down. I'm going up. How about you? So consider any significantly lengthy one on one as an opportunity to share the fake. Now, you see, when we lived in Marseille, we lived up on a tenth floor, and I used to get on the elevator and I calculated it used to take 24 seconds to be able to get down to the ground floor. So the woman who get on sometimes I get on and the elderly is coming down a woman who get on on the 12th floor above me. She was going to people in the elevators, especially in France and they don't talk. It's almost a universal law of silence and elevators. But the only thing I could think to say to her, I said, as I said, you know, you love in a 12th floor and I'm on the tenth floor. I figured it out. I like to do math. If the cable ever snaps and you crash to your death, you'll have three one thousandths of a second, one time you need to make peace with God. Are you ready? It didn't work. One on one opportunities are providential. As I said, you don't have to get the whole gospel out, but you can say a word. If you work on your presentation, that's why if you don't know, if you're not talking naturally, don't know what to say. You can always follow one of these EE training courses or whatnot, you don't just ask people the two diagnostic questions from the evening program. I'm not
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"Of a great army, and so that they said to one another behold the king of Israel as hired against us, the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us. And so they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their intents to horses and their donkeys leaving the campus it was and fled for their lives and what these lepers came to the edge of the camp. They went into a tent in 8 and drag in carried off silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried off things from it and went and hid them. And then they said to one another, we're not doing right. This is a day of good news if we are silent and wait until morning punishment will take us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. And so they came and called to the gatekeepers in the city and told them we came to the camp of the Syrians and behold there was no one to be seen or heard there. Nothing but horses tied in the donkey's time in the defenses they were. And then the gatekeepers crawled out and it was told 2000 households and they came rose in the night and said to a sermon is I'll tell you what the Syrians have done was they know we're hungry and therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country thinking when they come out of the city we shall take them alive and get them from the city. In one of the servants said, let some men take 5 in the remaining courses seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel we've already perished. Let us ascend and see and they took two horsemen and the king and sent them after the army of the Syrians saying go and see and so they went after them as far as the Jordan behold all the way was littered with garments and equipment, the Syrians had thrown away in their haste and the messengers returned and told the king and then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians and solar sail of fine flour with sole for shekel and two Sears of Marley for a shekel according to the word of the lord. We're going to stop the reading there. You can read the rest of the things you find it interesting, but for the sake of our time in our meditation, I'm going to stop with this passage. It's always a dilemma when you're preaching on these historical narrative to choose which how you're going to approach text and their number of ways you can approach this passage the first thing that comes to mind is that you see that the situation in which the Israelites find themselves is a consequence of their disobedience and their set, right? Because if you know the scriptures, you know that deuteronomy, chapter 28, the lord had promised blessings or curses, depending on if the people were obedient or disobedient to the word. And amongst the curses, there was even a warning about cannibalism to which the people are reduced. I mean, they're so hungry in a city that they're willing to be their children. I mean, that's the frightening as it gets. And another way you might look at the passage and if you know the context from the previous challenges, here's another example of the lord manifesting himself to a people that did not call on his name. Just as a couple chapters earlier in chapter 5, he showed himself by a vision he gave the prophet elisha in that the Syrians, the angels surrounding the city, you have another case here where they intervened and scared the Assyrians off by making them hear some noise from the Supernatural realm. So he did manifest himself in a way through the pagan people who did not call upon his name. Matthew Henry said that notices from the invisible world are either reassuring or terrifying according to one's relationship with the lord. So that's another way you might analyze this text in the context. But I have chosen perhaps arbitrarily to concentrate on these plight of these four leopards in chapter 7. Because these guys are philosophers, in my opinion, and I'm going to tell you why. These guys have come to a realization that the only true thing in life that we're all sure of in fact there are two things that Franklin said, there are only two certain things certainties in life, death, and taxes. I can't do anything about your taxes, but we have a solution for that. That's the only thing that ultimately any of us assure love. Martin heidegger to famous German philosopher from the last century said that man is a being for death. What all is said and done that's the reality. I mean, we're all here now and sometime in the near future. And who remembers the name of your great grandfather? Nobody because he's gone. So now the lepers realized that they realized there is no man's land. They said, we stay here. We're going to starve. But you're going to see a series. They may kill us. Well, at least it'll be faster as the prophet Jeremiah said aside from the sword in my feminine it's quicker. But they're lucidity the lucidity of these beggars contrasts with the I'd say the psychosis of many of our contemporaries. People don't want to own up to the fact that we're all destined to agree. It's a result of our sense. There was a famous piece of theater by the Romanian playwright Eugene UNESCO as heroin to remain most of his career in France. He did a play called the king dies during play by the way, I saw it on the stage of Brown university. And province. In the whole thing of the play is this omnipotent king in this fictitious land who orders everything that happens, and then one day his doctors come up to him and tell him he's dying. And he says, no, I haven't decreed it. But that's the reality. And the whole play is his struggle with this the fact that his powerful is against he can do nothing against it. If you see the play, by the way, in the future, it's really brilliant to wait when I start at Brown university. The last scene in the king is on his phone in the middle of the play, the lights getting dimmer and dimmer and they're all the house lights go up near the pitch blackness. But that's immense psychotic reaction to death. There's another great piece of cinema. The famous 1957 movie by the Swedish director of Bergman called the 7th seal. Now, if you've never seen that kill, you've got to see it. It's in Swedish but subtitles, but it's about an ocean Chevy, obviously a knight who's come back into standard, probably Sweden in the Middle Ages, and he just came back from the crusades and he's been seen death all the time. And he's riding with his valet in the whole film. It's like life is a journey. And he's going through Sweden, which has been devastated by the plague and people are dying like flies all over the place. And he periodically sits down and plays chess with the character whose name is death. And he makes a deal with death. He says, if I win, you let me go and that says nobody needs me though. You know what I mean? And that's the reality. There's some great lines at one point. He's riding with his valet and is a guy leaning against a rock. You can see the back of his foot and his dog sitting there and he says that his valet was a very cynical guy nieces, you know, making fun of his master's spiritual search. He says, go ask that guy if this is the right road to stop him. And he goes over and he talks to the guy and the guy doesn't answer so he grabs him by the wood and turns around and it's a cadaver. You guys have been dead for several days and so they keep on the master asked to be said, well, the guy give you directions in the valley says, well, the truth is, he wasn't very talkative. And he said, well, what do you mean, you said nothing? He says, no, he said very little, but he was most eloquent. I mean, the only reality is that. So here we are. And people don't want to own up to it. But these beggars, the lepers are lucid. They know that they're faced with death. And they decide, as I said, to throw themselves on the mercy of the Syrians rather than rather than say a star to death. And then what happens? They get to the Syrian cap and the Syrians have left the camp in French. We've got an expression that you know, if you should have got, that works so brilliantly in French, I regret my wife was laughing. But anyway, they left the camp in suddenly these guys who were two inches from starving to death are multi millionaires because they are in possession of all the provisions that the Syrian army had brought to sustain themselves during the siege. And as I say, some of these sieges lasted months and there's even cases of laughing over a year. So if gold and silver and food for a whole army, these guys were two inches away from that. So how do they react? Well, they react the same way any of us would. They start filling their stomachs and stuff in their pockets and party time and they went from death to millionaires in a second. And then suddenly they have a realization that most of us should relate to right with chapter 7 verse 9. Then they said to one another, we are not doing right. This is a day of good news if we are silent and wait until the morning light punishment will overtake us. Now let us go up and tell the king's household the back is realized whether or not it's stated explicitly implicitly there's a provision in God's law, which is also found curiously enough in French law in German law and andorran law and or a little country between France and Switzerland. But it's not present and I've inquired with many American attorneys about this and Anglo Saxon Jewish prudence. And that provision is called in non assistance of the personal danger. And it means basically you can be indicted for not coming to the help of someone who is in trouble when you have the possibility now this law was evoked not in recent history. You probably if you remember the Princess Diana car crash in France when she got killed about 20 years ago, the French police were going to indict the Italian paparazzi who were chasing them and standing around taking pictures of the car crash rather than helping out. The law is theoretically on the books in France. It's really invoked. If some of you familiar with the famous television series Seinfeld, the very last one that they did, the very last episode, the whole Seinfeld gang in Jerry in the land and Kramer and Georgia standing around watching some guy being robbed and they just watching and don't intervene. And somehow their own Massachusetts saw this law is not on the books as far as I know, but they wanted to the prosecuting authorities wanted to prosecute them for non assistance and that's not helping an endangered person. And in their French civil code and the automobile regulations. If you were driving on a highway and there's an accident, you are obliged by law to stop and help out. Otherwise, you can be indicted. Now, in this country, I currently works backwards. If you do help out and something happens, you can be indicted unless the state has what they call a good Samaritan clause. And I knew a physician from one of our supporting churches in Pittsburgh who stopped to help an accident victim, the guy died anyway, and the family was suing the doctors, which is crazy. But I mean, so you are obliged to help out. Now, now the lepers have come to the camp and they are suddenly rich in the realize that they're keeping all of the wealth for themselves. They said, this is not right. What we're doing. They've understood that it is their moral obligation to go help the people in the city who are starving to death, lest they starve. So that's what they go ahead and do. This is a day of good news, the tech says incidentally the word good news is in hebrews. And the Greek is UN yelling and the gospel. This is a date of gospel. We have the good news. So they're going to go and tell the people in the city and how do people in the city react? Well, they think it's too good to be true. They said, no, there's a trick. They're trying to hide the Syrian army's hiding and they're going to catch us when we get out. Now, think of it with regards to the gospel. This is a day of good news if you don't stop to help the people who need the good news, you could be invited. And this president, I'm sure this principle is present all over the gospel. Think of a good Samaritan text in parable. Jesus talks about the priest and the levite. And the good Samaritan passage is the man on the road to Jericho against beat up and as a preset goes by and has to leave. I can go by and they don't stop to help out. Then the Samaritan subs to help out. What Jesus doesn't tell you that if they've been a French policeman on the corner, he could arrest, stop those rascals, the priest of elite for not helping out based on that principle, non assistance. You don't have power. You want to go past the go to the text from Esther. Who knows if it's not such a day as this, if she didn't help out in the case of the Jewish people who are going to be exterminated, punishment below that they heard and who knows if you haven't come to power for such a time as this. So you've got a similar situation. As I said, I see that principle over all over the scriptures. Now, if you know the Bible wealth and you know the book of Ezekiel, God tells Ezekiel, you're a watchman. And one a wicked to repent. And he doesn't do bad for him, but at least you'll have saved your skin, but if you don't warn him, he's going to he's been up there as anyway, and I'm going to ask you an account for his blood. So this principle is all over the scriptures, but you're going to share the good news, so how does it apply to us? I think it's pretty obvious, right? If you know Jesus is your savior, you have the good news of Salvation. And the people around us, guess what? They don't all know Jesus as their savior. We have the bread of life, and the people around us, they are starving. Spiritual donkey head and pigeon dog, the stuff that they read, the stuff that they believe in, its spiritual donkey head and the pigeon dumb. And we have the bread of life. I would say sort of dung in cheek that we chop in this good the whole wheat variety. I mean, look at them. So I can do it. We're going to bread of life and the other people are starving to death.
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"The city were sort of in between the two. So they decide that at least it's faster to die by getting killed by this party than death. So they're going to throw themselves to mercy in the Syrians. And so versatile. So they arose at Twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians, but when they came to the edge of camp of the Syrians, we all there was no one there for the lord had made the army of the Syrians hear the sound of chariots and the horses, the sound of a great army, and so that they said to one another behold the king of Israel as hired against us, the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us. And so they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their intents to horses and their donkeys leaving the campus it was and fled for their lives and what these lepers came to the edge of the camp. They went into a tent in 8 and drag in carried off silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried off things from it and went and hid them. And then they said to one another, we're not doing right. This is a day of good news if we are silent and wait until morning punishment will take us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. And so they came and called to the gatekeepers in the city and told them we came to the camp of the Syrians and behold there was no one to be seen or heard there. Nothing but horses tied in the donkey's time in the defenses they were. And then the gatekeepers crawled out and it was told 2000 households and they came rose in the night and said to a sermon is I'll tell you what the Syrians have done was they know we're hungry and therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country thinking when they come out of the city we shall take them alive and get them from the city. In one of the servants said, let some men take 5 in the remaining courses seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel we've already perished. Let us ascend and see and they took two horsemen and the king and sent them after the army of the Syrians saying go and see and so they went after them as far as the Jordan behold all the way was littered with garments and equipment, the Syrians had thrown away in their haste and the messengers returned and told the king and then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians and solar sail of fine flour with sole for shekel and two Sears of Marley for a shekel according to the word of the lord. We're going to stop the reading there. You can read the rest of the things you find it interesting, but for the sake of our time in our meditation, I'm going to stop with this passage. It's always a dilemma when you're preaching on these historical narrative to choose which how you're going to approach text and their number of ways you can approach this passage the first thing that comes to mind is that you see that the situation in which the Israelites find themselves is a consequence of their disobedience and their set, right? Because if you know the scriptures, you know that deuteronomy, chapter 28, the lord had promised blessings or curses, depending on if the people were obedient or disobedient to the word. And amongst the curses, there was even a warning about cannibalism to which the people are reduced. I mean, they're so hungry in a city that they're willing to be their children. I mean, that's the frightening as it gets. And another way you might look at the passage and if you know the context from the previous challenges, here's another example of the lord manifesting himself to a people that did not call on his name. Just as a couple chapters earlier in chapter 5, he showed himself by a vision he gave the prophet elisha in that the Syrians, the angels surrounding the city, you have another case here where they intervened and scared the Assyrians off by making them hear some noise from the Supernatural realm. So he did manifest himself in a way through the pagan people who did not call upon his name. Matthew Henry said that notices from the invisible world are either reassuring or terrifying according to one's relationship with the lord. So that's another way you might analyze this text in the context. But I have chosen perhaps arbitrarily to concentrate on these plight of these four leopards in chapter 7. Because these guys are philosophers, in my opinion, and I'm going to tell you why. These guys have come to a realization that the only true thing in life that we're all sure of in fact there are two things that Franklin said, there are only two certain things certainties in life, death, and taxes. I can't do anything about your taxes, but we have a solution for that. That's the only thing that ultimately any of us assure love. Martin heidegger to famous German philosopher from the last century said that man is a being for death. What all is said and done that's the reality. I mean, we're all here now and sometime in the near future. And who remembers the name of your great grandfather? Nobody because he's gone. So now the lepers realized that they realized there is no man's land. They said, we stay here. We're going to starve. But you're going to see a series. They may kill us. Well, at least it'll be faster as the prophet Jeremiah said aside from the sword in my feminine it's quicker. But they're lucidity the lucidity of these beggars contrasts with the I'd say the psychosis of many of our contemporaries. People don't want to own up to the fact that we're all destined to agree. It's a result of our sense. There was a famous piece of theater by the Romanian playwright Eugene UNESCO as heroin to remain most of his career in France. He did a play called the king dies during play by the way, I saw it on the stage of Brown university. And province. In the whole thing of the play is this omnipotent king in this fictitious land who orders everything that happens, and then one day his doctors come up to him and tell him he's dying. And he says, no, I haven't decreed it. But that's the reality. And the whole play is his struggle with this the fact that his powerful is against he can do nothing against it. If you see the play, by the way, in the future, it's really brilliant to wait when I start at Brown university. The last scene in the king is on his phone in the middle of the play, the lights getting dimmer and dimmer and they're all the house lights go up near the pitch blackness. But that's immense psychotic reaction to death. There's another great piece of cinema. The famous 1957 movie by the Swedish director of Bergman called the 7th seal. Now, if you've never seen that kill, you've got to see it. It's in Swedish but subtitles, but it's about an ocean Chevy, obviously a knight who's come back into standard, probably Sweden in the Middle Ages, and he just came back from the crusades and he's been seen death all the time. And he's riding with his valet in the whole film. It's like life is a journey. And he's going through Sweden, which has been devastated by the plague and people are dying like flies all over the place. And he periodically sits down and plays chess with the character whose name is death. And he makes a deal with death. He says, if I win, you let me go and that says nobody needs me though. You know what I mean? And that's the reality. There's some great lines at one point. He's riding with his valet and is a guy leaning against a rock. You can see the back of his foot and his dog sitting there and he says that his valet was a very cynical guy nieces, you know, making fun of his master's spiritual search. He says, go ask that guy if this is the right road to stop him. And he goes over and he talks to the guy and the guy doesn't answer so he grabs him by the wood and turns around and it's a cadaver. You guys have been dead for several days and so they keep on the master asked to be said, well, the guy give you directions in the valley says, well, the truth is, he wasn't very talkative. And he said, well, what do you mean, you said nothing? He says, no, he said very little, but he was most eloquent. I mean, the only reality is that. So here we are. And people don't want to own up to it. But these beggars, the lepers are lucid. They know that they're faced with death. And they decide, as I said, to throw themselves on the mercy of the Syrians rather than rather than say a star to death. And then what happens? They get to the Syrian cap and the Syrians have left the camp in French. We've got an expression that you know, if you should have got, that works so brilliantly in French, I regret my wife was laughing. But anyway, they left the camp in suddenly these guys who were two inches from starving to death are multi millionaires because they are in possession of all the provisions that the Syrian army had brought to sustain themselves during the siege. And as I say, some of these sieges lasted months and there's even cases of laughing over a year. So if gold and silver and food for a whole army, these guys were two inches away from that. So how do they react? Well, they react the same way any of us would. They start filling their stomachs and stuff in their pockets and party time and they went from death to millionaires in a second. And then suddenly they have a realization that most of us should relate to right with chapter 7 verse 9. Then they said to one another, we are not doing right. This is a day of good news if we are silent and wait until the morning light punishment will overtake us. Now let us go up and tell the king's household the back is realized whether or not it's stated explicitly implicitly there's a provision in God's law, which is also found curiously enough in French law in German law and andorran law and or a little country between France and Switzerland. But it's not present and I've inquired with many American attorneys about this and Anglo Saxon Jewish prudence. And that provision is called in non assistance of the personal danger. And it means basically you can be indicted for not coming to the help of someone who is in trouble when you have the possibility now this law was evoked not in recent history. You probably if you remember the Princess Diana car crash in France when she got killed about 20 years ago, the French police were going to indict the Italian paparazzi who were chasing them and standing around taking pictures of the car crash rather than helping out. The law is theoretically on the books in France. It's really invoked. If some of you familiar with the famous television series Seinfeld, the very last one that they did, the very last episode, the whole Seinfeld gang in Jerry in the land and Kramer and Georgia standing around watching some guy being robbed and they just watching and don't intervene. And somehow their own Massachusetts saw this law is not on the books as far as I know, but they wanted to the prosecuting authorities wanted to prosecute them for non assistance and that's not helping an endangered person. And in their French civil code and the automobile regulations. If you were driving on a highway and there's an accident, you are obliged by law to stop and help out. Otherwise, you can be indicted. Now, in this country, I currently works backwards. If you do help out and something happens, you can be indicted unless the state has what they call a good Samaritan clause. And I knew a physician from one of our supporting churches in Pittsburgh who stopped to help an accident victim, the guy died anyway, and the family was suing the doctors, which is crazy. But I mean, so you are obliged to help out. Now, now the lepers have come to the camp and they are suddenly rich in the realize that they're keeping all of the wealth for themselves. They said, this is not right. What we're doing. They've understood that it is their moral obligation to go help the people in the city who are starving to death, lest they starve. So that's what they go ahead and do. This is a day of good news, the tech says incidentally the word good news is in hebrews. And the Greek is UN yelling and the gospel. This is a date of gospel. We have the good news. So they're going to go and tell the people in the city and how do people in the city react? Well, they think it's too good to be true. They said, no, there's a trick. They're trying to hide the Syrian army's hiding and they're going to catch us when we get out. Now, think of it with regards to the gospel. This is a day of good news if you don't stop to help the people who need the good news, you could be invited. And this president, I'm sure this principle is present all over the gospel. Think of a good Samaritan text in parable. Jesus talks about the priest and the levite. And the good Samaritan passage is the man on the road to Jericho against beat up and as a preset goes by and has to leave. I can go by and they don't stop to help out. Then the Samaritan subs to help out. What Jesus doesn't tell you that if they've been a French policeman on the corner, he could arrest, stop those rascals, the priest of elite for not helping out based on that principle, non assistance. You don't have power. You want to go past the go to the text from Esther. Who knows if it's not such a day as this, if she didn't help out in the case of the Jewish people who are going to be exterminated, punishment below that they heard and who knows if you haven't come to power for such a time as this. So you've got a similar situation. As I said, I see that principle over all over the scriptures. Now, if you know the Bible wealth and you know the book of Ezekiel, God tells Ezekiel, you're a watchman. And one a wicked to repent. And he doesn't do bad for him, but at least you'll have saved your skin, but if you don't warn him, he's going to he's been up there as anyway, and I'm going to ask you an account for his blood. So this principle is all over the scriptures, but you're going to share the good news, so how does it apply to us? I think it's pretty obvious, right? If you know Jesus is your savior, you have the good news of Salvation. And the people around us, guess what? They don't all know Jesus as their savior. We have the bread of life, and the people around us, they are starving. Spiritual donkey head and pigeon dog, the stuff that they read, the stuff that they believe in, its spiritual donkey head and the pigeon dumb. And we have the bread of life. I would say sort of dung in cheek that we chop in this good the whole wheat variety. I mean, look at them. So I can do it. We're going to bread of life and the other people are starving to death.
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"They came back and entered another tent and carried off things from it and went and hid them. And then they said to one another, we're not doing right. This is a day of good news if we are silent and wait until morning punishment will take us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. And so they came and called to the gatekeepers in the city and told them we came to the camp of the Syrians and behold there was no one to be seen or heard there. Nothing but horses tied in the donkey's time in the defenses they were. And then the gatekeepers crawled out and it was told 2000 households and they came rose in the night and said to a sermon is I'll tell you what the Syrians have done was they know we're hungry and therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country thinking when they come out of the city we shall take them alive and get them from the city. In one of the servants said, let some men take 5 in the remaining courses seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel we've already perished. Let us ascend and see and they took two horsemen and the king and sent them after the army of the Syrians saying go and see and so they went after them as far as the Jordan behold all the way was littered with garments and equipment, the Syrians had thrown away in their haste and the messengers returned and told the king and then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians and solar sail of fine flour with sole for shekel and two Sears of Marley for a shekel according to the word of the lord. We're going to stop the reading there. You can read the rest of the things you find it interesting, but for the sake of our time in our meditation, I'm going to stop with this passage. It's always a dilemma when you're preaching on these historical narrative to choose which how you're going to approach text and their number of ways you can approach this passage the first thing that comes to mind is that you see that the situation in which the Israelites find themselves is a consequence of their disobedience and their set, right? Because if you know the scriptures, you know that deuteronomy, chapter 28, the lord had promised blessings or curses, depending on if the people were obedient or disobedient to the word. And amongst the curses, there was even a warning about cannibalism to which the people are reduced. I mean, they're so hungry in a city that they're willing to be their children. I mean, that's the frightening as it gets. And another way you might look at the passage and if you know the context from the previous challenges, here's another example of the lord manifesting himself to a people that did not call on his name. Just as a couple chapters earlier in chapter 5, he showed himself by a vision he gave the prophet elisha in that the Syrians, the angels surrounding the city, you have another case here where they intervened and scared the Assyrians off by making them hear some noise from the Supernatural realm. So he did manifest himself in a way through the pagan people who did not call upon his name. Matthew Henry said that notices from the invisible world are either reassuring or terrifying according to one's relationship with the lord. So that's another way you might analyze this text in the context. But I have chosen perhaps arbitrarily to concentrate on these plight of these four leopards in chapter 7. Because these guys are philosophers, in my opinion, and I'm going to tell you why. These guys have come to a realization that the only true thing in life that we're all sure of in fact there are two things that Franklin said, there are only two certain things certainties in life, death, and taxes. I can't do anything about your taxes, but we have a solution for that. That's the only thing that ultimately any of us assure love. Martin heidegger to famous German philosopher from the last century said that man is a being for death. What all is said and done that's the reality. I mean, we're all here now and sometime in the near future. And who remembers the name of your great grandfather? Nobody because he's gone. So now the lepers realized that they realized there is no man's land. They said, we stay here. We're going to starve. But you're going to see a series. They may kill us. Well, at least it'll be faster as the prophet Jeremiah said aside from the sword in my feminine it's quicker. But they're lucidity the lucidity of these beggars contrasts with the I'd say the psychosis of many of our contemporaries. People don't want to own up to the fact that we're all destined to agree. It's a result of our sense. There was a famous piece of theater by the Romanian playwright Eugene UNESCO as heroin to remain most of his career in France. He did a play called the king dies during play by the way, I saw it on the stage of Brown university. And province. In the whole thing of the play is this omnipotent king in this fictitious land who orders everything that happens, and then one day his doctors come up to him and tell him he's dying. And he says, no, I haven't decreed it. But that's the reality. And the whole play is his struggle with this the fact that his powerful is against he can do nothing against it. If you see the play, by the way, in the future, it's really brilliant to wait when I start at Brown university. The last scene in the king is on his phone in the middle of the play, the lights getting dimmer and dimmer and they're all the house lights go up near the pitch blackness. But that's immense psychotic reaction to death. There's another great piece of cinema. The famous 1957 movie by the Swedish director of Bergman called the 7th seal. Now, if you've never seen that kill, you've got to see it. It's in Swedish but subtitles, but it's about an ocean Chevy, obviously a knight who's come back into standard, probably Sweden in the Middle Ages, and he just came back from the crusades and he's been seen death all the time. And he's riding with his valet in the whole film. It's like life is a journey. And he's going through Sweden, which has been devastated by the plague and people are dying like flies all over the place. And he periodically sits down and plays chess with the character whose name is death. And he makes a deal with death. He says, if I win, you let me go and that says nobody needs me though. You know what I mean? And that's the reality. There's some great lines at one point. He's riding with his valet and is a guy leaning against a rock. You can see the back of his foot and his dog sitting there and he says that his valet was a very cynical guy nieces, you know, making fun of his master's spiritual search. He says, go ask that guy if this is the right road to stop him. And he goes over and he talks to the guy and the guy doesn't answer so he grabs him by the wood and turns around and it's a cadaver. You guys have been dead for several days and so they keep on the master asked to be said, well, the guy give you directions in the valley says, well, the truth is, he wasn't very talkative. And he said, well, what do you mean, you said nothing? He says, no, he said very little, but he was most eloquent. I mean, the only reality is that. So here we are. And people don't want to own up to it. But these beggars, the lepers are lucid. They know that they're faced with death. And they decide, as I said, to throw themselves on the mercy of the Syrians rather than rather than say a star to death. And then what happens? They get to the Syrian cap and the Syrians have left the camp in French. We've got an expression that you know, if you should have got, that works so brilliantly in French, I regret my wife was laughing. But anyway, they left the camp in suddenly these guys who were two inches from starving to death are multi millionaires because they are in possession of all the provisions that the Syrian army had brought to sustain themselves during the siege. And as I say, some of these sieges lasted months and there's even cases of laughing over a year. So if gold and silver and food for a whole army, these guys were two inches away from that. So how do they react? Well, they react the same way any of us would. They start filling their stomachs and stuff in their pockets and party time and they went from death to millionaires in a second. And then suddenly they have a realization that most of us should relate to right with chapter 7 verse 9. Then they said to one another, we are not doing right. This is a day of good news if we are silent and wait until the morning light punishment will overtake us. Now let us go up and tell the king's household the back is realized whether or not it's stated explicitly implicitly there's a provision in God's law, which is also found curiously enough in French law in German law and andorran law and or a little country between France and Switzerland. But it's not present and I've inquired with many American attorneys about this and Anglo Saxon Jewish prudence. And that provision is called in non assistance of the personal danger. And it means basically you can be indicted for not coming to the help of someone who is in trouble when you have the possibility now this law was evoked not in recent history. You probably if you remember the Princess Diana car crash in France when she got killed about 20 years ago, the French police were going to indict the Italian paparazzi who were chasing them and standing around taking pictures of the car crash rather than helping out. The law is theoretically on the books in France. It's really invoked. If some of you familiar with the famous television series Seinfeld, the very last one that they did, the very last episode, the whole Seinfeld gang in Jerry in the land and Kramer and Georgia standing around watching some guy being robbed and they just watching and don't intervene. And somehow their own Massachusetts saw this law is not on the books as far as I know, but they wanted to the prosecuting authorities wanted to prosecute them for non assistance and that's not helping an endangered person. And in their French civil code and the automobile regulations. If you were driving on a highway and there's an accident, you are obliged by law to stop and help out. Otherwise, you can be indicted. Now, in this country, I currently works backwards. If you do help out and something happens, you can be indicted unless the state has what they call a good Samaritan clause. And I knew a physician from one of our supporting churches in Pittsburgh who stopped to help an accident victim, the guy died anyway, and the family was suing the doctors, which is crazy. But I mean, so you are obliged to help out. Now, now the lepers have come to the camp and they are suddenly rich in the realize that they're keeping all of the wealth for themselves. They said, this is not right. What we're doing. They've understood that it is their moral obligation to go help the people in the city who are starving to death, lest they starve. So that's what they go ahead and do. This is a day of good news, the tech says incidentally the word good news is in hebrews. And the Greek is UN yelling and the gospel. This is a date of gospel. We have the good news. So they're going to go and tell the people in the city and how do people in the city react? Well, they think it's too good to be true. They said, no, there's a trick. They're trying to hide the Syrian army's hiding and they're going to catch us when we get out. Now, think of it with regards to the gospel. This is a day of good news if you don't stop to help the people who need the good news, you could be invited. And this president, I'm sure this principle is present all over the gospel. Think of a good Samaritan text in parable. Jesus talks about the priest and the levite. And the good Samaritan passage is the man on the road to Jericho against beat up and as a preset goes by and has to leave. I can go by and they don't stop to help out. Then the Samaritan subs to help out. What Jesus doesn't tell you that if they've been a French policeman on the corner, he could arrest, stop those rascals, the priest of elite for not helping out based on that principle, non assistance. You don't have power. You want to go past the go to the text from Esther. Who knows if it's not such a day as this, if she didn't help out in the case of the Jewish people who are going to be exterminated, punishment below that they heard and who knows if you haven't come to power for such a time as this. So you've got a similar situation. As I said, I see that principle over all over the scriptures. Now, if you know the Bible wealth and you know the book of Ezekiel, God tells Ezekiel, you're a watchman. And one a wicked to repent. And he doesn't do bad for him, but at least you'll have saved your skin, but if you don't warn him, he's going to he's been up there as anyway, and I'm going to ask you an account for his blood. So this principle is all over the scriptures, but you're going to share the good news, so how does it apply to us? I think it's pretty obvious, right? If you know Jesus is your savior, you have the good news of Salvation. And the people around us, guess what? They don't all know Jesus as their savior. We have the bread of life, and the people around us, they are starving. Spiritual donkey head and pigeon dog, the stuff that they read, the stuff that they believe in, its spiritual donkey head and the pigeon dumb. And we have the bread of life. I would say sort of dung in cheek that we chop in this good the whole wheat variety. I mean, look at them. So I can do it. We're going to bread of life and the other people are starving to death.
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"Al marawi, after enduring years of war, and now this catastrophic earthquake that killed 20 members of his extended family, it's all too much. You've lost so much. What will you do now? I have no hope left. He says, I sometimes think it would have been better if I stayed under the rubble. At CBS's MTS tie up reporting from a part of rebel held northern Syria hit hard by the quakes. Against that backdrop in Syria, Islamic State has apparently launched a deadly attack, killing more than 50 people. The British based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the attack near the central town of sukhna targeting a Syrian army checkpoint and people collecting wild truffles nearby was the deadliest by the extremist group, so far this year. The observatory which tracks serious conflict so that the IS gunman took advantage of the chaos the February 6th earthquake that hit turkey and Syria caused to carry out their deadly attack. The attention in Syria has been mostly focused on the quake over the past two weeks. I'm Charles De Ledesma. It's four 35 the Biden administration facing a ton of blowback over its handling of the massive train derailment in east palestin, Ohio. Fema arrived on the site Saturday more than two weeks after the derailment, which released toxic chemicals. After backlash from residents and lawmakers, the CEO of rail operator Norfolk Southern visited east Palestine Saturday. I'm here to support the community and if you'll excuse me, that's where I'm headed right now to meet with some community members. The company has promised to pay for the cleanup, but it faces lingering questions about safety. This, after another derailment, Thursday, near Detroit. And just last month, Norfolk told investors its accident rate has been rising for the last four years. That CBS is Michael George reporting. Coming up on WTO after traffic and weather, research indicating that the fallout from racism may not just be societal, may also be physiological. It's four 36. Hiring the right talent is my
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"Al marawi after enduring years of war and now this catastrophic earthquake that killed 20 members of his extended family, it's all too much. You've lost so much What will you do now? I have no hope left, he says. I sometimes think it would have been better if I stayed under the rubble. That CBS MTS tayab reporting from a rebel held portion of northern Syria hard hit by the quakes. And against that backdrop, Islamic State has apparently launched a deadly attack in Syria, killing more than 50 people. The British based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the attack near the central town of sukhna targeting a Syrian army checkpoint and people collecting wild truffles nearby was the deadliest by the extremist group, so far this year. The observatory which tracks serious conflict so that the IS gunman took advantage of the chaos the February 6th earthquake that hit turkey and Syria caused to carry out their deadly attack. The attention in Syria has been mostly focused on the quake over the past two weeks. I'm Charles De Ledesma. It's two 35 the Biden administration facing a lot of blowback for its handling of the massive train derailment and east Palestinian Ohio fema arrived on the site yesterday more than two weeks after the derailment released toxic chemicals. After backlash from residents and lawmakers, the CEO of rail operator Norfolk Southern visited east Palestine Saturday. I'm here to support the community and if you'll excuse me, that's where I'm headed right now to meet with some community members. The company has promised to pay for the cleanup, but it faces lingering questions about safety. This, after another derailment, Thursday, near Detroit. And just last month, Norfolk told investors its accident rate has been rising for the last four years. That CBS is Michael George reporting. 9 people under the age of 18, including a 5 year old wounded after shots rang out at a gas station in Georgia Friday night, Columbus police chief Freddie blackman telling reporters Saturday and early investigation shows an altercation. Apparently happened at a party nearby, then spilled over to the gas station. Police say the victims range in age from 5 to 17, authorities say the injured all appeared non life threatening for individuals have already been released following treatment no arrests have been made. Coming up on WTO after traffic and weather a closer look at the Georgia grand jury report into claims that the 2020 election at least in Georgia was rigged. It's two 37. This is an important notice to consumers facing $10,000 or more in credit card debt medical bills or other unsecured debt. You may not be
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"296 hours after the earth shook people are somehow still being pulled from the rubble alive for Mustafa Al marawi after enduring years of war and now this catastrophic earthquake that killed 20 members of his extended family, it's all too much. You've lost so much. What will you do now? I have no hope left, he says, I sometimes think it would have been better if I stayed under the rubble. That is CBS MTS taya reporting from a rebel held portion of northern Syria hit hard by the quakes, and against that backdrop Islamic State has apparently launched a deadly attack in Syria, killing more than 50 people. The British based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the attack near the central town of sukhna targeting a Syrian army checkpoint and people collecting wild truffles nearby was the deadliest by the extremist group, so far this year. The observatory which tracks serious conflict so that the IS gunman took advantage of the chaos the February 6th earthquake that hit turkey and Syria caused to carry out their deadly attack. The attention in Syria has been mostly focused on the quake over the past two weeks. I'm Charles De Ledesma. The Biden administration facing backlash over its handling of the massive train derailment at east palestin, Ohio, vima arrived at the site on Saturday, more than two weeks after the derailment, which released toxic chemicals. After backlash from residents and lawmakers, the CEO of rail operator Norfolk Southern visited east Palestine Saturday. I'm here to support the community. And if you'll excuse me, that's where I'm headed right now to meet with some community members. The company has promised to pay for the cleanup, but it faces lingering questions about safety. This, after another derailment, Thursday, near Detroit. And just last month, Norfolk told investors its accident rate has been rising for the last four years. That CBS is Michael George, 9 people under the age of 18, including a 5 year old wounded a shot rang out at a gas station in Georgia Friday night, Columbus police chief Freddie blackman told reporters Saturday and early investigation chose an altercation apparently happened at a party nearby and spilled over to the gas station. Police say the victims ranged in age from 5 to 17, authorities say the injured all appear to be non life threatening injuries for individuals already released following treatment, no arrests have been made. Just ahead on WTO, did President Biden say enough this week to calm Capitol Hill fears of widespread Chinese aerial spying more with the hills bob Cusack ahead. It's 1236. If you came across someone struggling with hunger, how would you recognize them? By their clothes, their age, the way they speak, would you notice a 16 year old boy who got his first
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"Our hearts healed and restored to be confronted to be called to follow after jesus lord thank you lord. We praise and worship and honor. You thank you lord. Thank you jesus in your name. We pray amen. The message today is washed with pure water. He was at the very pinnacle of success. He did not count his and silver in ounces. He counted his gold and silver in the hundreds of pounds. He lived in a beautiful home. He was recognized internationally as a figure of renown. He was granted respect on every hand he was a giant of a man is name and his name was naming commander general of the syrian army. Some jewish tradition says that he was the one who fired the arrow at a hab and took his life naming. I don't know when he first saw but perhaps it was on his arm saws spot. Perhaps it was in his hair he could cover it up often with preeminence also comes great shame name and had leprosy the dreaded disease that would separate him from his household and from his the disease that.
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"Democracy now dot war the warren peach report. I made me goodman. President joe biden has laid out a six point plan to bring the us cova. Nineteen epidemic under control. After a summer that saw skyrocketing rates of infections especially in areas with low vaccination rates speaking from the white house. Thursday biden said. He's ordering nearly all federal workers and contractors to get kovic nineteen vaccinations or face weekly testing. He also said osha. The occupational safety and health administration will require large employers to have their workers inoculated or tested. Weekly violators face. Fines of up to fourteen thousand dollars per infraction. Despite the fact the for almost five months free vaccines have been available in eighty thousand different locations. We still have nearly eighty million americans who failed to get the shot and to make matters worse the elected officials actively working to undermine the fight against kobe nineteen instead of encouraging people to get vaccinated a mask up their ordering mobile morgues for the unvaccinated. Dying from cova in their communities. This is totally unacceptable. The republican national committee immediately promised to sue the biden administration over its vaccine mandates south carolina republican governor henry mcmaster tweeted quote. We will fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every south carolinian the first international passenger flight out of afghanistan kabul airport since the end of the us withdraw landed in doha thursday cutter airways plane held over one hundred passengers including americans canadians and britain's but the fate of many more who are still trying to leave afghanistan both foreign nationals and afghans is unknown meanwhile there have been increasing reports of taliban intimidation and violence against journalists workers activist women and others the un said. It's afghan staff have been subjected to threats physical abuse and some offices were looted. This is journalists taki derby who was arrested while covering a women's protests in kabul wednesday and tortured in detention for about ten minutes about seven or eight. People were beating us as much as they could. They would raise sticks and beat us with all of their strength bussey novi assemble compulsion jeff wagner when they treat journalists like this. It's possible journalism will stop in afghanistan. Within a few months it will be destroyed what we want from. The taliban is for them to be responsible for the security and well being of journalists. The syrian army entered the southern rebel-held city of dora on wednesday for the first time in over a decade amidst a fragile russian broker. Truce was the birthplace of the uprising against the government of president. Bush lhasa in two thousand eleven. Human rights watch. Said civilians in the area are facing dire shortages of food medicine power and other basic necessities amidst recent esscalation attacks by syrian government forces and their allies. Meanwhile the syrian civil defense says at least five civilians were killed in government shelling attacks in italy province earlier this week in immigration news the biden administrations extended temporary protected status or tps by another fifteen months for some four hundred thousand immigrants from haiti on duras. El salvador nicaragua sudan and paul. This means they'll be able to continue working and living in the us without the threat of deportation. Through december of twenty twenty two meanwhile immigrant advocates continue to urge congress to pass permanent immigration. Relief that includes a path to citizenship for tps holders and millions of undocumented people in the us in more immigration news a whistle blower complaint is denouncing the ongoing abuse faced by unaccompanied migrant. Children held at fort. Bliss military base in el paso texas buzzfeed reports. Children were burned after bathing and blistering water. Had their blood drawn without explanation. Were constantly threatened with deportation. This is the third complaint detailing unsafe and brutal conditions at fort bliss where the biden administration set up large tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children in texas. The us supreme court wednesday stayed the execution of john. Henry ramirez who says the state violated his religious freedom after it denied ramirez request to have his pastor. Hold us hander. Touch him and pray with him and the death chamber. The supreme court will likely argue the case in october or november. The us justice department has sued texas over its near total ban on abortions calling. It unconstitutional the law which bans abortion starting around six weeks of pregnancy. Even in cases of rape or incest circumvents the federal protection of abortion rights by deputising private citizens to enforce this is attorney general maryland thus far the law has had its intended effect because the statute makes it too risky for an abortion clinic to stay open. Abortion providers have ceased providing services. This leaves women in texas unable to exercise their constitutional rights and unable to obtain judicial review. At the very moment they need it. The justice department is seeking an injunction against the law. President biden has withdrawn the nomination of david shipman to head borough alcohol tobacco and firearms and explosives chipman twenty year. Atf veteran was attacked by republicans. And the nra for being a gun. Control advocate and to democrats west virginia. Senator joe manchin and montana. Senator jon tester would not commit to confirming chipman while main independent angus king caucuses with democrats said would vote against his confirmation. The newton the newtown action alliance responded the reason why there has been only one senate confirmed. Atf director in the last fifteen years is because the gun industry profits gun. Laws are not enforced. david shipman should have been confirmed. They said meanwhile climate activists blasted biden's pick of willie phillips to serve on the federal energy regulation commission. Philip says represented oil and gas interests while working in corporate law. the biden administration moved thursday to permanently. Protect alaska's bristol. Bay watershed from development including propose golden coppermine that would have destroyed the world's most productive sockeye salmon fishery environmentalists and indigenous groups in the region have long fought the proposed pebble. Mine and open pit mine that would require construction of a massive power plant natural gas pipeline and huge toxic tailing ponds in massachusetts harvard. President lawrence kao said on thursday. His university will no longer invest. It's forty two billion dollar. Endowment fossil fuel companies the announcement was a victory for the campus organization. Fossil fuel divest which was founded in two thousand twelve. The group tweeted quote. It took conversations and protests meetings with administration faculty alumni votes mass citizens and arrests historic legal strategies and storming football fields. But today we can see proof that activism works plain and simple they said and in labor news nabisco workers and five states remain on strike one month after workers at a portland. Oregon plant walked off the job to protest management's demands for changes to work schedules and cuts to overtime pay. Some workers have been forced into sixteen hour shifts during the pandemic others were asked to work twelve hour shifts three to four days a week including on weekends nabisco worker april flowers lewis who joined a picket line.
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"And all this stuff In order to boost what they call the moderate rebels the free syrian army which was in truth. Always the al-nusra front in other words. Which is the association of helpers or assistance or something but point being al qaeda in iraq in syria. That's who they were. And so this support went on you know for two years. One continued on past that but two years into the support. The iraqi dominated faction of al qaeda and iraq decided they wanted to split from the syrian dominated faction of al qaeda in iraq and in a fight over oil and control but also because the americans killed bin laden. Hurry didn't command as much respect at least from the iraqi dominated faction there and their leader abu baqer al-baghdadi disagreed with the al-qaeda Doctrine of continuing to fight the americans and bogged down the americans until they go home. So they can we. Can you know wage our local revolutions and try to create our caliphate. Then he said i. I don't wanna wait. I want to create my caliphate now. After all the americans are fighting on his side at this point why the hell not right so he seizes consolidates estate in eastern syria and In the city of rock as its capital and then six months later in january of two thousand fourteen. That's in june twenty thirteen then in january. Twenty fourteen thousand whites the black flag over palooza and they take it back down. But that's a huge signal that you know suny. Western iraq is wide open. Predominately sunni western iraq is wide open the new shiite government that america put it power bag as extremely chauvinist and rather than trying to rule over them with an iron fist. It's basically just cut them loose and so there's really no one in charge there and so in two thousand fourteen isis. Just rolls right into western iraq and they take over mosul to crete and Palooza and baiji which is important oil town. Uh our.
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"Has mined the Torah tells me she's terrified of being sent there. But you really dreads having to go back to Damascus or corner disease. Kanayama Loco, No logical man on the tour, says she fears that she and her husband will be investigated, possibly jailed and that their sons would be forced to join the Syrian army for now on the tourist, pinning her hopes on one days. May 21st. This is the day the family will appear in a Danish court to appeal their case. Whatever happened, she says, they will not go back to Syria. At least not willingly. For the world. I'm Orla Barry. In Greece today. Activists are celebrating the arrest of one of the leaders of a notorious neo Nazi organization. Yanni's Lajos was convicted and sentenced months ago along with dozens of other golden dawn members, but authorities haven't been able to apprehend him. Until now, The world's Lydia Mannelly do is on the line from Athens. What has prevented authorities from arresting Lajos until now, Lydia? Well levels is not only a convicted criminal and neo Nazi as you just mentioned, but he's also a member of the European Parliament. He was elected in 2019 as an independent m e p Now Emmy pees get special protections, including an extradition immunity and because of that extradition immunity, Greek authorities couldn't have levels extradited from Brussels to Greece after he was convicted and sentenced back in October, so they had to put in a request to the European Parliament to waive his immunity. And for months now the parliament has been going through the procedure. This week. They took a vote and yesterday, European Parliament President David says solely announced the results on this vote to strip lowers of his immunity. She let me guess that he never can. The enemy's Lagos. Provided that was overwhelmingly approved. And then shortly after that, Lajos was arrested by Belgian authorities, So has he been actually extradited to Athens yet? No, he has not been extradited. A court in Belgium is going to need to approve the extradition request. But now that the European Parliament has voted to strip him of his immunity that opens the door for authorities to be able to do that. Right. So this is going ahead now. What exactly was luckless convicted of? So this was one of more than 50 people who was convicted of running a criminal organization Golden Dawn and just a little reminder for those who don't know this organization started in the eighties as a fringe far right magazine. It was actually started by a man who openly, you know, expressed his admiration of Hitler and it went from a French far right magazine to a mainstream political party. So over the last decade, Aziz you know Greece. Has gone through an economic crisis. It's been at the center of the migrant crisis and Golden Don really tapped into the anger that Greeks were feeling over those issues, and it grew as a political part again by 2013. It was actually the third largest party in Greek parliament. Their followers would march through the streets, waving Nazi flags. They would chant anti migrant slogans and they were really violent. I mean, for years, they terrorized migrant communities they would stab people in 13 2001 of their members killed Greek anti fascist rapper named Pablo Species. Oh published thesis was supposed to pick it up. Ski meals elope, This murder's ultimately what led to Holding down being put on trial and led to their demise. And, you know, at the end of that five year long try a while. I was there in the crowd when the judges were delivering the verdict. Defeated. It was a huge deal. People were crying. People were hugging each other. Many considered this kind of an end to a really dark period, and one of the darkest periods really increases modern history. So you implied earlier that Golden Dawn has faced its demise. What is this news about Lagos heading to greet custody now Mean for Golden Dawn's leadership. Are they Are they all now behind bars? No, they're actually not all behind bars, although all of them have been convicted Golden Dawn's number to a man named to finish this Pappas is actually on the run. No one knows where he is. He was able to get away sometime before his sentence was handed down. And many believe he had help from the Greek police, which you know Golden..
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"Rick till eight two hundred chicken wings at your mama's house last night now back to fat boy. That hurts my feelings. Welcome back to the show to the with you. The rest of the way. The lines are available at one. Eight hundred eight seven eight play. Let's go to oakland with chris. What's up man. rick. I love those drops. You always have man you've had those for awhile and you haven't you just just austin since two thousand two. Wow that's amazing and just All right sounds good. Hey i was trying to get an earlier. But i wanted to comment on. The leonard. Myers meyers leonard right. That's the guy's name meyers to leonard myers. Sounds more correct. Yes it is meyers leonard. And i don't wanna sound you know racists or stereotypical but those are kind of stereotypical jewish names speaking of which My question is do you think that this is something to do with the fact that it's miami. Do you think that has any any effect at all on this on this conversation because you know it's more traditional. It's against stereotypical jewish more jewish community on their miami. What do you think now. I think with the commissioner is jewish the commissioner before him was jewish The the media in new york. I mean yeah. There are a lot of retired. New yorkers live in florida. There's no doubt. But i think this would have been the case. No matter where he did it. I believe so vs oklahoma city. You'd think it's the same kind of push back. I think probably the local people in oklahoma city wouldn't have cared as much you're correct but it still would have been a national deal in the nba. Still be that's and all the other stuff. Yeah yeah. I mean. I'm not. I'm not a jewish american and frankly i've mothers arabic right so my grandfather. My great uncle fought in syria against the israelis. Right so i get where maybe somebody you know you know you were talking earlier about cultural but obviously were americans and jewish france. But i remember in ninety four. When schindler's list came out and the teacher castleman in east. Oakland was probably at that. Time was definitely an all african american school. But now it's more mixed. They took him to the grand lake theater in downtown. Oakland to see the dacian. There's list and this is ninety four. So there's still a lot of jewish americans who had either directly affected by the holocaust or after and a lot of the young people that saw the film. They didn't have it store context. I understand i remember. It didn't have historical context of you know. Be living to the holocaust of what that meant and so people were you know. It's young kids. Watch movies people shooting there. Make a lot of noises in my damn and this net and it was a huge thing and i remember steven spielberg actually came to the school because it was such a blowback that they actually stopped the film a lot of jewish people that were watching. The film were horrified. These kids had respect and the kids didn't really have it from a cultural plate. So like this you know whether he knew the word or not. I mean it's not you know as a kid growing up the california's not at common word would use but you know whatever But i think you can you instead of blasting the guy like you know banning spanish this is a great time to talk about the holocaust survivors. That connection i do. I do think it's not a political show but the fact it And say what you are former president. He did do a lot in terms of normalizing relations between the countries and israel. Some people don't like it but you know as we move forward as a global society. I think that's important so not necessitate. Spielberg thing from what i remember about that story because it was a big deal. I thought he went to the grand lake and watched it with them and they were quiet as a mouse the whole time. I think that was the second part. But i know he actually went to the school itself them on over there on. Eighty six and macarthur. You know it used to be an actual capsule. My grandfather taught there in the thirties Great school you know. Lie joe morgan's out of their Sports guys but Twenty tony tony kasimov kasimov but he actually went to the school and i remember it was a big deal Bennis again early nineties ninety four and it was a you know. I believe the teacher was a white guy. He had been jewish. I don't know but we took a bunch of the students. To the opening. The schindler's list of grand lake and a lot of jewish americans there and it was a big learning experience. You know we'll talk to that. But it's sort of like any pulp fiction a completely different kind of movie. But i remember when john travolta waving the gun around and shot marvin in the back of the car. The audience i watched it with everyone started laughing hysterically and i was thinking. I don't think this is supposed to be funny. But that's the reaction. That's the kind of the reaction. Yeah people getting shot and Yeah i mean and plus the fact regardless race and ethnic heritage teenagers when you let them outside of the classroom They're gonna be completely knucklehead goof-balls to which doesn't yeah yeah. We have a theater mall four star cinema. And i remember seeing a rat run into and i felt a toy with richard pryor and it was always at the time it was a big hayes in the back of the thing smelled like marijuana smell like skunk or something so yeah they'll see in movies and some you know some of the old movie theaters. We're awesome two dollar night at hilltop. And i'm telling you the clientele is when i was sixteen. I thought wow. I get to see a double feature for a dollar and it was like quest for fire and You know just some stupid that. Yeah so yeah. Clash of the titans. Whatever and At i remember one time the film the frame stopped. And all of a sudden you saw this like heat bubble and it burned and ripped because you know the boulder so hot that if the film is constantly moving at burns right through the celluloid and then there are people who are actually asking further dollar back. That is phenomenal guy you leave. I saw white. Men can't jump at the century which is crossed mukasey of a big fight and then they basically gave. He's money back at to stop the movie. So would that story times. thanks for the. Thanks for the call. Chris Chris of enough to get them syrian army stories. That's pretty interesting as well One eight hundred eight seven eight play To get in and get hurt and listen like we said like chris was saying i mean. It's it's not. we're not in a time right now where you can save something and plead ignorance on it. You just can't and And i've i've pointed this out many times. I felt sorry for grant napier when he was asked about black lives matter and he said well. I think all lives matter. You're fired what did i do. He didn't realize that saying that disparage the black lives matter movement. And you think. How could that possibly disparage it. Well if you save blue lives matter. It says that if it's firemen deserve red lives matter. I don't know But as i said everybody is always so focused on labels. And what are you. What are you know i'm this i'm that you are people will tell you what you are. You are a cyst gender. Whatever like i am. I didn't even know what i am. And there's just there's zero tolerance you know For me Something like that. That happened on his own time. Like i hope. I'm never dumb enough to do something like that but i would never give a blanket apology to strangers. If i offended someone and i do we do it all the time. If i offend someone i would apologize that person. Some sorry i offended you that if it was a private conversation now he was doing this openly on twitch so that's where he messed up but if it's a private conversation like if it's a private text message ember guys getting in trouble for their text messages.
The Last American Vagabond
"syrian army" Discussed on The Last American Vagabond
"I exactly yeah exactly but this brings into what's going on now you know and it s what really does continue to bother me. Almost you know the fact that this is happening now like their narrative is that this is the worst pandemic and a century. So that then you're okay bombing civilians during the worst pandemic and i mean there's there's no connect there and i don't why i don't why not get government neuro lying about it but where's all the average people like we can see what's happening. Biden will bomb syria despite arguing all the things. He's going to do different so just the same. He's trump with the different narrative. And now we have israel openly doing so and even threatening biden. Saying if you go back in the jcp away. We're going to attack iran. That's a street from netanyahu's mouth and so it just shows you the lack of respect if that even exists between them to say like we don't care about your agreements. We're going to win and it just shows you who really has the power dynamics. So let's start off if you will to comment on biden's actions in syria and endless go into what just happened from israel and we'll bring that to well. I mean i think what's interesting is that sense. Biden's inauguration of couse we'd sane first of all the reemergence of isis right or stagnates Yeah you know. I mean just almost immediately right. There were since new year. There were a series of attacks on a syrian arab army positions. On oil deputies of gas pipelines isis. Of course that are emanating from The us patient buy-sell ton of in the southeastern voter jordan From the nose as coming from iraq. And actually i just because when you mentioned Covid point out is not only the bombing of a syria and iraq but also the movement of us streets are us. Troops have been pouring into the nose as typing establishing new military bases and some of the richest oil resource areas. They're building a new base in iraq. closer to syria with an ad base The replenishing their forces in altoona us. They're running military exercises with the armed groups that are in the fifty five kilometer exclusions. I around outside of and in the refugee camp and that exclusions away is syrian. Territory that syrian army and their allies are not allowed to enter and in fact the armed groups that are being trained and equipped by the us. Inlet explosion side are regularly attacking saran are even russia physicians. So you know. And and i.
Judaism Unbound
Canaan Unconquered - Rachel Havrelock
"And kinda interested in talking about the person joshua. He's the title character of this book and he himself from my understanding of scholarly work on biblical criticism or otherwise. He himself has a story like an origin story. That some people think is kind of a retrospection where like after the fact. He's put into the torah in a way that he may not have always been there. And what i'm referring to is specifically. His glory story is that he's one of the two folks in the twelve spies story that goes into the promised land and says This is great all the other ten folks. All land is terrible. Joshua caleb are on the good side that god likes and because it's the land that they're supposed to go to am. I right in my understanding of that. How scholars look at that person joshua and to what extent to we learn more about him in talking about the book that's named after him. Joshua indeed has a book named after him but is one of the flatter hand more hollow biblical characters. I mean for readers. Go in sequence so you know redo romney in which moses in vary tragic psychological terms wrestles with his impending death. And you know even with the existential reality of death itself. so we're going through it moses psyche and when we can turn out of the penza out of the five books of moses when we opened the book of joshua we have an entirely flat character. You know joshua is really characterized by his obedience and interestingly enough has no title right once called the servant of god is not labeled a profit is not labeled a judge is not labeled a king. I mean we get the news of general because he leads these battles but he doesn't even have a title biblical literature does have great literature and just have complex characters. Josh was not one of them. And you can't really do. A lot of psychological depth with an icon in joshua right becomes an icon of this army of this ancient near right to really kind of like a strobe of what i would call. Ancient national is now. I believe that the book of joshua is ultimately synthesized by a group of editors that we call the or novelists they are the ones that are also very smart editors so joshua ends up becoming a kind of a tool that the nommik editors really use to kinda. We've eras together and also to contain a kind of perfect model right. They wanna leader in their language. Who neither the left nor the right right who keeps torah. You know kind of the cuff at all times. And so they give joshua authority by putting him back the times of most read someone who experienced the whole exodus and even while being a member of this desert generation right the generation of the liberated slaves joshua and his spy buddy caleb right are portrayed is the only two who believe in going to war in this land. So i think that's right. I think the shooter anonymous create joshua to be an icon of the kind of unity to which they aspire and one more piece that all add to your question about joshua and caleb who again are depicted is these faithful spies who go against the will of their generation. I love it kinda that the liberated slaves don't want to go to war. I feel like we haven't done enough to really like reclaim that biblical antiwar position expressed by that generation. But you know. John lewis show like i said he's a. He's a tutoring nommik creation. But there's a lot of northern stuff going on with joshua and caleb is a southern figure just as these editors could really say we've always been at war with canaanites. Their system could also absorb later alliances. So kayla who. This southern figure is a canoe. He's a kennedy and the candidates are ultimately a group that gets absorbed under the tribe of judah the twelve tribes structure is very good at pointing to those people who are on the outside who jumped. Don't join the alliance and saying those e mites those canaanites those jebusites there are enemies. But it's also good at absorbing groups that might join the alliance at their own pace and saying. Oh well that's caleb. He's the head of the kennedy clan and that's a sub family of judah so so both things are possible for trying to account for political alliances. Can we situated some of what you're talking about in some sense of historical time to understand sort of when the actual events that are being responded to her happening versus the time where the story is set. What's going on geopolitically. And the time of the israelites when they are making all these alliances. And then if i understand the approximate timeframe here they're basically writing and rewriting these stories that are functionally taking place around five hundred years earlier. Right i mean the so. It almost becomes like their writing and rewriting and massaging this almost like mythic prehistory. It's not just like they're telling a story from fifty years ago differently. They're telling a story from five hundred years ago differently. I'm just curious if you could give us some sense of what was actually going on in in their world at that time that was motivating them to do all this so yes. Speaking about time wine this is the kind of thing. Bible scholars go to conferences to fight of out. So let me kind of breakdown this picture together with a time line let me start somewhere with is a very important piece of poetry and it's important because because of how it serves as a historical in and that's song of deborah and the song of jabra with we believe based on its grammar and syntax is one of the oldest texts in the bible and some people even speak about the year twelve hundred bc. Jabra sings about a war and she sings that some tribes came and fought in the war in some sat home so she disparages the tribes who sat home and she sings the praises of the tribes who k. That's very important to me because it shows that the success or failure of a given tribe in war depended upon their allies. Were so we see major major motivation for these processes of consolidation. Many scholars have shown how end the nine eight century. B c e you've got these policies of consolidating clans in schreiber's into something that looks like a pro donation. This is happening in the region. And it's about war you know. Because if you're national formation right if or if you're a bunch of tribes and you've got a consolidated federation of people's you're gonna lose but then we get you know eighth century b. c. e. the rise of empires in particular syria and the threat of assyria marching. You know or the egyptian empire has its second wind around this time. It's that process. That i think gets people thinking we've got come up. You know with a larger scale organization in army. And so josh. Shaw gives this army which is kind of being configured in real time it gives this army kind of heroic prehistory behind which people can march. And so it means you know that it works and doesn't work because the syrian army takes out the northern kingdom the kingdom of israel in seven twenty two but ends up sparing the kingdom of
On The Way
"syrian army" Discussed on On The Way
"Monday. Nights down nut seltzer. I it's incredible to to think of ministering in circumstances like that most of us as you said earlier that We're in a country at a at a time. When weren't we don't experience that and yet so many places in the world do and god called you to one of those that at the time you went was peaceful but it wasn't peaceful forever. Throw how again. I'm curious What what is it about. Jesus that you were so committed to the work that he called you to. You would endure that. Well if we believe that god's in control and always in control the matter what happens then you can rest in jesus because he's in control and he'll oust happen whatever. He allows to happen in progress of accomplishing his will. So there's a verse that says he that while within the secret place of the most high shall abide or rust in the shadow of the almighty and the words. Jesus come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden and i will give you rest touch my yoke upon you learn of me for i am meek and lowly in heart and you shall find rest for your souls for my yoke assisi at my burden is light dependent on those folks. There were times when the syrian army was just across the valley from us and could have moved in long island time. We didn't know win. Let might happen. Or what would you do with a dead. But god kept them on the other side of the valley. I'm real thankful for that so today. This is many years after you retired in nineteen eighty nine. Yes so When hear of the explosion in beirut and and you know what they've experienced in the time between eighty nine and and today Most of us who don't have the kind of connection to lebanon that you do we. We hear it as A tragedy but we're disconnected from it. How how did you receive that news. It hurt it hurt. it hurt. I'll tell you we were. there won. Numerous car bombs exploded of. We know the feeling renault the devastation. We know the tragedy were lives. Lost and property destroyed away. Knew exactly how those people felt. Wait could feel again ourselves. I with subtle little mali to help rebuild and to relieve some about suffering but we wish we could be there to help out more bug. It's not possible anymore Yeah so we know that People from lebanon have moved to the united states and we may encounter them from time to time Many of them have Businesses that we liked to frequent What's that quite frankly. I really enjoy so. Yes so when we interact with someone from lebanon as Americans were just as Followers of christ in what are some things that we should be mindful of number one. Be a friend a friend. Whatever it takes the a friend they sympathetic. Listen to them. Ask them what their background is where they came from and what they were doing during the war. Stay many of them. Now were born after the war was finished after nineteen eighty ninety but But some of them are from villages. That suffered much from war and if you ask them they are willing to share with you. That's a good way to show friendliness. Opportunity tell them what jesus meant do during the war time. Well i have a final question. Yes for someone who maybe is in a similar position that you were in Back in laredo and has a sense that jesus is calling them to some kind of mission work. What would you tell them. Well if you feel the call of god it be known we had an interesting experience in that regard at all of the church before we were married maxine and i. We're going together as friends and the pasteurized one time. Because he knew that she had felt. God's call have you ever made public and she said no and he said well. Tonight after the servicemen patient skimmer. Why don't you come down. Let the congregation know that you have felt called the mission field as socially told me about that on sunday afternoon. Well i didn't say anything. But when the invitation came i was sitting at the end of the pew and she was inside next to me and so when it was given i left and went out i went down the aisle and she was very upset about that she said. Why did you do that. You knew i was going. But why did you down. I it made it look like i was following new. Well i assured than what you read. I'm i me to follow because it would look like. I was following you and want to people to know this was my decision and i wanted to make it public just like you do so under way. We both that in the same service. And i think she has forgiven now.
BBC World Service
NW Syria at breaking point, warns of more displaced
"Go to the start of this out one of the few remaining rebel held territories in Syria it live province in the country's northwest is on to further bombardment by the Syrian army and its Russian allies will miss a quarter of a million people have fled north towards the Turkish border in the past two weeks as the Syrian army attempts to push north and capture the city of marks a new man an estimated three million civilians and living in a glib which is controlled by various jihadi groups opposed to the government of Bashar al
AP News Radio
Trump warns of 'carnage' in rebel stronghold in Syria
"It limits the last rebel stronghold in Syria government forces have been bombarding it for about a month and last week launched a ground offensive the Syrian army and opposition activists say more than forty villages and hamlets had been captured while the Syrian response coordination group says more than two hundred thousand people are fleeing their homes ahead of the advance meanwhile president trump is accusing Syria along with allies Russia and Iran of being on their way to killing thousands of innocent civilians in a tweet he says don't do it adding that Turkey is working hard to stop what he describes as carnage Ben Thomas Washington
On Point with Tom Ashbrook | Podcasts
Defense secretary says troops in Syria will 'temporarily' go to Iraq before returning to US
"Listen first to a little bit from Secretary of Defense Mark Asper talking about the president's decision to withdraw troops from Syria and it has the president's move had moved have been framed by the administration as a decision to get home and out of quote endless wars But secretary experts said that troops from Syria are being relocated to western Iraq the current game plan is for those forces to reposition in western Iraq and then to to missions one is to help defend Iraq and to is to perform a counter isis mission as we sort through the steps that's the secretary of Defense Mark Esperer well joining us now from Washington is Laura Seligman Pentagon correspondent for Foreign Policy Laura Welcome to the show hi thanks for having me so first of all tell us what more we know about these US troops that have been reported as a crossing the border from Syria into Iraq. What's actually going on so what's going on right now is that the US is pretty much making hasty withdrawal from Syria had about one thousand troops in northern Syria left a couple of weeks ago and after the president's decision to move troops from the border which essentially green lighted the Turkish invasion we've sped up or withdrawal so we have I believe there's the US troops are consolidating on in two two points in northern Syria one in the east and one in the West in the east they are now moving out by land by convoy and perhaps possibly helicopter to western Iraq and then over in the West Orleans area near Kabbani they're moving out by airlift so this is serve the end of almost the end of US presence in northern Syria although there was news last night that broke that the president is considering a plan which I believe with presented by Lindsey Graham Senator Lindsey Graham to leave a couple hundred maybe two hundred three hundred perhaps in northern Syria primarily to guard at the oilfields which are currently under Kurdish control from getting into president Syrian President Bashar Assad hands and then they would also have a counter isis mission though it's not clear to me what do you hundred troops can do against both Isis and Assad army okay well so let's see then you mentioned Senator Lindsey Graham let's listen to what he said yesterday on Fox News because of course for the past couple of weeks Senator Graham has it's been very vocally critical of president trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria but here's what he said yesterday on Fox News as I am increasingly optimistic that we can have some historic solutions in Syria that have alluded us for years if we play our cards right so Laura I mean do we know what more grim is talking about why his sudden change of heart and that we can all of a sudden player cards right I think he's probably trying to ACA fine line between what the president wants which is obviously to get US troops home get them out of Syria I get them out of the Middle East and then securing US trust in Syria so we're actually leaving even before this latest plan we were we had been leaving a couple hundred maybe a hundred fifty troops in southern Syria at a small outpost cold Altaf which sort of acting as a buffer for Iran's presence interior it's a it's a very small garrison that's on the border with Jordan where we have the very small base of troops so that was always sort of in the cards and now we have a president trump making another kind of reversal designed to leave a couple of hundred troops in northern Syria. I think that what Lindsey Graham is trying to do is trying to on the one hand we the president and allow him to fulfill his campaign promises while on the other hand keeping residual force in Syria which is really critical to having a stable northern Syria. I mean the Kurds that are there are already civilians are dying for two hundred thousand I believe civilians have been displaced and if this security zone agreement with a Turkey holds it could be more and more people are displaced that area and you have so many interests players there you have Turkey coming in but you also have the Syrian army you also have the the therion rebels the free Syrian army and other Turkish back forces that have been wreaking havoc so it's a chaotic region right now and the presence of U. S. forces are going to be critical to state well I think it well so you mentioned that this cease fire that was brokered by the US last week I mean just let's listen to A moment to former ambassador William Burns who served as ambassador to Russia and as the US Deputy Secretary of state under the Obama Administration he was on CBS face the nation yesterday an he was critical of the trump administration's moves in the past couple of weeks saying that the administration's policy could they long lasting in the region I mean I think there was a smart way and a dumb way to deal with what was a very complicated situation which we had modest leverage in northeast Syria we chose the dunaway and one impulsive presidential phone call we in a sense gave away our leverage and then in a pretty hasty negotiated ceasefire we through the curve under the bus it's former ambassador William Burns on CBS's face the nation yesterday Laura so things seem to be moving so quickly that I just wonder if he might just help walk through whether or not the ceasefire actually was a cease-fire so as of Friday when she star was agreed it sir it was not a ceasefire there were reports all Friday and over the weekend that the Turkish back forces continued shelling the border city of Russia I and and in fact circled the city and would not let medical convoys come in which we're trying to come in and evacuate wounded civilians and I've been in touch with the Kurdish Red Crescent which is one of the only I think medical convoys medical humanitarian groups that is still on the ground there it's just simply too dangerous for most international groups I've been in touch with them and they we're trying to get in all weekend and they told me that many people in fact died due to loss of blood and how am I getting the help that they needed I I'm told that just in yesterday I believe there was another group an American group that was able to get in and evacuate some of the civilians there but in general it's just a horrible nations I think in the last twenty four hours fighting has ceased a little bit although there are still reports of some fighting there is not as much shelling or bombing So I I I have hope right now that the ceasefire is is going to hold and that will allow some time for the Kurdish forces away PG militia to pull back doc which is there they have agreed to do under the ceasefire agreement but but I am still very concerned about all the civilians that have been caught up in this there were reports faces and Torsos these are children and it looks like the Turkish back proxies are are using white phosphorus and potentially other chemicals against the billion so these war crimes are being committed atrocities are happening and it's just an awful situation chemical weapons attacks you're saying on on civilians and children technically white phosphorus is not accountable weapon there's a lot of legalities in that term in fact it's it's not banned in military use but it is a war crime if you said against civilians so lots of technicalities there but if if you're a person who has been burned with white phosphorus I think that the technicalities don't really matter and so then I mean you talked about you talked about the the Syrian forces the Kurdish forces I mean where is there what group if any is ostensibly protecting the civilians as you said some four hundred thousand being or having already been displaced so so recently partnered with the United States to defeat Isis this group it it's very complicated lots of webs of interconnections in this region but but this abyss primarily led by the way PG militia which has links to the PKK which is a terrorist organisation in Turkey that has been waging insurgency in Turkey for the last couple decades so it's it's certainly fair for Turkey TC the PK as a terrorist threat and so that their view of the white PG AF but the the reality on the ground is that the SDS the Syrian why PG the Syrian militia has not weighed aged any attacks on Turkey from Syria in fact what they've been doing is protecting civilians protecting US forces frankly in Syria we've lost I think four. US soldiers in total in the last since two thousand fourteen in Syria compare that to Afghanistan where blue on green attacks are common and the the SDS has been really good ally in the region so it's complicated but the SPF as as they keep saying they are not terrorists and I think they would they would object to that to that appearance we see but I've seen from your reporting Laura that the president end of the Syrian Democratic Council made an emergency trip to Washington very recently to meet with US officials
Morning Edition
Kurdish-led authority in north Syria calls for general mobilization, urges residents to resist imminent Turkish attack
"A Turkish leading Persian into northern Syria is imminent officials say after U. S. troops withdrew from the area and here's Peter Kenyon reports Kurdish officials in Syria are warning of a humanitarian catastrophe the local Kurdish authority in northern Syria is calling for a general mobilization the defender is held by Syrian Kurdish YPG forces that are reviews as terrorists the White BG allied with the US military to reclaim territory from Islamic state fighters but president trump order the US forces to withdraw after Turkey's president vowed to go ahead with the incursion Turkish officials are dismissing trump's promised to obliterate the Turkish economy if Turkey does anything he considers off limits Turkey says free Syrian army fighters will join in the operation against the white
Background Briefing
Trump's decision to abandon the Kurds in Syria sends a dangerous message to US allies around the world
"And joining us now David Phillips the director of the peace building and writes programs each year for the study of human rights to Columbia University and a former senior adviser and foreign affairs expert to the United States department of state during the administrations of presidents Clinton bush and Obama the author of an uncertain ally Turkey and other ones dictatorship and the great betrayal how America abandon the kids and lost the Middle East he has an article at the institute for the study of human rights shock and disgust trump turns a blind eye to take a slaughter of Kurds in Syria welcome to background briefing David Phillips thank you and this outrageous move by Donald Trump which is similar to the move that he tried alea back in December which prompted the resignation of the head of the CNM and also the head of the defense department general Mattis is there anyway given the backlash Mr Connell Lindsey Graham everybody in the in the day a day the state everybody saying this is outrageously dangers and stupid idea given trumps record is he like to reverse himself all other tanks gonna roll in from Turkey early US forces have already left several observation posts on the Turkish Syrian border and I just got off the phone with a Syrian Kurd who indicated that Turkey's military is massing and hi there may be a cross border incursion tomorrow morning at dawn so it looks as though the train has left the station so there are a lot of unanswered questions here a lot of unknowns is an important question though in that we need to ask ourselves why after a year of negotiating with Turkey and finally coming to an agreement on managing relations between the U. S. Turkey and the Kurds have we suddenly reversed ourselves against the advice of the department of defense and state department officials what kind of deals with trump make with air to want what everyone promised him it is it's just another example of trump's malfeasance towards international relations where he's not trustworthy where he's a radic and unpredictable or is there more to it than that is there something criminal here that we're going to find out about well there is obviously in trump's business dealings with anyone trump hotels in Turkey but there's also the other possibility that comes from a lot of sources in the intelligence committee that I've talked to both former mostly foreman but some cards and even at the former deny himself general clapper said that he thinks let ME potent is Donald trump's case officer meaning than Donald Trump is on by potent he's a Russian assets so that might explain this this is there's no question that this looks like something the potent once not what America wants this something that Putin once that Iran loans and what a side once so when you look at the F. Russia Iran and Turkey they cooperate in Syria through something called the a star on a process which was created by those three countries as an alternative to the U. N.'s mediation one of the courage to now who do they turn to for protection if the U. S. abandons them they're likely to turn to the Syrian government answer the Russian government who hold all the cards so what's trumps interests here I want to put in his interest here for a lot of unanswered questions but for the Kurds who have been on the frontline who have sacrificed eleven thousand fighters in the past year at America's be hashed confronting isis they are just spinning with confusion they don't know who their friends are they don't know what to do next hi with friends like this who needs adversaries the courage and other interested parties around the world are watching and it just casts a pall over America's reliability as an ally and as a force for good in the world well I'm no fan of the Saudi Arabians and sent me a moment been sound mind but trump just sold out the Saturdays I mean amber when they they rainy and shot down a U. S. drone trump was about to respond and the aircraft were in the air heading towards Iranian targets when he reversed himself but in doing so the signal to the Iranians that trump and the Americans are a paper tiger and then the Iranians and lost a bunch of missiles on apple cake the big petroleum processing plant in Saudi Arabia that shuts down sandy's oil supplies and then hung out to dry the Emirati is already making a deal with the Iranians and the Saudis are also about to make a deal with the Iranians says essentially trumped sell them out and by the way if you look at it in the broader context it run again end up either directly or indirectly controlling something like fifty percent of the wells are old supplies since George W. bush handed over Iraq to Iran and looks like drum sanding either Saudi Arabian the Amorites and Yemen and the Iranians will so essentially moved into Syria and into Lebanon so they could be the next regional superpower so trump showing a remarkable ability to unify our countries around the world in opposition to US policy if he is so radioactive that he's bringing the Saudis and the Iranians together the amerock teas and the Iranians that's a remarkable development there are profound questions about whether or not Donald Trump he's competent to act as commander in chief informally those questions are being asked by both democratic and Republican senators and by senior members of the US military and missile occurs in the backdrop of an impeachment inquiry which is now entering its third week so David Phillips a you saying that you not necessarily agree with me that trump is quite likely to be a traitor and the importance pocket you're saying he made just be simply incompetent it could be both we don't know hi he certainly incompetent he's proven that over and over and based on the performance in Helsinki and what we seen as of late it would seem that he's also acting in a treasonous fashion good that the house of representatives is looking at this closely hi I'm looking forward to their findings and to the process moving to the center because the US can't handle another year of Donald Trump as president we certainly can't manage another term with him in the White House you just told us that at eleven thousand Kurdish fighters died fighting ISIS on our behalf in twenty two thousand more wounded and the guy the Kurds the ones that have the seventy thousand odd ISIS prisoners locked up in these concentration camps the Europeans don't want these people coming back and we're going to abandon them and by the way if the Kurds a guiding isis and the Turkish tanks rolling in I thank god to basically have to you know go fight the Texan leave ISIS to break out of the camps and do god knows what so the group the Kurdish militias will go and confront turkeys aggression and in the process these battle hardened ISIS fighters will escape for where are they going to go for the gold rush to their Turkish friends and restaurant in the free Syrian army remember what size president Biden said at Harvard in twenty fourteen but it was Turkey that facilitated the jihadi highway from song your foot to rock the provided weapons money logistics and medical care to wounded warriors on the battlefield so the whole jihadist phenomena the rise of ISIS can be linked back to Turkey's national intelligence agency which colluded with extremists and is directly responsible for the radicalization of Muslims in Syria and in the region so then if the tanks are gonna be rolling in dough on tomorrow the the White PJ the Syrian Kurds I just have you know they basically just have light weapons they don't have a crop they don't have tanks they just gonna be slowed down thing yes they will be slaughtered we saw last December in our friend who's active and the Kurds are highly motivated to protect their people but against Turkish air power hand Harmer they really don't have a fighting chance in Africa hundreds of Kurdish fighters were killed the area in the north and east of Syria is entirely flat on light unlike the terrain west of the Euphrates so Turkey just gonna roll in with their armor and they will commit a slaughter I'd just like they did the Armenian genocide of the turn of the century and with trump as president we are we will turn a blind eye to our allies who have sacrificed so much and fought so ably on our behalf shock and discussed is the understatement what the consequences will be seventy thousand caption ISIS fighters and their families all of him a radicalized as far as I can tell being sent loose again I mean what the American people at least notice that is a really bad idea that's a really bad idea but when they're set loose they're just going to go and no hug and kiss their Turkish brethren and no joy in the Turkish free Syrian army in fighting the occurrence remember was the courage to defeat ISIS who liberated Rocka Hannah and then went about who's on the border and got rid of the last vestiges of the caliphate there are currently still eighteen thousand ISIS fighters in Syria and hundreds of millions of dollars in their accounts now we replenished by these prisoners who will rejoin the battle crisis is back and the years so we spent fighting to defeat them it will be lost time and the Americans and the others who died in that because we'll have died in vain then you have to add to that that the US presence of any one thousand troops was stopping the Iranians from linking up from Tehran through Baghdad all the way to Damascus and also there's one thousand Americans were astride the Assad's oil fields which she desperately needs so he's going to be getting it all feels Iranians will have a free traffic that's that's why Lindsey Graham said the Iranians are just going to be I have enjoyed it it's crazy Iran strategic objective here is to establish a Shiite crescent from Tehran to clone to Baghdad through northern Syria to Lebanon and beyond through that corridor they transport weapons and missiles now they're going to be able to do that without any obstruction so why is the U. S. talking tough about Iran and then turning a turning away and letting your run get away with these kinds of this kind of aggression it just is in coherent it is strategically flawed it is practically in coherent and it is morally repugnant the US has
BBC World Service
A Hezbollah official says an Israeli drone went down over Beirut, another crashed and exploded amid regional tensions
"Israeli warplanes have attacked Iranian forces in Syria to prevent what the Israeli military has cold killer drone strikes the Syrian army said most of the Israeli missiles have been shot down before reaching their targets our self to the Israeli attack in Syria Iran's ally in neighboring Lebanon the militant group Hezbollah said two Israeli drones have hit southern suburbs of the capital B. route it's not known whether there are any
The WOR Sports Zone with Pete McCarthy
Syrian state media report missile attacks near Damascus
"Much a shock to a lot of Syrians to see the capital really feel the shake of this strike. There were several loud explosions heard in Damascus smoke has been seen rising over the Syrian capital. According to I witnesses, and the Syrian government has been telling the Syrian people about what it's calling US French and British aggression against Syria that was announced by President Trump just a short time ago that has been on Syrian television. The Pentagon is nearing a briefing from Defense Secretary Mattis about the military operation, the United States, France and Britain launched together tonight in Syria to punish president BUSTER for a suspected chemical attack against civilians nearly one week ago and to deter him from doing it again earlier today, President Trump directed the US military to conduct operations and continent with our allies. To destroy the Syrian regimes chemical weapons research development and production capability. Tonight, France, the United Kingdom and the United States took decisive action distract the Syrian chemical weapons infrastructure, clearly the Assad regime did not get the message last year. This time our allies, and we have struck harder. Together, we have sent a clear message to Assad and his murderously tenants that they should not perpetrate another chemical weapons attack for which they will be held accountable at nine PM eastern standard time French British in US forces struck targets in Syria in support of President Trump's objective to deter the future use of chemical weapons. The targets that were struck and destroyed were specifically associated with the Syrian regimes chemical weapons program we also selected targets that would minimize the risk to innocent civilians last year, we conducted a unilateral strike on a single site this evening. We conducted strikes with two allies on multiple sites that will result in a long term. Degradation Syrians capability to research develop an employee chemical and biological weapons. Important infrastructure was destroyed which will result in a setback for the Sharon regime to strike was not only a strong message to the regime that their actions were inexcusable, but it also inflicted maximum damage without unnecessary risk to innocent civilians. There have been a number of I witness reports of explosions lighting up the night sky in Damascus some reports that the Syrians were able to shoot off some surface to air missiles to take down some of what the US and its allies fired their way in a statement from President Assad that comes via Twitter the Syrian presidency. Tweets. Good souls will never be humiliated after the airstrikes a targeted strike to deters. President Trump said tonight bus route Assad from using chemical weapons again Syrian state media confirmed that the scientific. Research center in bars north of Damascus was targeted in the attack a number of rockets targeting warehouses belonging to the Syrian army and homes were intercepted. According to the Syrian government. The Defense Secretary did mention that a number of surface to air missiles were shot off by the Syrians. The Syrians claimed to have intercepted some of what the US France and Britain through at Syria. But there has been no confirmation of what those retaliatory strikes may have done. The Syrians are now claiming they struck down thirteen rockets. The Syrian people message on Syrian state television said a moment ago are defiant and courageous the Americans have been defeated and in growing scroll on Syrian television describes a cowardly terrorist attack only done for America to save face ABC's. Louis Martinez is with us from the Pentagon now and. Louis the targets that the Pentagon selected along with France and Britain for this military operation were very specific chemical weapons storage facilities. That's right. Aaron there were these three facilities to into Damascus Syria. One in western homes on they have to do with the production of chemical weapons was a chemical storage area. And the third was a research and development facility. I you heard general Dunford say that there were additional sites that could have been targeted. But would they chose these three particularly because they wanted to minimize the chance of civilian casualties. But what you're hearing from secretary Mattis right now is that this is a one shot deal right now. But the message is intended to be clear to Syria that they should not be using chemical weapons in the future. And I think that the the idea here is that if they catch win that Syria is doing that they may target these additional facilities. And I think that's the threat. That's being pushed on them right now loud explosions. Nhs rocked Damascus the sky filled with heavy smoke early Saturday Syria time as President Trump announced airstrikes taken in conjunction with the British and the French targeting chemical, weapons storage facilities meant to punish Syria for the recent attack just outside Damascus and to deter President Bashar Al Assad from using chemical weapons again. The president said the US was prepared to sustain this kind of response until the use of chemical weapons stops for the moment. Though, this wave of airstrikes, the Pentagon says is over and Defense Secretary Mattis called it a one time shot that has sent a very strong message to deter Assad from using chemical weapons the US and ally leadership said the focus of those airstrikes was to hit chemical weapons storage areas
WBZ Morning News
Montenegro-Croatia relations in danger over training ship
"Montenegro, Croatia say Dave resolved almost all of their differences and conflicts more than two decades after fighting a war except for one conflict and ongoing dispute over an eighty five year old former naval Royal Yugoslav navy training ship the sailing vessel called John barren or the Adriatic is currently part of the Montenegrin naval fleet. Croation is demanding the return of the tall ship, which Montenegro adamantly refuses to do at this point now before the war between the two Adriatic Sea. Neighbors the two hundred foot white vessel with three mass was moved from Croatia to Montenegro. For ongoing repairs. Croatia says it was illegally taken.
Sean Hannity
Israel 'Strikes Weapons Depot Meant for Iran or Hezbollah Near Damascus Airport'
"A warning. She and other leaders hope evacuees will consider before they try to come home. P combs, ABC news, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina reporting in Israeli missile strike on the international airport in Damascus Syrian state run. Tv have been become muscle. Default or? It says the air defense of the Syrian army has responded to attacks from Israel on
Dark Secret Place
Judge urges U.S. to focus on reuniting deported parents with children
"Radio station If I am forty more stimulating talk is the dark secret replace Brian suits in here on till eleven o'clock, or new hours by. The way eight pm to eleven so please enjoy, coming up in, the next break a naval mystery the mystery of the missing, man March of. Nineteen forty two a man overboard mystery that has not been. Sold to this day drone wars the first commercially available drones that were. Weaponized happened, in Syria and Iraq and they they happen because the men of ISIS who don't have an air force did have money. And had access to European markets and. For that matter markets in Turkey and so commercial drones usually under about two hundred dollars were purchased in Turkey off the off the market Just, in toy stores or whatever in Turkey brought into Syria and then the the simple, engineering matter of adapting the usual HD camera hookup underneath the drone to do something as. Simple as release a grenade was actually fairly simple if you if you don't know how this works I've met a couple of drones with HD, cameras on them or. With mounts where you can mount a little gopro, camera on them, and the drone communicates by direct wifi to your to an, app on your. Smartphone where you can use the gopro camera or the built. In camera as a sort of a virtual piloting cockpit where you can. Put the, camera forward and you can fly the drone around as if you're sitting there on the drone but you're looking at the. App on your phone is actually a. Lot of fun and that's how they do those drawn races like in Balboa park and things like that Anyway some of these drones can carry You know up to Up to two and a, half or three pounds and some of. The really significant ones the ones that are used for actual filmmaking or commercial production can can wield up to. Seven or eight pounds and so what was done by ISIS in Syria was a simple matter of replacing the, camera mount, underneath with With some sort of mechanical release or in many cases leaving the camera and using that as guidance system and then, including a mechanical release because as you. Recall nothing happened in ISIS world unless they had video of it and so starting about five years ago you began seeing these pretty amazingly, cinematic HD drone shots of a drone undetected at about a thousand feet coming over a Syrian army position or an Iraqi army position and then it would lower in place it, would lower a couple of hundred feet. And when it seemed to be stable and the the cameras seemed fixed over one particular area like a bunch. Of fuel or munitions or whatever the the drawn would drop a adapted forty millimeter grenade that had a thin For instance like tissue paper role for a tail fin something. Really really crude but it oriented and. Stabilize the projectile in flight so it would generally fly straight down and it would blow up on impact and they did this for hundreds, of times before they finally got a success they finally got a spectacular success in the form of exploding Syrian ammo dump and It looked like they had mastered drone warfare and so they were immediately copied they. Were copied in Yemen by the who sees they were copied by. ISIS in Iraq They were copied by ISIS inspired terrorists and, Libya but the guys in Syria. Were the originators of it and really the masters of the craft so some of them Began putting stories up on YouTube or other other sort of dark, web or even, slightly light regular web read it and fortune. Started putting how to videos on how to modify common battlefield munitions like forty millimeter grenades into. An, aerial drop impact weapon and Furthermore how to modify commercially available drone something that could get off van Masan and shipped to Turkey or whatever into a killing machine now the the range of these drones generally is not really more than a mile that goes more than a. Mile than it's going off GPS at which, point you have to, know the precise location of where the bad guy is and then you you drop the munition. Well so this was Successful as a propaganda play. In Syria but really not much more it was an annoyance as the Iraqi army overran Mosul about a. Year ago, the guys. There in in, Mosul the ISIS guys they had several years to prepare for this they had an arsenal of hundreds of a cheap little drones the ones that you get, for less, than eighty bucks at target or you can get them on Alibaba Amazon and they had nothing but time to modify them and, also to teach, their man how to utilize them so the. Iraqis had a lot of men wounded a few even killed but it was really more of. An annoyance and anything else but it did produce some pretty spectacular video of for ISIS you got this video of Iraqi soldiers running around after the first one hit or when they heard overhead so anyway fast forward now in Israel the HAMAs terrorists have been using kites and, it cetera too Start. Forest fires have been using drones but these rarely authorities have, not been releasing this to. The media well the jig is up because now the Egyptians are seizing huge. Shipments of cheap drones at the HAMAs get Gaza, crossing point and so now Gaza have guys. In basements doing nothing but making drone bombs so the drone, is now the asymmetric weapon of the little guy the next step, of course is somebody in the US is, going to do this you know it because it's all over the web is easy to do and someone. Else's already redoing it so anyway that's your drone warfare update it's cheap. Is it effective it's goal is to terrorize so is it, effective yes it is is going to win a war no. All right when we come back in naval mystery from nineteen forty two the dark secret place continues right. After this, Brian in. Here to midnight, KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk Michael should pay with News Firefighters working on a brush fire that broke out this afternoon in fallbrook near the Riverside County. Line it has grown to at least two hundred twenty five. Acres it was first reported at about three ten this. Afternoon Cal fire, says roughly one hundred homes off Sandia creek drive are being a. Vacuum, waited the fires forward progress has apparently been. Stopped at this. Point a fire in Idyllwild is now said to be twenty nine percent contained thirteen thousand acres have. Burned five homes have been lost to the, flames and the man charged with starting the fire near Idyllwild and eight others has been charged with more than a dozen counts of. Arson he pleaded not guilty yesterday is being held on bail of more than three million. Dollars the man was arrested Wednesday afternoon shortly after the Cranston fire started fire burning near reading in chasta county has grown to eighty three thousand. Acres it's five percent contained five people have been. Killed five hundred and fifty homes and buildings have been. Destroyed a fire shelter in Shasta College has reached full capacity as well the evacuation centers housing five hundred people GM of the colleges fill with. Cots and American Red Cross volunteers are providing food water and. Medical and mental health services Alex stone says more evacuation. Orders may be, coming as the fire still growing about thirty eight thousand people are. Evacuated, and that number could continue to rise the. Fire is heading. South there are a number of communities that could be evacuated as the flames had that way three. Other shelters are still taking back you lease, federal judge has praised and panned the Trump administration for its efforts to return children to their illegal immigrant parents who were separated at. The border a judge in San Diego said yesterday the government gets credit for reunifying eighteen. Hundred kids with moms dads or sponsors but also says the administration needs to do a better job at reuniting more than four hundred children who. Are still separated because their parents were deported more. Deportations are on hold as the judge considers an ACL, you challenge more than thirty People. May have been killed after a bus carrying tourists plunged into a gorge in western India. Times of India, says, the bus carrying members of an agricultural university fell about five hundred feet after skidding off a mountain pass rescue teams are reporting that one. Passenger survived by, jumping out a window as the buffs fell traffic from your helpful socal. Honda traffic center crashed in, the mid city area on the ten. That's right it's going to. Be on the ten east at Vermont avenue crash now blocking the middle lane traffic is. Going to be jammed all the way. Over to national boulevard if you're traveling in the lesion park area the one ten southbound side from stadium way to sunset the right lane is shut down. For the end of the dodgers game, traffic's gonna be slow back to academy road in industry sixty east from fairway, drive to brag canyon the two right lanes going to be shut down for Catherine's work until seven AM traffic slows back to new gal street some good news for you in.
BBC Newshour
EU and Japan sign trade deal covering a third of the world's economy
"Hello I'm Marion Marshall with, the BBC news the European Union says a free trade deal just signed with Japan sent a clear message against protectionism the EU council president Donald tusk said the two. Sides would defend a world based on rules freedom and common sense in? An apparent reference to the, imposition, of, tariffs by, the Trump administration mister to describe the deal with Tokyo as a light in the darkness do you want to know. What is the real risk for our business if companies people the risk political thorough aggressive rhetoric unpredictability irresponsibly the real risk. For, our business Not The accord is expected to benefit European food produces and Japanese. Carmakers it has to be ratified by the European parliament and Japan's, assembly the Spanish Prime. Minister Pedro Sanchez has told parliament that his centre-left government will introduce a new law on sexual consent to remove ambiguities in rape cases announcing the government's. Program he said sex without explicit consent would be considered, rape We are going to bring forward this measure and we'll. Do it with a view to specialized training for those working in this field incorporating, the concept of explicit. Consent everything done by those administering Justice clear if they say no it, means no and if. They don't say yes it. Means no to dozens of Syrian civilians of approach positions occupied by the Israeli. Army on the Golan Heights apparently seeking help or sanctuary they were among the. Thousands of people who've been displaced by fighting in southwestern Syria a Middle East. Analyst Alan Johnston reports video footage showed Syrian civilians gathering on a, rocky hillside close to. Frontier fence some stood waving white cloths it seemed a rather desperate attempt to get help or perhaps crossed the border but in Israeli soldier with a. Loudspeaker warned, the small crowd to move away thousands of Civilians who fed. A Syrian army advanced to the country southwest sheltering in the border region Israel weren't allow them to, cross into territory it'll. Keep is but it has sent aid across the frontier Israel has further tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip suspending fuel supplies and. Reducing the area allowed for fishing. Off the coast the Israeli authorities, have the measures were in, retaliation for the. Hundreds of fires Gazans have caused, in neighboring Israel peon officials in the Oromia and Somali regions have agreed to the deployment of soldiers and police to end a conflict it's. Displaced more than eight hundred thousand people they also said a series of public meetings, will be held along. The border between the two areas to build peace you're listening to the, latest world news from. The BBC this is WNYC. In New York I'm Richard Hake to immigrant children is set to be reunited. With their parents after the government separated the the border last week a federal judge in Connecticut rule the. Separation unconstitutional Davis, Donovan member station w. s. h. u. reports. The children have been staying in a group home in, Connecticut their parents, watch the federal court hearing last week through teleconference link. From a detention center in Texas child psychiatrist diagnosed the children with post traumatic. Stress disorder US Senator Richard Blumenthal. Of Connecticut blame the Trump administration the department of Justice's cruel and inhumane policy of separating children from their parents has. Meant that these two children in Connecticut have. Endured unimaginable trauma and tragedy in their lives a US attorney says the parents are being paroled from federal custody and. Reunited with their children immediately the NYPD is launching internal. Disciplinary proceedings against the officer who. Put Eric garner and a. Fatal chokehold only if the US department of Justice doesn't file charges by September first officials say Daniel, Pantaleo has remained unmodified Duty since Garner's death for years ago on New York one mayor de Blasio approved of the department's announcement and says. The decision, on, the case is long overdue I think it's been a painful for everyone involved obviously particularly, for the garner family to not have resolution Charleena might be. These doing exactly the right thing here a spokesperson for the Justice department says it already told the NYPD it could, begin the probe for the NYPD has disputed that account, today marks the four year anniversary of Garner's death New Jersey's medical marijuana program could soon double in size governor Murphy announced yesterday that New Jersey is accepting applications for six new dispensaries adding. To the six that currently operate in state showers and thunderstorms are. Likely mainly after. Two o'clock this afternoon some of these storms could, produce, some gusty wind and heavy rain this is WNYC.
BBC Newshour
Court sentences woman to life for neo-Nazi murders
"The united states and china worsens japan hong kong and shanghai fell by between one and two percent european markets are also down china's commerce ministry says it shocked by us plans to impose a ten percent tariff on a further two hundred billion dollars worth of imports from china russianbacked syrian government forces have reportedly nonstop an offensive against the islamic state group in the southwest of the country johnston reports the syrian government is determined to reestablish its control over all of the southern province of its recently taken back swathes of territory from rebels of what's known as the free syrian army but islamic state militants continue to hold a corner of the province the british based syrian observatory for human rights says this sliver of territory has now been subjected to airstrikes and our tillery fire the militants set of counterattacked targeting a village just outside the area they control a neo nazi sympathizer in germany has been sentenced to life imprisonment for ten murders chapa was part of a gang that carried out racist killings jenny hill has more details one eight nine of tash descent was shot dead at close range the german authorities assumed romley that they've been caught up in immigrant gang violence in facts the victims had been deliberately targeted by a near nazi sal shaper entombed accomplices who later killed themselves well apparently intent on spreading terror among the tax community today shaper was sentenced to life in prison but the proceedings fails to address fundamental questions how and why did the killer select their victims and why did the german authorities seemingly do so little to protect them bbc news this is wnyc in new york i'm richard hake democratic senators from the tristate area are building a case against brett cavanaugh president trump's nominee for the supreme court wnyc washington correspondent john o'connor reports connecticut senator chris murphy said trump's nominee could rule on a texas case challenging the affordable care act the trump administration is trying to get the judicial branch to invalidate protections for people with preexisting conditions congress couldn't repeal the law he said but cavenaugh dissented in a two thousand eleven decision upholding the aca new york's kirsten gillibrand said cavanaugh would undermine mine worker rights and other senators argued state gun laws and the special counsel trump investigation are also at risk with republicans controlling the senate democrats will need public pressure to prevent kavanagh's confirmation within six months since he took over as the head of the.
The World
Grenfell inquiry centers fire victims; stars urge Indonesia to ban cruel dog meat trade; more in world news
"The heaviest penalties since the coup attempt for suspects were charged with being involved in applause to assassinate president are dawn one hundred and four former soldiers were sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment the harshest sentence under turkish law after the death penalty was abolished a former air force chief of staff and a major general were among those receiving life imprisonment the inter american commission on human rights is accused the nicaraguan government of ordering security forces to use excessive force during weeks of protests against daniel president daniel ortega the preliminary report showed at least seventy people were killed and hundreds injured in demonstrations which were triggered by discontent over pension reforms the commission said it also heard testimonies of illegal and arbitrary detentions and torture views from the bbc the syrian army says it now has complete control of damascus and all the areas around it for the first time since two thousand twelve the army declared victory after recapturing the last small and claves still held by the state group to the south of the capital pro government forces have entered yarmouk which was once home to some one hundred and fifty thousand palestinian refugees and a neighboring district russia says it's eh defense forces have shot down a small drone from one of its airbases in syria moscow said it had hit the unknown drone at some distance from may mean abbas official results from the referendum in burundi show that people voted overwhelmingly for constitutional reforms that could allow president and currencies to stay in office for another sixteen years the campaign leading up to the vote was marred by violence and intimidation burundi's opposition said some people were forced to vote and others were beaten and arrested the italian president obama torello is considering whether to give the two main antiestablishment part is a mandate to form a coalition government the leader of the five star movement demeo and matteo salvini of the farright league party say they've agreed on that preferred prime minister a law professor giuseppi kante here's how europe analyst danny eberhard eurosceptic antiausterity and espousing a much tougher line on immigration five star in the league says there's will be a government of change luigi de maya called it a story moment matteo salvini of the.
Letters and Politics
Venezuela election: Fourteen ambassadors recalled after Maduro win
"For iran are very tough for iran basically calling for iran to change this general character not just behavior everything it's like asking you run to surrender the syrian army says it now has complete control of damascus and all the areas around it for the first time since two thousand twelve progovernment forces have entered yarmouk which was once home to some one hundred fifty thousand palestinian refugees and a neighboring district sebastian asha reports more than seven years into the war the syrian president bashar al assad appears finally have secured all the areas surrounding the capital damascus the last holdout was to the south where i s fighters were the only remnants of what had once been a major challenge to the syrian leader they left in buses this morning taking them east the price of victory as almost everywhere in syria has been high in death destruction and displacement in damascus residents will breathe a sigh of relief but further south and to the north in it lib hundreds of thousands of people in rebel held areas will be fearful but pro government forces will come for them next fourteen countries in the americas have recalled their ambassadors from venezuela in protest at sunday's election which gave a landslide victory to president maduro the lima group of state said the vote failed to conform to international standards for a free fair and transparent democratic process venezuela's neighbor brazil's at the voted only reinforced the tarian character of the madurai regime a us republican congressman francis rooney outlined the actions he believed the us could take doubt bring about change if we could start locking up a few people if we caught em in extraditable situation and i think that we need to continue to hut bank accounts around the world of madero and his cronies and wrap them up on that put all the pressure we can on the individuals who are running the corrupt government that might encourage the army takes some action official results from the referendum in burundi show that people voted overwhelmingly for constitutional reforms that could ally president pierre and quran caesar to stay.
Bloomberg Best
Threats to EPA's Scott Pruitt include some from inside agency, documents reveal
"And the ad council global news twenty four hours a day on air and a big chunk on twitter by more than twenty seven hundred journalists and analysts in over one hundred twenty countries this is bloomberg radio now a global news update special report trump rescinded iran deal the president made it official the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal that's led to a worldwide round of mostly condemnation europe stops leader top leaders are expressing dismay russia says it's deeply disappointed and it could grow worse according to correspondent barbara starr at the pentagon there is growing concern that iran could be preparing for some sort of attack against israel this comes amid all of this escalating tension between the us iran and israel and there's a report that israeli jets of attack syrian army positions outside damascus is rarely prime minister benjamin netanyahu has applauded the move by president trump wall street didn't do much of anything the dow up just four points but oil felt the pain falling by as much as four percent for a time after the announcement west texas intermediate crude closed down down about two and a half percent i'm rich johnson another diplomatic surprise from president trump today he said secretary of state mike pompeo is making another trip to north korea ahead of his possible summit with kim jong un the house oversight committee's poring over hundreds of pages of documents regarding the travel decisions made by epa head scott pruitt but not all the documents according to correspondent sara ganim we are learning that one thing that was not turned over with permission required by law for pruitt to fly first class before each and every trip epa says he had it for the documents simply do not back it up critics of accused pruitt of flying first class at government expense san insisting on other safety measures not because of concerns over personal safety but to shield himself from tough questions and bad press it's fairly calm right now around the kill away of all kaneohe in hawaii with no magnum moving through neighborhoods why disaster officials say the latest eruption destroyed two dozen homes is not over i'm richard johnson your business news delivered the way you like it saudi arabia shows no signs of letting up you don't have to change your style can we get there given the calculus we've got right now bloomberg radio the bloomberg radio plus app and bloombergradio dot com these are times when ever wonder why weddings.