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I love the line from The Sound of Music.

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The Mother Abbess is talking to Maria, the main character in the musical, and she says,

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and you know, Maria, when God closes a door, he opens a window.

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Well guess what?

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God is opening some doors and some windows for restoring word, and I've got an exciting

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announcement for you.

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We are putting together a virtual tour to Israel.

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You say, well why do I, as a Christian, need to go to Israel?

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Well, let me share a little bit of my journey with you so you'll understand how studying

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Israel, going to Israel, seeing these holy sites can truly change your walk with God,

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and that's why we're doing this.

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We want to give you a life-changing opportunity to study the word and to study Bible prophecy

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actually with other believers.

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Now we have all kinds of new apps and we have the technology to do things globally like

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never before.

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There is now an app that you can use to travel and to journal your travels with others and

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share them through social media.

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Did you know that?

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I didn't know that.

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Well, some other believers in Australia who attend another Bible study there discovered

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this amazing app and how they can journal and organize their adventures and share them

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with those that they love, and it really came because of the lockdowns that this technology

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was put together.

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So why not use it to study the Holy Land?

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I have a legitimate tour organized to go, but I know for a lot of people right now,

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the vaccine mandates were concerning.

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Well, they've lifted now.

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COVID was concerning.

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Seems like we all have antibodies now.

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Financially, there are some concerns about inflation and some things going on in Eastern

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Europe are a little concerning.

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But you know what?

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Jumping on board with a bunch of believers and studying the word from the comfort of

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your home using your phone is something that you can do and it's easy to do and it's

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all going to be leading up to Easter.

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We're leaving next week.

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So why should you go with me?

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Well, I've put together a little bit of a study for you and I thought I'd share

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some of these really important reasons.

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For one, Israel globally, theologically, and spiritually is the center of the earth.

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It's holy.

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It's God's holy nation.

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He has a plan for Israel.

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He's a plan for the Jewish people and he's using people to point to his existence and

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to his reality.

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I'm excited about putting this tour together and in Zechariah 2, it clearly says that Israel

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is the apple of his eye and that during the millennial reign of Christ, we will all be

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going to Israel together to worship Jesus once a year in this most holy place.

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Hey, if we're going to be going there every year during the millennial reign of Christ,

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why wouldn't we want to go now and see it for ourselves?

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That's a really good reason.

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Another reason is when you study Israel, all of these places, these names, Jaffa, Capernaum,

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Caesarea, the Galilee, the Jordan, the Megiddo, Dan, all of these legitimate biblical places,

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they're not just something in a book.

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They're real.

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They're tangible and that will change how you see the Word of God forever.

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This is how it's going to work.

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We've got 10 days laid out.

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It's going to follow verbatim the tour that I have planned.

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During this tour, you're going to be able to see videos and Bible study and scripture.

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You're going to be able to study it as much or as little as you want.

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You could be committed a little bit or you could be all out committed to studying and

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looking at these scriptures daily.

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Then at night, just like when you go on a missions team with a group of other missionaries,

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you have what's kind of like a campfire experience where everyone sits around and shares their

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journey.

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Well, we are going to be logging in together through Facebook and through our travel app.

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We're going to be sharing.

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those adventures and what we've learned from each other.

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I've got some special guests that will be joining us,

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people who have worked in the land,

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people who have run ministries in the land

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that we are gonna be asking to join.

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We're also gonna bring in some experts

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who lead tours over there to join us.

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All of it is going to fall in place,

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and I'm excited for you.

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When this is over, I'm gonna post this,

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and then I'm going to put the links

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and invite you to join us starting next week.

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Think about it, pray about it.

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We'd love for you to come.

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Have a great day.

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Let's do it.

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All right.

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Thanks for hosting us, everybody.

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I'm Mark Matthews,

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and I'm Jonathon Cormen.

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And thanks for tuning in.

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Have a great day and I'll speak to you

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in a couple days at Gallaudet University weekend.

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Thank you.

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Bye.

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See you.

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Thanks.