אדיררים צלול קיילים ובאחור אני, מסבר ואחר מים עם כל פעמוני.
בוקטר נמת כולם והבן שויה בחלומה, העיר השר ולדנ יושבת ובליבה חומה.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו.
יהושלים שזהה ושל נפושך ושרו, עלולה חול שיראים, אני תנות.
יהושלים שזהה, הלכת לף יפד
זה easiest to attach that word to things and people we don't understand.
To attach it to one group or one side or to anyone who doesn't look like us.
The same is true with other words such as terrorism.
But terrorism, if you think about it, doesn't lie with just one ethnicity or with one culture.
Actually terrorism lies within the very hearts of men on both sides, on all sides.
Whether they be Arabs or Israeli or even Americans.
We can all be people of terrorism and innocent people will be caught in the crossfire.
But the question seemed to flash back.
But we as Americans don't go after innocent people.
Suicide bombers target the innocent.
We go after military targets only.
Sure, they might say there might be some collateral damage,
but we don't aim for the innocent like terrorists do, and I understand all of that.
But I asked that of an Arab once.
I said we as Americans don't go after innocence and he revealed a part of our history
that I had forgotten, maybe had simply chosen to forget, I don't know.
But it reminded me that we were the ones who were first to target innocence for damages done.
The places Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Innocent people were targeted and 170,000 were killed.
You see, it's so easy to blame others when we should be trying to understand them instead.
And that's what we want to do.
No, not take sides, but to understand both sides and especially in this video
to understand the plight of the Palestinians.
You see, we often get the media slant that shows us only angry Palestinians,
but I met many of them, many are Christians.
And they are praying for peace.
And they're asking us to do the same, to understand their cries.
A people who have 50% unemployment with an average annual income of only $700 a year.
A people whose lands are being cut into pieces by bypass roads connecting Jewish settlement
to Jewish settlement within Palestinian lands.
And it'll cut right through a farmer's land.
And now he has half of his land to grow produce,
the other half he can't even reach.
It is easier to obstruct peace than it is to promote it.
And that the establishment of these settlements certainly does not help the efforts
of those of us who are interested in peace.
That's a temporary settlement.
It's not that temporary anymore.
They come in with those little mobile houses, the mobile units,
and slowly it becomes more and more permanent every day.
That occupation was so oppressive that in 1987 the Palestinians rebelled.
The rebellion is called intifada, which is a word you've probably read in the newspapers.
In Arabic it means uprising or rebellion.
And it went on from 1987 to 1991 and the Israeli reaction to it was so harsh
and so much violence was going on that under the pressure of the international community
and especially the United States.
The Israeli government began to negotiate with the Palestinian leadership.
They signed the two agreements in 1993 and 1995, the first and second Oslo agreements.
The principle was that Israel would be willing to give back land for peace.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Arafat, chairman of the Executive Council
of the Palestine Liberation Organization,
His Excellency Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel, the president of the United States.
The Palestinians, although they were under occupation, went to the streets
to give flowers to the Israeli soldiers and give them candy.
They were so happy dancing in the streets because they thought,
you know, there's an end of about 50 years of violence.
But then they realized after Oslo that Israelis continue to confiscate Palestinian land
and build Jewish settlements on them.
Well, how can you make peace with one hand and take land with the other hand?
That is not peace.
And so that created big frustration in the mind of Palestinians.
Let me just illustrate that what the problem was,
was that those who were in power in Israel, the Likud,
the right wing of the Israeli, both military and political establishment,
who were totally against a Palestinian state, were in power.
And so instead of on the ground Israel withdrawing and all of that,
what happened was the number of settlements in that five years,
1995-2000, the number of settlements increased from about 140 to 190.
The number of Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem and the West Bank
doubled from 200,000 to 400,000.
Because nothing was accomplished, the second Intifada,
unfortunately it became very violent and I hate the militancy of the Intifada
because it brought more problems on the Palestinians and it brought good for them.
Many times we have a lot of wounded here, of Intifada,
children who have never been involved in fighting,
just going to school, getting out of school, they got bullets,
they got paralyzed, they got this, they got that.
Some have been involved in throwing stones, but even in throwing stones,
you are here, you throw a stone, 200 meters, 300 meters away to a soldier.
What can hurt a soldier? Almost nothing.
But when you shoot that child with the live ammunition or with a bullet,
this is, I think, it's a government terrorism, it's organized terrorism.
When we talk about terror, we as evangelical Christians see two kinds of terror.
We see a Palestinian suicide bomber who may go and blow up a bus
and kill the people there and certainly we say this is terror, we cannot deny that.
But for us the greater terror is when Israelis go with Apache helicopter
and they go to a refugee camp, say in Rafah or in Gaza or in Hebron or in Nablus
and kill innocent people because the Israelis have more power to control.
They are the bigger hand, they are the ones on top.
They can control what they do.
Palestinians, they are desperate, they are not in control of what they can do.
I believe that most of the Palestinians are peace-seeking, peace-loving people
We would like to encourage this segment of the population while condemning
like all the rest of the world any terrorist act.
I must tell you as a proud Israeli that I don't see a balanced picture here.
I mean with all the things that we do and our army does, I believe it is self-defense.
Woo attempt, organisations...
His name is Mohammad Chanrak 28 years old
What has been happening?
סורת לישרי
וזה כמה?
מפעשו
ולשטווי קונג'מיר, מאי אינטנט?
קונט קולחלים
הוא אינטנט, מה אתה עושה?
אינטנט, מה אתה עושה?
לא, אני עושה קונט רעד קולחלים
כאפי
קונט מה שבן התחק يعני?
נכון
הוא כ paddle
operating the street
כל מרות היו ריrev
הוא בצווי
שעות שעות איניו בות רגז
יש גם את המחשבים
כל ידי טראפ.
For example, today, you come to Bethlehem,
you saw how it is surrounded by a wall.
99% of the population of Bethlehem
cannot get out.
Most of the people of Bethlehem,
Christians or Muslims,
they cannot drive more than 6 km.
Can you imagine a city anywhere in the United States
where the people cannot drive 6 km?
So we are in jail,
the whole population,
the whole Palestinian population.
These cars on your left-hand side
are waiting to go through the checkpoints.
Sometimes they can wait up to two hours.
Behind the cars, you can see the fence.
This is the separation fence.
Some places it's barbed wire like you can see here.
Some places it's a full-fledged wall
about 24 to 36 feet high.
The wall is really meant to get-wise,
put the Palestinians in ghettos,
just like Jews used to live in ghettos.
Unfortunately, they've never really learned
the lesson of history that ghettos
eventually are going to be shattered.
And so this obviously,
Israel tries to justify the building of the wall,
and most people don't know what's really happening here,
so they think that Israel is justified,
like President Bush is saying,
because Israel has to look after its own security.
Well, I see that the walls are just reflections
of the walls that are in the human mind,
and the real way to bring down the walls
is to bring down the walls of fear,
of fear and mistrust and anger.
I'm constantly frightened and I'm looking to all sides.
Are there any Arabs here?
Are there any bombers going to be on the bus with me?
I might be extreme,
but I think that there is no Arab who's not ready to kill a Jew.
Suicide bombers are a scary thought.
People who find life so cheap
that a person sacrifices his very own body
as a living explosive.
It was in the 90s that all of this began to heat up
after the Oslo Accords when peace was promised.
Land was to be traded for peace.
Israel would give land to the Palestinians in the West Bank,
remove the weight of occupation,
and in exchange, the Palestinians were to give peace,
stop the bombing, stop the rock, stop the anger.
It was agreed upon, but instead of peace,
more land was confiscated for Jewish housing
and bypass roads were built to connect them together,
and then the Second Intifada,
the uprising, the desperation,
because of promises that were made, were never kept.
Suicide bombings are never condoned,
but it would do us well to understand the rationale behind suicide bombing.
It might come from extremists with ideological differences,
but it might also come from desperate people
who have nothing left to lose.
I know my people. They are mad.
They are mad at anything you get.
If all society that is, don't see a future,
and they are mad as anything.
And out of this, at some stage of the game,
some extremism is going to come out,
which translates itself into suicide bombers.
No hope, no future, and mad as anything.
Look, you put anybody in a box,
and you keep crunching that box down,
and they're going to eventually turn into violence.
They see no hope in dialogue,
they see no support from the international world,
in the way they need it.
They live in a bad situation, so this is their reaction.
I don't condone it.
I don't think it's a good thing, violence-wise.
I don't think the killing of any human being
should be anybody should condone it.
But when you look at it from their perspective,
it's different.
This is a festering sore in the eyes of the Muslim world in general,
and especially Arab Muslim world,
because we don't hear a lot of what's happening on the ground,
the kind of thing I've been telling you,
because it doesn't get in our newspapers.
But through Al Jazeera and all the rest,
they see voluminous pictures and word accounts
of the horrible problem,
not just of the suicide attackers,
but of conditions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,
and it makes the recruiting by the extremists of terrorists so easy.
We're in Ammari refugee camp in Ramallah,
part of Palestine, where many, many live here
in pretty squalid conditions,
but they have hope in their hearts,
and that's what we want to give to them as well,
hope for a fresh future.
I think a lot of them would say,
we've had plenty of yesterdays,
we're looking for a new tomorrow.
People here live in the poorest conditions
of all the Palestinian people living here,
the residents of refugee camps are doing the worst.
Now when you say refugee, who does that?
These are the people who left what's now Israel in 1948,
and they're descendants.
So these people were probably kicked out of their houses
and it was bulldozed over?
Some were kicked out, some ran away,
because they were afraid,
and most of the villages have been destroyed,
they no longer exist.
So where did they get the money to start over?
From the UN, from the Red Cross,
all these organizations.
These places started off as a bunch of tents,
and something that was supposed to be temporary at the time.
I mean, after 56 years,
there's nothing temporary about them.
This is an average street,
you can see, I mean,
the end of the road is the next house,
then you go left and there's another house,
then you go right, another house,
it's just snaking your way through.
Look, I mean, the only way they can go is up,
so whenever they want to build,
there's no expanding, it's not going up.
This here is a bypass road.
The DCO is also the entrance to a settlement called Bet El,
and so this is a bypass road that is really for the settlers.
We just passed an army jeep back there,
and his job is to guard this from people that, you know,
Palestinians that, you know,
occasionally shoot the settler vehicles on this road
or IDF patrols.
You can see that village up there, that's Betin.
It's a Palestinian village, this is all their land,
but they're not allowed to get to, within 300 meters,
300 yards of this road on either side.
They can't pick their olives on this side or on that side.
And very often, in this part of the West Bank
or in other parts of the West Bank,
settlers have opened fire or attacked Palestinians
picking the olives.
I mean, it's one of the, you know,
last forms of income that they have
with this high unemployment rate that Palestinians are facing.
In the contract of the interim agreements,
it was stated that Israel would have the right
to build roads to the settlements.
So right from the beginning, Israel started,
and throughout that five years,
they built almost 200 miles of what they call bypass roads.
Those bypass roads went from the Israeli settlements
into Israel and from settlement to settlement,
and they were security roads,
so they were not only well-paved and could drive,
and a car could drive fast,
they had security zones on each side
where Palestinians could own land or come near,
and since they ran all over the West Bank,
they chopped the West Bank up into isolated little segments
because nobody could cross those roads or go on them.
Three years ago, they were coming around,
the soldiers came to my house at 12 o'clock,
and they were coming out to be in, you know,
a bad way.
I gave you just only five minutes
to take all of the furniture inside the house.
Five minutes.
And where were you living?
I lived in Al-Khadar.
I told them why.
I said, don't ask, don't talk,
so I give you five minutes,
and I told all of your brothers' house,
also I want to destroy it.
I thought it would be...
It's not good to come at 12 o'clock
until my kid's leaving,
and I called, he tried to kick me
and to kick my wife,
and to take a very small shot to me,
three years, take him from out,
and doing an incredible thing again.
And they still didn't tell you why?
Just five minutes, and you need to leave?
No, after that, I tried to take some furniture,
after ten minutes, destroyed it,
and you see why I have my daughter to be,
she's pregnant,
with the gun, she's bleeding,
and they do something very bad for her.
They struck the...
And imagine, I can't do anything
because they hit me,
and after that, they destroyed it.
How did they destroy it?
How did they destroy it?
By the bulldozer.
Bulldozer.
And you see, I have my son, he's injured.
He'll go to...
He'll go and shoot one in the long glaciation,
and the other, there's a fracture shot of femur,
two, and so they told him,
next time, we'll shoot you here.
So imagine.
How old is your son?
18 years old.
18?
Yeah.
And then he was 14?
14.
So who's the terrorism?
Who's the terrorism?
Who's inside the house,
or who's coming?
To the house.
So to the house.
Did they suspect you of terrorism,
or they just wanted...
They said that because you see,
my house is near the road.
Near the road.
Because the settlements passing through.
So it must be the settlements
come through this road.
My house, to be...
Imagine, I mean.
This is a democratic,
for the settlements,
it was not for the Palestinians.
Yeah, no, that's not democracy at all.
Democracy for their people,
it's not for our people.
Yeah, that's not democracy.
So did they move in?
Settlers?
Settlement people came in?
No, the settlements passed through the road.
And now I can't go to my house,
because it's destroyed.
And till now they don't allow me
to build a game.
Till now.
Will they ever?
God help us.
So what can I do with it?
Jews, Christians, and Muslims
are all called the people of the book.
They're all descendants of Abraham.
Each one claiming that their scriptures
are the right ones.
But who's really right?
Who is just and who is unjust
because there's conflict on all sides?
Yet all claim that their scriptures teach peace.
Where's the solution to this conflict
that has continued for years and years?
Is there any hope?
There are certain scriptures
or scripture passages
that unless one is very careful in interpreting,
they might conclude that God is biased.
And yet the heart of the message of the Bible,
at least the way we've received
that message through Jesus Christ,
is that God loves all people equally
and God is not biased.
The people who control Israel
live within the ideology of extreme Zionism,
which, like unfortunately some of my Christian brothers
to the right of me who are very fundamentalist
in their interpretation of the Bible,
they take the promises God gave to Abraham
and the Israelites 3,000 years ago
as absolutely literal and therefore today
and therefore some of my Christian friends
say Israel has the right to this land
because God gave it to them 3,000 years ago.
Discussion over.
I don't fight them on that interpretation
but that'll go on forever, you know,
and we have our different interpretations.
I don't believe that at all.
I have a different view of the relationship
with the Old Testament and New Testament.
What I say to them is,
okay, let me grant you that premise.
Okay, you know your Bible well.
You know what the Old Testament law had to say
about what righteousness and justice is.
You know what the prophets had to say
about what righteousness and justice is.
Bring about justice in the gate,
which was, of course, in the Old Testament world,
the place where the court held forth.
You know, we could cite Amos,
we could cite Jeremiah,
we could cite Isaiah, you know,
we could cite Jesus.
We'd say, in the light of those biblical teachings,
how should God's people have treated
those who inhabited their land
when they came back to it?
Should they be doing what they're doing today?
Well, listen to those words of the Old Testament story
that says God has given you this land,
but they forget about the fact
that the text also says,
be very careful how you treat a resident alien.
Remember that passage?
And it's not just once, it's repeated three times,
and the prophets pick that up as well.
For you were resident aliens,
and you know the heart,
the essential being in Hebrew, it's the nefesh, you know?
The essential being of an alien,
for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
But that seems to have just been utterly forgotten
in this issue of land.
Once again, Wayne,
we're up against the basic problems of the human heart.
Look, being as a director of this organization,
I always tell my people,
it's very easy to revenge.
It's very difficult to forgive.
Forgiveness is a value,
and you have to know how to do it.
The second point is that
I, first, it is in every human being,
there is a bad side.
So what you should do, explore the good side.
Don't split humanity into good and evil,
and act like America, you know,
and the West and Israel are the good,
and the Arabs, the Muslims, the Africans,
you know, everyone else is the evil.
Don't think of the Arabs and the Muslims as enemies.
They don't have to be enemies.
For God so loved the world,
that includes the Arabic world,
that includes the Islamic world,
that includes the Palestinian.
And if God could love the world,
why not Christians love the world?
Jesus, in quoting chapter 61 of the book Isaiah,
stood up one day in the temple and said,
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me
because he's anointed me to preach the good news to the poor.
He set at liberty those who are captive
to give sight to the blind,
and then he said this,
and to give freedom to those that are oppressed
and proclaim God's favor.
That was his assignment
that the Father had given him as he came to this world.
One of the aspects is
to help those that are oppressed
and to proclaim God's favor to mankind.
Well, although we are wonderful allies with Israel,
we will always be.
We also remember that, firstly,
we are ambassadors for Christ
to help those that are oppressed.
And that's why we wanted to do this video
of people that are oppressed.
That's why we wanted to visit those
that are struggling so that we can help them.
Most of the time you see Palestinians,
they're carrying coffins.
It's the Hamas, it's a riot,
there's stone throwing,
there's been a car blown up.
There are Palestinians to be.
I know them to be human beings,
I know them to be mothers, fathers, sons, daughters,
people just like every Hawaiian,
every American, every French,
every German, everyone around the world.
The same family structure, the same elements.
But what do they want that we have,
Americans have, that they don't have?
Normal life.
We must do all that we can
to close the gap
between Israel and the Arab states
and between Israelis and Palestinians.
We must come to put an end
to Arab-Israeli conflict.
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We agree,
we are friendly,
we are not friendly,
but we have no right
to dictate
through irresponsible action
or narrow mindedness
the future of our children
and their children's children.
There has been enough destruction.
Enough death.
Enough waste.
And it's time that together we
occupy a place
beyond ourselves,
our peoples,
that is worthy of them,
under the sun,
the descendants of the children of Abraham.
We don't need to give hope
to the Jewish people
in storms and in shrines
and in a piece of property.
We need to get their hope
focused on the one who loves them
and died on the cross
for them.
Well, as Christians,
we should always be hope,
we should have hope in the Lord always.
Hope is very important for every Christians.
As Christians,
if we lose hope,
then what do we have? We don't have anything.
All that we will have to do is
always to hope in the Lord
and open that one little piece.
God is not interested
in real estate.
God is interested
in his work in our hearts.
When Jesus was asked,
where is the kingdom of God,
his response was,
the kingdom of God is not in Jerusalem
and it's not in Jerusalem.
The kingdom of God is within your heart.
Focus on real estate
brings violence,
brings death,
brings hatred,
brings anger.
But focus on the kingdom of God
brings reconciliation
and therefore I would say
we as Christians should not
encourage the Jewish people
to possess a piece of land.
We should encourage them
to make peace.
Let God decide who the land belong to.
Now sometimes,
and not taking sides, it leaves
you sort of in a dilemma.
I think Joshua may have
sort of experienced that
in the book of Joshua chapter 5.
In Joshua 5
he was near Jericho
and there was a man
in front of him with the sword
drawn
and Joshua wanting to know
what side he took
said to him immediately
what side are you on?
In fact, let me read it to you.
It says now it came about when Joshua
saw Jericho
that behold a man standing opposite him
with a sword drawn in his hand
and Joshua went to him and said
are you for us or against us?
What side are you on?
And he said no.
Now that's quite an interesting answer isn't it?
Are you for us or against us?
The answer is no.
Rather I indeed come now
as a captain
of the hosts of the Lord
and Joshua fell on his face
and bowed down and said
what has my Lord to say to his servant?
And the captain
of the Lord's hosts said to Joshua
remove the sandals from your feet
for the place where you're standing
is holy
and Joshua did so.
You know, sometimes
we ask God
what side are you on?
And the Lord says no.
That's what the angel said.
In other words, I'm not taking sides
but many I'm on the Lord's side.
Joshua bowed down
and the angel continued and said
take off your shoes
for this is holy ground.
In other words, the Lord is saying
the posture of taking God's side
not man's either or
but taking God's side
that's the holiest ground there is.
Oh no, it's not the most popular
but that's what Jesus did.
He came to help the oppressed
not to take sides.
He came to be on God's side
and that is the holiest place
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