Maoz Israel

0:01 I do want to remind us it has been 645 days. There remain 50 hostages in captivity, 20 of which are thought to be alive and do not though the time grow long. Do not grow weary in your prayers and petitions before the Lord. On behalf of those in captivity, I would like to take this time, uh, to welcome Kobe Ferguson to come to the stage. Kobe is CEO and president of Mao's Ministries, Long time friend

0:47 and, uh, in fact, friend of our family, friend of myself, and Maos has been a long time connecting point for em also in the land of Israel. Venu sha may our father in heaven. Lord, I thank you for Kobe. I thank you for the Ferguson family. Lord, I just ask that you would continue to pour out your blessings upon them. Lord, continue to, uh, be near to them. Continue to, uh, direct their steps, Lord, as they seek to comfort your people, as they seek to reveal the comforter of your people. Lord, we just ask that you would, uh, continue to pour out those blessings and that you would open up our ears to hear from Kobe today in Yeshua's name a man, A man, a amen. Okay, thank you. Wonderful to see you.

1:34 It's great to be back to this house. If you know, in Hebrew we say bed Knesset, it's the house of incoming. It's also, or the name of our parliament, right? The Knesset. So a lot of good things happen in the house of the Lord. It's been quite a while. We were trying to think when's the last time I was here. I think it was 2022. And a lot's changed. We thought that those were gonna be the craziest of times, the pandemic ending and all that kinda stuff. I'm gonna attempt filled the Lord has challenged me when I'm sharing about what we've been through in this season, to just be transparent and just share from my heart, uh, it becomes difficult

2:19 because of what we've been through. So just, um, join together with me. Okay? I'm just, yes, I feel like I have something to share that will encourage you from the word of the Lord, but also I want to just share from my heart. Just be real with you. This is like family. I've, uh, Marty Waldman, rabbi Marty married my wife and myself. We had a wedding here in the States and then one in Israel. And so I think you've known Shene your whole life, right? So my wife and children have grown up here. I was just looking at a little photo of my son who was giving a short little exhortation about seven years ago maybe, and he was here now. He's, I think he's taller, taller than me.

3:05 So things are happening. This, uh, this season has not been easy and I've, I, this might seem strange, but I was just coming up here just now. I thought of the words of Mike Tyson. You know, we study the scriptures. We, many of us pride ourselves in, you know, wanting an intimate relationship with the Lord. And we, we understand how to fight spiritual battles. We understand that our battle is not against flesh and blood. We understand these things. We pour ourselves over the scriptures year after year after year to be closer to the Lord, right? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It's clean. It restores the soul. It's where we start our journey.

3:54 But Mike Tyson said, yeah, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. 'cause they ask him, oh, what about this guy's got a good plan against you? You know, it is like everybody got a good plan to get punched in the mouth. So that's what it's like in life. You know, we feel like we have a good plan. Things are in place, and then we get punched in the mouth. And those of us in Israel have experienced the worst season, arguably in Israel's modern history, maybe the first few days of 1948, where, you know, pretty precarious. Israel's not really built for long-term war. So some of the things I wanna share,

4:39 I'm sure you've heard from other people, I know you're deep lovers of Israel, probably this entire congregation. So if it is a repeat of things you already know, just realize this is from my experience, our family, our ministry, and it's very real what's happening in Israel. It will take years to as, right now we're kind of coming out of the bunkers of the last round with Iran, kind of letting the dust settle, seeing all the damage, uh, that has occurred. If you wanna, I just told our friend in the, in the multimedia booth to help me out, just show some pictures while I'm talking about some

5:25 of the damage that occurred. These, these are not the missiles from Hamas or even Hezbollah, which were bigger. What Iran shot at us were, or missiles to, and ballistic missiles and drones and cruise missiles. Thi things that we had never encountered in Israel since maybe the, the, uh, Gulf War in 1991 was Saddam Huang. Saddam was in Iraq. Those were comparable, but not really. So we saw the damage in Israel really pretty intense. If some of you don't know, I mean, this is just one of the smaller ones they found. And that, and half of the thing is already detonated. The, the ordinance is, is already been. Yeah.

6:10 So these are, uh, hitting in neighborhoods. And really, it's the shock wave that comes from these missiles that does the greatest damage. They're, they're estimating around, I heard 31,000. That seemed some, so somewhere between 20, 30,000 buildings in Israel destroyed or damage to the degree that they're unlivable. And this is, okay, this is an apartment building. So when you hear building, you could have a few hundred residents there, a few hundred families, maybe even in some of the larger ones. The s been institute that's kind of like our MIT is nearly completely destroyed. There are only hospital in the southern region

6:56 in Israel hit directly. So we're reeling some of, you know, all these things, but we're reeling from the reality of these attacks. My, um, I'm gonna show you a video in a little bit of some of what our ministry is doing in Israel. A lot of you greeted me earlier, said you longtime friends of Maos when my mother and father-in-law founded it almost 50 years ago in the land of Israel, one of the first Messianic works in Israel. Thank you. All of you who have been praying, supporting us, especially in this season for over all these years, you feel like you have a plan. You feel like you're a, a, a person who I felt like,

7:41 and many of us believers in the land feel like we're here for such a time as this, but we're still tested when we're hit. And I'll share a little bit about that in a minute. I wanna talk about today some base. Yeah, thank you for showing some of these. It gives the, the gravity and the reality of, um, what it's like to have everything. I mean, we're talking about thousands and thousands of Israelis are now homeless, and we're doing what we can now as, as a ministry to help. Primarily our ministry has been functioning in a very aggressive hu humanitarian effort in the last few years since October 7th. But our primary vision doesn't change in war.

8:30 That's why I want encourage all of you, in the midst of everything that happens, make sure you have a vision. Make sure the Lord has given you something in it's firm and secure within yourself as a ministry, as a family, as an individual. Because when tough times come, that's not the time to reorient or al realign yourself to something else. So a different vision, different calling. It's time to stand. It's time to stand strong in the Lord. Today I wanna talk about fear. Specifically the words of Yeshua borrowed from the tenah. He is the word. He is the Torah made flesh.

9:18 Isaiah 41 tells us, simply fear not for I am with you. I mean, I know this, I know these, I know the scripture, right? I says in Hebrew, simple, powerful words, don't fear. I think for many years, a lot of us maybe have just realized, okay, don't fear, have courage, have bravery. But without the second part of that scripture, you're not really going to be able to fulfill the first part. It's all about him being with us.

10:04 It's not about our own power. It's about his proximity. Is he really with us? And this is what many of us have been challenged with during this season. I know many of you hopefully will ever experience what it's like to go through war. Have thousands of missiles reigning down on you. Some of you may have gone through different operations and wars, but as a nation, hopefully you'll never experience that. But you might be going through something else. And this is what I felt to encourage you about anxiety, depression, fear-based issues, fear-based, mental would just say

10:51 mental health issues are on a rise, really starting 2018 and 19, and then after the pandemic, and then especially in countries that experienced war, but especially the numbers that are surprising in our countries that are in peace. In the uk they say one out of four people have been diagnosed with some kind of fear-based mental illness or mental struggle. That's a lot of people. And it's up the statistics all over the place, by the way. But everyone agrees in the mental health area. And I'm no expert, but I'm just reading the statistics and the science and the stats. It's, it's an epidemic worldwide.

11:40 And here in the US the numbers are very high as well, and have gone through the roof in what clinical people are not even believers calling fear-based mental issues. So I think it's time for us to really grab a hold of the simple truths that were given in the Torah, given also with Isaac, our patriarch, one of our fathers, Genesis chapter 26, verse 24, I am with the God of Abraham, your father, fear not for I am with you, and I will bless you again, reiterated and to the entire nation of Israel. Deuteronomy 31, 6, be strong and courageous.

12:26 Do not fear or be in dread of them. Okay, now we're getting a little bit closer to home. He's talking about terror. He's talking about people that struck terror in the eyes of ancient Israel and were experiencing things like that today. In the beginning of the war, October 7th, I went to serve the first few weeks and months of the war and to just do whatever I could. And I'm past the age of combat. I tried to tell them, I said, you know, I grew up in Alabama, by the way, so, um, I can shoot. Okay, I, I still. And they said, yeah, but you'll come to move so well, you know, look at you. I said, Hey, true story.

13:12 Well, I don't want to call your wife say you killed first day. No, no. So I said, I said, okay, wow. Okay, put me in my place. I was like, just put me in a deer stand. You know, I'll be okay. We might have to move, you know. So I began to talk to them again. We've, we've had a little bit. I, when in, when in when in the face of fear it becomes real. Sometimes you don't know you're afraid of something until it comes at you. And I think there's a little bit of a fear of, as an Israeli believer, I'm just gonna pull back the curtain. This isn't, I'm not speaking on behalf

13:57 of all Israeli believers, but I think if people were honest, you know, we're, we're persecuted, we're considered kind of persona grata in society, especially with like municipal, with leaders and people of a certain, um, persuasion. People in, in charge consider us a cult. And we began to encounter that during the war because I asked them, I said, look, I can serve as an individual. And I was for a while, just me and my van and, and helping run supplies and do different things. And we're, I was in very difficult situations as well. But I asked them, I said, can our organization MAs partner together with Saha, with the IDF?

14:46 And they said, yes. But it was funny, the caveat, we encountered this a few times. We never would've done this even six months, months ago. But we're desperate. We need help. And so we were able to see, but that was a fear I had to face because I, I was afraid to talk to these generals and commanders and leaders. But I remember the scripture says, don't be ashamed of the good news of the, the gospel. Don't be ashamed. I feel some of us don't realize it's telling. It's saying, don't be afraid in the moment where it's needed the most. Will we share when bombs are falling? And we, when we have an opportunity?

15:33 And I know that a lot of other ministries, a lot of other people helped, but, but I'm not exactly sure what they did in terms of sharing, but I know what we did because we were kind of poised to do this. Maos being founded 50 years on the good news of Yeshua, this is what we're here for. So we took the opportunities and the doors open wide. I haven't been here since, so I'm sharing with you now, some of you know, you get our newsletters and things, but just to encourage you, this is what I don't think you're hearing a lot in the news and even from a lot of different news sources, even from the lamb, is that doors for the good news have been opening. And I'm an eye witness myself, sitting with leaders and commanders and generals,

16:20 because we were doing so much to help. Of course, that opened up the doors. But one guy said, said to me, I won't mention names or anything, but he said, Hey, I want you to come sit here in, in our command room. And there, these were all what we call falafel. How many of you know what falafel li are in? Not just what you eat in Israeli terms, you would say in, in the us like a five star general, three star general. Everything's so quaint, right? We call 'em falafel like they look because they're, they're, their medallions look like falafels. So if you see that, you're like, Ooh, he's a falafel. That means like he's, he's a general, he's in charge, you know? Yeah. Believe it to Israelis to like make everything so dumbed down.

17:07 Hey, you know, Israel is about being real and straight to the point. And they all these guys with falafels in the room. And they said, we want to hear that, that message that you guys always talk about. And I was like, I had no idea what he's talking about. Again, I'm, I'm, I'm kind of scared these people have gravitas, you know, I mean, these are the leaders and the commanders of Israel, of the forces of Taha. And I said, what? Um, the message? He said, you know, that message that, you know, messianic people always talk about, I said, the bah. He goes, what is that? I said, bah is the word in Hebrew. So I said, the gospel, yeah, the gospel, this, this.

17:53 And so we're speaking Hebrew to each other. I said, well, you know what the word is in Hebrew? He goes, oh, I didn't know that. What is this gospel? I said, well, it means good news. And I'm explaining to him, and I'm like, well, let's start with Abraham. And there are these guys sitting there looking at me. Fear not Kobe, for I'm with you. And it was amazing. I'm not saying the whole, all of southern command came to Lord hallelujah. I'm not, you know, but people were listening, asking questions was in places that it never would have been unless I really faced this fear of sharing with these kind of higher echelons. And that's what the Lord has done in this period of time.

18:39 Yet we've seen the number of believers increase every year in Israel for many, many decades. But our, our acceptance and our acceptance with people, municipality, leaders and mayors, that is what has increased exponentially since this war. And I think just because we were willing to go and serve, and because the body of believers now, although it's small, has done what it could even to giving our lives. You know, the story of David Ratner and those others who were Some of these kids, I call 'em kids. I've known them since they were so young,

19:25 and now they've given the ultimate sacrifice for the country. And the country is noticing, noticing that Miss Hanock Jews are giving their lives to their country. They're noticing that we're just like them. They're also noticing there's something different. This season has been one of rewriting a narrative of who the believers in the land are. And as I was sitting with these leaders, there was some really crazy ideas and notions they had. I mean, really, if, if I had time to go into it, it, it's hilarious. Some of the things they thought about believers, But they were asking because they wanted to know.

20:12 And then as we were in done sharing, the alarms went off and the sirens went off, and we had to go in one base that I went to, I had given them media equipment. Some of the equipment was used, GoPro cameras, if you know what that is for, for reconnaissance for the commando units. It was bedlam, you gotta say it bedlam, we say it was bedlam in the very beginning. Crazy. So many people coming to fight so, so quickly. People didn't have shoes, people didn't have food, people didn't have basic things, basic supplies. So everything that we were able to do, we, we, we did. Half of our team, our ministry team went to fight, went

20:58 to combat, and the other half were spouses of those who were fighting. So ministry during war is, you have to pivot, you have to be flexible, but your vision stays the same. And we're encouraged in these times, challenged in these times. Do not be afraid. This was one of the biggest challenges last year in April when I got, my daughter went into also fight a few weeks after October 7th, she's still there. She is in the Iron Dome system, I can tell you that much. And she's in a combat unit, you know, with, with the iron dome dust. As they set up a, um, a perimeter

21:47 and around their assets, when they move from place to place, they don't have the marines or somebody to come in and protect them. They, they protect their own assets and their own equipment and their own, um, position, if you understand what I mean. So they all also fight during the, the round, with the first round with Iran. Iran had been saying, we want to take out the Zionist aggressors of the Iron Dome, which is like, do you understand we're protecting ourselves against you. But that's what they said. When, when, when the words of beak and the others in scriptures, you know, come and this accusatory, you know, we're going to take out the Iron Dome soldiers we're targeting them and their families.

22:33 That was what the rhetoric was. It can be scary. We never encountered these kind of things. We're used to missiles, unfortunately, from Gaza and other places, but Iran, okay? This is a whole different scenario. So with the, the, the items of October 7th and all the attacks and all the, all these things still happening now. Iran is involved last year, not April. And I receive a text from my daughter. This is kind of getting into the, the bulk of what I wanted to share. I myself, I feel I'm ready to be with the Lord. I feel like I'm ready to meet him if I have to. I don't really want to at this point 'cause I have children

23:20 and my wife, but I'm not afraid. But when I got a text message from my daughter on the front lines after reading the rhetoric of Iran, and we're targeting the Iron Dome soldiers, and, and they did, she wrote me, she said, pray they're coming. Who? Iran. So we got a message from her prey before they came. And then this last round was, it was pretty rough. There were soldiers dying. And one of the positions, they were, they, for a while, they didn't even have a bomb shelter. And this was different. They, they were shooting missiles that we had never encountered before to a scale.

24:09 Um, it's really a miracle, by the way, more Israelis did not die during this war. It is a miracle. It is a absolute miracle. Unfortunately, we did lose around 50, I don't know what the, some are still in critical condition. What she wrote me this time, she actually called me and she said, if, if they call you from the front lines, it's, it is serious. Okay? So my daughter called me and said, Abba, I just want you to know I'm not afraid, but I could easily die right now. Ooh, I'm not afraid from me,

24:54 but my baby, my baby girl telling me this. And if she's calling me, it's a pretty real thing. And we've known many people who've already passed in the war and who have fallen. And I'm encouraged by the Lord, thankfully, do not be afraid. And I wanna encourage you, no matter what you're going through, any kind of anxiety, any kind of panic, look, and I, I understand getting help, therapeutic help, counseling. I, yes, do whatever you can to get help in these areas, but there's a promise that we can live.

25:42 I was up many nights without sleep, with everything that was going on. A lot of the whole, all of Israel. We, I actually saw this hat after the ceasefire. He said, let Israel sleep again, making Israel get some sleep again. That that's the, so many people said, okay, now I gotta catch up on my sleep after being up all night for nights and nights and nights in a row. But through the grace about the night, I was able to get to a point and our family where we were at peace. And that's not easy. I'm not, I'm not, I'm telling you something simple, but not easy. When Yeshua, we know, he, he walks on the water.

26:31 And many other scriptures I don't want to go into all of them takes. He says the same thing, fear not for I'm with you. He actually says in Matthew 1427, he says the words I am like, it is me. It's literally in Greek, the words I am. They say, who is it? I am. Don't be afraid. I'm with you. I'm getting in the boat with you. Just hold on. But we're gonna drown. Hold on, hold on. For those of you who have kind of maybe disconnected a little bit from the Lord, this is the time for that realignment, readjustment.

27:19 I understand there's things going on in your lives that I don't know about. There's anxieties, there's fears, there's traumas, abuse, and there's fear that comes that some of it is, is legitimate. Some of it's just psychological. But we have to go through these things and I want to encourage you to go through it with the Lord. Go through it with the Lord. I'm speaking as an eyewitness. I was not where I thought I was in this area. And unfortunately, Israel will, we will experience more of this than the future. I don't know if we're gonna have a lull for 10 years, 15 years, or if we're gonna see a ramping up.

28:07 We know that there's times of Jacob's trouble coming, by the way, all of us who are alive right now on planet earth, this is a preparation, trying to show us the things that are to come. I wish it could be a different way. Rabbi Ari, can there be a different way? Yeshua himself even said that. Can we, can we go a different way? I mean, you know, but not my will yours be done. There's something about pain and suffering and difficulty that gets, that gives us a situation where the Lord can get ahold of us like no other. This is the situation we're going through with Israel. And unfortunately, we're not going to see an end until the Lord returns.

28:54 Israel will experience more of this. We'll have times of peace. We might have even dec decades of peace. Who knows? I know there's promises. Isaiah 19 tells us we're gonna have reconciliation with a lot of our neighbors. You have to realize the prophets wrote scripture before there was something called Islam. Okay? So there's a lot of hope according to scripture. The, the word of the Lord doesn't even, it ignores the plots of the enemy. The Lord has a plan. We're walking towards a time of peace, I believe. But you never know when this can change. Iran is already according to reports, trying to rebuild their nuclear capabilities.

29:40 So we don't know what's going to happen in the future. But I wanna give you a couple of just really quick exhortation, some practical ways, amen. Of, because people will ask me afterwards, and I thought about it, okay, if I was listening to this message, how do you live in fear, not trust in his presence? Say it daily if you have to. I am with you, Lord. You said I'm with you. I will not fear. I will not fear. And again, there's nothing too small. I'm not trying to compare. Let's not do that.

30:27 You might have anxiety in a certain area of fear, in a certain area that wouldn't make, maybe not make sense to somebody in war, but it's very real for you. Stand strong. It's nothing too small. Stand on his word. Trust in his presence that he is with us. Trust in his presence. Number two, stand on his word. Meditate on the scriptures. Psalm 23 and others where he says, although I pass through the valley, the shadow of death, I will not fear because th with me, he's with us. I was in Africa, it's a true story

31:12 about 15 years ago, I won't give details about where I was, what I was doing. I was in the airport though, in a certain country in Africa, and I brought a disciple of ours from Israel to visit some different works in the land of Africa, to to be a blessing, to go actually speak with some pastors there who wanted to hear about Israel. So it took a young guy that we were discipling with us. And um, it was difficult, but it was, uh, it was amazing. And on our way there in the airport, we had to connect through one country to get to another in Africa. This man was, was pushing, um, a cart

32:01 with a lot of luggage. It was very proper business attire. And my friend and I were just, when you're in this mode of praying, who to reach out to, you know, this kind of divine appointments you're looking for, who to share with? We're kind of always in this mode, but sometimes you're, you know, like on a, on a, on missions trip, so to speak, and you're in a different mode. And so my friend said, look at his, his magazine, and it said The Promised Land, and it was the Newsweek magazine of that month, um, talking about Israel. And so I said, okay, let's ask him. So we were walking beside him. I said, excuse me, sir. Uh, this magazine says the holy land. He said, oh, what, what? Uh, I just picked it up to read.

32:47 I don't, I don't know what it is. And my friend said, we, we are from the Holy Land, the Israeli accent. He goes, what? He goes, we just came from the holy land. And this guy goes, oh, well I'm from Iran and there is no promised land, and the Lord is my witness. We're just walking in a very smooth area, kinda like this area in front of a sudden it was like something 20 foot tall, slapped him. We're just walking from one terminal to another. Nobody around us, nothing perfectly. I went back and I looked, what, what happened? He went flying his cart,

33:36 went up in the air, all of his luggage opened up, and even his pockets like turned inside out. And he had this, I dunno what currency it was, money, every, all his stuff was just over about a 10 meter area. Just a huge area. Just all the stuff was everywhere. And my friend and I went to go help him. And he looked at us terrified and said, leave me alone. And I, we said, oh, okay. Okay. So we had to go immediately and get on our flight. We were on our way to the gate right there, and we sit down. We hadn't said a word to each other. I mean, it was weird, but I mean, we saw what happened

34:21 and everyone around did too. And as I sat down, my friend said, Kobe, the Lord is with us. And when I started, I always thought about that experience so strange. I'm from Iran. Was that the very time there was a, a man named Achman Deja, who was proclaiming openly we're going to nuke Israel. It might be 10, 15 years. Their rhetoric began to stir up, was around that time. And I always remembered that experience. Oh, Lord, what was that? That was weird. When Iran was raining down on us recently,

35:07 I felt like the Lord said, Kobe, remember I'm with you. I'm with you. When you've had that first thought of fear, it's just a little thought. Then it becomes all these other thoughts and imaginations and scenarios. And within split seconds, I'm in imagining my life without my daughter. Isn't that crazy? Nothing's happened, but it feels real at that moment. That was my fight during this season, along with others, of course. But I just wanted to be practical and make it real with you all. What I've been going through and what millions of Israelis are going through. We can relate. The last

35:56 point, don't, this might sound so super simple. One, two Timothy one, seven. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but a power, love, and a sound mind. Don't receive it. The Lord has not given us a spirit of fear, okay? What he's trying to say is that fear, that anxiety. I didn't give it to you. I'm not trying to test you. I'm not trying to challenge you with fear. It's not something I've given you, but I've given you a power, love, and a sound mind. That's what I've given you. So this is a gift from some other place. Don't receive it. So I don't know, amen.

36:45 In whatever terminology you need to use, say no. I wanna show this video real quickly about what we've been doing in this season of war. We have to make an, you know, there's so many wars coming out, and now we're only in one, by the way, so that's better. But we need to up even update some of the materials. One of the things I will say, as we faced our fear, my, my wife is so amazing. She's a superhero to me. She went to the mayor of a city near Tel Aviv. And again, these people said, I always thought you were a cult, miss Hanock Jews. And she said, well, do you want our help with something or not? She had hurt. We'd heard that they were asking

37:31 for help from different organizations, and long story short, we built a school from scratch to help kids who survived October 7th. Those were things on levels. We never, amen. Those were things I, I'm mentioning that specifically for a reason. These were things on levels we've never been able to do because we never had open doors and we never had the support on the level like we had Bru. Hashem helped us so much to help for that school, and I want to, I haven't had a chance to thank you guys publicly for that. So thank you. All of you who are giving to Israel, all of you who are supporting Israel, you're making a difference in a way that you won't even really know until you meet the Lord and he tells you all the stories.

38:18 So if we can show that video. The Israeli Prime Minister declared war following Islamist, infiltrating Israeli territory in a multi-front surprise, terrorist attack against civilian Hamas burned our villages to the ground. One of those villages had an ambulance that stood ready to take kids from Gaza to Hadassah Hospital. They didn't care. They attacked everyone. They saw anyone. Jew, Arab, Bedouin, Drews, Christian, Muslim. We are at war, only the fourth in my lifetime. There is so much need. We have to focus so we can help in a way that matters. We focus on three areas, the basic needs

39:05 of soldiers in the field and their families back home. The education of evacuated children and the harvest. Our reserve soldiers, 360,000 of them were parents, high school principals and business owners last week. And now they've been thrown into the middle of the desert. When they call home to tell what it's like, we all realize quickly everything happens so fast. They don't have proper gear of food, they don't have helmets that fit mounted cameras for evidence, collecting jackets for the cold desert nights. They don't even have proper shoes. We got them equipment, thousands of them as much as we could find. We team up with ministries from across the country and city municipalities. We provide school supplies for kids, evacuated from the Lebanon border to Nazareth, and those evacuated from the Gaza border to Central Israel.

39:53 We even build a school from scratch together with the city of Ranana near Tel Aviv. As for the agriculture crisis that resulted from thousands of foreign workers fleeing the war, manpower is the key. So the Malos team goes down into the field to harvest together with thousands of other Israelis who understand the ramifications of a food shortage. We picked tomatoes near the Gaza border to the sounds of explosions. This is our country. We have nowhere else to go. What we do have is the promise that this is where we're supposed to be, and that all Israel shall be saved. Ka k, the onic benediction. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face shine upon

40:39 you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

41:28 In the name of our Messiah, Yeshua.