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Boots on the Ground: An IDF Soldier’s Story of Faith and War | Episode #128
August 5, 2026 · 58 min
In this powerful episode of the Sightedmoon Podcast, host Ryan Nall and co-host Joseph Dumond sit down with Yair Pinto—an Israeli Defense Forces officer, journalist, husband, father of three, and Jewish believer in Yeshua (Jesus).
Yair shares his firsthand experiences serving on the front lines following the October 7 Hamas attacks, searching terror tunnels in Gaza, defending Israel’s northern border, and balancing the responsibilities of military service with raising a young family. He offers a deeply personal look into what it means to repeatedly leave home, knowing his children may not understand why their father must go to war.
The conversation also explores one of the most difficult questions believers wrestle with: How can a follower of Jesus serve as a soldier? Yair explains how he reconciles Yeshua’s teaching to “turn the other cheek” with the biblical responsibility to defend innocent lives. Rather than promoting hatred, he speaks passionately about praying for Israel’s enemies, believing God can transform hearts—even in places like Iran where many are coming to faith despite persecution.
This interview is an honest, thoughtful discussion about faith, sacrifice, fatherhood, and trusting God in the darkest moments.
In This Episode:
Yair Pinto’s experience as an IDF officer after October 7
The emotional challenge of leaving his wife and young children for combat
The inspiration behind his new book, Boots on the Ground
Why he believes defending Israel is compatible with following Yeshua
What “turn the other cheek” really means in the context of national defense
Praying for enemies while standing against terrorism
How God builds faith during seasons of war and uncertainty
Link to Yair’s new book: https://www.advbookstore.com/product-page/boots-on-the-ground
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In this powerful episode of the Sightedmoon Podcast, host Ryan Nall and co-host Joseph Dumond sit down with Yair Pinto—an Israeli Defense Forces officer, journalist, husband, father of three, and Jewish believer in Yeshua (Jesus). Yair shares his firsthand experiences serving on the front lines following the October 7 Hamas attacks, searching terror tunnels in Gaza, defending Israel’s northern border, and balancing the responsibilities of military service with raising a young family. He offers a deeply personal look into what it means to repeatedly leave home, knowing his children may not understand why their father must go to war. The conversation also explores one of the most difficult questions believers wrestle with: How can a follower of Jesus serve as a soldier? Yair explains how he reconciles Yeshua’s teaching to “turn the other cheek” with the biblical responsibility to defend innocent lives. Rather than promoting hatred, he speaks passionately about praying for Israel’s enemies, believing God can transform hearts—even in places like Iran where many are coming to faith despite persecution. This interview is an honest, thoughtful discussion about faith, sacrifice, fatherhood, and trusting God in the darkest moments. In This Episode: Yair Pinto’s experience as an IDF officer after October 7 The emotional challenge of leaving his wife and young children for combat The inspiration behind his new book, Boots on the Ground Why he believes defending Israel is compatible with following Yeshua What “turn the other cheek” really means in the context of national defense Praying for enemies while standing against terrorism How God builds faith during seasons of war and uncertainty Link to Yair’s new book: https://www.advbookstore.com/product-page/boots-on-the-ground Visit SightedMoon.com to explore more biblical resources, podcast episodes, and sign up for our newsletter. If you enjoyed this conversation, please like, subscribe, and share to help others discover these important discussions on faith, Israel, and biblical truth. Links Buy our team a coffee. buymeacoffee.com/JosephDumond Become a Monthly Supporter sightedmoon.com/donate-co I hope you enjoy the Podcast and make sure to share and subscribe to support the spreading of God’s Word! Subscribe to the Podcast: https://www.subscribebyemail.com/sightedmoon.blubrry.com/feed/podcast/ Sign up for our weekly Free Newsletter https://sightedmoon.com/newsletter-lp/ We are also giving away The Stones Cry Out PDF for FREE at this link https://sightedmoon.com/the-stones-cry-out-lp/ You can also order the following books to learn more about where we are in these last days according to the Jubilee Cycle. It Was A Riddle Not A Command (https://sightedmoon.com/riddle-lp) The 2300 Days of Hell (https://sightedmoon.com/2300-days-lp) Remembering the Sabbatical Year of 2016 https://sightedmoon.com/2016-sabbatical-year-co/ The Sabbatical and Jubilee Charts https://sightedmoon.com/sabbatical-chart-lp/ The Restoration of All Things https://sightedmoon.com/restoration-abomination-co/ The Abomination That Makes Desolate https://sightedmoon.com/restoration-abomination-co/ The 10 Days of Awe https://sightedmoon.com/10-days-of-awe-co/ If you want to know what the mark of the beast really is, get this book: https://sightedmoon.com/bismallah-lp/ ...more Show the full description Show less In this powerful episode of the Sightedmoon Podcast, host Ryan Nall and co-host Joseph Dumond sit down with Yair Pinto—an Israeli Defense Forces officer, journalist, husband, father of three, and Jewish believer in Yeshua (Jesus).
Yair shares his firsthand experiences serving on the front lines following the October 7 Hamas attacks, searching terror tunnels in Gaza, defending Israel’s northern border, and balancing the responsibilities of military service with raising a young family. He offers a deeply personal look into what it means to repeatedly leave home, knowing his children may not understand why their father must go to war.
The conversation also explores one of the most difficult questions believers wrestle with: How can a follower of Jesus serve as a soldier? Yair explains how he reconciles Yeshua’s teaching to “turn the other cheek” with the biblical responsibility to defend innocent lives. Rather than promoting hatred, he speaks passionately about praying for Israel’s enemies, believing God can transform hearts—even in places like Iran where many are coming to faith despite persecution.
This interview is an honest, thoughtful discussion about faith, sacrifice, fatherhood, and trusting God in the darkest moments.
In This Episode:
Yair Pinto’s experience as an IDF officer after October 7
The emotional challenge of leaving his wife and young children for combat
The inspiration behind his new book, Boots on the Ground
Why he believes defending Israel is compatible with following Yeshua
What “turn the other cheek” really means in the context of national defense
Praying for enemies while standing against terrorism
How God builds faith during seasons of war and uncertainty
Link to Yair’s new book: https://www.advbookstore.com/product-page/boots-on-the-ground
Visit SightedMoon.com to explore more biblical resources, podcast episodes, and sign up for our newsletter.
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The 2300 Days of Hell (https://sightedmoon.com/2300-days-lp)
Remembering the Sabbatical Year of 2016 https://sightedmoon.com/2016-sabbatical-year-co/
The Sabbatical and Jubilee Charts https://sightedmoon.com/sabbatical-chart-lp/
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In this video 0:00 Called to Serve: An IDF Soldier’s Family and Faith10:45 Following Yeshua as a Jewish Soldier in Israel16:00 Miraculous Protection and God’s Presence in War22:00 Lessons from October 7 and the Spiritual Battle32:00 The Purpose of Boots on the Ground: Truth, Faith, and Resilience
Called to Serve: An IDF Soldier’s Family and Faith 0:01 What if everything you thought you knew about biblical prophecy, world history, and your own ancestry was just the tip of the iceberg? Welcome to the Sided Moon podcast0:13 where ancient truths collide with modern revelations. Join us here to unearth the lost tribes of Israel, decoding prophetic timelines hidden in scripture and0:24 revealing how global events today are fulfilling patterns that have been laid out since the creation of Adam. From the shores of Europe to the heart of Asia, this isn't just history. It's your0:36 story. Stay tuned because what you're about to hear might just change the way you see the world forever.0:43 Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Side of Moon podcast. I'm your host, Ryan Naul. Today, we have a special guest on the program, which is, Yair Yair Pinto. I'm sorry if I pronounce that0:55 wrong. Welcome to the show.0:58 Close enough.1:01 And, and I'm with Joseph DuMond as well. Firstly, I wanna direct everybody's attention to side of moon dot com. Sign up for the newsletter, host of information there, but that's not what today's program is about. Today,1:12 we're gonna talk about, Yair and his and his book, Boots on the Ground. Yair is an IDF soldier and a journalist. So that's a kind of an amazing
1:24 combination. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
1:28 Well, yes. I'm born and raised Israeli. We grew up here in the city of Jerusalem, and he said all of us go to the IDF at the age of
1:40 eighteen, like men and women. So I did that. But then you stay in the IDF basically until the age of forty, and now it's up even to forty five. So on October
1:52 seventh, when the Hamas terrorist organization launched its attack and kidnapped two hundred and fifty of our civilians, I was called to defend the country and served for four
2:04 months inside the Gaza Strip looking for terror tunnels, destroying them, searching for the hostages, and then also on the New Oregon border against the Hezbollah
2:16 terrorist organization, which is another terrorist that wants to destroy us. Sadly, there are many of these going around these days. And, yeah, I just finished writing my book. It's boots on the
2:27 ground group dot com. It's still in preorder. It's gonna be released, on the first of September, and it's a world journal from an IDF
2:39 officer, that's me, every single day. And I think what's interesting about it is that it's connected to my daily reports from the ground with the QR code. So you can read a chapter about something that
2:51 I went through, and then you can watch me actually reporting from that location. I think that's what gives this a bit of an edge to understanding the story and feeling what I felt.
3:01 So It's amazing. Me ask let me ask you, Yair. You are... You're a father. You're a husband. You have young... How how how young are your children? Are they young?
3:13 Yeah. I have a three year old, a six year old, and an eight year old. Pretty...
3:18 So how do you how do you... I want I want our our listeners to understand how you as a father come home and then tell your kids you're you're gonna go and do this this fighting.
3:31 How do you explain that to them? And how do they how do they react? How do you do that as a father?
3:38 Well, first of all, like, to my wife, it wasn't a hard issue because she was also in the IDF. So women also serve in the IDF. And I have been called throughout the years.
3:50 I'm already thirty nine years old. So I have been called multiple times for either training or for active duty in the Gaza Strip, in the northern borders, in the eastern borders, in
4:02 multiple places. So it was pretty obvious that the call would come after October seven for me to go and report the duty and wear my uniform and leave them alone. So to the
4:14 wife, it was pretty easy in terms of explaining the... You know, what needs to be done. It wasn't easy at all. But then also to the children, that's a whole different story because you need to explain to them that there
4:25 are bad guys that want to kill all of us. Why? Because we were Jews. Because we live here in Israel because they hate us, and we need to defend ourselves
4:37 against these bad guys. And then, you know, the questions becomes harder. It's like, are they trying to heal you? And how do you explain that to to a five year old or to a six year
4:49 old back then that were their ages? And that's a bit harder. But I think that the fact that the whole nation is like that, and we had hundreds of thousands of fathers and mothers just like me that had to do
5:00 this thing, made it easy. And also the school system and the kindergartens, they also helped explaining to the kids what their parents are going through, and
5:12 they prepared, like, letters. They drew paintings for us that we received while we were in the Gaza Strip for long periods of times. They made us some, candy boxes and chocolates
5:24 and the good stuff for the kids. So they were all very proud of their, parents for being heroes and going to defend them and the country.
5:35 If I can follow-up on that a little bit. You you said you served multiple times on different fronts. So you serve for a a length of time, then you come home. Your kids are glad to see
5:47 you, and then you have to tell them you have to go again. How many times have you done that, and how does that affect you as a as a father? How does how does
5:59 that feel? How does that... How do you deal with that?
6:03 Well, that... That's that's one of the hardest things that I had to deal with in this school. So as I said, since October seventh, I was called for more than a
6:15 hundred days of active duty. And in between being in the Gaza Strip or other places, you have these, like, forty eight hours leave. Sometimes when
6:26 it's possible that you go back home and spend some time with your family. And that's the hardest time is to come back home because the moment you get home, the clock starts ticking backwards.
6:39 So, like, okay. Oh, shit. I have only, like, forty eight... Forty hours left with my kids and only twenty hours, and then I need to leave them again for... You don't know how long. Can be two weeks. Can be a
6:51 month. You don't know. So that's the hardest part. It's like to come back home for just a very short period of time and then and then leave.
7:02 Okay. So I got... I'm gonna change the subject just a little bit here. You're also a believer in Yeshua. You're also a believer in the Torah and you are a soldier
7:14 in the IDF. How do you how do you balance that? Because in the Christian mindset, okay, so Yeah. Understand, I was there on October seventh.
7:27 I was there. I I understand some of that. And I've been to Israel twenty six times, so it's... I'm not trying to put you on the spot, but I want our our listeners to understand,
7:39 how do you as a believer... And when when Jesus said Yeshua said turn the other cheek, how do you deal with that? How how does that... Like, explain... Can you wrestle with that question for me?
7:51 Because it's gonna come
7:52 up I... I... Listen. I like I like I like these challenging questions. It makes me think also. So keep it up. Don't don't be shy. You know? So... Okay. So, yeah, I'm I'm a Jewish follower of
8:03 Jesus. K? So born and raised in here in Jerusalem, and I believe Jesus is the Messiah. In Hebrew, we call him Yeshua. Like, that's the the real
8:15 name... The official name. And, yeah, turning the cheek is kind of a hard thing to do, but what I do in order to deal with this situation is to
8:27 understand that, first of all, I need to protect my family, my nation. And this is something that God has also been, you know, calling on the people of
8:39 Israel to do, to protect the country, to fight, to defend it. But then on the other hand, I don't hate the Palestinian people. I don't hate the women and the children of
8:51 South Lebanon. I am praying every single day also for the Iranian people that their government and their, you know, rulers are launching rockets at us. So on the one hand,
9:03 I am fighting to defend my country, my family from the terrorist organizations, but I do not hate the people themselves. So you need to separate the need
9:15 to defend yourself as a nation from enemies outside, and then the love for one another. And I'll take it to a next level also. Hey. I'm calling on my audience. So I have
9:26 my TV show called boots on the ground every single day on TV in Israel YouTube channel and also on TVN at large. And I'm calling on my audience to also
9:38 pray for our enemies, but not to pray for them to succeed in their attempts to destroy us, but pray for God to touch their hearts, to have...
9:50 So that they will have a change of heart. So instead of hating the Jewish people of Israel and basically God's plans, the future, into loving the Jewish people of Israel. You
10:02 know? And it's possible. We have seen a revival in Iran despite all the hatred that we hear on the news from the Islamic Republic. So God is walking in challenging times. And what I like about God, and it's something I
10:14 learned personally in the past, what, three years of war, is that when things are hard and you think that there's no solutions, the only thing that you can do is
10:25 trust God. And that's a great place to be in because if you don't trust and count on your own abilities to solve a terrible situation and only put your faith in God, that's when you
10:37 see doors beginning to open and paths that you never thought were available become clear, and you just need to take the next step towards what God is telling you to. I hope that
Following Yeshua as a Jewish Soldier in Israel
10:49 answered your question.
10:51 Yeah.
10:51 Yeah. Yeah.
10:52 No. I I, you know, I want I want people to understand because what you're doing... And first of all, I have nothing but utmost respect for you and all the ideas. What you do, what you
11:04 have to deal with both personally, nationally, and Mhmm. The... What you're dealing with is just... I can't imagine. So thank you for doing
11:16 that, and and Jehovah bless the, the IDF. So Yeah. Brian.
11:22 Amen. Yeah. So, you know, being the public... Being a a public figure, you know, for TBN, which is a... Really a national Christian, network and being a member
11:33 or a soldier of... For Israel. Do you find it challenging? Or or what challenges do you face being a public, believer in Yeshua?
11:46 Well, you know, Israel is the, you know, the Jewish state. Mhmm. So far, we have currently around zero point zero zero one percent of the population.
11:59 Again, zero point zero zero one percent of the population that believes in Jesus as the Messiah. Okay? So me as a Jewish follower of Jesus, I've always been a
12:10 minority in the country. Okay? But that never stopped me from being part of a society, from being a Zionist, from loving the country, for going to officer school, serving in
12:22 the IDF longer than what I needed to do, and being part of the society. And that's not just me. It's all the followers of Jesus in the country. But, yes Mhmm. It is challenging because if I'm a
12:34 minority, and people think, okay. How can you believe in Jesus if you are Jewish? It doesn't click with the majority of his friends. To me, it's the simplest and most obvious thing.
12:46 I mean, Jesus was a Jew. He came to Israel, and his disciples were twelve Jewish people from the Sea of Galilee. And then he went to the temple now that stood right here behind
12:58 me, you know, where this mosque now is standing. And then he preached there in Hanukkah, a Jewish high holiday. He ate Passover with his disciples, another Jewish high holiday. He went to
13:10 synagogues. The New Testament is a Jewish book. So for me
13:14 Yes.
13:14 It's like the most obvious connection as a Jew to follow Jesus, Yeshua, as my messiah. But I understand that we have thousands of years of
13:26 history in which sadly the church was prosecuting the Jewish population all around the world, and that thing does not just leave very soon. So
13:38 there are some, like, burials that need to be broken. There are some, you know, stuff that need to be worked through. And I believe that,
13:50 you know, if you're a good person, if you help society, then people respect you. And what I learned is that not to be ashamed of my faith. Mhmm. So when I was, like, sixteen, I was I was ashamed because I was
14:02 the only follower of Jesus in my school. And I didn't wanna share with my friends. I didn't want it to be different. And when they realized and when they found out that I believe in Jesus, they didn't talk to me for a
14:14 month, and they also beat me up. But then
14:17 Wow.
14:17 After that, I mean, they they... Okay. Oh, it's okay. So he believes in something different than us. It's okay. It's still the same guy. And then when I joined the IDF, I said, okay. I'm starting a fresh page here.
14:29 I'm gonna read my Bible on the first date that has the New Testament attached to it, which is something that you don't have in Israel because you only have the Old Testament, not the New Testament combined. So I'll read,
14:40 you know, full Bible, Old Testament and New Testament, and then when people ask me questions, I will share immediately about my faith. And that's what I did. And then after the first week, I already became the
14:52 follower of Jesus in the whole base, the only one. Wow. It's amazing because God is open... Using that to open opportunities to share his
15:03 love, to have, like, debates with orthodox Jews about...
15:08 Right.
15:08 I mean, who's the Messiah? Yeah. He's he's he's a descendant of King David. Yes. I agree. Jesus was also a descendant of King David. The biblical prophecy say that he will be born and raised in
15:20 Bethlehem. So he was born in Bethlehem, then raised in Nazareth. Okay. So, basically, it's, it's very interesting, and I and I think that I had, like, great conversations,
15:32 and God opened amazing opportunities to share his love with multiple people. And if you're not afraid, if you're not ashamed, God will give you the work, the courage,
15:44 and he will not let you be there alone. So that's kind of an encouragement to everybody.
15:48 That's beautiful.
15:50 In your book, boots on the ground, do you have any stories, that you wanna relate that you can confirm that this was a God moment, that God did something miraculous here,
Miraculous Protection and God’s Presence in War
16:02 for you? Do you have anything like that you'd like to share?
16:06 Yeah. Of course. So I think that the October seventh attacks and especially going into Khan Yunus, which is a city
16:17 inside the Gaza Strip in which all the leadership of Hamas, the terrorist organization, were raised and grew up. That was the hardest spot for me. It was scary. I I didn't
16:29 know what was happening there. Every day, you had around four IDF soldiers that lost their lives because of these terrorists. And when I got the call from my commander that he wants me
16:41 inside with him, I stopped the car on the side of the road, and I prayed. I asked god, if this is from you, give me
16:54 peace in my heart as I'm entering the gas strip, and make me smile and be happy inside this terrible place. K? That's what I asked.
17:05 And then a few hours later, I entered Gaza in the middle of the night in a convoy, you know, bulletproof vests, helmets, afraid that, you know, will be ambushed.
17:17 But I was smiling, and I have, like, the the videos and the pictures to to prove it. And then inside Gaza also, I was able to share with IDF soldiers that they're not
17:29 alone. Because we thought we were alone, that the world abandoned us. But I was sharing with them that there are millions of bible believing Christians that are praying for the IDF soldiers every single
17:41 day. And they said, why? Why are they praying? And I said that because they love you, because they love Israel, and they believe that Israel has a purpose, and
17:53 God made a covenant with the Jewish people of Israel. And, also, I was able to share that I'm a follower of Jesus with other IDF soldiers. Again, I was the only one in
18:04 that area, and pretty soon found found another one that came from a different unit, but that's kind of, you know, regular. So, yeah, it's working. Of course, I also like the the normal stuff
18:16 is normal of, like, a rocket landing next to, an IDF unit and not exploding or a tank missing a unit by a
18:28 few meters that was sleeping in the wrong place and not running them over, or an RPG that was barred by Hamas Terrace and, like, missing just by a meter from the head of a fellow IDF
18:40 soldiers. So these stories I have, and I believe that God was acting bureaucracy. As you know, in wartime, the majority of the casualties or a huge amount of the casualties usually
18:52 come from friendly fire. And I was witnessing multiple occasions that it was so close to being a disaster and then, you know, was prevented just by, like,
19:04 a malfunction or something Right. Like that to the... That did happen.
19:10 Wow. Look look... Looking back on October seventh, what do you think the IDF learned from how that event occurred? What what do you... How do you think the IDF has evolved in
19:21 operation since that time?
19:25 Wow. Significantly. I think the IDF pre October seven and post October seven is a different army. Like, for once, we understood that we cannot trust either treaties
19:37 or international peacekeeping forces to protect our borders. The only way to protect yourself in the Middle East, and this is something we learned, is by having boots on the ground on
19:50 key locations inside enemy territory to prevent any kind of infiltration, invasion of the Jewish state of Israel, and that's the only way to protect the
20:01 civilians in this country. So after October seventh, Israel has key positions inside the Gaza Strip to make sure that Hamas does not
20:13 just run for five minutes and reach the Israeli communities because that was pre October seventh. We trusted a defense to protect us.
20:21 Yeah.
20:21 And then if you talk about the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the north, we are now in control of wild areas in southern Lebanon. And by being in control, it's meaning that the
20:33 IDF has presence in strategic high mountains areas, and we are clearing out miles and miles of underground terror tunnels
20:45 that were built, financed by Iran, even both carry out the attacks against Israeli civilians in the Golan Heights, in the northern parts of Israel. So we
20:57 understand that the United Nations peacekeeping force that is currently there cannot protect us because they haven't done anything to prevent Hamas or Hezbollah from building
21:09 this infrastructure, and we need to defend ourselves by ourselves. It's a... It's like a huge toll on the economy and also on the family unit, but this is what we're
21:20 doing also in Syria. The idea is to still in control of key locations in southern Syria, preventing jihadists from coming into attacking the north with
21:32 Israel. So that's a big change that happened after October seventh.
21:37 Do you see this war is now over, like, it's over a thousand days, three, was it three years? Three and a half... Almost coming up to four years?
21:48 Almost three years. We're we're up we're up to up to the the third year is about, yeah, about to come.
21:55 Do you see this anywhere in the Bible, any prophetic literature in the Bible? Do you see it there at all anywhere?
Lessons from October 7 and the Spiritual Battle
22:05 Well, it was stated that, the nations will turn against Israel. I'm not sure if this is, like, the the end times that we are expected
22:17 in Revelations, but what we're seeing is a trend. We're seeing radical terrorist organizations carrying out attacks against Israel. And then
22:29 we're seeing antisemitism rising in Western countries. We are seeing a flip in the media and hatred against Israel, the only democracy in the Middle
22:40 East. And all of that together, from my understanding, is a spiritual wall. There is no other reason why all these nations will hate
22:52 Israel so much. I mean, we don't have natural resources. We don't have oil. We don't have gold. We're we're creating, you know, irrigation in the desert.
23:04 We are developing high-tech, But this is not something that you can take if you just take the land. So nothing makes sense unless you look at it from a biblical spiritual
23:16 perspective. And if you look at it from that perspective, the enemy sees Israel as a living example that God is faithful.
23:27 Because if God is faithful to his promises to the Jewish people, promises that he made thousands of years ago, then he's faithful to each and every one of us in every promise
23:39 that he's making to the viewers, to you, to me, around the world. And the enemy doesn't wanna see that. The enemy is trying to steal hearts away from God. But
23:51 what I like about God is that despite of the attacks, despite of the hatred, his love is shining now brighter than ever before. Because every time you open the news,
24:03 you see something about Israel. If it's like Israel is under attack by Iran or the Iron Dome anti rocket defensive system intercepted, and Israel destroyed together with the
24:15 US, the nuclear facilities of the Itoro regime in Iran in Isfahan, Poland, and Natanz, and other places. Then it shows that God is
24:27 faithful and is doing biblical level miracles in modern days. Because in the bible, God saved Israel
24:38 against all odds. And then you can say, okay. God was doing big miracles only in biblical times, but not today. Because today, he's doing small miracles. Maybe he will help
24:50 me, you know, not be late to pick up my kids or help me find my keys when I'm praying for help on that direction. And I think that this wall, this attack
25:02 in Israel is showing the world that god is acting on a nation level and performing biblical level miracles by the fact that Israel still exists after seven different nations.
25:13 Huge countries launch attacks against us, and we're not just surviving. We are winning. We're changing the face of the Middle East, and it's not because of us. Because God is faithful. And this is something
25:25 that we need to look towards when we're watching the news about Israel.
25:32 Yeah. So just... Let me just jump in here just to follow-up on that. You defeated Hamas. You defeated Hezbollah. You defeated the Syrians. You, you know,
25:45 Assad had to leave office because he lost his Hizbullah, front. You've defeated Iran. You defeated the Houthis. I don't... Who else am... Who who am I missing? All that at stake...
25:56 Well, there's some there's some Iraqi Iraqi... Iranian militias in Iraq and Syria. There's a new Syrian regime now.
26:04 But you have changed the entire Middle East because of this. And that is, for me, from what I see, that is a huge, huge miracle. And,
26:16 like, like, I just... Kudos to you guys. Kudos to the IDF. Kudos for standing up on behalf of the West, the cowardly West, and doing this. So,
26:28 I just say all kinds of great things about this. So not all... As well. You know, not great things in war, but how is turning things around. Help me get my foot out of my mouth, Ryan.
26:40 Oh, yeah. I mean, I I... To me, I think... I mean, I look at this and say, you know, man, this is huge, huge prophetic. I mean, just the the the fact that the Jewish people of Israel have... Not not not only do they
26:52 still exist, they have their own state, and I... All of that, I think, is a miracle. Do you find that the people of Israel speak more, like, from the day to day about prophecy
27:04 and how are we living in such a prophetic time? Do they talk about this?
27:10 I think that many people understand that there is a divine reason for us to be here, especially after two percent. The attacks against us
27:23 united the country, and that's like... I'm not talking about the political areas because they stayed fighting, especially now before elections, but I'm talking about the people. People got united because we understood
27:34 that there is supernatural hatred against Israel. But when there is supernatural hate, there's also supernatural
27:46 love. And I think that that understanding connected the people of Israel to the land, to a bigger purpose than just living their lives. Purpose of being
27:57 here, fighting for this land, and now they are more open to understanding that there is something divine that's connecting us. Even I'm talking about, like, the secular side of the Israelis
28:10 that I've been speaking to understand that there's something's going on, and it's not just, like, politics. It's more than that. There is something that's happening on the spiritual level here in Israel, and
28:22 they get more connected to the biblical connection of the land, our forefathers, and the fact that we need to be here and defend ourselves. So I hope that I
28:34 answered the question for you briefly.
28:36 It's it's a complicated subject.
28:38 Yeah.
28:38 But I wanna follow-up on that a little bit. Mhmm. The antisemitism has broken out around the world, especially right after October seventh. It was unbelievable.
28:51 As as a Jew, how do you how do you deal with that hatred that comes at you, that comes at your family, from around the world? And
29:04 I I think you've already may have addressed, but I'd like you to speak to that specifically. We're gonna get a bunch of hate mail after this. And And it was gonna come in the comments, and I probably will filter it out.
29:13 But how do you how do you personally deal with all that?
29:20 So, yes, we get a lot of of hate also personally and, like, personal attacks. But, you know, when more people are so obsessed with, like,
29:32 hating you, I think it... Of it is something that I should be, you know, happy about. Feels like I'm doing the right thing. I mean, it's also this biblical verse. I don't know if I can quote it
29:43 correctly or not, but, like, celebrate when you are persecuted. Correct me if I'm if I'm missing the... I forgot that way in the New Testament. So that's first and foremost.
29:55 Second of all, I believe that my job and what God wants me to do, especially after three years of doing it every single day, is sharing the truth of what's happening on the ground. K?
30:07 That's one. Because the first casualty of war is the truth, especially a serial, spiritual war because the enemy is lying constantly. And how do you fight lies? With the
30:19 truth. And then what they realized is the only way to fight a spiritual war is by praying. So I pray a lot. I encourage, my viewers to pray a lot.
30:31 Pray for wisdom to our leaders. Pray for the children. Pray for me and my team here in Jerusalem that God will protect us. And, I think I'm trying to respond
30:44 with love to all the hate because it's hard, but, that's the best way to do it. You know? Just, keep sharing the truth.
30:52 Because... Well, you just mentioned something because in Daniel eight, and this is something I've been telling our readers about, our viewers. In Daniel eight, it says he will cast truth to the ground and be
31:04 successful at it. Mhmm. And the propaganda from the UNRWA and Iran and the United Nations, exactly opposite of everything that's been going on
31:16 there. You know, like, you know, you've been you've been causing a genocide by starving the Gazans to death, and now there's some of the fattest people on earth. I don't understand how that works.
31:28 Yeah. Exactly. That that's the... One of the the hard parts about sharing the truth is that it's so easy to spread lies. It's so hard to share the
31:40 truth because when you lie, you just influence something, and it's even easier today with the AI and all the, you know, fake images and, you know, fake shots, especially of what's
31:52 happening in the Gaza Strip. And then when I'm sharing the truth, I need to have the facts. I need to double check them. I need to confirm, and it's a it's a battle. But bottom line, youShow more
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