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One Weird Reason the US Supports Israel: An Ancient Prophesy About Magog

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SUPPORT more videos like this at http://patreon.com/rebecca SUBSCRIBE at /user/rkwatson +++ There are several reasons the United States gives billions of dollars to Israel, which Israel uses to buy bombs that it drops on Palestinians. One reason is because Christian Evangelicals want to bring about the apocalypse. Yes, really. Links + transcript available at https://www.patreon.com/posts/51489804 +++ ABOUT: Rebecca Watson is the founder of the Skepchick Network, a collection of sites focused on science and critical thinking. She has written for outlets such as Slate, Popular Science, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. She's also the host of Quiz-o-tron, a rowdy, live quiz show that pits scientists against comedians. Asteroid 153289 Rebeccawatson is named after her (her real name being 153289). +++ MORE: http://www.skepchick.org FOLLOW: http://www.twitter.com/skepchicks AND: http://www.twitter.com/rebeccawatson LIKE: https://www.facebook.com/skepchicks

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@TalLikesThatlast year As an israeli jew. Thank you. My country has committed atrocities toward the palestinian people and that fact should be stated and reminded as often as possible. Thank you. 77
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@GrantSR3 years ago The stupidest part is that they think they can force their god' s hand. That they can literally make their, supposedly omnipotent, god do what they want when they want it. 55
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@lance1346793 years ago Palestine: we need help!
us: sorry, you' re on the wrong side of the prophesy.
palestine: uh, what? 48
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@mockturtlesuppe3 years ago My church was extremist, its just that extremist religious views are way more common than i had internalized.
this hits home for me. Its also ea . ...Expand 52
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@zayansayed10603 years ago The mogog story sounds like something jk rowling wrote. Mogog sounds like a slur she invented for transwomen. 265
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@kylewebb13983 years ago Thank you. No one ever talks about this when discussing the issue of why we are blindly supporting anything israel does. No one in media talks about this . ...Expand 147
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@BittyVids3 years ago I loved those books when i was a teenager. So glad i made it out of that cult. 113
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@Thejasond19793 years ago I never understood why the us was so hard on south africa for apartheid but easy on israel for same behavior. Now i do. What israel is doing is wrong. 53
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@caseyw.65503 years ago I cannot emphasize enough how bad this end times narrative fucked me up as a child. I hold it responsible for my anxiety disorder to this day. But i don' t . ...Expand 105
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@astrogypsy3 years ago Off topic, but the visual coordination of the necklace, jacket, and shuttle poster is pretty cool. Just being a composition geek. 85
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@wunnell3 years ago When liberal christians ask what harm there is in religious beliefs if it makes people happy, i shall henceforth direct them to this video. 19
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@mr514063 years ago Magog is a lovely lakeside town in quebec, just west of sherbrooke. Thats it. 69
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@jamesblackwell81213 years ago This needs to be told over and over again. 78
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@weirdomermaid3 years ago It' s absolutely wild that this is legit and real. 128
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@lucindabreeding3 years ago I grew up united methodist, but attended baylor university in college. We actually called the placeon the brazos. " my four years on the baylor campus acquainted me with a number of southern baptist students who believed that the bible is literal truth. And while i never heard any garden variety anti-semitism, it was not uncommon to encounter students and adults who told the story of magog and the end times, and explained that most jews and muslims were going to be slaughtered. The war would cause the streets of jerusalem to run red with jewish and muslim blood. A very tiny percentage of surviving jews will supposedly accept christ and be accepted into the kingdom of god. I have always wondered why israel has been so cozy with these evangelical elements of american politics. It' s really not a theology that is favorable to them, but i guess since they can achieve some short-term gains, they are happy taking money from people who celebrate at the idea of the slaughter of their very statehood. ...Expand 99
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@dats33 years ago This video gave me flashbacks of my evangelical upbringing. This shit was drilled in my head for years growing up. I never really bought it though it' s . ...Expand 89
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@ladygrey41133 years ago Renegade cut has two longer videos that explain this in a lot of detail. 38
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@FeebleAntelope6 months ago It' s freaking ridiculous how i keep coming across all these videos on thetopic from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and let' s be real here. decades ago. And they haven' t changed in relevance one damn bit.
i thought this was about the recent october escalation in 2023. But it came out on may 21, 2021. Well f++k. We can' t learn i guess. We haven' t figured out how to not genocide and how to not apologize and run cover for it. ...Expand 11
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@Gigawood6 months ago What a time for this to hit my timeline. Holy shit. I thought this was current. 11
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@AegixDrakan6 months ago The fact that there are millions of people gleefully hoping to bring about the literal apocalypse is genuinely terrifying. The fact they' re pushing . ...Expand 2
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@Tairneanach3 years ago It always confuses me when people try to make a prophesised event happen. Like, the prophecy will mention signs that' ll happen before the actual event, . ...Expand 4
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@personperson55213 years ago I was talking to my mother and she brought up magog during a convo about palestine. I didnt know what she was referring to. Fuck. 7
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@jfabiani3 years ago Omg. You were an evangelical? Your recovery is inspirational. My mind is blown. Thank you for all you do and have done. 17
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@cvrator3 years ago You' d think that israel of all places would try not to start a holocaust. 4
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@wyndgrove94523 years ago It' s pretty wild that these people think they can checkmate god into the end times through bad foreign policy. Also, that a lot of people have to suffer for them to get their heaven. 7
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@person-iw8qj3 years ago I started those books after years of wanting to, my grandma told me i had to be older. Got older, started the first one, realized it was rapture porn, stopped and never picked them up again. 10
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@RichardLewisCaldwell7 months ago Yep. Nothing proves prophesy better than forcing it to happen. 3
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@MakeMeMakeup19803 years ago The real kicker is this prophecy is not even really that ancient. The book of revelations was mostly interpreted in an entirely different light for centuries, . ...Expand 5
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@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis3 years ago It' s why w told the french president we invaded iraq. 31
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@jwalker61686 months ago Took me a second to realize this was two years old, given the current war situation. I love that the fundies are basically admitting that their god is . ...Expand 5
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@comradeanthony41203 years ago I was raised in a far right evangelical cult, some of you may know it as " the church of christ"
this was a very common talking point. . ...Expand 9
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@onegrapefruitlover3 years ago As an agnostic mexican who was raised as a catholic, i must say: what the actual fuck? Why is this a thing? 3
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@nayannmartinelli3003 years ago The rapture believing people are really something else: i remember, some years ago, someone i knew talking about how it definitely would happen in our . ...Expand 26
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@whiteknightcat6 months ago Wow. Just had this recommended to me. Rebecca produced this video before i subbed the channel, but it is still relevant today, maybe even more so. 7
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@kaleidoscopickait3 years ago I love your channel so much! I learn so much! I grew up catholic but i always hated going to church, so i never payed attention to sermons or the bible. . ...Expand 11
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@livelaughs3 years ago My friend' s parents wake up every day and say " cheer up, maybe today' s the day" to each other. And she thought for a long time they . ...Expand 2
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@Tortle-Man7 months ago I hate how this is still relevant, 2 years after the video came out. 3
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@medusagorgo51463 years ago Sometimes i am so happy my mother was a lazy hippie and had no interest in raising my sister and i properly. We had absolutely no religious upbringing. . ...Expand 13
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@tcsnowdream99756 months ago Maga mogog.
hmm. Im not a conspiracy theorist but thats a level of irony even alanis morissette would eye roll at. 3
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@JustinW3326 months ago As a christian, hearing people outside of my faith talk about the mogog thing and showing how utterly unhinged it is was part of what got me where i am . ...Expand 2
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@sagaevan96416 months ago Hearing it all laid out like this is insane. 1
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@Sarah-re7cg6 months ago Im making this comment post-oct. 7th 2023. Ive been seeing washpo publish more articles about the reality of what going on against palestinians. I k id="hidden21"now its so late in the grand scheme of things, but its still something. Im hoping this will put some kind of dent in the seemingly impenetrable unbridled support for american aid to the israeli government. Weve been funding far right religious fascists and im hoping the dialogue in america will be shifting. Post-oct. 7th i was immediately and consistently asked if i supported hamas and asked if i condemned their actions. The absolute monopoly on reality and being able to even discuss wtf has been going on against palestinians is horrific. I was called a baby murderer numerous times (which gets dull after awhile because im pro-choice so its like ) one thing that pisses me off is the description of an ethnic cleansing going on in washpo articles as opposed to outright stating what it is. That being said, a preliminary look at the comments (which i know this is anecdotal af and who knows how long theyll be there and who is making them) under those washpo articles are american readers overwhelmingly looking to cut off support for israeli fascists and reassessing what has been going on for so long. ...Expand 2
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@ilianceroni3 years ago Wait, isn' ta prophecy to happen kinda cheating?
i mean, it' s bs, of course, but if one believe it to be a prophecy, shouldn' t they just wait for it to happen " when it' s the right time chosed by god" or something like that?. ...Expand 15
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@liam32846 months ago Gog and magog are two giants striking the bells in an old clock in a central city arcade (walk-through mall? In other words literary characters no more real than king leir. 2
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@PerryWattleworth3 years ago And its so hilarious that rebecca is getting hobby lobby ads! Just now - well, i guess im ok with them giving you money, because you wont be co by it! Lol thank you for your fantastic commentary, and great spirit!. ...Expand 11
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@BoredBob3 years ago Fun little side fact: back when the world powers were considering where to establish israel for a very brief time one of the locations suggested for consideration . ...Expand 3
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@j.lahtinen75253 years ago This video is a good reason why youtube should have abutton in addition to abutton.
i' ve been arguing for that one of the major reasons the us supports israel is that evangelical voters in the us, that form a very large and influential minority, want to bring about the end times. ...Expand 3
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@DanielleWhite3 years ago I was raised umc but in northeastern pennsylvania and grew-up with parents who believed this and in a community that generally did as well. Also add some . ...Expand 9
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@SusanCarleyOliver4 months ago Don' t forget the red heifer. Also seen as a prerequisite to the end of days, american evangelicals have been trying to breed the perfect red cow to export to israel. 1
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@TheEvanesarah3 years ago Thank you for explaining this so well. No one really talks about this. 10
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@ironyelegy3 years ago Thank you for explaining this in less than 20 minutes.
im black with generationally jewish heritage, but our family was never zionist and certainly this video really helps clear some stuff up about motive. People often ask why and this is a great piece of that puzzle. So many of my relatives moved to israel in the last 30 years by invitation from the government and were converted to zionism' sthey weren' t that way before moving there. It' s all so miserable. ...Expand 5
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@nobody4248last year Fun fact about the book of revelations. From what i heard, the reason why book of revelations is such a fewer dream is because it was not meant to be taken . ...Expand 1
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@kgblankinship6 months ago I' ve known this for a long while. It' s a theology that was popularized in evangelical circles by a charles nelson darby tin the 19th century, known by the way, magog is supposed to be ukraine and gog is russia. ...Expand 2
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@mikececconi26773 years ago The book of revelation would be the most hilarious psychedelic sci-fi comedy if it wasn' t taken seriously by insane people. 5
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@YY4Me1333 years ago I figured this out years ago, and told my brother. He told me i was nuts. If he were alive today, he' d realize how pernicious religion can be. He didn' t, . ...Expand 1
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@flyingskyward21533 years ago Sometimes i forget how weird religion can be. 6
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@Macrochenia3 years ago My understanding of the book of revelation is that it wasn' t actually intended to be read as a literal prophecy. It was actually a scathing commentary . ...Expand 5
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@nonhumanhumanist21493 years ago Amerika please provide: free mental healthcare; ledfree drinking water and good eductaion to your people: this is insane. 12
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@danielpirone80283 years ago Thank you for this video! I find it interesting to see hard sometimes folks fight against boycotting israel but want to boycott coke etc. 6
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@sor7153 years ago As a palestinian atheist your voice i will also say is quite unique amongst many atheists.
coupled with the crazies in a different trajectory many thanks rebecca your videos rock as always, love your dryness. ...Expand 2
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@kaduisaui45963 years ago Did l. Ron hubbard write thispart of the bible? 4
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@alahos3 years ago That was the most elaborate " suck on magog" i' ve ever seen. 2
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@JJ-qo7th6 months ago Oh, hey, look, it' s still topical. 3
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@LBoytz3 years ago Thank you for telling the truth about this. It shouldn' t be so hard. 4
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@HotDogTimeMachine3853 years ago This is like reading anime lore.
i thought i was prepared for this nonsense, i was not. Can we agree if this really happens and all christians . ...Expand 8
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@mikey-wl2jt3 years ago Had some fun times at the left behind message board back in ' 98, #39; 99. Well, . 7
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@anghusmorgenholz10603 years ago Wow you explain this with so much more eloquence than i' ve ever been able to. I just get so pissed i have to stop after a few simple points. I' m impressed, can hear how angry this makes you. 16
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@1958darkstar3 years ago Amazing and informative video. I always learn from you, thank you. 1
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@SilverXeno3 years ago I was so terrified of the rapture. What if i didn' t get taken up? What if i was married or had kids and we were separated. I am surethere is . ...Expand 8
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@donestephens3 years ago I would never have guessed you were raised baptist. I was raised the scary kind. 14
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@GlobeHackers3 years ago Thank you for saying it all the way you did. I love clarity. 3
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@AlbinoTuxedo3 years ago I' ve mentioned this before, if this was in a book or show people would complain that it was too on the nose and unrealistic.
reality is wild yo. 1
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@Xondar112233443 years ago It should be noted that it' s widely believed the book of revelation is in reference entirely to events in the 1st century and is not prophesy and has nothing to do with modern day. 3
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@commonsenseisnt7793 years ago When someone thinks a bronze age religious text is a perfect divine revelation right down to the punctuation, they can convince themselves that it' s . ...Expand 2
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@funkyskunk13 years ago This kind of thinking is really common where i live. In utah. 1
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@boopsboy3 years ago This really started to come to the fore with bush, and bringingopenly, and blatantly, into the political center. That' s what me off regarding gods and religions. I never got specifics like magog (sounds very lds) with the presbyterian version of revelations i was taught. Because if i was handed that load of bs, in addition to all the rest, i would have rejected the church many years earlier. To me magog. ...Expand 3
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@ido22673 years ago As an israely i have to agree with most of what been said. 6
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@nowthenzen6 months ago Rebecca is correct. The us support for israel goes beyond the rational. It' s not just skimming defense $if wo why do republican oppose sending defense . ...Expand 3
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@TurboSilke3 years ago I was christian as a kid, but " my" church (lutheran) really wasn' t extremist i' ve come to realize, i was chocked in later years that . ...Expand 1
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@KatherineHugs3 years ago This is the first time i have ever heard of this, and i really thought you were making it up for a good part of the story. I grew up largely free from . ...Expand 3
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@agun2147 months ago Greetings from october 20th 2023
im so sorry. 4
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@chrisbeck72663 years ago I love your superhero outfit. Be safe saving the world and fighting crime. That being said, yes on everything you said about the middle east. 7
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@omarsharif29953 years ago I never realized how much courage you have inside of you! Salute, rebecca, salute to you.
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@rickshanahan7 months ago This sounds like something gog would say. 2
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@m0L3ify3 years ago This honestly goes back to the bush administration in the early 20' s. One of the primary reasons for the iraq war was to hasten the coming of the end times. 4
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@lynn8583 years ago And we think the villains in movies have insane motives? 1
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@JesseMaurais3 years ago I think it be funny, in a cathartic kind of way, if the rapture really did happen but it was the muslim' s who got taken away. And the evangelicals . ...Expand 4
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@poisonshroom643 years ago It' s neat how a large component of our foreign policy is being dictated by what is essentially christian seele. 1
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@IrocZIV6 months ago Oy, only knew this wasn' t current because she mentioned paying taxes. 3
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@zakp86873 years ago Thanks for your honesty. You' re on the right side of the issue rebecca. 20
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@waylontmccann6 months ago I' d love a revisit of this video/topic. If you have time, it' d be an apt watch, i think. 1
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@aprilrichards7623 years ago My great-aunt (my grandma' s sister) used to go to israel on a regular basis. Yes, she was an evangelical christian. The church she attended for decades . ...Expand
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@16poetisa3 years ago Now, let' s be fair. Revelation is less of a fever dream and more of a mushroom trip. 2