Culture & Christianity: The Allen Jackson Podcast - Israel, Biden’s Mental Decline & the Trump Assassination Attempt

Episode Date: July 18, 2024

What's happening in Israel, the mental state of President Biden, and the assassination attempt at President Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania are the topics Pastor Allen Jackson tackles in this podcast. The shooting offers another example of the division, fear, and hatred that has spread throughout our nation. “I'm confident the man that was shooting at Mr. Trump intended to end his life, and through God's providence, he wounded his ear. I trust God has a plan and a purpose for (Trump's) life,” Pastor Allen stated. We are becoming more aware of the lies and propaganda that have been becoming mainstream and are destroying our country. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has called for us to fast and pray this month. The corporate prayers of God’s people can change the course of nations. Send this podcast to your friends so they are informed and ask them to pray and fast with you. Let them know we have hope! __ It’s up to us to bring God’s truth back into our culture. It may feel like an impossible assignment, but there’s much we can do. Join Pastor Allen Jackson as he discusses today’s issues from a biblical perspective. Find thought-provoking insight from Pastor Allen and his guests, equipping you to lead with your faith in your home, your school, your community, and wherever God takes you. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3JsyO6ysUVGOIV70xAjtcm?si=6805fe488cf64a6d Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/culture-christianity-the-allen-jackson-podcast/id1729435597

Well, this is our culture and Christianity podcast. I'm Alan Jackson. Thank you for joining us today. Today's a little different. Rather than interview a guest or bring in some other opinions, I want to share a little bit about what I've been up to lately. I've spent a good bit of time in Israel in the last couple of months. We've made a couple of trips, one, an extended period of time, a little more than two weeks.

And there's a lot happening in Israel that I think is relevant for what's happening here at home. And then I think there's some things in current events that we need to be. at least to try to get some perspective on. There's another season of disruption that feels like to me the curtain has been pulled back on. So that's the target today. And the goal of all of that is so that you and I can pray more effectively. I don't, you know, watching the news and ringing our hands

and being filled with anxiety is not helpful. If we want to know what's happening in the world, they want to know what's happening so we know how to respond. I have no intention of allowing people I don't know to fill my heart with anxiety or fear or frustration. If I'm gathering information, I'm gathering information so I can make choices that are more informed and more impactful for the kingdom of God. You and I, I'll make the assumption we're Christ's followers. We're ambassadors for the kingdom of God.

We're not here just for our own personal empire. So understanding what's happening in Israel, I think, is very helpful for understanding the unfolding purposes of God. And then trying to see with clarity what's happening around us in this season of confusion and propaganda requires. the help of the Holy Spirit. So maybe together we can both gain a little clarity on that today and hopefully come out with some action points that removes us from feeling like we're just being victims or we're frustrated or frightened. And we can actually imagine that we're going to partner with God and letting his solutions

break forth. So let's start with Israel. I've been there twice in the last couple of months. One was a pretty quick trip. It was a business trip and to see some friends. And then I went back on an extended trip with a tour. which is very unusual right now. There just aren't large tours going to Israel.

And it wasn't a large tour, maybe by historical standards. We didn't take hundreds of people, but we had 80 people that traveled with us. And by the third day we were in the country, we were a phenomenon. There just aren't any tours to speak of in Israel right now. The hotels, for the most part, are empty. The typical tourist sites are vacant. And by day two or three, when we were on the streets, the street vendors would come up and go, you're those 80 people from Tennessee, aren't you?

And we were moving cities and moving hotels and changing places. But the word was on the street all over the country that there were tourists coming back. The guides who were friends of mine, we've worked with them for decades. They started the very first morning. They asked for permission to take pictures. And they were posting on social media. They see there's tourists here. And I think the first piece I would just hand you is once again, the reporting we get here at home is just not accurate.

You know, I had made a commitment to do a tour with a national media organization next spring. Hundreds and hundreds of people. And the group that was putting the tour together is afraid to go next spring. And that's all based upon what our media is saying. And I traveled with 80 people, the majority of whom have never been there before. And there was nothing frightening or unsettling about the whole time. And we visited from the neighborhoods next to Gaza to the Sea of Galilee and everywhere in between.

Our media is just not accurate. You know, over the 4th of July extended weekend, there were 100 shootings in Chicago, and I've seen some reports that said there were as many as 20 fatalities or people seriously injured. And that's hardly reported or mentioned. Imagine if there were 100 shootings in Jerusalem over a weekend and as many as 20 fatalities.

It would be global headlines. It's a decimating, it's punishment. to the Israelis. Tourism is one of their leading industries, and it's been completely shut down. So all the people that work in those industries, from the hotels to the workers in the hotels, to the food services, to the restaurants, you know, we'd go out to dinner to a restaurant that normally you would need a reservation or you would wait for a long time, and it would be crowded, and there'd be three or four people in the restaurant. It's had a devastating impact on their economy. It all started. It unfolded with October 7th, the attack from Hamas, which is,

a terrorist organization, recognized by the United States, by the United Nations as a terrorist organization. They came into some communities along the Gaza border and brutally murdered over a thousand people. They raped. They murdered children. They abused families. I went to Washington, D.C., to the Israeli embassy to watch the raw footage from that day that was gleaned from security cameras, some of the terrorists coming in were wearing GoPro cameras. They were filming these things on cell phones. They would take the cell phones from the victims, the homes they broke into, have them turn it on FaceTime. They would FaceTime their families back in Gaza and then celebrate the most heinous behavior that they were FaceTiming back home. It was just unthinkable.

And beyond that, they took 200 or more hostages. As of today, there's still more than 100 16 hostages still unaccounted for, some of whom are Americans. I bet you don't know their names. You don't hear it in the news cycle. It's not a part of what's being called for. What we've heard in the news ad nauseum since October the 7th have been the protest on behalf of Hamas. And what we used to call our elite universities, I refuse to call them that any longer. They're not elite in my imagination.

They're propaganda centers. To be an elite university, you would. have to do a world-class job of educating students, and I don't believe they're doing that at Columbia and most of the Ivy League schools any longer. I think they're propaganda centers where they have an ideology and they try to infuse their students with an ideology that makes them puppets. The goal of higher education is to help you to learn to think independently, and those schools are not doing that any longer. The protest they had for Hamas and the administrations were unwilling to condemn it. Imagine if they had been protesting against

any other subset of our culture. They were protesting against the Jewish people in the land of Israel. Imagine any other minority that they were protesting against. If they were protesting against anybody in the alphabet community, they would have been shut down in a heartbeat.

If they had been protesting against any other group that looked different or were unique by their appearance, they would have been shut down. But they flourished with the blessings of academia. It's just unthinkable. You know, the change that's taken place under this administration with regard to the nation of Israel

is of a scope and a magnitude that is easily missed. In 2019 and 2020, we were celebrating the Abraham Accords these historic peace agreements with nations of the Middle East who had never had peace agreements with Israel. There was open travel. They were talking about trade improvements. I mean, there was such a season of hope. The U.S. embassy had moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

there was an unprecedented realignment taking place in the Middle East. With the change of administration, we withdrew from Afghanistan. We humiliated ourselves on a global stage. We abandoned our people. I have friends, personal acquaintances that have gone back into Afghanistan to get out people that had worked with them and with our military, who we abandoned. They helped hundreds of people escape Afghanistan,

that our own nation abandoned. And on the world stage, they saw us hand Afghanistan back to the Taliban. I did an interview a couple of weeks ago. Actually, I did a television show while I was in Israel. And the person I was interviewing said the Taliban is stronger in Afghanistan today than they've ever been. I mean, the change in the Middle East, with the change of administrations, is difficult to imagine in scope because our media doesn't report it that way. they show you the protesters and try to create sympathy in your mind.

It's really a horrible place. The Israeli economy has been devastated by it. There have been some wonderful things that have happened in the midst of it. The Israeli army, the IDF, is comprised principally of reservist. When the young people graduate from high school, both men and women, they serve in the military. And after their original three-year term of service, they serve in the reserves. Well, after the attack of October the 7th, the call went out to mobilize the reserves. And historically, they imagine they get about an 80% participation rate when those calls go out.

So they have all the equipment and all the things ready for about an 80% response. When the call went out this last year after October 7th, they said their numbers exceeded anything they've ever had. They were close to 100%. They didn't even have the resources they needed. more than 350,000 Israelis came from all over the globe, no matter where they were traveling, no matter what jobs they had taken internationally. They said they began to line up at airports and say,

I need the first ticket that will get me back to Israel. I sat with the people who were my age, most of whom at this point are the children of the Holocaust survivors. They were the ones that served in the Israeli military and really have watched the nation be built and established. And the question amongst them was, would the younger generation be willing to make those sacrifices? On more than one occasion, we were sitting at dinner, and they said that the younger people that came back and have taken their place, they looked at me with tears running down their faces, and they said they're better than we are.

They're more courageous, they're more committed, they're better prepared, they understand the values of our nation. It's a very hopeful note. If you don't follow international politics, you probably wouldn't have any reason to know. But Israel is as politically divided as we are here in the states. They're every bit as polarized with protests. for one side against another. They've had multiple governments over the last few years.

Excuse me. But the attack on October the 7th has brought a unity of purpose to them that really suggests some bright things for their future. So when you're praying for the peace of Jerusalem, you're not just praying for an absence of conflict. That's not happening until the Prince of Peace comes back.

What you're praying is for peace between the inhabitants of that land with Almighty God. He's the only one that's going to bring peace to them. The next challenge they face, they've just about finished in Gaza with Hamas, not quite. It's been a very difficult struggle. But there are still tens of thousands of Israelis that are not in their homes who live on the northern border of Israel, the border with Lebanon and Syria.

Because in that region, Hamas isn't the problem. It's Hezbollah. The Hezbollah is another Iranian proxy, which is a fancy way of saying Iran sponsors them. their weapons, they provide their training, they provide international cover for them. They're a terrorist organization, but they do the bidding of Iran. So it's as if Iran has a proxy army who are terrorists. They don't wear the uniform of the Iranian military. They don't identify themselves as combatants, but they are strategically positioned and very

well armed with Iranian and Russian missiles, missiles that will reach all the way to the airport in Israel in Tel Aviv, and they say maybe even Jerusalem. And if there's tens of thousands of Israelis not in their homes in the north, because there's daily rocket fire coming from Hezbollah in the north, at some point Israel will have to do something to remedy that. And it seems the most likely solution would be for the IDF to go into Lebanon and root out Hezbollah in the same way they've had to go into Gaza and root out Hamas. that is a bit more complicated because their weapons are more sophisticated. They've been there longer.

They actually, Hezbollah is the de facto government of Lebanon. There is no Lebanese government that you can speak of in reality. And so this time when they go in to take out Hezbollah, they'll be taking out the infrastructure of Lebanon. Their power supplies, their water supplies will draw a great deal more international attention. I think there's some other factors that could very easily be, incorporated into that, the island of Cyprus just off the coast of Israel. The Israelis have an air base there that they have used in conducting some of this. And at least one of the things I have heard discussed is that Turkey is just waiting that if Israel were to go into the north

to respond to Hezbollah, that Turkey would take Cyprus, an island that they right now share with Greece. And if Turkey took Cyprus, the Greeks wouldn't tolerate that. So the Greek, Greeks would respond to Turkey, that would bring NATO into the conflict. Well, if NATO steps into a conflict in the Middle East, it's almost a certainty that Russia would escalate their role. And it's a scenario where there's a very quickly escalating conflict that will pull the whole global community in. So while the terrorism of Hezbollah and Hamas is horrific, and it's very much the intentional work of Iran, the solution of it is a global issue. You know, in Zechariah, it says that one day all the nations of the earth will gather together against Jerusalem.

And we're not too far away from watching that happen right now. They're not physically encircling Jerusalem, but they're certainly using their economic power and their international relations to isolate the state of Israel and the Jewish community from the global population. The United States' support of Israel has been present, but it's been more tenuous, and it has been more tethered to other promises than perhaps it's ever been in our history. So it's an important time to pray that our nation doesn't make decisions regarding Israel and the Jewish people that will bring the judgment of God more completely upon us. It's pretty clear. It's not pretty clear. It's stone cold clear in scripture that those who bless them, God will bless, and those who will bless. curse them, God will curse. We don't ever want to put ourselves in a place where we bring God's curses more fully on our lives. I think we can agree on that. So big picture, the people

in Israel are flourishing. You know, God willing, I'll be back with the tour of next year. The people that we took had a wonderful time. I felt a little guilty. It was like we'd rented Disneyland for ourselves. The sites that we would typically visit were there would be 50 and 60 buses. We were the only ones there. The hotels were so happy. that we were there and there were so few people there that we got service that exceeded anything that would be on reasonable expectations. Chicago is more dangerous these days than Jerusalem. I feel confident in saying that, and I suspect many of our major American cities that would be

true of. We've stopped prosecuting criminals. And until we have a different attitude towards what it means to recognize the rule of law, I think our cities will continue to deteriorate. But for the moment, Israel is in a tenuous place because of the international community, and your prayers make a difference. I know God will bring them through, but it doesn't mean it's easy for them. They are suffering, and it's a tremendous sacrifice because of the anti-Semitism.

I've said it many times, and I suspect you've heard it, but I'll repeat it because it bears repeating, the spirit behind anti-Semitism, which is the hatred of the Jewish people. is the Spirit of Antichrist. That's been true throughout human history, and if you don't know the history of the church, the greatest perpetrator of the persecution of the Jewish people has been the Christian Church. The reason that's relevant to us is, as we read through the New Testament,

the Spirit of Antichrist is going to turn that same persecution against the Christ followers. That Spirit of Antichrist hates all the people who are the delivery system for the redemptive message of God, the Jewish people, the Christian community. And so we stand with the Jewish people and with the state of Israel because the spiritual adversary they have is the same adversary that's coming for us. And in Romans, chapters 9, 10, and 11, Paul very clearly says,

God hasn't rejected the Jewish people. In reality, we owe them a great debt without the Jewish people. We would have no scripture, no Messiah, no law, no covenants, no promises. We would have no story. It says we've been grafted in to that olive. olive tree. So we're not angry with the Jewish community. They need the same revelation of Jesus that we have had, not to convert to Christianity, but to recognize Jesus as their Messiah. I trust him to work the rest of that out. But pray for the peace of Jerusalem. They need your prayers these days.

I don't have a lot of time left, but let's pivot for a moment and talk about what's going on at home. seems like to me in simplest language, we've entered another season of disruption. There's a lot of parallels to me between the spring of 2020 and what's happening in our country right now. In the spring of 2020, our president at the time was Donald Trump, and the economy was roaring. His polling numbers seemed insurmountably good. It looked as if the outcome of the election in the fall of that year was a foregone conclusion in January. And then we began to hear rumblings about a virus from Wuhan, China, and everything unraveled. The economy unraveled.

We were sheltered in place. We were locked in our homes. We were locked out of hospitals and locked out of nursing homes. And an unprecedented disruption was unleashed. Well, from our vantage point again today, Mr. Trump's polling numbers are unprecedented. He seems like has the unstoppable momentum. but we see disruption starting to happen. And I don't believe it's going to be a virus from Wuhan,

but I believe the disruption will grow, and we're going to need the help of the Spirit of God to navigate what's in front of us. Just a few days ago, we had a presidential debate, and out of that debate came these cries that President Biden was suffering some significant cognitive challenges. The bizarre part about that was the people that were saying those things, things were acting surprised. If anyone's ever been around people who have struggled with cognitive

decline, short of some traumatic physical event, like a stroke, that cognitive decline is not sudden or unanticipated. It takes place gradually over a broad period of time. I've had people that I have lived closely with that have suffered some of those issues, and you're very conscious of what's happening. What's happened to our president is unfortunate. You'd have to be perverse to find joy in it, but we shouldn't think that he was sharp as attack on the day before the debate and suffered some sort of tremendous mental decline overnight. We've been watching that decline month over month. It's been very carefully and systematically hidden and denied, and anyone who said it was accused of hateful things and labeled with very unflattering things.

so most of us pretended not to notice, much like the emperor's new clothes. And for whatever reason, it became fashionable to say that he was too diminished to continue to lead. I don't know what the outcome of that will be. It isn't clear from where we stand today. What is clear is he doesn't have the capacity to make the decisions that are necessary for the most important job or the most powerful job or the most significant role, however you want to describe the presidency. It's not a part-time job, and we're told he can do it part-time. That simply makes no sense. The challenge in that is we have a process for selecting our candidates,

and those people supporting him, handling him, managing him, have put him through that process, and he's been selected. So to set him aside, to diminish him as the candidate, is to meddle in the election, to set aside the will of the people. we've held primaries across our nation, and President Biden's been selected as the candidate. So we can't just click our heels together and say he shouldn't be doing that anymore. Again, his mental state isn't something new. The people that have been helping him pursue that candidacy were very much aware. The compounding factor that's happened most recently was the assassination attempt on Mr. Trump, our former president. You know, the initial reporting of that, it took place on Saturday evening.

church just beginning a service and some of the security people came to me with the video and said, look what's happening. And I asked a couple of questions. And they said, well, it isn't clear. The initial reporting suggests it may be something that's being manufactured. And I've heard reports that said, you know, there was just some popping sounds. And no, there was an assassination attempt on Mr. Trump. And a bullet very narrowly missed ending his life close enough that it, it, it, His ear was wounded. Now, I keep touching my ear thinking, how close would you have to be to the end of your life for your ear to take the wound? But your head avoided.

I don't know any way to describe that other than miraculous. There's a biblical passage that to me has an intriguing parallel when they came to arrest Jesus in John's Gospel. And they came seeking him, and he said, who are you looking for? And they told him, and he said, I'm he. and the crowd who were coming to arrest him were all knocked to the ground by the power of God. When they regained their standing, Peter drew his sword, were told,

and cut off the right ear of one of the people who came to arrest Jesus. And Jesus said, Peter, it's not the time or the place, and he healed the man's ear. I don't think Peter intended to cut off his ear. I think he intended to eliminate his life. He just wasn't the most adept in that moment. But I'm confident the man that was shooting at Mr. Trump intended to end his life.

And through God's providence, he wounded his ear. I trust God has a plan and his purpose for his life. I don't presume to know what that is completely. But I'm very much in God's leadership. I'm very much in favor of God's leadership for this nation. And anyone who will lead us in a godly fashion, I will be an advocate for. but to watch the way that's reported reminds me a great deal of 2020.

In 2020, I had absolute confidence in the CDC, the Center for Disease Control. My father was a veterinarian. I started my college career in the basic sciences. I'm quite comfortable following the science. I have no problem with that whatsoever. I don't think it violates my commitment to faith, my belief in God, or my belief in the Bible.

What gave me pause was science doesn't change at a state line. The science in Tennessee should be the same as the science in California or the science in New Jersey. And that's not what we watched happen. And then I listened to the director of the CDC, Dr. Fauci, begin to make statements that were not accurate with what I was watching happen in the midst of the people with whom I was doing life. And I arrived at the rather awkward conclusion that it was better served by believing what I could see than what I was being told.

It was very difficult for me to arrive at the conclusion that the CDC was not giving us accurate information, that they had been politicized. But once I reached that conclusion, we had to lead with that conclusion as a part of the facts that were in our portfolio. We seem to be in a very similar place today. You know, I read today that the FBI is investigating

the assassination attempt on Mr. Trump. That's not comforting to me. It was the FBI that helped someone. support the claim that Mr. Trump was a part of Russian collusion. They went to a FISA court to get warrants to spy on candidate and then President Trump knowing they had falsified documents in order to secure that court permission. And they never apologized. It was the same FBI that went to the White House and entrapped General Flynn thinking they had an opportunity to do that.

that same FBI helped protect Hunter Biden's laptop from careful scrutiny and supported the misinformation that it said it wasn't real or it wasn't his or the information contained in it wasn't accurate. All of those things have been proven false. Mr. Trump was not an agent of Mr. Putin. He wasn't a Russian asset. The Hunter's laptop was legitimate. All of those things were supported by the FBI. FBI, and the best I can tell, there's never really been any repercussion for them for being very actively involved in purporting those lies.

And so now we have an assassination attempt on the president where there was a shooter with a rifle on a roof, less than 150 yards away from where the president was speaking, and multiple people pointed out that there was someone with a gun on the roof, and nothing was done until the gunman had fired. multiple rounds. Doesn't seem to me that the initial need is for a full investigation. There

should be some immediate accountability. That's a colossal fail. I have friends that have worked and live in that community. And I sent some inquiries. I said, how is it possible that someone could be overlooked on a rooftop with a rifle that close of proximity to the presentation

of a presidential candidate? And their answer was separately, but uniquely the same. They said it's impossible. It had to be intentional. Now, I'm not making that as an accusation, but I'm telling you it's as difficult for me today to have trust and confidence in the FBI and their credibility as it is for me to have confidence in the CDC. I know there's good scientists that work at the CDC and good people that are involved,

and I'm sure there's people of integrity and great ability that work at the FBI. But in some way, somehow, the leaders of the leadership of those organizations have perpetuated and participated in series of lies and propaganda and seemingly politically motivated outcomes that have been very destructive for our country. It is a time for us to pray. You know, in 2020, when COVID began to emerge, hiding in fear was not the best solution. seeking God and cooperating with him more fully was the best path forward. I believe we're there again. Don't watch the news and be angry. Don't be belligerent.

Certainly don't be violent. But don't be filled with fear either. God hasn't withdrawn from us. His purposes are still moving forward in the earth. He's still watching over tiny Israel and he'll watch over you and me. But we have to choose the truth with our whole heart. We have to be more than Christians for a few minutes on the weekend when we put our rear ends and a seat at church.

We have to live out our faith throughout the breadth of our lives. So I've begun to invite people in our congregation on all the platforms where I'm involved in our community and across the nation to take a day

to pray and fast for our nation. And I've been encouraging Wednesdays because oftentimes those of us who are Christians gather on Wednesdays in small groups or at churches or wherever and I believe the corporate prayers of God's people make a tremendous difference. Fasting is simply

abstaining from food for spiritual purposes. If you've never done it, there are very few things that I've ever participated in my life that have had a greater spiritual impact than when I have fasted and prayed. So do something that makes sense for your health, for your own spiritual discipline. If you've never fasted before, you probably don't want to start with a 40-day fast. You may want to start with a 40-minute fast. But take the time you would normally spend preparing and enjoying a meal and take that time and seek the Lord. If you can do it as a family, if you can do it with a coworker or a friend, even better. The corporate prayers of God's people.

There's an exponential factor to that, so it's worthwhile. But let's join together on Wednesdays for the next few weeks in fasting and praying for our nation. I believe God can restore righteousness and integrity. I don't think there's any question that truth has fallen in the streets, as Isaiah describes it. But I believe it's possible for God to restore it, where we have confidence once again in the agencies and the organizations that provide leadership in our nation. There's no joy in saying someone or some organization is not trustworthy. I don't believe being angry is helpful.

I think we have to start to pray that God will raise up leaders, men and women, who will restore integrity and who will lead in such a way that it's prudent once again to put our trust in those places. Folks, we can't afford to be divided over political parties. We're in a spiritual conflict, far more than we're in an election. season, and the outcome of our nation and the security of our children and our grandchildren has everything to do with the health and the vitality of the church. Not a building where we sit for a few minutes on the weekend, but a healthy, spirit-filled, faith-filled, biblically grounded

group of men and women yielded to the authority and the lordship of Jesus of Nazareth. That's the church. I don't care what label you wear or what kind of music you prefer or the wardrobe of the presenter at the front of the room. I care that you've acknowledged Jesus is Lord and you're yielded to the authority of the Word of God. That's not up to us to decide. So I'll close with this. Be encouraged. God's moving in the earth. But be aware. Watch and listen, think more carefully than you ever have before when what you see and hear doesn't line up with what you're being told. understand there's an attempt at manipulation underway from some very powerful people,

from very powerful organizations trying to convince you that what you see is not true. God will lead us. Build relationships around you in your closest circles of friends with people who fear the Lord, who spend time in their Bibles, and who are trustworthy.

I don't have time for people that are looking for supernatural hoopla and use passages of Scripture to find a platform for themselves in a middle of a time of turmoil. You want grounded people where the fruit of their lives suggest they have yielded to the Lordship of Jesus

and that you find strength in making the journey with them. God's moving in the earth. We can't hide in our churches and act like culture doesn't matter. We're to be salt and light and the light's most relevant in the places where the darkness is the greatest.

So let's with courage and boldness take our faith back into our homes back into our schools, back into our hospitals and our courtrooms. God is with us, and I'm quite convinced we'll see him move in these next few weeks and months in some very dramatic ways. Thanks for your time, and remember culture and Christianity? Make a tremendous difference, and you're a part of it. Hey, thanks for joining me today.

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