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Welcome to the IDC Podcast . This is

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Aleko and I hope you're doing well . So

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it's been a little while since I have posted . Melanie

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and I took a vacation to go

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see family in Greece . I saw

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my brother , who lives in Athens , and then we

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went to our ancestral

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islands , the Ionian

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Islands , and we

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got to visit Corfu and it was absolutely

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beautiful . It's my first time going there . And

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then we went to see Melanie's family , who live

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in England , just north of London . So

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it's been a fantastic vacation . And then I got back

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to a flurry of work and

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it's been quite busy . I'm

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very glad to be able to sit down and

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just record a little bit here

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in this preview podcast to discuss

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some of the things coming up . So

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while we were in England , I

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was on a bit of a mission . We lived with

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my in-laws for several months

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as we were taking a break , transitioning

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between Asia For those who don't know , I lived

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in Asia for 10 years and

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moving back to the States , and

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so we were there for several months just kind

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of exploring and using their home as a base

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, and I left my

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ring my favorite ring in

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one of the bedrooms and

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I knew I was going to find it when I got there and

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it was a very special ring because it was a birthday gift

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from several years back and

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it was handmade in Israel . So

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we came back and

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I searched for the ring . I knew

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it was lost somewhere and I

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had this inclination that it was under

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the bed somewhere . And sure enough , I looked

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under the bed that we had stayed

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on and it

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was there and I was

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so happy that I found it and it was really

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really exciting news . And

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this ring from Israel that was handmade and had

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this really ornate design of

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the Ten Commandments on it , I thought it was absolutely

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beautiful and not that expensive . It wasn't

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. I don't really like lavish things like gold or whatever

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, it's just silver but beautifully

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designed . But lo

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and behold , I found my

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beautiful prize from Israel and then , within

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a day or two of finding it might have even been

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that day Israel was

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viciously attacked by

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Hamas , as I'm sure many people

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know . It

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certainly has been very harrowing

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news coming out of the

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Middle East , everything that's going

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on . I mean there's no shortage

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of conversations one could have about

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the current situation of Israel and

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Palestine , so much

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so that it seems frivolous

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to talk about anything else . I mean I had

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a whole list of things that I wanted to get into simulation

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theory , the case for Exodus , demons

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, you know just a number

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of different episodes that I really wanted to cover

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, diving back into science

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a little bit , and it

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seems that there are more pressing issues

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. I mean with China

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and Russia creating provocations

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toward the West , the Al

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Aqsa Mosque raising

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the black flag as a

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sign of intimidation to the Jews

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, and the potential

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for civil war within

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Israel , with the

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Muslims who have been generously

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allowed to live there and the Jews

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, which could of course , potentially

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lead to the destruction of the Al Aqsa

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Mosque and the potential

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rebuilding of the prophetic Third

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Temple . So there's a number

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of things I want to talk about in the

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upcoming podcast which I intend to

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record in a few days . Here . The

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main thing is the I

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suppose you would call it the ownership of the Temple

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Mount and to the potential

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Third Temple , which

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I think is a very fascinating topic

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and very poignant and relevant

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at this point . And

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I'm also going to read

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some of these stuff from the book club . We

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had actually planned on doing the book club while I was in

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Greece . I thought it could be kind of fun seeing as Hillary

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and Brian are in the UK but

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it didn't quite pan out . But they did record their

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answers and I intend to

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play some of their recordings

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and maybe discuss . I

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believe it's chapter three

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no , sorry , it's four , five , six

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of Dr Richard Gallagher's

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demonic foes . So

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I'll be reading their , or playing

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their , answers and maybe discussing some of mine

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. And then , if you want to join in on

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our book club , our next one is going

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to be on October

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28 . Let me open

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my calendar here . Yes

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, october 28 , at

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nine o'clock Central US

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time . So you can send

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in emails with your thoughts

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on chapters seven

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and eight of Dr Richard Gallagher's

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demonic foes , or you could

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maybe even send in some

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digital voice files

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or , you know , if we could arrange

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it , maybe even bring you into the call , which would always

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be great . But for those of you who would like to

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email in some response , please send your

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responses to cosmologylife

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at gmailcom . That's COSMOLOGYLIFE

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at gmailcom

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. If you'd like to see other updates

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in the meantime , you can head over to Instagram . Our

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page is intelligent design collective

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, where I try to post tidbits

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there every now and again . Of course we did take

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a little time off , but I am

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posting again as often as possible and

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, once again , I will be gone

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allowing uploading the podcast

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at some point soon . So

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I pray that you and your loved

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ones are safe and healthy and

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that you yourselves are

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praying in this very

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unusual , very

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prophetic , very biblical

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time , because at this

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moment , there is nothing

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more important than communing and

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talking with God as

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much as you can . God bless

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.