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FHMI-0920Professor Toto2025-08-05Biblical / Political / Geopolitical Commentary Article

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  • (primary) Exodus 17:16
  • (secondary) Genesis 12:3

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Title: Shane & Karen Vaughn Sing LIVE 9/1/23 "If You Had Known Me" by Joan Ewing Summary: Shane and Karen Vaughn perform a live vocal rendition of 'If You Had Known Me' by Joan Ewing. The song uses the metaphor of a rejected item on an auction block being purchased by a stranger to illustrate spiritual redemption and personal transformation through faith. The performance concludes with an appeal to the audience to reflect on their own testimony of salvation. Shane & Karen Vaughn Sing LIVE 9/1/23 "If You Had Known Me" by Joan Ewing Shane Vaughn ——— First Harvest Ministries International o reflect on their own testimony of salvation. Shane & Karen Vaughn Sing LIVE 9/1/23 "If You Had Known Me" by Joan Ewing Shane Vaughn ——— First Harvest Ministries International 1 [Music] I don't know this song's been on my heart if you had known me before I knew him yes you'd understand why I love him turn on our singing Ms just an old rejected re all the auction blood they decided to throw me away the auctioner said who will take him the room grew quiet and still then a stranger stepped forward and he he said I will if you had know me before I knew him and you to share my I love [Applause] him if you had know me before I knew him then you your sh my love let's do that verse again I want everybody to listen I was just an old rejected Relic they put me on an auction 2 block they decided to throw me [Applause] away the auctioner said who will take him the room grew quiet and still until a stranger stepped forward and he said I I will if you have me before I knew him you not understand why I love [Music] [Applause] you if you had know me before I knew him then you understand my love then you understand you would understand you would understand [Music] love Hallelujah is that your [Applause] you if you had know me before I knew him then you understand my love then you understand you would understand you would understand [Music] love Hallelujah is that your testimony tonight if we had known you before you knew him Hallelujah

Summary

Professor Toto combines an argument about Gaza's legal and political history with a theological interpretation of modern Israel. Beginning with an imagined Texas territorial-dispossession scenario, the article compares that scenario to Israel's removal of its settlers and permanent military presence from Gaza in 2005. It then argues that the Balfour Declaration, San Remo arrangements, and League of Nations Mandate created Jewish national rights that were not extinguished by the disengagement. The second half shifts explicitly into biblical interpretation. Exodus 17:16 becomes the basis for treating Amalek as a recurring spiritual pattern of hostility toward God's covenant people, with Hamas and Hezbollah identified by the author as contemporary manifestations of that pattern. Genesis 12:3 is then invoked to argue that treatment of Israel carries covenantal consequences. The article consequently presents Gaza through three interconnected frameworks: territorial/legal history, Israeli security, and biblical covenant theology.

Core doctrine

Yahweh's covenant with Israel remains operative, and hostility toward the covenant people is interpreted through the recurring biblical pattern of Amalek.

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