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NARRATOR: Dr. Mike Evans built the Friends

of Zion Museum two years ago to honor and recognize

those friends who have dedicated and sacrificed

their lives defending the cause of Jews everywhere.

SPEAKER: No one on this planet has done more

to bring people to understand the importance

of Christian people supporting the nation of Israel

like Dr. Michael Evans.

NARRATOR: Dr. Evans is excited to see the next phase become

a reality, which includes a global training

center, a research institute, and a social media

communication center which already

has 25 million followers.

Dr. Mike Evans is here with us now.

It's always a pleasure to have you on the show.

Gordon, it's always a pleasure to be with you, friend.

Give us an update on Israel.

We're hearing a lot in the news about the Temple Mount clashes.

Huge spiritual warfare.

You know your dad's been preaching

this stuff in prophecy for decades

and now we're living it.

We're looking right now at a 32 acre

site which the eyes of the whole world are on.

Why?

Why?

Because terrorist hid weapons in the Temple Mount,

took the weapons and killed police officers.

And the prime minister wanted to put up some security.

So all the rage comes.

It's not rational.

It's a spiritual battle.

Principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness, yeah.

GORDON ROBERTSON: Yeah.

I don't understand the argument that there

shouldn't be a weapons check at the Temple Mount.

You would think that that would be the prudent thing to do.

MIKE EVANS: Hello.

GORDON ROBERTSON: And from a Muslim point of view

to say that somehow it interferes with your prayer

life, well you have weapons checks at Mecca.

It's the same thing.

So why object just because it's in Israel?

What's--

You object because Satan said I

will sit on the mount of the congregation

on the sides of the north.

I will be like the most high.

This is a deeper battle than Muslims or Arabs.

This is a battle with principalities and powers

and spiritual wickedness that are gaming people.

What's the root of this?

I mean you go back to '67 when Israel took the Temple Mount.

Why didn't they say this is ours now?

MIKE EVANS: Well Mordechai Gur was a friend of mine.

He's the guy that led the command.

And you did a major movie on this story, major movie

on this story.

Fact he's the guy that planted the flag he is close to us.

But here's what Arafat told me.

When Arafat turned down the deal-- remember

when Bill Clinton was going to hand him a check

and was going to give him almost all he wanted?

I said to him, why didn't you take it?

He said, because when Abraham offered up

Ishmael on the noble sanctuary, Allah blessed the sacrifice.

That was the end of my conversation with him

and he walked away.

And I thought what did he just say?

I went in the Quran and read it.

It says in the Quran what Abraham offered up

Ishmael-- not Isaac, Ishmael, on the noble sanctuary,

Allah blessed the sacrifice.

Which means it all belongs to us.

The Jews have a title deed to nothing.

Go back to Europe.

It's all ours.

It came through Abraham in Ishmael, no Isaac.

OK.

So the whole we want to drive Israel to the sea,

you can't have peace with Israel.

The Temple Mount is Mount Moriah

where Abraham offered up Isaac.

GORDON ROBERTSON: Right.

They said, no, he did not.

GORDON ROBERTSON: It's revisionist history.

I mean the whole Al-Aqsa, this is farthest place,

this is where Muhammad went on his night journey.

Well, there's his wife said he didn't go anywhere

he was with me the whole night.

And then it didn't--

Al-Aqsa was never identified with Jerusalem until 1300 AD.

It was well after, 600 years after--

MIKE EVANS: 100%.

--you know Muhammad died.

And the archeology is clear, Al-Aqsa is a Byzantine church.

Exactly so if you want to say you

know Muhammad had to go to church before he

went to heaven, OK.

But it just doesn't--

why does the lie live?

Because it's obvious to me, and should

be obvious to anyone either looking

at the historical record or the archaeological record,

that the Temple Mount was Jewish.

MIKE EVANS: Because the father of lies lives.

And he fathers those lies.

I debated Hanan Ashrawi She was the spokesperson

for the Palestinians in Madrid.

And here's what she said.

Bethlehem is the Muslim town were

the first Palestinian Christian was born, Jesus Christ.

I said to her, excuse me.

Bethlehem is the Jewish town where the Jew Jesus

Christ was born.

And I said, and he was never a Christian.

Now, you know, I know that's hard

when you're a Christian to hear that.

But Jesus didn't need to be converted.

He was God.

So she said to me, Don't--

I resent your distortion of my reality.

Don't try to confuse me with your facts my mind is made up.

Well, she just defined the whole Palestinian conflict.

Don't confuse me with your facts, my mind is made up.

Another layer of this conflict that I

think people don't understand is if you

come to peace with Israel--

and I think Arafat knew that--

if you come to peace, if you make a peace agreement,

you will be killed.

100%.

Look at the Palestinian believers.

The price they pay.

Where are they in Bethlehem?

GORDON ROBERTSON: No, they're gone.

I visited Bethlehem back in the 1970s

when it was under Israeli control and we had free access.

And there was a thriving Christian community

in Bethlehem.

When the Palestinian Authority takes over

after the Oslo Accords, it's completely changed.

And what was a majority Christian city

is now a majority Muslim city and the Christians

are less than 10%.

Yes.

There was a mayor then.

You probably knew him Mayor Freij.

He was in Bethlehem back then, very wealthy guy.

And he said to me, oh, it's so difficult.

I'm under occupation.

It's so painful.

I'm so sorry, I said.

You must have a very rough life.

Oh, no, I have a home in Paris.

I have a place here and there.

I have lots of things--

blah, blah, blah.

But, he said, I'm suffering under occupation.

It's so difficult. I said, well, maybe it

would be better if Jordan was here.

No, no, no, no, no, I don't want Jordan.

But I am under occupation.

Listen, the Israelis who live in Israel--

the Arabs who live in Israel built Friends of Zion.

They were the guys come in every day and workers.

And I knew them.

And I knew their families.

There are happy people.

They have homes.

They have food.

It's-- we're talking about Islam evangelizing Palestinians.

When your dad began, the Palestinians were nationalist.

They weren't Islamic fanatics.

You have three states now.

You have Gaza, an ISIS al-Qaeda state, then you

have the Fatah, the Ramallah, and then you have Israel.

This is not solvable through politics, not solvable.

GORDON ROBERTSON: All right, well,

let's talk about the Friends of Zion Museum.

And I just applaud what you've done.

This is absolutely marvelous.

I encourage anyone that goes to Israel,

you've got to go to the Friends of Zion Museum.

It will be a life changing experience for you.

What inspired you to do this?

MIKE EVANS: Corrie ten Boom.

When Corrie was alive I met with her--

as your dad had, and I'm sure you had,

but you were pretty young then.

GORDON ROBERTSON: I met her.

Still young.

GORDON ROBERTSON: I was a teenager.

And she absolutely impressed me.

MIKE EVANS: Amazing lady.

Very, very few people, their mere physical presence

brings holiness.

MIKE EVANS: Yeah.

So she said to me, tell me your story over soup.

I told her mine.

And she told me her story.

And I said Corrie do you have any prayer that

hasn't been answered?

Only one, only one, the Beje.

That was the house that she lived in.

I wanted it to be a witness for the Lord.

Well it was purchased by somebody else.

And it was shut down.

It wasn't a witness for the Lord.

And then she told me another story.

She told me about Ravensbruck.

She told me on her birthday, she said, Jesus, it's my birthday.

My father is dead.

Betsie's dying.

Do you have a gift for me, Jesus?

And she said, the Lord spoke into my spirit

and said the gift is in 91st Psalm, the last verse,

she said.

I didn't look it up, Gordon, until she died.

And I looked it up and I realized she died at 91.

The same day she was born, April 15th, is the day she died.

In Ravensbruck, the gift God gave

her was 40 more years of life and ministry.

The last verse is with long life shall I satisfy you.

That was the birthday gift for Corrie.

I went to the Beje.

I said to the man, will you sell it?

No.

Can we pray?

If you like.

I prayed.

He said, OK, I'll sell it.

So we purchased everything back and opened it up.

And I wanted to answer, be part of the answer,

for Corrie's last prayer.

GORDON ROBERTSON: That's a wonderful thing.

Now, Gordon, here's what happened.

I saw Jewish people coming to the ten Boom

crying and weeping.

I met a lady, she said to me, my mother

brought me and said the old man can you take us--

he called it watches.

Can you fix two watches?

The girl and the lady, me and my mother.

He says, I must ask God.

And she said he goes back in the house.

And I said to my mother, is God in the house?

She said, I don't know.

He comes back his, God, says yes.

So she said I became a Jew in the ten Boom home.

I wasn't a Jew.

I was born a Jew.

But I didn't know Hebrew.

I never celebrated the Passover.

I became a Jew in the ten Boom home.

Now I spoke at the induction of Casper and Betsie

with the Israeli ambassador for Yad Vashem.

And that woman was there weeping, telling me

I became a Jew in the ten Boom home.

They saved my life.

And I said Anne Frank's story is told, why doesn't anybody

know about Corrie?

So I said I want to bring Corrie to Jerusalem.

But then I realized, Gordon, there

were so many other amazing stories.

That was the inspiration for Friends of Zion.

That is quite an inspiration.

Yeah, yeah.

It's many things can say they have their foundation in Corrie

ten Boom.

MIKE EVANS: And by the way, it was a prayer meeting.

You talked about the Jerusalem prayer team.

Well, the ten Boom's started a prayer meeting in 1844.

Yes, to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

1844.

The day it ended, the 100th anniversary,

was the day they raided the house

and took them to the camps.

The 100th anniversary-- no prayer meeting in history

has lasted 100 year in a home.

There's did.

And the Lord said start it back.

So I started their prayer meeting back.

And now, it's the Jerusalem prayer team

with 26 million members.

GORDON ROBERTSON: Wow.

So you've gone international with this.

Gordon, we have over 4.5 million

in Indonesia, a Muslim country.

3.5 million in the Philippines.

If you type in Israel's Top Facebook,

we're the number one in the state of Israel.

The number seventh is the prime minister.

And the number two is Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman.

A prayer group that came out of the ten Boom house.

I would have to say that's an absolute miracle.

Thank you, Lord.

All right.

What's next for you?

The vision that God's give me for the Friends of Zion

Heritage Center has to do with Esther's vision.

Esther had a vision to save the nation.

The nation of Israel has many threats.

There are some things they can't address.

If you just take how does Israel fight ideological wars?

Demons don't clear customs.

How do you fight a war of ideas?

Everything is going through social network.

All the recruit from terror is happening

through social network.

Now what are believers doing in social network

to battle darkness with light?

God spoke to me, do it.

Create a social network portal to battle darkness with light,

to activate, to educate.

Let's just talk about my son's generation of millennials.

The millennials are buying into a replacement theology,

social justice myth.

A lie.

The same lie that's kept coming from the Temple Mount.

We want them to have a biblical world view

so we're going to use our communication

center to educate, to activate, the next generation.

I'm not worried about my generation, your dad's,

your generation.

But that next generation, the enemy is telling them lies.

And so we're a communications center, research institute,

ambassador institute, et cetera.

It's a big campus called the Friends of Zion Heritage

Center.

By the way, we're training-- the IDF's training their troops

there.

Gordon in the last eight weeks, eight weeks,

there has been three people killed

that came through Friends of Zion that are part of the IDF

training program.

They were killed in Jerusalem.

I checked with our staff.

Yes, they were part of the training program.

They were killed by terrorists-- all young,

all young people in their 20s.

All right.

We're out of time.

And If you want to go to the Friends of Zion Museum,

you can also go to it online.

And we'll have a link for you at CBN.com.