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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-05-09  |  1.8 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  43 seconds
Transcription: But what of the predictions that seem to apply geographically to the land of Palestine? Some of the exiled Israelites led by Ezra and Nehemiah did eventually return from captivity in Babylon, but that sparse resettlement of a devastated land hardly calls to mind the glorious new society described here. Jewish scholars disagree on the meaning. Some point to the modern-day state of Israel as a direct fulfillment of this prophecy, while others violently disagree. And some Christian theologians believe that these promises, under the New Covenant, apply to the Church in a more general sense and not ...