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Ron Susek: Mona Oshana is a name that is well known among the Assyrian world. She has a television program every week called the Mona Oshana Show. She is a straight shooter. I'm telling you, when she asks questions, she cuts to the quick. She wants to know the truth. No fooling around. And she is brilliant. She knows her people. She knows the history. But above all, she knows the Savior. And you will be most impressed with this conversation with Mona Oshana.

Announcer: Finding and knowing God is a faith walk. The Bible says that without faith, it is impossible to please God. Our hope lies in the coming Messiah, who will establish God's peaceful kingdom on Earth. This is FaithWalk with Ron Susek. Dr. Ron is an evangelist committed to encourage and equip your faith walk as we pass through these turbulent end-time days, awaiting the soon-coming kingdom. Here again is Ron Susek.

Ron Susek: We have some great people in Congress and Senate, some great people. And they are salt and light, and they are fighting hard. Church, why do we expect them to be there taking the beating? We need to be on our knees before God in a tremendous wall of prayer in order to see this nation.

And why are we talking about America, Mona? Because what happens to America is like what happened to Assyria. When Assyria fell, the nations mourned. When America goes down, this world is going to be trembling because America, like it or not, has been the stabilizer of the world now for some 250-some years. It's imperative that the church rise up and realize our role. Our role is not going to enter into political debates. There are people skilled for that. Praise God for that. We have the ability to lay hold of the throne of the King of this nation, God Almighty, and watch God begin to transform hearts and lives and literally bring down the structures of evil. It can happen. Now, whether that is Mona, who knows? Maybe out of this your program, a spark is going to happen. I don't know, but I hope so because it is for the sake of the world. This is the only solution.

Mona Oshana: Yes, absolutely. Dr. Susek, for people that are listening and me included, how do we reconcile what is happening? Because every day we wake up and, of course, we're in information overload. People are not even watching TV anymore. It's not even on TV. It's on their computers. It's on their phones. It's the internet. It's social media. We are seeing pictures and there are citizen journalists right now all over the world. Journalism is not the contemporary or the traditional way of doing journalism right now.

Everybody that has a phone can become a journalist right now and is reporting of everything that is going on in our schools, in our government, the division in our country. As you said, we the people, there's a wedge there. How do we reconcile that as Christians and make sense of it so that we're not discouraged?

Every day I started the last couple of weeks to start the program with a verse of a Bible because as we don't understand sometimes how medicine works when we are sick, but we take it anyways, I feel that we need spiritual medicine. And so even as that, with all that we are seeing, especially the children, with everything that is going on, Sound of Freedom is being attacked right now because it is exposing pedophilia and child trafficking. You've got the indoctrination of our children in our school. When a society starts attacking its future, which is our children, that society really is going to stop existing. And if America ceases to exist, where will the downtrodden, the people that are persecuted, the people that are running, come to if America ceases to exist? How do we reconcile, Dr. Susek?

Ron Susek: Israel was here years ago when Isaiah himself said they are dragging sin along with cords of deceit. They are calling evil good and good evil. So this is not the first time the world has been faced with - there was a Sodom and Gomorrah.

We need to recognize - I don't know whether this is the collapse and the Lord is coming or whether God's going to privilege us with another awakening. But we have to recognize the fact that the world is really twisting the minds of our children and our youth because that's where we should be teaching them the ways of God and the structures of the home and what a home is. While to you and me it's normal because we were raised understanding that, it just makes sense and nature proves it to be true.

With that fact in front of us, we have to remember that it's the minority so far that is still bringing great evil to the forefront. Sadly, they have a lot of the media on their side. Very sad, which tells us the corruption that is in the minds and the lives of the people that are trying to propagate this and make it good. Well, we're going to be paying heavy prices down the road for this if we do not see an awakening come.

What is an awakening? There's a man named Burns who wrote a tremendous book called "Revival: Its Laws and Leaders" back in, I think, 1909. Here's what he said, and this is the way I feel by the way with what I'm experiencing with getting involved with the Assyrians and the Coptic Christians and soon the Jews. And that is that the spokesman does not create the revival. The Spirit of God puts what he's going to do in the hearts of the people and the spokesman is only articulating what God has already put in the hearts of the people. So it's an act of God, not an act of the spokesman.

And that's what I'm experiencing with the Assyrians. When I speak to them, there's an explosion, there's an excitement. It's awesome. It happened in Toronto with the Copts. It felt like the day of Pentecost. There was such unity and love and excitement. One priest drove three hours from a conference to attend our session, then three hours back to the conference, and he was just as excited as could be. If that spreads, Mona, if that spreads, game's over. We could see a mega awakening not only across America but across the Middle East.

If I could just add, I'm now getting news reports behind the scenes of the great awakening happening in Iran. Thousands and thousands are coming to Jesus Christ. Sorry, go ahead.

Mona Oshana: No, I was just going to say I think it's just a distraction from the enemy to try to discredit the word of God, that it is, in fact, being fulfilled. The enemy is trying his best to try to steer people away from the word of God, from healing, from understanding. We don't worship a God of confusion, and yet there is so much confusion because we are looking for answers elsewhere when what you have been speaking right now is exactly the path to the way, the truth, and the life, which is the Bible itself and the word of God. We have been straying from the truth and the word and falling into this division and falling into the divide that we have right now.

Now, before we go on, I'd like to show a video that was produced by Cinema Production by our brother that is producing this program, of course, Fred Dumon, called "The Missing Cross." The artwork within this video is by Mr. Vladimir Bedavid. We want to give him credit as well. But let's go ahead and be blessed with this video, and I'm sure that you will like it. We'll take a break and then we'll come back and continue the conversation.

Florence Isu: When the time comes, there shall be a highway between Egypt and Assyria. Israel will be the third, whom the Lord of the hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance."

Announcer: Now, Dr. Ron has been talking to us about the end-time days and wants us to prepare for the coming kingdom. And he has written a book titled "The Assyrian Prophecy" that is a missing part of the end-times puzzle.

Ron Susek: And He who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." Write, for these words are true and faithful. The world is not ending. God is preparing a new world soon to begin. An ancient nation thought lost to extinction is soon to rise anew to prepare for that day. Isaiah identified this nation in a prophecy that has been hidden in plain sight for some 2,700 years. Its name is Assyria. My new book, "The Assyrian Prophecy," reveals how Assyria will join with Israel and Egypt to bless the world under the soon-coming Messiah. Amid today's chaos, God is searching for righteous people through whom He will bring the prophecy to completion. When you reach the end of this book, one question will be in your mind: "Lord, what would you have me do?"

Announcer: You can learn more at theassyrianproject.org.

Mona Oshana: And I know that you do a lot of traveling, Dr. Susek. And if we can bring up the QR code for his website, theassyrianproject.org. There you can find out more about what Dr. Susek is doing. If you want to get involved, not only buy the book but get involved. If you have ideas, and if you're an Assyrian or if you are anywhere in the world actually, and you'd like to get in touch with Dr. Susek, that's where you get in touch with him. You go on the website, and you get a lot more information.

Now, during that video, by the way, the woman's voice that you heard is none other than our own very sister Florence Isu, who happens to be the wife of Mr. Fred Dumon. And so her beautiful voice, we need to have her on the program one of these days. That was her voice. In that beautiful voice she was reading the Lord's handiwork cannot be demolished. It was written, actually, and she was quoting from that.

The Lord's handiwork cannot be demolished. And you know what it made me think of, Dr. Susek? This cancellation culture that we're in. I know it comes from the devil because the devil wants to cancel. He started out with canceling the Assyrians and, of course, how many more nations has he canceled because of their goodness, because of their contribution to the faith, and because they have brought so many people to the Gospel.

Even this program today, I know I was just thinking about it, everything was ready. But when we came to broadcast, my microphone didn't work, my camera didn't work, and we almost didn't have the program. We started, and then we had to restart again. And I say that as a testimony because the devil is not wanting the word to get out. Despite that attack, that little attack, I know we stand here fully aware that the enemy attacks us all the time. But we lean not on our own understanding and, of course, on the fear. He says, "I have not given you the spirit of fear." We went on and this program came to be. Either the enemy likes it or not, here we are. He's not going to cancel us. He's not going to demolish us. One from the West, one from the East, we are brothers, nevertheless. We are together as the body of Christ coming together to praise His name and to say He is the way, the truth, and the life.

Ron Susek: You know, when you use the term cancellation culture, I can't think of a more graphic cancel culture than to martyr someone. And the Assyrians on a percentage basis have probably had more martyrs for Jesus Christ among them than any other nation, any other ethnos. And I know that's a pain and an ache in the hearts of many. It's been recent within the last hundred years and recent years that many Assyrians have been martyred just for the fact that they're Christian. They'll contrive another reason, but the reason is because they're Christian.

Listen, Tertullian said the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Don't think that when you martyr someone, it's over for that person. The martyrs cried out to God from under the altar, "When will we be avenged?" They're going to be avenged. I pity the person who cut their heads off or whatever method they use. They are in deep eternal trouble. When will we be avenged? And God said, "Wait a little while," and He gave them all white robes and said, "when the number is complete." So it's not random with God. And you are going to see the martyrs, the Assyrian martyrs, those related to them, when they see them in the coming kingdom, they're going to say, "Wow, we had no idea. We suffered the pain and the loss, but look how God is using you now."

That day is coming. And as hard as this world tries and as hard as Satan tries, as you well said it, to try to crush the truth and turn this world into hell, they're not going to do it. Because whether you kill us, whether you cancel us, whether you try to silence us, no matter what you try, no one can stop the Holy Spirit of God. And He is working through the Assyrian people, the Copts, and the believing Jews. We are seeing great and wonderful things coming to pass. Play the game all you want, when Christ returns, game's over.

The Bible is very clear about that. Read the Book of Revelation. And by the way, let me add this. A lot of people don't read the Book of Revelation because they don't understand all the signs and symbols or they're afraid. They read of all these serious plagues. Listen, in wrath, God always remembers mercy. Why is He sending this terrible time called the Revelation or the Apocalypse? Well, for 6,000 years, God has been saying to the world, "I love you, I love you, I love you, I'm giving you my grace, my kindness, my mercy, my forgiveness." And to this day, the world has stubbornly not listened. So now all God's going to do is pull back the curtain and let sin do what sin can do and let people feel the weight and the consequences of sin.

And guess what, Mona? In the Book of Revelation, number one, you find great worship breaking out before God. And you find in chapter seven a host of people that no man can number, coming out of the Great Tribulation with their robes dipped in the blood of the Lamb, singing the praises of God. What I'm saying is the greatest revival and awakening in world history is going to happen in the middle of the apocalypse. So I tell you, this is not a time for fear. This is a time for worship and excitement before God.

Mona Oshana: Amen, amen. As I said in the beginning of the program, we had a little bit of a difficulty. We were actually supposed to start it with prayer. But nevertheless, there is never a bad time for praying. And I know you and I when we speak on the phone, we always, and you always love to say let's pray together before we leave and I love your prayers. And so we're finding that there is despair in America. There is fear in America, there is division, there is uncivility, there is so much - I don't want to call it hatred, but so much division and so much animosity. We can blame it on the political parties, we can blame it on whatever we can blame it, but it's actually the source of that is the demonic powers that are free to reign in this world.

And we need to come against it and we need to stand against it. And there are many people that maybe they might be disappointed or disenchanted, not going to church. We're finding that a lot of people are having church online, churches at home, not going to actual physical churches where they would fellowship with others. Maybe because of many things, many divisions, because Christ prayed that we might be one as He and His Father are one. And yet we are seeing that there is a division not only in one church but in the global church. In the body of Christ there is a division.

So I would really appreciate it, Dr. Susek, if we can bow our heads right now. If we can pray for all of America, for all of humanity, for everyone as you said. What disparity there is in America, it reverberates all over the world. And so we need to bow our heads in a country that kneels down and bows its head and confesses its sin. God will hear us. And so if you would please, as you normally do with the passion and the burning love that you have for country and all humanity, if you could pray for our country, for humanity, for all of us to come together and find hope and be relieved and be saved from despair and the fear.

Ron Susek: Let's pray together. Father, we come before your mighty throne, thanking you that you receive us because your Son has taken our sins from us as far as the east is from the west. He has buried them in the deepest sea to remember them no more. And you look upon us and you call us holy and blameless, not because we got there ourselves, but because you declared that upon us because of what your Son did on the cross.

So we accept that and we want to walk worthy of that calling. And Father, we do come before your throne as your people redeemed through the blood of the Lamb to lay hold of you for the world that you love. Your word says that you so, so, so love the world that you gave your Son on the cross. In that light, Father, we pray for the mighty uprising of the Holy Spirit. That you will strengthen the church with courage and worship and joy and confidence and hope.

We pray, Father, that the world will see that we have risen above our differences and our debates because your Son commanded us to love one another. We must transcend our differences and learn to love. Give us the power to love one another that you have to love us. And in that light, Father, I pray that even before the coming of your Son, we will see millions of people come to you and repent of sin and cry out to you and be saved. We're going to trust you for this, and we pray for this.

And Father, we pray once more for these three nations: Assyria, Egypt, and Israel. Father, give us the victory of this great prophecy that you made because your word cannot return void. May we even see in our lifetimes such a move of your hand that the world will have to stand dry-mouthed and declare, "This was God." We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Mona Oshana: Amen, amen. You are such a blessing, Dr. Susek. It's always a pleasure to have you.

Ron Susek: Mona, you're a great blessing to me, believe me. I have to tell you and your listeners, you are one of the most strong straight shooters and I admire you and I just can't say enough about you.

Mona Oshana: Well, thank you so much. Glory to God. Dr. Susek, I mean, God is great because of the fact that He brings us together and the same spirit that works in all of us. He brings us together at one point or another for such a time as this so that we can raise our voices and stand in agreement and be able to say, "Amen, Lord, we are here, send us. We are here, use us. We submit to your will, Lord."

And again, you are such a blessing. Thank you for all you do. Praise be to God that your ears, your eyes, your hearts were open to a nation that otherwise would have been obscure. And maybe if we would have kept saying, oh, it's because Mona is Assyrian, she wants to talk about Assyria. But here is God has raised a Jonah, a Jonah of our time today to say that God is still at work. God is still sitting on His throne and God is still in control. And America is under the care and the guidance and the love of God. And all we need to do is just repent, turn our ways, and just read His word as we do in medicine as we did in the prayer that you just recited. And so I want to thank you. Let's have you back more often. How about that?

Ron Susek: Let's do it. Well, I'm going to have you on our program as well. To our amazement, we only went on television a year ago in March and by the grace of God it has spread worldwide. We're on 12 television networks and streaming platforms. We're on 17 podcast platforms. I'm saying that for this reason, Mona. They tell me in the industry what's happening would be impossible humanly. I believe God is putting this together, building His platform, and I'm looking forward and I hope that many of our viewers may decide to stand with us and help us and support us.

And here's why. I want to begin to do strong documentaries spelling out the Assyrian story and the prophecy and the Coptic story and the Israeli story. We need to educate the public and awaken the public. And media is the way that it's done today. And so I pray for you that God will raise up supporters for you and I know you're praying for us. I deeply appreciate that because I have the scenes in my head already. I just need the right people who can put those things together and make it happen.

Mona Oshana: And if you could go on the website, theassyrianproject.org, that's where you can find Dr. Susek's book. You can find more about him, how to get involved, how to get in touch with him. It is a worthy cause and your support is going to be planted in fertile ground. Believe me, this man means what he says and he says what he means. Did I say that right? He says what he means and he means what he says.

Ron Susek: I like that. Let me just add that anyone who wants to see our program, it's very simple to get into. Just go to FaithWalk.org. That's all you need. FaithWalk.org and you're there.

Mona Oshana: FaithWalk. FaithWalk. And I'm going to share that on our, when we share this on other media platforms, we're going to put that website there so you can follow Dr. Susek. I want to thank you once again. God bless you. Tell Diane we said hi. I wanted to play one of her songs today, but we didn't get a chance. But in the future, I know she has one of the most angelic voices that I've ever heard in my life. And so we're going to play one of her songs in the coming weeks, God willing. But thank you for all you do and God bless you, Dr. Susek.

Ron Susek: God bless you. We love you and we're standing with you.

Mona Oshana: Thank you so much.

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