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enough for the four residents to sleep on cots and
was wired to the outside world with a telephone landline. The family had
stocked the room with several cases of dried fruit and packaged water in
plastic bottles.
                   Sophia’s
school was closest to their flat, so she was the first to arrive when Israeli
news media reported that Russian and Iranian troops had been detected by
satellite leaving southwest Damascus on Iran’s Highway 7 towards Israel.
Next were Golda and Yitzhak, who ran into the flat, asking their mother what
she had heard? Before she could answer them, her cell phone rang. The phone
showed an incoming call from Moshe’s dentist office, which was a ten
minute drive towards Tel Aviv.
                   "Yes,
Moshe, why aren’t you here ? Don’t you know about
the…."
                   Moshe,
generally the calmer of the two, responded, "Calm down Sophie , I’m calling to let you
know it’s going to be at least a half hour, maybe more, before I can get
home. I have two patients, both in their chairs, both in mid-procedure. One is
a root canal and the other is a large filling. I can’t just run out and
leave them, of course. So, we’re accelerating the work. It could be
longer than a half hour, come to think….more like an hour. Turn on the TV.
I have ours on. Let’s just keep our eyes open and see what’s
happening. It may be nothing . We just
heard a patient here say, supposedly quoting the White House, that the Russians
and Iranians are just doing a military exercise. Not an invasion. Just trying
to scare us , I guess."
                   "Moshe",
Sophie replied, "listen to yourself. Scare
us? Well, Its working, I’m scared . We signed a peace treaty that was supposed to
guarantee us peace and security. No more violence, no more rockets and bombs.
America, if you have forgotten, Moshe, forced
us to sign it….threats of U.S. and European boycotts… .‘delegitimizing Israel’ and all
that….remember? I don’t buy what you just heard….Finish your
patients, quick, Moshe….who knows how long it
will take them to start firing rockets and bombs, or worse ? We’re vulnerable, Moshe….We’re on the
eastern edge of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. Where do you think
they’ll hit first ? Please,
Moshe, get home…. OK ?"
                   Moshe
checked his pulse. Sophie’s words accelerated his weakened heart. During
IDF reserve forces training Moshe suffered cardiac injuries which exempted him
from further service, otherwise he would have been
called up with the IDF reserve forces, now on heightened alert. It was
definitely time to get home to his family.

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    Hannah
and Gary’s Family Room
    Birmingham,
Alabama
                   " What was I thinking?" Scott was
visibly upset. "Liz and Max saw what was coming, and they moved to
Central America at the end of last year. Tom and Marty were a little slower,
but they’ve been in Panama now for almost two months. We should have left
when our friends did. I can’t believe …."
                   Sally
interrupted her husband, "Scott. Don’t be so hard on yourself. I was the one who kept dragging my feet.
I studied the prophecies, like all of us in this small group, but I just
couldn’t do….that is….I couldn’t build my faith strong
enough to believe what God was trying to tell us with all those warnings . I’m so sorry, honey….I just feel so…….Hannah and
Gary, and Audrey and Beau, I’m afraid that my glaring reluctance may have
held you guys back from moving….while we all still could. It’s my fault….Can you
ever…."
                   Audrey,
the member of the small group with the most obvious gift of compassion,
couldn’t let Sally go on, "Sally, my dear sister in Christ, please don’t blame yourself . We’re all adults, we all studied the Word. We understood that God was using those two
hundred and some verses to warn