Joel C. Rosenberg

Novels such as Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace were written with an omniscient point of view.

The omniscient point of view is author as God, as Joel Rosenberg says.

The writer can comment on what the main character is thinking, and then two sentences later comment Reveal what a secondary character is thinking.

The writer can disclose anything or keep anything hidden.

The omniscient point of view isn't used much anymore, and these days it's considered weak writing.

Within the third person...

There are several point of view categories, as described by Joel Rosenberg.

The camera eye point of view is when the reader knows only what the main character knows, quote, "...only what is going on in front of them, never gaining any direct insight into what a character is thinking or feeling, just as though they were watching television or a movie," Joel Rosenberg says.

We had sirens across the entire country.

I was fortunate enough to have with me that day on the air, Joel Rosenberg, my dear friend who was in Israel.

And you could hear the sirens at some point in the background, we had armed terrorists infiltrating border towns, the attack on the supernova music festival.

Local areas along roads in Gaza and beyond had been just taken over.

Everyone needs someone like them, near them, who can tell them about Jesus.

I had an interview with Joel Rosenberg, the author.

He said everybody needs a friend who loves Jesus.

But I like this part about somebody like them, near them, who looks like them, who speaks their language.

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So I've been talking a little bit about Yom Kippur, and, um, [tsking] y- you know, I, I, my friend Joel Rosenberg is the editor and founder and editor at All Israel News.

And at All Israel News, there is a, an interesting article that's been posted today on nine things that Israelis do on Yom Kippur, on the Day of Atonement.

And so it's interesting to see how the modern nation state of Israel and the, the Jewish people in the modern, um, nation state of Israel celebrate Yom Kippur.

In, in the Bible, several sacrifices are called for, in particular two goats, which I talked about earlier, the, the, the scapegoat and, uh, the sacrificial goat, where the scapegoat is sent off into the desert representing how God takes sin as far as the east is from the west.

However, in lieu of animal sacrifices, the tradition of swinging a chicken or a bag of money over one's head became commonplace in many communities and is known as kaparot or atonements.

But that, again, sort of begs a question that that's been talked about over the years, and that is, well, if the temple sacrifices have ceased, if there is no animal sacrifice because the temple was destroyed, for an observant Jew, how do you deal with the, with the problem of sin? And I've talked to several of my Jewish friends about that.

And some of them will make the explanation that just like the destruction of the First Temple, when Daniel and the children of Israel are taken away, the sacrifices cease.

Oh, they play both sides of the fence, but someday they will turn on us.

Um, there's a great book by Joel Rosenberg.

It's called Epicenter.

The reason he wrote Epicenter, uh, was that he was writing fictional novels, and before they would actually come out in print, his little scenarios would have come true in real life, so he, he began to be rumored as a prophet.

That's why I think it's really important that even within Israel, he says Jerusalem becomes significant.

In fact, I think as Joel Rosenberg has termed it, they are the epicenter of biblical prophecy.

And the reasons are very obvious.

They're clearly stated.

So just curious, who was the prophecy teacher that you had gone to see that time?

Joel Rosenberg.

Oh, sure.

Yeah, yeah.

I think we do need to always keep our eyes on Israel because that is really the center.

That's Joel Rosenberg's term.

That's the epicenter.

And so we should be mindful of this.

I think we do need to always keep our eyes on Israel because that is really the center.

That's Joel Rosenberg's term.

That's the epicenter.

And so we should be mindful that as things unfold in Israel, those are indicators of what is to come.