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Exodus 17:8 - 16

8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 

9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, 
fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the 
hill with the rod of God in mine hand. 

10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with 
Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 

11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel 
prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 

12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put 
it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his 
hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; 
and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 

13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 

14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, 
and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out 
the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. 

15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi: 

16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have 
war with Amalek from generation to generation. 


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Deuteronomy 25:17 - NASB 

17 "Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came 
out from Egypt, 

18 how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers 
at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God. 

19 "Therefore it shall come about when the LORD your God has given you 
rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the LORD your 
God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory 
of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget. 


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3 mistakes - Sept 16, 2001
exodus 17 battle w/ amalek
ref: wtc attack - sept 11, 2001

1- we have eliminated evil and good (relativism)

2-we have totally disarmed our national security (individual rights)

3-evil is encouraged by our weakness, a bully is always encouraged by 
our weakness


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