Hey, Todd here, and you're listening to the Prophecy Prose podcast on the Edify

Podcast Network.

Our guest today, Olivier Melnick, is the Northwest Regional Director of Chosen People Ministries,

and he serves on the board of directors for Chosen People France.

He's an author and a speaker and a personal friend of ours.

He's an expert on the topic of anti-Semitism and Bible prophecy and how they intersect.

Olivier, welcome to the Prophecy Prose podcast.

Thank you, Todd, and Jeff.

I'm very happy to join you today.

We really appreciate your time, brother.

We've been looking forward to this.

And most of our listeners probably have never heard of you before.

So if you could, won't you tell a little bit about you and your ministry

and your background and that kind of thing. Okay, I was born and raised in Paris, France,

from a Jewish family. My parents, who were both gone now, were war and Holocaust survivors.

My mother actually was hidden in the South of France on a farm as a Catholic girl during the last two years of the war.

And so I was brought up in a Jewish family but not religious, because as many Jews during the war, my parents

lost any shred of faith in any kind of God after the Holocaust. So I was brought up Jewish,

but not religious. I moved to the United States after I got married to my

American wives who led me to the Lord in 1985 by scaring me about the rapture and telling me that

we would be separated if she was taken and I thought this was crazy, but I believe.

And so in 1983, she led me to the Lord in the summer of 1983, came back to the States

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