“If one removes the first two letters from this word 'spoil' he soon realizes what Russia will really be after — obviously, oil.”

— Jerry Falwell

Interpreting the significance of the English version of Ezekiel 38:12 as evidence of the USSR's belligerence toward Israel, on the Old Time Gospel Hour (1979); as quoted in What Should We Believe? (1987) by Aurelia T. Fule, Ch. VIII: "Why Should the "New Teaching" Trouble Us?" http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=406

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