Episode 3501: A WarRoom Easter Special: Descent into Hell
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Holy Saturday is a day of solemnity in which we recognize the redemption of all those who came before Christ, including the holy men and women from Adam and Eve all the way up until the Good thief on the cross, Jesus Christ.
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It's Saturday, 30, March in the year of our Lord, 2024.
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We're very honored and blessed to be joined by Dr. Taylor Marshall.
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we refer to this particularly Catholics as Holy Saturday.
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Can you walk us through just the evolution of what,
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So in the Catholic Church and also in the Eastern Orthodox Church
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our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ died at 3 p.m. on Good Friday,
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Where was our Lord Jesus Christ, fully God, fully man,
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during this period in the middle of these three days?
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And tradition identifies this as the harrowing of hell.
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And the tradition is, and St. Paul teaches this in Ephesians,
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that Christ in his soul, his body was in the tomb,
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but his soul descended downward into the nether regions.
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He went there to greet and recognize and redeem
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all the way up until the good thief on the cross.
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And he announces his proclamation of eternal life
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Because it's the belief of both the Old Testament,
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Jewish people and Christians for most of the past 2,000 years,
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the righteous people like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Esther,
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They were literally waiting in limbo, waiting in Sheol.
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And he announces the gospel and he brings them up.
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So Saturday is the day, it's a quiet day in the liturgy,
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but it's the day in which we recognize the redemption
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of all those who came before Christ, the harrowing of hell.
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I think he says, a thousand years before Christ came,
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that didn't know Christ or were born centuries before,
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you know, millennia before Jesus manifested into our world?
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What he's talking about, that men and women who were holy and devout,
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but didn't obviously know about Jesus because he hadn't been born yet.
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Is that why Christ went to hell or at least a part where people are not totally condemned
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to bring back those pagans that live Christian lives?
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Yeah, that's the idea is that before Christ, people were saved by expecting the Messiah,
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So you see this already in the book of Genesis,
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after Adam and Eve sin in Genesis chapter three, verse 15,
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God promises what's called the proto evangelion.
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And he tells to Adam and Eve, in particular to Eve,
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that one day she will give birth to a child that will crush the head of Satan.
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Did they know the details of his name would be Jesus Christ,
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but they did trust in the promise of God that one day a woman would give birth to a son,
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the son of God, a Messiah figure who would indeed crush the serpent's head.
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you have the covenant with Adam and the covenant with Noah and the covenant with Abraham
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and then the covenant with Moses and then the covenant with David.
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All of these are more and more revelations of the coming of the Messiah.
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And those people who are living in accordance with God's law
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and they're having faith in the coming Messiah,
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So a good way of understanding it is, you know, Abraham and King David and Esther,
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But we understand it in vivid color and full color.
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And so Christ, our belief is in the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church
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and many Protestants as well, that when Christ died on the cross,
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He descended into not the place of torment, but the place of waiting.
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When Christ dies on the cross, the veil in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem was torn.
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And that signifies that God removed the veil from top to bottom.
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And this is symbolic that there's no longer a barrier between God and men
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because Christ has offered himself as the Passover lamb of God.
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And so now moving forward, people can be admitted to heaven through Christ.
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And then the people of the Old Testament are also admitted into heaven through Christ.
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Like I said before, from Adam all the way to the thief on the cross are now incorporated into that heavenly bliss.
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And so I guess instead there are Christians before Christ, that's exactly correct.
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Not the way we understand Christianity today, but they were looking forward to the Messiah.
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They're sort of proto-Christian might be a better term.
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When Mel Gibson and Steve McAvity and the team made Passion of the Christ,
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they went back to the book that had come out by Catherine Ann Emmerich, right,
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And that had actually gone through, I guess, a paper review and had the stamp of,
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simply put, certification, right, that this had been gone through a, not a council,
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In that, and they're coming up with the second, they've been working on the second,
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the sequel to that, which is about the resurrection.
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And my understanding is they're also relying upon Catherine Ann Emmerich's book,
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which has a quite moving and dramatic part in her visions of Christ's descent into hell.
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Is there anything, are you familiar with the work of sister Catherine Ann Emmerich?
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And I was able to talk to Mel Gibson about this,
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and he doesn't want any of the details of the film, of course, being shared,
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but he's announced that he is going to do the resurrection of the Christ,
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and it's going to also incorporate this mystery of the harrowing of hell,
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which I think on the big screen is going to be magnificent when it's accomplished.
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And yes, the vision of Anne Catherine Emmerich, she was a German nun, a consecrated version,
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and she had extensive visions about the entire life of Christ,
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but also this mystery of the descent of Christ into hell.
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And she gives the same basic outline or structure that you see in the early Greek church fathers,
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the early Latin church fathers, and that is Christ coming down,
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He breaks down the gates of hell, and many of the early icons,
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there's an image of Christ standing on top of the broken gates of hell,
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and he's reaching his hand out, and he's grabbing the hands of Adam and Eve
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It's a very beautiful image to see that mankind,
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all the way back to Adam and Eve, is being offered eternal salvation.
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And Anne Catherine Emmerich has that same vision,
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and she reveals that the faithful of the Old Testament,
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In fact, St. Thomas Aquinas, he even elaborates on this,
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and he says that the experience of the Old Testament faithful,
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which is a very kind of profound way of thinking about it,
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that their initiation into the life of Christ and salvation for them
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but basically engaging with the true Christ in his descent to where they were
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So there's a lot in the mystical tradition and visionaries
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and the church fathers of this beautiful mystery.
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Tomorrow is the celebration when people will be breaking their Lent
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and eating meat and candy and maybe wine and some whiskey
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and really enjoying the festival of the resurrection of Christ.
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but he cares for every human person going all the way back
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And I think that's a beautiful mystery for us to meditate on today.
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Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and then Easter.
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they went through over that kind of four-day period?
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and so I didn't grow up with any of these liturgies
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I was exposed to this ancient, very ancient liturgy
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And Holy Week technically begins on Palm Sunday,
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and that's when we commemorate Christ coming into Jerusalem.
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and processes around the church and enters the church,
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sort of greeting Christ, coming into our midst.
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And this liturgy usually takes place in the evening,
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which has been veiled previously, is now unveiled.
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And there are some very beautiful prayers to Christ,
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and the faithful come up to the front of the church
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So what we're doing is we're reliving those key events
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okay welcome back uh to our special descent into hell um we do this every holy saturday dr taylor marshall
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is with us i'm gonna have an interview with dr tom williams later in the show we'll get into that
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i'll tee it up uh dr uh taylor marshall what lessons can we derive as as uh christians as catholics
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uh in the uh in this veil of tears from the harrowing of of hell what what are we to take from that
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yeah i think if you if you consider that for all those centuries which is the teaching the harrowing
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of hell that you know someone like king david or you know isaiah the prophet or jeremiah these these
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great men of faith these prophets esther they were waiting uh for the coming of the messiah this is a
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long time i don't know how time works in the afterlife that's a mystery you know i don't know if they
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experienced it you know as centuries or how that happened but you know we living now in 2024
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we we also are in as you just said we're in a valley of tears you know many of us are dealing
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with loss of employment or cancer or broken relationships and addictions and problems and
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all these things and i think the important thing is that christ pierced into the darkness
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christ descended into hell and he forgets none of us and no matter how dark things are getting for you
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and and how difficult things are in this valley of tears i mean we not we're not literally in hell but
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sometimes it can feel like that the lord jesus christ dies on the cross and he seeks for those that
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are lost and he is the fountain of all mercy uh he loves for he loves us and he pleads with us to come
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unto him and to cast our cares cast our burdens onto him so this is a time of year i think a lot of
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people sometimes they stop going to church or they kind of fall out of practice and then the easter time
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like oh i need to go get back into it but i think this is a great opportunity on holy saturday to
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recommit and say you know what i am going to get to mass tomorrow i am going to go to church
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um i do want to live for christ he loves me and really the cure for all of our societal problems
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and our personal problems whether they're physical mental spiritual and all the way up to you know
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communism and socialism that's you know creeping in on our society the only true answer for that
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is the way the truth and the life and jesus says i am the way the truth and the life and in john
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beginning of john's gospel he is the light in the darkness so i would just share with everyone
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watching return to christ to find christ to go to church on sunday yes i know there's hypocrites
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there's problems in the church but reconnect with christ and i think this weekend good friday holy
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saturday resurrection sunday the pascal mystery is the right time to reach out and embrace christ and
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find that that healing and that redemption so i think this this is really the lesson for us and
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he stands before us and he says knock and it shall be open to you so knock
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um where we are in this country in the world obviously we talk all the time about this is
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spiritual warfare right and there's really no compromise uh with the uh the the side of darkness
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now they've thrown up this this uh phrase christian nationalism like they're trying to get
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they're trying to intimidate christians to stay out of the public square they're trying to
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intimidate christians from actually being part of a movement that wants to take its country back
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what are your thoughts about all this you know the holy looks a great time to reflect on this because
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in a way judas iscariot and many of the people of his time were demanding for jesus christ our lord
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and savior to initiate a political movement that would overthrow the romans and of course our lord
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and savior jesus christ wanted something much more significant than that and so i think we got to be
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careful that we we don't throw in our lot with that understanding of jesus christ that being said when
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he rose again from the dead and all 12 apostles taught that he is the messiah and that christ is king
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he is the lord of lords and the king of kings and so there is a social dimension and there's a
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political dimension to christianity there always has been and there always will be when we say jesus
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is the king of kings over and over in the bible that entails that there are other kings worldly kings
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there are temporal princes you could say premiers presidents prime ministers and that his lordship
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extends over that as well the christian nationalist movement i'm always a little careful about it
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because there's people in all different parts of that spectrum of what it means to be a christian
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nationalist i think it's safe to say that in the christian tradition in the catholic tradition at least
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there's been a integration between the church and the state and that hasn't always been negative and
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there's great positive elements to that and i don't think we should be afraid of that we've already
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learned that a strict separation of church and state just gives complete power to the secularist
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atheist communist marxist so there needs to be a better balance a better integration there and i think
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that's a conversation that more and more people are having kind of seen the last week steve you know
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this huge fight on on social media over you know is it wrong to say christ is king uh that people find
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find this to be offensive in some way and it shouldn't be at all uh this is a core fundamental
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central belief of christianity and it does have political and social implications so i think my short
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answer on that steve is i'm a little bit concerned about the term christian nationalism because of all the
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different uh versions of it but i'm of course not at all opposed with the historic christian or catholic
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understanding that there can be a a proper healthy integration of christian moral teaching with the
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state how did and i don't keep up with all the different you know aspects although we did talk about
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this early in the week it did come up this the christ how did christ as king become controversial i remember
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as a a child in in in catholic school you know christ was king of kings christ is king i think
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heck half of the half of the third of the catholic schools had some sort of either place in the front
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of the school or they had some aspect of a bunch i think a lot some of the schools we play i think is
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elementary school when i was at saint paul's where i went to elementary school or catholic grammar school
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what was called uh i think christ christ the king was uh was one of the teams we played from down at
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tidewater i think it was how did that in your mind get to be controversial it's something that's
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the catholic at least the catholic church i'm not so sure about the process but the catholic church
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has used that phrase for since i've been around for you know 70 years yeah i think the i think the
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phrase christ is king has been around since the year 33 it's it's old it's ancient christians have
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always believed it but what we've seen steven your audience knows this is you know over the last 50
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years that the fact that any christian would say something in public or pray in public or quote
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scripture or that a politician would make reference to their christian faith is offensive we're told you
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keep your your your christianity your prayers your bible verses you keep them at home locked away in the
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safe you know it's kind of like you have to be a closeted christian and in christianity if you want
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to believe that at home it's fine but don't bring it into the workplace movies television politics and
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so i think the fact that christians are on social media saying christ is king it's it's bringing about
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a response from the secular side that's offensive to them they're like you can't say that and i think
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it's just part of the social conditioning and christians are starting to realize that by saying
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christ is king that there's nothing wrong with it but by saying it somehow they're going to be
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canceled for it and so i think that's why this small phrase christ is king has become so controversial
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because the left doesn't want to allow us to even say that out loud in public in a tweet i mean it's an
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indication of where we are as a culture a decaying culture
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uh how do people i know you're combating that every day with your shows your podcast
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uh your writings where do people go to get access to all of it
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uh they can find me at dr taylor marshall on rumble youtube or you can just put in taylormarshall.com
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and you can find my books and blog and website and all that
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how have you not been uh how have you not been canceled off youtube it's shocking i can see rumble
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but uh well steve you're you're you're very bold as well um i i'm still hanging in there
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yeah and um i'm still saying christ is king and and touching on a lot of these issues but for some
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reason i've been spared so far but i'm on rumble as well rumble's a great place to be
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rumble's a great place we're up there dr taylor marshall thank you so much and thank you for
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spending another time happy easter crisis crisis king thank you thank you sir boy how'd that become
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controversial like i said i think i think a bunch of the schools we played when i was a kid was
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christ is king or christ the king um we're going to take a short commercial break here in a moment
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we want to make sure that everybody uh uh we really want to thank the audience on a uh on holy
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saturday to to come to the worm but we always try to do people have been with the show for the last
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couple years we always try to do a special on saturday to to um really think about what happened
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between the crucifixion that you know according to the our faith christ died at approximately 3 p.m
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on friday and what happened until dawn on uh on sunday and that's where every year we spend time
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with on um on holy saturday discussing this dr tom williams i did an interview with dr tom williams i'm
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going to replay parts of it because quite frankly it was so powerful and particularly about persecution
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We have, for those of you that are watching Unreal America's Voice or Rumble,
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you can see we have the classic picture of Christ and his descent into hell.
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I realize some aspects of the Protestant, our Protestant brothers and sisters,
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don't either adhere to this or have never been taught it.
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But in the Catholic Church, there's a whole concept of this from the time that Christ died,
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And it gets to this issue of spiritual warfare.
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You know, we have so many guests on here so many times that say,
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hey, at the end of the day, everything we're fighting for,
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everything that this revolves around is a spiritual war between good and evil and between the traditions of the Judeo-Christian West
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and the Christian faith in this country as a new Jerusalem,
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in the forces of darkness and the forces of evil.
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Now, everybody doesn't believe that, and that's fine.
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Everybody in this movement doesn't believe that, and that's fine.
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Many, many people who support President Trump don't believe that.
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They believe in President Trump and what he's done and more of the temporal side
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and, you know, what he's doing, either deregulation or taking the ministry of state
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or just being a leader, a strong leader that people can rally around.
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It's as long as you're, you know, the enemy of my enemy right now is my friend.
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But there are those that have really, I think, thought this through to a very deep level
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and understand that there's something going on here that's extraordinary.
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And that's why I continue to say the the victory in 2016 was absolutely providential.
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And I know that because I was there and I could see it.
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And we were there from the beginning, back in 14 and in February.
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Actually, I met President Trump in 2010 when Dave Bossie and I had a meeting with him
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when he was actually not thinking but wanted to understand what the process was
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of running for a president, particularly running in a primary.
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Not saying he was thinking about running in 2012, but he wanted to know the process.
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And then when I took over Breitbart, even a couple of years later,
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after Andrew passed away, got to know President Trump even more so.
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And our history of standing up for President Trump early on in 14 and particularly 15
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against Fox News and the Murdochs and their instrument, Megyn Kelly,
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has been documented, well documented by Megyn Kelly herself and other people at Fox.
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But that victory in 2016 was definitely providential.
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Hillary Clinton and what she represents is a force of darkness.
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That was really the managed decline of our nation.
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What happened in 2020, particularly because they saw what President Trump did while he was there.
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And remember, the power of President Trump in this movement, he's not overly churchy.
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If you know, he's not a particularly churchy guy, I think he has a very deep and abiding faith.
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Now, the left just mocks and ridicules him all the time.
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But his faith comes out in things that are important, very important.
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And you see, no one that didn't have a deep and abiding faith could have the courage he has.
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He's had every opportunity to walk away from all this and not to be destroyed.
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Remember this weekend, we're hearing Peter Navarro is in prison.
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In fact, Jesus Christ himself for a number of hours was in prison by the Roman authorities.
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Over Easter, Peter Navarro, a decent and honest man, is in prison.
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In prison, I would say pretty good forces of darkness, right?
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So at the end of the day, I see this as a I see this and I've always seen this as a spiritual conflict because I saw it up front, up close and personal.
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So was the steel, because that was to show us that this was just no longer managed to climb by the elites.
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This was something far darker, far more urgent that they were trying to understand the power that President Trump had seen in the populist movement, the nationalist movement to kind of break these globalists and to break these elites.
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They pulled out every stop in the summer of love of 2020, all the way through the stealing of the election, the transition integrity project, all of it.
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And when they first took over the debanking, the deplatforming, all of it, putting up signs like the Stasi back in Eastern Europe.
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If you see anything in your neighbors, identify it.
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And if you talk to them, even people that don't agree with President Trump, people who don't like President Trump, people are not particularly drawn to MAGA.
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People who don't like the deplorables are America first.
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People, quite frankly, think MAGA is a little kooky or even dangerous or could be dangerous.
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The country's on a deeply wrong path, deeply wrong, not kind of wrong, not on the margins.
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And that took the steal in 2020 to expose to people because they did it so rapidly, so in your face.
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And so much of it, so much of it targeting the American family, so much of it and the children.
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And what they've asked for and what they want to redefine society is so repellent to people that believe in the tenets of our civilization, the Judeo-Christian West.
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And they don't have to be churchy or part of an active, organized faith or religion to believe that.
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And that is the power of this moment because we've come back ascended.
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And that's really because of, I think, a tremendous amount of prayer and sacrifice from the most religious people, deeply religious people in our movement.
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One thing I can tell you, I don't go to any of these public events or any of these talks or speeches or the CPACs or the Mike Lindell's or all these other conferences I go to, that a, I won't say vast, but a good portion of the audience, more than the majority, almost two-thirds, are there deeply religious.
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And they're not particularly wealthy in the material world.
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They're not the people hanging out in East Hampton or hanging out in Miami Beach or hanging out in Beverly Hills or Holmby Hills or Pacific Heights up in the Bay Area because that's not necessary.
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It's the strength of your faith and connecting that faith to your country's betterment.
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And right now, that betterment is the first to save her than to help turn it around.
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And in believing in the reason you're doing that, because you're part of something bigger.
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And part of that something bigger is you've been blessed to be born in this time, in this place, in this republic, the new Jerusalem.
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And if that makes you a Christian nationalist, so be it.
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When you see the thing they're most worried about, they're most worried about, and they can't figure it out, and they don't want to admit it's because you're a religious faith.
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They understand that the Trump movement did not go away.
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They understand that this just didn't evaporate.
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And now they understand that what President Trump has done in his leadership is built a movement that will surpass him and live well past him and grow.
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And that in growing, we will take back the country and we will make America great again.
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That is what they hate, because they thought they had you crushed.
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And they thought you had you crushed because they only look at the material side of the calculation.
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These people have no control of no institutions, no earthly institutions.
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They don't control the culture, either high culture or pop culture.
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They don't control any of the major institutions in the country, political institutions, military institutions.
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So, on this Holy Saturday, you have to think about Christ's resurrection, but also the resurrection as it was manifested to people who believe in Christ in the temporal world here.
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One of the reasons that our opposition, these demonic forces are so dangerous right now is they can't figure this out.
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And that means they will go to extreme measures.
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It just didn't happen that one of their top public intellectuals, Robert Kagan, wrote in one of their top news platforms, the Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Washington Post.
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That is, as the New York Times, the paper of record of our nation.
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The Washington Post feels it's the paper of record of all of all politics.
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So, when you're in the editorial page there, and I think particularly on a Sunday, that's the big league.
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He's the one that wrote the essay about the justification of Brutus' assassination of Caesar and that Trump was a new Caesar.
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And you take whatever, you take the, you can extrapolate from that where he was going.
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That is why this weekend is so important for us to kind of collect ourselves and think about the basic deepest tenets of our faith.
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But also, starting on Monday, how do you take those tenets of your faith and gird it with that power, gird it with that belief?
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How do you translate that into your public life?
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Now, I realize there's some, and I'm not saying they're wrong.
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There's some that just say, I don't, I don't want to get into the public square.
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I just want to live my life, and I want to live it as close to the precepts of Christ as I can and do whatever I can do out in the real world.
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But if you made that determination that my faith is connected to what I do in the, in the material world, that I will be held accountable for this.
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And I understand because I've been blessed to be in this time.
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Then this is the time that God in his infinite wisdom decided you were put here for.
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And this fight is going to be a fight at the end of the day is a spiritual fight.
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The breach, the gap is too big to compromise in this.
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It's either we are victorious or they are victorious.
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Over this weekend, that is what I think, I think, would be quite helpful for you to contemplate.
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And what does it all mean when it comes down to your life?
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And why has divine providence chosen for you to be here in this time and place?
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We are going to, when we come back at the top of the hour, I'm going to go about an interview I did with Tom Williams.
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It ties in one, Holy Saturday, the descent into hell, the meaning of it for the Christian message or Christ message to Christians.
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Also, about persecution of Christians is one of the things I don't think we spend enough time on the show about.
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I would love to spend more time on it, and I always commit that I'm going to spend more time on it.
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We just never get, with the press of everything else, we just never get to it.
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But Tom Williams wrote an amazing book about it, and he's also an expert.
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I think he might have stepped down here recently just to be a writer, but he used to run the Rome branch.
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I had Breitbart London with Raheem, Breitbart Jerusalem with Aaron Klein, and Breitbart Rome with Tom Williams.
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And these guys were absolutely amazing and just set up a great international group that was very effective.
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So in the next hour, we'll do that, and then I'll come back and give, I've got a lot of closing commentary about this weekend, about where we go from here.
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But look, you just have to understand with controlling these, after the long march of the institutions, the controlling of these institutions, particularly the political institutions, the cultural institutions, the societal institutions, and the financial and then corporate and then the economic institutions.
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If you step back and think about it, the probability that a movement that's counter to that and trying to go back to the old traditions that made this republic great and made this republic distinct and made this republic a nation that brought more freedom to more people than any other country in the history of the earth.
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And created more wealth, more wealth, not for the wealthy, but created more wealth, the hands of the working class and middle class for them.
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No middle class on earth and no even working class on earth have had the wealth creation, the benefits.
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I'm absolutely convinced and quite strong in my convictions.
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And it's going to take people that I think deeply believe in that.
00:47:42.480
And here's why, because those people are not going to be sunshine soldiers or summer patriots or sunshine patriots and summer soldiers, which I think is the correct version.
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They're going to be all in and they're going to be all in because the most important thing, the core, their core spiritual being, the center of their, of their, their being.
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Remember the ancients, your being attracts your life.
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And that's the point I hammer over and over again.
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We've come so far and had so many incredible victories against all odds.
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Because this movement channels, that spirituality channels, that belief and empowers people.
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Most empowered people I've met, the people in most agency are people that have the least amount of money in this movement.
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They've dedicated their beings to this with that.
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If you can take that and spread that out to more and more people, if you can use that to be a force multiplier, it's incredible.
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And I think in all the world history, that's why it's so powerful.
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That's why they hate Trump so much because they would sit there and go, Trump would be the least likely guy to basically help be a foundational member of this movement and be its leader.
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And in his rejecting it, got us to this place where we are.
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That we can see the ability to take back the political apparatus or at least part of it and not do it in a way that's controlled opposition, but actually do it in a way that's going to have fundamental change in this country.
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And I realize a lot of people say, well, Trump's got these banyards coming around now, but there's a certain practical side that you have to just consider and to get this, you know, to accomplish this.
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He's still as pure of heart in this fight as one possibly can be given everything he's gone through.
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One thing to do is they have provided, and it's one of our core beliefs here is to always make sure that we're putting all the information out for the worm for free.
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Okay, I'm going to come back, Dr. Tom Williams.
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