THE LIVESTREAM - Israel Used Palantir For Pagers Op; Propaganda Targets US Churches
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1 hour and 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Pastor Mike Huckabee travels to Israel with over 1,000 American Pastors to promote the pro-Israel agenda. What does this have to do with Israel? Is this a good or bad thing? Is it even a thing at all?
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as a quick rule of thumb if somebody comes to you and offers you a free sponsored paid for
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trip to israel the proper response the right response some might say is to simply tell them
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no we've just witnessed one of the largest paid sponsored events for um politicians for congressmen
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All those things would be concerning in and of themselves, but it's exceptionally concerning
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It's a thousand pastors here in the United States shuttled off to Israel for a conference
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where they are being indoctrinated and trained and equipped with propaganda to take back
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because, well, because the propaganda recently over the last couple of years has been failing.
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and it's not really a mystery why. Sure, plenty of you, as myself personally, have been red-pilled
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by reading some old forbidden books and looking at this and looking at that, figuring out a little
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bit of the history behind some of the events that have gone on over the course of the last
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60, 70, 80 years. But one of the big things for the average person that has caused them to have
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a negative view of Israel in these last two years? I mean, when you look at different guys who are
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pro-Zionist, pro-Israel, they say it's really concerning the last two years, the rise of
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anti-Semitism. Well, what new novel thing has occurred in the last two years that would maybe
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be responsible for a rise of anti-Semitism? And not just for guys on 4chan, but just the average
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American being a little less pro-Israel than they were staunchly pro-Israel for decades? Well,
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what it is, is that you're talking about a country that glassed Gaza. You're talking about a country
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that has killed thousands upon thousands of civilians and women and children. That's why
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they have such a negative image right now among, again, your basic, normal American citizen. So
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they need to do a little bit of PR, a little bit of public relations. Israel as a nation state
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has realized that they've fallen out of favor for many Americans. And although Israel has never been
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our greatest ally, we certainly have been theirs. We support Israel in a way that no other country
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does. Israel is not capable of standing on its own two feet. They wouldn't have had the country
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without Western intervention in the first place. And although they say they're perfectly capable
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of standing on their own two feet, we keep giving them money. That capability, it may be there.
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Potentially, Israel can be self-sustaining. I'd love to just give that a try. Could we see if
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they could do it without our tax dollars, just for maybe one year, just for one season, just test it
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out, see how it goes. Well, we never have. And so Israel is working overtime to bolster their image
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among Americans. But plenty of countries have done that. Russia's done that, right? China has done
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that. There are plenty of countries that have sought to engage, you know, in foreign affairs
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with propaganda to try to change the general sentiment in relation to them that have tried
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to interfere with elections or this, that, and the other. But what's unique right now,
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and you do need to feel this. This is not normal. What's unique is that it wasn't just a thousand
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politicians or a thousand, you know, CEOs of American corporations. All those would be
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concerning in and of themselves, but it was a thousand pastors. Israel is hand-selecting
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ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ, bringing them into their country, all expenses paid,
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and then filling them up with a mission to come back to our country and spread
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pro-Israel propaganda politically and culturally, but then also to spread false doctrine.
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It actually does matter at a theological level, not just politically.
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They are being trained and equipped by Israeli citizens and leaders of the civil affairs there,
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as well as some of our own civil leaders like Mike Huckabee on this trip,
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and not just telling them political talking points that they should regurgitate,
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but telling them theological talking points that are in direct contradiction to the Word
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of God. Mike Huckabee is instructing America's pastors. Who appointed him as the head of a
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seminary? Who appointed him in a position to give theological instruction over America's pastors
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that they'll then go and teach their congregants? And for the record, these are not small churches.
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These are large churches that provide a sampling representative of evangelicalism in America as a
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whole. It's worth adding that when you look at the list that's been exposed of which churches and
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pastors were present at this event, two of the largest denominations, Protestant denominations,
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represented on this list with this trip for a thousand pastors in Israel were Calvary Chapel
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and Southern Baptist. Calvary Chapel and Southern Baptist. In addition to this, we're also going to
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spend a little bit of time discussing the recent expose that Palantir, led by CEO Alex Karp,
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also started in large part by Peter Thiel, that this was the tech behind just back in September
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of 2024, the major event that everyone saw on the news where all of a sudden you had
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pagers exploding. You had people missing limbs. You had people's eyes gouged out. Some of these
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people were bad people. Some of them were not. Some of them were civilians. And come to find out
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the tech behind it is, again, American companies. It's American CEOs, America tech that's being
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handed over to Israel to pull off a widely criticized, and I think for good reason,
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widely criticized war tactic that involved civilians. And this tech, the last thing I'll
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say before we hop into the show, it's worth noting that this tech has now has its tentacles
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well-raveled within the American government. This tech from Palantir, facial recognition software,
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all these different things, drone capability, AI being able to curate lists, you know, in a matter
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of seconds of who's a dangerous citizen that maybe needs a few eyes on them. This tech is not
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just in Israel blowing up pagers of their enemies, but this tech is in the United States government
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through Doge. Because of Elon Musk, although I think he did some good, but because of his presence
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and involvement with Doge and Peter Thiel and his connections to Musk, Palantir has inserted itself
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the hardware or software, I should say, has been able to, as far as we know, we don't know exactly
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what intel they have, but we know they had the opportunity through Doge to curate files on you,
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not just Hezbollah, not just some terrorist in the Middle East, but American citizens, you,
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me. These things are worth looking into. We don't want to be hyperbolic, and we don't want to be
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like Chicken Little running around saying that the sky is falling. We don't want to be
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doom-scrolling constantly. We don't want to be black-pilled. We trust in Jesus,
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but we also don't want to be naive. We don't want to be foolish. We want to be innocent as doves,
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but shrewd, wise as serpents, as the scripture commands us. These are things that American
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citizens and especially Christians should be aware of. Your government has the technology
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and the opportunity has already come and gone for private corporations within your nation to
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have very intricate files on your social media, the things that you post, the views that you hold.
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And it's one thing if you were an objective danger to the public.
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It's another, though, if there are lists being curated and eyes watching
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simply because you, like many Americans, aren't very fond of Israel these days.
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That is absolutely crazy that a foreign nation is training pastors in our country
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to teach false doctrine and promote political propaganda for foreign interests. It is crazy
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that a private corporation has had access into our government and the government's infrastructure
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to build files on free American citizens. These are the things that we'll discuss in today's episode.
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You're missing the whole reason to watch, honestly.
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I feel like that's kind of the show at this point.
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they're carrying the lion's share of weight on this episode.
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but we also have Antonio coming back on Monday.
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And I think for good, we'll have some more details on Monday.
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We've got coming up, I won't say much more than that.
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We don't want to give anything away, but this Monday, which will be what, the 15th?
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December 15th, this Monday, 3 p.m. Central Time, we're going to give a full update.
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We may not give every little specific, but a full update on our vision for 2026
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We did an episode, this would have been in the summer,
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we talked about J.D. Vance and his connections to Palantir.
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I think we were very careful in that episode to say
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nothing that we're necessarily saying could happen
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We can't prove any type of secret conspiracy, secret coup,
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but we are saying, and I know the word concerned gets overused,
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But what we are saying is it's concerning that public-private partnerships,
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so the United States government contracting with private contractors.
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Now, private contractors are not bound by the same rules that government entities are.
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hey, I'm a citizen and I deserve to have access to information the government has on me.
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Do you have something, information, related to me?
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But public-private partnerships, government with private corporations, opens up a much bigger world.
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And again, we didn't say this is what's happening, but you can imagine a world, for example, where an analytics company had cataloged everything that you posted online.
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So it's not just pulling, you know, the bad things you've maybe said, but it's pulling old Facebook photos.
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And it can put together an entire comprehensive package of who you are.
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Now, using big data, using the power of analytics and AI, you could create a list of people that are risks.
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And a private company, like Palantir in this instance, could partner with a LinkedIn.
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And without you even knowing it, without the government being involved, your speech is not being censured,
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you could find it very, very difficult to get a job because a data company out there somewhere crunched the numbers
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and they said, yeah, actually this guy has a 45% chance of staying less than a year at your work.
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This guy has a 25% chance of saying inflammatory things online.
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And you could, without even knowing it, without even understanding what's happening, I'm putting in these resumes, I'm qualified for these jobs, you could be shut out of a housing market.
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You could be shut out if you had some type of social credit scores you've seen in China.
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You could be shut out of the ability to get credit to buy a home.
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So private partnerships with the government, partnerships with other groups, they're a huge problem.
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And the most nefarious part about it, you wouldn't necessarily be able to see it.
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Again, you would say, man, I'm not getting jobs.
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And I feel like this is a theme that is going to keep coming up.
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But we're going to keep talking about the risk of the surveillance state.
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We've got some content coming out next year on it.
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But it's worth, at the end of the year, reminding you that one of the biggest, and I mean, as a publicly traded company, one of the fastest growing companies is this company, Palantir.
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Palantir was founded as an offshoot from the CIA's Venture Capital Fund.
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I believe In-Q-Tec is the name, and it was founded in the early 2000s.
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Named after Lord of the Rings, the stones, the seeing eye that would allow you to see
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So it's been in use now for, it would be coming up on two and a half decades.
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They've got some talent, and they're a little bit exciting.
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Huge company, two and a half decades worth of very secretive private contracts with the
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FBI and the CIA, and also contracts with the government that we know about, private corporations.
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It's huge, is the point. And a lot of us have concerns about Palantir, about its leadership,
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about the individuals involved, about what it's doing, precisely because of stories like this.
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So a new book came out. It's a biography of the CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp. Alex Karp is a
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Jewish revolutionary, very eccentric guy. It was kind of funny. This week, actually,
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he talked about how young men or white men have been disadvantaged in the hiring process,
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that they've been discriminated against. Which is true. Not sure we're fully back. Not sure he's
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our guy quite yet. But he's one of those guys, you know, when he misses, he misses. And when he's on
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it, he's on it. A while ago in a deleted tweet, he said, you know, my biggest fear is that Christian
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nationalists are going to rise to power and they're going to throw me out of a window. So
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So he sees white men being discriminated against, but very much so in other respects, he's not our guy.
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And in that biography, it's been revealed new information that wasn't previously known before.
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You alluded to it in the cold open last year, a little over a year ago, Israel's intelligence side, Mossad, carried out a pretty impressive attack.
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It's honestly one of the most impressive attacks we've seen in the modern world as far as targeted, surgical, precise attacks go.
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as just taking out what it is that you want to take out with minimal risk to troops.
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This is not, well, these guys infiltrated and we risked one of our teams
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and they could have been found or they could have been caught.
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It was the detonation remotely of a couple thousand pagers
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and then a second follow-on attack via walkie-talkies.
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And the attack, as you alluded to, it killed 12 high-ranking Hezbollah agents,
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but it also injured, let me see here, killed 12 people,
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including two children and two health care workers and injured 2,800s. And as you alluded to,
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the United Nations at the times of the attack noted that the attacks constitute war crimes of
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murder, attacking civilians, and launching indiscriminate attacks, in addition to violating
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the right to life, adding that around 500 people suffered severe eye injuries, including a diplomat.
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So this is just a civil diplomat, someone who has a mission to carry out diplomatic relations.
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this was in Lebanon. Severe eye injuries, others suffered grave injuries to their faces, hands,
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and bodies, and that it is also a war crime to commit violence intended to spread terror among
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civilians, including to imitate or deter them from supporting an adversary. A climate of fear now
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pervades everyday life in Lebanon. This is from the dissident substack revealed Israel used
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Palantir technologies and pager terrorist attack in Lebanon. So what we now know is that this
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software that we have a lot of concern about here in the U.S., that its use overseas is not just
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limited to, hey, we went ahead and gathered some data, and that data was somewhat helpful.
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In Palestine, they've confirmed, they've used Palantir to generate kill lists. A kill list is
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you generate, you take all the data you have on someone through surveillance, through whatever
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other means you have, you take it, and you say, hey, 89% probability this guy is a bad guy. This
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guy is likely to be violent. This guy is likely to be involved in operations. And when you get
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above a certain threshold, an arbitrary private company can decide, we're going to take you out
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with a drone strike. Think about that. Your life reduced to, I think of minority report, statistics,
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all the data that they can have on you combed through, and we'll give this one 92% chance.
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He's a terrorist. This one's a 70% chance. All without your knowledge. If that's how it's being
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used in the Middle East right now, as we can confirm, used in surgical intel operations like
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in Lebanon, used in Israel, generate kill lists for Palestinian civilians. The point is, and then
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over here, we've taken it, one of the information problems in the government is called information
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siloing. You think of the Department of Human Health and Services, and then the IRS. There's
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a bunch of different departments. Now, all these departments will have a set of data on you, some
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of it redundant, some of it not. But you can imagine the efficiencies if you could take all
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of that data and have a central ledger. So it's this person and attached to them, I have all the
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data i would need for health and human services i have all the data i would need for tax purposes
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i have all the data i would need for this for that and the other it's all in one central spot
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well doge came in and said hey we're here to create efficiency among the government we want
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to end this uh information siloing we all have to have duplicate copies of information and it's
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incomplete we don't have all of it we don't know who this person is well as best we can tell we
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don't have anything publicly confirmed but there's been a number of different leaks
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they use palantir software to do it and so best case scenario they have your data but they're
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not using it nefariously they have the amount of taxes that you pay they have uh if you reported
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to for example to a survey to the cdc i got called about this the cdc calls people up and it surveys
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them about their vaccination for their children now it's not a bad thing it's not we're calling
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to make sure you vaccinate your kids but that's now a piece of data owned by this company or owned
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by this department of the government and you begin to piece those pieces together you actually have
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a pretty powerful system for identifying people who would be a threat to your government,
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Okay, there's operations in the Middle East, but you're telling me that same company theoretically
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now has the data on tens and hundreds of millions of Americans and the people that are the head
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I mean, one is an eccentric homosexual man, Peter Thiel, who's obsessed with the Antichrist,
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who when asked about it, should humanity survive or continue?
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And some of that is a little bit of how he's not a very clear speaker, I don't think.
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I've never seen Peter Thiel not sweating in an interview.
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He's in a t-shirt and he's just like, man, it's hot in here.
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My brother in Christ, you are in a cotton t-shirt.
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Oh, he does claim to be an evangelical Christian.
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what are you gonna do um i have one more thing on here but whether when it comes to israel
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very close ties so you have peter teal you have alex carp again the guy who says my greatest fear
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christian nationalist rise to power they take me out i'm on the receiving end of it a company with
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very close ties to israel at one point they were working so intensely with the government they had
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opened up a second office in tel aviv when after the october 7th attack palantir took out a full
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page ad, We Stand with Israel, and offered partnerships or internships for only Jewish
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students. And it is absolutely worth saying and causing a ruckus and chimping out and about and
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saying, what does this company do? What data do they have? What do they plan to do with it? Who
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is oversight of them? Who are they accountable to? They are a private company, theoretically,
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because they are publicly traded. They are accountable to shareholders. But what does
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that even mean? You have, theoretically, a company with all of your information, no guardrails,
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no restrictions, and, lest we forget, Peter Thiel made J.D. Vance who he is. Now, it's not a sin,
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it's not immoral for a man who aspires to be a politician to be supported by people who believe
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in him. Personally, if a longtime mentor came to me and said, I believe in you for U.S. Senate,
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and I want to put $15 million behind you, depending on who that man was, I'm not going to lie, I would
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probably say yes. Most people would. So we're not bemoaning that J.D. Vance networked, worked with
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people, took donations, became a senator, quickly selected to vice president. But because of that,
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because of the IOUs that is just inherent to human nature, Palantir also, not just their contracts
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that they have, the things they do for the government, pretty much a direct line we can
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assume to the White House. Because at the end of the day, Peter Thiel made him who he is. J.D. Vance
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doesn't, just to be honest about it, he doesn't have a long track record of accomplishments.
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He didn't start a venture capital fund that was successful. The venture capital fund he
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actually started went under in just a couple of years. He worked at a VC firm that nobody
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ever saw him at, part of a failed venture capital firm, wrote a book, probably ghost
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written, got $15 million and he's a senator. So he was made by someone else. And that someone
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else is directly tied to this company that now has for all intents and purposes a direct line
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to the white house that's what we're saying we're not drawing the exact conclusion and they're for
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sure going to use it to kill u.s citizens we don't do this yeah we don't know but they could
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yeah it's just we don't really want private companies having that much power uh and the
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government can just wash its hands right like that's what pilot tried to do right he was a
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governing official at the time, and he's like, attempted to wash his hands of the guilt, you know,
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the blood of Christ. But at the end of the day, well, it doesn't really work. Pilate is responsible
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under God, and many other people were responsible as well for the death of Jesus. But the government
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today tries to kind of do the same thing. They're able to say, well, you know, it's not legislation,
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We didn't round up this private citizen and put them in jail
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or make it to where this private citizen couldn't work.
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Yeah, but what you did was you gave access to a private company
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that doesn't have the stipulations that the government has,
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and then they, on their own, and the government can say,
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I have done no wrong like the Proverbs say and then Palantir has all this information now
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and Palantir can exactly what you said they could partner with LinkedIn or they could partner with
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this or partner with that and make it impossible for you to work and you know allegedly no no
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constitution you know no constitutional rights have been broken it's all just you know the free
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market, free enterprise, private companies that just so happen to do the bidding of your government
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or foreign government like Israel, and they're willing to do it for free, or at least allegedly.
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Alex Karp at one point, this was a couple of years ago, he bragged about stopping the rise
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of the far right in Europe. We don't know how that happened. But think about that. Hey, there's
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no right wing movement in Europe right now. There really isn't. There's a guy out there with an
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analytics company claiming we're the ones who helped stop the rise of that. I think of low
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level assassinations. Those are extremely powerful. I mean, even Charlie Kirk, we're going to see what
00:25:50.200
happens, what comes of it. Assassination is a powerful tool. Matt Walsh, he was just on Tucker
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Carlson. He said, well, kind of early on, there was this idea like you strike down Charlie Kirk
00:25:59.020
and there will be a million more Charlies. No, actually, we just lost Charlie. That's how
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assassination works. Great men drive history. But imagine if you could, with a lot of accuracy,
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we think this person's going to be a problem. We think he's resonating with the people.
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It's no exaggeration to say that Trump's ascendancy and rise in 2024, probably predicated by the free
00:26:20.200
speech that was possible on X the year prior. So a little bit of free speech opened up a whole
00:26:24.720
world of possibilities. But then if you come back in, I think of the non-profit NCRI, National
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a contagion research institute but then these non-profits come in they say hey there's a
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concerning group of people and they need to be siloed we need to be able to identify them they
00:26:37.760
need to be tagged on social media so their accounts are de-boosted like an algorithm alone
00:26:42.340
can kill a huge message you could have a message that resonates with tons of people
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but they never see it right well why because the government came in and censored your speech nope
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a private company decided that's what they wanted to do right it's like oh well it's just competing
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the free marketplace of ideas um no it's not fair competition it it's not because the deck
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has been rigged um you know i even in the case of tiktok we've seen i don't know about you know
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our listeners but i've noticed um a tangible uh difference and suppression of you know my
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impressions that i'm getting on on the account that i run and um and i can't help but think
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not on tiktok to be clear you started saying tiktok but just to be clear you're saying on x
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on x twitter yeah x and so i look at like okay it seems like the algorithm is suppressing my
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accounts and other accounts uh that share my views well you know this happened about two weeks ago
00:27:42.040
i did is there any other kind of news that came out anything oh well you know netanyahu talked
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about you know how they took tiktok and how they're going to try to eventually take x and you
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see larry ellison and and oracle and you know purchasing tiktok and it's like well we can't
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let china have it yeah but now it's just a handful of billionaire jewish people who are pro-israel
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and not really necessarily pro-america right um how is that how is that an improvement and
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netanyahu specifically said we're coming for x next and you know elon still owns the platform
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but even even with him owning it and it not being directly owned by someone like larry ellison
00:28:30.760
there's still a mass amount of pressure that can be placed on x and on elon from advertisers right
00:28:38.960
that it can't just go belly up it has to be profitable and all that requires is you know a
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few influential fortune 500 companies to say we will no longer advertise on x if you don't crack
00:28:52.000
down on this specific content and then lo and behold oh we get a an algorithm change and oh
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which accounts is it suppressing oh the ones that were critical of israel
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an ex-massad chief this was back in october he's behind the icj blackmail campaign he bragged
00:29:11.700
Israel has installed a global sabotage network. You think of what happened to Hezbollah
00:29:15.820
and Lebanon. Ex-Massad guys are out there bragging, oh, we have that globally. Installed here,
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installed there, the ability to be turned on in this place. Israel's intelligence, part of that
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because they have to survive surrounded by Muslim countries that hate them. We've talked about why
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that might be in the past, but regardless of why, they're surrounded by a number of different
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countries that hate their guts. And so they developed one of the most incredible intelligence
00:29:38.480
operations in the world. I mean, Jeffrey Epstein, there's like 95,000 photos that were just released
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today. And the big question on everyone's mind is, was he an asset for this government that has
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its tentacles everywhere? And it's very possible one of the biggest tentacles they have, and it's
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it's homegrown. It is not the Israeli government through AIPAC, but it's actually mostly American
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Jews advocating on behalf of a strong relationship between America and Israel. So just because
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Americans that may not have been born in America would make them not Americans, but you get what
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we're doing this, this is why we're doing it, and this is the purpose for it. In a foreign
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month, a new California-based LLC, Show Faith by Works, LLC, filed a registration for a campaign
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here in the United States. Now, a couple different groups have talked about this. I think we just had
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other news at the time, so we're kind of circling back to something that's been in the air for two
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months. There's a new update on it. But for the last two months, people have been rightly concerned,
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rightly alarmed, that the Israeli government, through the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
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working through this U.S. California-based LLC, Show Faith by Works, has been carrying out a
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targeted campaign of propaganda. That's essentially what you could call it. It is what it is.
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Targeted campaign of propaganda towards Christian churches for a positive perception of Israel in
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America. Nathan, you can show the screenshot here on the screen. This is the FARA filing
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itself. And if you go down and you read what it is that they're going to do, I realize it's a
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little bit small text to read, but specifically when you look at their mission. So them saying,
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this is what we're going to carry out. This is their mission statement. Here's what we're going
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to do. We file this form. We're a foreign government acting on behalf of our interests.
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What are we going to do? Christian outreach through various grassroots and digital targeting
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We will create a mobile museum to display at churches,
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and through targeted and Christian events.
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We will have teams of people reaching out to churches
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Yeah, it's a little glitchy on my iPad as well.
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So this is U.S.-based LLC on behalf of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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That's not just one guy started an LLC in Tel Aviv.
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He decided to do a little bit of homegrown propaganda.
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Create a mobile museum to display at churches in America and Christian colleges.
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distribute pro-Israel information online and through targeted and Christian events like
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conferences or like TPUSA. We will target and geofence and digital online tools.
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That's not a typo. That's just their writing. It's that bad.
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Bad writing. We will have teams of people reaching out to churches and pastors and possibly
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even Christian social media influencers. So they're going to be propagandizing your pastor,
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your church, the social media, Christian social media influencer that you follow,
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setting up mobile museums to display at churches and Christian colleges, pro-Israel information
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online through targeted measures at Christian events and conferences. That's a big deal.
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And they have the funding for it because they're funded by a foreign government. So Israel's GDP,
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I just looked that up, it's like $600 billion. You can imagine a proportion of that in your tax
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revenue. That's essentially available to a foreign government to come in and say,
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we know who our biggest supporters are, we know we're losing some of them, and we're going to go
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in and get them. And what's even more nefarious is in this filing, you have to also state the
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location that you're going to be doing these acts on behalf of a foreign agency. There's a church
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list of a thousand churches here in the United States, ranked by state, ranked by the town they're
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in, ranked by the size. My iPad's not loading it up. But there's over a thousand churches here in
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the U.S. Oh, there it is. You can see the list. 5,000 people here, 3,000 people here, 20,000
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people attend this church. And these are the churches that they're doing something called
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geofencing. So geofencing is, imagine I was to go to a barbecue convention. Yeah, real quick. These
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thousand churches, if you don't think that it's a big deal, oh, only a thousand. If you read the
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numbers, and it's been leaked, the average number of the congregants of each of these churches,
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the average is well over a thousand, even if it was a thousand flat, right? A thousand times a
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page I'm looking at here is a million. Mostly two to four. This looks more like, yeah, so this is
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more like two to four million um and so you're you're talking about you know one percent of the
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american population at that point um being influenced uh by you know by a foreign government
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and like i said in the cold open because i don't want this point to be lost uh i am not happy by
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any stretch of the imagination uh just at a political level of the nation state of israel
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influencing Americans in my country for their good instead of our own nation's good.
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But I am even more concerned as a Christian man and as a pastor about the indoctrination of all
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these Christian influencers and Christian pastors and Christian politicians who will then go and
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and espouse false doctrine. It's not what the Bible teaches. Dispensationalism is false doctrine.
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It is not biblical doctrine. This idea that Christians today, in the year of our Lord,
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2025, on the other side of the planet, here in America, have a spiritual, moral, biblical
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obligation to make sure that those of Jewish ethnicity, whatever that means, have land rights
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on the other side of the planet? That's not what the Bible teaches.
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And it's pretty nefarious how they go about it. So you can imagine a mobile museum. So let's say
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that would be a Jerusalem or what actually a lot of times they'll do on different tours. So if
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someone with the Herzl Institute, for instance, is bringing Christians on a tour, but they
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themselves are not necessarily christians is they'll still take christians to the holy signs
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so you could say uh well the tomb of christ or calvary or the garden at least the locations
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that we think that they were they themselves will not be christians yoram hozoni is an orthodox jew
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right but they'll show christians the things they want to see i just got in a twitter beef with
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stephen wolf i i dipped my toes in just a little bit but um dabble in some twitter but essentially
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The summary of it was he was saying that, you know, Jews and Christians are inextricably bound to one another and have been for thousands of years because of the Old Testament and that the Old Testament is inherently Jewish and therefore Christians cannot get away from their Jewish roots, that the Christian faith is built on a Jewish foundation.
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It's really confused, would be the most charitable way I could put it, the least charitable, but perhaps more accurate.
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I don't know. God knows his heart. I don't know.
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But it's deceitful, intentionally confusing language and rhetoric that takes that word Jewish and in one instance means it ethnically,
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in another instance means it politically as a nation state, and then the next instance is using it religiously.
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No, Christianity is not Jewish. I don't think in any stretch of the word Jewish, but certainly not
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if we're speaking of it being Jewish religiously. The Old Testament is a Christian text. All the
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writers of the Old Testament, whether it be Isaiah or Moses or Daniel, these are Christians.
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Some of them, many of them were Jewish in terms of ethnicity, but all of them were Christians
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And as for those Old Testament authors inspired by the Holy Spirit, all of them are speaking
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The only difference for an Old Testament Christian, which is a thing, versus a New Testament
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Christian is that Old Testament Christians looked forward to the coming Christ, and we look
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backward to the Christ who already came and promises to come again. Adam and Eve, Jewish,
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no, Adam and Eve, Christian. They were Christians. God himself, when he came and brought judgment
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because they ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God said to the woman
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and to the serpent he said of the serpent that i'll put enmity between your offspring and the
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woman's offspring and you shall strike his that the woman would eventually bear a son
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her offspring being singular speaking of christ you the serpent you will strike his heel but he
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will crush your head um adam and eve are not in hell adam and eve are in heaven they were saved
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How were they saved? Because they trusted in the serpent crusher. They trusted that God would send
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a redeemer who would ultimately crush Satan under his feet and that he would be born of a woman,
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the offspring of Eve, and later on the son of Mary, and that he would be ultimately the son
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of God who would bring redemption and salvation. Adam and Eve were saved not by Judaism, not by
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anything jewish adam and eve were saved by grace god's gift in giving us a savior redeemer through
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faith they weren't saved by works either they were trusting in the promise contained within god's
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judgment right the earth is now cursed because of adam and his sin the woman her childbearing pains
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will be greatly increased right uh the serpent he'd be cursed to crawl in his belly and eventually
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the offspring of the woman would crush his head. All these curses are dealt out. And yet,
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kind of like to use nerdy video game language, like an Easter egg, like a secret contained
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within the programming, contained within these judgments that God deals out is a promise.
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And it's the first promise that we find in the scripture in Genesis chapter three,
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an articulation from God himself of the promised Messiah, of the gospel. So Adam and Eve are
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Christians. Moses is a Christian. Jonah was a Christian. Isaiah was a Christian. Jeremiah
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was a Christian. The Old Testament is a Christian, a Christian scriptural, holy text. And so my point
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all the way back to Yoram Harzoni, the idea that somehow we're on the same team, it boggles
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the mind he's saying well you know you have to you have to be basic as essentially he was arguing
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with steven wolf and saying you know you have to be pro-jewish um because we share stuck in this
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together right but but he's not even saying you should be pro-jewish because a christian principle
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is that you wouldn't have hatred towards someone based off of their ethnicity he's not making that
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argument see that that's where the language gets hijacked and it gets i think intentionally tricky
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must be pro-Jewish, but he's not speaking ethnically.
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They literally believe that Jesus is in hell, that he was a bastard born of a harlot.
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And so this is ultimately, this is how deep the rabbit hole goes.
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And there are many, and I'm not trying to put anybody on blast.
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I won't give a bunch of names or anything like that, although I do have names.
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But there are many before this most recent trip.
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many who have taken a trip to Israel, either with Arzoni or with this most recent, you know,
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conference spots. But that's kind of the play. That's kind of the strategy is, hey, would you
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like to go on an all expenses paid sponsored trip to Israel to see where Jesus walked, to see the
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holy site? To see where he was born. Right. Yeah. And, you know, it's not a bribe, right? It makes
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me think of the other guys with, you know, Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, you know, where like
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the bad guy, you know, the crook, you know, who's managing this hedge fund and stealing from all
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his clients. And they know he's the bad guy. They're there as detectives to arrest him. And
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he says, hey guys, how would you like front row seats, you know, at this musical or at this Knicks
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game, you know, and it's not a bribe. And then they, you know, they take it and they show up
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and like halfway through the event, they kind of look at each other and realize, oh my goodness,
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we just took a bribe. It's like, hey, how would you like an all expenses paid trip to Israel to
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see the holy sites of Jesus? It's not a bribe. But then you come back, and I'm not saying all
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trips are equal. So I'm not saying that some of the trips that guys have been on are like this
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recent trip where it was a thousand Christian pastors with the express purpose of equipping
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them and teaching them to come back and encourage their congregations to be pro-Israel. So I'm not
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saying every sponsored trip uh has that explicit of an agenda um but that's kind of it seems like
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that's how it works you get invited on a trip you come back and maybe you don't start tweeting out
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you know every day something you know positive about israel but you know you at least think
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once or twice before tweeting out something negative maybe maybe you start doing a little
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bit less negative uh posts and then you get invited to something else or maybe you find
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yourself speaking at a conference or whatever and it's just it's weird it's weird if china was doing
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this it would be on it'd be on on the news every day of the week we'd be talking about it if russia
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was doing this right it would be this this major you know political story i mean remember russiagate
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with donald trump remember when tucker carlson just interviewed the president to ask his side
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of the ukraine story yeah i mean weeks russian agent russian this russian that for one visit
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to conduct a neutral interview i imagine if you're not the ukraine president but putin russian
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yeah russian president thousands of influencers to is right they all yeah exactly when tucker
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interviewed putin because nobody was talking to him they were only talking to zelinski but he goes
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and interviews putin and immediately um and i'm not saying that there can't be any fair criticism
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Tucker wouldn't say that, but my point is like, there was a ton of criticism.
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Everybody was coming out and saying, well, why would you talk to him?
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And why would you do this interview? And why did you, you know,
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you gave off this impression of Russia and that's not really true. Yeah.
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but you didn't show the other parts of Russia that are run down and this is
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maybe there's some elements of propaganda and I'm not saying there,
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there are there or there aren't but i will say that it's a fair criticism you're allowed to
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levy that criticism to say that i think that there's at least some portion of propaganda
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in tucker carlson going to russia and doing this interview okay well if that's the case
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then then whatever your degree of vitriol towards tucker carlson with the whole putin interview
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and they're being taught political talking points.
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No, they're being taught theological, scriptural talking points
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to come back and convince the evangelical Protestant base of Christians in America
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that we have a religious and theological scriptural obligation
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to be for a foreign country, even at the expense of our own.
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And they're doing it because they are reliant on our support to survive.
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it's a one-sided relationship right israel without america is going to have a hard time
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they're sequestered between all these muslim nations that they've kind of pissed off over
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the last five decades america without israel we'd be fine so it's a very one-sided relationship
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and they get it they get it better than most evangelicals do the christian base the it's white
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evangelicals protestants specifically if we're being honest white evangelical protestants that
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base, when the support ends, when the support dips below 50, 40, 30 percent of that base
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supporting them as far as giving, as far as pastors, the gravy train is over. You are stuck
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on an island surrounded by a lot of very unhappy people. And the last thing I'll add to this that
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was disclosed in this farah, and then I want to get to the recent event they literally just held
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last week for all of these pastors sending them back with a commission to be pro-Israel in these
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churches the far also the farah back with pagers wait no wait walkie-talkies um the far disclosure
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also said that they're going to geofence certain locations so what geofencing is is imagine me and
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you joel went to a barbecue convention we tried a bunch of different barbecue and if there's two
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three thousand people there what may might make sense if you had a smoker company is to then
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target devices not the individuals because you don't know who specifically but you can look at
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the device id and you can say i'm going to target for ads for smoke pits barbecue offset smoker
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pellets these 3 000 devices that over the weekend were here at this barbecue convention why because
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i know these are probably men interested in barbecue wanting to buy the latest tools now
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that's not immoral that's completely innocuous that's well i don't know about completely innocuous
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it's good marketing it's good capitalism it's capitalism it is capitalism which does not mean
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that it's amoral no but this one geofencing so they have a list of 1 000 u.s churches as we
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noted it probably represents two to three million parishioners and attendees right and they
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specifically disclosed we are going to geofence these churches so as you come with your device
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in the vicinity of these church we are going to reserve the rights to show them ads garnering
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their support for israel so you stop by for the weekend to a church when you're out of town
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geofenced targeted for ads your elderly parents the church that they go to oh we've got this
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device coming back to this church again and again and again better make sure to show them a couple
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ads to shore up their support it's malicious it is just to put it plainly um you need to be aware
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of this that um like over the holidays for instance if you go back home right to southern
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california to visit your you know your mom and dad your kids me mom papa whatever it is and you know
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you want to honor your father and mother and it may not be a church that you entirely agree with
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you know their doctrinal tenants and those things but it's your mom and dad's church maybe it's the
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church you grew up in and so you know you're going to be a good sport you're not going to
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cause strife on christmas you know so uh this sunday you know we're here visiting mom and dad
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the grandparents for the holidays and so we're going to go to church with them well if that means
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and they know that's their base that supports them.
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This was, like I said, last week, December 6th, at a gathering, the largest of its kind
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since the formation of the modern state of Israel, for over a thousand pastors and Christian
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But I say to you that those who are saying things that are negative about Israel that
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are not true, they have the free speech right to say them, but you have the free speech
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responsibility to push back, stand up, speak up, and say, not in this country, America,
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We need the pulpits of America to be on fire with truth, not propaganda.
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Nobody is asking you to go back to America and tell some story made up about Israel.
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Nobody is asking you to go and present some version of history that doesn't exist.
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Simply being asked to go back and tell the truth.
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Because you could tell it from the front pages of the New York Times and it would not be the truth.
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But if you tell it from the holy word of the holy God, you will be telling the truth.
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the scripture may very visibly say that this is the land that god gave to the jewish people
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and he said he will bless those who bless israel but he will curse those who curse israel
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yeah so we're not asking you to go back and propagandize your congregants your churches your
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fellow American citizens, your children, your neighbors, your friends. I'm not telling you to
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go back and propagandize them. We're just telling you to go back and tell them the truth. Okay. And
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what is the truth? Uh, well the, you know, the political history of Israel. No, he tells you
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the truth. It's a theological in his mind truth. And that theological truth is that the Bible
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somehow explicitly teaches that there is an eternal land right, an eternal land right all
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the way up until the coming of Christ. And even then for a thousand years for his literal earthly
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reign, there is an indefinite land right, fiat, divine given to one ethnic people in this
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particular place and that that's the Bible, that the Bible teaches that. And furthermore,
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that America as a nation under God will be cursed if we curse Israel. And what is Israel in this
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case? Well, Israel is the people of God, the new covenant people, right? No, no, he means
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ethnically jewish people right if you if america as a nation politically financially
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blesses ashkenazi jews then they'll be blessed and he's and again who is his audience it's pastors
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a thousand pastors representative of two to three million congregants evangelical congregants in the
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united states of america and he is commissioning these people to go back and to teach christians
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that God has put under their watch to teach them that they need to lobby their government,
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their fellow American citizens, through cultural power, political power, and informal and informal
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influence to be pro-Israel. Pro-Israel with our tax dollars, pro-Israel if it means defending them
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and sending our sons to die in war and joining them in the battles that many of them, they
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if they don't instigate them, a lot of them I do think they instigate, but even if they don't
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instigate them, they retaliate in cruel ways. You did something that really was terrible on October
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7th, two years ago. Okay. Now you're all going to die. All of you are just going to commit genocide
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as a normal retaliation. That's not normal. And the reality is Israel is aware. They recognize
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that the vast majority of the world at this point has soured on the nation of Israel. The vast
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majority of the world has a bad taste in their mouth. They're saying, wait a second, no, this
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isn't right. This isn't humane. This isn't moral. And so what does Israel do when they realize that
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they're falling out of favor on the world stage, who are the biggest suckers that they can employ
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in their ranks to try to turn the tide in arguably the most powerful nation in the world to be able
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to continue to commission them as an ally? Pastors. Christian pastors. Think about, like,
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you need to feel that, honestly, as an evangelical. And I am an evangelical. I feel this too.
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But we need to sit with that for a moment and just be honest that we just have to be honest about the truth that the nation state of Israel knows good and well that if they're looking for the biggest suckers in the world to sell, you know, oceanfront property in Kansas to, there's one group of people that rises to the top of their list, evangelical Christians.
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If you're an evangelical Christian, you need to know Israel's laughing at you.
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They target you because you're the stupidest person in our country.
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You are the easiest target, the biggest sucker, the most gullible, the most naive.
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And it's really sad as an evangelical Christian.
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It's really sad to know that I'm a part of who I believe to be, for the most part, precious people who genuinely, I believe the vast majority of them genuinely love the Lord Jesus and yet are exceptionally stupid.
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We've talked about it before, but that verse that's always cited, right?
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Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house.
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Unto a land I will show thee, and I will make of thee a great nation.
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And I will bless thee, and I will make thy name great.
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And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee.
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And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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And Paul goes in, in Galatians, when he's dealing with the heresy
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of holding on to the old substance, the old structure, the old shadow.
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And he gives us the divine interpretation of who thee is there.
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So, all right, you bless Abraham, you'll be blessed.
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what do we mean by Abraham? Is it his physical offspring? Paul gives us the divine interpretation
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of it, that pastors and Mike Huckabee should know. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith
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the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the
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heathen through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all the
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nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. So he's like,
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don't lie don't repeat propaganda and then goes on and butchers a bible verse that we know exactly
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what it's actually referring to to get his point across like literally in the same 90 second clip
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it's incredible it's shameless i'm almost in awe of somebody being able to do that with a straight
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face hey just go out there and you give them for them give them the facts and here's a verse that
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i very conveniently inserted a word that doesn't really belong there and the bible tells me is not
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true interpretation right it's it's incredible yes who are we called to bless and not curse
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god's chosen people yeah god's chosen people who are christians we're called to bless the
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spiritual seed of abraham not the nation state of israel 2 000 years removed right from you know
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the death burial and resurrection of jesus i see that there's must be someone new to this channel
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he put in the chat he said is joel talking about islamic somalians might as well be if you
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acknowledge the hostility from the one talking about israel you should acknowledge the hostility
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from the other um you must you must be new here um yeah every single somalian needs to be rounded
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up and deported uh we say that on a pretty regular basis so mike huckabee who is an american citizen
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um mike huckabee also i think should be an honorary deportee um he'd be thrilled if he
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got deported yeah honestly he probably would so he should be deported but um there's there's room
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for all we are equal opportunists when it comes to uh mass deportation so ilhan omar absolutely
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and her brother that she allegedly married to cheat the system she needs to be on that plane
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as well. So yeah, deport them all. Consequences for every foreign actor that is attempting to
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hijack our country. And Somalians, I do believe they don't belong here. They have been a net
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negative on America. But I also believe that Israel has been a net negative on America.
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The difference, here's the difference. The difference is that when it comes to my tribe,
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evangelical christians i i don't see evangelical christians in mass right or influential leaders
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like pastors of large megachurches a thousand of them in mass taking week-long trips to somalia
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and being equipped with talking points for how they can go back and encourage their congregations
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representative of two to three million Christians in our country to politically support Somalia and
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theologically support Somalia. See, that's the difference. People will point out, as this person
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in the comments did, well, it seems like you guys are, it's fine to criticize Israel or not like
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Israel, but it seems like you guys are not being even-handed with your criticisms. They're not the
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only foreign country, you know, that's invading our land and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, that may be
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true. But what really is unique in the case of Israel is that it's been ingrained in our pulpits,
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not just with our politicians. That has happened as well. But when it comes to Jewish people,
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it's different than Somalians in the sense that they're playing off of a religious argument.
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they're playing off of a theological argument they're not just twisting policy they're twisting
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scripture and as a christian and an evangelical christian pastor at that um i think that it's
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well within my place to speak about there's also too i mean the measure of how effective they are
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there are not uh 200 some united states representatives from the house of representatives
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traveling to Somalia under the banner, 50 states, one Somalia, right? 50 states, one Afghanistan.
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No, there's one country in the world where whether you're Republican or Democrat, both come together
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to say, this is the one thing that we adore. And I recognize not every single Republican necessarily
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feels that way. And even the Democratic Party has soured on Israel for the most part. But when it
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comes to the two groups, they can't agree on anything. It's gun rights, it's abortion, the
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taxes, it's healthcare, they differ on all these different things. And they will come together,
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50 states, one Israel. But Somalia, they're not visiting. They don't hold the sway over our
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government that Israel does. And so it's worth saying, yeah, Somalians that are here, legally
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or illegally, C.J. Engel likes to say, I do not distinguish, legal or illegal immigration.
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Legally or illegally, yeah, it's a problem. They don't also have hardly any sway anywhere it seems
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like outside of Minnesota. So naturally, the one that's more threatening, more powerful,
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holds a greater sway has thousands of pastors over there being taught to come back and advocate on
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their behalf the minute there are 2 000 pastors in somalia being taught to go back and bring a
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message of friendliness of islam to america and to american churches you can bet you know what the
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live stream is going to be for that day until that happens we will focus on the one that actually
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occurred last week yep uh somebody put in the chat i i think that it's well said we can handle
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the orcs once we get the wizards under control we're able to walk and chew bubble gum here as
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christian men we can walk and chew gum at the same time but that that is a good point that you know
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it's not like every jewish person person in america agrees there are jews on the right jews
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on the left i will say though in terms of voting patterns if we're doing a bit of noticing i think
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it's like 80 something percent vote um left um in in major elections 80 something percent of jews
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in america who are american citizens are voting left so it's it's not it's not even by any stretch
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of the imagination but there are right uh right wing leaning or you know gop republican jewish
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people in america however even in that instance although they may be vying for different things
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those different things aren't really all that different at the end of the day. They fit hand
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in glove. They work in tandem with one another. You have right-wing influence, GOP, and not just
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Jewish influence, but that's certainly a part of it, pushing the GOP to be involved in wars,
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to go over to the Middle East for regime change, you know, or to export our sacred democracy
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and often to partner with Israel and to fight their wars
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And so you have Jews on the right here in America
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They advocate for war and American involvement in wars in the Middle East
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then you have Jews in America on the left who advocate for porous borders and greater refugee
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status to take all these displaced Muslims because the right-leaning Jews in America
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pushed for our involvement in wars that displaced them. And then the left-leaning Jews in America
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say, hey, let's bring them here. And so it's funny that, you know, yes, I'm aware of the
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tensions that exist between Muslims and Jews. I'm aware that they're not necessarily friendly
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with one another, and yet Jewish influence actually has lent, I think, a great deal
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significantly towards the increase of Muslims in Western countries. So as much as Jews don't like
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Muslims, Jews who find themselves in Western countries as citizens from the right side of
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the aisle, pressing for war in the Middle East that displaces Muslims, and the left side of the
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aisle opening up borders and making it easier for them to come and immigrate here. The Jewish
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influence, as much as it doesn't like Muslims, always seems to end up resulting in more Muslims
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here in the west incredible incredible so yes you kind of have to deal with the wizards
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um and not just the orcs otherwise it's it's like bailing water out of the ship without ever
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patching up the hole yeah let's go to our last commercial break and then we will handle super
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Let's do it. We're waiting. They're coming on the screen. Here they are. First one is from
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dapperdan1993 he said wes my family will be watching those classic american musicals this
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christmas in your honor that is a sad thing to inflict on a family it's like christmas presents
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family carols musicals carols you're already carols are great you're already almost there
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right do you see how the difference between the two though so christmas carols uh hark the herald
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angels sing musicals you're young uh yeah all right hhs 9045 send in a super chat thank you
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very much will the glorified nations this is a good question in the new earth retain their distinct
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biological heritage and cultural identity and if so what is our responsibility now
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in building towards that eternal reality yes we believe in a bodily resurrection
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And so we believe that, you know, the Apostle Paul says,
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to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
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we believe that they are spiritually present at that moment with the Lord in glory.
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But that a day is coming, a finality to human history
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where Christ will bodily return and he will raise to life.
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both the redeemed and the damned, the redeemed unto glory, and we will be reunited with our
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physical bodies now glorified. So there will be some distinctions to be sure. These will be bodies
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that can no longer be injured. They'll no longer be fatigued. We'll no longer go hungry. They'll
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be immortal, but it will still be our body. And we also know from the book of Revelation
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that every tribe and tongue will be represented at the wedding supper of the Lamb
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and before the throne of God in worship and eternity.
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So in eternity, there will be different people in their physical bodies.
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So there's the glorification of this body, which assumes distinctions, but it is the same body.
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And so, yes, I do believe that we will be able to visibly discern as we look at others and audibly discern as we hear them speak.
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Oh, that is a different person from a different nation.
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Oh, I can tell that this is a Chinese Christian.
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they recognize him because he looked similar to what they saw in his earthly ministry before his
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death yes so um it's going to be the same body not another body but this body made new and um we know
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that there will be different tongues languages spoken in heaven i i think it's probably safe
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to assume that in our heavenly state that we'll have understanding of all the different languages
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So I'll be able to understand someone speaking in a different tongue.
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different resurrected, glorified physical bodies represented.
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And yeah, so there will be diversity in heaven.
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And the irony is that in eternity, diversity in heaven, what it pre-assumes is that distinctions are maintained on earth.
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If no distinctions are maintained on earth, if we get rid of every border and every nation and just fully embrace globalism and everybody just mixes together and we all speak one social credit score and one language and everyone intermarries,
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and you know then um in just a few short generations you actually no longer have
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distinctions on earth and and in heaven you know there'd just be one language that's represented
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and and one you know type of person physically that we would be able to visually discern
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represented um so yeah i i think that the way that the bible speaks of the heavenly eternal state
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pre-assumes distinctions here on earth. And we're not Gnostics. Gnosticism was
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a Christian heresy. We believe that the spiritual is of infinite value, but the physical still
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matters. The spiritual being of greater importance doesn't mean that the physical, material world
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that God made and said is good, that it suddenly, because of Christian faith, has no value at all.
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That's not what the Bible teaches. So languages and culture and distinct peoples and societies
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and nations, this is all biblical language. And these are things that I believe are meant to be
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preserved. Yep. Well said. Longtime super chatter and supporter, Reformed Farmer, wrote in,
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good afternoon. Any reading materials on this? Keep up the good work. And that was during the
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segment when i saw the super chat we were talking about who's really israel what do you think any
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good reading materials yeah there's uh really good reading material uh coming on um about what
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16 days or 19 days 19 days um be looking on alerts heads up ears to the ground um but yeah uh very
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early january within the first couple days of january there will be some really great reading
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material that you will uh you'll hear all about great stuff uh brown anglo sax sent in the super
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chat and asked ever tried ice cream on your eggnog game changer i believe it that actually
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sounds good you're telling me the one element the one food that is per capita tough word sweeter
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than eggnog and you add it to it and you don't get type 2 diabetes am i meant to understand this
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correctly he never says you want to get type 2 diabetes he just said that it would be good i'll
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give it a try i believe that all right next is uh julian stevenson he gave us a super chat and
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said uh just a quick praise yesterday morning my wife and i welcomed our first born son into the
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world praise god and he said uh psalm 8 1 through 2 i don't have it memorized lord our lord and all
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the earth how excellent is that what it is yep you above yeah the heavens have set i'm reciting
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Psalm 8 is what is man, that you are mindful of him.
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Great. Well, praise God. We're very happy for you.
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Hello, are you familiar with the New Columbia Movement?
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It's a Christian nationalist organization recruiting Christian men to retake America.
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Sounds good, but no, I don't know anything about it.
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A lot of wives do not love the podcast, but I appreciate it.
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Got to throw that thing on in the car when you leave for work.
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So wife and I love the podcast, trying to influence our church and family with theology
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applied to all areas of life. Amen. Frustrating because my mother is an ordained pastor.
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Not great. And I'm on church boards with her. How do you respect your mother and father while
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also trying to be biblical? Yeah, we've gotten this question a lot. I think, you know, we've
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given a lot of different advice. So I'll try not to be too long, but one, you know, just practically
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over the holidays, if you're visiting them for Christmas and those kinds of things, where it
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sounds like you might be local because it sounds like you have some more intimate involvement
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with your mother. But I would just say that if you're spending time in person, one of the best
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things you can do is just enjoy each other's company and and not get into a bunch of fights
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especially at christmas um so you know it's probably not the best time to you know this year
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um as a new christmas tradition i would like to read you know first simothy chapter two
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and chapter three you know allowed before all the family mother this uh especially pertains to you
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i wouldn't do that so like one way that uh you can honor her and the rest of your your family
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extended family is by simply enjoying them find uh find the good right uh there's enough common
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grace you know uh that even for an unbeliever there are things that we can appreciate um if
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someone is unregenerate then we know that scripture is true romans 8 says that the mind of the sinful
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man is hostile. So not just neutral or indifferent, but actually hostile towards the law of God.
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So in the case of unbelievers who are unregenerate, we know that there's enmity between them and the
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God that we love, the God who saved us. And before we were saved, there was once enmity in our case
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also. But God saved us and gave us a new heart, caused us to become new creatures in Christ Jesus.
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And the God that we once hated is the God that we now love. So even in the case of an unbeliever,
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although it's true, we want to affirm all of Scripture, they're in a state of hostility towards
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God. And therefore, some of that hostility will rear its head in regards to God's people being
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you as a believer. And yet they're still made in the image of God. And even as an unbeliever,
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there is enough common grace where there are things that you can find in common with one
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another. There are things that you can affirm. Maybe they're really kind in their interactions
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with others, or just thanking them for Christmas presents, that they express generosity. Man,
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this really means a lot. Thanks, mom. Those kinds of things, playing a card game together.
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So finding ways to honor them practically by spending time with them and not making it a
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huge theological argument, especially around the holidays. I think that's one way to honor mom and
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dad. And then beyond that, you know, there probably are some occasions throughout the year
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where you need to, you know, you need to broach the topic out of love, not despite loving your
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parents, but precisely because you do love them and you want what's best for them and God's word
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is best, eventually at some point you have to find context to have that conversation. But
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having the conversation humbly, having the conversation respectfully, those kinds of
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things, not raising your voice, not getting angry as best you can. I think those are ways to honor
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your parents. I've said it before, but one of the best apologetics and defenses of your side,
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it's going to be the information you have. But there's only so many times you can say a verse,
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you can quote other commentaries on it. One of the biggest apologetics for your strength and the
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position of your argument maybe shouldn't be this way. It'd be nice to win on the merits of the
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arguments alone, but your character and your virtue will come to bear. So it's like, okay,
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we have big disagreements on this, but my goodness, if he's not an honorable man, he works hard. He
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loves his wife. He cares for his family. He's great with the kids. Like, I want to hate him.
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I want to think he's bigot. I want to think he's narrow-minded. I want to think he's misogynist.
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women can't be pastors what do you mean but i look at him and he is the most loving kind helpful
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serving men i've ever seen and there's nothing in his character that i could pick out and say
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well you just believe that because you just hate women you just do you just say that because you're
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just uh whatever your character for better or worse it's going to factor into and so if you've
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got five years and they're like be honest still don't get it but you're one heck of an honorable
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dude and uh i think you might be right that would be uh one way it could go yeah no that's a great
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point love your wife and kids uh love your wife and kids in tangible ways do a good job um that's
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something that i've experienced with um you know with sometimes you know people maybe it's extended
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family or maybe it's just a friend um or a congregant or something like that it's like man
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you know like uh you're just you're you're intense in your rhetoric you know and you know i've heard
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your views because i've tuned into your podcast or i saw you going viral on some clip or something
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like that or i saw an article by you know the houston chronicle and and they'll you know they'll
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sadly you know be frustrated with you or despise you you know to some extent because of it um
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There have been many occasions where, you know, even my, you know, people who disagree with me entirely in terms of my views, they'll say, yeah, but you know what?
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He's a really good dad, you know, or he's a really good husband, or I see him with his kids.
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I want to leave a better world for my children and I'm prepared to fight for it.
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There is something to be said for, yeah, we don't want to be naive.
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And being hopeful, you know, hope can sometimes be a euphemism for just putting your head in the sand.
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it's not great. And I think as faithful and, uh, courageous Christians, like part of courage
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is actually being willing to accurately admit and acknowledge, um, the, you know, the, the
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tight, um, Titanic task that stands before us. Um, sometimes, you know, people sound hopeful,
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but really it's actually just, it's hope as a thin veneer masking cowardice.
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They're actually, the reason why they're always bubbly or always white-pilled or always optimistic
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They're not able to actually look the real challenges in the face and admit them.
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So be honest about the challenges, but we are Christians.
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We do believe at the end of the day that the Lord can win by many or by few.
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We have an entire Bible filled of example after example of the people of God being outnumbered,
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and yet God producing great victory for his glory.
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We have this in our holy text, and we believe that these are things that God has done,
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and we believe not that he owes it to us or that we're entitled to it
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or that it's somehow guaranteed, but we know that he's done it before
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And so we hope, we work, we pray, we don't give up.
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But you're right, we stay hopeful, but part of real hope,
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I guess my point is if it's truly hope, then it involves an honesty,
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and honesty in admitting that this situation is so dire it actually requires hope. The person who
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has never really even allowed themselves to take stock of all the opposition that stands before us
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is not actually a hopeful person. They don't have any need of hope because they don't even
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recognize the danger. And so being honest is actually what provides the opportunity for hope
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In the same way that being honest about how dire things are create opportunity for real hope.
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Being honest about how frightening and terrifying things are, likewise, creates the opportunity for real courage.
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You know, with our ministry, we do spend a lot of time giving you the nitty gritty and a real look at the dragon that stands before us.
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And we don't mince words and we're honest about how sizable and how serious the threat really is.
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If we ever lose the last part in giving credence to the real opposition that we're facing,
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if we ever do that to the extent, we have to do it,
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but if we ever do it to the extent that we're despairing,
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if we ever do it to the extent where we don't have any hope at all,
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then we're just a right-wing podcast at that point.
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They ask this question, why does reformed theology often spiritualize the eternal nations in
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Revelation 21, 24 through 26, ignoring the creational significance of biological distinctives
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and their glorified role surrounding the new Jerusalem? The reformed spiritualize the natural
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because that's what reformed guys do. I think reformed theology is the most precise, intellectually
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robust tradition, Christian tradition, there is. I am Reformed. I obviously believe that. But it
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can lead to, in many such cases, an over-spiritualization to where you have guys
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thinking on these things all day long. At some level, they start to get disconnected from
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working hard with their hands, breaking a sweat, and getting down on their knees and playing with
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their kids. And so I think spiritualizing nations, like, well, yes, Revelation says there's nations,
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but actually technically like this is what it could be like no it means nations which means
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people that share a common ancestry and uh the reform problem with that i think is one that's
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kind of across the board the risk of being overly spiritual part of it i think also you know to be
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fair to the reformed tradition part of it is because of the reformed you know hermeneutic
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it's um you know you think of like someone like john mccarthur who is not reformed he was you know
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he was a Calvinist in his soteriology, his view of salvation, monergistic, God saves, but that's
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it. I mean, he rejected basically every other reformed doctrine there is. Right. And so it
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made sense for MacArthur, God rest his soul. He did a lot of good, but it made sense for him not
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being reformed in any aspect other than soteriology. It made perfect sense for him to be, you know,
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as in his own words, you know, using his own label, a leaky dispensationalist, right? Because
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his hermeneutic, hermeneutic just means the lens that you use to interpret the scripture,
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to read the scripture. His hermeneutic was a literal, grammatical, historical hermeneutic.
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Those were the three main pieces, literal, grammatical, and historical. So when he was
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reading scripture and you know to to steal man uh macarthur's position in his sermon you have to
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think of nobody um nobody does theology in a vacuum right we're all products of place and time
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ultimately what we're saying is that as finite creatures we're products of um of god's providence
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where he places us when he places us who he places us um among and so in the case of macarthur
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you look at his life what were the big dragons of the day like what were the big pieces of
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opposition that he was fighting against and a lot of it was um it was people getting cute
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with the scriptures people claiming to be christian but saying well the bible doesn't really
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mean that um that you know two men can't marry each other the bible doesn't really mean like
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people were getting loose with scripture right you think of the 60s and the 70s that's that's
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when macarthur is being shaped and formed in his early ministry and it's the sexual revolution and
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it's um it's the degrading of of biblical you know moral virtues and moral standards and the rhetoric
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that people were employing they weren't just saying oh we've rejected christianity uh no they
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were all you know many of them still claiming to be christian but saying we now have the right way
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of reading the Bible. Oh, and what is that? Well, it's really the right way of reading the Bible
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is a loose way of reading the Bible that doesn't take God's word literally. God doesn't literally
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mean that you can't be a homosexual. God doesn't literally mean that you can't kill a baby in the
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womb. God doesn't literally mean X, Y, and Z. So that's what MacArthur was facing. And so it kind
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of makes sense, right? It's not a coincidence, right? Again, we don't do ministry. We don't do
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the Christian life. We don't do theology in a vacuum. His place, his time, God's providence,
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those are the dragons that he's facing. And so he rooted himself as a bulwark to stand against
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relativism. He rooted himself in a literal, historical, grammatical hermeneutic. It was
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rigid. It was tight. And so to stave off people trying to make some twisted argument for why the
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scripture allows for this form of degeneracy, he used the literal mechanism against it. But then
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that same mechanism caused him to be more dispensational. It's like, well, the Bible says
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a man and a woman, it means a man and a woman. But then he would turn around and then express it.
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Well, if the Bible says Israel, it means the literal physical nation state of the land of
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Israel, exactly. And so my point is that I'm making kind of a larger point, but the Reformed
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have done that on the other side of the aisle. So the Reformed covenant theology,
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the historic position of the Reformed when it comes to Israel is supersessionism.
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It's an allegorical. So it would have those pieces, those three pieces that I mentioned
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earlier of John MacArthur's hermeneutic, but at least one more. It would be historical,
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literal, grammatical, and typological, typological, or allegorical, a way of leaving at least some
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room in the scripture to see things as symbols, as allegory, to see certain things as, back to
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the question, as spiritual. And so the historic Reformed position as it pertains to Israel for
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us now under the new covenant is to say, well, these are promises that ultimately have their
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fulfillment in Christ and not in a people and physical land. These are spiritual promises
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that have a spiritual fulfillment in the coming of Jesus. And so Israel is the church. It's the
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true and ultimate spiritual Israel. And so my point is that allegorical piece of the reformed
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historic hermeneutic of reading the scripture has been positive in warding off Zionism and
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dispensationalism and those kinds of things. But you can go too far if you don't have proper
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categories and then apply it across the board to every other natural distinction. Say, you know,
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the church is true Israel. And then you can also say, you know, like spiritual discipleship is all
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that matters and, you know, and physical training and working out and exercise isn't valuable at
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all. And so you can be a covenant theologian and also weigh 300 pounds. And it's like, I see how
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you got there. Actually, I see that. On the flip side, those who are not embracing covenant
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theology and supersessionism and these kinds of things, the reformed hermeneutic that includes
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the allegorical typological piece, they would be, tend to be the ones who are more dispensational,
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Zionistic, and take a literal application for Israel, you know, but then they would be more
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inclined, you would think logically, be more inclined to take a literal reading of other
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texts of scripture. And the final thing I'll say is this, the sad thing is that today at this
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juncture both reformed protestants and also additionally non-reformed protestants have
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actually have actually ended up with the worst of both sides of the equation meaning that the
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reformed guys who have the allegorical piece in their hermeneutic they've used that to over
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spiritualize natural distinctions natural affections you know anything in the physical
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world except for Israel. While being covenant theologians, they somehow have still carved out
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a place in their theology to write entire books on, you know, honey and milk and like Ashkenazi
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Jews being really, really, really important still today in 2025. And then on the flip side, the,
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you know, the more dispensational, literal hermeneutic guys within the Protestant evangelical
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world um they you would expect are really big on dispensationalism zionism a literal understanding
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of israel and yet they haven't applied the literal peace to natural affections and natural law and
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distinction so what you've ended up with is the reformed allegorical guys still functional zionist
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but also overweight and out of shape and not caring about anything natural whatsoever
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and then the more literal guys of course pro-israel but also spiritualizing everything
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that shouldn't be spiritualized also 300 pounds and out of shape so you have john hagee
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and john frame how did we get there i don't know doesn't make so i gave an explanation that i do
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think really does make sense and yet i have to nix it here at the end and say i'm really at a
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loss. I don't know how we got there. All right, that's my thought. That's the last question of
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