Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool

All Episodes

Previous Next

Aug. 29, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

02:59:35

BBN, Aug 29, 2024 – Obese Americans jab themselves with REPTILE VENOM PEPTIDES...

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	Alright, welcome to Bright Town Broadcast News for Thursday, August 29th, 2024.
	I'm Mike Adams. Thank you for joining me today.
	Let me tell you what we have coming up here.
	First, we're going to cover today's breaking news.
	We've got news from Cornel West.
	We've got news from RFK Jr.
	about Ozempic. We've got news about a cinnamon recall due to heavy contamination with toxic lead, heavy metal.
	We've also got a special report about how Democrats are at war with life, truth, justice, and the entire human race.
	On top of that then, the interview today is one you won't want to miss.
	We're interviewing Sheriff Richard Mack.
	And Sheriff Mack has issued a stern warning about some intel that he's received.
	Actually, I'm going to read you the post that I put out about that.
	Here it is. He told me that according to his intel sources, October 7th is going to be a day of widespread terrorism attacks across America.
	The fact that Democrats continue to send bombs to Israel while keeping the border wide open is practically an invitation for domestic terrorism to occur.
	Matt Bracken repeatedly speaks about the pre-staging of weapons systems across America to be picked up by illegal invader terrorists, and those weapons include full auto AKs, mortars, I'm talking about like portable 60mm mortar units, I have other sources backing up the intel on the presence of weapons systems in stash houses and storage lockers across the country.
	Also still missing is at least one surface-to-air missile system that can reportedly take down a commercial jet or even, God forbid, something like Trump's private jet, which is why I previously shared this warning with Trump's security team as best I could.
	Everybody needs to be prepared on October 7th to potentially lose power I'll cover this more in an upcoming podcast.
	That's today, actually.
	We all have roughly five weeks to get fully prepared for the possibility of serious disruptions, and let us pray that these warnings turn out to be inaccurate, because we want peace and civility as we head into the election.
	So that interview is something you don't want to miss, and then, and then, today we have a sermon on Which is on the longer side.
	It's about a one-hour sermon because I dared to cover Mark, the Gospel according to Mark, chapters 14 through 16.
	We're talking about the crucifixion of Christ.
	And the title of that sermon is about how the corrupt Jewish leaders of the time, the Jewish high priests and the scribes and the elders, The Jewish leaders deployed hatred and violence to achieve the killing of Christ and how they repeatedly demanded that Christ be executed by the powers of Rome and how the Roman official there,
	whose name was Pilate, he repeatedly tried not to execute Christ.
	He was like, no, the guy, he's not bothering us.
	You know, Pilate thought that Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, he thought that he might just be crazy.
	What's he talking about? The God of everything beyond this universe?
	You know, he's like, he's harmless.
	Just let him go. But the Jewish religious leaders were like, no, kill him, kill him, kill him.
	And they riled up a mob and everything.
	And they kept chanting, kill him.
	And they made sure that he was killed.
	So that's what today's sermon is all about.
	And hey, if you don't like the message, don't blame me.
	Read the book of Mark, and also we cite heavily from the book of John, or, you know, the Gospel according to Mark, the Gospel according to John, etc.
	But Mark and John, both of those books, document this historic event in great detail, and there's no question whatsoever that it was the official of Rome that tried to set Jesus free, believe it or not, And it was the corrupt church leaders, the Jewish rabbi leaders, that made sure that Christ was murdered.
	There's no question whatsoever about that.
	Anybody who disagrees with me, just read John.
	Just read Mark. It's right there in black and white.
	It's all part of the New Testament.
	It's printed in every Bible that includes the New Testament.
	So, it's amazing to me how many people have not read the Bible, but they claim to be practicing Christians, and they claim to know what the Bible says, and they've never read it.
	Like, their pastor tells them what the Bible says, and they've never actually looked at it themselves, so they're getting all these bits and pieces, and a lot of lies and myths, which is exactly what Christ was against, the corruption of the church.
	And the sort of greedy, selfish, driven, you know, high priests who were only about power for themselves and not about telling the truth.
	So, hey, if you're not reading the Bible, or if you haven't read it word for word, you can't possibly understand what Christ was saying, and you're getting a twisted, distorted view of it from probably corrupt church leaders.
	So that sermon is coming up.
	You don't want to miss that.
	And then tomorrow, by the way, tomorrow's sermon is about cinnamon.
	Cinnamon. Yes, indeed.
	And it's funny.
	Well, I tell you what.
	In today's special report about heavy metals and cinnamon, I'll tell you something really special about cinnamon and why God threatened to take away cinnamon from mankind if man turned against the teachings of God.
	Because cinnamon was as valuable as gold and silver.
	It was like I'm going to take away your gold and I'm going to take away your crops and your cinnamon, you know?
	And the religious leaders are like, no, not the cinnamon.
	So it's pretty wild.
	We've got the Labor Day sale at healthrangerstore.com that begins today.
	So if you go to healthrangerstore.com slash Labor Day, and that's all together, no spaces in URLs.
	So it's just healthrangerstore.com slash Labor Day.
	We've got 5% back on all purchases in store points.
	We've got free shipping for orders over $99 in the 48 states.
	We've got... 5G defense powder free for orders over $195, which these days isn't difficult to get to.
	And we've got new products.
	We've got the Escape from L.A. Tactical Knife back in stock.
	We've got spirulina and chlorella capsules that we haven't had before.
	We've got Organic Super Protein, which is a plant-based protein based on pea protein and Satcha Inchi protein.
	And that's available in chocolate and vanilla flavors.
	And that's co-formulated with Boku Superfood.
	So we've got all that and so much more.
	You can find out all the details and the sale prices and the specials and bonuses at healthrangerstore.com slash Labor Day.
	Okay, let's go right to some news from Cornel West, who has been in the news a lot recently.
	Now, isn't it interesting that Democrats keep trying to prevent people from getting on the ballots that might take away votes from Democrats, you know, from Kamala?
	And they also keep suing to try to keep Trump off the ballots, you know, in states like Colorado and so on.
	So a lot of election cheating and rigging is taking place by the Democrats right now, just trying to keep everybody off the ballot that they don't want, because that's the way Democrats roll.
	They're like, yeah, we don't even care about fairness or elections or democracy.
	It's just like, we're going to give you one choice.
	It's Kamala. And we're going to say she's popular, and that's it.
	That's all you can vote for.
	No RFK, no Trump, no nothing.
	No Cornell. It's just, I mean, if they had their way, that's what they would do.
	But here's an announcement from Cornell West.
	We're thrilled to announce a major victory.
	We've officially secured a spot on the Wisconsin ballot following a decisive 5-1 ruling by the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
	So guess what?
	This is a major swing state, right?
	So Cornel West is on the ballot.
	I don't know how many votes he's going to get, but I do like the idea of people having, overall, more choices if the candidates want to be on the ballot.
	But, of course, the Democrats won't let RFK take himself off of some ballots, even though he wants to be off.
	And they're like, nope, we're not going to let you take yourself off the ballots because they don't want those votes to go to Trump.
	Anyway, Cornel West is on the ballot in Wisconsin, and I would call that a success for democracy.
	And, you know, some of the comments on there are like, shame on the Democrat Party for trying to keep your campaign off the ballot.
	It was a cowardly and undemocratic move.
	Yeah, that's exactly right.
	All right, now in other news, I want to show you this 45-second video of an armed...
	Gang-affiliated group of illegals who have taken over an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado.
	They have literally just taken it over with rifles and guns, and they now occupy it, and they've kicked everybody out that used to be there, and they're not paying rent, and the local police, it turns out, won't do anything about it because they're terrified, and it's Colorado.
	It's Aurora, Colorado, which is where the The Batman shooting, the Batman theater shooting happened and a lot of questions about that shooting.
	That's for sure. But check out this 45 second video because this tells you who's in charge.
	And yes, the illegals are already here.
	Yes, they're taking over residential housing complexes right now.
	This is no longer some theoretical warning like someday they might sweep into your neighborhood and kick you out and take your home.
	They're actually doing that already.
	Check this out. Check this
	out. Check
	this out.
	And the police will do nothing.
	But if an American citizen in Colorado walked around with a gun, oh my God, there'd be like 50 police and SWAT teams and snipers and DOJ and FBI and everybody would just be stomping all over that guy.
	But when illegals do it, it's like, oh, there's nothing we can do.
	We're only the police.
	Come on. This is insane.
	This is what happens, though, when you let...
	Demon rats take over your state, which is what's happened in Colorado.
	The demon rats have taken over and they want to destroy America.
	And so they've invited all kinds of sanctuary states, sanctuary cities like Denver.
	They've invited all these illegals.
	Come on in to Denver.
	And so they did.
	And they brought all their guns and they brought all their bros.
	They brought all their gangbangers and now they're just taking over entire buildings and this is going to spread.
	And at some point, It's just going to be, well, you lost Denver.
	You know, you lost Aurora.
	You lost all your cities.
	They're gone. They've been taken over by armed gangs.
	And the Democrats will say, mission accomplished!
	Because that's exactly what they wanted to have happen.
	Now, Sheriff Richard Mack has a lot to say about this.
	Again, we have an interview coming up with him.
	I do want you to see that.
	So I'm going to keep the news section a little bit shorter here today.
	Well, I'll try to.
	I don't know that I will succeed.
	But let's go to RFK Jr.
	and Ozempic, because this is a really great one-minute video of RFK Jr.
	talking to Dr. Phil.
	Check this out. The insurance companies you would think would want us healthy, but they actually make more money if we get sicker.
	And then, of course, the pharmaceutical companies.
	If you have a chronic disease, you're a lifetime patient.
	This drug, Ozempic, cost $1,500 for a week.
	And there's now a bill before Congress that would force the insurance companies, Medicare, to pay for it for every American who's obese.
	Well, that's 74% of our population.
	That's going to be $3 trillion a year.
	And for a tiny fraction of that, You could give every American three meals a day of organic food and diabetes would disappear overnight.
	Diabetes is treatable with food, with exercise, and obesity is.
	So right there, right there, is something that I've been talking about for 20 plus years.
	You don't have to spend a fortune on pharmaceuticals to mask the symptoms and cover up obesity and diabetes.
	All you have to do is teach people to eat healthier foods, clean foods, do some exercise, get away from the sedentary lifestyles.
	And the problem is solved.
	But I tell you what, I want to do something together here.
	Let's go through the math of what he just said.
	He said that the U.S. will spend $3 trillion a year on Ozempic.
	$3 trillion! You know, that's insane.
	I think that's more than all the taxes that are collected from individuals by the federal government.
	Or maybe it's about equal. Maybe it's around three trillion.
	It's in that neighborhood, but that's crazy.
	Like, every tax dollar you pay would go to Big Pharma to inject people with lizard venom peptides, which is what these drugs are made out of.
	You know, reptilian venom peptides, for real.
	But let's do some math here.
	Okay, let's suppose that the government wanted...
	To just give people three organic meals a day, as RFK Jr.
	says. Let me ask you a question.
	We're going to do the math. How much should we estimate for, like, an organic meal, like an organic breakfast, okay?
	What's an organic breakfast cost?
	And lunch and dinner, right?
	All together. Let me just estimate this with some round numbers.
	Let's say, because there'd be some economies of scale, you know, doing this every day, let's say 50 bucks a day.
	Could give you a decent organic meal.
	I mean, three meals.
	Okay, 50 bucks a day.
	All right? So let's do the math here.
	Multiply that by 365 days in a year.
	Okay? So what do we have?
	We have $18,250.
	Okay? So let's just call it 18 grand a year for organic meals every day.
	Now, RFK Jr. said in that little clip there, he said Ozempic costs $1,500 a week.
	That seems crazy, so let's look that up.
	How much does Ozempic cost?
	So if you look that up, it turns out that Costco charges about $1,000 for a.5 milligram injection, or pen as they call it.
	Kroger is $814, Walgreens is $824, Walmart is $849.
	Let's just go with $1,000 because that's easier to work with.
	Now that's, apparently that's for $1,000.
	A 0.5 milligram pen.
	And apparently, if I'm understanding this correctly, apparently that's four weekly doses, so a one-month supply of this drug is about $1,000.
	So I think RFK Jr.
	might... Either he's misunderstanding the price or I am.
	He's saying it's $1,500 a week.
	I'm looking online and it says roughly $1,000 a month.
	But hey, that's not cheap.
	So $1,000, let's just take the lower one, $1,000 a month.
	That's $12,000 a year.
	But for just slightly more, $18,000 a year, you could have organic meals, three meals a day paid.
	You know what I'm saying? And then, though, we have to factor in what's the cost that people are paying for the non-organic food that they're buying anyway, right?
	In other words, here's what we have to compare.
	We have to compare what's the cost of buying processed food groceries for a year Plus Ozempic to treat the obesity caused by those groceries versus if we just gave people the $18,000 worth of organic meals for free, let's say, in this experiment, and then they wouldn't need Ozempic.
	Does that make sense?
	So let's go back to this.
	How much does the average American spend per year on groceries?
	So according to AI on Brave Search, that answer is anywhere from $8,000 to $10,000 a year on groceries.
	So let's take the lower number, which is $8,000.
	So we take the $12,000 a year that Ozempic costs.
	If it's $1,000 a month, plus the $8,000 for the processed grocery junk food that people are living on.
	And that's $20,000.
	That's $20,000 to eat junk food and jab yourself with venom peptides based on the Gila monster reptile, also known as a weight loss drug.
	Okay, $20,000. Or, for less than that, for $18,000, you could have three organic meals a day, every day, And not need the weight loss drugs, not need the jabs, not need the reptile venom peptides.
	Which of these would you prefer?
	So RFK actually has a point.
	He's correct about his point, even if he was perhaps not accurate about the actual weekly or monthly costs.
	He's correct in the overall point, which is the following.
	It's cheaper...
	To just give people organic food and prevent obesity, prevent diabetes, prevent chronic degenerative disease.
	It's cheaper to just give them free organic food than it is to treat the products or the results of eating toxic foods and junk foods and processed foods.
	And there's your answer.
	But you know what?
	Big food and big pharma, they go hand in hand.
	Have you ever walked through a CVS pharmacy?
	What do they sell in the front half of the store?
	Think about it. Processed junk food that causes the diseases that they, quote, treat with the medications sold in the back of the store.
	It's like CVS pharmacies have the perfect little scam.
	They're like, come on in.
	Drink all these sodas.
	Get diabetes. And then when you get diabetes, come to the back of the store.
	We'll sell you diabetes medications.
	Ooh. Well, here, come into the front of the store, eat all this toxic candy and long shelf life processed junk food, mineral depleted, nutrient depleted garbage crap that will make you obese and overweight.
	And then when you are obese and overweight, come to the back of the store.
	We'll give you, we'll sell you, I mean, Ozempic.
	You can jab yourself every week.
	But please come back to the front of the store so you can Keep on needing the drugs from the back of the store.
	This is a total scam.
	Big food and big pharma handshake working together to keep you sick and keep you medicated.
	And that is a cycle of Civilization death.
	It's a suicide cycle.
	And it's one that we're stuck in, in America.
	Stuck in that cycle. People want to go out and eat all the toxic junk foods and then instead of changing their diet or eating healthier, they just, oh, can I just jab myself once a week with whatever's in this thing?
	And they don't even go to the website of these drugs because the side effects are right there on the homepage in giant letters.
	You can't miss it.
	It's like if you go to these websites for these weight loss drugs, the kind that you inject yourself with, right there it says, causes thyroid cancer.
	It may make you dizzy.
	It could make you pass out and die.
	It could cause blood sugar imbalances and nausea.
	Your nut sack could fall off or whatever.
	It's all kinds of crazy, crazy side effects.
	It's right there on the homepage.
	And people don't even go there.
	Because they say, well, I trust my doctor.
	My doctor. Yeah, your doctor's getting kickbacks.
	Dumbass. Why do you think your doctor's prescribing that?
	He's getting kickbacks.
	In other words, he's sacrificing your health for his profit.
	And if you don't go read the side effects, you're a dumbass.
	There's just no other way to say it.
	I mean, the side effects couldn't be any more loudly stated.
	On the website. The only way to warn patients even more than this would be when they open the box.
	Like a musical unicorn pops out with a giant warning flag pops out of its butt that says, warning, you might die from cancer if you take this drug.
	Like, if that happened, then maybe some people say, oh, there's a side effect?
	And they'd still probably jab themselves anyway because they're like, I still want to eat Pop-Tarts, donuts, and ice cream all day long.
	And if I jab myself with this thing, then guess what?
	I don't have to take responsibility.
	For anything happening in my life.
	And that's the way a lot of people see pharmaceuticals, sadly.
	And doctors get paid to keep people stuck in that cycle.
	So, RFK Jr.
	wants to pull you out of that cycle of food and pharma suicide.
	And I want to pull you out of that cycle too, obviously.
	So that we can be a healthier nation.
	Happier, more abundant, more joyful.
	And we can also save a ton of money.
	Imagine if instead of the government having handouts to Big Pharma, what if the government...
	Oh, and also, what if the government stopped subsidizing corn and helped make organic food more affordable, for example?
	I mean, I don't know how that would work.
	I don't want government meddling with food prices or anything.
	But what if every American got, like...
	A debit card that's $1,000 a month, kind of like a health UBI. This is a proposal that I've kind of mentioned before.
	It's a hybrid model It's like a health UBI, okay?
	You get a debit card from the federal government, $1,000 a month.
	You can spend it on anything related to good health.
	Organic food, nutrition, chiropractic care, naturopathic medicine, massage therapy, Chinese medicine, essential oils.
	You know, anything that qualifies as health-promoting natural medicine or preventative medicine, you know, you could use it for a membership at the gym.
	If you use the membership, imagine that.
	So instead of giving people free money to go buy toxic processed junk foods, which is what the SNAP program is that Walmart loves, just brings people into the door and keep on shoveling all kinds of toxic processed foods down their throat.
	Which, of course, you know, General Mills loves that.
	Kellogg's loves that.
	Procter& Gamble and all those garbage factory process product companies that have all kinds of disgusting ingredients in their products, I'll say.
	What if instead you had a debit card from the government and you could spend it on anything related to good health?
	Okay, folks, sorry. I don't even know where I left off because I just, I had to hit pause.
	I had a, I had a chicken emergency.
	I had to go out. I heard a chicken screaming.
	I had to go out, check on the chickens.
	And sure enough, there was some, well, I didn't have to shoot anything.
	That's, that's good news.
	So, you know, grab my rifle and run out there.
	And sure enough, there was a chicken that was, that had not gone into the chicken house, a hen, and something was going after it.
	And I don't know what that was, but I got her in the house and got the door closed again, and I didn't have to shoot anything, but got a little midnight jog just there.
	Hey, who needs Ozempic when you have, you know, midnight chicken emergencies with random predator creatures showing up on your farm that you have to chase down in high weeds?
	With ticks and chiggers all over the place, too.
	That's the fun part. Oh, yeah.
	Hey, you know what works to stop chiggers from eating your tender, tender skin?
	Tea tree oil. That's the answer right there.
	You put tea tree oil on a cotton ball or like a cotton tissue, something that's strong, and you rub that all over your feet and your ankles and your lower legs, and that stops the chiggers from crawling up your legs and And biting on your buttocks, as Forrest Gump says, or other tender, juicy parts of your body.
	Oh, yeah. Living in the country, it teaches all kinds of things.
	Okay, anyway, I think we were talking about a Zempick, and I think I'd made my points there.
	So let's move forward with the special report I recorded earlier.
	It's a consumer safety alert.
	More cinnamon products found contaminated with toxic heavy metals.
	And this report also gives you some good information about the beneficial effects of cinnamon.
	And also cinnamon oil, which is often extracted from the cinnamon tree leaves.
	And I forgot to mention in that report, by the way, the blood sugar moderating effects of cinnamon.
	So don't forget that.
	Cinnamon helps prevent blood clots, and it helps stabilize blood sugar.
	And in this Bible sermon coming up that I've got, I think tomorrow is the one about cinnamon sugar.
	It tells you how cinnamon can be used to amplify the effects of insulin for type 2 diabetics.
	And this is based on USDA research cited by Dr.
	James A. Duke in his book about herbs in the Bible, which I also cite in my sermons.
	So if you thought cinnamon was just for like Christmas candies and apple cider, no, it's good for so much more.
	So enjoy this special report, and we'll be back on the other side.
	There's been a significant recall of some cinnamon snacks in the United States.
	The FDA forced this recall after it was discovered that this one company, I believe it's called El Chilar, it was found that their cinnamon products were very heavily contaminated with lead.
	And we've covered this at naturalnews.com, by the way, if you want to check it out.
	We've got several things to talk about here.
	We've got the heavy metals problem in the food supply, we've got food safety issues, FDA regulatory issues, and then also the healing properties of cinnamon, by the way, because I recently completed a Bible sermon on cinnamon, which is mentioned in Proverbs as well as Revelation.
	Yeah, so we're going to talk about that.
	Cinnamon is an amazing biblical spice.
	It has extraordinary health properties.
	Cinnamon is really healthy to eat in proper quantities, in proper moderation, and so on.
	And cinnamon oil, which is made from the extraction of the volatile oils from the leaves of the cinnamon tree, or at least that's one of the places where oil is derived, That oil is really, really powerful.
	It's antibacterial, but it's also harsh.
	If you put pure oil on your skin, man, it will turn your skin cherry red, which also means it's boosting circulation.
	But it's an irritant, obviously, and it kind of sort of, you could say it burns your skin, not in a fire kind of way, but in a chemical way because it's such a harsh chemical.
	And that chemical, by the way, the constituent of cinnamon, the best known constituent, although there are many diverse molecules, it's called benzaldehyde.
	And that's what's responsible for cinnamon's unique taste and unique properties and so on.
	But back to the heavy metals problem.
	So this is a very common problem in spices and certain types of foods.
	Now, cinnamon, you might say, well, is it a spice or is it a food?
	Well, it depends on how you use it.
	If you use it as a spice, then it's a spice.
	If you eat it as a food or an ingredient in food, then it's a food.
	And that's the way the FDA looks at it too.
	It's kind of based on your intent to use.
	That's what determines the category of it.
	For example, if I take powdered cinnamon and I put it in a capsule, now I've transformed it into a supplement.
	Now it's not a food.
	It's a supplement according to the FDA and a whole different set of rules apply.
	But one of the rules that the FDA has on the books and that they sometimes enforce is this heavy metals rule.
	Now, foods that are known to be contaminated with heavy metals, and that includes turmeric and probably ginger, but also cinnamon, moringa, for example.
	There are many specific foods or superfood supplements and spices, many different spices that are known to be heavily contaminated with lead.
	Well, the FDA, under its food safety regulations, says that high-risk items have to be tested by the manufacturer.
	So if you're the manufacturer of a cinnamon snack or cinnamon food item or, as we've seen before, cinnamon applesauce, then you're responsible for the testing of the cinnamon to make sure it's not contaminated with lead.
	The FDA doesn't tell you, this is what's crazy about it, they don't tell you how much lead is acceptable in cinnamon.
	They have an overall rule of 10 parts per million as a total count of heavy metals, which typically includes the four best known toxic elements, which is lead, arsenic, mercury, and cadmium.
	And if those four together are over 10 ppm, which is huge, Then, you know, the FDA is going to have a problem with, you know, your food item.
	Now, to have lead over even one part per million, in my scientific view as a published food scientist, you know, I don't want to see even over one ppm.
	And our rating system at LowHeavyMetalsVerified.com, it shows A grade as being below 0.25 parts per million.
	And over 1 ppm, I won't sell that.
	And between 0.25 and 1 are different grades, like B, C, D, and F. And that's how we grade foods.
	The FDA has a different system.
	They allow up to 10 ppm, but they don't tell you They don't tell you what they want you to actually see.
	It's weird. There are no strong rules by the FDA as there are in the EU or in Canada or even in Japan.
	There are much more strict rules everywhere else in the world.
	And so what happens is that when food producers in India or China Or even Mexico or other countries, when they have really contaminated foods that have a lot of heavy metals in them, they don't ship those to the EU. They ship them to the USA. They sell them in the USA to manufacturers because they know that now the USA is the toxic dumping ground of heavy metals.
	And unless you have crazy levels of lead in your food, the FDA is not going to say a thing.
	Well, apparently this company had crazy levels.
	So the FDA found out and forced them to issue a recall.
	And that's what's underway now.
	Massive recall, you know, not an easy thing to go through.
	Now, right off hand, this underscores the importance of testing for heavy metals.
	As you know, our online store, HealthRangerStore.com, we test everything for heavy metals, and we've done so for years.
	We test all the foods, all the supplements, even the personal care products, you know, everything you can think of that we sell that's edible, let's say.
	We test it for heavy metals.
	We even test first aid gel and so on.
	So we go above and beyond any kind of minimum requirements.
	And we have been doing this for many years.
	And our limits are very, very strict.
	And again, you can see those limits at LowHeavyMetalsVerified.com.
	Now, we did have an interesting issue with the FDA on one of their recent visits, because, you know, they're always visiting and inspecting and, you know, auditing and whatever.
	Like, surprise! We're the FDA. It's like, we want to go through your production facility.
	Well, okie doke.
	Come on, have the full tour.
	Here you go. And so one of the things that they asked us in a recent visit was, they were actually kind of critical.
	They're like, why are you testing everything for lead?
	And we said, well, we believe in testing everything for lead.
	And they're like, well, you shouldn't really do that.
	You should only test high-risk items for lead, but you shouldn't test everything.
	You have to have a customized lead testing plan.
	And my team was like, well, our lead testing plan is to test everything for lead.
	That's our lead testing plan.
	They're like, ah, it doesn't fly.
	So The FDA, if you test everything for lead, they don't like it.
	No, I'm serious. I'm not exaggerating.
	They said you have to have an individualized plan of which high-risk items you're testing for lead, and the others we don't care about.
	Really? So we came up with an individual plan for all the high-risk items, but we still test everything on top of that.
	We gave the FDA what they wanted, high-risk plan, and then we test for everything on top of that.
	So above and beyond, that's what we do.
	But you might be shocked to find out how few manufacturers in the food and supplements industry actually do any testing.
	And perhaps this has improved over time, but my memory of the way things operate by and large in the food industry is that everybody that makes something, they just trust the certificates of their supplier.
	And the supplier, which might be from China or India or somewhere, just says, oh yeah, we tested everything.
	And it's all good. Trust us.
	It's all good. You don't have to, you know, you don't have to test.
	Not that they say that, but that's kind of the implication.
	It's like, we test it, it's all good, and here it is.
	It's less than 10 ppm.
	That's usually what they say.
	Or they say, not detected.
	And then you're like, well, what's the sensitivity of your instrument?
	You didn't detect it. And that doesn't mean it's not there.
	It just means your instrument didn't detect it.
	So, like, what's your instrument capable of detecting?
	You know, there's a question for you.
	And sometimes the instrument doesn't even work.
	So it's like, not detected means, ah, the instrument's not working.
	It's like covering your eyes and saying, I didn't see anything.
	I see no evil, right?
	But it's crazy. So a lot of manufacturers, they trust their certificates from the suppliers.
	And the suppliers, they're not in the business of not selling contaminated products.
	They're in the business of selling everything they have, contaminated or otherwise.
	If they've got it, they want to move it.
	So they want to find somebody who will buy it.
	And often, you know, there's some sucker out there who won't do any testing.
	And usually located in the United States where food safety is not that...
	You know, big of a deal. I mean, in terms of heavy metals.
	And so it'll end up in the U.S. food supply.
	And then the FDA comes along and does like a sample inspection or they go into stores.
	They went into the dollar type stores a few months ago looking for lead, buying cinnamon products.
	I mean, the FDA has figured out that if they just run around buying cinnamon products, they'll find lead.
	The same thing if they run around buying turmeric, they'll find lead, man.
	In fact, if the FDA wanted me to tell them, I can tell them where all the lead's found.
	Maybe they already know, but it's pretty easy.
	I can walk into a grocery store.
	I could just walk around the store and buy the products that have lead.
	I can buy the products that have glyphosate.
	I can tell you what's got the highest pesticides, you know, because we do all this testing.
	So we have, you know...
	I'm guessing at this point, tens of thousands of test results over the years of all the testing we've done.
	So we see the patterns.
	Anyway, the FDA, in my opinion, you could argue there is some good to the fact that they're spot-checking the food supply for heavy metals.
	But also, they do a lot of harm at the same time, especially with small businesses and small manufacturers kind of interfering with businesses that are acting in good faith.
	Like the example I just gave you, like we test everything for lead.
	Well, FDA is not happy with that.
	They don't want you to test everything for lead.
	It's like, why?
	What's that? Why can't we test everything?
	Or we test everything for glyphosate.
	The FDA doesn't really care about glyphosate.
	Have you ever heard of them recalling any food because of high levels of glyphosate in it?
	I haven't. Maybe that's happened, but I'm just not aware of it, but I've never seen anything like that.
	And I think they should be testing for glyphosate and organophosphates, you know, toxic herbicides and pesticides, even on non-GMO crops.
	Because they spray glyphosate as a desiccant, a drying agent, on many crops that are not Roundup ready, let's say.
	They're not GMO crops.
	So where's the FDA testing on that?
	Appears to be non-existent.
	Maybe they say, well, that's the USDA's problem.
	And the USDA's like, ah, we work for big ag.
	We don't care. Well, all the farmers in Iowa are dying from cancer, from exposure to pesticides and herbicides, right?
	And everybody's like, why are they dying of cancer?
	Because they're spraying cancer chemicals all over everything.
	Gee, I wonder.
	But the FDA is like, if we don't see anything, cover their eyes.
	You know, we didn't hear anything.
	It's all good. Let's go buy more cinnamon products.
	Anyway, I have to satirize some of this in order to deal with it because it's so insane.
	But let's talk about the healing benefits of cinnamon.
	Now, cinnamon is an amazing, it's just an amazing substance.
	And like I mentioned earlier, I have a Bible sermon on cinnamon and how it's mentioned in the Bible in many different places, in many different contexts.
	Now, I am in the process of teaching 100 Bible sermons on nutrition foods and superfoods in the Bible.
	And we've covered wormwood herb, we've covered black cumin seed, we've covered apricot pits.
	Huh? Pretty cool stuff.
	We've even covered pomegranate and turmeric, which you may not think is mentioned in the Bible, but it is, according to Bible scholars.
	And you'll have to hear my sermon to get the full download on that.
	But you have to go back to the Arabic pronunciation of turmeric, which is in one form called curcum, which is similar to curcumin.
	So there's a little bit of sort of There's an eschatological linguistic archaeology investigation going on in order to find out that turmeric is in the Bible.
	Anyway, cinnamon's in the Bible.
	And cinnamon was highly prized as a very valuable spice from the East, mostly from regions like India.
	And so when cinnamon came to the Middle East or ancient Israel and that whole region, you know, it was very prized by the kings and the princes and all the royalty who were there.
	They loved cinnamon and they used to take ground up cinnamon and they would sprinkle it in their beds.
	As a kind of perfume, this is mentioned in Proverbs, by the way, they would also use myrrh resin plus cinnamon as a really nice kind of bed spice.
	And you're thinking like, what? Why would you put it in your bed?
	Well, because they didn't have great hygiene.
	I mean, they didn't have running water back then.
	They didn't have plumbing. They didn't have functioning sewer systems and so on.
	So they didn't have deodorants, what have you, and shampoo, most of which is toxic today.
	Anyway... So they wouldn't shower that often, and they might have bed bugs, you know, who knows what.
	And so they would sprinkle these antibacterial, anti-pest substances in their beds, and they would sleep in a little bit of cinnamon dust.
	Seriously. And then on top of that, cinnamon was so prized that in the book of Revelation, when, I forgot what chapter it is, maybe it's chapter 8, But when John is talking about the visions that God gave him, of God taking away all of the assets from humanity as the human leaders and the kings, as they turned against God.
	And you know, we're talking about the destruction of Babylon.
	And God promised to take away everything of value from humanity because humanity was living in sin.
	And those things included all your cattle, all your homes, all your land, and your cinnamon.
	It was like, we're going to take your gold and silver.
	It's all going to disappear. All your food crops, your animals.
	This is God, right? He's like, you're going to be punished, and we're going to take your cinnamon.
	That's how valuable cinnamon was.
	it's mentioned in the Bible as something that God would take away from you if you sinned.
	That's not where the name comes from.
	Like sin of men, sin of men, get it?
	But no, that's not where the name comes from.
	It kind of fits.
	If men sin, the sin of men, you lose your cinnamon, according to the book of Revelation.
	Isn't that wild?
	This is why I love teaching nutrition in the Bible, because there are so many amazing things that I've never heard before.
	No one ever taught me these things, and as I'm reading Scripture and teaching Scripture, I'm coming upon these really amazing things.
	Oh, and by the way, we're launching a website with all the sermons and also an email list.
	This is launching in the next couple of days, and it's called abundance.church.
	Because my efforts are more and more focused on teaching the scripture from a nutrition and even a, quote, food science point of view.
	I guess you could call it food faith point of view at this point.
	But that's going to be at abundance.church if you want to go there.
	It might not work right now today, but check it tomorrow or check it next week, and it'll be up and online.
	We're going to post all the 100 sermons there.
	Anyway, the bottom line is, cinnamon is a very valuable spice in terms of its healing properties, its natural properties, used in the Bible in various ways.
	And one of the most important uses of cinnamon oil in the Bible is it's used as part of the mixture of anointing oils.
	And anointing oils were used quite liberally in the Bible.
	Sometimes they would pour them over a person's head.
	My cup runneth over with oils, it turns out.
	They would slather these oils on people.
	It wasn't just, here's a little drop of oil on your forehead.
	You are hereby anointed.
	No, it was like slather up with all these oils because they have these amazing fragrances, natural, essential fragrances in them.
	And they have properties.
	They have properties for supporting skin and supporting health, and they have natural properties that would be very useful in the old world where maybe people didn't shower that often, things like that.
	There's a lot to learn from the Bible about essential oils and foods and superfoods and all these amazing healing molecules, as I call them, that God put on this earth through Mother Nature to help us stay healthy, awake, and alive.
	So check it out at abundance.church when that site goes live.
	And in the meantime, you can find my sermons and interviews at brighteon.com or my articles at naturalnews.com.
	Thank you for listening. God bless you all.
	Take care. Oh,
	it ends on September 1st at midnight, so you want to take advantage of this while you can.
	This is, I mean, we haven't had a sale since, was it July 4th?
	No, I forgot. Anyway, healthrangerstore.com slash Labor Day, and you'll see all the goodness that we have available right there for you, including the new Escape from L.A. Tactical Knife.
	So this version is 11 and 7 eighths inches long.
	You can see a picture of it. It's very cool at healthrangerstore.com slash Labor Day.
	And it's got the apocalypse black and the scorched earth finishes.
	And I'm laughing a little bit because I'm looking at the landing page and it says the following.
	It says... Be prepared for emergencies with our new Escape from L.A. Tactical Knife WS, and then it has two asterisks there, you know, like star star.
	And then if you go down to the bottom of the page, like, what does star star mean?
	It says, these statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to treat, cure, or diagnose any diseases.
	So in case you're wondering whether this survival knife could diagnose disease, the answer is no.
	It is not able to diagnose disease nor treat any medical condition unless you consider being trapped in a city a medical condition.
	Then, oh, it has a lot of treatments for that.
	Or if a zombie apocalypse is a new disease, then, oh, here's a treatment for the zombie apocalypse disorder.
	It's called hack and slash with a really fine knife that's also escaped from L.A. So there you go.
	No medical claims related to this knife other than just survival.
	Wilderness survival for the most part.
	But hey, the zombie apocalypse.
	Might be close. Especially, you know, all these people that took the jabs and they've already destroyed their brain neurons.
	They've lost their humanity.
	They've lost like these mirror neurons that have empathy and compassion.
	And that's why they stay Democrats who are rooted in hatred and intolerance and violence and everything.
	Can you imagine if on top of all the brain damage caused by the vaccines, you start injecting yourself with lizard venom peptides every single week?
	Like, what could cause more brain damage?
	Yeah. I mean, what are these people going to have left?
	Reptilian brainstem, basically.
	And that kind of describes Nancy Pelosi.
	Didn't she say that she's going to have a reptilian, cold-blooded...
	Oh, here it is. We've got the story on Natural News.
	Now, this is totally bonkers.
	She said... Here it is.
	She said that she plans to win the White House for Kamala and that she's going to turn the House of Representatives back to Democrat control using, quote, discreet reptilian cold-blooded strategies.
	Well, that's actually perfect for Democrats because that's all they have left is the reptilian brainstem.
	And that's why they're driven by sex and violence and hatred and mass poisoning.
	Seriously, the only part of their brains that still work are the reptile parts.
	You didn't realize the zombie apocalypse was going to be a lizard people zombie apocalypse, now did you?
	But that's what it has become.
	Was there a sci-fi TV series about lizard people?
	What was that?
	I know in the old Spider-Man comics, before Marvel went all woke...
	They used to have, like, Spider-Man fought, like, this lizard man that lived in the sewer system where he was apparently testing for COVID outbreaks or maybe West Nile virus.
	Sampling the turds again, sir!
	I'll turn into a lizard later and assist Nancy Pelosi with winning the White House.
	Okay. What was that called?
	Any of you know? It wasn't like Lizard Man.
	It was a scientist who turned into a lizard.
	He was a scientist. That's why he wore a lab coat.
	It was a lizard.
	It was a lab coat wearing arch enemy lizard man who lived in the sewers.
	I'm not even making this up. Now I gotta find a picture of this.
	Oh, here it is. Here it is.
	It's Dr. Kurt or Curtis Connors.
	He is a genius scientist.
	This is according to marvel.com, so this is official.
	He is a Gifted surgeon.
	I'll bet. He probably can handle a lot of genital mutilations.
	He's a gifted surgeon and biologist, and he goes to war.
	He served as a battlefield medic until his arm was injured in an explosion, and then it was amputated.
	And so he went back to his Florida laboratory where weird things happen.
	And then inspired by a reptile's ability to regenerate lost limbs, he pursues a revolutionary study of reptilian molecular biology and DNA manipulation.
	And then he creates and drinks an untested formula.
	Sounds exactly like the FDA.
	And then within seconds, his lost arm miraculously regenerates.
	But says the serum worked, but it's more powerful than Kurt had expected.
	Yeah, kind of like spike proteins.
	The chemical mix transforms him into a human lizard.
	Overwhelmed by his new reptilian nature, he runs for Congress.
	Oh, wait, no. He flees into the dense Florida swamps.
	Oh, that's the same as running for Congress.
	He joined the swamp!
	From his jungle swampy sanctuary, the lizard builds an army of cold-blooded creatures.
	In other words, like, he clones himself.
	He replicates, like, self-replicating mRNA vaccines, aiming to destroy humankind.
	Exactly what the globalists are doing.
	Oh, my gosh. This is, like, this is crazy.
	How did Marvel Comics know about the globalist agenda in the 1970s?
	Let's see. Rumors of a giant lizard soon spread, drawing the attention of the Daily Bugle.
	That's the newspaper in New York.
	And then Spider-Man faces off against Lizard-Man.
	And then Spider-Man forces the lizard creature to drink a reverse solution.
	And then the lizard creature shrinks back to human form and his arm is gone.
	So, oh, well now.
	So check this out. This is a perfect description of Democrats here.
	When the lizard emerges, the R-complex of Conor's brain, that's the most primitive region of the human brain containing the most bestial drives, takes over the cerebellum, causing Conor's mind to become progressively inhuman.
	Again, perfect description of Nancy Pelosi.
	The lizard gains a quasi-telepathic ability to communicate with and command all reptiles.
	Democrats can also communicate with their zombie voters through emotions, but not logic or reason, obviously, because that part of the brain is no longer functional.
	Let's see. All reptiles within about a one-mile radius of himself.
	Okay, so in his human form, Dr.
	Curtis Connors is a brilliant biologist and biochemist and a leading herpetologist.
	That's an expert in herpes, in case you were wondering.
	Or maybe it's a scientist who studies reptiles.
	One or the other. Not sure, but definitely a Democrat.
	So let's watch Nancy Pelosi brag about being a reptile.
	Check this out. Remember, in the last election, they said we were going to lose 30 or 40 seats.
	What? They didn't know what they were talking about.
	We know our...
	We're different from the presidential...
	We're very discreet...
	Reptilian, cold-blooded, these are the races we have to win.
	Others are winning the whole country.
	Ten. So there's a sloshed-up Nancy Pelosi who clearly has a substance abuse problem, and this is not the first time that has emerged, but what happens is when the alcohol levels go up in Nancy, Her cognitive function goes down to the reptilian brainstem, and then the reptile comes up.
	She's like, we're reptilian and cold-blooded, and that's how we're going to win.
	And who knows how much vodka exactly she's had before this interview, but some of her other interviews are probably competing for the title of the most inebriated former house speaker.
	And also, by the way, as a side note, guess who one of the supervillain colleagues of the Lizard Man is?
	It's the Green Goblin, which is pretty much the male version of AOC because it's all about being green and shutting down all energy in America, forcing people to drive EVs.
	It's the Green Goblin.
	We're going to gobble up your economy.
	We're going to gobble up your energy infrastructure.
	And we're going to drink weird potions and call ourselves, you know, superheroes.
	So there you go. That's the Democrat Party.
	Basically, all the villains of Marvel Comics combined.
	Okay, that's a great segue into my next special report, which is that Democrats are at war with life, truth, justice, and the entire human race.
	And they can command reptiles within a one-mile radius.
	Oh, my goodness. Okay.
	That's getting crazy. Enjoy this special report, which warns about the real war that's being waged.
	It's a war of life versus death.
	It's not about political parties.
	This is about good versus evil, life versus death, and, you know, peace versus violence, and so on.
	The Democrats are on the side of just death, destruction, disease.
	You know, decimation of humanity, extinction of the human race.
	That's what they stand for.
	So enjoy the special report, and then on the other side we will continue with the interview with Sheriff Richard Mack.
	Isn't it fascinating that Democrats are now refusing to remove RFK Jr.
	the ballots of three states that he's requested to be withdrawn from.
	Because, of course, he's joining with Trump in defeating the fascist authoritarian Democrats.
	And one of the ways to do that is to remove himself from the ballots of about 10 swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and so on.
	And wouldn't you know it, the secretaries of state of three of those states are saying, Nope, we're not going to remove you because, well, we want to rig That's basically what they're saying.
	So at first, think about how hard they sued and they did hit pieces in the media.
	They used lawfare to prevent RFK Jr.
	from getting on the ballot.
	Now that he's on the ballot, And he wants to get off the ballot.
	Now they're saying, oh no, we won't let you off the ballot because we think that you're going to take more votes from Trump.
	I mean, that just shows you the level of absolute cheating and election interference that the Democrats routinely engage in.
	And the Democrats don't think there's anything wrong with this.
	That's the thing. When the Democrats accuse conservatives of an insurrection, they overlook their own insurrection.
	I mean, the Democrats cheated and rigged the election in 2020.
	They carried out an insurrection.
	They carried out a coup.
	They overthrew the federal government of the United States of America.
	They overthrew it in an illegal criminal coup against our republic.
	And now in order to try to shore up that coup and make sure they never lose power again, they are willing to cheat.
	In any way possible.
	And their latest method of cheating is just, you know, manipulating who's on the ballot, who's not on the ballot.
	They did the same thing to Alan West.
	They don't want him on the ballot.
	Same thing with Jill Stein.
	They don't want her on the ballot.
	So these are ballot games played by the radical left, the Democrat secretaries of state for the most part, playing these ballot games.
	That's election interference, folks.
	Those are crimes against our republic.
	And the reason they're willing to carry out such crimes is because many of them know they're going to go to prison if they get prosecuted for the crimes they've already committed.
	So it's kind of like a murderer on the loose on the streets once the murderer has – or a serial killer.
	Once they've killed one person, they're like, well, already facing life in prison.
	And in their twisted minds, they say, well, they might as well just keep killing them.
	That's the way Democrats think.
	They're like, well, they're already going to go to prison for all their crimes against America, all their rigging of elections and ballot stuffing and, you know, everything they carried out in the last election.
	So they just figure, well, might as well double down, triple down on it.
	And maybe they think, maybe they can stay in power and avoid prosecution.
	I think they're wrong. And I think a large number of them are going to go to prison, as should happen.
	There needs to be a commission that investigates the rigged 2020 election.
	And frankly, every law that Biden signed since he was inaugurated in 2021, every executive order that he signed, they all have to be nullified.
	Because Joe Biden was never a legitimate president.
	He was the pretender in chief, not the commander in chief.
	And that's got to be reversed for the sake of our republic.
	And what's interesting now is how many Democrats are leaving the Democrat Party.
	They see this now. Even Shanahan, the VP candidate for RFK Jr., I saw her putting out a tweet.
	She said that years ago she thought when Trump supporters would say that Trump's being persecuted, she said she would roll her eyes like, yeah, what are you talking about?
	He's not being persecuted. And then it turns out that she was subjected to some kind of grilling in a lawsuit.
	I don't know all the details.
	And she came out and was like, oh my god, now I know what Trump is talking about.
	That's persecution. Where they try to twist everything.
	They lie, they deceive, they present false evidence against you.
	And they try to trap you.
	She's like, yep, persecution.
	Now she has endured it herself.
	Just a little taste of it.
	Now she sees what they've done to Trump.
	But, you know, a thousand times more to Trump.
	And there's more coming.
	They just have another indictment handed down against Trump to try to throw him in jail.
	And by the way, he may be thrown in jail.
	Coming up real soon here, in just a few weeks, they may throw him in prison to make sure that he can't campaign.
	If they do, and I believe they will, I believe they will, it'll be the worst mistake they've ever made, politically.
	Because the pro-Trump backlash against the authoritarians will be so immense that, frankly, because throwing Trump in prison, that will mean victory at the election for Trump.
	Trump, he doesn't even need to campaign at that point.
	Just sitting in prison is all the campaigning that he would need to do.
	Because the message would be clear to the whole world that the United States of America, under this illegal criminal cabal of Democrat imposters, it has become a banana republic.
	The government is waging war against the people.
	The government's waging war against democracy.
	And the government will use violence, coercion, An imprisonment of its political enemies in order to try to stay in power.
	And when any government stoops to those levels of violence and threats and corruption, that government needs to be dismantled.
	It needs to be replaced.
	And the best way to do that is at the ballot box on November 5th.
	So if you believe in America, If you believe in the idea of democracy, although we're a constitutional republic, if you believe in truth and real justice, if you believe in humanity, if you believe in clean food, good health, good nutrition, if you believe that the criminals in government should be held accountable for their crimes, then vote for Trump.
	Because it's so much bigger than Trump now.
	It's Trump plus RFK Jr.
	It's Trump plus Tulsi Gabbard.
	It's Trump plus, plus, plus.
	It's like Team Trump with, you know, a hundred other allies that also love America and love humanity and love liberty.
	And you know what? Some of those allies might have D's next to their names.
	Some of them might have I's for independent.
	Some of them might have R's.
	But, you know, there are R's that are rhinos.
	There are R's that are traitors.
	And there are D's that are patriots.
	So we're so far beyond the labels and the letters now.
	This is about humanity, human freedom.
	This is about saving this republic for all of history.
	The next hundred years, what happens in this country will be determined by what happens in the next hundred days.
	This is why it's critical.
	You can shape the next century of history to unfold ahead of us.
	You can change the future.
	In the next 100 days, should you choose to do so.
	And that's going to mean voting for Trump and getting everybody that you can to vote for Trump because it's a vote for RFK Jr.
	too. This appeals to a lot of independent people, people who otherwise would probably not vote for Trump.
	Many of them are very happy to vote for RFK Jr.
	as, let's say, head of HHS. And this is why I think that Trump should pre-announce that, although I don't think he will, but I wish he would.
	I wish Trump would just come out and say, yep, when we win, RFK Jr.
	is going to run HHS. That's going to put him in charge of the FDA, the CDC, the NIH, what's it called, HRSA, a whole bunch of different agencies.
	I forgot all the letters and all the names, but it's a couple dozen agencies.
	RFK Jr. will do more for America in that position probably than he could as president because he'll be able to focus.
	He'll be able to focus on big food, big ag, big pharma.
	And he'll be able to get the toxins and poisons out of the food supply, the medical system, out of the agricultural system.
	It's going to take time. It's going to be a lot of wars, a lot of legal battles.
	But RFK Jr., he's an attorney.
	He's already fought the FDA. He's filed numerous lawsuits, including famously one on censorship.
	RFK is the right guy for that job.
	If Trump plugs him in, freaking historic, and it'll bring more people over to Team Trump, people that otherwise would never have considered voting for Trump, because to them, voting for Trump is really voting for RFK Jr., and that's true.
	And for me, because I love ideas from both of these men, it's a dream come true.
	I get to vote for both of them at the same time.
	I don't have to choose between one or the other.
	I get to vote for them both.
	How cool is that?
	Plus, at the same time, we get to vote against communism.
	How about that? We get to vote against the fascists.
	And this election is not even about politics, like I said.
	It's about... It's about love versus hate.
	The Democrat Party is just full of hatred.
	Their entire position is just hate Trump.
	That's it. They don't even have any policies other than hating Trump.
	Almost none of the Kamala supporters can even describe any policies that they support or any political victories of Kamala herself.
	They can't describe them because they don't exist.
	They don't even know why they're voting for Kamala, except they just hate Trump.
	So for the Democrats, this is about hate.
	For Republicans and independents that are pro-RFK, this is about love.
	Love for humanity.
	Love for our future.
	Love for America. Love for liberty.
	This is really about love versus hate at this point.
	Clearly, that's what it is.
	And another way to talk about that is life versus death.
	The Democrats are all about death.
	They even brag about killing babies.
	They had a baby-killing RV outside the Democrat convention.
	They were murdering babies in the parking lot as a demonstration of what they stand for.
	That's their policy, is baby murder.
	They're baby killers.
	They're serial killers of babies, both born and unborn.
	And they want to destroy America.
	They chant death to America.
	They're triggered by the flag.
	They hate the flag. In fact, at the DNC, they waved the American flag like one time in the last eight years.
	And it was an anomaly.
	They did that as a fake act.
	They don't love America.
	They don't love the American flag.
	They hate it. They were waving the flag to deceive their own voters into thinking that they're pro-America.
	They're not. They're anti-America.
	They hate everything America stands for.
	They're attacking the Bill of Rights every day, calling for confiscating weapons from the American people.
	They're ending freedom of speech.
	They push aggressive censorship and other forms of tyranny.
	So it's about death for the Democrats, while for the Republicans it's about life.
	It's not just a pro-life position on abortion.
	It's much more than that.
	It's about making life abundant, making life free, making life enjoyable, having happiness in your life because the government isn't weaponized against you.
	So if you love death and suffering and darkness and demonism, vote for Democrats.
	The D makes it easy to remember.
	All those things are D's.
	But if you want life and light and love, it's almost like The new party is the L party.
	Life and light and love.
	It's not even the R party because there's too many rhinos, you know.
	It's the L party.
	Life, light, love, levity.
	Leviticus. Oh, no, wait.
	That's Old Testament. Lots of L's.
	Lots of love for America and for humanity.
	Love humanity, love our future together, love each other when we share common values that are pro-humanity, that are pro-life in the greatest sense of the term.
	That is just we want to help people be healthier, be more successful in their lives, to have stronger families, happier lives, just living.
	There's the other L. So that's what this election is all about, folks.
	Make a choice. Either you're going to choose death or life in America.
	Death is Democrats.
	Life is RFK plus Trump and everybody that goes along with that.
	For me, I'm choosing life.
	I'm choosing love.
	I'm choosing pro-humanity.
	And I believe you are too if you're listening to this.
	So thank you for all that you do.
	Thank you for your support.
	Thank you for listening. Thank you for sharing all of this.
	We have much work to do together.
	We are going to have to undo all the damage that the demon rats have done all these years.
	There are going to have to be mass arrests and prosecutions of those who committed horrific crimes against America and against humanity.
	But beyond that, we're going to have to rebuild our world.
	All of Western civilization is going to have to be rebuilt because it's all being systematically destroyed.
	So roll up your sleeves, be prepared for some hard work and some courageous actions, real direction.
	We're going to take this planet back for humanity, and we're going to do that Peacefully, intelligently, with dedication, courage, righteousness, and faith on our side.
	And if you want to hear my sermons talking about this in more detail, I'm releasing 100 sermons over 100 days.
	I'm on sermon number 32, I think, at the moment.
	And obviously, you know, a lot more coming, so check that out on my channel page at brighteon.com or rumble.com.
	And thank you for listening.
	God bless you all. Take care.
	All right, welcome back. We're about to jump into the interview with Sheriff Richard Mack, who adds a lot to this conversation.
	And Sheriff Richard Mack is an American hero, and he's got a big announcement coming up about an event.
	I think this is in Orlando, Florida, coming up.
	You'll want to know about that.
	And you'll also want to consider joining his organization, the CSPOA, which is at CSPOA.org as...
	The website just reminding you before we jump into that interview that our Labor Day sale begins today.
	This is your best opportunity to get your hands on some of the limited supplies that we have.
	We I understand our inventories have now been dwindling quite a bit.
	We are way behind on production because of supply chain problems.
	And we're also doing some internal upgrades as well.
	And we are behind. So I understand we're out of a lot of products.
	We're working on that. Hopefully in the next 60 to 90 days, we'll get a lot more.
	But for now, we still have many items on sale.
	If you want to get the supply that we have now, go to healthrangerstore.com slash Labor Day.
	Take advantage of our Labor Day sale, which goes through, what is that?
	Through Sunday night, midnight.
	So, September 1st.
	Take advantage of it.
	We are shipping right now, free shipping in the 48 states for orders over $99, which these days is pretty easy to spend, $99.
	And remember that when you shop with us, you help support our platforms for freedom of speech, including Brighteon.com.
	Brighttown.social, Brighttown.io, and our AI site, Brighttown.ai.
	And yes, we have new AI models that are being, well, they're being trained.
	And we're working on a lot of content right now.
	We haven't released models for a little while, but a major upgrade of our models is coming.
	So if you're interested in that, stay tuned.
	And also, I've got a song coming out, and it's called Song of Solomon.
	And it's based almost entirely on Bible scripture from the Song of Solomon section of the Bible.
	And what's so cool about it is we're using AI video creation to make little five-second snippets that are hilarious because the lyrics...
	Uh-oh. Are the chickens under attack again?
	Uh-oh. Yeah, somebody's sounding off.
	I better go check it out. But until then, hey, enjoy the interview with Sheriff Richard Mack and take advantage of our sale, healthrainingstore.com slash Labor Day.
	I'm off to save the chickens!
	Welcome to today's interview here on Bratian.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, and today we have a very special guest for you, Sheriff Richard Mack, who I would consider to be one of the great living heroes of America today.
	Pro-Constitution, pro-humanity, pro-liberty, pro-America.
	Of course, he's with the CSPOA. If you go to CSPOA.org, that's the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
	There's the website, cspoa.org.
	And if you click Join Posse on the top left of the website, you, as a citizen, you can join the Posse and help support the CSPOA. Now, let's bring in Sheriff Richard Mack.
	Welcome, Sheriff. It's just an honor to have you on today, sir.
	Thanks, Mike. The honor's all mine.
	I've known you a long time, and I really, really appreciate I really admire you, appreciate what you've done, and it's been great the times that you and I have stood shoulder to shoulder in this battle.
	And I couldn't think of a better person I would want to be interviewed with.
	Well, the honor is absolutely mine to have you on, sir.
	I'm such a big supporter of yours.
	And I want you to know, I meet with high-level Texas law enforcement sheriffs and deputies.
	And that's who gave me this pin, by the way.
	This is, well, you don't have a close-up.
	But anyway, we all support constitutional law enforcement and peace officers.
	But we live in a society today that is increasingly lawless due to the actions of a rogue federal agency that starts with the letter F. So would you like to tell us about the latest developments of the FBI and Zuckerberg and some of the admissions that have come out?
	Well, first, I guess I have a disclaimer.
	I actually tried to get in the FBI. I went to college to get a degree and I got it in Spanish and Latin American studies and sociology, and I tried to get in the FBI. Why?
	My dad retired from the FBI in 1975.
	Then my cousin, the son of my dad's twin sister, became the deputy director of the FBI, number two man.
	No kidding. And then between sessions and free, he was the director of the FBI. It was only for about six or seven months until they got free to take Sessions Place.
	And I will tell you, I know the FBI. I went to the FBI. This is way up there.
	Let me show the audience the yellow brick.
	You see the yellow brick?
	Yeah, tilt it up a little bit more.
	We can almost see it. There we go.
	Sheriff Max, like, floating drone cam.
	That's awesome. Yeah. Okay, that yellow brick is from the FBI National Academy, and that's for law enforcement professionals that get to go to the academy.
	It's on special invitation.
	So when I was sheriff in 1991, I got an invite to go to the FBI Academy, and it was for 11 weeks.
	So I had to leave my office for 11 weeks.
	Obviously, I was on the phone a lot with my undersheriff and making decisions from Quantico.
	But it was something I always wanted to do.
	The FBI does one thing good, and that's training.
	Law enforcement training, they have the best stuff anywhere.
	Let me jump in because, you know, the FBI that you're talking about is a very different culture from what exists today.
	I think most Americans get that.
	You know, the FBI, through its actions lately, has destroyed its reputation, but it wasn't always this way.
	Your comments? No, it wasn't, but the FBI did some crazy things back then, too.
	Hoover was...
	A little bit out of control a few times, and especially his attacks on Martin Luther King.
	That's true, yes. But it wasn't the entire bureau like it is now.
	And some people say, you know, I have some friends that are in the FBI, okay?
	There are some good people that work for the FBI. But I agree with that former FBI agent.
	She's on Fox a lot, Nicole something.
	And she left because of how corrupt it was.
	This is the thing. All the FBI agents, I don't care how good they are, they all just follow orders.
	They're a bunch of Nuremberg officers and they want to keep their jobs and they want to keep their retirement.
	And the same thing with IRS agents.
	They don't understand the immorality of going along to get along and just following orders.
	And some of them actually Try to justify and rationalize going along with the FBI because, well, you know, I got a family to take care of and I got to keep my paycheck coming.
	No, you don't.
	And if we'll stand, if the FBI, if the good people in the FBI and IRS will stand up and say, we shouldn't be doing this stuff, Then maybe you'll get some protection as a whistleblower, and you can write books and go on the lecture circuit like Nicole has done.
	But this is the thing.
	You're willing to compromise America and our liberty and our Constitution for your damn salary and retirement?
	You're doing this for money?
	And you're acting like you're taking care of your family?
	No. This is all about God, family, and country, and freedom is the ultimate goal here.
	So I'm sorry. I don't feel sorry for any of you.
	If you're going along with unconstitutional corruption and criminality, Then I'm sorry.
	Well, that's the way tyranny works, as you well know, is the individuals are part of a system, and each individual themselves isn't responsible for all the evil, but in the aggregate, it becomes weaponized against the people.
	Like the IRS or the FBI clearly is now, or even the FDA, can be dispatched by the administration to target specific people, specific companies, to raid properties.
	They do. And that's exactly what's going on.
	But we have an admission now from Mark Zuckerberg of Meta that the whole Hunter Biden laptop cover-up, that it was all bogus, that the Biden-Harris White House pressured him to censor the truth about that.
	Isn't that a confession that he just put out?
	It is, and it's also an accusation against the FBI. It's a huge allegation, and there should be an independent investigation.
	And it's crazy that the FBI has assumed and usurped the authority because they're such great, outstanding people that they actually investigate local, supposedly all local corruption from governments and sheriffs.
	And they're going after a sheriff right now in Virginia.
	And I object to it entirely because the FBI is so universally corrupt.
	And so why would we trust them to go after a sheriff?
	And where did they get this authority?
	And show me congressional legislation that allows them to do this.
	Good question. And even if they did, they have no jurisdictional authority to be a check and balance on local corruption, especially with sheriffs.
	How about if we have a team of sheriffs investigate FBI corruption?
	Well, is that coming?
	I mean, Ivan Raiklin is out there talking about, you know, he's given himself the label of Secretary of Retribution.
	Isn't it up to sheriffs to actually hold the line in a lot of these areas?
	Well, of course. I've preached that for years as well.
	And sheriffs must be involved in this process, or we're not going to keep America free.
	At least we won't be able to do it in a peaceful manner.
	And so, sheriffs, you've got to get on board with this.
	Look, there's only one thing you need to do, sheriff, in order to really fulfill your responsibilities as sheriff, and that's keep your oath.
	You swore an oath in God's name to uphold and defend the Constitution.
	Protect us from all enemies, both foreign and domestic.
	So, when the FBI comes into your county or the IRS, are you going to give them unfettered access?
	Are you going to let them do whatever they want?
	They think that they have union-wide authority and that they are the judge of the breadth of their own authority and power.
	That's absurd. And my Supreme Court case actually begs to differ with them.
	I sued the federal government, and you already know I did.
	And this is the little booklet that I put together of the highlights of the case.
	And every American should have this, and it's available at our website, cspoa.org.
	So when you join the Posse, order a few of these, because it is the absolute most powerful Tenth Amendment decision in history.
	And if you want the best ammunition, To show local officials and your sheriff that the federal government is not our boss and that they do not have an ultimate authority to do whatever they want.
	Look, the Constitution is very clear how much authority the federal government has, where their jurisdiction lies, 10 square miles, 10 miles square in Washington, D.C., and then military bases and post offices.
	That's it. That's all they get.
	And so back to the FBI corruption.
	And so I'm really glad that it didn't work out that I didn't get in the FBI. I'm so grateful to the Lord because I wouldn't have lasted long anyway.
	While I was waiting to hear from the FBI, I hired on with Provo Police in Utah.
	It was great training to become sheriff.
	I was there 11 and a half years.
	I did a stint as an undercover narcotics officer.
	And that changed my life and my wife, and we had three little kids at the time, but I couldn't be seen with them in public, could very rarely go home.
	And anyway, so I was ready, and I moved home to Arizona and ran for sheriff, and miraculously I got it, re-elected in 92, miraculously won that election.
	And I say miraculously because I hadn't even lived there for 12 years.
	Never worked in law enforcement in the state of Arizona or my hometown.
	And it just happened.
	Well, I'm thankful.
	Yeah, go ahead. Well, I'm thankful that you became sheriff there and not in the FBI. Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, that changed my life, too.
	Absolutely. You know, sometimes the Lord puts us on a path and we don't know what that is until we keep walking it.
	And then you find out later.
	So I sued the federal government over the Brady Bill as sheriff.
	I had been studying the Constitution since 1983.
	I was elected in 1988, re-elected in 92.
	And then the Brady Bill came out.
	And the BATF, get this, Mike, the BATF showed up at our Sheriff's Association meeting in Phoenix and handed us a 25-page document detailing our marching orders from Congress and the Clinton administration as to what we had to do to enforce the Brady Bill, enforce a gun control law that was a piece of crap legislation.
	Anyway... So it threatened to arrest us if we failed to comply.
	Wow. I know.
	Wow. And was that the 1994 so-called assault weapons ban?
	Was that part of it? No.
	That was separate? That was a different baby all the way.
	Okay. There was a Brady Bill 2 and a Brady Bill 3 and 4 and 5 until the Second Amendment was going to be completely wiped out.
	That's right. And Brady Bill 2 was introduced by Howard Metzenbaum just two weeks after I filed February 28, 1994.
	Two weeks after that.
	And the NRA really helped a lot.
	And I also had my own lawyer.
	But Gun Owners of America helped.
	Second Amendment Foundation, all of them really helped.
	And it was an absolute miracle that we went to the Supreme Court.
	But I never thought we would.
	But we did.
	And when it came out, and then Bradyville 2 came out, we recognized, and we got the information on the others, that this was going to wipe the Second Amendment out.
	Because we won.
	Because the sheriffs won.
	And I was completely by myself.
	I was the first sheriff in American history to do this.
	Sheriff Prince joined me after four weeks, and then five other sheriffs joined.
	So we're talking about seven sheriffs out of 3,086 sheriffs.
	Seven! The magnificent seven did this.
	We took it all the way to Supreme Court and won, and then...
	I had already lost my third election because of this.
	Because people got tired of the controversy.
	He thought, I was wasting my time.
	He's not going to make it to the Supreme Court.
	And I couldn't argue with him because I didn't think he was going to the Supreme Court either.
	But the miracle happened.
	And even more miraculous, we won.
	Well, it goes to show you the power of a few courageous individuals standing up against tyranny.
	That's one important thing.
	But I want to add this.
	In the 1990s, under Bill Clinton especially, there was a very strong gun control series of so-called successes by the gun control pushers at the time.
	But today, we've had many key decisions by the Supreme Court and the Fifth Circuit pushing back against the ATF and even the Chevron deference decision that's pushing back hard.
	I feel, and also Second Amendment Foundation, Gun Owners of America, and so on.
	I feel like we have a much stronger pro-Second Amendment culture in America today than we did in the 1990s.
	What do you think? The culture where the legislation has come out, or the Supreme Court decisions have come out, like McDonald and Haller and this case, Matt Prince.
	But it doesn't stop governors.
	It doesn't stop anybody.
	It's not going to stop Kamala Harris.
	It's not going to stop the gun grab.
	It never has. And they don't care.
	They don't care what the Supreme Court says.
	Biden didn't care. They told Biden it was illegal for him to give back student loans.
	Student loans are illegal.
	But he doesn't care about any of that.
	He disobeyed the Supreme Court.
	They just pick and choose.
	And they accused me of picking and choosing.
	I said, no. The picking and choosing argument was over when I took my oath.
	I have to follow the Constitution.
	But for red states, though...
	You know, this pushback against the gun grabbers means that in red states, when you have governors and state legislators that support Second Amendment rights, that the federal government's not going to be able to come in and take away firearms from citizens in the red states.
	I don't care what color your state is, the sheriffs can stop it.
	That's true. I don't care. Every single sheriff can stop it.
	And first of all, they need to put them on notice.
	There's a few things you're not going to do in my county anymore.
	The first thing is something you're going to do.
	And this is what we're trying to do on September 6th and 7th in our big event in Orlando, Florida.
	Oh, tell us about that. September 6th and 7th, Orlando.
	Tell us about the event. It's for everybody.
	We invite you, Mike.
	We invite everybody on this show.
	And it's to be prepared for what's coming this fall.
	There's some intel that October 7th is going to be a bad day for America, because one, this administration has allowed numerous, thousands and thousands of international terrorists into our country, not to mention the cartels and all the gangs from Latin America, not just Mexico, all throughout Latin America, they're here.
	What do you think they're going to do?
	They didn't come here to play tiddlywings.
	What's this intel about October 7th, though?
	I'm sorry to interrupt. It's because of what happened a year ago, October 7th.
	Oh, okay. So you're thinking that the anti-Israel invaders who have illegally crossed the border are going to inflict sabotage upon America.
	Yes. There's intel on that, and I think there's a lot of logic to it as well.
	They're here. They are here.
	So it's just a matter of time.
	But we also feel this is unquestionable.
	There's about three possibilities for the election.
	One, Trump goes to prison in just a few weeks, and he'll be in jail during the election.
	That's going to rile up a lot of people.
	I still say Stay peaceful, and we can work this out, and we can still elect Trump.
	Okay? Then he can get out, and he will.
	Next one is, they actually plan to have Trump win.
	Now, you're probably going, what?
	They're not going to do that? Yes, they will.
	And the reason is because the violence will be so extreme that they'll blame Trump for all of it.
	Trump will get the blame.
	If you stub your toe down on Main Street...
	It'll be Trump getting the blame for all of this.
	Just like January 6th, but it'll be a much bigger red flag.
	And it'll be radical leftists carrying out violence.
	The Antifa groups have now sort of morphed into free Palestine groups.
	Exactly. We get Harris and Walls,
	and we all say goodbye to our constitutional republic and say goodbye to our constitution.
	There's still sheriffs, I believe, that could have a solution in more ways than one, and that will be absolutely America's last hope, and I've been saying that ever since I wrote that book in 2009.
	But we have really got to be prepared, and we need a plan of action, and that's what the 6th and 7th will be.
	And folks, just go to CSPOA.org.
	You showed it a minute ago on our website.
	All of you can register for that.
	This is a meeting not to wake up.
	This is a meeting for action.
	And it's still peaceful and effective.
	Very peaceful, very effective for all people.
	I'm sorry to interrupt. September 6th and 7th, that's your event, Florida Foundation for Freedom Conference.
	That's in Orlando.
	And then you just mentioned, I'm covering dates here, you mentioned October 7th, which would be the one-year anniversary of Hamas attacking the border of Israel.
	And you're saying that that's a possible red flag day for...
	Sabotage or attacks against the U.S. infrastructure by those who hate Israel and who have invaded our country.
	But then there's November 5th, November 6th, November 7th.
	November 6th is really...
	Well, the idea is as soon as they announce who president is.
	Right, right. But the Democrats would remain in power until January 20th, correct?
	Right. Correct. So what is that, 70-plus days that Democrats still have control?
	And wouldn't they try to whip up more violence and chaos, seemingly?
	Of course. And they will.
	Yeah. So it's going to be a competition of who's going to be doing the most violence.
	And you know these leftist extremists are going to join and praise the All the violence going on.
	And of course, attack Trump for all of it.
	You know, it's what is coming is really a catastrophe for America.
	And folks, we've got to be prepared.
	And you alluded to it, Mike.
	You touched on it.
	We have got to protect the infrastructure in every county.
	And then find the places where the grid is a center point.
	Where is the ground zero for our grid in America?
	And if that's in your county, Sheriff, you better exercise and implement some safeguards to protect the grid.
	And I'll tell you honestly, this is how much I feel about this.
	Just a couple of weeks ago, I got a brand new solar generator, and it's right next to me here in my garage.
	Yeah, it's very wise to have backup plans.
	One of our sponsors is the satellite phone store that provides the satellite phones to so many people.
	I already have a satellite phone.
	I know Chris Hoare.
	We've had him on numerous times.
	Folks, get a communication guarantee.
	Get that satellite phone.
	Go to SAT123.com and get that phone for you and your family.
	You don't just get one.
	Who would you talk to? Right.
	Right. No, you get a few of them and then you arrange times to call each other.
	But Sheriff, let me ask you this.
	At what point do sheriffs start arresting the people who are rigging the vote counting?
	Because, you know, look, the Democrats are going to try to steal this election again.
	There's no question about it.
	And they're just committing crimes right out in the open.
	Almost nothing has changed since 2024 or 2022.
	2020, yeah.
	Yeah. 2020 and 2022, sorry.
	Yeah, nothing has really changed.
	We've tried. We've had a few sheriffs do some investigation and make some arrests.
	We already told every sheriff in America should verify the integrity of the vote.
	And we did that in 2022.
	Check the integrity of your votes in 2022.
	If you can go back to 2020, do it.
	But it needs to happen.
	And too many of them were intimidated by the state or by the media, and we didn't get it.
	But we have several sheriffs that have already made arrests, and all we can say is that if six or seven sheriffs did investigations, and over half of those produced arrests, and then the other sheriffs, they tried to arrest or impede their investigation, you know you got something.
	But we didn't get enough sheriffs.
	What happened to all the rest of the sheriffs?
	Well, that's a huge question.
	But the answer to your question is this.
	They should have already been doing this.
	Investigate first, and then start arresting pursuant to that.
	And yes, if you can't get a prosecutor, a county attorney, and he sees all the evidence, like the DA in, I mean, sorry, the GA, the AG, sorry, good grief, the AG in Wisconsin Where the sheriff, Smaling, did an investigation, turned it over to him, and it showed about seven or eight felons that were public officials that did most of this.
	And the AG of Wisconsin said, nice publicity stunt, sheriff.
	So we need to find a way to go around prosecutors who will not prosecute because the sheriff can't prosecute.
	But if we had enough sheriffs, if the sheriff would unite and go after these people now, And verify their own elections, but I don't know.
	The sheriffs are scared, I guess.
	Well, yeah, many of them are intimidated.
	And, you know, we have a sheriff in Texas that just openly lies and says that Kamala is the best protector of the border, which is a complete joke.
	Is that the one in San Antonio?
	I don't know what county he's in, but all of Texas says that guy's a joke.
	And, you know, the governor says the same thing.
	But we, you know, sheriffs can pursue investigations.
	They can make arrests.
	They can refer for prosecutions.
	And I want to ask you, sir, that...
	I believe that what the Democrats are going to do in this election, they know that they can't win in the actual legitimate numbers, obviously.
	Trump probably has something on the order of 70% popular support, is just my guess.
	There are some commentators that say it's more like 80%.
	So what happens when the Democrats just literally...
	They completely disregard the actual counts and they just make up numbers and put that out to the media.
	The media reports the fake numbers as true.
	They gaslight the whole nation and they say Kamala wins.
	How does that stop?
	I mean, how do we stop that?
	Well, shame on us for not being prepared for 2024 because it's not going to be any different.
	And we've tried to get the sheriffs to do verification of the machines being properly tested.
	And maybe that works and maybe it doesn't, but at least it puts the people running the elections on notice that we're watching.
	And then we've asked the sheriffs just to go to the county commissions and say, look, you need to simply do a hand count of 2% afterwards just to...
	Verify we trust, but verify a la Ronald Reagan.
	And just see if the percentages are the same with the hand counts.
	Just do 2%. That's not going to take you very long.
	And the Democrats and Republicans will be happy to sit down and do it.
	And let the third parties come help too.
	And if it was just 2%, we could do it.
	They can hand count the entire election in one evening in Brazil.
	I know! And we're only asking for 2%.
	Yeah. But they refuse to.
	And then they prosecute it.
	They think you're a racist if you even mention that.
	But Tina Peters in Colorado, you're familiar with her case.
	I was at her trial and it was an absolute injustice.
	I hate injustice.
	And I hate people being found guilty for things that they're innocent of and trying to actually prevent the problem that they're accusing her of.
	Well, what do you make of the DOJ now recently announcing that anyone who questions this next election could end up in jail like the January 6 peaceful protesters?
	Take me to jail then.
	They might as well do a preemptive strike.
	Well, maybe that's exactly what they have planned.
	It might be because I'm telling you this has gone way too far.
	And we did.
	I did a tour in Wisconsin last October.
	I mean, Minnesota.
	And the sheriffs there, I had some friends of sheriffs that were there.
	And they all refused to come to any of the meetings.
	And I called the sheriff and I said, I thought you were going to help me make sure the sheriffs were all getting to these meetings.
	He goes, we actually talked to some sheriffs and said how none of us better come to your meeting.
	I said, why? And he said, because we don't want to be attacked like you've been.
	Wow. Wow.
	That's literally what he told me. Well, that's not the sheriff's spirit.
	You're supposed to hold the line and stand up.
	If they would unite, I mean, if you'd get just 20, 25, 30 sheriffs in Minnesota, there's a lot more than that.
	There's 80-something. If they would unite and stand behind this movement to restore our Constitution, we would win.
	And so that's why this is a last-ditch hope in September 6th and 7th, and we hope we get enough people involved.
	We, the people, need to be there in droves because the sheriff works for you.
	And if you will get him involved in this process, the holy cause of liberty, that's why we want you on our posse.
	We need you on our posse.
	And you need to have this, too, because we train you how to work with your sheriff and get on his posse.
	So let me plug the website again.
	CSPOA.org is the site.
	The event coming up is September 6th and 7th.
	It's in Orlando, California.
	Florida, of course. And members of the public are welcome in addition to law enforcement.
	Law enforcement, public officials, county commissioners.
	I would love to see a county attorney show up.
	They're usually the last ones aside with the Constitution.
	But we want all of you to come.
	We've got to take back our country and this is just absolutely too critical a time.
	This is 9-1-1. This is an emergency.
	We better get involved and we better get prepared.
	Or, well, you know what happens when you fail to prepare.
	Well, I mean, that's the next question, depending on what happens in this election.
	You know, here in Texas, I see a lot of people talking about the Texas nationalist movement or secession.
	I see nullification.
	If Texas secedes, even if they say they're going to secede, I move there the next day.
	Well... I mean, who knows what's going to happen here?
	I mean, I'm not hoping for a breakup of these United States.
	I'm hoping that we can restore the Constitutional Republic.
	But that means you've got to dismantle and defeat the authoritarian, lawless tyrants who are currently in charge.
	They stole the 2020 election.
	Yes, they did. The number of arrests that need to be made is in the tens of thousands, probably.
	Probably. Right now.
	Yep. Yep.
	And they've gotten away with it, and they know they can—not enough consequences have happened.
	And yet, look now, Mark Zuckerberg just said the FBI is complicit and part of the criminal syndicate and the conspiracy to steal the election.
	And yet they protected Hunter Biden.
	They protected his laptop.
	They protected the Biden crime family.
	And they did this intentionally to commit election fraud and to sway the election.
	And this is not the first time they did it.
	Okay, so I lost my third election in Arizona.
	I moved to Utah.
	A lot of people were asking me to move up there and say, hey, we would love a constitutional sheriff.
	And not like your county.
	I said, well, if I had won my case before my election, I probably would have stayed.
	But I moved on to what the Lord wanted us to do.
	And now I've been to all 50 states.
	I've written eight books. And I do this training with the sheriffs and other public officials.
	But three days.
	Okay. I didn't tell you yet.
	But I need to tell you the date that I won my case at the U.S. Supreme Court.
	That was June 27, 1997.
	A year before that, or nine months before that, I lost my election.
	So now, I taught school for a semester, and then we decided, all these people asking me to come back to Provo and Utah County, the most conservative county in Utah, supposedly.
	I said, you know what?
	Yeah, I'm going to do that. I want to be sheriff.
	I still want to be sheriff, and I have a lot to still do.
	And so I won the convention, the county convention of the Republican Party.
	I won it two to one over my opponent incumbent.
	And I had momentum on my side.
	So you know what happens when a strong constitutional anti-corrupt government candidate, you know what happens.
	So three days before the election on June 8th, 1998.
	One year almost to the day that I beat the federal government.
	Here comes the FBI and the IRS raiding my office.
	And the whole thing was aimed at a client of mine who was selling securities without a license.
	I had nothing to do with that.
	Didn't even know he was doing that.
	And they put my name on the search warrant.
	And on the top of the Provo Daily Herald, it couldn't have been better.
	They were ready. The FBI had already given them all this.
	Mack raided by the FBI. Wow.
	So it was all set up to destroy your chances.
	It was all done. And after I lost, my opponent and the newspaper and everybody said it was going to be very close.
	Well, it wasn't. I lost all the undecided vote, and the ones that weren't sure about this, they all voted for my opponent.
	I lost badly. And after that, I never heard a single word from the FBI or the IRS again.
	Nothing. Wow. So it was, seemingly, it was staged.
	I didn't even get interrogated.
	No interviews, nothing.
	Just so they could have the headlines.
	Just for the headlines. Yeah.
	They got what they wanted and they left me alone.
	Why did they just keep going and arrest me?
	Yeah. Because they got what they were after.
	Well, where are you based now, Sheriff?
	Phoenix area. I live in Gilbert, Arizona.
	Okay. And which county did you serve as Sheriff in Arizona?
	Graham, as in Graham Cracker.
	Okay. That's two and a half hours southeast of Phoenix.
	Okay. Oh, okay. Oh, wow.
	All right. Because, you know, I'm familiar with Tucson and Pima County and those areas.
	So you're south of that.
	Yeah, it's no, actually north of Tucson.
	Oh, north of Tucson. And east of Tucson.
	Oh, okay. Yeah, it's real close to New Mexico, just 45 minutes to New Mexico.
	I see. Okay. So one of the things that I've heard from people I know who still live in Arizona is that towns like Tucson are being absolutely taken over by drug cartels and trafficking cartels.
	Is that something that you're seeing or hearing as well?
	Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's pretty common knowledge.
	Santa Cruz County, which is Nogales right on the border, it has been.
	And that's a funny one.
	That sheriff used to be a real staunch, conservative, constitutionalist.
	And he switched to a Democrat so he could get elected.
	And now he's doing commercials for all the staunch leftist Democrats and whatnot.
	It's funny because he was a keynote speaker at the Freedom Fest in Las Vegas just a couple of years ago.
	Wow. Maybe two and a half years ago.
	Yeah. And so, yeah, he doesn't know me anymore.
	I've got a picture with him at the Freedom Fest where he and I both spoke.
	But he's doing commercials on television for For anybody who wants it, any Democrat leftist abortionist, he's all over.
	And he's very much against abortion.
	Well, it seems crazy.
	Why are people selling their souls to go along with the system of tyranny that's destroying our republic?
	You know, there's actually the mayor in Mesa, Arizona, who is a staunch member of the LDS Church.
	And the LDS Church is very anti-abortion.
	Most of the people here in Arizona and the Christians believe they're against gun control.
	So now he's supporting...
	First he was supporting Biden.
	Now he spoke at the DNC in favor of Kamala.
	Now he's supporting open borders.
	He's supporting all this crime, supporting the fentanyl, supporting the inflation, supporting...
	Human trafficking, sexual exploitation of children, and abortion on demand.
	Do not forget, this is one thing the Republicans have got to bring up, and so does Trump.
	Do not forget that they created, under the Clinton administration, partial birth abortion.
	And they're still going to be doing that.
	And like the former governor of Virginia said, oh, if a baby survives abortion and is alive, well, we'll just make it comfortable while we kill it.
	And this is the thing that they're doing.
	And these idiot Republicans or idiot Christian Americans are going along with all of this.
	And I find the question that you just asked, selling your soul for what?
	What are you getting it for? What are you getting for this while you help destroy America?
	Yeah, that's, I mean, as you know, we are in a spiritual war in addition to a geopolitical war or an economic war.
	And, you know, there's one side of this, the radical left-wing side, which is all about deception and theater and sorcery, you know, really like spinning lies and making people believe it's true with fake polls and fake news.
	But, you know, Satan can be a formidable opponent when Satan runs the institutions of society that count the votes and educate the children and so on.
	So, but, I mean, God is all-powerful, but how do we translate that into practical terms here and save our republic?
	Well, we've got to be worthy of his blessing.
	He's just not going to come down and zap the other side.
	We've got, as a people, we've got to repent and he will heal our land.
	And heal our hearts when we do.
	But until then, I don't think he's going to lift a finger for us.
	We've got to be doing this and we've got to be doing everything we can to save those blessings that he gave us when we were born here in America.
	And we have not been good stewards.
	We have not been vigilant.
	And so now we're trying to play catch up and we better get busy.
	And folks, there's one peaceful and effective solution out there.
	And it has to be you working with your sheriff.
	And if that fails, there's no way to prevent the violence.
	And it's going to happen.
	And we've got to be prepared for that, too.
	Well, Sheriff, let me add something to what you just said.
	I concur with that.
	But I would add that God increases his aid and help to us to the extent that our nation rejects sin.
	And so if our nation cannot turn away from sin, and if our nation doesn't stop murdering babies, then how can we reasonably expect God's intervention on our side?
	You know what I'm saying? We cannot.
	He will not heal our land unless...
	We change our ways and repent of all of that.
	And there are sectors of our society that are repenting and are asking God for forgiveness, for the sins of the nation.
	But then we're mixed in with all these actual murderous, bloodlust Satanists at the same time.
	But look at the Republican Party.
	They haven't held the line.
	The Republican Party under Trump had a chance to defund Planned Parenthood.
	Did the Republican Party do it?
	No. Does the Republican Party reign in the IRS? No.
	Have they simplified the tax code?
	No. Have they abolished the IRS, the FBI, the Department of Labor, the Department of Education?
	No. Do they continue to allow the Department of Education to do whatever it wants in our schoolrooms and classrooms?
	No. No.
	So, who does that leave?
	It leaves a few of us constitutionalists, and yes, there's millions of us, but we're not big enough.
	If the Christians and gun owners would unite in this country, No one would be able to touch us, and we would win, and we would put an end to all of these horrible things going on today, and we're not doing it.
	Well stated.
	Sheriff Richard Mack, everybody, I just want to thank you, Sheriff, for your time today.
	Let me plug your website again, CSPOA.org.
	It's the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
	You've got an event coming up September 6th and 7th in Orlando, Florida.
	The public are welcome.
	And you can find out about those details on your website there, cspoa.org.
	Sheriff, look, I honor your time.
	I honor your courage, your dedication to this nation.
	And actually, actually, I believe that God is going to win.
	And we're going to take this nation back peacefully, lawfully, and we're going to restore.
	I don't know the mechanism of it, sir, but I have faith that we can find a way.
	I have that faith, too.
	And I pray to God that he will bless us with the courage to do what we're supposed to do.
	And I will leave this whole interview, and I thank you so much for it.
	With John Quincy Adams' quote, he was asked if they could win during the War of 1812.
	And he said this, duty is ours, results are God's.
	So I say to everyone, Let's do our duty and leave the rest to him.
	Well stated. Absolutely.
	Well, God bless you, Sheriff Richard Mack, and thank you for your time here today.
	It's been a pleasure. Thank you, Mike.
	Good to see you again. You too.
	All right. Take care. Keep in touch.
	I will. Let us know how this event goes.
	And for all of you watching, thank you for watching today.
	Of course, I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.com, the uncensored free speech platform for videos and interviews.
	And isn't it interesting that Zuckerberg from Meta now admitting that they censored because the Harris-Biden administration told them to do so and he obeyed and he censored voices like mine and many others.
	But for the uncensored truth, just go to Breitian.com and join the other platforms that are allowing the truth to be told.
	Thank you all for watching today.
	God bless you all and take care.
	All right, this is Mike Adams here.
	We're going to talk about all these different forms of gold and silver today.
	Let me give you my website, too.
	Some of these companies that offer these are sponsors, and we disclose the links and the sponsors and the discount codes at rangerdeals.com.
	So here you can see, like, here's the Prepper Bar sponsor.
	Here's our Lab Verified Gold Backs.
	Sponsor or affiliate.
	And then if you scroll down, this is our Treasure Island Coins and Precious Metals Company.
	And let's start over here with this pile of silver spoons and stuff.
	And yes, you could trade these...
	You know, in some kind of barter situation.
	But it's not a format that is easy to know how much it's worth.
	Next to that, we have so-called junk silver coins here.
	These happen to be dimes.
	This is also called constitutional silver.
	But this is another form of silver that can be very popular.
	You can get these from our sponsor here, which is the, right here, Treasure Island Coins and Precious Metals Company.
	Then you've got silver bars here.
	So this is.999 silver bar.
	I don't know, that's a pretty big chunk of silver right there.
	It's a way to store bulk silver.
	So not such a great form for everyday commerce.
	Next, we go to silver coins.
	So these are one-ounce silver rounds.
	They're quite beautiful and easily recognizable.
	These are available from different mints all over the world.
	If you want to get these coins, also, you can go to the Treasure Island Coins and Precious Metals Company.
	They are a sponsor of ours, and you can check their prices in real time.
	They've got them available. Ensure discrete delivery straight to your door.
	Now, then the next one, this is the newest one.
	These are the prepper bars right here.
	So these are designed to where you can just break off a chunk like this.
	So it's divisible, right?
	And these Prepper bars come in this format.
	It's a plastic case with a very nice design of the Eagles on one side and then on the back it tells you how many ounces.
	And so this is available now at PrepperBar.com and you use discount code RANGER and you'll save 10% off of these bars.
	They also are selling gold bars in the same way.
	Where you can break them off and make them highly divisible.
	So this is useful in a collapse scenario or a barter or a, you know, farmer's market, local commerce type of scenario where you need to break down the metal and you need to make it into, you know, some kind of recognizable, divisible amount.
	That's a good way to do that.
	Alright, now, moving on, then we have gold coins over here.
	Obviously these gold coins are worth, you know, a couple thousand dollars each, a little bit more.
	One ounce gold coins.
	But again, hard to break down because how do you chop one into a thousand pieces?
	The answer to that is these gold bags.
	And each one of these has one one-thousandth of an ounce of gold literally in it.
	It's embedded in the bill.
	And these are available at verifiedgoldbacks.com.
	So goldbacks make gold divisible, tradable.
	Again, if you want to know our sponsors and our sources or affiliates in this realm, go to rangerdeals.com and you can see a lot of other special deals that we have for you.
	Just go to rangerdeals.com.
	And you'll see what we have available for you, the discount codes we've put together.
	Thank you for your support. Take care.
	Your own government has the power to activate a kill switch on all telecommunications, instantly shutting down all private phone calls and texts.
	An EMP weapon or solar flare can achieve the same result.
	Rolling blackouts or permanent power outages will also take out the power supply to cell tower antennas, rendering mobile devices all but useless.
	During these emergencies, how do you stay in touch with the important people in your life anywhere on the planet?
	The answer is the Bivy Stick at sat123.com.
	The Bivy Stick is a two-way satellite text messaging device that uses a satellite constellation, not cell towers, to send and receive text messages.
	It works anywhere on planet Earth, including in war zones or blackout areas.
	In unpredictable times, the Bivy Stick helps you stay connected when it matters most.
	Visit sat123.com to get one while they're still available.
	Okay, welcome to today's sermon.
	I'm Mike Adams, and today we're not talking about nutrition per se.
	We're covering Mark 14, 15, and 16, which is, of course, the murder of Jesus Christ.
	And we're also going to bring in John chapter 18 and 19, which is a different account of the same events.
	And also something special for you today.
	I'm going to use a clip from an online history network called History Hit, and they are found at historyhit.com.
	I'm just going to use a short clip from one of their documentaries, which depicts this Roman leader Pilate is his name, P-I-L-A-T-E, Pontius Pilate and his interaction with Jesus.
	And what you're going to find here, and I understand this is controversial, so I'll just keep it simple.
	Romans killed Jesus, but the Jews demanded it.
	So it was the Jewish priests and religious leaders that demanded that Rome kill him, but the Jews themselves did not have the authority to order his execution.
	The Romans did.
	And together, then, of course, they nailed Jesus to a cross, and they...
	Murdered him. And, well, you know what happened after that with the resurrection.
	We'll get to that.
	But it's very important to understand this dynamic between Christ and his followers versus Rome and government corruption and the Jewish religious leaders at the time who saw Christ as the An intruder, an imposter, someone who is competing against their power, their established authority over their local society.
	And the Jewish priests are, of course, tolerated or allowed by Rome.
	So the Empire of Rome chooses the priests.
	The Empire of Rome, in effect, licenses the church, something that is forbidden in the United States of America for reasons going back to this very history.
	There's a separation of church and state because we don't want to live in a nation where the government determines what religions are allowed to be taught or how they're allowed to be taught or which books of the Bible are allowed to be taught.
	And so we have a First Amendment.
	And it is thanks to this First Amendment that I'm able to bring this information to you today.
	And remember that the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution, the First Amendment protects freedom of religious expression as well as freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the freedom to peaceably assemble as well as the freedom to address the and the freedom to peaceably assemble as well as the freedom to address the government let's say, against the people.
	So there are multiple rights that are elucidated or enumerated in the First Amendment, but freedom of religion, arguably, may be the most important of those.
	So, like I said, we're going to go through, well, we'll start with Mark chapter 14.
	But first, I want to play for you a minute or so of this extraordinary documentary.
	I think this is just so well done.
	And again, I'm going to just give credit to historyhit.com.
	And this isn't a paid promotion or anything of that kind.
	I'm just giving them credit.
	We're going to use a short clip from their documentary, and it's the appropriate thing to do to give them credit.
	But as I understand it, I'm not a subscriber, but if you go to historyhit.com, you can subscribe and you can watch these amazing history documentaries.
	But let this following clip be a little introduction for you about...
	Some of the documentaries that historyhit.com has available, and this is really well done.
	Check this out. When Pilate calls Jesus to him, you have the extraordinary moment of a Roman governor and Jesus, face to face.
	You have the ultimate representative of Roman power, and you have this brigand, a common criminal as far as he knew.
	And you have this extraordinary dialogue between them, which I think is Pinteresque, in that Pilate keeps asking questions, and Jesus doesn't answer his questions.
	He answers something else.
	You have the two worlds meeting, but they're not meeting.
	They're not meshing with each other.
	They don't understand. Do you know what they're saying about you?
	That you're the king of the Jews?
	Is it true? If I were an earthly king, my followers would have fought to prevent my arrest.
	My kingdom is not of this world.
	So you are a king?
	This is why I was born.
	This is why I came into the world.
	To testify to the truth.
	What is truth? I think Pilate probably realized that Jesus was in a category apart, that he was different.
	He'd never met anybody like him.
	He may well have thought that Jesus was a deluded fanatic, that he was just mad.
	There were other mad people around who did silly things.
	Maybe Jesus was another one.
	And yet the sources imply, and of course they've been written up by Christians, that Pilate was also haunted by the clarity and the serenity and, in a measure, the silence of Jesus.
	We have to remind ourselves that the Roman imperial ideology was sweeping the Mediterranean world at the time, so when you find somebody who appears as a rival to Caesar, this is not just a political issue, this is also a religious issue.
	Jesus had emerged as a threat to the empire, a man Pilate needed to destroy.
	Alright, very well done there, and I want to thank HistoryHit.com for that short clip there.
	And this really explains this triangle of power.
	Where the Empire of Rome needs to, of course, control everything.
	They need to control speech.
	They need to control resources.
	They need to control the church and religious expression.
	Now, all empires desire to do this.
	Oh, and also Rome had to control the money supply, the currency.
	Now, like I said, all empires desire to do this.
	And this is true today with the U.S. Empire very much acting like Rome.
	And back in Rome's day, when Jesus emerged and he began to teach people to, yes, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, but render unto God that which is God's, Jesus is placing God in a category outside the authority domain of the Roman emperor.
	And this is intolerable from the point of view of a tyrannical, Kabbalistic, Roman power regime.
	Now, the Jewish priests were under the subjugation of the Roman Empire.
	So, like I said earlier, Rome would license the priests or would eliminate the ones that it did not like and would bring in new priests and would allow the church to teach things that are pro-Rome.
	Now, this is happening today in the church in America, where the government through the IRS is, in essence, forcing churches to preach pro-government doctrines, such as pushing vaccine jabs,
	pushing obedience, pushing paying taxes to the current empire, the U.S. empire, and There are many, many churches across America today that they answer more to Rome than they do God.
	They answer to Caesar, i.e.
	the United States government.
	And Jesus represented a threat to all of these corrupt institutions, bad government, bad churches, corrupt priests, and so on.
	And so, of course, they conspired to destroy Jesus, to murder him, thinking that that would put an end to it.
	Boy, were they wrong, huh?
	So let's go through some of the plot to kill Jesus so that we can understand the dynamics here.
	And we'll begin with the Gospel according to Mark, chapter 14.
	First verse, after two days, it was the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by trickery and put him to death.
	So already here we have the Jewish priests plotting to murder Christ.
	And in verse 2, but they said not during the feast, lest there be an uproar of the people.
	In other words, they were saying, you know, let's wait to murder Christ after the feast, the Passover feast.
	And skipping ahead to verse 10, Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray him.
	That is, to betray Jesus to the priests.
	And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money.
	So he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
	So here we have Judas getting paid off to betray Jesus Christ.
	If there were any bad decision that anybody ever made in history, it was getting paid to betray Christ, right?
	Verse 12, Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they killed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, and these are the disciples of Christ, saying, Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?
	And he sends out his disciples to go into the city and get things ready.
	And then when they come back in verse 17, it says, Because Jesus knows this is coming.
	He knows he's going to die. He had already described the premonition of this, I think, three times earlier.
	And, of course, he's the Son of God, so...
	And of course, he has the knowledge of God spanning all time, so he knows exactly what's going to happen.
	He continues in verse 19,"'And they began to be sorrowful and to say to him one by one,"'Is it I?' And another said,"'Is it I?' And he answered and said to them,"'It is one of the twelve who dips with me in the dish.
	"'The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of him,"'but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!' It would have been good for that man if he had never been born.
	And it is notable here, by the way, that he refers to himself, Jesus does, as the Son of Man rather than the Son of God.
	I'm not going to go into the analysis here perhaps another time, but This is a transcendent understanding of the role of Jesus and God, the Creator, and all men and women being children of God.
	But perhaps we'll cover that later.
	And then Jesus breaks bread, gives them the bread, and says, Eat this.
	This is my body. You know, metaphor.
	This represents the physical matter of my body.
	And then he gives them his cup, and in verse 24, and he said to them, this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many as they're drinking from the cup.
	He says, assuredly, I say to you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
	He's saying that this is my last drink to share with you in this material world of the 3D simulation that God created, that Jesus now inhabits as the Son of God slash the Son of Man.
	So he's saying, basically he's saying, eat this bread, drink this beverage, this is the representation of my body of matter, this is the representation of my blood, which is the new covenant of the agreement between man and God, and I shall be leaving this simulation shortly, is essentially what he's saying.
	Although, of course, He's not using the word simulation.
	I'm adding that. That's my interpretation.
	That's one way I describe it.
	But if God created the universe, you could call it a construct of the mind of God.
	You could call it a simulation from the mind of God.
	Or you could call it a dimension from God.
	And those can all be used synonymously, frankly.
	I just call it a simulation.
	But I don't mean to insist that you need to think of it in that way.
	And then, of course, following that, Jesus says to Peter that you're going to betray me three times, and Peter is a little bit freaked out, like, what do you mean?
	Why would I betray you three times?
	But, of course, later on, he does.
	And then comes the arrest of Jesus by the, well, this combination of Jewish priests and Roman soldiers.
	So this is verse 43.
	We're still in chapter 14.
	So those are the religious leaders.
	Now his betrayer had given them a signal, saying, Whomever I kiss, he is the one.
	Seize him and lead him away safely.
	Now, this indicates that the Roman soldiers did not know who Christ was.
	I mean, they could not pick him out of a lineup, right?
	If you were to just put Christ alongside many of his disciples or many of the other people there, they could not tell who's Christ.
	And so Judas has to have this special secret signal.
	So in verse 45, as soon as he had come, immediately he went up to him and said to him, to Christ, Rabbi, Rabbi, and kissed him.
	So he's calling him a rabbi.
	He's calling him a Jewish rabbi.
	A Jewish religious leader here.
	This is very notable because this is part of the betrayal of Judas, turning Christ over to the Roman soldiers, but falsely calling him rabbi.
	And note that later he is asked by Pilate, are you the leader of the Jews?
	This is the understanding that Rome has, that Christ is only here to cause trouble and pretend to be a leader of the Jews.
	Verse 46, Now, many people reading this might think about the Trump assassination attempt.
	Blood was drawn.
	Trump was shot in the ear.
	And then Trump fell to his knees.
	And then many people might say, I've heard this from other religious leaders, that Trump was reborn and that he was imbued with the spirit of Christ when he then rose from his knees and shouted, fight, fight, fight.
	But For some people, all of that might be a stretch, but it is very interesting that this cutting off of the ear with the sword, which is the instrument of war of the day of Rome in that era,
	To cut off this man's ear, this seems to be eerily similar to the modern day world where Trump's ear was shot with the modern weapon of war, which is the AR-15 rifle.
	So the AR-15 is the sword of our modern world.
	And when soldiers are sent out today, they don't carry swords, do they?
	They carry AR-15s.
	So rifles are the swords of our modern world.
	And a rifle was used to cut and puncture or tear the ear of Trump.
	Now, I'm not saying Trump is Christ.
	I'm saying that There are many metaphors and reminders throughout the Bible that seem to be beyond just mere coincidence.
	You know, history unfolds in cycles and patterns, and God sees all of those patterns.
	And many of those patterns are laid down here in Scripture.
	And they speak to different generations spanning different time periods.
	And that's why I say sometimes people will claim that, well, this passage only applies to this one time.
	And usually my answer to that, you know, my analysis is that, hey, could it apply to many different times and many different people?
	Now, there is the tribulation, which Jesus says only covers one specific time.
	It only happens once.
	So that may be the great exception to this.
	There aren't repeated cycles of the great tribulation.
	There's only one. I don't know when that one is.
	None of us absolutely know for sure.
	But for other events in the Bible, they repeat.
	And we will see them again and again.
	So verse 48, Jesus answered and said to them, talking to the soldiers, Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to take me?
	I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me But the Scriptures must be fulfilled.
	He's saying, hey, I taught Scripture with you and you didn't have a problem with me then, but then he resigns to the fact that he knows he's going to be killed.
	He knows he's going to be arrested, taken, and killed because that is what has been foretold.
	That is what the mind of God has already seen.
	So in verse 50, they all forsook him and fled.
	Now, what's interesting is if we go to John chapter 18, in this chapter, which is just a different point of view of the same account of essentially the arrest of Jesus, it says that Simon Peter is the one who drew his sword and struck the high priest's servant to cut off his right ear.
	And that right ear is the same ear that Trump Trump's ear was his right ear that was hit with the gunfire.
	But let's go to this, chapter 18 of John.
	When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden which he and his disciples entered.
	And Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
	Then Judas, having received a detachment of troops and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
	Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that would come upon him, you know, he could see the signs like, uh, what are they doing with the torches and swords?
	Well, I mean, hey, he's the son of God.
	He knew all this was coming. Anyway, he went forward and said to them, whom are you seeking?
	And they answered him, Jesus of Nazareth.
	Now, again, understand that the Roman soldiers did not recognize Jesus.
	Jesus said to them, I am he.
	And Judas, who betrayed him, also stood with them.
	Now, when he said to them, I am he, they drew back and fell to the ground.
	That's interesting because that's not in the rendition of this scene in Mark, right?
	In fact, where is Judas kissing the hand of Jesus?
	It's not found in John.
	Jesus answered, this is verse 8, I have told you that I am he, therefore if you seek me, let these go their way, talking about the other people there, that the saying might be fulfilled which he spoke, quote, of those whom you gave me I have lost none.
	Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear.
	The servant's name was Malchus, or Malchus, M-A-L-C-H-U-S. So Jesus said to Peter, put your sword into the sheath.
	Shall I not drink the cup which my father has given me?
	He's like, put your weapons down.
	And then verse 12, this is in John, then the detachment of troops and the captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him.
	So this is talking about, well, the priests and the elders, as it's said.
	So again, this is a combination of the high religious Jews calling for Jesus to be arrested, calling for him to be killed, which you'll hear about.
	But the Roman troops actually carrying out the executive side of this murder of Christ.
	Verse 13, and they led him away to Annas first, where he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
	Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
	So right here, anybody who argues that, well, the Jews didn't want to kill Christ, come on.
	The Jews demanded it.
	And here's the example of Caiaphas who said that, yeah, this man should die for the people.
	And little did he know that Jesus did die for the people in a different way than what Caiaphas was thinking.
	And then, of course, Peter denies being someone who even knew Jesus, and that's where Peter betrays Jesus three times.
	And then if we go back to Mark chapter 14, and I'm sorry about jumping around, but hey, it's the Bible.
	The whole Bible jumps around.
	You have to kind of piece it together.
	And in verse 53, it talks about Jesus being led away to the high priest, and with him were assembled all the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes.
	So these are the high Jews of the religious sector, and they're basically interrogating him.
	And then Peter followed him at a distance, it says.
	And then verse 55, the chief priests and all the council sought testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they found none.
	For many bore false witness against him, but their testimonies did not agree.
	And then it goes through some examples of the false testimony, and they're claiming that Jesus sold cocaine.
	No, I'm sorry. That's modern-day politics.
	They're claiming that Jesus worked for the Russians.
	Oh, I'm sorry. Wait a minute.
	That's also modern-day politics.
	They claimed all kinds of crazy stuff about Jesus, and it was all made up.
	So at one point, this is in verse 60, because Jesus wasn't answering all these accusations.
	And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, saying, Do you answer nothing?
	What is it these men testify against you?
	But he kept silent and answered nothing.
	Again, the high priest asked him, saying to him, Are you Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
	And this, depending on the translation, this could be interpreted as saying, do you call yourself Christ the Son of God?
	Okay, that's really what this question means.
	Jesus replies in verse 62 here in Mark, Jesus said, I am.
	And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the power and coming with the clouds of heaven.
	And the Roman leader and the Jewish priests are like, what do we make of that?
	I mean, no one ever answers us that way.
	Verse 63, then the high priest tore his clothes and said, what further need do we have of witnesses?
	This means he tore the clothes of Christ.
	You have heard the blasphemy.
	What do you think? He's saying...
	We don't need any more witnesses because this man admits, he admits that he claims to be the Son of God, which is obviously, you know, from the point of view of the Jewish priests and the Roman leader, forgot the title, they say that's crazy.
	You could not be the Son of God, right?
	So then, in verse 64, it continues on, quote, and they all condemned him to be deserving of death.
	So this is, they all condemned him.
	These are the Jews, the religious leaders of the Jews, and these are the Roman political leaders condemning Jesus to die.
	Verse 65, then some began to spit on him and to blindfold him and to beat him and to say to him, prophecy, and the officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
	And then there's a section in this chapter about Peter denying to know Jesus and betraying Jesus three times, right?
	And Peter's like...
	I didn't know that guy.
	I have no idea who that guy was.
	That guy's crazy. You know, like Peter just totally betraying.
	He could have taken a stand and said, that man is the son of God and I stand with him.
	Instead, Peter's like, I don't know that guy.
	So, pretty lame, right?
	Now, if we go back to the book of John chapter 18, I'd like to play this scene for you again from the point of view of the book of John.
	Chapter 18, verse 19.
	The high priest then asked Jesus about his disciples and his doctrine.
	Jesus answered him, I spoke openly to the world.
	In other words, I told the truth.
	Well, that's a sin against the priests of the Jews and the Roman political leaders, right?
	I spoke openly to the world.
	I always taught in synagogues and in the temple where the Jews always meet, and in secret I have said nothing.
	He's basically saying, I've been transparent.
	I've taught openly. I've taught the Word of God.
	Why do you ask me, he says, and those who have heard me what I said to them, indeed, they know what I said.
	Verse 22, And when he had said these things, one of the officers who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Do you answer the high priest like that?
	Basically, they slapped Jesus.
	Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil, but if well, why do you strike me?
	Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.
	and this was so that another religious leader could interrogate him, and so that the political leaders of Rome could defer, try to share some or delegate some of the power of the decision to execute Christ, they could make sure that try to share some or delegate some of the power of the decision to execute Christ, they could That's really what this was, to kind of get consensus on murdering Christ.
	And then we go to Pilate.
	So this is the court of Pilate.
	This is the Roman political leader.
	Verse 28 says, This is in the book of John.
	You know, they were still adhering to their own religious practices.
	They didn't want to go into the court and be part of this.
	So Pilate then went out to them and said, What accusations do you bring against this man?
	And they answered and said to him, If he were not an evildoer, would we not have delivered him up to you?
	Which is a way of saying, Just the fact that he's here means you should punish him.
	You should probably kill him because, you know, we're the Jewish priests.
	Then Pilate said to them, you take him and judge him according to your law.
	Pilate's like, I'm busy.
	Why don't you deal with him?
	And he's also, by the way, he's also asserting the fact that he alone has the power to execute someone because the power of the Empire of Rome is...
	Larger in this historical context, it's larger than the power of the Jewish church at that time.
	So he's saying, you know, I dare you.
	I double dare you. Why don't you deal with this man?
	And, of course, they reject that.
	So, therefore, the Jews said to him, it is not lawful for us to put anyone to death, which indicates they had already planned to kill him.
	They wanted to kill him. The Jews wanted to kill Christ.
	They demanded it. That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what death he would die.
	That's verse 32.
	Then Pilate entered the praetorium again, calling Jesus, and said to him, Are you the king of the Jews?
	Trick question, right?
	Because if you answer yes, well, then they put you to death for impersonating the king of the Jews.
	You're not the king. Caesar is the king, right?
	But if you answer no...
	Then they accuse you of pretending to be the king and they put you to death anyway.
	So this is kind of like the Salem witch trials.
	Do witches float? You know, that kind of question.
	So verse 34, Jesus answered him, Are you speaking for yourself about this or did others tell you this concerning me?
	And Pilate answered, Am I a Jew?
	Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you to me.
	What have you done? So he's saying this is a complaint of the Jewish priests, not a complaint originating with the empire of Rome.
	So again, anybody out there saying that, well, Rome alone killed Jesus, that's not true.
	The Jewish high priests, they are the ones who brought and delivered Jesus to the court of Pilate.
	So Jesus, of course, transcending all of this.
	Remember his previous answer about, you know, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, but render unto God that which is God's, right?
	Verse 36 here, Jesus says to Pilate, My kingdom is not of this world.
	If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight so that I should not be delivered to the Jews.
	He's like, If I were the king of a kingdom with an army, I wouldn't even be here.
	And he continues, but now my kingdom is not from here, because his kingdom is with the Lord, right?
	Again, transcendent.
	So Pilate therefore said to him, are you a king then?
	Jesus answered, you say rightly that I am a king for this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world.
	Because he is the Son of God.
	That I should bear witness to the truth.
	Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.
	Answering in a way that befuddles Pilate.
	Christ isn't going to just answer them in man's kingdom's empire terms.
	He's going to answer from the point of view of God.
	So verse 38, Pilate said to him, What is truth?
	And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, I find no fault in him at all.
	So Pilate is saying, okay, this guy doesn't claim to be the king of the Jews.
	He's just speaking in riddles, basically.
	Verse 39, but you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover.
	Do you therefore want me to release to you the king of the Jews?
	Then they all cried again, saying, not this man, but Barabbas.
	Now, Barabbas was a robber.
	They wanted Barabbas, whoever that guy was.
	So this is the Jews saying, we want you to deal with Jesus.
	We want you to kill Jesus.
	You can give us Barabbas, the robber, but we want you to kill Jesus.
	They were insistent.
	So chapter 19 of John, so then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him, and the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, and they said, Hail, King of the Jews!
	They're mocking him.
	They're mocking him. So the crown of thorns is, of course, mocking the crown of a king.
	But with thorns, it was drawing blood and puncturing the skin of the skull of Christ, right?
	And then they struck him with their hands, so they beat him, they slapped him, they mocked him.
	Verse 4, Pilate then went out again and said to them, Behold, I am bringing him out to you, that you may know that I find no fault in him.
	So the Roman Empire, through Pilate, actually said, We don't want to kill Jesus.
	We don't find any fault with him at all so far.
	Verse 5, Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and Pilate said to them, Behold the man!
	Here he is. Here's Christ.
	We beat him up a little bit.
	We put crown of thorns on him, and we mocked him.
	Verse 6, Therefore when the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him!
	Crucify him! Again, these are the Jews, saying, Crucify Christ.
	Pilate said to them, You take him and crucify him, for I find no fault in him.
	Again, Pilate saying, This is not my business.
	We don't want to execute this guy.
	Again, Pilate doesn't realize he's Christ.
	Pilate's just like, This is just another...
	You know, another day in another Roman court, another person to deal with who probably Pilate thought was crazy because he speaks in riddles.
	Verse 7, the Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to our law, he ought to die because he made himself the son of God.
	See? So they're denying that Christ is the son of God, and they're condemning him to death, and they're begging Rome to murder Christ.
	But they're saying that Jewish law requires it, you see.
	Verse 8, therefore, when Pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid and went again into the praetorium and said to Jesus, where are you from?
	But Jesus gave him no answer.
	Pilate's trying to sort this out.
	He's like Judge Judy right here.
	He's like, okay, wait a minute.
	Why do the Jews want to murder you?
	Who are you? What's your background?
	How did you wind up in my court?
	Basically, Verse 10, then Pilate said to him, Are you not speaking to me?
	Do you not know that I have power to crucify you and power to release you?
	He's saying, Hey, I speak for Rome.
	I speak for the emperor.
	You better answer me.
	And I'm trying to help you, in essence, which is unusual for Rome.
	Verse 11, Jesus answered, You could have no power at all against me unless it had been given you from above.
	Wow, this is bold.
	Jesus is saying that I don't even recognize the power of your court, nor the power of your authority, nor the power of the emperor of Rome.
	I don't recognize Caesar.
	And he continues, therefore the one who delivered me to you has the greater sin.
	He's saying that the Jewish priests are the ones who Who probably deserve to die.
	Those are the ones who committed the sin.
	Those are the ones who are guilty of crimes.
	And also guilty of wasting your time here, Pilate, in your court.
	Don't you have something else to do?
	Don't you have, like, grape vines to tend to?
	Or other people to execute?
	Verse 12. From then on, Pilate sought to release him.
	Again, Pilate shows mercy.
	And this isn't taught...
	In many churches, this official of Rome wanted to release Jesus Christ.
	He's done no harm.
	He doesn't claim to be the king of Rome.
	He's like, this is a Jewish religious kerfuffle.
	You deal with him again.
	But from verse 12, but the Jews cried out saying, if you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend.
	This is the Jews saying that if you don't murder Christ, then you're betraying Caesar.
	Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar, they said.
	Now, you notice the trickery of the Jews here.
	They're saying that, in effect, Christ called himself a king of the Jews and And they use Jewish law to bring him before the court of Pilate.
	But then when Pilate wants to let him go, they say, yeah, and but, but Jesus said he's the king of everything and he speaks against Caesar.
	He's violating Caesar.
	So, Pilate, you have to put him to death because otherwise you're against Caesar.
	So, verse 13, when Pilate therefore heard that saying...
	He brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
	Now it was the preparation day of the Passover and about the sixth hour, and he said to the Jews, Behold your king!
	Behold your king!
	Again, this is Pilate, in essence, now mocking the Jewish priests for being Such horrible people and wanting Rome to murder this man who apparently showed no harm to anyone.
	He was just teaching or maybe from the point of view of Pilate, he was babbling.
	Verse 15, but they cried out, away with him!
	Away with him! Crucify him!
	Again, now the Jewish priest mob of the Jewish elders and the Jewish teachers, crucify him!
	Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your king?
	Because he just said, This is your king.
	Behold your king. Kind of mockingly.
	And the chief priest answered, We have no king but Caesar.
	We have no king but Caesar.
	So the Jews are now bowing down before the evil empire of Rome.
	This is their pleading to try to get Pilate to order the crucifixion of Christ.
	And it works.
	So in verse 16, Pilate relents, quote, then he delivered him to them to be crucified.
	Then they took Jesus and led him away.
	And that's when they made him bear the cross and so on.
	We can go into some of those details.
	But understand the dynamic here.
	This is really critical to understand.
	The official of Rome wanted to let Jesus go.
	It was the Jews, the religious leaders of the Jews, that demanded repeatedly the extermination of Christ.
	Now, if we go to Mark, chapter 15, and we read about this same event now from a different perspective compiled in the Gospel according to Mark, verse 6, Now at the feast he was accustomed to releasing one prisoner to them, talking about Pilate, Whomever they requested, he would release a prisoner to the Jewish priest.
	And there was one named Barabbas, who was chained with his fellow rebels.
	They had committed murder in the rebellion.
	Then the multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do just as he had always done for them.
	But Pilate answered them, saying, Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?
	Referring to Christ. For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.
	That's right. The Jewish priests were jealous of Christ because Christ was gathering a following.
	His words were very compelling.
	He was gaining popularity among many people who were becoming the new Christians, let's say.
	That is, they were no longer tied to many of the old rituals of the Old Testament and The Torah, the ways of the Jews, the rituals, and all the things, even the kosher eating and so on, that we've talked about.
	There are many, many followers of Christ that in the New Testament taught that you don't have to eat kosher foods.
	Remember, all of God's foods are blessings to humanity.
	As long as you eat with blessing to God, you don't have to follow the kosher rules of the old world.
	So that's the context for this.
	Verse 11, In other words, Pilate has a card to play, and the card is to release one criminal to the Jews.
	And the Jewish priests, they want Barabbas to be that person, and then they want Rome to murder Christ.
	Verse 12, Pilate answered and said to them again, What then do you want me to do with him who you call the king of the Jews?
	Referring to Christ. Verse 13, So they cried out again, Crucify him!
	Crucify him! This is the crowd now.
	This is the Jewish leaders riling up the crowd saying, Crucify him!
	Then Pilate says to them, Why?
	What evil has he done?
	But they cried out all the more, Crucify him!
	It's like, it doesn't matter.
	This is kind of like the... Today, all the Trump haters out there, they're like, just kill the orange man!
	We don't even know why.
	We don't care why.
	It doesn't have to be logical or reasonable or doesn't have to follow the rule.
	Just, you know, destroy him, jail him, kill him.
	This was the madness of the crowds led by the Jewish priests.
	They cried out all the more, crucify him.
	So Pilate, verse 15, wanting to gratify the crowd, releases Barabbas to them, Sorry if I change the pronunciation of that guy's name.
	And he delivered Jesus after he had scourged him to be crucified.
	Now, what's interesting about this is in Mark, it's summarized.
	But in the book of John, there's a lot more detail that we have gone through showing that Pilate tried several times to say, hey, Christ has done no harm to us.
	He's not a threat to Rome.
	He hasn't claimed to be the king of Rome, nor the king of the Jews.
	But, you know, Pilate is mocking basically the insane Jewish high priest.
	Totally insane, saying, oh, this is your king now.
	You said that he claims to be king, so we're going to call him your king.
	Oh, you want to crucify your own king?
	Okay. Eventually, you know, he throws in the towel and lets the Jews crucify Christ.
	And then in the book of Mark, it also summarizes Simon, a Cyrenian, was basically just volunteered by force.
	Like, hey, you're a volunteer now to carry the cross or to bear the cross that Jesus was nailed to.
	And then they put Jesus to death and they divided his garments, it says, casting lots for them to determine what every man should take.
	So they even took his clothes, what little there were.
	Verse 25, Now it was the third hour and they crucified him.
	And the inscription of his accusation was written as the king of the Jews.
	Understand, he was never the king of the Jews.
	This is a mockery.
	To say he's the king of the Jews.
	This is Rome mocking the Jews, but the Jewish high priests are the ones who demanded the murder of Christ.
	And ultimately, it's because of the insistence of the Jews that Christ was allowed to be crucified.
	Think about how many times this proxy for Rome had tried to say, no, just let the man go.
	He's doing no harm in essence.
	But the Jews insisted that he be murdered.
	And then, as he was being murdered in verse 31 here in Mark, likewise, the chief priests also, these are the high Jewish priests, mocking among themselves with the scribes, said, he saved others, himself he cannot save.
	Like, you know, how could this be the Son of God?
	He claims to have saved others and he can't even save himself.
	Look, he's dead, right?
	Let the Christ, the King of Israel, descend now from the cross that we may see and believe.
	They're saying, They're daring God show up because we murdered.
	We murdered the Son of God, and they're basically looking to the heavens and saying, we dare you, God, come out of the heavens now so that we may see if you're even real.
	And, of course, that did not happen.
	And verse 31 says, even those who were crucified with him reviled him.
	Verse 33, Now when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
	And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani, translated into, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
	Some of those who stood by when they heard that said, look, he is calling for Elijah.
	Then someone ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine, put it on a reed and offered it to him to drink, saying, let him alone.
	Let us see if Elijah will come to take him down.
	And Jesus cried out with a loud voice and breathed his last.
	Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
	So when the centurion who stood opposite him saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, truly this man was the son of God.
	Do you understand?
	It was a Roman soldier who realized that this was the Son of God while the Jewish high priest murdered him.
	Understand this.
	Because most of what we have been taught about this, even by our modern-day church, has been a deception.
	Rome did not want to kill Christ.
	The Jews did. A Roman soldier saw him as Christ, the Son of God.
	The Jews saw him as nothing but a blasphemous imposter, and they ordered him to be murdered again and again.
	Verse 42, now when evening had come because it was the preparation day, that is, the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, is that how you pronounce that?
	A prominent council member who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, coming and taking courage, went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
	Pilate marveled that he was already dead and summoned the centurion and asked him if he had been dead for some time.
	So when he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
	Then he bought fine linen, took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and he laid him in a tomb, which had been hewn out of a rock and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
	And Mary Magdalene and the mother of Mary of Joseph observed where he was laid.
	Now, if we go back to John, the death of Christ, this is, I think, very important.
	This is, of course, chapter 19 and verse 28, I believe.
	Yes. Verse 28.
	This is when he's being crucified.
	That the scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst.
	Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there, and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, you know, a reed of hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
	So when Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, It is finished.
	And bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.
	He left his body.
	He gave up his spirit.
	So he made the decision for his spirit to leave his physical body, saying it is finished.
	What is finished?
	That the scripture might be fulfilled.
	in essence, the prophecy that he knew, the prophecy handed to him from God, that his life, his presence here on earth was going to involve all these things, the teachings, the disciples, and the betrayal of him by his disciples, and his death, which and the betrayal of him by his disciples, and his death, which he foresaw and warned about, I believe, He saw all of this, and then he saw beyond.
	He saw that he would die on the cross for the sins of man, and he saw that this was a necessary sacrifice in order for him to defeat, ultimately, to defeat evil and Satanism in our world.
	That's what's so amazing about this.
	He knew that he would have to go through this.
	And then it even says the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and the other.
	These are the people who were crucified alongside Jesus.
	But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
	But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear and immediately blood and water came out.
	See, this is prophecy, cosmic, God's prophecy being fulfilled through the persecution of Christ.
	And then from the book of John, it tells the story of Joseph of Arimathea, which sounds suspiciously similar to arithmetic.
	Maybe he has a brother named Integer.
	I don't know. I'm sorry.
	I can't resist adding in a little bit of comedy from time to time, even on such a serious subject.
	But being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly...
	So Joseph was secretly a follower of Jesus, right?
	Secretly for fear of the Jews, because the Jews murdered, well, ordered the murder of Jesus.
	They cried for the murder of Jesus.
	So this guy, Joseph, is like, I don't want them to know I'm a Jesus follower.
	The Jews might kill me too.
	So they asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission.
	Again, this is the Roman official, like, okay, you can take the body.
	This guy from Rome, Pilate, he seems rather reasonable in all of this, doesn't he?
	He seems pretty reasonable.
	It's the Jews that seem insane and filled with hatred, vile, murdering Christ, their minds and their hearts filled with hatred.
	Yeah, think about that.
	Think about that also in view of modern times as well.
	Very disturbing kind of stance to have hatred toward Christians, hatred toward Christ, hatred toward God.
	Verse 39, Nicodemus, I'm not sure how you would pronounce that, maybe Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes.
	See? More spices and herbs.
	About a hundred pounds. Then they took the body of Jesus and bound it in strips of linen with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
	Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.
	So there they laid Jesus because of the Jews' preparation day, for the tomb was nearby." So that's where we will end today's sermon.
	And of course, we'll follow this up with what happens next.
	Why is the tomb empty?
	What has happened here?
	And of course, all of history was changed from that point forward.
	So the summary of today's sermon is Jesus knew he was going to be murdered.
	The demand to murder him came from the Jews, the corrupt religious high priests of the Jews.
	The official from Rome tried not to murder Christ multiple times, tried to set him free, but the Jews insisted that Rome order the death of Christ, which eventually Pilate relented and then allowed the Jews to have their way and to order the death of Christ.
	So yes, it is true, and it states in the Bible, I've just read the passages for you, that the Jews are responsible for the murder of Christ.
	Not Rome. It's right there in Scripture.
	I encourage you to read those chapters yourself.
	And that the Jews were infested with demonic hatred for Christ.
	The religious leaders of the Jews infested with demonic hatred for Christ.
	Makes you wonder.
	Makes you wonder why.
	Makes you wonder about a lot of things.
	The past, the present, and the future, doesn't it?
	But thank you for listening. I'm Mike Adams.
	More sermons yet to come, and the next one will be incredibly interesting.

▲