NXR Podcast - THE LIVESTREAM - Nick Fuentes Is Right, And We’re Tired Of Pretending He’s Not
Aired: 2025-06-23
Duration: 02:33:16


=== Israel's Unavoidable Retaliation (12:07) ===

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[00:00:31]  All right, guys, it's time.
[00:00:35]  It is time.
[00:00:37]  My Bible says to give honor where honor is due, credit where credit is due.
[00:00:43]  The only disclaimer I'll give because I don't want to get bogged down because it's not right and it's not the point.
[00:00:49]  Yeah, sure, there are some differences.
[00:00:51]  I'm a Protestant.
[00:00:52]  This dude is a Catholic.
[00:00:54]  There's differences in how we would say things, there's differences in the fact that I'm married and have five kids and I pastor a local church.
[00:01:02]  But here's the deal.
[00:01:03]  In terms of geopolitics, Nick Fuentes, or as some might call him, good old St. Nick, the dude has been right again and again and again.
[00:01:17]  And lots of people end up being right.
[00:01:20]  There's lots of people, right?
[00:01:22]  There are plenty of people who are now right about COVID.
[00:01:27]  Five years after the fact, right?
[00:01:30]  When it all of a sudden becomes socially acceptable to be right.
[00:01:35]  When all of a sudden you stand nothing to lose and only to gain to be right.
[00:01:41]  I've said it often.
[00:01:42]  This has been true in my own life, and I think it's especially true of Nick Fuentes.
[00:01:48]  I've said this that Israel, Old Covenant Israel in the Bible, they did not kill the prophets for being right.
[00:01:57]  They killed the prophets for being first.
[00:02:00]  Think about that.
[00:02:02]  Israel, Old Covenant Israel in the Bible, eventually they're all building tombs.
[00:02:08]  And monuments to honor the prophets.
[00:02:11]  They're having certain feast days and celebrating the prophets.
[00:02:15]  All of Israel agrees with consensus unanimously that Jeremiah, he's our guy, right?
[00:02:23]  Isaiah, he's our guy.
[00:02:24]  Ezekiel, he's our guy.
[00:02:26]  Eventually, society comes around.
[00:02:29]  Eventually, people agree, even a majority of people, the consensus, even unanimously, people eventually agree.
[00:02:38]  And yet, Israel, That eventually honors and esteems and builds monuments and tombs to the prophets, their forefathers, originally, at the time, were the ones who actually killed the prophets.
[00:02:53]  Why?
[00:02:55]  Because prophets get killed not for being right, but for being first.
[00:03:01]  There are other people that we could cite in this episode.
[00:03:05]  There are plenty of people who are saying what Nick Fuentes said a year ago, or two years ago, or five years ago.
[00:03:12]  There are plenty of people who are saying that today.
[00:03:15]  So, we don't need Nick Fuentes as a source.
[00:03:20]  And we're aware of that.
[00:03:20]  We're not naive and we're not stupid.
[00:03:22]  And we understand what it does for the bottom line and what people will say and how people will feel about us.
[00:03:28]  But here's the deal he was first.
[00:03:31]  He was.
[00:03:33]  And there are guys who are saying similar things, but they've been saying similar things for the last 15 minutes.
[00:03:43]  But Nick has been saying these things for a while.
[00:03:47]  For a while.
[00:03:48]  When it comes to Israel, and when it comes to this current conflict between Israel and Iran, and exactly what's taking place today, Nick Fuentes deserves credit.
[00:04:01]  You heard it here.
[00:04:03]  I make no apology.
[00:04:05]  Honor where honor is due.
[00:04:07]  So, our episode today, we're going to play a clip where Nick Fuentes calls everything that's taking place all the way back right after October 7th.
[00:04:19]  So, at this point, almost a year ago, we're going to play that clip.
[00:04:22]  And then we've got a lot in store in this episode for you.
[00:04:25]  We're going to show a clip from Putin, who is already saying that he is willing Russia to join Iran, World War III.
[00:04:35]  I hope it's not going to happen.
[00:04:36]  I don't necessarily think it's going to happen.
[00:04:39]  But to say it's not even a possibility of happening would be foolish and naive.
[00:04:45]  This is what's at stake.
[00:04:46]  This is what we're talking about.
[00:04:47]  So, we're going to look at Putin, we're going to look at Matt Gaetz.
[00:04:50]  The guy who didn't get the job, and maybe, you know, maybe there's more than just one reason why.
[00:04:55]  Maybe it's not just the scandals, maybe it's also his positions and the fact that the dude knows what's up with the nation state of Israel.
[00:05:03]  So, we're going to play a clip from Matt Gaetz.
[00:05:04]  We're going to play a clip from Putin.
[00:05:06]  We're going to play a clip to start off from Nick Fuentes.
[00:05:09]  And we're going to look at what the White House and what Trump just said minutes ago, handling this whole conflict, what it means for us, and what we think may happen between Israel, Iran, and the rest of the world.
[00:05:22]  Tune in now.
[00:05:32]  GA, GA, GA.
[00:05:34]  All right.
[00:05:35]  It is Monday afternoon, GA.
[00:05:37]  That does not mean we're from Georgia.
[00:05:39]  We are in TX, Texas, broadcasting live right now, bursting with energy.
[00:05:45]  And that energy does not imply joy or happiness because we're not particularly happy with what's going on right now.
[00:05:55]  But the energy, if anything, I feel energetic because I've got kids.
[00:06:01]  I would like to not be in a war.
[00:06:03]  I would like To see Americans not go and spend the next 20 years in another war that never ends in the Middle East, more American men, and sadly, because we're degenerate, American women going and dying for Israel in another war.
[00:06:17]  So I'm pumped up, but I just want to make it clear.
[00:06:21]  It's not because I'm giddy, it's not because I'm happy.
[00:06:23]  If anything, it's because I'm angry and I'm just kind of just embracing the delusion to keep myself from raging and just funneling the anger and the rage into just high.
[00:06:36]  High energy, high caliber.
[00:06:38]  This episode, it's going to be packed.
[00:06:40]  And like I said, in the cold open, I don't want to waste any of your time.
[00:06:43]  Some of you guys, you saw the thumbnail, you saw the title.
[00:06:46]  And so we don't want to do clickbait with this ministry.
[00:06:49]  We want to hop right into it.
[00:06:51]  So here is our first clip of the day from good old St. Nick.
[00:06:55]  Israel benefits from the attack by Hamas because now they get to solve the Gaza question finally.
[00:07:02]  Now they get to go in and kill them all and ethnically cleanse this region.
[00:07:05]  In doing so, They know they're provoking basically an unavoidable retaliation.
[00:07:12]  There's an unavoidable reciprocal attack by these Iranian militias against Israel.
[00:07:19]  And all that does is give Israel an excuse to do what they always wanted to do, which is to bomb Iran's centrifuges, which is their nuclear program.
[00:07:30]  And if they do that, then Iran is in a war with Israel, and then they draw the United States into a war with Iran.
[00:07:37]  And they get the crown jewel, what they always wanted.
[00:07:41]  Which is an end to the regime in Syria and an end to the regime in Iran.
[00:07:47]  And that seems to be the big play that Israel is making.
[00:07:52]  So consider the following Israel had an intelligence failure.
[00:07:57]  Oops.
[00:07:59]  Number one surveillance superpower in the world.
[00:08:02]  It's your neighbor.
[00:08:02]  Oops.
[00:08:03]  We didn't know that Hamas was going to spill out and kill al-Nan Yahu's political enemies in the south.
[00:08:09]  The commie, you know.
[00:08:13]  All these labor Zionists down in the south of Israel.
[00:08:16]  Oops, we didn't see it coming.
[00:08:17]  Oh, we didn't know that Hamas was going to invade.
[00:08:21]  Guess we have an excuse to go and kill them all.
[00:08:24]  Guess a perfect political crisis fell into Netanyahu's lap right as he was about to get removed from power and thrown in jail.
[00:08:32]  Now he's forming a unity government to go and destroy his sworn enemy for 100 years.
[00:08:36]  And they get to go and level Gaza.
[00:08:39]  The United States backs them and Israel backs them because of the visceral.
[00:08:45]  Atrocities that were committed by Hamas, which they failed to anticipate.
[00:08:50]  So Israel is going to conduct a brutal, brutal campaign against Gaza, which they know that Iran has to respond to.
[00:09:01]  They know that Iran and all the neighboring powers have to go and attack Israel for doing this because the people would revolt if they didn't.
[00:09:09]  They bring the United States in to say, hey, we're going to put Iran in check.
[00:09:14]  Iran won't attack Israel if the United States is in the neighborhood.
[00:09:18]  Iran almost has to.
[00:09:20]  They're forced.
[00:09:23]  And if Iran attacks Israel, if these militias attack Israel, then Israel can widen the conflict and attack Iran.
[00:09:29]  America's brought in.
[00:09:31]  And now Israel gets two for the price of one.
[00:09:33]  This little, little, little attack by Hamas, this may be the tripwire that sets off the regional war that they have wanted for decades.
[00:09:47]  It's going to draw America in finally to a war where they decapitate Iran and Syria.
[00:09:54]  That seems to be the goal here.
[00:09:57]  I saw a great post over the weekend.
[00:09:59]  Born too early to die for sand, New Jersey.
[00:10:02]  Born too late to die for sand, New Jersey.
[00:10:05]  Born just in time to die for sand, New Jersey.
[00:10:09]  What Nick's getting at in this clip, and this is from a while ago, is that there has been an overarching theme through Israel's actions in the Middle East.
[00:10:17]  They have an incredible intelligence agency, and for a long time, they've been looking for, we went over this last week, looking for the reason to basically get involved in Iran.
[00:10:27]  Iran's been building for a long time, we're talking decades at this point.
[00:10:31]  Probably enriching uranium to the point of building a nuclear weapon.
[00:10:34]  And so, be it October 7th, be it even farther back, what can we use as justification to get involved?
[00:10:40]  And the U.S.'s involvement is the most recent in a long string of, well, we really want to be out of the Middle East.
[00:10:47]  We withdrew from Afghanistan, for instance, or we tried the nation building, the regime change in Iraq, and that didn't work very well either.
[00:10:54]  It wasn't the best withdrawal.
[00:10:56]  It wasn't the best withdrawal.
[00:10:58]  Could have been a better withdrawal.
[00:10:59]  So, we've been trying to do this thing where we pull back.
[00:11:01]  And I think to Trump's credit, And he's like, guys, we really shouldn't be involved there.
[00:11:06]  I think even JD Vance, to a greater degree, you saw some stories coming out of him where he's like, I don't really support this, this, that, or the other.
[00:11:12]  But to be honest, we still did it.
[00:11:14]  We struck bases in Iran, specifically three nuclear sites.
[00:11:18]  So six different bombs were struck, two to each site, as I understand it correctly.
[00:11:23]  Just for the record here, yes, we bombed Iran.
[00:11:28]  However, just a teensy, teensy, just a teensy bomb, right?
[00:11:34]  It's just 60,000 pounds of bombs.
[00:11:36]  Can we just have, look, here's the deal.
[00:11:38]  Right, America first, dot dot dot fine print.
[00:11:42]  Can we just have just a few thousand H 1B visas, just a few hundred thousand acres of federal land?
[00:11:51]  Can we just have a few bunker busters, just a little bomb, just a little bomb?
[00:11:56]  That's just insane.
[00:11:59]  It's absolutely insane.
[00:12:01]  I feel like, like right now, I feel like Ricky Bobby, you know, it's like if you're not first, you're last.
[00:12:05]  Yeah, it's America first or not.

=== America First or Last (15:38) ===

[00:12:08]  And who a year ago.
[00:12:09]  Said, hey, you're probably not getting your mass deportation.
[00:12:13]  We're probably getting involved again in the Middle East.
[00:12:15]  He must have been named.
[00:12:16]  Yeah.
[00:12:17]  But Charlie Kirk, he was warning us, right?
[00:12:19]  Yeah.
[00:12:20]  Yeah.
[00:12:20]  It was Charlie Kirk.
[00:12:21]  He was on the cutting edge, right?
[00:12:23]  The Israeli wire, you know, they were telling us the truth from the get go.
[00:12:27]  They were never Trump, to be fair.
[00:12:28]  But here's the deal it was Nick.
[00:12:31]  Yeah.
[00:12:31]  It was Nick Fuentes.
[00:12:33]  Give honor where honor is due.
[00:12:35]  You can reserve your disagreements.
[00:12:37]  I'm not saying, like, love them or hate them, you know, like, but.
[00:12:41]  Here's a guy, it's kind of like it reminds me of Alex Jones a little bit, which is kind of funny, but Alex Jones shared a clip from me last time, which was so cool.
[00:12:52]  Like, I had random guys, you know, texting me and saying, Joel, you're on Alex Jones.
[00:12:55]  And I was like, and I was on too because the camera angle showed all three of us.
[00:12:58]  It did not.
[00:12:59]  It was so funny.
[00:13:00]  So people, like, we're in like group chats and people are texting us.
[00:13:03]  It's like, you know, like randomly, you know, like as soon as it's happening, people are stoked, you know, like, Joel, you're on Alex Jones.
[00:13:09]  I was like, I'm pretty sure I'm not because I'm sitting in my living room, you know, with my wife, you know, hanging out.
[00:13:13]  They're like, well, yeah, I mean, not physically, but you are remotely on.
[00:13:18]  He's playing a clip from you.
[00:13:19]  And here's the funniest thing.
[00:13:20]  He was like, it's because of my many leather bound books.
[00:13:25]  But he said, theologian and historian.
[00:13:29]  And my wife, it was so funny.
[00:13:31]  So people sent us the clip, and I played it right there on the couch with my wife.
[00:13:36]  And it always keeps you humble as a man when your wife, you know, is patriarchal and your wife who loves you and submits to you and is also just laughing in your face.
[00:13:46]  She's like, theologian and historian.
[00:13:51]  Which I'm not.
[00:13:52]  I'm not, you know, I'm a pastor.
[00:13:55]  I know theology, but no, I do not have a PhD in theology.
[00:13:59]  And I'm certainly not a historian.
[00:14:00]  Stephen Wolf studied for eight years to be a historian.
[00:14:03]  And you got the title.
[00:14:04]  Me and Wes were joking about that, and Tony, we got lunch today and we were thinking, I wonder if Stephen Wolf saw that clip and saw the way that Alex Jones set me up, the way he introduced me.
[00:14:15]  Theologian and historian.
[00:14:17]  I could just imagine Stephen Wolf watching that and being like, Joel Webbin, he did it again.
[00:14:24]  Somehow, the top tard in the Lord's army is getting credentials and titles that he doesn't deserve and showing up on Alex Jones.
[00:14:33]  But my point is, it reminds me of Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes.
[00:14:36]  Reminds me of Alex Jones in the sense that, like, has Alex Jones batted a thousand percent?
[00:14:40]  No, nobody has, right?
[00:14:41]  He's had some blunders.
[00:14:42]  Yep.
[00:14:43]  He has some big blunders.
[00:14:45]  And I don't want to minimize those, right?
[00:14:47]  We all know.
[00:14:48]  I don't want to rehash it and recrucify the guy has paid the price for his blunders.
[00:14:53]  You don't get a court settlement for a trillion dollars.
[00:14:56]  A trillion dollars.
[00:14:57]  For just, well, I rounded a little bit of a rounding.
[00:14:59]  Right.
[00:14:59]  If this was a guy who just got a waistcoat cleaned, then yeah, we'd hold him accountable.
[00:15:03]  But the dude has.
[00:15:04]  He has paid the price for his blunders.
[00:15:06]  So we know what those blunders are.
[00:15:08]  We don't need to rehash them.
[00:15:09]  But here's the deal Alex Jones has gotten some things wrong.
[00:15:14]  And yet, the dude literally predicted 9 11.
[00:15:18]  Yeah.
[00:15:20]  He predicted 9 11.
[00:15:22]  And here's the thing Alex Jones, it's funny because he's always the globalist, the globalist, and the Marxist.
[00:15:29]  I feel like this is a pretty good one.
[00:15:31]  That's pretty good.
[00:15:31]  That was pretty good, right?
[00:15:32]  Yeah.
[00:15:32]  The globalist and the Marxist, you know?
[00:15:34]  And I can feel the demons rising up, you know?
[00:15:38]  And I love it.
[00:15:38]  You know, it's like you see the gifts where it's like, honey, please don't get too political with my parents at Thanksgiving.
[00:15:45]  You know, it is.
[00:15:46]  And then it shows like me, it's a picture of Alex Jones.
[00:15:49]  It's like me five minutes into dinner.
[00:15:50]  And I can feel the demon horizon of the globalist Marxist.
[00:15:55]  But the funny thing is, is that like sometimes, you know, I've seen the other memes, you know, where it's like Alex Jones trying to identify the globalist.
[00:16:01]  It shows like the picture from that movie with Sandra Bullock where she's blind, you know, and she's like feeling around.
[00:16:08]  It's like, who are these globalist Marxists?
[00:16:10]  It's like, Alex, a lot of them live in Israel and a lot of them live here, but they also have dual citizenship in Israel.
[00:16:18]  But here's the thing like, to give him credit, give honor where honor is due.
[00:16:22]  You know, one of the few guys recently with this global conflict with Iran and Israel who was willing to have Nick Fuentes on his show, even though Alex Jones is not anti Semitic at all.
[00:16:37]  He's got like what, a 30 year long career?
[00:16:39]  It's not like for 30 years he's been saying, The Jews, the Jews, you know, I stubbed my toe this morning on my bed.
[00:16:45]  The Jews, you know, they did it in the middle of the night.
[00:16:48]  You know, Israeli intelligence, they snuck in and moved my bed a quarter inch to the left just so that I would.
[00:16:53]  Like, that's never been his view.
[00:16:54]  He's not some raging, you know, incoherent anti Semitic person.
[00:16:59]  And yet, he was willing to take Nick, who has that reputation, whether it's merited or not, he has that reputation.
[00:17:06]  And he's willing to say, No, I'm going to have Nick on my platform because he's right.
[00:17:12]  On this issue, he's right.
[00:17:13]  And I think there are other issues as well, for the record.
[00:17:16]  But on this one, the guy nailed it.
[00:17:18]  So to me, it's so insane with Alex Jones, though.
[00:17:20]  They're turning the frogs gay.
[00:17:21]  I mean, literally, you heard songs and people mocking.
[00:17:23]  People mocking.
[00:17:24]  And then.
[00:17:25]  He was right.
[00:17:25]  Literally.
[00:17:26]  It turns out atrazine, a chemical being added to different water supplies, is taking frogs and turning them literally into the opposite gender.
[00:17:35]  So you have male frogs that are growing reproductive parts and all of that.
[00:17:40]  The craziest thing he ever said they're turning the friggin' frogs gay.
[00:17:44]  Oh, it turns out he was straight up correct.
[00:17:47]  He was correct.
[00:17:47]  Unnatural chemicals in our water supply are affecting hormone and reproductive traits.
[00:17:55]  Yes.
[00:17:56]  And that actually matters.
[00:17:57]  So if that does that for frogs, My goodness, what does that do for humans?
[00:18:01]  What does fluoride do to humans?
[00:18:02]  What does fluoride do to humans?
[00:18:03]  Levels are lower, you know, historically than they've ever been an epidemic of low T and all that.
[00:18:08]  Like, so the guy has been right about a lot.
[00:18:10]  And this guy, Alex Jones, who's been right about a lot, he is willing to say, okay, I don't hold the same views.
[00:18:17]  Alex Jones is pretty pro Israel.
[00:18:19]  I think that's fair to say.
[00:18:20]  He's like, I don't hold all the views that Nick does.
[00:18:23]  And yet he's willing to give honor where honor is due and say, now this guy called it.
[00:18:27]  Yeah.
[00:18:27]  Same way he called 9 11.
[00:18:29]  He's like, Nick called with October 7th.
[00:18:32]  And now, what's happening with Israel and Iran, and now Russia potentially is coming to the table with Putin.
[00:18:38]  We'll show that clip here in a moment.
[00:18:40]  And so, yeah, I just think that it's, I think that there is a moral obligation.
[00:18:46]  I do.
[00:18:47]  We're Christians.
[00:18:48]  I think there's a moral obligation.
[00:18:50]  It's one thing if there's, you know, like 100 different voices in media and they're all kind of saying something.
[00:18:57]  You can just pick and choose.
[00:18:58]  Yeah, you can pick and choose.
[00:18:59]  And there's one guy who we think is wrong on a bunch of stuff.
[00:19:02]  And so we'd like to not elevate.
[00:19:04]  Him, and we'd elevate someone else instead because there's less of a liability.
[00:19:08]  But in this case, it's not just that Nick was right, he was right first and right early, and one of the only ones, if not the only one, who was right early.
[00:19:21]  Yeah.
[00:19:22]  And so I think it's worth saying, Nick Fuentes.
[00:19:26]  Yeah.
[00:19:26]  Good job.
[00:19:26]  Yeah.
[00:19:27]  I mean, it's an important point, right?
[00:19:28]  To contextualize, like, you know, people getting up in arms about, oh, why are you talking about this person?
[00:19:33]  Why, you know, there's another person saying the exact same thing.
[00:19:36]  And an important thing to note is, You don't pick the big voices of your day.
[00:19:42]  Right.
[00:19:42]  You don't, well, you receive the big voices.
[00:19:45]  And it's, you know, you have Alex Jones, you have Nick Fuentes, and these guys have platforms, they have reach.
[00:19:52]  And so you're in a position where you have to respond when they're right.
[00:19:57]  Right.
[00:19:58]  You have to acknowledge that they had the right analysis on these things.
[00:20:04]  Yep.
[00:20:04]  The last live stream after the Iran bombing, so after we bombed Iran, Nick's last live stream was 60,000 people.
[00:20:12]  They weren't going to play it in Iran.
[00:20:14]  At one point, they did very early on.
[00:20:16]  They were playing his news.
[00:20:17]  So, again, love him or hate him.
[00:20:19]  This is practically the guy that tens of thousands of young men are saying, I want his analysis.
[00:20:25]  I don't want Ben Shapiro.
[00:20:25]  I don't want Matt Walsh.
[00:20:26]  I don't want Charlie Kirk.
[00:20:27]  I don't want Hodge twins.
[00:20:28]  What is Nick saying about this?
[00:20:30]  And you can put your head in the sand and say, not interested, don't care for him.
[00:20:34]  Or you can wake up and say, hey, there's actually, I would estimate, probably 500,000 to a million young men who are saying, I agree with him.
[00:20:44]  On Middle Eastern politics.
[00:20:45]  I agree with him on America first, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
[00:20:48]  Yep.
[00:20:48]  Yep.
[00:20:49]  So it's worth talking about.
[00:20:51]  It's absolutely worth talking about.
[00:20:52]  So, real quick, before we move on, because I want to get to a clip from Matt Gaetz that I think is incredibly insightful.
[00:21:00]  But, real quick, to address the clip that we just played from Fuentes, let's break that down real quick.
[00:21:07]  I'll do my best.
[00:21:08]  And then, Wes and Antonio, I'd love you guys to tell me what I missed or help me out a little bit.
[00:21:13]  I'll be as quick as possible.
[00:21:14]  This was.
[00:21:16]  A clip from Nick's live stream pretty quickly on the heels of October.
[00:21:23]  So 2023.
[00:21:24]  Okay.
[00:21:24]  So, this is the day after October 7th with the terrorist group of Hamas that came in on the hang gliders and did atrocious, terrible things that we absolutely hate and despise, are wicked towards Israeli people.
[00:21:42]  And then Nick responded and said, Look, here's the deal.
[00:21:46]  Nick didn't say, Oh, it was Netanyahu on the hang glider.
[00:21:50]  Personally, himself, he did it.
[00:21:51]  He was in the tower calling again.
[00:21:53]  Yeah, or, you know, it was Israel did it to themselves.
[00:21:55]  These were Jews on hang gliders.
[00:21:57]  He didn't say that.
[00:21:58]  He said, Look, this is what I struggle with.
[00:22:02]  Israeli intelligence is the most sophisticated in the world, even arguably superior to our own in the United States.
[00:22:10]  I'm not saying they did it, but the idea that they didn't see it coming at all and they weren't able to prevent it, especially it's kind of, I mean, it's almost comical.
[00:22:20]  Obviously, it's not comical when people are dying, but I mean, the mode of attack, hang gliders, like we all saw the videos.
[00:22:29]  They're coming pretty slow.
[00:22:31]  I mean, it's, it's, you're coming in.
[00:22:33]  It's like, I see you, you're coming, and in 45 minutes, I'm in trouble.
[00:22:39]  You know what I mean?
[00:22:40]  But like, there's time.
[00:22:40]  You know what I mean?
[00:22:41]  It's like, I'm coming for you at five miles per hour, and I will be there in approximately 45 minutes.
[00:22:50]  And Israel still doesn't get there to protect them.
[00:22:53]  Which compared, for example, to 9 11, like we're talking about hijacking in air.
[00:22:57]  Do you shoot down an American airliner with citizens on it?
[00:23:00]  Very different situation.
[00:23:01]  We're talking.
[00:23:02]  Kites with people attached to them.
[00:23:03]  So, Nick is not saying Israel did it.
[00:23:05]  He's just saying, could they have been able to stop it and perhaps didn't in order to provide the moral justification to do what they probably have wanted to do for a very long time, namely blast Iran and glass gossip?
[00:23:21]  It has to be said that in 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu, the president of Israel, he was facing a lot of pressure over judicial reform in Israel.
[00:23:32]  And so, this is a critical political moment.
[00:23:34]  Where a lot of people are losing faith in him.
[00:23:36]  And incidentally enough, just in this last week, there was a very close vote against his government that also showed that a lot of his government doesn't have faith in him.
[00:23:46]  So at both junctures, whether it's Iran here today, presently, or in October of 2023, at both points, Benjamin Netanyahu's government, this coalition that he's formed together, they're facing a very near ouster of people saying, we don't have faith, we don't have confidence, we want them out.
[00:24:02]  And that's pretty convenient.
[00:24:04]  I mean, nobody lets a good catastrophe, a good crisis go to waste if you're a good politician.
[00:24:09]  Right.
[00:24:09]  So this is a day after October 7th.
[00:24:12]  Nick is talking about did they see it coming?
[00:24:15]  Did they choose to be late to the game in order to provide for themselves a moral justification for the retaliation that they've always wanted against Iran?
[00:24:24]  And then he goes further in that clip that we just played and said that they would bomb Iran, that they would make it about nuclear weapons, right?
[00:24:33]  Iran is days away from nuclear weapons, and that they would somehow rope us, America, into the war and say, well, you know, we don't have the technology to get to this because, you know, it's, X many feet, you know, underneath the ground, and we need the bunker bombs.
[00:24:48]  And so, can we have just a teensy, teensy little bomb, just a little America first, no more wars, peace in the Middle East, but just a teensy bomb and a few H 1B visas and also, you know, a few hundred thousand acres of federal land for, you know, project housing, you know, for the poor.
[00:25:05]  And he kind of nailed it.
[00:25:08]  He kind of nailed it.
[00:25:09]  That's pretty much exactly what happened.
[00:25:11]  So, Israel retaliates on day 61 after 60 days.
[00:25:15]  Of the negotiation period between Israel and we were involved with Iran.
[00:25:20]  The day after, they immediately bombed them in the middle of the night, not really going after the nuclear science, but going after actually the leadership in Iran.
[00:25:30]  And then all of a sudden, just yesterday, it was yesterday, right?
[00:25:33]  We dropped bombs.
[00:25:36]  And then Israel falls it up with just a few more bombs for good measure Saturday.
[00:25:40]  And then Israel falls it up with a few more bombs for good measure.
[00:25:43]  And now Iran is retaliating, right?
[00:25:47]  So, like, Trump does his press conference, you know, and says, like, You know, peace through strength.
[00:25:51]  And we want peace in the Middle East.
[00:25:54]  And so what we did was we grabbed a country in the Middle East and slapped them in the face and said, Peace.
[00:26:02]  Peace.
[00:26:04]  And I just don't know if that's necessarily the best strategy for peace.
[00:26:08]  And so now Iran is retaliating.
[00:26:11]  They have launched missiles against us.
[00:26:14]  Trump just came out with a tweet.
[00:26:15]  Can we show that, Nathan?
[00:26:17]  A tweet from either Trump directly or the White House.
[00:26:20]  Where it says that the missiles were not successful, the ones aimed against us from Iran.
[00:26:25]  Praise God.
[00:26:27]  It seems as though there are no casualties with us.
[00:26:29]  So, this is from Donald J. Trump on Truth Social.
[00:26:32]  He says, Maybe 20 minutes ago.
[00:26:34]  20 minutes ago.
[00:26:34]  All right.
[00:26:35]  So, this one's fresh.
[00:26:36]  He says, Nick Fuentes was right again.
[00:26:39]  No, he says, Iran has officially responded to our obliteration of their nuclear facilities with a very weak response, which we expected and have very effectively countered.
[00:26:52]  Praise God.
[00:26:53]  There have been 14 missiles fired.
[00:26:55]  That's Iran against us.
[00:26:57]  13 were knocked down and one was set free, in quotation marks, because it was headed in a non threatening direction.
[00:27:05]  I am pleased to report that no Americans were harmed and hardly any damage was done.
[00:27:11]  Most importantly, they've gotten it all out of their system.
[00:27:15]  Yeah, we'll see about that.
[00:27:17]  They've gotten it all out of their system and there will hopefully be no further hate.
[00:27:24]  Starting to sound like a leftist here.
[00:27:26]  I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost and nobody to be injured.
[00:27:34]  Perhaps Iran can now proceed to peace and harmony in the region, and I will enthusiastically encourage Israel to do the same.
[00:27:43]  Thank you for your attention to this matter.

=== No Americans Harmed (04:24) ===

[00:27:46]  Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America.
[00:27:49]  I hope he's right.
[00:27:51]  I hope he's right.
[00:27:51]  I voted for Trump.
[00:27:53]  I voted for Trump several times.
[00:27:56]  I am grateful that he is the president and not Kamala.
[00:28:00]  I am praying for him because I'm a Christian and my Bible tells me to.
[00:28:05]  I prayed for Joe Biden for that matter.
[00:28:07]  And for the record, I think Trump is a heck of a lot better than Joe Biden.
[00:28:10]  Okay, so I'm not going to be one of the guys who overreacts and is like, Trump, you know, well, Biden didn't get us in a war.
[00:28:17]  Biden sucked, guys.
[00:28:19]  Let's be honest.
[00:28:20]  Biden was absolutely terrible, arguably one of the worst presidents we've ever had in the history of our country.
[00:28:25]  Trump is one of the best presidents.
[00:28:27]  And I'm not going to just turn on him on a dime because I disagree.
[00:28:32]  But I do disagree.
[00:28:34]  And I have to go on record saying I do disagree.
[00:28:37]  I profoundly disagree.
[00:28:38]  That said, two things can be true at once.
[00:28:40]  I think Trump is the best president of the United States in my lifetime.
[00:28:44]  I'm 39 years old.
[00:28:46]  And I profoundly disagree with his involvement in the situation.
[00:28:51]  That said, I'm struggling to trust the plan, but I hope and I pray that he's right.
[00:28:57]  That Iran actually got it out of their system.
[00:29:00]  However, it does not help boost my confidence that this is out of their system when you have guys like Putin coming and going live and talking and saying, you know what?
[00:29:13]  Russia will be there for Iran.
[00:29:16]  We will defend Iran.
[00:29:18]  Do we have that clip synced up, Nate?
[00:29:20]  I would love to go to our first commercial break and then we'll head to.
[00:29:22]  Yeah, you're right.
[00:29:22]  Let's go to our first commercial break and then we'll come back and we'll just, you know, binge watch a little Putin.
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[00:33:44]  All right, we're so back.
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[00:33:47]  This is the clip from Putin of Russia.
[00:33:51]  We're going to show this clip.
[00:33:52]  It's two hours old, right?
[00:33:54]  This is not Saturday.
[00:33:55]  This is not from Once Upon a Time.
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[00:33:59]  We are giving you the most up to date things that are happening on the ground right now.
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[00:34:05]  Before the clip, I might as well say this.
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[00:35:12]  Here is the clip from Putin that just dropped two hours ago.
[00:35:17]  Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arachi in Moscow.
[00:35:21]  Putin has called.
[00:35:23]  The US strikes on Iran's nuclear sites as groundless and says that Russia's position has been conveyed through diplomatic channels.
[00:35:29]  He says Moscow is trying to help the Iranian people and hopes talks will find a way out of the crisis.
[00:35:37]  This is an absolutely unprovoked act of aggression against Iran with no basis and no justification whatsoever.
[00:35:45]  We are making efforts to support the Iranian people.
[00:35:48]  As you know, I have held phone conversations with the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Israel, the President of Of the United Arab Emirates and the President of your country.
[00:35:58]  And I'm very glad you're in Moscow today.
[00:36:00]  This gives us an opportunity to discuss all these urgent matters and think together about how we might find a way out of the current situation.
[00:36:09]  Let's cross to your Red Square in Moscow.
[00:36:11]  Yulia Shapavanfer is standing by for a sec.
[00:36:13]  Yulia, what more do we know about what was discussed?
[00:36:20]  Well, so, head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Abbas Araqchi, has said that escalation in the Middle East.
[00:36:27]  Is growing every day due to the US and Israeli aggression against Iranian nuclear facilities, calling the aggressive actions of Israel and the United States completely illegitimate, which violates international law and it's Iran's legitimate right to defend itself.
[00:36:43]  There have been reports that the Iranian foreign minister is here allegedly to deliver a letter from Iran's supreme leader to Vladimir Putin asking for support.
[00:36:54]  What kind of support?
[00:36:54]  That support may include a request for military equipment.
[00:36:59]  Russia and Iran do have some sort of military cooperation, weapons sales.
[00:37:04]  But as we know, Vladimir Putin has already said that Russia would not get involved in this conflict militarily due to its own military operation in Ukraine.
[00:37:14]  Probably the Iranian foreign minister would ask Vladimir Putin to be a mediator in negotiations with Donald Trump.
[00:37:21]  There is a possibility that Iran can make some slight concessions to Donald Trump and also to discuss with the Russian partners how far Iran can really go along this.
[00:37:31]  Path of escalation and assess possible consequences.
[00:37:35]  After all, many are waiting for a really tough response from Iran after the US and Israeli attacks.
[00:37:41]  What more can Russia do in order to provide assistance to Iran, given that they're strategic partners?
[00:37:51]  Well, at this meeting, Vladimir Putin said that Russia was making efforts to provide assistance to the Iranian people.
[00:37:59]  So the people are the most important, of course, in this story, the most important.
[00:38:06]  Well, players, so to speak.
[00:38:08]  We've also heard from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
[00:38:12]  According to him, Russia's position is that all countries have their right to develop a peaceful nuclear energy.
[00:38:20]  According to him, Russia's assistance to Iran will depend on what Tehran needs.
[00:38:25]  Russia has already offered its mediation efforts politically and with its nuclear program, with Iran's nuclear program, saying if needed, Russia can provide Iran with enriched uranium.
[00:38:36]  According to a CEO of the state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, Alexei Lihachov, Rosatom is able to technically solve all the problems with enriched uranium in Iran, including high grade uranium.
[00:38:50]  If all the international agreements are in place, if all of them are reached, Russia can go ahead as it has all the necessary expertise to help in this particular area.
[00:39:02]  All right, that's a picture from Moscow.
[00:39:04]  Yulia Shapovalova reporting from Red Square.
[00:39:09]  All right.
[00:39:10]  Not good.
[00:39:11]  Not good.
[00:39:11]  Not good at all.
[00:39:12]  I mean, great announcements.
[00:39:13]  I agree.
[00:39:14]  Not good.
[00:39:15]  Not good.
[00:39:15]  Yeah.
[00:39:15]  We knew this was, we, you know, this whole thing about isolationism, right?
[00:39:20]  And this sort of used as a pejorative.
[00:39:24]  And I don't know if I'd call myself an isolationist, but I am in a war with Russia, whatever that is.
[00:39:30]  Yes.
[00:39:31]  I'm that.
[00:39:32]  And, you know, this is sort of as we talk about why we're so against going to war with Iran, this is exactly where the concern is.
[00:39:40]  Because, You start to pull levers and try to create strategies where you can predict maybe seven days out, 14 weeks out.
[00:39:48]  But there's so many variables that you can't predict and you don't know where people are going to go.
[00:39:53]  And the worst case scenario is a full scale war with Russia.
[00:40:00]  And that's the danger here.
[00:40:01]  Now, in terms of Russia actually engaging militarily, maybe that's off the table.
[00:40:07]  They're obviously struggling in Ukraine.
[00:40:10]  But you heard in the clip there, Providing enriched uranium to Iran is on the table.
[00:40:17]  Strategic deployments of missiles and anti missiles.
[00:40:21]  We're going to bomb them so they don't have this thing.
[00:40:23]  And by bombing them so they don't have this thing, now other countries in the world are saying, we'll actually ensure they have this thing.
[00:40:30]  And we knew that, right?
[00:40:31]  Like Iran and Russia have had a strategic alliance since at least the early 90s.
[00:40:37]  And so we recognize that war with Iran or even tax on Iran pushes Iran further into the arms of Russia, further into the arms of China.
[00:40:46]  And that's the danger here.
[00:40:48]  And Russia obviously already has qualms with America in terms of how we supported Ukraine.
[00:40:52]  And so, and this is sort of everything we're concerned about.
[00:40:57]  You say it's going to be, you know, even Trump's truth post was.
[00:41:01]  It's just going to be a couple.
[00:41:02]  It's just going to be.
[00:41:03]  It's just going to be.
[00:41:04]  It's just a couple.
[00:41:05]  And then they'll respond, and hopefully that's it.
[00:41:08]  And here, you know, here you have Iran's foreign minister going to meet with Putin saying, hey, we'd love if you helped us.
[00:41:14]  How can you help us?
[00:41:16]  And you can get Putin's kind of frustration with the United States.
[00:41:19]  Right.
[00:41:20]  You go back to, I think it was 2022, the war started in Ukraine.
[00:41:23]  I mean, how many billions of dollars did we pump into Ukraine?
[00:41:25]  How much did the UN pump into them?
[00:41:27]  Like 350 billion.
[00:41:28]  So, for like three years, he had to deal with hundreds of millions of dollars pouring in from the West against him.
[00:41:33]  And even with that, he kept the conflict local.
[00:41:36]  He said, look, Ukraine is, for better or worse, whether you agree with him or not, his claim is Ukraine is part of historic Russia.
[00:41:42]  These are our people.
[00:41:43]  We're recapturing our territory.
[00:41:44]  So, we did three years of Biden and Kamala and whatever that clown show was.
[00:41:48]  But now we're on to the new administration.
[00:41:50]  And lo and behold, it's very similar to the old one.
[00:41:53]  We've pulled back certainly from Ukraine.
[00:41:55]  Some of that has to do with Congress and the spending that they're approving.
[00:41:58]  But that you go into the new one and we're still getting involved, in this case, to an ally, striking in the middle of the night on a Saturday and saying, You can't have these, and we're going to make sure you can't.
[00:42:08]  And you can see his frustration that it's like, at a certain point, I'm just not going to be bullied by the West.
[00:42:13]  You're getting involved in Ukraine, you're getting involved in Iran on behalf of Israel.
[00:42:17]  At some point, I'm going to put my foot down.
[00:42:18]  We were talking about this before the opening, but they've been allies for 30 years, something like that, all the way since the 90s.
[00:42:25]  Hey, Come on, you're bullying my allies.
[00:42:27]  You're funding a war on my border.
[00:42:29]  I'm not going to stand for that.
[00:42:31]  So, whether you love him or hate him, practically you can see his frustration.
[00:42:34]  Talks with Trump have been cut off pretty recently.
[00:42:37]  The guy's like, I don't want to go to war, but I also love my people, and I'm not just going to stand by and be bullied on the international stage for half a decade and do nothing about it.
[00:42:46]  Yeah.
[00:42:46]  And it's important to note like, this is what has basically caused every major global conflict since the beginning of the 20th century.
[00:42:54]  It's always a matter of, I first declare war on an ally, and their allies declare war on me.
[00:43:00]  Happened in World War I, happened in World War II, happened in Vietnam.
[00:43:02]  World War I started over less.
[00:43:04]  Like, literally, like, even historians today are like, how did it really start?
[00:43:08]  Tiny little dominoes fell here and there, and then boom, millions dead.
[00:43:11]  And so, as much as the isolationist position is characterized as sort of like not recognizing what's at stake, I really think the pro war, pro attacking Iran position is the one who's not recognizing historically.
[00:43:27]  The danger that we face in bringing potentially Russia into the war.
[00:43:32]  And who knows, maybe China as a proxy or leveraging Iran as a proxy to fight the West.
[00:43:37]  So it is very grave what we're looking at.
[00:43:41]  And I think kind of vindicates, as we talk about Nick and his position and many others who were sort of raising the alarms as this conflict heated up, like it's vindicating them in that they're calling out what we're sort of steam barreling toward.
[00:43:57]  And here we are, and things are unfolding live.
[00:44:00]  Yep.
[00:44:00]  And just for the record, you know, because we have a lot of people who are tuning in live.
[00:44:04]  So, you know, there are people I'm sure who are unfamiliar with, you know, who we are and haven't, you know, seen our, you know, see my published works.
[00:44:10]  You know, they haven't seen our body of work, so to speak.
[00:44:14]  Yeah, I, you know, it's like, oh, these guys are pro Iran.
[00:44:19]  I'm not a fan of sand demons and the sand people who worship them.
[00:44:24]  And I'm also not a fan of the synagogue of Satan.
[00:44:26]  Okay, so I hope that that statement could give you an idea of which side I'm on.
[00:44:31]  Right?
[00:44:31]  It's like the meme with the dude, like Godzilla versus King Kong, let them fight.
[00:44:35]  Right?
[00:44:36]  Right?
[00:44:36]  Let them fight.
[00:44:36]  No, no, no.
[00:44:37]  This is not our business.
[00:44:38]  I'm not on the side of Israel.
[00:44:40]  No way.
[00:44:41]  America first means America first.
[00:44:43]  America first, not Israel first.
[00:44:46]  Or Israel second, just below.
[00:44:48]  No, no, no.
[00:44:48]  America first.
[00:44:49]  So, I'm not on the side of the Judaizers in the synagogue of Satan that has started many wars.
[00:44:56]  I'm not on their side.
[00:44:57]  I also am not on the side of Muslims.
[00:45:00]  I'm not.
[00:45:02]  No, my position, our position, is that we believe that America should stay out of it.
[00:45:09]  I was promised mass deportations.
[00:45:14]  I know.
[00:45:14]  That's what I remember voting for.
[00:45:17]  I don't remember voting for anything.
[00:45:18]  I don't vote for ending birthright citizenship.
[00:45:19]  Did you vote for World War III?
[00:45:21]  I did not.
[00:45:22]  Did you vote for World War III?
[00:45:23]  I didn't.
[00:45:24]  No.
[00:45:24]  I didn't vote for World War III.
[00:45:26]  What the heck is going on?
[00:45:28]  And we, you're talking to Trump fans.
[00:45:31]  Like, to our credit and to our shame, we shilled.
[00:45:35]  Nobody shilled harder than me and you at least.
[00:45:37]  We shilled for Trump, you know, during the election and saying, this is why.
[00:45:41]  This is why.
[00:45:42]  But here's the deal.
[00:45:43]  And hopefully the guys, you know, a lot of people are new to the chat and to the stream today.
[00:45:48]  But for those of you who have been following us for a while, some OG Right Response Ministry supporters, Hopefully, you know this.
[00:45:55]  You don't follow Joel Webbin because he's batting a thousand percent.
[00:45:58]  You follow Joel Webbin because when he's inevitably wrong, I'll admit it.
[00:46:05]  So, would I still, if I could go back in time, would I still have voted for Trump?
[00:46:09]  Yes.
[00:46:11]  But would I have caveated and clarified and been more careful when I promoted that others vote for Trump?
[00:46:21]  Yeah.
[00:46:22]  Yeah.
[00:46:22]  I've put it this way if I had to go back, I'm back in November 2024, I'd vote for him a third time.
[00:46:28]  But I will not vote for him a fourth time.
[00:46:30]  Like, if somehow he works his way, I'm the vice president or I'm on the ballot again.
[00:46:35]  No.
[00:46:36]  In the primary, I'm voting for someone different.
[00:46:38]  Well said.
[00:46:39]  Yeah.
[00:46:40]  All right.
[00:46:40]  So let's play this Matt Gaetz clip because it is very informative.
[00:46:44]  It's super good.
[00:46:45]  But one more time, because we just have a lot of new people that keep showing up.
[00:46:49]  Can you guys help us out?
[00:46:51]  Because we usually don't have this many people that are watching live.
[00:46:53]  So we don't have manpower to be able to help us to the degree that you guys would be able to help us today.
[00:46:59]  So do us a huge favor.
[00:47:01]  Um, can you just all you have to do is just like the video, give us a thumbs up, just like the video?
[00:47:07]  And if you're willing to, would you consider sharing it?
[00:47:09]  I don't want anybody to get doxxed or anybody to lose their job.
[00:47:12]  So if you can't do it, I, you know, what am I going to do?
[00:47:15]  You know, find you and hold you accountable.
[00:47:18]  It's fine if you can't do it, it's fine.
[00:47:19]  But for those of you who can, if you don't mind, if it's not too much trouble and it won't put you in any trouble with your employer, with your family or friends or anything like that, um, it would mean a lot to us.
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=== Not a Christian Country Anymore (15:28) ===

[00:47:49]  It's at Right Response M. At Right Response M.
[00:47:53]  Okay, so this is a clip from Matt Gaetz, former congressman.
[00:47:59]  And he was up for the attorney general position.
[00:48:01]  And we know that he didn't get it.
[00:48:03]  And we know the obvious reason, the obvious reason.
[00:48:06]  Is there were some skeletons in that closet?
[00:48:08]  Not good.
[00:48:08]  Yeah, not good.
[00:48:10]  Okay, so we're not going to minimize that.
[00:48:11]  Not great.
[00:48:13]  Not great.
[00:48:14]  That said, is that the only reason you can get the job?
[00:48:18]  Well, after this clip, I'm starting to think that's a good reason.
[00:48:22]  But I think there might have been another reason that he was passed over.
[00:48:27]  And I think the other reason might be that the dude is J-pilled and might know what's up with the nation state of Israel.
[00:48:36]  Here's a clip from Matt Gaetz.
[00:48:38]  Israel didn't kick their regime change habit with Iraq or Libya or Syria, it seems.
[00:48:43]  They need another fix.
[00:48:45]  But, Matt, this isn't a regime change war.
[00:48:49]  It's about Iran's nuclear program.
[00:48:52]  I wish that were true, but it's not.
[00:48:55]  Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene opined that maybe Netanyahu is so feisty about regime change in Iran because he was facing regime change in Israel.
[00:49:05]  It's not being reported enough that on Thursday, they held a vote in the Knesset, and it was only by two votes that Netanyahu won.
[00:49:14]  If he had lost, They would have had another election in Israel, and the polling shows that he would lose if an election were to occur today.
[00:49:23]  That vote happened last Thursday.
[00:49:26]  And then Friday, Israel attacked Iran.
[00:49:30]  That's why the bombs are falling, and it seems very political.
[00:49:35]  Here's how you know this isn't about Iran's nuclear program.
[00:49:39]  We aren't taking these steps to force denuclearization, where the threat is higher and the leaders are even crazier.
[00:49:48]  Take North Korea.
[00:49:49]  North Korea's nuclear program is a far greater threat to the United States than Iran's.
[00:49:53]  It is not even close.
[00:49:55]  I know I've had the briefings.
[00:49:57]  I was on the House Armed Services Committee for eight years.
[00:50:00]  Iran has neither the bomb, the delivery system, nor the re entry vehicle that you would need for any intercontinental ballistic missile to launch and re enter orbit.
[00:50:14]  North Korea has all three.
[00:50:15]  North Korea could launch a nuclear weapon at mainland United States today.
[00:50:20]  We've probably got the ability to knock it out of the sky, but Iran can't even get their bird in the air.
[00:50:26]  Iran's death to America chant isn't really my bag, obviously.
[00:50:29]  But Kim in the Hermit Kingdom points to U.S. cities like Los Angeles and San Diego and Seattle on maps, and he openly discusses wiping off major U.S. population centers from existence.
[00:50:43]  Of course, we aren't looking to drop 100 bunker busters in the mountains of North Korea.
[00:50:47]  President Trump took other brilliant diplomatic steps to constrain North Korea's hostilities.
[00:50:53]  And the same could be done with Iran.
[00:50:56]  But mad, Iran has kicked out IAEA inspectors.
[00:51:00]  There could be portions of their nuclear program that are secret.
[00:51:05]  A nuclear secret in the Middle East.
[00:51:07]  How about it?
[00:51:08]  If the world is interested in a secret nuclear program in the Middle East, there is a country that won't allow any international inspectors Israel.
[00:51:19]  Israel has a nuclear weapon.
[00:51:21]  Did you know that?
[00:51:23]  I do.
[00:51:24]  They allow no inspections.
[00:51:26]  They are fully secretive and clandestine about it.
[00:51:28]  And the Americans are fully aware.
[00:51:31]  You know what?
[00:51:32]  I don't even blame Israel for this.
[00:51:34]  If they want to develop a nuclear weapon, if they had the blessing to do so secretly, I'm not in judgment of that.
[00:51:39]  But to drag the world into a regime change war over secret nuclear weapons, when you have secret nuclear weapons, is a bit hypocritical.
[00:51:50]  President Trump is the kind of guy who never gives up on a deal.
[00:51:53]  Throughout his life, he's probably made deals.
[00:51:55]  And made lots of money on them, even when others walked away or didn't see value in a transaction.
[00:52:02]  So here's a deal.
[00:52:03]  How about Iran and Israel both give up their secret nuclear weapon programs?
[00:52:08]  If Trump got that deal, he wouldn't only get the Nobel Peace Prize, they'd probably name it the Trump Peace Prize forevermore.
[00:52:19]  Yeah, I'll go ahead and publicly put myself down on the record.
[00:52:24]  I'm a fan of Matt Gaetz.
[00:52:26]  Yeah.
[00:52:27]  It's funny.
[00:52:27]  We said this a week ago, and not having listened to this, obviously.
[00:52:30]  Yeah, Iran doesn't have the potential to reach us.
[00:52:32]  They do hate us without questions.
[00:52:34]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:52:35]  They are also throwing rocks.
[00:52:36]  Correct.
[00:52:37]  Yes, correct.
[00:52:38]  People have to understand that there is a profound, robust theology and philosophy of sand people and sand demons that needs to be properly understood.
[00:52:51]  Here's the deal Iran is not a threat to the United States.
[00:52:57]  Number one, they have been days away from nuclear weapons for 30 years.
[00:53:01]  Number two, I actually think they're close.
[00:53:04]  I actually think this time is different.
[00:53:05]  I'm willing to concede that point.
[00:53:06]  It's reasonable.
[00:53:07]  I think that's reasonable.
[00:53:09]  But it's not just having the nuclear capacity, you have to be able to actually target.
[00:53:13]  You have to have the projectile.
[00:53:15]  You have to have the missile technology to be able to cross, in our case, a 3,000 mile ocean.
[00:53:23]  We're not Israel.
[00:53:24]  We're not next door, right?
[00:53:26]  If you're in battle with a country that throws rocks, and that tends to be the warfare of Muslims, it has been for centuries, or some equivalent of rock throwing.
[00:53:36]  Well, if you're next door, then the rock throwers might be a threat.
[00:53:39]  We're not.
[00:53:40]  So, don't pretend that this is about us.
[00:53:43]  This is not about our protection.
[00:53:46]  Do people in Iran say death to America?
[00:53:48]  Yeah, sure, sure.
[00:53:51]  But they can't do anything about it.
[00:53:53]  So, we're not debating whether or not they hate us.
[00:53:55]  Of course they do.
[00:53:55]  And they especially couldn't do anything about it if you just kind of locked down every border and entry.
[00:54:00]  Correct.
[00:54:01]  That would have prevented 9 11.
[00:54:02]  Correct, correct.
[00:54:04]  So, deport 30 to 50 million people from this country now, lock down the border.
[00:54:11]  Stop meddling in the Middle East, trying to get another regime change.
[00:54:15]  We've already done that.
[00:54:16]  I remember this episode.
[00:54:17]  This is a rerun.
[00:54:18]  I've seen it.
[00:54:19]  I've seen this episode with Bush.
[00:54:22]  I don't want to see the sequel with Trump.
[00:54:25]  We've all watched this episode.
[00:54:26]  Shut down the border, mass deportations now.
[00:54:29]  Stop meddling in the Middle East and Iran.
[00:54:32]  Even if they hate us, they can't do a dang thing about it.
[00:54:35]  They are not a threat to us.
[00:54:36]  They are only a threat to their neighbors, which is Israel.
[00:54:39]  But here's the deal Israel is not us.
[00:54:42]  We are not Israel first.
[00:54:43]  That's their problem.
[00:54:45]  It's not ours.
[00:54:46]  And even the rhetoric of death to America, have we ever stopped and considered why?
[00:54:51]  Why do these Middle East countries hate America?
[00:54:54]  Why do they chant death to America?
[00:54:56]  Because they're Islamic terrorists and they hate us because we're Christian.
[00:55:00]  Yeah, I think that's some of it, right?
[00:55:02]  You're not going to get me to defend Islam.
[00:55:04]  I'm a Christian pastor.
[00:55:05]  I hate Islam.
[00:55:07]  I hate it.
[00:55:08]  It's a false doctrine that sends people to hell.
[00:55:11]  That said, a lot of the hatred from these Middle Eastern countries towards America is not just religious because they're Islamic and we're.
[00:55:19]  Christian.
[00:55:20]  It is predominantly in many ways because Israel keeps picking fights with these countries and we back Israel.
[00:55:31]  That's why they hate America and chant death to America.
[00:55:34]  Remember one of the best lines from Trump, and I still love Trump.
[00:55:37]  I do.
[00:55:38]  One of the best lines from Trump back in the day, this is a classic.
[00:55:42]  They're not coming after me, they're coming after you, and I'm just standing in the way.
[00:55:47]  Well, now you got Bibi Netanyahu using the same line from Trump.
[00:55:52]  Except he's saying, you know what?
[00:55:55]  All the jihadists, all the Muslims, Iran, Hamas, the whole nine yards, they're not coming after me.
[00:56:02]  They're not coming after me in Israel.
[00:56:04]  They're coming after you, Trump, you, America, and we, Israel.
[00:56:09]  We're just standing in the way.
[00:56:11]  Now, bullcrap, they're coming after you.
[00:56:13]  100%.
[00:56:15]  There's no question.
[00:56:16]  No, they don't hate us, first and foremost.
[00:56:19]  They hate Israel.
[00:56:20]  They hate you, Netanyahu.
[00:56:23]  No, they're not coming after Trump and American citizens, and you're standing in the way protecting us.
[00:56:28]  No, we're meddling and interfering and getting in the way, protecting you.
[00:56:34]  You are the target, and you're the target because you continue to pick fights with all of your next door neighbors.
[00:56:41]  And because you're a nation state, they just poof appeared.
[00:56:46]  Literally declared themselves a state.
[00:56:48]  It wasn't like they had approval.
[00:56:50]  Within minutes, we came out and said, Yes, the most legitimate state.
[00:56:54]  That's an important point, too, because as much as we oppose being involved in the Middle East for America's sake, I do think there's a sense in which I also oppose.
[00:57:06]  War for the sake of the Middle East, right?
[00:57:09]  There's a sense in which this sort of recursive attack, peace treaty, attack, peace treaty process creates more violence and more bloodshed than is necessary.
[00:57:20]  And so, as a Christian, I want peace where peace can be had.
[00:57:24]  And I think that not only was it bad for America, it was definitively bad for America to be involved at all.
[00:57:32]  It's also bad for Israel, actually, despite what they think.
[00:57:35]  That's right.
[00:57:36]  It's bad for them.
[00:57:36]  It's bad for Iran.
[00:57:37]  It's bad for us.
[00:57:39]  Two shout outs here.
[00:57:42]  And nobody put me up to this.
[00:57:44]  They won't even know.
[00:57:44]  They'll be surprised.
[00:57:45]  But hopefully, it'd be a blessing to them because I hope you'll take me up on this because these guys are legit.
[00:57:51]  Rodney Stark and Raymond Abraham.
[00:57:55]  Raymond Abraham and Rodney Stark.
[00:57:57]  Check them out.
[00:57:58]  They're authors and they've both written extensively on the Crusades God's Battalions, Sword and Scimitar.
[00:58:06]  Great books defending the Christians of the historic Crusades and saying, no, It's a bunch of leftist gobbledygook garbage that has said, oh, you know, Christianity, one of the stains on Christianity, one of the ways that we know for sure that Christianity is terrible is because of the Crusaders.
[00:58:27]  And they were so terrible.
[00:58:28]  No, this is one of the reasons why you're never going to get me to, you know, as much as I have problems with Israel and Judaism, you are never going to get me to be on, and I'm Team Islam.
[00:58:38]  No, Islam for 13 centuries has been a formidable enemy of the Christian church and has slaughtered.
[00:58:46]  Thousands and millions of Christians and raped millions of Christians.
[00:58:52]  And I believe that not every aspect, and especially some of the later crusades, but the first and early crusades, I believe, were completely justified.
[00:59:03]  They were not offensive.
[00:59:07]  95% of the efforts of the early Christian crusades against the Muslim hordes were defensive, that the Muslims had captured Christian peoples, they were torturing them.
[00:59:19]  Killing them, raping women, raping children, and good Christian soldiers and men went in and defended them.
[00:59:28]  They went in and defended them.
[00:59:29]  Now, all that being said, if today, if America, number one, right, there's a few contingencies here and we don't meet any of them.
[00:59:39]  Number one, if America was a solid, faithful, courageous Christian country, we're not.
[00:59:48]  We've literally replaced the American flag.
[00:59:51]  With a homo rainbow flat.
[00:59:55]  I believe that our founding is Christian.
[00:59:57]  I believe that even in a covenantal sense, that we are still Christian, but currently underneath the covenantal curses because we've apostatized and broken the covenant and rebelled and turned against the Lord Jesus Christ.
[01:00:09]  So if we're talking about the founding, we're talking about covenantal, we're talking about spiritual, yeah, Christian.
[01:00:14]  But if we're talking about practically speaking in the present sense, right now, today, we're not a Christian country.
[01:00:21]  We are a gay country.
[01:00:23]  We're a perverse country.
[01:00:25]  We're a pornography exporting only fans country.
[01:00:29]  We are a degenerate country.
[01:00:32]  We are an invaded and overrun by foreigner country.
[01:00:37]  We are a gynocracy run by women country.
[01:00:43]  We are not, in many ways, a Christian country.
[01:00:46]  Here's my point if we were a Christian country, and if Iran and other Middle Eastern Islamic states were chanting death to America because they're Muslim and because of our Christianity, that would be one thing.
[01:01:03]  I don't mind.
[01:01:04]  And I might even be willing to go to war with Islamic countries in the Middle East who are chanting and working toward, not just saying it, but working towards the destruction and the death of America because they're Muslim and because we're faithfully Christian.
[01:01:21]  Now, let me paint the picture for you of what's actually going on.
[01:01:25]  We are not hated by Iran because they're Muslim and because we're faithfully Christian.
[01:01:32]  It is not our defense of Christianity.
[01:01:35]  That has garnered the hatred of Muslim countries in the Middle East.
[01:01:38]  It is our defense of Judaism that has garnered the hatred of Islamic countries in the Middle East.
[01:01:45]  I am not willing to go to war with countries that hate me and my nation because my nation defends Judaism.
[01:01:54]  What?
[01:01:56]  What?
[01:01:57]  So if we have some great, you know, royal, battle royale showdown between, you know, Western Christian nations and All these Islamic nations.
[01:02:07]  Well, you know what?
[01:02:08]  We've got historical precedent for that.
[01:02:12]  I've got categories for that.
[01:02:13]  And with the right terms, if Christians are actually threatened and endangered, then we can meet all the seven different criteria for just war theory.
[01:02:22]  And me and my Bible, I can stand before God with a clear conscience and let's do it.
[01:02:26]  Let's go to war.
[01:02:28]  But no, my son is not going to go to war and bleed out and die for my country with its gay rainbow flag.
[01:02:39]  Defending Judaism and Christ rejecting, hating, spitting on Christians, Israel.
[01:02:48]  No, sir.
[01:02:50]  That's different.
[01:02:51]  So, do these Islamic countries, does Iran hate America?
[01:02:55]  Yes.
[01:02:56]  But why?
[01:02:57]  But why?
[01:02:58]  They don't hate America because of our fidelity to Christ.
[01:03:01]  They hate America because of our fidelity to Israel that is anti Christ.
[01:03:07]  So, get it right.
[01:03:09]  Amen.
[01:03:10]  Okay, let's go to our last commercial break.
[01:03:11]  We're going to come back.
[01:03:12]  We're going to deal with the chat and we're also going to get a little bit of JD Vance too.
[01:03:15]  Yep, we've got a JD Vance clip that we need to show.

=== Pray for Trump with Eyes Open (06:35) ===

[01:03:18]  And you guys need, look, we like Trump.
[01:03:20]  We like Trump and we're praying for Trump and we like Vance and we're praying for Vance.
[01:03:25]  But there's a lot of guys who like Trump and like Vance and their eyes are wide shut.
[01:03:33]  Ours are not.
[01:03:33]  By the grace of God, we're not bragging about it.
[01:03:36]  There's nothing that we can boast in.
[01:03:37]  It's just God's mercy that He has helped to open our eyes to see some of these things clearly.
[01:03:42]  We love Trump.
[01:03:44]  We like him.
[01:03:45]  We're praying for him.
[01:03:46]  We voted for him.
[01:03:47]  We like Vance.
[01:03:48]  A lot of things.
[01:03:49]  The Order of Morris, the vice president tweeting out of the White House about the Order of Morris.
[01:03:53]  Love that.
[01:03:54]  That's awesome.
[01:03:56]  That's it.
[01:03:57]  We are a group that is pro Trump and Vance, but we're aware of Peter Thiel.
[01:04:03]  We're aware of Alex Carr.
[01:04:05]  We're aware of Palantir.
[01:04:07]  We're aware of certain allegiances.
[01:04:09]  Vance is going to be at a crossroads, and there's going to be a strong tug of war between.
[01:04:18]  Quintessential Americana, right?
[01:04:21]  Appalachia, growing up, rags to riches, this true American story, and India, and the PayPal mafia, and the tech lords, and we're aware of that.
[01:04:35]  So we still like him, and we are praying for him.
[01:04:39]  JD Vance, if you ever hear this, we're in your court.
[01:04:42]  We're rooting for you, we're praying for you.
[01:04:45]  But if you make the wrong choice, then yeah, we are your enemy.
[01:04:50]  And we are against you.
[01:04:52]  And we hope that you don't make the wrong choice, that you are truly America first, and even more than that, that you are Christ first, and you stay true to your people and your country and your God.
[01:05:03]  You're a Christian man.
[01:05:05]  You have a moral obligation to be faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ.
[01:05:11]  So we want to show Vance and what he said about this to show our support, but also not our unmitigated naive.
[01:05:21]  Support, but our support and our valid concerns.
[01:05:27]  Pray for Trump, pray for Vance, support him, but do it with your eyes open, not shut.
[01:05:32]  So, we're going to show that clip so that you know what's up, so that you're forewarned.
[01:05:36]  But before we do, we're going to go to a commercial break.
[01:05:39]  But one last announcement, real quick.
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[01:10:02]  All right, so this is the clip from JD Vance, Vice President of these United States, and I think that it's a little bit concerning, and we need to hear what he says.
[01:10:12]  Here we go.
[01:10:13]  The most important part, I think, of the Trump doctrine and foreign policy is you don't commit America's troops unless you really have to, but when you do, you punch and you punch hard.
[01:10:22]  I think that's the way that you respect America's brave men and women who are serving.
[01:10:26]  Now, let me say something about when you say that, does that, like, for example, how President Trump beat the caliphate?
[01:10:31]  It was an overwhelming force, and it was done pretty fast.
[01:10:34]  How President Trump beat the caliphate, beat ISIS, which people said literally couldn't be done, and he did it in a matter of months.
[01:10:40]  But also, Iran, Sean, a lot of people recognize that we need to do something with Iran, but not these weak little bombing runs.
[01:10:47]  If you're going to punch the Iranians, you punch them hard, and that's what he did when he took out Soleimani.
[01:10:51]  By the way, that action, people said that it would lead to broader war.
[01:10:54]  It actually brought peace, it actually checked the Iranians and slowed them down a little bit.
[01:11:03]  A lot of people have said, well, All right, so Trump is.
[01:11:07]  It's funny, you'll hear him say, Make Iran great again, and then turn around and say, We want peace.
[01:11:11]  And we're like, which one is it?
[01:11:13]  For the record, M I G A Make Iran.
[01:11:17]  Oh, Iran.
[01:11:18]  Make Iran great again.
[01:11:19]  We all know what the I actually stands for.
[01:11:21]  Right, right.
[01:11:21]  It's not Iran.
[01:11:22]  So some have said, All right, Trump was great.
[01:11:25]  He's not up to the task.
[01:11:26]  He's going senile.
[01:11:27]  We need to get JD Vance in.
[01:11:29]  You guys have to be honest with yourselves.
[01:11:31]  This clip of him talking about when you strike, you strike hard, using the example of Soleimani, you do the same thing in Iran.
[01:11:38]  This is from the day he was elected VP.
[01:11:40]  Nick shared this clip on X. JD Vance, like you alluded to earlier, has some massive considerations.
[01:11:48]  A big deal.
[01:11:48]  Like, here's just, and this one, I don't envy him.
[01:11:52]  We are not against him.
[01:11:53]  We are seriously.
[01:11:54]  There are some people who are.
[01:11:56]  There are people who are completely against him, and they feel like the verdict has already come back in.
[01:12:02]  It's kind of a fatalist position.
[01:12:04]  They feel like it's written in the stars.
[01:12:06]  There's no way that he'll be able to resist the temptation, and he's, The enemy.
[01:12:09]  And that's what we know, though.
[01:12:11]  Our position is he is going to have immense pull and temptation.
[01:12:15]  Yep.
[01:12:16]  But we're for him, rooting for him, praying for him.
[01:12:19]  We don't think it's a foregone conclusion.
[01:12:21]  We don't think that it's fatalistic written in the stars.
[01:12:24]  And so we're praying and believing and trusting the Lord that JD Vance will be strong and courageous and resist the PayPal mafia.
[01:12:32]  He will resist India and different foreign allegiances and that he'll remain true to Jesus and true to America.
[01:12:39]  You are an idiot if you don't even see those things on the table as huge possibilities and massive temptations.
[01:12:47]  And the guy a year ago who said, Be aware, like, think of his military career, for example.
[01:12:51]  He was in the Marines.
[01:12:52]  I was in the Marines as well.
[01:12:54]  But his job was basically writing press releases.
[01:12:56]  So he was not in inventory.
[01:12:58]  And he's never claimed that.
[01:12:58]  So this is not stolen valor like you had with Governor Walls.
[01:13:02]  But I mean, the guy did not have an illustrious career as an officer in the military.
[01:13:06]  He turns around, he goes to law school, and he works in venture capital.
[01:13:09]  His venture capital flopped.
[01:13:11]  Like he didn't make tons of money.
[01:13:13]  They went bankrupt a couple of years.
[01:13:15]  He then departed to run a Senate campaign.
[01:13:17]  And that Senate campaign was not a grassroots campaign financed by We the People, that so many people loved him.
[01:13:22]  I think of Thomas Massey.
[01:13:23]  People literally like found him in the woods where he'd built his own home and said, You need to run for Congress.
[01:13:28]  JD Vance was not that case.
[01:13:29]  It was the greatest, the biggest contribution ever.
[01:13:32]  And it was from Peter Thiel $15 million, biggest contribution ever to a Senate campaign.
[01:13:37]  So whether it was his upbringing, which was very nondescript, whether it was his military campaign, whether his venture capital career, or even his Senate campaign.
[01:13:47]  I mean, this guy is 38, and we don't have a long success of huge success in VC, illustrious military career.
[01:13:54]  Or even as a senator coming up, maybe at the local level, and then as a congressman, and then as a senator.
[01:13:59]  And then his wife, and we've said this before, seems like a wonderful woman, but she is Indian.
[01:14:05]  Some of his in laws are over in India.
[01:14:06]  And so when you're faced practically with the decision, how many H1Bs are we going to allow?
[01:14:12]  Some of those H1Bs practically apply to your extended in laws, to the family that you married into.
[01:14:17]  Those H1Bs are not just numbers, it could be your uncle, it could be, you know, like your brother in law.
[01:14:23]  And so, in some ways, you'll see the meme, it's like the cow.
[01:14:28]  He's looking at the two routes and they both end the same place.
[01:14:30]  It's like whether you buy coffee or you make coffee at home, coffee made by a gay man, same result.
[01:14:37]  When it comes to Trump and honestly to the Democrat Party, a lot of it, international forever wars.
[01:14:44]  And so a new party in America first, America only, Christian nationalism, great description.
[01:14:50]  Something has to come out of MAGA quick.
[01:14:53]  Have you seen that?
[01:14:54]  JD Vance probably not be the guy.
[01:14:58]  He could be, though.
[01:14:58]  He could be.
[01:15:00]  But the odds are against him.
[01:15:01]  Odds are against.
[01:15:02]  And it's not a guarantee, but we should pray and hope.
[01:15:06]  Have you seen the meme?
[01:15:08]  It's the Republican elephant, GOP.
[01:15:10]  And it says, war Jews in charge.
[01:15:15]  And then the other one is the donkey, the DNC, and says, gay Jews in charge.
[01:15:21]  These are your two options.
[01:15:23]  We're getting war with Israel.
[01:15:25]  Our sacred democracy, you have a choice.
[01:15:27]  War Jews in charge.
[01:15:28]  Gay Jews in charge.
[01:15:30]  Not great.
[01:15:31]  I think that's a good analysis, Antonio.
[01:15:33]  You want to add?
[01:15:33]  Yeah, no, I would say, I think there's been a lot of rhetoric, obviously, over the weekend about the splintering happening in the MAGA movement.
[01:15:42]  I think Trump, if I'm not mistaken, actually put out a post that suggested that anti war constituents aren't MAGA or something to that effect.
[01:15:49]  Yeah, that sucked.
[01:15:51]  I think what we're pointing to is that there is a divide in the base, and this event sort of brought light to that.
[01:15:57]  And obviously, we find ourselves on a different side, sort of vying for power and what the direction of the party will be.
[01:16:03]  But I mean, I think.
[01:16:06]  I think I would take the white pill approach.
[01:16:08]  I think we'll, I think we will win, uh, whether it's you know, whether Vance is our guy or it's another guy.
[01:16:14]  I think the wins are obviously in the direction of America first and uh, potentially America only.
[01:16:21]  I don't know how far it will go, but if you're not first, you're last.
[01:16:23]  Yeah, now I understand with both with racing and with geopolitics, the response to Ricky Bobby, uh, would be the same.
[01:16:30]  That doesn't even make any sense.
[01:16:31]  Yeah, you could be second or third, right?
[01:16:33]  Right, yeah, so so, but it's got to be first, yeah.
[01:16:36]  But no, I'm white pilled on this.
[01:16:38]  I think, uh, I think.
[01:16:39]  The zeitgeist is on our side, honestly.
[01:16:42]  And I think that it's growing and growing and growing.
[01:16:45]  Dude, the consensus right now of the people is insane.
[01:16:49]  Yeah.
[01:16:51]  And not to mention, especially on the war front, you have sort of like the left and the right coming together in a weird way.
[01:16:57]  So it's just like, yeah, I think the concerns about Vance are totally warranted.
[01:17:03]  But in the grand scheme of things, as you think about the winds of politics, I think we'll be there in 2028.
[01:17:11]  That's encouraging.
[01:17:11]  Yeah, it's funny.
[01:17:12]  You said the left and the right on the war issues and geopolitical issues coming together in a weird way.
[01:17:18]  Man, I feel like I'm witnessing that in real time.
[01:17:22]  Like the little kid, you know, sitting on the hilltop, you know, in the middle of a bunch of daisies, you know, she's picking the petals, you know, like he loves me, he loves me.
[01:17:30]  And like my ex account, it's hilarious, dude.
[01:17:34]  Like I'll post something and it's like, Synagogue of Satan, thousand new followers, sand demons.
[01:17:43]  You know, but it's like, but I want to be forthright.
[01:17:47]  I don't want to lead people on.
[01:17:48]  It's like, uh uh, no, I am not pro Islam.
[01:17:52]  I'm not.
[01:17:53]  Right.
[01:17:53]  I'm not pro Iran.
[01:17:55]  I'm not.
[01:17:55]  Yep.
[01:17:56]  And also, I hate Judaism and I am not an ally of Israel because they have never truly been an ally of our nation.
[01:18:05]  Here's the final silver lining.
[01:18:07]  This is just breaking.
[01:18:08]  So, about an hour ago, President Trump, according to Dominique Trippi, wants to make a deal with Iran and end the war, but we're poorly needed to make it clear to Benjamin Netanyahu.
[01:18:19]  And then, in response, this is just 25 minutes ago, Israel conducting major strikes on Iran.
[01:18:29]  Following President Trump's call for peace.
[01:18:31]  And so Trump's sticking to the narrative that he wants peace.
[01:18:36]  At best, if I just gun to my head, I have to white pill.
[01:18:40]  He carried out a couple of surface level attacks.
[01:18:42]  It doesn't appear from satellite imagery that the nuclear sites have been terribly damaged.
[01:18:46]  Praise God.
[01:18:47]  And as I understand it, they were also warned.
[01:18:50]  So they conducted evacuations, they hit in the surface, there wasn't real damage.
[01:18:54]  And so the strikes were not some type of like, we took the president out right in the capital city and leveled the financial disaster.
[01:19:00]  Not just regime change, but actually going after the weapons.
[01:19:04]  If that's all it is, and if Iran actually did get it out of the system, hey, to Netanyahu, to the warmongers, I gave you your bone, we're done.
[01:19:14]  At best, that's maybe what's happening.
[01:19:16]  Still don't support it.
[01:19:17]  Nope.
[01:19:17]  Think it was the wrong calculus.
[01:19:19]  Could bring Russia in.
[01:19:20]  Too risky.
[01:19:21]  Could bring Russia in.
[01:19:22]  Way too risky.
[01:19:23]  I think it's foolish.
[01:19:24]  But if that's it and we can stay out, then not praise Trump.
[01:19:29]  Praise God.
[01:19:30]  Yeah.
[01:19:31]  Praise God.
[01:19:32]  That said, I'm glad.
[01:19:35]  I don't want Iran to have nuclear.
[01:19:37]  I don't.
[01:19:38]  Also, I don't want Israel to have nuclear.
[01:19:43]  You want to talk about, Matt Gaetz nailed it.
[01:19:45]  You want to talk about secretive nuclear weapons of mass destruction of a country in the Middle East with complete anonymous profile that nobody knows what they're doing.
[01:19:57]  There's only one country, it's not Iran.
[01:20:00]  Give you a clue, it's not Iran.
[01:20:01]  There's only one country that really fits that bill Israel.
[01:20:05]  We've talked about this before, and this is another thing that Nick Fuentes deserves credit for.
[01:20:09]  But When it comes to, there are multiple countries that we help out in the form of donation and charity.
[01:20:13]  But when it comes to Israel, we give them tons and tons of money and they take it in the form of a loan.
[01:20:18]  Why?
[01:20:19]  Because Israel is rich and they want to pay it back.
[01:20:25]  That's funny.
[01:20:26]  No honor among thieves.
[01:20:27]  No, that's not the reason.
[01:20:29]  They take it in the form of a loan because when we give charity to other nations, legally it's stipulated that they're obligated to give us an account, a record of how they're spending the money.
[01:20:39]  But when we give loans to other nations, then they have.
[01:20:43]  They're anonymous.
[01:20:45]  They have impunity.
[01:20:46]  And so we give Israel money in the form of a loan.
[01:20:49]  But then we immediately turn around and forgive the loan.
[01:20:52]  So it's treated as charity.
[01:20:54]  They don't have to pay it back.
[01:20:55]  But it has the anonymous clause as though it was a loan.
[01:20:58]  So charity in the truest sense, but anonymous in the loan sense.
[01:21:03]  And then what does Israel do?
[01:21:04]  Well, with a portion of the money that we literally just gave them with zero accountability, they turn around and will buy U.S. Treasury bonds and make interest off of our money and then do whatever else they do.
[01:21:16]  And we don't know what they do because they don't tell us.
[01:21:19]  While we're giving them money.
[01:21:22]  So again, yeah, we shot and blew up some nuclear bases in Iran.
[01:21:30]  And I support that.
[01:21:31]  I don't think we should have done it.
[01:21:32]  But what I should say is not support, but I'm grateful that they don't have nuclear.
[01:21:38]  But I just want people to hear me.
[01:21:41]  As grateful as I am that Iran doesn't have nuclear, I feel that strongly, if not more strongly, that I don't want Israel to have nuclear.
[01:21:50]  I do not trust them.
[01:21:53]  I don't trust them.
[01:21:54]  Not to mention the reason Iran wants nuclear is because Israel has.
[01:21:59]  Exactly.
[01:22:00]  It's just like Putin, which is understandable.
[01:22:01]  When you set up NATO on the front porch of Russia, then all of a sudden Russia feels threatened.
[01:22:09]  Yeah, it's a secret.
[01:22:09]  You can't bring your missiles up to our border.
[01:22:12]  Again, again, again.
[01:22:13]  It's like, I've seen this episode.
[01:22:15]  How many reruns are we going to do?
[01:22:17]  Okay, let's do our best now to deal with as many of the super chats as we can.
[01:22:22]  Nathan, how many do we have roundabout?
[01:22:26]  23.
[01:22:26]  Okay.
[01:22:27]  We can do it.
[01:22:28]  Yeah, let's go ahead and do it one last time.
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[01:23:02]  But I think Christians need to know what's going on.
[01:23:06]  They need to know what's going on.
[01:23:08]  And I think that by God's grace, we're saying a lot of things that are true, and whatever's not true, because I'm not infallible, we're not infallible, we make mistakes, whatever's not true, my genuine prayer is that people would hear it and immediately forget it.
[01:23:20]  Anything that does not align with the Word of God, that does not honor Jesus Christ, that's not true to His Word, that's not helpful application in the realm of geopolitics, I hope that people forget it.
[01:23:31]  But I do think that by God's grace, no credit to us, but by God's grace and the Holy Spirit and His revelation, I think that some of the things we're saying, I'd like to think a lot of the things that we're saying are actually true and relevant and pertinent and even urgent for Christians to be aware of.
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[01:24:01]  All right, here we go.
[01:24:03]  Up to the top.
[01:24:04]  Chris, is that the one, Nathan?
[01:24:07]  All right.
[01:24:08]  Chris Tisking.
[01:24:09]  This is for $50.
[01:24:10]  Thanks, Chris.
[01:24:11]  We appreciate it.
[01:24:12]  He says, as always, a deep and profound respect for you all discussing the issues others refuse to discuss regarding pastoral influencers.
[01:24:24]  Israel should be a pariah state.
[01:24:28]  I regret every moment of service that I gave.
[01:24:32]  So it sounds like he was a military man.

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[01:24:34]  Every moment.
[01:24:35]  A moment of service I gave, this is not the country that I thought I was defending.
[01:24:42]  It's incredible back in the early 90s.
[01:24:44]  We're hearing that a lot.
[01:24:45]  I honor you, Chris, for saying that the honesty, the courage it takes.
[01:24:49]  But thank you, Chris.
[01:24:50]  But you're right.
[01:24:51]  That's sad.
[01:24:52]  Smedley Butler, a notable U.S. Marine back in the early 1900s, like people asked him, like, what did you do?
[01:24:57]  And he's like, I was the muscle arm for large corporations, United States Marine.
[01:25:01]  And he's like, what did you do?
[01:25:02]  I defended big corporation interests abroad.
[01:25:05]  That's what I did.
[01:25:06]  Yep.
[01:25:07]  Were you going to say something?
[01:25:07]  Yeah, no, it's just becoming more common.
[01:25:10]  You hear from guys who are formerly in the military, guys who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, sort of coming to the realization, like, I can't really tell you all that much that I was doing.
[01:25:21]  And I know a lot of guys like that.
[01:25:23]  I think more often than not, they recognize that most importantly was the men that they were around and serving with.
[01:25:30]  Like that's who they were doing it for.
[01:25:32]  But in this idea of American idealism and we're fighting for a great cause, like that's just not true.
[01:25:39]  And then it hasn't been true for a very long time.
[01:25:41]  I was in the Marine Corps and deployed to the Middle East in 2016.
[01:25:44]  And it was always like, why are we here?
[01:25:46]  And then in Kuwait, we would drive by the oil fields and I remembered why we were really there.
[01:25:50]  Yeah.
[01:25:51]  That and also, it's to get resources, it's to get oil.
[01:25:59]  But let's be fair, it's also so that boomers can send their sons and even daughters to bleed out and die so that kids in the Middle East can be taught about transgenderism.
[01:26:12]  Let's be fair, guys.
[01:26:13]  Don't forget to include that one.
[01:26:16]  It's crazy.
[01:26:16]  You think, like, what do we do?
[01:26:19]  Gender programs in the first place.
[01:26:21]  We are giving the blood of our sons and daughters to ensure.
[01:26:26]  That there is a butt sex flag everywhere in the world.
[01:26:31]  That's what we do.
[01:26:33]  I remember guys, like, honestly, like, I'm still, like, I don't know much about them, so I'm not going to come out and say, like, they were right about everything and I agree with this.
[01:26:40]  And, but I don't know.
[01:26:41]  I've never really looked into it, but I remember back in the day being like, you know, just being your typical normie lib like everybody else and being like, you know, clutching my pearls, hearing about what?
[01:26:53]  Westboro Baptists.
[01:26:54]  Remember those guys?
[01:26:55]  Like, they protest, you know, at funerals and they do like, And now I'm like looking at it, and I still wouldn't protest at somebody's funeral.
[01:27:02]  It doesn't matter why they died, they're dead.
[01:27:04]  Let the family grieve, honor them.
[01:27:06]  But here's the point the rhetoric, some of the things, the signs, the things that they would say, they're like, yeah, we're like, all our people are doing is we're sending our sons and daughters to go and die for the rights of queers, for the right, the glorious, you know, sacred democracy of butt sex, you know.
[01:27:27]  And it's like, they were right.
[01:27:29]  They're kind of right.
[01:27:30]  They kind of had a point.
[01:27:32]  Okay.
[01:27:34]  Let's go ahead and get to the next one.

=== The Parable of the Tenants (12:13) ===

[01:27:35]  Nathan, what do you got?
[01:27:36]  I think it's Christopher T.
[01:27:38]  And I'll start off with this.
[01:27:39]  So, Christopher T has asked this question a couple of times.
[01:27:41]  We really appreciate the super chat.
[01:27:42]  Yeah, thanks, Chris.
[01:27:43]  Sorry we didn't get to it last week.
[01:27:44]  Yeah, you left it on a premiere, which is when we're not live.
[01:27:47]  Chris asked this.
[01:27:48]  So, $20 super chat.
[01:27:49]  Many have recently cited Ezekiel 38 39 to claim that the conflict between Israel and Iran and Russia will happen and how Christians must support Israel.
[01:27:58]  Mark Driscoll just made a video on this.
[01:28:00]  Is this sound exegesis, specifically speaking of Gog and Magog?
[01:28:04]  In Ezekiel, the thing you have to understand, you're looking and interpreting the Bible covenantally, typologically.
[01:28:10]  Ezekiel 33 and 34, you're focusing on Israel's renewal.
[01:28:14]  35, 36, the promise of Israel's restoration.
[01:28:18]  And the famous chapter, Can these dry bones live? is Ezekiel 37.
[01:28:23]  So leading up to this, you have the promise of the restoration of Israel.
[01:28:26]  And then 37, Can these dry bones live?
[01:28:29]  And then 38 and 39, they're raised up, these enemies of God, and he triumphs over them for his glory.
[01:28:35]  And then 40 through 48, Restored temple, restored land.
[01:28:38]  So, one option is, of course, Israel is what's being spoken of there.
[01:28:42]  The Israel is downtrodden, they're beaten down, and then they're restored.
[01:28:46]  The dry bones live again, they're brought to life, and there's a new temple.
[01:28:50]  Or that's a physical Israel, physical descendants in a physical land with a physical temple.
[01:28:54]  Or the physical then gives way to the true.
[01:28:57]  We have always seen the church, Christian church history.
[01:29:01]  Israel, the true Israel, is the church, is Christians.
[01:29:05]  Not as a replacement, but as a fulfillment.
[01:29:07]  Do you believe replacement?
[01:29:10]  Stop that.
[01:29:10]  I've got somebody on my podcast this whole time undercover.
[01:29:13]  I had no idea they were here who holds a replacement theology.
[01:29:16]  Fulfillment theology.
[01:29:17]  Fulfillment, that's right.
[01:29:18]  And so in Ezekiel.
[01:29:19]  It's always God's plan.
[01:29:20]  And real quick for the listener Israel, according to the flesh, Old Covenant, in the Old Testament, they were the scaffolding and the workers, the construction workers and the scaffolding that were assigned and designated by God to bring about the promised seed, to build the temple, this glorious cathedral, the true and final third temple, the cathedral of our God, to bring about the Christ and his Christian church, his Christian body, the true Israel.
[01:29:46]  Here's the deal.
[01:29:47]  Upon the bringing forth of the seed, the promised seed of Abraham, through whom all the nations of the earth would be blessed, the promised seed of the woman, who would crush the serpent's head, and bringing about this seed that is not plural, as Paul says in the New Testament, but singular seed, who is Christ, and bringing him about in the completion, the fruition of the person, the finished work of Jesus Christ, his life and death and resurrection.
[01:30:13]  Upon that, Israel, according to the flesh, Old Covenant Israel, was then, as the construction workers in the scaffolding, when the The cathedral is finally finished.
[01:30:22]  They are warmly invited by Christ to come in.
[01:30:27]  They're not rejected.
[01:30:28]  They're not replaced.
[01:30:29]  They're invited.
[01:30:32]  And they respond by saying, crucify him.
[01:30:38]  No, God did not replace them.
[01:30:41]  Christians did not replace them.
[01:30:42]  Nobody rejected them.
[01:30:44]  No, the whole problem is they rejected Christ.
[01:30:47]  They did the rejecting.
[01:30:49]  They did the rejecting.
[01:30:50]  And now, what is the third temple?
[01:30:51]  When is it going to be built?
[01:30:52]  When is it like?
[01:30:53]  The third temple is living stones.
[01:30:54]  Ephesians speaks of this.
[01:30:56]  Living stones, that is Christians themselves being built together on the foundation of the apostles and prophets and Christ, who is the capstone, the cornerstone.
[01:31:07]  That's the third temple, right?
[01:31:09]  I mean, you've got who was it, Junius the apostate?
[01:31:12]  Julius or Junius, Wes?
[01:31:14]  Julius.
[01:31:15]  Julian, actually.
[01:31:16]  Julian, there we go.
[01:31:18]  Julian.
[01:31:18]  Makes me think of apple pie for some reason.
[01:31:20]  Julian the apostate who tried to build a third temple.
[01:31:24]  And do we remember how that one went?
[01:31:26]  Right?
[01:31:26]  Fire from heaven, lightning struck them, destroyed everybody who was trying to do it.
[01:31:31]  No, the third temple is the living temple made of living stones on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, Christ as the capstone, cornerstone.
[01:31:40]  It is the church of the living God.
[01:31:43]  And Israel, according to the flesh, not Israel by the Spirit, true Israel, but fleshly Israel, physical Israel, was not rejected or even replaced, but it was fulfilled and warmly invited.
[01:31:58]  In and that invitation is for all peoples and all places still to this day.
[01:32:03]  Nobody's being rejected, nobody's being replaced.
[01:32:06]  But there is a particular group of people that chose to do the rejecting themselves, and who they rejected was Christ.
[01:32:12]  Well, placement theology is a pejorative in its deceitful framing.
[01:32:16]  Yep, it's wrong.
[01:32:17]  Check out the very last verse of Ezekiel 39 Ezekiel 39 29.
[01:32:21]  And I will not hide my face anymore from them that is Israel when I pour out my spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.
[01:32:28]  When did God pour out his spirit?
[01:32:30]  It's not something forthcoming.
[01:32:32]  Like, we're really looking forward when God restores the fortune of Israel and builds his people back up and he's glorified among the nations.
[01:32:39]  We're not waiting for that moment.
[01:32:40]  That happened at Pentecost when the Spirit descended and filled the apostles.
[01:32:45]  The gospel was preached.
[01:32:46]  People came to faith.
[01:32:47]  They spread out.
[01:32:48]  Many of them had gathered for Pentecost.
[01:32:50]  The Spirit is poured out.
[01:32:51]  They went out then.
[01:32:52]  So they took the gospel to wherever they'd come from.
[01:32:54]  It spread across the whole known world at the time.
[01:32:57]  That happened.
[01:32:57]  We're not looking forward ahead to, to answer Christopher's question, we're not looking forward to that moment.
[01:33:03]  It's happened.
[01:33:04]  The nations gathered.
[01:33:06]  God scattered them.
[01:33:06]  He's glorifying himself on the earth.
[01:33:09]  And the more clear passages, Jesus' parable about the expansion of the kingdom.
[01:33:13]  Right.
[01:33:13]  Christ's rule and reign for a thousand years, we take those more clear passages in the New Testament over some of the more typological and symbolic of the old.
[01:33:21]  And so we would say that's not sound exegesis to say that this is what's happening here Iran and Israel, Gog and Magog.
[01:33:28]  That's in our past and that's more typological.
[01:33:30]  What we look forward to now is the increase of Christ's kingdom as he rules, he reigns, he puts every enemy under his feet until when he comes back and defeats the final enemy, being death.
[01:33:40]  Death itself.
[01:33:41]  The clearer texts are used to interpret the more obscure.
[01:33:46]  And the New Testament is the light by which we see the Old, which is the Old Testament.
[01:33:51]  Some theologians have referenced it to a richly furnished room, but dimly lit.
[01:33:58]  And it is only in the light of the New Testament that doesn't replace the Old or a substitute, but illuminates the Old Testament and shows and glorifies and shows off, in a sense, all of its richness.
[01:34:12]  And so we take these clearer passages, and especially New Testament passages, to understand.
[01:34:18]  Some of the less clear, right?
[01:34:20]  Because Old Testament prophets, as they're looking forward to Christ, they're looking dimly as in a mirror, right?
[01:34:25]  They're looking to what is to come and they're still, they have questions and there's certain levels of uncertainty.
[01:34:32]  What they're saying is true.
[01:34:33]  If it's under the inspiration of the Spirit, it's inscripturated in the Bible, it's true, but it's still true in part.
[01:34:40]  Not meaning that it's true and partly false, but meaning it's wholly true, but it's only a part of it.
[01:34:46]  There's more truth to be told and we get the whole truth.
[01:34:51]  The other portions of the truth in the life and death and resurrection of Christ and the commissioning of his apostles in the New Testament.
[01:34:59]  So it's the clearer text of scripture that we use to interpret the more obscure.
[01:35:03]  And often, not always, but often, that's more New Testament passages working as a light to illuminate the richness of the Old Testament passages.
[01:35:12]  One example is the parable where Jesus says that the Father, his Father, he's like the owner of a vineyard.
[01:35:19]  And in that vineyard, he has tenants, he has servants who are working the vineyard, but they don't own it.
[01:35:24]  It belongs to the father.
[01:35:27]  And he sends some of his servants to go to the tenants of that vineyard in order to reap his share, his fair share of the produce, of the profit.
[01:35:40]  And he sends servant after servant after servant.
[01:35:42]  And each time he does, he sends servants on his behest into the vineyard where the tenants are that he placed and appointed there.
[01:35:50]  The tenants will beat a servant or run one out or.
[01:35:56]  Or mistreat, or whatever it is, and they don't give the servant the money, the master's share, the owner of the vineyard's share, to take back to the owner.
[01:36:04]  And so, then in this parable that Jesus tells, it's pretty clear what the parable is.
[01:36:08]  He says that the vineyard is likened to the kingdom, and the owner is, of course, his father, God.
[01:36:14]  And the servants are the prophets, like Jeremiah and Isaiah.
[01:36:18]  And then eventually, so there's all these prophets that he sends to the tenants set over to steward the vineyard, and that's Israel.
[01:36:25]  But Israel kills this servant.
[01:36:28]  Isaiah and this servant, Jeremiah and this servant, Ezekiel.
[01:36:31]  And eventually, in this parable, Jesus says that the owner of the vineyard, he says, I'll send now my son.
[01:36:39]  They've never given me my fair share with every servant that I've sent.
[01:36:42]  They mistreat them and they beat them and they mock them.
[01:36:45]  But surely they'll respect my son.
[01:36:48]  And when the son appeared, and back to the parable now that Jesus is telling, the tenants of the vineyard, instead of saying, This is the son, we should respect and honor him, they say, This is the son, he is the heir.
[01:36:59]  Let's quickly kill him.
[01:37:01]  And take the inheritance.
[01:37:03]  Now, who is the son in this parable that Jesus is telling?
[01:37:07]  It's him.
[01:37:08]  You all know it's him.
[01:37:09]  And then Jesus turns it as he poses it as a question to the Pharisees and Sadducees and these religious rulers who are listening to him tell this parable.
[01:37:17]  And he says, What will the owner of this vineyard do to these wicked tenants who killed or mistreated all these servants and then eventually killed the heir, the son?
[01:37:28]  And they answer, They say, He will seize the vineyard from them, seize the lamb, take it back.
[01:37:34]  And he will put them to a miserable end, those wicked tenants.
[01:37:39]  And Jesus responds and says, No, no, no.
[01:37:42]  But dispensationalism is true.
[01:37:45]  And these Jewish tenants will always have a special place as the apple of his eye.
[01:37:52]  No, Jesus says, You have answered rightly.
[01:37:56]  And then it came to pass.
[01:37:57]  He was a son.
[01:37:59]  They killed him, and the vineyard was ripped from them and given to.
[01:38:06]  Those who have faith in Christ.
[01:38:08]  So, Jesus, none of this, this isn't like, where's this novel theology coming from?
[01:38:12]  Jesus.
[01:38:14]  Where's this crazy idea?
[01:38:16]  The Bible.
[01:38:17]  Paul.
[01:38:17]  And here's the thing, you want to talk about what's novel.
[01:38:19]  I was just going to say, these are the mysteries that Paul is elucidating.
[01:38:23]  And it's just so interesting.
[01:38:24]  You hear people say, no, the Bible's literally, I take the Bible literally.
[01:38:27]  It's like, okay, but then where's the mystery?
[01:38:30]  What are the mysteries that Paul's talking about?
[01:38:32]  What is he revealing?
[01:38:34]  And it clearly points to covenant theology and these exactly what you're talking about in the parables and And typology and the ways that these different things are related.
[01:38:45]  And yeah, and so you have these things are mysteries, but at the same time, here's what's so cool is that throughout this gospel age, throughout church history in the past 2,000 years, all those things are mysterious and require the inspiration and the illumination and guidance of the Holy Spirit to come into, and it required church councils to be formally called and kept and all these different things.
[01:39:09]  And yet, despite all that, Because I don't want to say these things are simple.
[01:39:15]  I'm not saying they're simple.
[01:39:18]  They are mysterious.
[01:39:19]  And yet they have been the majority position, theologically speaking, of the church until 150 years ago.
[01:39:30]  Schofield, Darby, dispensationalism is the new position.
[01:39:33]  It's the new kid on the block, it's the novel position.
[01:39:36]  It's for 1850 years prior, what we're talking about was the church's position.
[01:39:45]  And it was the no dub position of the church.

=== Dispensationalism as New Kid (06:48) ===

[01:39:48]  It was like, oh, of course.
[01:39:50]  Of course.
[01:39:51]  It's the true Israel, those who have faith in Jesus, Christians, the New Testament church.
[01:39:57]  Oh, of course.
[01:39:59]  Yeah.
[01:39:59]  All right.
[01:40:00]  Another question.
[01:40:01]  Antonio, you want to read the next one?
[01:40:02]  Yeah.
[01:40:03]  We'll start from the top.
[01:40:03]  So Dapper Dan sends $5.
[01:40:06]  Thanks, Dapper Dan.
[01:40:08]  He says, question If we completely severed our relationship with the small hat place, I assume he means Israel there, how much antagonism and what kind should we expect from them in response?
[01:40:22]  It's a good question.
[01:40:25]  For Israel, we're the only game in town.
[01:40:27]  Right.
[01:40:28]  That's the reality here.
[01:40:30]  And so, as much as we think that there would be some sort of antipathy, the reality is we have a lot of leverage in that relationship if we used it.
[01:40:41]  And so, Trump could just as easily say, Israel, this is what we're going to do.
[01:40:47]  And you need to get in line.
[01:40:49]  And they would.
[01:40:50]  They would.
[01:40:51]  But the sad reality, and we talked about AIPAC on the last live stream, is that there are forces in our own country who prevent those things from happening.
[01:41:01]  But as it relates to sort of military capacity, economic capacity, Israel's enemies are surrounding them.
[01:41:09]  They don't really have that much of an option if we sought to sever a relationship or at minimum reprioritize, let's put it that way, America's priorities.
[01:41:20]  Right.
[01:41:22]  The way I view it is militarily, in terms of nation states, what would happen?
[01:41:26]  Well, Israel can't do anything.
[01:41:28]  We're bigger, we're stronger.
[01:41:30]  But what would happen, what I think has kept us.
[01:41:33]  Subservient for so long is not what Israel as a whole would do to America as a whole, but what Israel would be able to do to certain individuals who are holding the levers in America.
[01:41:46]  I think that's how they have us hostage.
[01:41:47]  They don't have us hostage because America corporately as a whole is subservient or inferior in terms of wealth or in terms of military might to the nation of Israel.
[01:42:00]  I don't think that's it at all.
[01:42:01]  So it's like, well, then how do they hold you hostage when you're bigger and you're stronger and you're richer?
[01:42:06]  All these kinds, how do they hold you hostage?
[01:42:08]  Epstein.
[01:42:11]  That'll do it.
[01:42:11]  That'll do it.
[01:42:13]  Campaign funding.
[01:42:14]  Yeah.
[01:42:15]  Campaign funding, dirt, intelligence.
[01:42:19]  Yes, fine.
[01:42:19]  Jeffrey Epstein's list that we will never see.
[01:42:22]  Right.
[01:42:23]  It is funny that I was, what was it, about a week ago, maybe, maybe two weeks, that Elon Musk said, hey, guess who's named in the Epstein files?
[01:42:31]  And literally a week later, send all the missiles in defense of Israel.
[01:42:37]  Trump is in the Epstein files.
[01:42:39]  And then Trump, we will have peace right after we bomb Iran.
[01:42:44]  Right after we bomb the.
[01:42:46]  For Netanyahu.
[01:42:47]  For Netanyahu.
[01:42:48]  Yep.
[01:42:49]  Okay.
[01:42:50]  Next one.
[01:42:50]  Let's do the Jeff Hafley ones real quick.
[01:42:52]  So this is Jeff Hafley.
[01:42:52]  He says, Kirk is now a diet fuente.
[01:42:57]  At least on some.
[01:42:58]  Oh, I see what he's saying.
[01:42:59]  So he's saying, Charlie Kirk is now kind of like a fuente light, you know?
[01:43:04]  So it's like Coors light.
[01:43:05]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:43:06]  You know, at least on some issues.
[01:43:08]  And that's absolutely true.
[01:43:09]  Yeah, Charlie Kirk and Matt Walsh saying the same things Nick said, a little bit softer of language.
[01:43:13]  Correct.
[01:43:14]  Five years ago.
[01:43:15]  Correct.
[01:43:15]  No immigration from third world countries.
[01:43:17]  We're sharing this because Nick was right.
[01:43:19]  And I think he deserves the credit.
[01:43:21]  We're not saying that we would say everything in the same exact way that Nick says it.
[01:43:25]  Nick likes the F bomb, right?
[01:43:27]  He doesn't like bombs on Iran, but he likes the F bomb in terms of vernacular, right?
[01:43:31]  He's got a robust vernacular.
[01:43:33]  And I'm a Christian minister.
[01:43:35]  I'm not going to use the F bomb.
[01:43:37]  I think that that's inappropriate and wrong.
[01:43:39]  So, obviously, we wouldn't say it the same way.
[01:43:42]  But you're absolutely right, Wes, that, yeah, the vernacular is different.
[01:43:46]  The presentation is different.
[01:43:48]  But here's the thing, dude.
[01:43:49]  I want to be fair because it's like, you know how many times I've had people, and I'm not dropping F bombs, but you know how many times I've had people in my pastoral career come up to me and say, well, you know, I had a real big problem with your sermon or with what you said or this.
[01:44:02]  And I say, okay, theologically, positionally, you know, walk me through it.
[01:44:05]  Where was I wrong?
[01:44:07]  Okay, all right, I see that.
[01:44:09]  But this is what I was saying.
[01:44:11]  It's like, don't you agree?
[01:44:12]  We've talked about it.
[01:44:13]  Oh, yeah, I agree.
[01:44:14]  And you know what?
[01:44:14]  Like, after like two hour meetings and three hour meetings, eventually, you know what it often boils down to is people will say, Well, I guess technically, actually, come to think of it, positionally, theologically, you're right about all of it.
[01:44:28]  But I wouldn't have said it that way.
[01:44:30]  You know how many times I've been told I wouldn't have said it that way?
[01:44:34]  Like, dude, if I had a dollar every time I was told, I wouldn't, like, I'd be rich.
[01:44:40]  And here's the funny thing I remember thinking about that years ago, because I just, you know, people would say that again and again and again.
[01:44:45]  And I remember thinking, like, Have I ever heard anyone in my life, people that I agree with, people that I esteem, that I respect, have I ever heard anyone in my entire life say anything that I would have said that same thing exactly that way?
[01:45:01]  No.
[01:45:02]  No one would ever say anything the same way that someone else says it.
[01:45:07]  Everyone reserves that prerogative, everyone has their own opinions of how they would want to present it.
[01:45:12]  So forgive me, but I don't want to just.
[01:45:17]  Beat somebody up who has been beaten up plenty.
[01:45:21]  So, all that being said, no, I'm not going to be dropping F bombs.
[01:45:25]  That said, yeah, Matt Walsh, Charlie Kirk, a little cleaner vernacular.
[01:45:31]  But, positionally, in terms of the substance, they are saying today exactly what Nick Fuentes said last year and the year before and the year before and the year before and like six years ago.
[01:45:48]  And again, it doesn't mean like, okay, and so let's have a parade and everybody bow down.
[01:45:53]  We're not saying that.
[01:45:54]  He's a man.
[01:45:56]  I think he's been right about a long time, but he's a man.
[01:45:57]  That's it.
[01:45:59]  But what we are saying, though, is I think you don't have to worship him.
[01:46:03]  You don't have to kowtow.
[01:46:05]  But I do think it's worth at least mentioning once.
[01:46:07]  That's what we're doing on the show today.
[01:46:09]  At least mentioning once.
[01:46:10]  You know what?
[01:46:10]  This guy that nobody wants to touch because they don't want their reputation to be muddied and they don't want to get canceled and this, that, and the other.
[01:46:17]  You don't have to endorse everything that anybody has ever said.
[01:46:21]  He's right, and he's been right about a lot.
[01:46:23]  And it's worth saying once.
[01:46:26]  Okay, next one.
[01:46:29]  Jeff Hafley, 499.
[01:46:30]  He said, I read news stories about how the vast majority of young male Republicans who are getting active in politics under the age of 25 are Fuentes fans.

=== God's Design for Separate Peoples (10:43) ===

[01:46:37]  Yep, that's true.
[01:46:38]  Absolutely.
[01:46:39]  I've experienced this firsthand.
[01:46:40]  Well, because you, so Wes has worked in politics.
[01:46:43]  Yep.
[01:46:43]  I want to be careful with, you know, but you've worked in politics.
[01:46:46]  I'll just say, like, from experience, this is true.
[01:46:48]  This is not just me online.
[01:46:49]  So who comes out when it's like, like, Like, we're on the line.
[01:46:54]  It's now or never.
[01:46:55]  Bottom of the ninth.
[01:46:58]  The hordes of hell are up against Texas legislators, and they're about to pass something that is absolutely destructive for the kingdom of God, the glory of God, and the people of God in real practical terms.
[01:47:12]  And the people who come out in droves politically to support you are Reformed Christians from Ligonier.
[01:47:21]  Oh, believe it or not.
[01:47:23]  Young white Catholic men who are listening to Nick.
[01:47:25]  Who all love me for better or for worse?
[01:47:26]  Those are the guys that are getting, they're the ones who come out and get the votes.
[01:47:30]  Yeah.
[01:47:31]  It's Nick Scroipers winning elections.
[01:47:35]  It is.
[01:47:36]  All right.
[01:47:37]  Next, Jamie J, $5 super chat.
[01:47:39]  I've been persuaded to believe that God intended his different people to live separately.
[01:47:45]  What?
[01:47:45]  I've been persuaded to believe that God intended.
[01:47:49]  It's just basically pro segregation.
[01:47:50]  Antonio, any questions?
[01:47:52]  I would say, yeah, to see the dominion mandate be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth.
[01:47:58]  The natural consequences that people are spread geographically and they're living separately and develop as a consequence of living in different parts of the world and having different climates, different agriculture, develop different cultures.
[01:48:13]  And that the consequence of the dominion mandate is that people would live separately and flourish, actually, and do very well.
[01:48:21]  Without having to have any animosity towards other groups.
[01:48:24]  Right.
[01:48:24]  But there's still a distinction between peoples and living in separate places for the most part.
[01:48:30]  But again, not necessarily a strict isolationist.
[01:48:32]  You can still, hey, we're going to visit, or there's going to be some mitigated form of immigration going on.
[01:48:37]  Yeah, no.
[01:48:38]  So I would say, yeah, absolutely, that's biblical.
[01:48:43]  Obviously, we live in a nation that, and I would say a world, primarily over the last century probably, has sort of moved away from that as we sort of.
[01:48:53]  Globalism.
[01:48:54]  We've lost our minds.
[01:48:54]  The combination of economies and combination of cultures and exporting, importing of cultural elements has.
[01:49:00]  We've seen that breaking down.
[01:49:03]  I do not think it's causally related.
[01:49:06]  It's a double negative there.
[01:49:08]  That the world has experienced more global conflict, more death in the last century as a consequence of cultural barriers coming down.
[01:49:19]  I think that's something to think about and say, okay, if God designed the world this way for our good and for his glory, and we've sought to, in a way, build the Tower of Babel, really.
[01:49:33]  And go against his design.
[01:49:36]  What are the consequences of that?
[01:49:37]  What are the curses and judgments that men experience?
[01:49:40]  And it is violence, it is death, mass death.
[01:49:45]  And it is this erosion of what makes cultures distinct.
[01:49:51]  And it's dehumanizing ultimately.
[01:49:53]  Yep.
[01:49:54]  I agree.
[01:49:55]  It's funny because people always think of Babel and then they'll say, well, Pentecost was a reversal of Babel, you know, speaking in tongues.
[01:50:01]  And now we can all understand each other.
[01:50:03]  And that's.
[01:50:04]  Correct response to us, uh, the cringe face.
[01:50:08]  That said, I gotta, I just gotta be honest, you know, to my own detriment, but um, I've held that view.
[01:50:16]  Oh no, as a pastor, when you're like just like a new, like 22 year old man, that hits so hard.
[01:50:21]  Yeah, I know, oh wow, this is so good.
[01:50:25]  Babbles, it's actually chapter two, Pentecostal reverse of Babbles.
[01:50:28]  You're so good, exegesis is off the charts, and yeah, I bought into it.
[01:50:33]  Um, when I was pastoring in California, I held that position for a little while.
[01:50:38]  By God's grace, I have not held the position for, I think, seven years now.
[01:50:41]  So I grew up.
[01:50:43]  But yeah, that's what I thought.
[01:50:44]  But what I've realized later on is because for the longest time, I thought Babel was a judgment for sin.
[01:50:50]  Now, there is sin involved, right?
[01:50:51]  So these people are building a tower to the heavens to be like God.
[01:50:55]  We can be as God.
[01:50:56]  So there's arrogance.
[01:50:57]  And it's not just arrogance.
[01:50:58]  There's at least two sins.
[01:50:59]  There's more, but two sins in particular.
[01:51:01]  One is arrogance.
[01:51:02]  We're trying to exalt ourselves above God.
[01:51:04]  We can be as God by building a tower to the heavens, right?
[01:51:07]  So it's the same as.
[01:51:08]  Eve and the garden, right?
[01:51:09]  You will be like God if you eat the fruit, you know, having the knowledge of good and evil.
[01:51:14]  So, assuming omniscience, assuming divinity, arrogance.
[01:51:19]  Secondly, though, they also say in Genesis chapter 11, they say, let us build, do this great feat so that we can be as God, but also so that we will not be scattered and separated, divided over all the earth.
[01:51:35]  Let us make a name for ourselves, they say, and build this tower.
[01:51:39]  To the heavens to be as God, so that we may not be separated over all the earth.
[01:51:43]  So, another sin.
[01:51:44]  So, one is arrogance, exalting yourself to the level of God.
[01:51:47]  Number two is, and this one we kind of miss because it's a little bit more implicit, but if you've read the Bible, you know, it's certainly there.
[01:51:56]  What did God command in the dominion mandate, even before sin entered the world?
[01:52:01]  It was to be fruitful and multiply and to fill the earth, which involves quite clearly a going out and a divide and conquering.
[01:52:14]  It's a Scooby Doo strategy.
[01:52:15]  Let's split up, gang, you know?
[01:52:17]  Right?
[01:52:17]  And it's always Scooby and Shaggy, you know, they get the short end of the stick, you know?
[01:52:22]  And Fred goes with the two chicks.
[01:52:24]  It's not really a fair situation, you know, but let's split up, let's divide and conquer.
[01:52:28]  And, but that was the vision of the dominion mandate be fruitful and multiply, right?
[01:52:33]  So, more image bearers, right?
[01:52:34]  Children, posterity, but also fill the earth and settle it, right?
[01:52:39]  Because Adam's goal was that God assigned him, his mission was to keep and tend, right?
[01:52:48]  To tend the earth, grow and keep.
[01:52:51]  And so, there's a sense of growing and tending and nurturing the ground so that it expands, but then also keeping that's defending and protecting.
[01:53:00]  And, And it was that all the earth, dominion, man's dominion as a steward of God would be exercised over all the earth, which requires more people, more posterity, be fruitful, multiply, but then also a spreading out.
[01:53:12]  So I believe that even in a pre lapsarian world, which is just a fancy theological term for laps, fall, sin, so pre, if sin had never entered the world, before sin, even if Adam and Eve had never sinned and sin never entered the world, the logical conclusion of Adam's eschaton, his own end, apart from sin entering the world, is that they would have.
[01:53:35]  Many descendants, they'd be fruitful and multiply.
[01:53:38]  Death wouldn't have entered the world, so Adam and Eve, not only would they have children, but the parents wouldn't die.
[01:53:42]  So you'd have grandparents and great grandparents and great great great grandparents tracking all the way back to Adam and Eve.
[01:53:47]  They would eventually have many people, but they also would have spread out and filled the earth.
[01:53:52]  And in spreading out and filling the earth, the earth and its terrain, the way that God designed it itself, built into the fabric of the earth, there would be mountainous people, seafaring people, island people, and river people, and forest people, and there would be Large distances between these people and certain dialects would eventually naturally, over time, centuries begin to form that would evolve into languages and there would be distinct features of the people and all these kind of things.
[01:54:16]  And what you would eventually end up with is different peoples no animosity, no war between the peoples, but still distinctions.
[01:54:22]  There would be different peoples and different peoples would be better or worse at different things.
[01:54:27]  All this is logical.
[01:54:28]  So, Babel, here's my point them wanting to build a tower to the heavens, one sin was exalting themselves to the level of God, making a name for ourselves, building a tower to the heavens that we could be as God.
[01:54:38]  Second sin is.
[01:54:39]  So that we will not be scattered over the face.
[01:54:41]  In other words, so that we will not have to obey God's original command in the dominion mandate given to our father, Adam and Eve, which was to be fruitful, multiply, and spread out and fill the earth and exercise dominion.
[01:54:54]  So they're literally saying we want to exalt ourselves to the level of God and disobey God, not spread out.
[01:54:59]  And so when God sends his judgment, and it is a judgment of Babel, confusing their languages so that they spread out, it is a judgment.
[01:55:07]  And yet, contained within it, there is also an implicit, subtle sense of mercy.
[01:55:13]  It is a merciful judgment because the judgment is you guys are sinning and I'm going to confuse your languages.
[01:55:19]  The mercy is that God uses that event, this supernatural event at Babel, confusing the languages as a catalyst to actually get them back on his original track, right?
[01:55:30]  To kickstart and quickly, in a catalyst sense, to basically fast forward what would have happened naturally over time to do it immediately in an instant to create certain separations and divisions among people so that they would.
[01:55:44]  Spread out and have the different languages, and then eventually develop the different features and different gifts and different strengths and different weaknesses and different aspects and have different people.
[01:55:55]  So, Babel is not, this is what I want you to hear it is a judgment.
[01:55:58]  I'm not saying it's not, but it's not just a judgment.
[01:56:01]  It is a merciful judgment.
[01:56:02]  It's a judgment, but it's a merciful judgment that it, in a catalytic way, gets people back on God's original track, which was to not only be fruitful and multiply, but also spread out and fill the earth.
[01:56:16]  And exercise dominion over it.
[01:56:17]  So, different peoples in different places with different languages and different elements and all these kinds of things was always God's idea.
[01:56:26]  And different peoples living with their peoples, not in isolation, but as the normative rule for the most part.
[01:56:35]  You can still go and visit Japan.
[01:56:37]  I want to visit Japan one day.
[01:56:39]  And when I visit Japan, I don't want to just see a bunch of white people, I want to see samurai stuff.
[01:56:44]  I want to see Japanese stuff.
[01:56:45]  So, that is a part of God's design.
[01:56:47]  It's a good part of God's design.
[01:56:49]  There would still be mitigated immigration and grafting in.
[01:56:52]  Nations change, but they're not supposed to change in 15 minutes with mass immigration.
[01:56:57]  They're supposed to change slowly over time with genuine assimilation and marrying in and generations passing.
[01:57:06]  Nations are not ever, I don't believe they were ever intended to be completely static, but they were not ever intended, likewise, on the flip side, to be nearly as fluid and interchangeable as fungible widgets as they are.

=== Co-Belligerents Across Beliefs (15:24) ===

[01:57:20]  Today, would you guys agree with that?
[01:57:22]  Yep, yep, I agree.
[01:57:23]  Okay, next one, Antonio, will you read it?
[01:57:27]  Yeah, Luke McLamb says more Alex Jones impressions from I can feel the demons rising up and I, I, the globalists and the Marxists, you mean the Jews?
[01:57:38]  No, no, the globalists and the Marxists, yeah, all right, that's great.
[01:57:42]  Uh, next one, Michael, uh, he says, uh, but do you but do they hate us for our freedom?
[01:57:49]  MAGA is greater than MIGA.
[01:57:52]  Or make Iran great again.
[01:57:53]  Or make Israel great again.
[01:57:56]  Amen.
[01:57:56]  That's good.
[01:57:57]  Thank you, Michael, for the super chat.
[01:57:59]  Another one.
[01:57:59]  Go for it.
[01:58:00]  Yeah.
[01:58:01]  Here's is this Luke again here?
[01:58:03]  Luke McLam again.
[01:58:05]  Is Trump's action without consulting Congress actually illegal?
[01:58:09]  I don't know the laws, but I've seen some claims of this.
[01:58:12]  But this wasn't a declaration of war.
[01:58:14]  Yeah.
[01:58:14]  So technically, by the Constitution, a president cannot declare war.
[01:58:20]  That is an act of Congress.
[01:58:21]  That's an act of legislation, in other words.
[01:58:24]  It has been the case that more recently, I think, in Particularly, this century, presidents have taken more executive action.
[01:58:30]  And there's all sorts of legal loopholes to get around that, right?
[01:58:33]  Through sort of strategic deployments, because the president is the commander in chief, they do control the military.
[01:58:40]  So I think it's becoming more common for the president to assume the role of sort of military action.
[01:58:48]  And so there is a case to be made that it's unconstitutional for sure.
[01:58:52]  And I'm sure somebody's pursuing that.
[01:58:55]  But again, it's become so common that it's unlikely that anything like that will stick.
[01:59:00]  I kind of thought that at first, like, oh, this seems unconstitutional.
[01:59:03]  But practically, does the executive branch have authority to execute precision one time airstrikes?
[01:59:08]  Yes.
[01:59:09]  I think, honestly, they do.
[01:59:10]  Obama did that back in the day.
[01:59:11]  Don't think it was our right call, but it is within his power.
[01:59:13]  You don't have to literally wait, like, I can't drop a teensy bomb anywhere in the world without Congress formally getting together and be like, we declare war.
[01:59:22]  Agreed.
[01:59:22]  No, the executive has the authority.
[01:59:24]  Let me read this one because I really appreciate this.
[01:59:26]  I hope she's still listening because I really appreciate this.
[01:59:30]  And it's a good clarification for us to make.
[01:59:33]  And I'm glad that we have the opportunity and that she's providing us with this opportunity to make this clarification public and live right now.
[01:59:41]  So, you will have to forgive me.
[01:59:44]  And in my, I'm an American for better or for worse, diehard apple pie, and I'm a Texan too.
[01:59:50]  So, we don't do pronunciation of these types of names very well.
[01:59:54]  But, Lyer Gill, Ler Gill, Ler Gill, it's L Y R, that's the first name, G I L, Gill.
[02:00:03]  I think I feel confident about the Gill part, not as confident about the Lyer or Ler.
[02:00:09]  But either way, she's got a great comment and she deserves some credit here.
[02:00:12]  And I want to acknowledge this.
[02:00:14]  She says, Lebanese Christian Texan here.
[02:00:18]  So she's a Lebanese Christian Texan here, dating an Iranian Christian.
[02:00:24]  Both are Christian?
[02:00:25]  Like that.
[02:00:26]  That's great.
[02:00:26]  Praise God.
[02:00:28]  Next, she says, the West does not understand what's happening, slash, the Muslim mind.
[02:00:35]  Everyone seems to be lumping Iranians in with Arabs, but they're not the same.
[02:00:43]  Iran isn't Iraq, slash, Afghanistan.
[02:00:48]  And I want to go on record saying, I think there are a lot of Muslims in Iran, and Islam is a formidable enemy of the Christian church and an enemy of Christ.
[02:01:00]  And in that sense, I hate Islam, and I always will, and I make no apology.
[02:01:04]  But she's absolutely right that it is important when we make arguments, you can make arguments in the category of generalities, but generalities do not mean that it's exhaustive or exclusive.
[02:01:16]  There are distinctions, there are exceptions, and I have no doubt.
[02:01:20]  And in fact, not just through, I have no doubt, I have confidence.
[02:01:22]  I know that there are many, there are many Christ loving, God fearing Christians in Iran.
[02:01:32]  And our prayers are with them.
[02:01:34]  There are 92 million people in Iran.
[02:01:36]  About 99% of them are Muslim.
[02:01:38]  But that still leaves you over a million people.
[02:01:40]  A lot.
[02:01:41]  That are Christian and very tiny proportions other than.
[02:01:44]  And our heart goes out.
[02:01:45]  Yeah.
[02:01:45]  And our prayers.
[02:01:45]  That's a lot of people.
[02:01:46]  Like a million Christians there in Iran caring for the gospel.
[02:01:50]  That's right.
[02:01:51]  Trying to survive.
[02:01:53]  Follow up.
[02:01:53]  So, this is from the same person.
[02:01:55]  I don't want to embarrass myself or them by trying to pronounce the name again.
[02:01:58]  Another super chat.
[02:01:59]  So, two super chats of $10.
[02:02:01]  Very generous.
[02:02:02]  Thank you so much.
[02:02:03]  That's a blessing to us.
[02:02:06]  She says Iranians don't want the Islamic regime and support in support of Israel slash US.
[02:02:14]  The regime slash Muslim minds is in it for the long game, moving to destroy the West for those of us.
[02:02:24]  In certain fields, we know that they're capitulating or catapulting, is how she spelled it.
[02:02:32]  I'm not exactly sure what she means by that comment.
[02:02:34]  Wes, she's alluding to.
[02:02:36]  That's that remnant or that segment of Iran that doesn't actually support the same Muslim regime.
[02:02:42]  And I imagine she has friends there or family.
[02:02:44]  Absolutely.
[02:02:45]  Speaking of them who are Christians.
[02:02:46]  I personally know some Iranian Christians.
[02:02:48]  There you go.
[02:02:48]  So she's speaking of it is the minority, and that's fair for us to say it's the minority, but she's right.
[02:02:53]  And I think she's speaking about them and saying, Not everybody is in support of this.
[02:02:56]  Not everybody wants death to America or death to the world.
[02:02:58]  In 1979, there was a violent Islamic revolution that established the Islamic Republic of Iran from it was a constitutional monarchy prior.
[02:03:06]  So she's probably simply saying that even at the core of it, this is not something that's native to our people, that we wanted, that we invited, but it was violent and it is against our will.
[02:03:15]  Okay, let's go back to the super chats.
[02:03:18]  Wes, you do some now.
[02:03:19]  All right.
[02:03:20]  Michael, $2.
[02:03:21]  America first under Trump means Israel first.
[02:03:23]  Yes, it does.
[02:03:24]  Thank you, guys.
[02:03:24]  So far, yeah.
[02:03:27]  Jeff Halfley, I had just a couple questions here.
[02:03:31]  So we'll hit Jeff and then I'll hit Truth Prevails here.
[02:03:33]  Jeff, $4.99.
[02:03:34]  Thank you, Jeff.
[02:03:35]  Is it possible for the U.S. to be neutral on Israel or will they force us to take sides?
[02:03:39]  We are not our allies.
[02:03:41]  Does that force us to be enemies?
[02:03:42]  And then followed up, 499 again, it seems like we cannot just be neutral.
[02:03:46]  They force us to be there, be their super sugar daddies.
[02:03:50]  Otherwise, they treat us like enemies.
[02:03:52]  Yeah, Israel is definitely a all or nothing.
[02:03:54]  You are either with me or you are against me, kind of in absolute terms.
[02:03:58]  Yeah.
[02:03:59]  Which, to be clear, in our foreign policy is precisely what we want to avoid, actually.
[02:04:03]  You know, you read about Theodore Roosevelt, who won a Nobel Peace Prize, for negotiating the peace treaty between Russia and Japan.
[02:04:13]  And it was precisely that both sides actually thought he was on their side and said that.
[02:04:19]  That's awesome.
[02:04:21]  And so that's what we would aim for in the America First movement.
[02:04:25]  Here's a quote, real quick, from George Washington.
[02:04:27]  Many of you might be familiar with it, but it's so good, it's worth reading.
[02:04:31]  This is in his farewell address.
[02:04:33]  George Washington, our first president, he saw these things as a potential pitfall for future America.
[02:04:40]  And so he wrote, Against the insidious wiles, of foreign influence.
[02:04:46]  The jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
[02:05:00]  Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence On the other, real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious,
[02:05:29]  while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests.
[02:05:39]  The great rule, listen to this, the great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is this, in extending our commercial relations, To have with them as little political connection as possible.
[02:05:57]  Israel's hardest hit.
[02:05:58]  So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with good faith.
[02:06:05]  But here, let us stop.
[02:06:08]  And so I would say, in light of this, we do have some engagements.
[02:06:12]  Let's not break our word, but let's stop making more engagements.
[02:06:17]  I think that that's a pretty profound and prescient quote.
[02:06:21]  From our founding president, George Washington, in his farewell address.
[02:06:25]  All right, next question.
[02:06:27]  There were two questions from two different people.
[02:06:28]  One of them was attached to the super chat, one of them was not.
[02:06:31]  The question is Jonathan Storms is one of them.
[02:06:35]  Would y'all ever invite Nick on the show?
[02:06:38]  Yes.
[02:06:39]  And this is why.
[02:06:40]  So just because people will give me grief, and that's fine.
[02:06:43]  I get grief all the time, whatever.
[02:06:45]  I don't lose any sleep.
[02:06:47]  Would Nick Fuentes be an elder in our church?
[02:06:50]  No.
[02:06:52]  We're a Reformed Baptist Protestant church.
[02:06:54]  Of course not.
[02:06:56]  He's a Catholic.
[02:06:59]  So, no.
[02:07:00]  But if the question is, would you have him on your podcast?
[02:07:05]  And I'm not going to have Nick come on the podcast to talk about something that we don't agree with.
[02:07:10]  So, I'm assuming the question, right?
[02:07:12]  Here's the assumption I'm making.
[02:07:14]  I think the implication is, would you have him come on the show to talk about this, the things that we're talking about right now, to talk about geopolitics, to talk about the things that He has studied and looked in depth into and been right about Iran, about Israel, about these kinds of things.
[02:07:31]  Yeah, yeah, we would.
[02:07:33]  And I don't see any compromise or moral fault in that.
[02:07:39]  So that's my answer.
[02:07:41]  Next.
[02:07:44]  What do we got next?
[02:07:45]  Here we go.
[02:07:45]  This is from Tyler.
[02:07:47]  Tyler gave us a $10 super chat.
[02:07:49]  Thanks, Tyler.
[02:07:50]  He said, Do you think that there can be a Trinitarian Christian alliance?
[02:07:55]  Okay, I know where he's going with this.
[02:07:56]  So anybody who holds to the Trinity, that'd be Catholic, that'd be Eastern Orthodox, that'd be Protestants, Trinitarian Christian alliance that can be made.
[02:08:04]  To quell dispensationalism and reclaim America as Christian and America first and rid Israeli influence in our national politics?
[02:08:17]  Yes, I do.
[02:08:18]  I believe in the category of co belligerence.
[02:08:22]  And it's kind of similar.
[02:08:24]  It's a good follow up question, actually, in God's providence.
[02:08:27]  The timing works out well to the question of would you have Nick on your podcast to talk about these kinds of things?
[02:08:32]  The answer is yes.
[02:08:34]  And also, my answer to this question is yes.
[02:08:38]  We have to have categories so that there's a different category from this person would be an elder in my church, this person would be a deacon in my church, this person would be a member in my church, this person would not be a member in my church, but I still recognize this person as a brother in Christ, right?
[02:08:51]  So, what's an example of that?
[02:08:53]  A Baptist versus Anglican or Presbyterian or Episcopalian or those kinds of things.
[02:08:57]  I think they're a brother in Christ, but it would not make sense for them to be a member in my church because even in secondary theological matters, the differences are meaningful and significant and they matter too much for us.
[02:09:10]  We have unity, but we have unity.
[02:09:12]  Not in the same local church.
[02:09:13]  John MacArthur and R.C. Sproul had unity.
[02:09:16]  But you know what helped their unity?
[02:09:17]  G.K. Chesterton said that good fences make for good neighbors.
[02:09:22]  Part of why John MacArthur and R.C. Sproul could go and hit a golf ball together and do conferences together is because they were in separate denominations, in separate churches, and on separate coasts, separate sides of the whole freaking country.
[02:09:36]  And with that distance in between them, different denominations, different local churches, different ministries, and different sides of the country, That fence made for great neighbors and great friends.
[02:09:49]  So there's the level of you could be an elder, you could be a deacon, you could be a member.
[02:09:54]  Okay, you're still a brother, but we couldn't be in the same church.
[02:09:56]  Okay, another moving further out in terms of ripples, kind of different circles going wider co belligerent.
[02:10:04]  So, what does it require for a co belligerent?
[02:10:06]  Well, to me, what is required in that regard is a unity in conviction on the matter at hand.
[02:10:15]  So, I can be a co belligerent politically.
[02:10:18]  So, we're not talking about ecclesiastically in the realm of the church, right?
[02:10:22]  So, two kingdoms, we're talking about in the natural kingdom, in the banner of the state.
[02:10:28]  When it comes to the political, I could be a co belligerent not only with a Catholic, not only with an Eastern Orthodox, but I could be a co belligerent with an atheist.
[02:10:39]  Now, you need to be careful because there are Christians who did this with James Lindsay and it did not work out well.
[02:10:46]  But you can technically, it still stands, you can be a co belligerent with someone who does not have the same religious views, spiritual views as you, but who shares your political convictions.
[02:10:55]  You have unity with your political convictions.
[02:10:57]  You can be a co belligerent.
[02:11:00]  That does not mean that we're family, that we're living in the same house, but we can still be good neighbors with certain fences and co belligerents on the issue.
[02:11:10]  And this is the key on the particular issue that we share unity on, the issue at hand where we have the same conviction.
[02:11:18]  The problem with James Lindsay.
[02:11:19]  Was that there were guys in the church who extended the right hand of fellowship against Marxism?
[02:11:26]  Okay, I'm on board for that.
[02:11:27]  Yeah.
[02:11:28]  Against this, against that.
[02:11:30]  But then they let him too close in to where then all of a sudden he turned his guns against the communists and the Marxists and against people on the right that he thought were far right extremists or woke right or whatever ridiculous term he came up with.
[02:11:47]  But in reality, they were just historic Christians who believe the same thing that John Adams believed, the same thing that Andrew Jackson believed, the same thing that Washington believed, the same thing that Cotton Mather, you know, or that.
[02:12:02]  And at that moment, there were still guys when he turned his guns on his co belligerence within the Christian world.
[02:12:09]  There were still Christians saying, but he's still our guy.
[02:12:12]  And they actually ended up joining him and turning their guns with the atheists, technically agnostic, but you get my point.
[02:12:18]  Used to be an atheist.
[02:12:20]  They joined the former atheists and turning their guns against their fellow brothers in Christ.
[02:12:24]  So that's no longer co belligerency.
[02:12:26]  That's now a fake pseudo brotherhood with someone.
[02:12:33]  Who is not a brother.
[02:12:34]  Yeah, that's the problem.
[02:12:35]  It's the friend enemy distinction, right?
[02:12:37]  On the issue, I can see past the distinctions, but I shouldn't be naive about the distinctions.
[02:12:44]  Yeah.

=== Turning Guns on Christian Allies (03:44) ===

[02:12:45]  I shouldn't forget them because at some point they will become important.
[02:12:48]  They will become.
[02:12:49]  Collaboration in the church is different than collaboration in the common realm.
[02:12:53]  So your collaboration to get the HOA to get off your back, that is not the same as joining hands with an atheist.
[02:12:58]  You and an atheist, you know, you both want the HOA to stop doing whatever it is.
[02:13:03]  Like that is totally different than like, and we're going to work together to, uh, To put together a children's program.
[02:13:09]  Huge, vast difference.
[02:13:11]  And people just have to recognize those categories and think appropriately for them.
[02:13:14]  Right.
[02:13:14]  All right.
[02:13:15]  Next one.
[02:13:15]  This is from the McGlone Code.
[02:13:20]  He's a regular.
[02:13:21]  We appreciate you.
[02:13:22]  Thank you.
[02:13:23]  $2 from him.
[02:13:24]  He says, Baron Trump will turn this country around.
[02:13:28]  Possibly long live the king.
[02:13:30]  Baron is a demographic that would watch me.
[02:13:33]  He is in the right demographic.
[02:13:35]  He's got the right story arc for kind of a Cromwellian.
[02:13:38]  Figure, you know, like it's like you think Barron's going to be a president?
[02:13:41]  No, my brother in Christ, I think he's going to be emperor.
[02:13:44]  A Christian and benevolent president.
[02:13:47]  Um, president who said president?
[02:13:49]  Um, maybe who knows?
[02:13:51]  Um, but let's pray that God would get a hold of his heart.
[02:13:54]  Um, that he wouldn't just be right wing, that he wouldn't just be America first, but he would be above all of that, Christ first.
[02:13:59]  And uh, and if so, praise God, that'd be great.
[02:14:03]  Okay, this one is from uh, I believe the technical vernacular is Poop Smith.
[02:14:09]  It actually is P O O P. S M I T H. First and foremost, congratulations to you for that name and giving money and making me have to say it live on the air.
[02:14:19]  You did it.
[02:14:20]  Congratulations.
[02:14:20]  I'll do it one more because you did a good job.
[02:14:22]  Poop Smith.
[02:14:23]  Okay.
[02:14:24]  Yeah, he gave us $5 twice.
[02:14:26]  He's got two different things.
[02:14:27]  So thank you.
[02:14:28]  He said, What do you think about DD Geopolitics saying that Palantir leaked IAEA data with their Mosaic software monitoring Iran's nuclear program?
[02:14:41]  He follows it up by saying, Could Palantir have coordinated with Israel months or years prior to this to create the IAEA report that Israel used as justification to strike?
[02:14:56]  What do you think, Wes?
[02:14:59]  I know when I'm outside of my depth, I haven't heard anything reliable that would suggest the working together on that.
[02:15:05]  We are suspicious of Palantir.
[02:15:07]  We are, certainly.
[02:15:08]  And then leaking that information.
[02:15:10]  As far as I'm aware, I haven't seen anything publicly to even suggest that's in the realm of play.
[02:15:15]  Now, that said, of the data that they capture, specifically in the Middle East, be it Israel, be it Jordan, be it Palestine, they have been involved there.
[02:15:22]  Are they gathering information on abilities, on their plutonium or uranium cache, all of that?
[02:15:28]  Sure, that's highly likely.
[02:15:30]  And so, that question could they have coordinated with Israel months or years prior to create that report that Israel used as a justification?
[02:15:37]  Sure, it's absolutely possible, but it's impossible to prove a negative.
[02:15:41]  So, you need to see evidence of that.
[02:15:44]  But it's not unthinkable.
[02:15:45]  Okay, this is Anglican MDiv.
[02:15:48]  All right.
[02:15:48]  And we got to just go ahead and publicly on air apologize.
[02:15:52]  He made a great point.
[02:15:53]  He said, guys, listen, I've been anti Israeli since high school.
[02:15:58]  Where's my credit?
[02:15:59]  Shake my head.
[02:16:01]  We apologize.
[02:16:02]  You should have been in the thumbnail and you should have made the title of this episode.
[02:16:06]  When we said that so and so has taken this stance for six years or seven years or whatever it's been, Anglican MDiv.
[02:16:16]  He needs to be added in, his name thrown into the hat.
[02:16:21]  This guy, he's been anti Israel since high school.
[02:16:25]  And the fact that we forgot him, all I have to say is I'm sorry.
[02:16:28]  All right.

=== Jealousy vs World Persecution (05:00) ===

[02:16:29]  This is from our.
[02:16:31]  Thank you, Anklick and Nemdiv.
[02:16:32]  We appreciate your giving.
[02:16:34]  This is Nobody Special.
[02:16:35]  Antonio, you want to read this one?
[02:16:36]  Yeah.
[02:16:37]  Nobody Special says, I still trust Donald Trump 100%.
[02:16:40]  Give him a chance to bring this to fruition.
[02:16:42]  It's a great point, actually.
[02:16:44]  It's a good point.
[02:16:44]  I mean, Donald Trump has proven his base wrong on many issues.
[02:16:50]  If you think all the way back to 2016 and the storms that he was raising, many people fell away and then actually came back.
[02:16:58]  I actually know several people who voted for Trump in 2016, didn't vote for him in 2020, and then voted for him in 2024.
[02:17:05]  Because they were convinced that he had made the right determination.
[02:17:10]  Harken back to what Wes said, still will disagree with the action, but there is a chance that there's some silver lining here and it actually plays well for the cause.
[02:17:22]  And we should pray towards that end.
[02:17:23]  And we should pray.
[02:17:24]  And we did.
[02:17:24]  We hold Zelensky to the curb.
[02:17:27]  Yep.
[02:17:27]  To be honest, if we're talking about two people coming to the White House with their hands open demanding money, we're down one.
[02:17:33]  We're down one.
[02:17:34]  So we were 50% of the way there.
[02:17:36]  We just need to finish the job.
[02:17:37]  Yep.
[02:17:37]  All right.
[02:17:38]  Josh Rocha, $25.
[02:17:39]  Thanks, Josh.
[02:17:40]  He says, How to respond to dispies, dispensationalists, that believe Jewish persecution is spiritual because they are God's chosen people?
[02:17:50]  E.g., they've been kicked out of every country for the last 2,000 years because Satan hates them.
[02:17:57]  How do you respond?
[02:17:59]  Yeah, we would just say that that's just not what Paul teaches in the New Testament.
[02:18:05]  So if they're dispensational, they're Christians.
[02:18:06]  We're not talking about people who prescribe to Judaism.
[02:18:10]  So, they're saying that the Bible is the authority of God's word, that it's infallible.
[02:18:15]  And the whole point that Paul gives us in Romans 9 and 10 and 11 is he says the whole point was that through the Gentiles' conversion, all these Gentiles coming to Christ and God's blessing, his salvific blessing being poured out on these Gentile nations, that it would rouse his kinsmen according to the flesh, fellow Jews, to a godly sense of jealousy.
[02:18:40]  Meaning, That the Jews would not be sitting there with a position of saying, well, we're being persecuted for the sake of God.
[02:18:47]  No, the view that Paul gives to us is they would see the blessing of God on Gentile Christians, and they wouldn't think that they're being persecuted for Christ's sake or for God's sake, but they would realize that they're actually being judged.
[02:19:02]  They're actually being punished for their rejection of Christ.
[02:19:05]  They would see God's blessing these guys over here who are not Jews, but they're Christians.
[02:19:11]  And we're not being blessed, and instead we're under God's judgment because we're not Christians.
[02:19:15]  We've rejected Christ.
[02:19:17]  And what dispensationalism has done, among many things, one of the things that it has done, at least in part subtly, is it's kind of reversed that entire principle and turned it on its head.
[02:19:28]  What dispensationalism says is that, well, the reason why you guys are being critical of Israel right now is because you're jealous.
[02:19:38]  You're the ones who are envious.
[02:19:40]  It's all these Christians that are actually envious of Israel, and you guys are just speaking out of your jealousy or out of your bitterness.
[02:19:48]  And that's not true.
[02:19:51]  A wise man once said, What if it's not envy?
[02:19:55]  What if it's not?
[02:19:57]  What if it's not that Christians, non Jewish Christians, are envious of Jews?
[02:20:03]  But what if we're being critical because we actually see a problem?
[02:20:07]  What if we actually just don't like pornography?
[02:20:11]  And we actually don't like dual citizenship when it comes to holding political office in our nation.
[02:20:17]  And we don't like endless wars.
[02:20:19]  And we don't like OnlyFans.
[02:20:21]  And we don't like Exorbitant forms of usury and 28% interest rates on the poorest of the poor with loan sharks, you know, and early payday and credit card interest.
[02:20:33]  What if it's not envy?
[02:20:35]  What if it's disgust?
[02:20:37]  Righteous disgust.
[02:20:40]  No, the Bible doesn't say that Gentiles would be envious of the Jews who have God's blessing, but the world's persecution.
[02:20:49]  No, it's not the world's persecution.
[02:20:52]  There is persecution from countries, but you need to understand that's the temporal plane.
[02:20:57]  But the higher plane, the ultimate plane, is whatever persecution Jews have experienced for these last 2,000 years from peoples and from nations, is ultimately, even if those peoples were wrong in doing so, sometimes they're right, sometimes they're wrong.
[02:21:11]  But even if they're wrong in doing so, all of this is happening underneath the ultimate banner of God's sovereignty.
[02:21:16]  And these nations in the human temporal plane that are persecuting Jews are actually manifesting God's spiritual judgment towards people who are rejecting his son.

=== Reconciliation Despite Disagreements (11:46) ===

[02:21:30]  That's what's going on.
[02:21:30]  It's not persecution for righteousness' sake.
[02:21:33]  It's judgment for wickedness' sake.
[02:21:36]  And so the proper response of Gentile Christians should not be envy or jealousy, but instead we should be operating underneath the blessing of God as Christians to such a degree that it actually rouses a jealousy among those who rejected Christ, of all peoples who reject Christ, but also including Jewish people who reject Christ, that they might see and say, man, they're underneath God's.
[02:22:00]  Faucet of blessing, and we want that too.
[02:22:03]  We've rejected Christ.
[02:22:04]  We need to repent and receive Him.
[02:22:06]  Let's go to the next question.
[02:22:09]  How many more do we have?
[02:22:11]  We've got Jack Black.
[02:22:12]  We got to get to that and then keep going.
[02:22:15]  Okay.
[02:22:15]  All right, here we go.
[02:22:16]  So this is $50 from Jack Black.
[02:22:18]  Wes, do you want to read it?
[02:22:20]  I'll let you read that one.
[02:22:21]  Okay.
[02:22:21]  We appreciate you giving credit where it is due, regardless of who the messenger is.
[02:22:26]  Truth is truth.
[02:22:28]  It would be great to see the same type of discussion regarding Stone Choir.
[02:22:32]  Why not invite them to an open discussion?
[02:22:38]  Yeah, we've had this question.
[02:22:39]  We've had people reach out to us.
[02:22:43]  Part of it, you know, just to be completely honest, is I do have some pretty strong disagreements.
[02:22:49]  Despite disagreements, like I said, I'm willing to have conversations with people that I disagree with.
[02:22:56]  But it's not just the nature of substantive disagreements, there's also the nature of People who are attacking you.
[02:23:09]  So, for instance, I have disagreements with Doug Wilson and James White on certain issues.
[02:23:16]  And I have disagreements with Nick Fuentes.
[02:23:19]  But up to date, currently, Nick Fuentes has not regularly made a practice of publicly attacking or smearing or even potentially slandering me to others.
[02:23:34]  So, that's different.
[02:23:35]  Whereas there have been instances, and I don't really want to get into this and rehash and blah, blah, blah.
[02:23:41]  But there have been instances where Doug Wilson and James White, I feel like there has been public attack.
[02:23:47]  And so, what would need to happen in those kinds of cases where there's been public mudslinging and those kinds of things is typically and biblically the best avenue is for those things to be reconciled privately first before having a public conversation.
[02:24:07]  So, in terms of random public figures, That are well known that yes, I do have substantive disagreements with, but there's not some kind of personal attack and feud that doesn't require a private personal reconciliation.
[02:24:25]  It's a different calculus than those where there's been the personal attacks, and in many cases, on both sides, I'm not perfect, I've made mistakes, but personal attacks on both sides in those cases, it's not just, well, hey, you disagree with this guy and you'd be willing to have a conversation with him, why not this other guy?
[02:24:46]  That you disagree with.
[02:24:48]  Well, there is the personal element, and especially when the personal becomes public, then those are issues that whether it be someone who I disagree with on one side of the aisle, like Stone Choir, or someone I disagree with on another side of the aisle, like Doug Wilson or James White, those are issues.
[02:25:10]  If there's a personal feud that's become public with mudslinging involved, then those are the kinds of things where.
[02:25:18]  Unfortunately, just the reality is that there has to be some kind of personal conversation.
[02:25:25]  There needs to be some kind of reconciliation.
[02:25:27]  Those kinds of things have to happen before a public conversation can be had.
[02:25:32]  And for the record, again, if we did, you know, this is this question I assume is being brought up because, you know, someone asked, would we have Nick on the show?
[02:25:41]  If we had Nick on the show, it would be to talk about what we're talking about in today's episode.
[02:25:46]  So it would be to talk about, you know, His insight into geopolitics with this particular issue and what's going on with this and that and the other, where there actually is a lot of alignment, where there's a lot of agreement, and we think that he's on to something and knows something that we don't.
[02:26:02]  That's different than having someone on the show just to disagree.
[02:26:06]  In that case, especially when there's personal feuds, then really what you're talking about is just kind of an intense, aggravated debate.
[02:26:15]  And I understand that those can be helpful to the body of Christ.
[02:26:18]  I did watch the James White and Corey Mahler debate.
[02:26:22]  And I understand that debate can be a helpful format where people disagree sharply, but for those who are on the sidelines, it can help to provide clarity so that people can understand what's true and what's not and where they stand.
[02:26:36]  But frankly, I don't really engage in a lot of debates.
[02:26:41]  So I'm not against debates.
[02:26:43]  I think that I see that as helpful.
[02:26:46]  But unlike James White, I haven't had 4,067 debates under my belt.
[02:26:54]  I mean, the guy is a debater.
[02:26:57]  And a lot of his debates, he's done really well debating against Muslims and Catholics and these kinds of things.
[02:27:03]  And it's brought clarity to the body of Christ.
[02:27:05]  But that's kind of his MO.
[02:27:06]  That's a part of his regular toolkit and something that he does often, that he's trained in, that he's well versed in.
[02:27:12]  And that just hasn't been really a part of my ministry.
[02:27:15]  Will I ever get into debates in the future?
[02:27:18]  I'm open to it if I feel like the Lord's leading me in that direction.
[02:27:22]  I have others alongside me that I trust that confirm that direction for ministry.
[02:27:28]  But again, in general, debates can be helpful in particular.
[02:27:31]  I don't know if I'm the guy to do that.
[02:27:35]  I feel like.
[02:27:36]  There are probably other guys that can have that kind of debate against substantive disagreements with guys like Stone Choir or with guys like Doug Wilson and James White.
[02:27:49]  Yeah, I think that there are other guys who are probably more fit for that task.
[02:27:54]  So for me, I think this question, I'm assuming, but I think this question is writing off of the previous question earlier about having someone like Nick come on the show.
[02:28:04]  My thought was not having Nick come on the show to do a debate.
[02:28:07]  So, I'm not really interested in debating Nick on really any issue or Roman Catholicism.
[02:28:13]  It would be to talk about the things that we're talking about today.
[02:28:18]  So, having someone that you disagree with on X, Y, and Z issue to talk about this A, B, and C issue where you have alignment, that's back into the co belligerent category.
[02:28:33]  If it's to talk about the particular issues where you disagree and there's personal feuds that have become public, Then you're talking about it's not a co belligerent thing.
[02:28:43]  It's not a collaboration thing.
[02:28:45]  It's a debate thing and probably a hostile debate thing.
[02:28:49]  And I personally just don't have a whole lot of interest.
[02:28:51]  Okay.
[02:28:52]  Are there any other questions?
[02:28:54]  Go ahead.
[02:28:54]  As I said, well said.
[02:28:55]  Okay.
[02:28:56]  There's breaking news.
[02:28:57]  This is about 15 minutes ago.
[02:28:58]  Trump says Israel and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire.
[02:29:01]  He's declaring an end to the war.
[02:29:03]  Let's go.
[02:29:05]  We pray that's great.
[02:29:06]  And it's actually.
[02:29:06]  Thank you for listening.
[02:29:07]  You heard our arguments live.
[02:29:09]  He was listening.
[02:29:10]  Vance was for sure listening.
[02:29:12]  They were persuaded.
[02:29:13]  We did it, guys.
[02:29:14]  Praise God.
[02:29:16]  W's in the chat.
[02:29:17]  All right.
[02:29:17]  And it's only Monday.
[02:29:18]  Yeah, dude, if that's the case, praise God.
[02:29:20]  If Iran and Israel will come to terms of peace, that's amazing.
[02:29:24]  And then what I'd like to see is okay, we got to have a little bit of a Middle East war for our entree.
[02:29:32]  Can we now have 30 million deportations for dessert?
[02:29:35]  30?
[02:29:37]  Or 50, you know.
[02:29:39]  Or 75.
[02:29:40]  Or 100.
[02:29:40]  No.
[02:29:41]  1 billion must go back.
[02:29:43]  We're going to deport all of it, import India, and then deport them and do it 75 times over just to show we mean business.
[02:29:51]  Just to show we mean business.
[02:29:52]  Okay.
[02:29:53]  I think that's pretty much it.
[02:29:55]  I had one, Victory in Christ.
[02:29:57]  What's your take on Romans 11 with all Israel being saved?
[02:30:01]  So we just don't have time.
[02:30:02]  I addressed it a little bit on Friday, and I would just point you to the nine part series that I did with Pastor Andrew Isker.
[02:30:10]  You can find that on our YouTube channel, but it's a whole series.
[02:30:14]  It's underneath our Friday specials.
[02:30:15]  So if you go to our homepage on YouTube, Right, response ministries, and then scroll down, look at the specials.
[02:30:21]  I think it's like season four or something like that, uh, with me and Pastor Andrew Isker.
[02:30:26]  And it's all things Israel, it's nine parts.
[02:30:28]  I can't remember exactly which episode, but we absolutely deal with Romans 11.
[02:30:32]  And, um, and your question would be answered there.
[02:30:35]  Unfortunately, that's all the time we have for today.
[02:30:37]  So, uh, we've already kind of gone long.
[02:30:40]  Uh, we typically try to go an hour and a half to two hours, we're at two and a half hours.
[02:30:44]  Uh, but you know, I feel like it was worth it.
[02:30:46]  We've got you know, 4,800, 354 people watching right now live.
[02:30:51]  Last thing, guys, do me a solid.
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[02:32:18]  You don't have to do any of those things.
[02:32:19]  That's fine.
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[02:32:21]  We get plenty of them.
[02:32:22]  Feel free to email Wes, you know, and say something very critical.
[02:32:26]  Nathan at Right Response Ministries.
[02:32:28]  Email Nathan at Right Response Ministries.com.
[02:32:31]  He would love to hear your criticism.
[02:32:32]  That's Wes's email.
[02:32:34]  But yeah, I mean, you can do all that.
[02:32:37]  But for the glory of God and the good of his people, if you think that this was helpful, Even if you don't agree with all of it, but generally helpful, then get it out.
[02:32:46]  I mean, the algorithm works.
[02:32:47]  It's real.
[02:32:48]  It's a science.
[02:32:48]  It's not magic.
[02:32:49]  It feels like magic, but it actually is a science.
[02:32:53]  It's actually a formula.
[02:32:54]  And what it takes is five seconds to click like and click share, and the glory of Christ and the truth of his word reaches more people's ears.
[02:33:06]  It actually is that simple.
[02:33:09]  We ask that you would do it.
[02:33:10]  Thanks so much for tuning in, and we hope that you've been blessed.
[02:33:14]  And Lord willing, we will see you on Wednesday.