April 11, 2020 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you the truth.
If there is any kind of music that can bring chills to my arms as much as a rousing rendition of Dixie, it is a good Southern Gospel hymn.
And that is the kind of music I grew up singing in church every single week.
Thank you, God, for giving me to parents who loved me enough to take me to church every Sunday.
Victory in Jesus.
We sang it.
I sang it into my formative years, my coming of age years, and I'm a better man and a better activist for it.
I am so thankful.
That is a part of my identity and my fabric.
And as a result of that, as being the founding host of this show, it is a part of the founding fabric and identity of this program.
That is low church southern gospel music, and I love it.
And we are joined tonight as we blend Confederate History Month with the celebration and the triumph of Jesus Christ's victory over death.
It's Holy Week, Holy Weekend.
Good Friday was yesterday.
Resurrection Day is tomorrow.
And we have Pastor Brett McAtee with us to join in on the conversation.
Pastor Brett, a pastor of a true brick-and-mortar church up in Michigan, it's great to have you back.
Happy Easter, brother.
Christ is risen.
Indeed, he has.
He is risen indeed.
He is risen indeed.
That's right.
Thank you.
Well, we're going to be talking.
Well, it's always our honor to have you on, as you know, and we're going to be talking about Holy Week and the resurrection exclusively in the next segment and the segment beyond.
But first, as we transition from our Confederate History Month coverage into Easter, I'd like to reconcile the two.
And you're a particularly interesting guest to be able to do that, Pastor Brett.
Having been born, God saw fit to bring you into this world north of the Mason-Dixon line.
You know, I was born into the Southern Baptist Church, and now the Southern Baptists are saying you can't be a Christian and have a Confederate flag.
They're actually saying that.
So I think your opinion weighs heavily on this.
How do you reconcile, as a Southerner, our reverence for our heroes and the cross of Jesus Christ?
Well, I think that's, honestly, I think that's fairly easy.
You have to recognize, whether you're northern or southerner, you have to recognize that when the war came upon us, North and South were basically two different people.
And the South was its own unique people group, influenced and guided and shaped by a biblical Christianity, whereas the North was its own people shaped by French Revolutionary, Jacobin type of enlightenment categories.
And even though there was perhaps a shared blood between the North and the South, their worldview and their religions were diametrically opposed to each other.
And so the South had its own set of heroes, and those set of heroes were distinct.
The fissure or the split became distinct between North and South.
And I would contend, northerner that I am, that the heroes of the South were far more in keeping with biblical Christianity than the heroes that were taken up by the North.
You have the Presbyterian deacon Stonewall Jackson.
You have the high Episcopalian reformed Robert E. Lee.
You have these kind of men who are the heroes of the South.
And then all their exude this Christianity.
In the North, there is a Greek god or something, Sherman who would just rapping and slaughter throughout the South.
I would having a flag in my sanctuary than I would or rather flag.
I don't have either, but if I have to choose one, if they get not okay, we're getting a little bit of, obviously, interference with Pastor Brett's audio.
So we're going to ask if Sam Bushman can reconnect with him, and we'll try to do that.
I don't know if you have a telephone or oh, there you are.
Okay, Pastor Brett, yeah.
Sorry for the interruption.
We had a little bit of technical difficulty.
Please continue.
If you can, James.
Yes, go, Brett.
All right.
I don't know where did I get cut off at.
Well, you were going pretty good.
You were talking about if you could have one of the two flags in your sanctuary up there in Michigan.
I think we know which one that would be and continue from there.
Right.
And the reason it would be is that that flag represented more of the biblical Christian mindset, the idea of family, tradition, the idea of hierarchy than the flag of the American flag, which at that time represented revolution principles of equality, fraternity, and egalitarian brotherhood and liberty.
Yeah, a false notion of liberty.
And so, you know, 150 years, 60 years later, I'm still convinced that the South was in the position of being correct.
Now, this is quite interesting because, again, we have so many people who were born north of the Mason-Dixon line.
And if God had saw fit to birth me to a family who lived there or anywhere around the world, I would still like to think I would have the ability to be right thinking.
And so this is, but I do think, Brett, Pastor McAtee, it carries a little bit more weight in a certain regard for you to have been born in the North and still find this truth.
How did you find it?
Well, I was educated.
Well, first of all, much of my family came from Indiana.
People don't know this, but parts of southern Indiana were just as southern in their mindset as the south as you went further deep.
Indeed, parts of southern Indiana were so bad that the state of Indiana didn't even have their boundaries under control.
So it came somewhat natural from that direction.
And also, I was educated in my undergrad years by a man who was a southerner himself.
Well, we'll continue along with this line of questioning.
But also, most importantly, we're going to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ with Pastor Brett McAtee when we come back.
He's one of the best, one of my favorite guests.
So thankful to have him on this Easter weekend.
Seytud.
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When the route is falling down, when the Road is called God.
When the Road is called God.
When the road is falling beyond your all the day.
Beautiful music.
Beautiful people.
Southerners, there's nothing I wouldn't do for you.
There's nothing I wouldn't suffer for you.
I am so proud to be one of you.
I don't know if anyone listening to this program tonight outside of the South knows what the word yonder means, but my grandma used to tell me it all the time.
Go over yonder and give me that thing over there.
But listen, it's a beautiful, beautiful time to be a Southerner.
Confederate History Month, Easter weekend.
Our faith, our identity comes together as one, and we have the benefit of having a man like Pastor Brett McCarty on the program tonight.
Brett, we were obviously talking about in the last segment about the fact that, yes, you can be proud if you are a Southerner of your ancestors and still be a Christian in contradiction to that which the Southern Baptists now teach.
It wasn't always that way.
We have a letter here from an attorney, no less, in Arkansas who is a supporter of our program.
He writes this, James, enclosed is a copy of an article that I ran across from a descendant of General Ambrose Burnside of Fredericksburg fame.
Ambrose Burnside was a Yankee general.
The real interest of this article is about Lottie Moon, who fled the altar when asked if she would take Ambrose as her husband.
I'm not a Baptist, but in years past attended Baptist services with friends, and I remember seeing Lottie Moon donation envelopes for the missions to China.
I was going to mail you a copy of a recent Barnes Review article on Lottie, but I think a relative walked off with it.
You see, Lottie was a southern lady, and when the war broke out, she spied for the South.
She was apprehended by the Yanks and might have met a tragic fate, but for the fact that Ambrose Burnside was the commanding general of the army that captured her.
Ambrose might have been a Yankee dog otherwise, but he was a gentleman.
He interceded and released Lottie.
After the unfortunate outcome of the war, she became a missionary.
Enclosed is the thumb drive with a ballad about Frank and Jesse James done by Warren Zavon.
It's really good.
I thought you might like to use some of this material in April, Confederate History Month.
Pastor Brett, anybody that has been in the Southern Baptist Church, now I grew up in it until the time I was expelled from it last year, we know Lottie Moon.
Obviously, there is a lot to be reconciled with our Southern pride and our pride and our faith.
And Lottie Moon is just one of the many people who can demonstrate that.
Right.
The Southern Baptists had a long tradition of helping the slave population in teaching them Christianity and teaching them how to read and write and teaching them the basics.
The Southern Baptists have nothing in terms of their action towards the slaves.
What the propagandists I could do is that I could take some small slice and then they like to enlarge and blow it up and make it seem like it's the norm.
When the norm was people like Lottie Moon and there were also Southern Presbyterians who went out of their way to educate and to teach and to pass on the Christian faith to the slave community.
And the idea that we have to always be constantly repenting is just cultural Marxist bushwah.
It's just an attempt to gill us and an attempt to basically put the top rail on bottom to make us apologize and so hate ourselves.
Are you there?
Yeah, no, I'm here.
I'm here.
Thank you for saying that, Pastor Brett.
And with that, let's transition if we can, because we have you for another segment and a half.
And I want to get to the real focus of this hour and why we brought you on.
Now, we wanted you to come on and give your perspective as someone, again, born north of the Mason-Dixon line for whatever that matters.
It doesn't matter how you think and how you feel and who you are.
But I appreciate your perspective a great deal.
But let's now talk about the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
This is Holy Week.
Our faith is compatible with our reverence for our ancestors.
We do believe in the Ten Commandments, what it says.
Honor your father and your mother.
We're not going to dishonor them by being ashamed of them.
But let's get into the resurrection of Christ.
That's what we're celebrating this week, Pastor.
Going from, we talk about Holy Week, Palm Sunday, through Good Friday, through Resurrection Day.
Why is this still the most important thing we could ever cover in the current year and beyond?
Well, Paul says it himself in 1 Corinthians, if our hope is only in this life, we are of all men to be pitied.
He makes it very clear that the resurrection is the cornerstone.
It's the center block of the Christian faith.
If Christ isn't risen, then your faith is in vain, and you of all men are to be pitied.
And so the resurrection, as biblical Christians, we hold was absolutely true in every sense of the word true.
It wasn't just an apparition.
It wasn't just a faith statement by the early church that the resurrection was true.
No, the resurrection really happened.
And if the resurrection didn't happen, if his dead body didn't come back to life, then we are ridiculous idiots for going on in this thing called Christianity.
And so the resurrection is the center, remains the center.
And indeed, there is a truth in the idea that every time Christians gather for worship, we are articulating and announcing that Jesus Christ is risen and is sitting at the right hand of the Father.
We celebrate resurrection, maybe especially on Easter, but every Sunday is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Without the resurrection of Jesus Christ, our civilization crumbles and we're beginning to see that.
We're beginning to see that because we no longer believe in the resurrection, that everything is relative and you can make your own reality as you go.
And so the resurrection is central to who we are.
And apart from our identity is resurrected with Christ and apart from the idea that Christ has resurrected himself, it's all a sham.
And so the resurrection is central.
To who we are.
It was central to our fathers and forefathers.
It was central to those Confederates.
It was central as seen in the Reformation revivals that swept through the Southern armies in 1863 forward.
They believed in the resurrection of the body, and they damn well better believe it because their bodies are about to be snuffed out and they knew it.
I love the passion, Pastor Brett.
I feel it through the airwaves.
I appreciate your intensity.
And only something real could inspire that amount of vigor in a man.
I'm texting with a friend of mine who says she feels it too tonight.
And it's not a put-on.
It's not something we're trying to play.
We're not getting into character.
This is real.
And this is why this show.
I've been on the air 16 years, folks.
That 16 times 52 weeks, however many shows that is, it's been that and more.
But the week in which Easter converges with Confederate History Month, that is a special week indeed.
And Pastor, what manifests, what brings forth that passion within a commentary?
We've had you on several times.
You're passionate tonight.
Again, it's Easter.
It's our season.
I'm no more, no less packed as the Apostle Paul was about the.
This is our faith.
And if we don't grasp onto this, we're lost.
Hang on right there, Pastor.
Now, don't get me wrong.
Pastor McEthy is always passionate, always passionate.
Especially passionate tonight, as am I.
I hope you are too.
We'll be right back, Pastor Brett McEthy, when we come back.
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How many times did I sing that song in the pews of my Southern Baptist church growing up, folks?
It was countless.
I can tell you, I love this music.
I love Easter.
I love Jesus Christ, and I love Pastor Brett McAtee.
My personal pastor, David Rogers, will be with us to close the show in the very next segment.
But what a special night, what a special week, what a special month here on TPC.
It's such a fabric of our identity, our faith, our heritage, our cultural being, our identity.
It all melts into one, and it's complementary to one another.
It doesn't exist at odds with one another.
I posted to my Twitter account today a picture that I took two years ago at the Beauvoir Estate in Biloxi, Mississippi.
And it's a picture of the tree under which President Jefferson Davis would sit nearly every afternoon and read his Bible.
Folks, the people that they tell you, that they tell you, are so evil, they were better men and they were better Christians than you or I will ever be.
But if there's a guy that can rival them, I tell you, we're having them on tonight with the two pastors, David Rogers and Brett McAtee.
Brett, it's Easter weekend, Palm Sunday.
I was reading through the scriptures this week leading up to Good Friday and, of course, the resurrection.
In case anybody doesn't know, do we believe that that really happened?
Wow.
Yeah, I want to jump up and down and say yes, yes, yes, yes.
Of course, the modern church wants to do all kinds of things to qualify it, to nuance it.
Much of the modern church having the presupposition that the supernatural can't happen, they'll say things like, well, the belief in the resurrection of Christ was the belief of the early church, as if the belief of the early church was not related or not anchored or rooted in the actual physical resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The scriptures everywhere proclaim it.
I was reading tonight in Matthew's account.
Even the Jews knew that Christ resurrected.
They hired a Roman guard to guard the stone.
Roman guard was usually 16 different men, 16 men.
And when Christ arose, it says that they became as dead men.
Later, they went back to the Pharisees and they told them what happened.
And the Pharisees now have firsthand witnesses of what did, and yet they decided to enter into a conspiracy theory to deny the resurrection of Christ in order to keep their fake news, false narrative going.
So Jesus, they understood the enemies of Jesus Christ understood that he really had arose from the grave.
And yet we want to play with the idea as if it was just some kind of ethereal notion that the early church believed.
Yes, he believed, as John Updike taught in his poem, the DNA came back together.
The corpuscle started beating again.
Christ was physically resurrected.
And that physically resurrected Christ right now sits at the right hand of the Father.
He intercedes for us.
And that's one reason why we have hope because he who shares in our mortal body is in heaven and we likewise will follow.
That's just one aspect, one slice of the good news of the resurrection.
Pastor Brett, I have to say again, I've said it at least once, if not twice or thrice, this hour.
I appreciate your passion.
It's a passion that I guess only those believers can know.
And what a weekend it is for us.
I don't want to get out into the tall grass.
I'm going to ask my pastor in the next segment to let those who may be tuned in tonight.
And of course, we have non-believers.
We have people all over the world who are tuned in, how they can come to know Christ.
But with regard to the current maladies of our time and the fact that liquor stores are open tomorrow, abortion clinics may be open, but churches are not.
Churches, perhaps you may even be arrested for going to.
How would you reconcile that with the coronavirus hysteria?
I understand the question is having open churches with the state's demand that they close.
Is that right?
Correct.
Yes.
In a nutshell.
Yeah, for me, it's simple.
We're having church tomorrow.
If it was the bubonic plague or if it was Ebola, I could probably see closing church.
But again, anybody who's following this story, and one reason I'm so passionate is I got a stupid governor here that is just off the statist sheet music, just like Lincoln was once upon a time.
The reason I opened tomorrow is I don't believe what I'm being told.
Governments exist.
The reason for being lying and they're going to lie about it.
And the models that they're appealing to don't support what they're articulating and trying to fearmonger us with.
The fact of the matter is, is that these people don't know.
They have a bunch of anecdotes.
They've extrapolated the anecdotes into absolutes, but the models don't support them.
And the experts are beginning to step forward and say, look, the models don't support all this fear-mongering that's going on.
So that's why I have open doors tomorrow.
I don't believe the state.
The state excels at lying.
And so I'm going to gather with God's truth people, and I'm going to articulate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Pastor Brett, my hero.
Listen, we've had a lot of people emailing in tonight.
Even our owner and producer and Jack of all trades, Sam Bushman, says, I heard that.
That's the kind of Christian leadership we need.
And if we ever needed it, we needed it on Easter Sunday.
So many churches closing, going to online only, this, that, or the other.
But listen, if people can gather at Walmart, if they can gather at the local grocery store, they can gather to celebrate the resurrection of their risen Savior.
And let me tell you something.
If the liquor store is essential, I can guarantee you this.
If you are going to die from coronavirus, you need the eternal salvation that can come from knowing Jesus Christ more than you need that last six-pack.
Churches, if anything is open tomorrow, it should be the churches.
I am thankful to know a pastor that is opening his church tomorrow that will keep his church open.
Pastor Brett, how can people learn more about your ministry?
And you don't have to live in Michigan to go to his brick and mortar church.
You can listen online.
You can fellowship online.
And you can read the works and thoughts of Pastor Brett McAtee.
How can they do it, Brett?
I'm at IronInc, I-R-O-N-I-N-K.org.
They can tune in and follow tomorrow.
I think it's Iron Sermons.
There's a link there to follow our services, although our internet ban is sometimes kind of iffy, and so it can fall in and out.
But that's where people can go if they want to follow the live service.
We also then put it up on YouTube and we also on sermon audio if people want to follow later.
They tell me that the bandwidth or the ability to follow the sermon is better on sermon audio than it is live.
So those are the places.
I also write for tribaltheocrat.com, which is a good site.
And again, just to articulate what I said before, if there was ever a time to gather for worship, not only to worship God, which is the primary and ultimate purpose, but also to defy the tyrant state that's currently operating every Sunday, but especially tomorrow is the Sunday is the Lord's Day to gather.
Why would we listen to Pharaoh tell us not to worship?
On Easter of all weeks, am I right?
On resurrection, they call it Easter.
Resurrection Day, the day that Christ defeated death for all of our sins.
That day of all Sundays, right?
That should be, I mean, much more than even Christmas.
That should be the one we're in church, right?
Right.
And think about it.
If it's the first century, what the Jews would have most desired above everything is making sure Christianity wouldn't go forward.
And that's exactly what's being accomplished as the state shuts down worship.
I actually put on my Twitter just, I believe, yeah, it was yesterday when Pilate saw that he could prevail not.
He took water and washed his hands of the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person.
Then answered all the people and said, his blood be on us and our children.
That's Matthew chapter 27, verses 24 through 25.
Luke 23, verses 20 through 21 reads, Pilate argued with them because he wanted to release Jesus, but they kept shouting, crucify him, crucify him.
Those, Pastor Brett, were the verses that were forcefully taken out of Mel Gibson's fantastic film, Passion of the Christ.
Yeah, and it's still the verses that that our enemies get jitted up the most about, this idea of the uh, of the generational curse.
Um, actually a great deal that's going on now and scholarship is all with the end of satisfying uh, the ancient enemies of of Christ and his people.
Pastor Brett Mcate, happy easter, happy Resurrection day.
Thank you so much for spending this very, very special saturday night on TPC with us.
Can't wait to have you back.
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Why don't we say to the government writ large that they have to spend a little bit less?
Anybody ever had less money this year than you had last?
Anybody better have a 1% pay cut.
You deal with it.
That's what government needs, a 1% pay cut.
If you take a 1% pay cut across the board, you have more than enough money to actually pay for the disaster relief, but nobody's going to do that because they're fiscally irresponsible.
Who are they Republicans?
Who are they Democrat?
Who are they?
Virtually the whole body is careless and reckless with your money.
So the money will not be offset by cuts anywhere.
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I see his anger mercy, I hear his voice of cheer.
In just the time I need him, he's always.
He lives, he lives, he lives, Christ Jesus lives today.
He walks with me and talks with me along this narrow way.
He lives, he lives, he lives, he lives, salvation to impose me how I do.
What an honor, what a privilege to have such two great guests this hour.
Pastor Brett McAtee of the Charlotte Christian Reformed Church in Michigan talking about Resurrection Day tomorrow.
And now, the only man I'll ever call my pastor, Pastor David Rogers, who so many of you are accustomed to hearing on this broadcast, going back so many years on Christmas and Easter, if not more than that.
Pastor, what a special weekend.
I'm so thankful to have you on to close the show tonight.
Thank you so much for inviting me.
You know, I always enjoy being on the show with you.
Well, it's Holy Week, Pastor, from Palm Sunday to Good Friday and the resurrection.
Why does it still matter so many years later?
James, I spent all the last hour or so having a conversation with a friend of mine, and we've been talking about what difference the resurrection makes.
And when he gets down to it, it's the only thing that really matters.
If Jesus is in the tomb, we have no hope.
He is risen, we have all the hope in the world.
He is risen.
You know, James, you invited me to come and read some scripture and do some other things.
And you and I talked about this.
You were gracious to invite me.
I really don't, I have always a number of things since I had the stroke last week.
But I thought about, if we've got just a minute, I want to read the brief scriptures, if that's all right.
Pastor, you do anything you want to do.
All right, James and Luke, the 24th chapter, now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they and certain other women with them came to the tomb bringing Spicy with no epic payment.
And they found the stone rolled away.
The stone was rolled away from the tomb.
In the end, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
And it happened as they were greatly perplexed about this.
The whole communion stood by them in shining darkness.
Then as they were afraid and bowed down on their faces to the earth, they said to them, Why do you seek the living among the dead?
He is not here, but risen.
He is risen indeed.
I like something that your producer Sam said to me before I got on the phone.
He said, Happy resurrection day.
You know, I think I might begin to not say happy Easter so much because Easter gets confused with Easter eggs and bunny rabbits.
There's nothing wrong with that.
But you can't get confused this happy resurrection day.
In the morning, here in Memphis, they're telling us that we're going to have Thunderstorm.
And, of course, for me, on Easter Sunday, you're on Resurrection Sunday.
I'd rather have sunshine and all that sort of stuff going to talk about in the morning.
When the thunderstorms roll in, hear the clap of thunder and sometimes feel in the air and hear the mighty power.
I think it was the power that rolled that stone away that Sunday morning.
And those dear, dear ladies that for years had come to Jesus and taken care of him and the pumpkins and all the details of life so they could be about their ministry brokenhearted.
They came to the tomb that day.
And another pastor said they're wondering how they will get the stone away.
And they get there and the stone's gone.
And they go in and they came with disciples.
They came to do a job there.
They were going to prepare the body for, or finish preparing it for burial.
They're gone.
The Bible says they were perplexed.
I don't know what to say about it.
Trying to figure out what was going on.
They saw these two men in sign of the parallel.
Obviously angels.
And then.
And the two men looked at them and said, why are you speaking?
Living among the dead.
He's not here.
He's risen.
And he did.
We should go to church in the morning.
All of us were not babies to go to church in the morning.
But Easter is a cancel.
A little thing today.
Just said about 2,000 years ago, the devil did everything he could to cancel Easter.
If he wasn't successful, it won't be successful this time.
James, let me pray for you, God.
Please do.
Father, I don't even know how to begin to say how great you will for the sacrifice that you made.
How you died in blood and man.
In my place, it should have been me.
I should have borne judgment for my sin, not you.
I'm guilty.
You're innocent.
Father, I'll thank you that you're willing for your body to be blessed for me and for your blood to be shed for me.
Father, I pray that As the morning breaks, whether the folks some of them will be in sunshine, others will be rain.
But the truth of the matter is, Father, you shine in our hearts the joy that you celebrate.
And if not the joy of just resurrection morning, it is the joy that God comes.
Thank you, God.
Give us grace to live worthy of the life you want us to live.
We ask you in the living, powerful name of the risen Lord.
In Jesus' sweet name.
Amen.
Amen, Pastor, and happy Resurrection Day to you.
Happy Easter.
You know, I don't want to make you feel bad, but you know, if anybody does, later this summer, I'll be 40 years old.
And you were pastoring my parents and grandparents before I was born.
And I can't believe this Pooh is going to be 40 years old.
Pooh, that's right.
Wendy, the Pooh.
That's me.
Man, wow.
It's been a fast 40 years.
But let's listen, Pastor, to 14 seconds of what our president said just this week.
Let's go.
Thank you very much on this Good Friday.
Christians from all around the world, remember the suffering and death upon the cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
And Easter Sunday, we will celebrate his glorious resurrection.
At this holy time, our nation is engaged in a okay.
Let's let's let's pause it right there because we only have seconds remaining.
Pastor, did you think you would ever see another president invoke the name of Jesus Christ and mention his resurrection a day before Easter?
I've enjoyed that these holidays are acknowledged and celebrated by the day.
Well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
Pastor, thank you for being with us.
Happy Easter.
Happy Resurrection Day.
And for anybody who's curious, do we really believe it?
Is it allegorical?
Is it something that we say?
Is it fact?
What is it, Pastor?
Final word.
Well, the only thing that really matters, the future says, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as eternity.
It won't matter if we're man or woman, black or white, badly true.
Only thing matters that you die.
Jesus Christ.
And praise him tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen, on Resurrection Day.