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  • Want to give you guys a bit of a roundup
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  • Of where we are at in the war right now?
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  • Because what are we where
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  • We're like 11 days in something like that about about
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  • And so we've got updates and we haven't really done
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  • A play by play of how the war is being, operate
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  • And executed because there's just a lot of fog of war stuff.
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  • But here's what we know.
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  • Well, fog of fog of war.
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  • And it's just,
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  • You know, wars are sort of exciting and interesting,
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  • But at the same time, they move slowly.
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  • They consume a lot of attention,
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  • But then a lot of time will pass.
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  • We're not much will happen.
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  • Well, there's a lot of there's a lot of going back and forth
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  • That doesn't necessarily translate
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  • Into any significant meaning for the audience either.
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  • So we're bombing more things. okay.
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  • What's the actual status though?
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  • So listen,
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  • The iranian military is basically firing
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  • Back single digit missiles per day right now.
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  • Maybe maybe low double digits.
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  • All right.
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  • So there's been a lot of capacity
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  • That's been taken out.
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  • 5500 targets have been hit in
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  • The first ten days of the conflict.
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  • And that's a lot.
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  • 5500 is a lot.
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  • Even, general petraeus was on with jesse waters last night
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  • Saying that this is from any way you cut it.
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  • And i'm not saying you have to be supportive.
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  • I'm not saying you have to be against.
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  • I'm just saying militarily, this has been a rout, okay?
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  • It doesn't mean that iran doesn't have levers to pull.
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  • They do.
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  • But militarily, we control the skies.
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  • We bomb at will, we strike at will,
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  • And that's something that we need to, be aware of.
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  • So every ship
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  • That iran has, their navy has been completely obliterated.
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  • We've just hit.
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  • I think, another 28, ships that were capable
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  • Of laying mines in the strait of hormuz.
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  • So that's a lot.
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  • Okay, that any time they move or put their head up,
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  • We get them. okay. there.
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  • That is much, very much, true.
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  • We hit their biggest bank, the one that pays the irgc.
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  • I think this is a very interesting piece of
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  • Intel as well.
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  • Do you have a thought on that?
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  • Well, i mean, i don't know that bank.
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  • It's not like matters
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  • Physical buildings of banks nearly as much as well.
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  • It matters when you hit the infrastructure
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  • And their ability to pay the irgc troops.
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  • So apparently there's a paycheck
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  • That's supposed to go out
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  • At the end of this week to their military.
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  • Now, if they stop getting paid, that could be a huge problem.
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  • Now their currency is in freefall,
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  • Their economy is in freefall.
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  • You know it.
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  • This is going to continue putting pressure
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  • On the iranian regime, there's no doubt.
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  • All right.
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  • So all of these things are are positives.
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  • Now i want to play something actually from newt
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  • Gingrich here
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  • Because there is a counter point to be made.
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  • So what are the levers that iran can pull?
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  • Here's, newt gingrich explaining his thoughts on it.
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  • Cut 14.
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  • They have to keep the strait of hormuz open. yes.
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  • I don't care what it costs if they can't keep it open.
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  • This war will, in fact, be an american defeat
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  • Before very long, because the entire world,
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  • Including the american people, will react to the price of oil
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  • If the strait stays closed very long.
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  • So i lived through this with reagan,
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  • As you did in the late 80s.
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  • Keeping this trade open
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  • Is the number one job because it buys you time.
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  • We have a new clip from iranian state media.
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  • Some of the
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  • First, if you will, comments
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  • Out of the new the new supreme leader, the allegedly.
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  • And what clip is this, guys?
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  • Okay.
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  • Yeah, this is his first public statements.
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  • We're going to play this for you. allegedly.
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  • We haven't seen this guy.
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  • He's not come out of his bunker if he's even alive.
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  • Cut for an iranian state media, a presenter read
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  • A new statement from iran's supreme leader most khamenei.
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  • The supreme leader, said in the statement
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  • We believe in friendship
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  • With neighbors
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  • And only target the bases and we will inevitably continue.
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  • That is not true.
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  • We know that
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  • Many gulf countries have had their residential
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  • And civilian infrastructure attacked.
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  • Now, iran's supreme
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  • Leader in this statement goes on to say all u.s.
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  • Bases should immediately be closed in the region,
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  • And those bases will be attacked.
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  • He calls on unity among the people
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  • Also says that he will target a us bases in the region.
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  • Iran's supreme leader
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  • Goes on to say the closure of the strait of hormuz
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  • Should be continued as a tool to, quote, pressure the enemy.
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  • I feel like we should probably explain
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  • What the strait of hormuz is.
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  • I'm not sure if we ever get out.
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  • Well, i'm, yeah, sure.
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  • Go ahead.
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  • So if you look at a map of the middle east,
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  • I don't know if we have one any. there we are.
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  • So that's the strait of hormuz.
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  • So iran is on the north end.
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  • So if you think of the persian gulf, it's that body of water.
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  • And that's kind of where all the oil, all the gas is
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  • 20% of the the planet's energy flows through the strait.
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  • And so iraq is right at the end of that gulf.
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  • That's where we went, and that's where kuwait is.
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  • And then on the south end of it, you've got qatar,
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  • Bahrain, united arab emirates, saudi arabia,
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  • Those are all big oil gas exporters.
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  • Iran's on the north end.
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  • And that little choke point, a little space is
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  • What a huge amount of the world economy
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  • Basically flows through.
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  • And iran, you know, they can't hopefully
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  • They can't easily hit the united states.
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  • They can't really easily invade the other countries,
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  • But they can sort of hold the world hostage.
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  • And what they're planning to do
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  • Here is they say
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  • They can close the strait of hormuz by laying mines,
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  • Which were sinking boats to lay mines.
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  • But submarines can lay mines.
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  • I mean, little motorboats can lay speedboats can.
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  • I wouldn't be surprised if, like,
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  • Frogmen can haul mines into place.
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  • They might a very big challenge to.
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  • And then mine you have you have rockets.
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  • And if you want to know how difficult it is, houthis,
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  • Which is that militant group in yemen,
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  • They've been harassing ships in the red sea,
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  • And we really struggle to root them out.
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  • There have been ships
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  • That have been sailing all the way around africa
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  • To avoid going through the red sea,
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  • Because they don't want to get blasted by houthis.
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  • And that's a a militant group in yemen, not a whole state.
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  • So the concern of this war
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  • Is that they would be able to keep that closed.
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  • And i think we should be frank with you
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  • That there's been a lot of discussion.
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  • You know, maybe president trump could just declare victory.
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  • And, you know, he doesn't necessarily
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  • Need to bring down the regime.
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  • He can say we sank their navy.
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  • They can't have nukes.
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  • They're really degraded.
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  • President trump can't declare victory
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  • Unless the strait of hormuz is open.
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  • Correct. period.
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  • So he either has to strike a deal to open it
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  • Or he has to force it open.
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  • Only then can he say, is it a win,
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  • And he said, by the way,
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  • All the messaging from secretary of war pete
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  • Hegseth, president trump is that we're not done yet.
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  • But, you know, militarily, we've done a lot of damage.
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  • And that is certainly true.
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  • But just remember this no regime has ever been removed
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  • By airstrikes alone.
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  • By airstrikes alone.
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  • We are
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  • Joined in studio by pastor lucas miles.
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  • He's the senior director of tp, usa. faith.
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  • Welcome back.
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  • Thanks for having me.
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  • Always good to be with you guys.
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  • Yeah.
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  • So, let's just start
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  • With this breaking news out of detroit.
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  • If we could throw some of that b-roll up, that'd be great.
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  • The.
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  • There is an active shooter situation i'm getting,
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  • You know, the details as we have.
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  • It says that, no confirmed casualties, arrests,
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  • Suspect identity or motive released by authorities,
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  • As of the latest report.
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  • But we know that it's close to, dearborn,
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  • Which is, the largest muslim population in.
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  • And at least in the state of michigan, maybe in the country.
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  • I'm not sure.
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  • And west bloomfield is the area
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  • Where the largest jewish population live.
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  • So we're
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  • We're guessing,
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  • Obviously, we haven't
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  • Had any confirmed reports,
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  • But it certainly seems in line with that.
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  • The the rise of anti-semitism is very alarming.
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  • And a lot of that is getting attached to evangelicals a lot.
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  • I mean,
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  • There's sort of something
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  • Now the attack has morphed
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  • Into an attack on evangelicals because they're seen as
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  • Being supportive of the state of israel.
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  • I don't want to put you in too much hot water here.
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  • This is not what you prep for,
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  • Because we actually have things that we're doing
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  • And the make having crowded tours.
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  • But just give us your take of the landscape, right? yeah.
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  • I mean, i would argue that ultimately that this,
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  • That it's starting to land on the target
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  • And that is the the elimination of this evangelical,
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  • You know, really maturity in this nation.
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  • When you look at why we were so successful,
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  • 2024 election, a major part of that evangelical.
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  • So you look at really the,
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  • The foundation of this nation, you know,
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  • The founding of our nation, evangelicalism.
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  • Protestants have been at the center of that.
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  • And i think that there is
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  • This concerted effort to try to dismantle that.
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  • I think that a lot of the ideas on the left,
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  • Whether that be, pagan constructs or marcus marxist,
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  • Marxist constructs,
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  • That those cannot be successful unless this,
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  • Biblical worldview is completely removed.
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  • And so, you know, and these things are tied together.
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  • Right?
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  • The evangelicals, protestants historically have aligned
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  • With the state of israel and viewed that as, you know,
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  • Within a, within a spectrum.
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  • You have replacement theology on one side
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  • And you have dispensation on the other side.
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  • But that's they're both within orthodoxy.
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  • And so we can have a debate on those.
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  • What is outside of orthodoxy, dual coven ism,
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  • Where there's two ways to get saved,
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  • One through christ and another through genealogy.
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  • And on the opposite side of that is, antisemitism.
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  • Both of those exists outside of christianity.
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  • And so, you know,
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  • This is
  • 00:09:38.103 --> 00:09:38.804
  • There's a lot to unpack here,
  • 00:09:38.804 --> 00:09:39.605
  • And it just feels like the attacks
  • 00:09:39.605 --> 00:09:40.773
  • Are just being bombarded from every direction right now.
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  • And it's hard to keep up, honestly.
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  • Yeah.
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  • Like, i know you have a lot of thoughts about this.
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  • You're catholic, we have a lot of catholics, a turning point.
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  • We have a lot of protestants at turning point.
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  • You know,
  • 00:09:51.984 --> 00:09:53.118
  • You are interesting in this way because you acknowledge
  • 00:09:53.118 --> 00:09:56.522
  • That as a catholic
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  • That a lot of america's founding ethos, ideology,
  • 00:09:57.823 --> 00:10:02.194
  • Our founding documents
  • 00:10:02.194 --> 00:10:03.495
  • Came from a protestant tradition, like,
  • 00:10:03.495 --> 00:10:05.330
  • I guess, make it make sense.
  • 00:10:05.330 --> 00:10:06.899
  • Combine the two.
  • 00:10:06.899 --> 00:10:08.600
  • You know, america kind of is a protestant nation.
  • 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:11.003
  • This has been the bedrock of our country,
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  • Our founding, a lot of our strength.
  • 00:10:13.372 --> 00:10:14.773
  • But we love catholics, too. so, i mean, i want to
  • 00:10:14.773 --> 00:10:17.276
  • I want your perspective on this.
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  • I mean, it's definitely i think, you know,
  • 00:10:18.711 --> 00:10:22.214
  • Catholics aren't as,
  • 00:10:22.681 --> 00:10:26.819
  • They don't have the same kind of connection
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  • That evangelicals often do with israel.
  • 00:10:28.987 --> 00:10:31.857
  • You know, with israel, with judaism.
  • 00:10:31.857 --> 00:10:33.926
  • You know, the idea of like, for example, messianic judaism
  • 00:10:33.926 --> 00:10:37.496
  • Is not really a thing that has currency in catholicism.
  • 00:10:37.496 --> 00:10:41.233
  • The general idea of catholicism is like
  • 00:10:41.233 --> 00:10:43.802
  • The church is
  • 00:10:43.802 --> 00:10:45.003
  • Is sort of the fulfillment of the old testament. so, yeah.
  • 00:10:45.003 --> 00:10:47.139
  • Yeah, the desire of the church is
  • 00:10:47.139 --> 00:10:48.307
  • Everyone would join the church because, yeah, that's what
  • 00:10:48.307 --> 00:10:51.744
  • There's a catholic prayer historically
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  • At easter or something not there.
  • 00:10:53.579 --> 00:10:55.214
  • I believe there still is. oh, i didn't know that.
  • 00:10:55.214 --> 00:10:57.182
  • And so they
  • 00:10:57.182 --> 00:10:58.751
  • I think they may
  • 00:10:58.751 --> 00:10:59.952
  • Have changed the wording of it because people get offended,
  • 00:10:59.952 --> 00:11:02.688
  • Disliked it.
  • 00:11:02.688 --> 00:11:03.622
  • But but it was a prayer for there's still
  • 00:11:03.622 --> 00:11:07.226
  • There is still a prayer for the jewish people. yeah.
  • 00:11:07.226 --> 00:11:08.994
  • Maybe it
  • 00:11:08.994 --> 00:11:09.995
  • Maybe what it is is i think there's a prayer
  • 00:11:09.995 --> 00:11:10.763
  • For the jewish people,
  • 00:11:10.763 --> 00:11:11.964
  • And it doesn't explicitly say,
  • 00:11:11.964 --> 00:11:14.233
  • Like they should convert anymore.
  • 00:11:14.233 --> 00:11:15.901
  • I used to i'd have to see the text,
  • 00:11:15.901 --> 00:11:17.836
  • But it is during the easter vigil.
  • 00:11:17.836 --> 00:11:19.605
  • I mean, well, i pray the same.
  • 00:11:19.605 --> 00:11:21.039
  • Yeah, i want them. i want jews to meet jesus.
  • 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:23.008
  • But but this, this whole, this
  • 00:11:23.008 --> 00:11:26.078
  • I think this underlying attack against the protestant
  • 00:11:26.078 --> 00:11:29.982
  • Bedrock of the country,
  • 00:11:29.982 --> 00:11:30.949
  • Which has been a bulwark
  • 00:11:30.949 --> 00:11:31.984
  • Of freedom, it's been a bulwark of conservatism.
  • 00:11:31.984 --> 00:11:34.753
  • I mean, what is the 8020 vote
  • 00:11:34.753 --> 00:11:36.321
  • For trump or something like that?
  • 00:11:36.321 --> 00:11:38.257
  • It is under siege.
  • 00:11:38.257 --> 00:11:39.792
  • And so, i mean, maybe tie that into what we're doing with
  • 00:11:39.792 --> 00:11:42.427
  • Make having crowded.
  • 00:11:42.427 --> 00:11:43.562
  • Well, look, i mean, you have there's a lot of groups.
  • 00:11:43.562 --> 00:11:45.831
  • It's like the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
  • 00:11:45.831 --> 00:11:47.666
  • And i think you're seeing that with islamist marxists.
  • 00:11:47.666 --> 00:11:51.537
  • You're seeing this with,
  • 00:11:51.537 --> 00:11:52.871
  • You know, those that would be and kind of this,
  • 00:11:52.871 --> 00:11:55.007
  • This neo nazi, you know, group
  • 00:11:55.007 --> 00:11:57.309
  • Or kind of thing that's happening.
  • 00:11:57.309 --> 00:11:58.710
  • And i think that they're finding,
  • 00:11:58.710 --> 00:12:00.712
  • Some degree of commonality, though they're completely
  • 00:12:00.712 --> 00:12:04.183
  • Opposing views themselves, is that they have
  • 00:12:04.183 --> 00:12:07.019
  • This sort of uniform position, you know, against israel.
  • 00:12:07.019 --> 00:12:09.888
  • And that's become, you know, just this,
  • 00:12:09.888 --> 00:12:12.291
  • This, this unifying, you know, factor in many ways.
  • 00:12:12.291 --> 00:12:15.227
  • And so it's it's frightening
  • 00:12:15.227 --> 00:12:16.228
  • What we need for a solution for this.
  • 00:12:16.228 --> 00:12:17.963
  • We need ideological change on an individual level.
  • 00:12:17.963 --> 00:12:20.399
  • And that's really what we're doing.
  • 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:21.466
  • It may come in crowded.
  • 00:12:21.466 --> 00:12:22.367
  • It's really about, you know,
  • 00:12:22.367 --> 00:12:24.236
  • Going around the nation taking that spear.
  • 00:12:24.236 --> 00:12:25.838
  • Something happens at charlie's memorial.
  • 00:12:25.838 --> 00:12:28.340
  • I mean, you you cannot get away from that.
  • 00:12:28.340 --> 00:12:30.442
  • And there was a,
  • 00:12:30.442 --> 00:12:31.977
  • A spiritual dna shift in this nation that took place,
  • 00:12:31.977 --> 00:12:35.747
  • And we saw that it was tangible in the room.
  • 00:12:35.747 --> 00:12:37.950
  • It was tangible. it was tangible.
  • 00:12:37.950 --> 00:12:39.384
  • After that, churches explode in my own church
  • 00:12:39.384 --> 00:12:41.620
  • Three weeks after charlie's memorial.
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  • The next week. three times. three times.
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  • Yeah, yeah.
  • 00:12:45.524 --> 00:12:46.191
  • And we've sustained the vast
  • 00:12:46.191 --> 00:12:47.259
  • Majority of that, of that growth.
  • 00:12:47.259 --> 00:12:49.561
  • And, and so and we're seeing that
  • 00:12:49.561 --> 00:12:51.263
  • We work with 11,000 churches now at a faith,
  • 00:12:51.263 --> 00:12:54.032
  • Across a wide array of, of actually 12,000.
  • 00:12:54.032 --> 00:12:56.869
  • I checked with the did it hit 12,000?
  • 00:12:56.869 --> 00:12:59.071
  • Well, okay.
  • 00:12:59.071 --> 00:12:59.771
  • All right, all right.
  • 00:12:59.771 --> 00:13:00.472
  • Well, you know,
  • 00:13:00.472 --> 00:13:01.406
  • That's not to throw you under the bus here,
  • 00:13:01.406 --> 00:13:02.941
  • But it's growing faster than we could count it right.
  • 00:13:02.941 --> 00:13:05.777
  • So that was, a last week number that i had.
  • 00:13:05.777 --> 00:13:08.513
  • And it's been so exciting to see this development.
  • 00:13:08.513 --> 00:13:11.316
  • And, you know, these are true and that,
  • 00:13:11.316 --> 00:13:13.518
  • You know, understand that number of 12,000.
  • 00:13:13.518 --> 00:13:15.754
  • It we were at about 4600 on, september 10th.
  • 00:13:15.754 --> 00:13:19.658
  • And so we have we have almost three acts,
  • 00:13:19.658 --> 00:13:22.494
  • The network of churches that we work with.
  • 00:13:22.494 --> 00:13:24.863
  • And we have pastors that are calling us
  • 00:13:24.863 --> 00:13:26.198
  • And saying, look, i was always aligned with
  • 00:13:26.198 --> 00:13:28.533
  • You guys ideologically, but i just never
  • 00:13:28.533 --> 00:13:31.236
  • Was really willing to wade into these waters.
  • 00:13:31.236 --> 00:13:33.238
  • I never was willing to get the fight.
  • 00:13:33.238 --> 00:13:34.506
  • I was, you know, i was afraid of losing,
  • 00:13:34.506 --> 00:13:36.642
  • You know, my people or losing, you know, tides or whatever.
  • 00:13:36.642 --> 00:13:39.278
  • And just like i know
  • 00:13:39.278 --> 00:13:40.245
  • What's at stake now, i know what time it is.
  • 00:13:40.245 --> 00:13:41.513
  • I got to get in the fight.
  • 00:13:41.513 --> 00:13:42.481
  • So this may come in crowded, too.
  • 00:13:42.481 --> 00:13:43.649
  • We're going to 30 cities across the country this year.
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  • Our next one coming up is, in pennsylvania
  • 00:13:46.051 --> 00:13:49.755
  • At, freedom life church, i believe on april 8th.
  • 00:13:49.755 --> 00:13:53.258
  • And then we have
  • 00:13:53.258 --> 00:13:54.059
  • Our one of our biggest ones
  • 00:13:54.059 --> 00:13:55.127
  • This year is going to be at preston wood baptist,
  • 00:13:55.127 --> 00:13:57.596
  • We're encouraging the audience when they sign up
  • 00:13:57.596 --> 00:13:59.331
  • And, you know, when you can register.
  • 00:13:59.331 --> 00:14:00.632
  • It's a free event.
  • 00:14:00.632 --> 00:14:01.700
  • There's no there's no tithe collected.
  • 00:14:01.700 --> 00:14:03.635
  • It's a totally free event when you show up there.
  • 00:14:03.635 --> 00:14:06.004
  • And but we're encouraging,
  • 00:14:06.004 --> 00:14:07.139
  • The attendees to bring a friend, greg,
  • 00:14:07.139 --> 00:14:08.740
  • This is where you grab your neighbor
  • 00:14:08.740 --> 00:14:09.708
  • That said, hey, you know what?
  • 00:14:09.708 --> 00:14:10.742
  • I was impacted by this,
  • 00:14:10.742 --> 00:14:11.810
  • But i'm still exploring some stuff about my faith.
  • 00:14:11.810 --> 00:14:13.912
  • Or maybe it's come out to church with you
  • 00:14:13.912 --> 00:14:15.380
  • A couple times, bring them out for this.
  • 00:14:15.380 --> 00:14:16.815
  • And we are seeing,
  • 00:14:16.815 --> 00:14:17.849
  • You know, our first stop, we had 5500 people.
  • 00:14:17.849 --> 00:14:19.818
  • Who came and we had over 300 people give their life to
  • 00:14:19.818 --> 00:14:22.587
  • The lord. it was incredible.
  • 00:14:22.587 --> 00:14:24.656
  • Whoa.
  • 00:14:24.890 --> 00:14:25.891
  • Yeah. 300 people gave their life to the lord.
  • 00:14:25.891 --> 00:14:27.726
  • I that's so encouraging.
  • 00:14:27.726 --> 00:14:28.827
  • I what?
  • 00:14:28.827 --> 00:14:29.828
  • We're going to be continuing to monitor this,
  • 00:14:29.828 --> 00:14:31.997
  • Synagogue shooting in west bloomfield.
  • 00:14:31.997 --> 00:14:34.266
  • So we're going to get an update
  • 00:14:34.266 --> 00:14:35.334
  • In the break and come back right with some of that.
  • 00:14:35.334 --> 00:14:38.403
  • But i just want to leave this segment with this thought
  • 00:14:38.403 --> 00:14:41.740
  • Is that
  • 00:14:41.740 --> 00:14:42.774
  • I've become so convinced some of the darkness
  • 00:14:42.774 --> 00:14:44.910
  • That we've seen,
  • 00:14:44.910 --> 00:14:45.978
  • And i know a lot of you in the audience have seen
  • 00:14:45.978 --> 00:14:48.613
  • It become very concerned about it.
  • 00:14:48.613 --> 00:14:50.148
  • And the shooting is the latest incidents, of it.
  • 00:14:50.148 --> 00:14:54.019
  • But it's because i believe the outpouring of life
  • 00:14:54.019 --> 00:14:57.489
  • And love and, and goodness of the holy spirit
  • 00:14:57.489 --> 00:15:00.492
  • That was unleashed at charlie's memorial
  • 00:15:00.492 --> 00:15:03.428
  • Makes the enemy really, really uncomfortable.
  • 00:15:03.428 --> 00:15:06.264
  • And so, keep the faith.
  • 00:15:06.264 --> 00:15:09.001
  • I believe that what god has unleashed man cannot stop.
  • 00:15:09.001 --> 00:15:11.803
  • Nor can the darkness.
  • 00:15:11.803 --> 00:15:16.002
  • Nor can the darkness.
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  • I want
  • 00:15:22.213 --> 00:15:23.347
  • People to get a sense of of this building structure.
  • 00:15:23.347 --> 00:15:26.117
  • But here's the main point, as we know it now, the sheriff
  • 00:15:26.117 --> 00:15:30.988
  • There is saying
  • 00:15:30.988 --> 00:15:32.089
  • That the security guard at the temple saw the gunman
  • 00:15:32.089 --> 00:15:35.192
  • And engaged him at the temple.
  • 00:15:35.192 --> 00:15:37.828
  • They are they say that no one is confirmed to be hurt.
  • 00:15:37.828 --> 00:15:41.465
  • That's a preliminary report. report?
  • 00:15:41.465 --> 00:15:43.434
  • So grain of salt, grain of salt, grain of salt.
  • 00:15:43.434 --> 00:15:46.303
  • But right now, they said no one confirmed
  • 00:15:46.303 --> 00:15:48.973
  • To be hurt at this time.
  • 00:15:48.973 --> 00:15:50.041
  • But it's too early to connect this to terrorism.
  • 00:15:50.041 --> 00:15:52.209
  • Says the sheriff.
  • 00:15:52.209 --> 00:15:53.811
  • So the suspect is not in custody.
  • 00:15:53.811 --> 00:15:56.280
  • So they're right now
  • 00:15:56.280 --> 00:15:57.348
  • Looking to see if there's, more than one suspect.
  • 00:15:57.348 --> 00:16:00.317
  • They're telling people within a mile
  • 00:16:00.317 --> 00:16:01.952
  • They should shelter in place.
  • 00:16:01.952 --> 00:16:03.687
  • Everyone has been moved out of the school.
  • 00:16:03.687 --> 00:16:05.756
  • This is an update from the sheriff
  • 00:16:05.756 --> 00:16:07.992
  • There in west bloomfield. go ahead.
  • 00:16:07.992 --> 00:16:09.360
  • And it's just a frightening thing.
  • 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:10.694
  • We've got.
  • 00:16:10.694 --> 00:16:12.196
  • It's churches.
  • 00:16:12.196 --> 00:16:13.898
  • Religious houses of all denominations have become,
  • 00:16:13.898 --> 00:16:17.802
  • I don't want to say popular, but pretty frequent targets of.
  • 00:16:17.802 --> 00:16:21.972
  • Yeah, just ask on.
  • 00:16:21.972 --> 00:16:23.274
  • Well yeah. people they've become. yeah.
  • 00:16:23.274 --> 00:16:25.009
  • So you have protests that intrude into them.
  • 00:16:25.009 --> 00:16:27.478
  • You have a shooters, you have targeting of various kinds.
  • 00:16:27.478 --> 00:16:31.949
  • And we're going to see i think synagogues become more
  • 00:16:31.949 --> 00:16:35.052
  • Popular targets because of the syrian conflict.
  • 00:16:35.052 --> 00:16:38.022
  • We've seen churches and religious schools be hit often,
  • 00:16:38.022 --> 00:16:41.425
  • Multiple times with this transgenderism nexus. and
  • 00:16:41.425 --> 00:16:46.797
  • Yeah, i just i worry about the state of the country
  • 00:16:46.797 --> 00:16:49.667
  • Because
  • 00:16:49.667 --> 00:16:50.768
  • A lot of people are marinating in really extreme ideas
  • 00:16:50.768 --> 00:16:54.338
  • And there's this increasing idea that someone's ideas
  • 00:16:54.338 --> 00:16:57.975
  • Or someone's beliefs
  • 00:16:57.975 --> 00:16:59.210
  • Make them a legitimate target for violence.
  • 00:16:59.210 --> 00:17:02.113
  • I mean, that's ultimately what happened with charlie
  • 00:17:02.113 --> 00:17:03.881
  • That people reject debate, they reject normal engagement,
  • 00:17:03.881 --> 00:17:08.185
  • And instead they see every problem
  • 00:17:08.185 --> 00:17:10.121
  • As something that they can somehow
  • 00:17:10.121 --> 00:17:11.188
  • Solve by picking up a rifle.
  • 00:17:11.188 --> 00:17:13.124
  • I went to east africa the first time in 2008,
  • 00:17:13.124 --> 00:17:15.526
  • And every church i went to in preach there,
  • 00:17:15.526 --> 00:17:17.862
  • It had, you know, guys with, you know, armed guys, ak 47
  • 00:17:17.862 --> 00:17:21.432
  • Out in front of the church. and it was so foreign to me.
  • 00:17:21.432 --> 00:17:23.767
  • And now, like going to a church that doesn't
  • 00:17:23.767 --> 00:17:25.803
  • Have a security team, i could be like,
  • 00:17:25.803 --> 00:17:27.404
  • What are you guys doing?
  • 00:17:27.404 --> 00:17:28.172
  • Like, this is
  • 00:17:28.172 --> 00:17:29.240
  • You have to understand where we're at right now.
  • 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:30.741
  • Like, and it's,
  • 00:17:30.741 --> 00:17:31.775
  • It's it's terrible
  • 00:17:31.775 --> 00:17:32.676
  • That we even have to think like this,
  • 00:17:32.676 --> 00:17:33.844
  • But this is this the war that we live in.
  • 00:17:33.844 --> 00:17:35.412
  • And i think as long as this stuff is allowed
  • 00:17:35.412 --> 00:17:37.014
  • To, you know, continue and this type of ideology,
  • 00:17:37.014 --> 00:17:39.850
  • You know, pushes on, you know,
  • 00:17:39.850 --> 00:17:41.785
  • You know, houses of worship have to have to think
  • 00:17:42.820 --> 00:17:44.788
  • About security of like, top priority.
  • 00:17:44.788 --> 00:17:46.490
  • And it's such a frustrating
  • 00:17:46.490 --> 00:17:47.892
  • Sign of decline because america has always
  • 00:17:47.892 --> 00:17:49.193
  • Had a large number of denominations.
  • 00:17:49.193 --> 00:17:51.428
  • The original reason
  • 00:17:51.428 --> 00:17:53.130
  • A lot of people know that we had
  • 00:17:53.130 --> 00:17:54.365
  • The first amendment is because we had so many different just
  • 00:17:54.365 --> 00:17:58.135
  • Protestant churches, quakers and quakers, anglicans,
  • 00:17:58.135 --> 00:18:01.472
  • And eventually methodists and so on.
  • 00:18:01.472 --> 00:18:03.107
  • And then,
  • 00:18:03.107 --> 00:18:03.641
  • Of course, we've had
  • 00:18:03.641 --> 00:18:04.842
  • A large number of catholics since the mid 19th century.
  • 00:18:04.842 --> 00:18:07.044
  • We've had a large number of jews since about the same time.
  • 00:18:07.044 --> 00:18:10.080
  • And for the most part,
  • 00:18:10.080 --> 00:18:12.583
  • You know, we were able to live in peace.
  • 00:18:12.583 --> 00:18:14.218
  • And that was one of the great
  • 00:18:14.218 --> 00:18:15.286
  • Blessings of america, because a lot of countries
  • 00:18:15.286 --> 00:18:17.955
  • With religious divisions, it has ended extremely badly.
  • 00:18:17.955 --> 00:18:21.425
  • Northern ireland,
  • 00:18:21.425 --> 00:18:22.459
  • You know, northern ireland, poland, of course.
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  • And russia, you could say.
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  • And you just
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  • But what we're looking at
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  • Now is more like north and south sudan or nigeria,
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  • You know, where you're getting
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  • Where you're getting a muslim on jew violence or, muslim
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  • On christian violence or just tensions raised in general?
  • 00:18:38.909 --> 00:18:43.047
  • And we should be frank,
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  • There's christian on on jewish violence.
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  • And this is one of the things charlie was most worried about,
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  • That he saw this germ spreading,
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  • On the right people who spend too much time online,
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  • Too much time and really toxic formulas where they blame,
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  • They decide to blame the jews for their problems.
  • 00:18:57.161 --> 00:18:59.597
  • Well, throw up 209.
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  • This is a tweet from charlie.
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  • It says jew hate has no place in civil society.
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  • It rots the brain. rejected.
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  • I would, i would add, it has no place in christianity
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  • Either.
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  • If you call yourself a again,
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  • We can debate about eschatology, that's fine.
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  • But if you if you are, you know,
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  • Calling yourself a christian and you're saying
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  • Christ is king, and then you are,
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  • You know, promoting some sort of hatred
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  • Towards a people because of their ethnicity
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  • That isn't christianity any longer or the religion.
  • 00:19:24.188 --> 00:19:26.690
  • And, and i would just say,
  • 00:19:26.690 --> 00:19:29.493
  • You know, charlie was very adamant
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  • About this, by the way, that jew hate was a brain rot.
  • 00:19:31.862 --> 00:19:34.765
  • And he said it over and over and over again,
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  • And we must reject it.
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  • Our savior was a jewish man.
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  • The rabbi.
  • 00:19:41.739 --> 00:19:43.674
  • So i don't know.
  • 00:19:43.674 --> 00:19:46.076
  • You know, at some point, yeah, you could debate
  • 00:19:46.076 --> 00:19:48.145
  • About replacement theology.
  • 00:19:48.145 --> 00:19:49.313
  • You can whatever dispensation was,
  • 00:19:49.313 --> 00:19:52.383
  • Our savior was a jew.
  • 00:19:52.883 --> 00:19:53.684
  • You know, we had
  • 00:19:53.684 --> 00:19:54.652
  • We had a i, i won't i won't overly quote it
  • 00:19:54.652 --> 00:19:56.654
  • Because i probably can't do that right now.
  • 00:19:56.654 --> 00:19:58.455
  • But, you know, there was a there was a big story this week
  • 00:19:58.455 --> 00:20:00.257
  • About a particular pastor who was saying that,
  • 00:20:00.257 --> 00:20:02.092
  • You know, he didn't it didn't really matter to him.
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  • What? jesus. you know, what his background was.
  • 00:20:03.827 --> 00:20:06.463
  • And it's like,
  • 00:20:06.463 --> 00:20:07.631
  • If jesus wasn't a jewish messiah, then he didn't fulfill
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  • The prophecies of the old testament.
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  • Then he wasn't actually, you know, the christ, you know.
  • 00:20:12.436 --> 00:20:16.040
  • And so it's like this is intrinsic to our faith.
  • 00:20:16.040 --> 00:20:18.542
  • Like it's not something that we can just do away with.
  • 00:20:18.542 --> 00:20:20.978
  • Again, we can debate the eschatology
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  • And the role of israel in the future events
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  • Of the coming of christ.
  • 00:20:25.516 --> 00:20:26.850
  • But to to try to like, you know, erase the past
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  • And do this his
  • 00:20:30.321 --> 00:20:31.488
  • You know, revisionist history thing on on even jesus's
  • 00:20:31.488 --> 00:20:34.124
  • Own life, it could not have just been helicoptered into,
  • 00:20:34.124 --> 00:20:37.361
  • You know, ancient scotland or russia or china.
  • 00:20:37.361 --> 00:20:40.064
  • And if he preached the same message,
  • 00:20:40.064 --> 00:20:41.398
  • It would not have made sense.
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  • What you think only made sense
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  • Within the world of, you know, judaism.
  • 00:20:44.001 --> 00:20:47.738
  • Yes. 30, 80.
  • 00:20:47.738 --> 00:20:48.972
  • You think about,
  • 00:20:48.972 --> 00:20:49.740
  • You know, i,
  • 00:20:49.740 --> 00:20:50.641
  • I was just thinking of that verse where
  • 00:20:50.641 --> 00:20:51.875
  • Jesus looked at jerusalem and he wept. yeah.
  • 00:20:51.875 --> 00:20:54.311
  • And he cared about the,
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  • The, the people in, in israel.
  • 00:20:57.881 --> 00:21:00.584
  • Paul was willing to change his trade, his salvation,
  • 00:21:00.584 --> 00:21:02.920
  • To save his own brothers and sisters.
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  • Love the jewish people.
  • 00:21:04.521 --> 00:21:05.756
  • The point and the the amount of caring and heart and love.
  • 00:21:05.756 --> 00:21:09.059
  • Now, jesus had his own issues with the ruling class,
  • 00:21:09.059 --> 00:21:12.396
  • The pharisees. obviously we're not.
  • 00:21:12.396 --> 00:21:14.231
  • I'm not suggesting you can't have political differences.
  • 00:21:14.231 --> 00:21:16.567
  • I'm not suggesting you can't, be against the war.
  • 00:21:16.567 --> 00:21:19.937
  • I mean, blake and i have been pretty pretty, honest and open
  • 00:21:19.937 --> 00:21:23.741
  • About the fact that this is a heck of a climb,
  • 00:21:23.741 --> 00:21:26.510
  • And it's a big challenge, and charlie
  • 00:21:26.510 --> 00:21:28.512
  • Would have probably been against it, but,
  • 00:21:28.512 --> 00:21:30.280
  • You know, we have to pray for peace.
  • 00:21:31.081 --> 00:21:33.150
  • And we all need jesus.
  • 00:21:33.150 --> 00:21:34.351
  • And i think, like when you have conversations
  • 00:21:34.351 --> 00:21:36.253
  • Like this, when you see stuff
  • 00:21:36.253 --> 00:21:37.354
  • That's going on in west bloomfield, you just think,
  • 00:21:37.354 --> 00:21:40.958
  • Lord, have mercy on america, pray for peace.
  • 00:21:40.958 --> 00:21:43.927
  • And we need jesus, which is why what you're doing,
  • 00:21:43.927 --> 00:21:46.363
  • And the team at tpo say faith is doing on the makeup
  • 00:21:46.363 --> 00:21:49.967
  • And crowded i think is more important than ever.
  • 00:21:49.967 --> 00:21:51.902
  • It's easy to look online and get really discouraged
  • 00:21:51.902 --> 00:21:53.771
  • When you see, you know, just all the conflict
  • 00:21:53.771 --> 00:21:56.140
  • And the hate
  • 00:21:56.140 --> 00:21:57.274
  • And all the news stories and everything else happening.
  • 00:21:57.274 --> 00:21:58.642
  • But when i'm telling you, boots on the ground,
  • 00:21:58.642 --> 00:22:00.744
  • Going to churches
  • 00:22:00.744 --> 00:22:01.812
  • Around this country, we are seeing still massive,
  • 00:22:01.812 --> 00:22:03.914
  • You know, awakening taking place.
  • 00:22:03.914 --> 00:22:05.682
  • And in some places i would even say on the verge
  • 00:22:05.682 --> 00:22:08.652
  • Of what i would call revival happening.
  • 00:22:08.652 --> 00:22:10.354
  • And so
  • 00:22:10.354 --> 00:22:11.054
  • This make having crowded tours,
  • 00:22:11.054 --> 00:22:12.423
  • If you guys haven't heard one nearby you yet,
  • 00:22:12.423 --> 00:22:15.025
  • We're going to be going in city.
  • 00:22:15.025 --> 00:22:15.959
  • We're actually pushing these into 2027.
  • 00:22:15.959 --> 00:22:17.961
  • We're going to be going around.
  • 00:22:17.961 --> 00:22:19.229
  • This is not stopping make having crowded tours.com.
  • 00:22:19.229 --> 00:22:22.800
  • Find a city near you or or use this chance
  • 00:22:22.800 --> 00:22:25.602
  • To take a vacation and go see us in another city.
  • 00:22:25.602 --> 00:22:27.671
  • Let someone totally emphasize that point,
  • 00:22:27.671 --> 00:22:29.373
  • Because i encounter people who identify as christian,
  • 00:22:29.373 --> 00:22:32.309
  • Who say they're christian, and it exists online for them.
  • 00:22:32.309 --> 00:22:35.379
  • Yeah, it's just an identification.
  • 00:22:35.379 --> 00:22:37.181
  • They take
  • 00:22:37.181 --> 00:22:38.115
  • From the very beginning
  • 00:22:38.115 --> 00:22:39.316
  • In the new testament, believers gather together.
  • 00:22:39.316 --> 00:22:42.119
  • If you are not gathering together with other believers,
  • 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:45.255
  • You are not a believer.
  • 00:22:45.255 --> 00:22:46.323
  • If you you know, unless you're in prison,
  • 00:22:46.323 --> 00:22:47.591
  • You know impossible.
  • 00:22:47.591 --> 00:22:48.659
  • If it is possible to gather with believers
  • 00:22:48.659 --> 00:22:50.327
  • And you are not among them, you are not a
  • 00:22:50.327 --> 00:22:52.496
  • You're certainly not a disciple, right? you have to
  • 00:22:52.496 --> 00:22:56.266
  • Go with
  • 00:22:56.500 --> 00:22:57.701
  • This is what
  • 00:22:57.701 --> 00:22:58.368
  • This is what launch tpo
  • 00:22:58.368 --> 00:22:59.536
  • Say faith in the beginning, because charlie hated that
  • 00:22:59.536 --> 00:23:01.872
  • The church had stopped gathering during covid and was,
  • 00:23:01.872 --> 00:23:05.042
  • You know,
  • 00:23:05.042 --> 00:23:05.576
  • He said it was like,
  • 00:23:05.576 --> 00:23:06.477
  • You know, going to church online is like
  • 00:23:06.477 --> 00:23:07.811
  • Watching a fire on a screen.
  • 00:23:07.811 --> 00:23:09.079
  • You know, it's all the light without the warmth.
  • 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:10.681
  • And that is literally what birthed tp, usa faith.
  • 00:23:10.681 --> 00:23:13.517
  • So gather together, go to one of these tour
  • 00:23:13.517 --> 00:23:16.220
  • Stops, be a part of the community of believers.
  • 00:23:16.220 --> 00:23:18.922
  • The fellows ring a friend.
  • 00:23:18.922 --> 00:23:20.224
  • Yes, because the goal is to make it crowded.
  • 00:23:20.224 --> 00:23:22.559
  • Make heaven crowded tour.com.
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