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Eric Stakelbeck: Rooted in Faith | Stakelbeck Tonight

June 29, 2026 | 23:29

From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Eric Stakelbeck: Rooted in Faith | Stakelbeck Tonight | June 29, 2026

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight i'm erick stakelbeck
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And it's a word used over and over again in the bible.
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Remember at least 172 times
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Throughout the old and new testaments?
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God calls on his people to remember all the great things
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He's done and the blessings he's given them, and also to
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Remember the times when they did not obey him,
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When they veered off course, became complacent, turned away
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From him, and faced horrible consequences as a result.
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Folks were at a point in history here in america and throughout
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Western civilization, where it has never been more important
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To heed that biblical call to remember.
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Across the western world,
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We're seeing lessons from history ignored.
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Look at new york city.
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Just 25 years after islamic jihadists carried out the worst
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Terrorist attack in american history, the people of new york
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Elected a pro hamas, anti-semitic islamist as mayor.
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And it was foreign born residents, many of them islamic,
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Who propelled zoran mamdani to victory.
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Clearly, the people who inhabit nyc
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Today did not remember the events of nine over 11.
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Many of them
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Probably weren't even living in this country at the time.
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So thanks largely to mass migration and islamo communist
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Now leads our largest city and financial capital.
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Mamdani manages to combine the two most deadly ideologies
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In history, islamism and communism,
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Which together have killed countless millions of people.
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Communism alone claimed over 100 million victims
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In the 20th century in places
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Like mao's china and the soviet union.
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And yet, the young americans who have turned out
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In recent months to vote for socialist
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And outright communists
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In places like new york, seattle and washington, d.c.
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Don't seem to remember any of this.
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What do you expect?
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After years of indoctrination under marxist professors
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At american universities,
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Not to mention our woke public school system,
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An entire generation of young people has learned
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That socialism is good and that capitalist america
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Is a greedy, racist, imperialist hellhole that represents
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All that's wrong with the world and terrible israel to,
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Of course, can't forget them.
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After all, you can't have faith, family,
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And freedom when you're obsessed with freeing a place
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Called palestine that doesn't even exist.
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Remember when americans could put aside their
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Differences and come together to celebrate july 4th?
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Well, we're about to
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Celebrate america's 250th birthday as a nation.
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And the trump administration is holding
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A great american state fair on the national mall.
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It's a nonpartisan, patriotic event designed
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To bring the country together.
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Yet several democrat run states are refusing
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To participate because, well, trump is president.
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They truly don't remember what made america
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Great in the first place.
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Nor do they seem to care, folks, to get an idea
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Of where this all leads.
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Communism, the rise of islam.
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Mass migration, a loss of national identity.
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Look no further than great britain,
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Which just announced that king charles is no longer
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The defender of the faith christianity.
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He now instead protects the space for faith
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Within the multi-faith nation.
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This is britain in 2026.
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Life comes at you fast.
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Thankfully, there are many americans who do still remember,
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And they're doing everything
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They can to preserve our way of life
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Despite the barbarians inside the gates.
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Great things are happening in our country,
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But we need to remember that there are threats to our way of
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Life, both at home and abroad, that must be confronted.
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Coming up,
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We're joined by a former muslim and iranian native
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Who breaks down the latest from the middle east
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And a gathering storm here on the home front.
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And it all starts now.
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The world watched over the weekend as united states
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And iran traded blows once again, and
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The memorandum of understanding was put to the test.
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The iranian regime is vowing to take control
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Of the strait of hormuz, while talks with the u.s.
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Are scheduled for this week.
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So what comes next?
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Here to discuss it all.
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As pastor sharon, haiti
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And the founder of truth and love ministry,
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Is a former muslim and a native of iran.
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Sharon, great to see you, my friend.
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Hey, iran's regime, this is kind of their m.o., right?
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They agree to something, then they go back on their word.
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And we've seen this for 47 years.
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Do you see any possibility of a credible, long
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Term, lasting agreement with the ayatollahs in iran?
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Erick,
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Unfortunately, i would say the percentage of that is
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0% chance that there would be any type of long term.
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I mean, we're talking about
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Ten days in approximately, right,
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With this memorandum of understanding.
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And already there's been violations of the drone
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That hit the
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I believe it was the singapore ship that the iranians hit.
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So, i mean, this this is, as you said, this is the pattern.
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As an iranian, this is the pattern
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That we've lived through for 47 years
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Is constant deception lies
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Stall tactics by this regime.
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There is nobody within this regime
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That is seeking moderation, that is seeking peace.
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Their eschatology, their theology, their doctrine,
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And their hatred of the iranian people
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Will dictate that they will never, never come
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To peace with their neighbors and certainly peace with israel.
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Trump.
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Tell us a bit more about the ideology that drives
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Iran's regime,
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Because i think even our leaders are saying, well,
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Maybe they can be bought, maybe they have a price,
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They'll come to their senses or they'll be destroyed.
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But iran's regime has a different calculus, right?
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Absolutely.
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Well, first of all,
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The majority of these clerics that are inside this regime
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That have been from 47 years, they are not even from iran.
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You know, i told when he came in in 1979, he was from india.
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Many of these clerics are arabs.
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They're not even persians, the persian people
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That are inside iran, but their eschatology.
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As a shiite muslim, they believe that there is a
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Chaos, that they must ensue and cause in order to hasten
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The coming of their islamic messiah.
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I know you've covered
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That many, many times, but we have to understand
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When they're that ideologically driven.
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That and also it's not just iran.
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Their eschatology leads them to believe
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That jerusalem belongs to them.
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This is really about jerusalem.
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This is really about israel.
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This is really about the fact that in order
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For islam to be true and their shiite eschatology
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Be true, jerusalem must be under their control.
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So as long as jews are in jerusalem, and as long as
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There are iranians now that are supporting the jewish
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People as i do, as you, as many iranians do,
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This goes
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Against their eschatology, but they will never bargain
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When they believe that it is the will of their god
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That they fulfill their mission to annihilate
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The jewish people take over jerusalem, and
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The persian people are just vehicle.
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It's just a mechanism.
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That's why they hate the persian people.
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Speaking of israel, we had this agreement
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Struck between the lebanese government,
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The israeli government on friday brokered by the united states.
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The key here, shahram,
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It seemed, is they want to push once
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And for all hezbollah
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Out of lebanon or at least blunt their influence there.
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Keep iranian influence out of lebanon.
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It seems that iran and hezbollah
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Won't go down without a fight, though.
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And do you see this?
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Maybe, god willing, the lebanese central government
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Will finally step up and do something.
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But do you see that
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Maybe a rocky road ahead to get to that goal
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Of neutralizing hezbollah and iranian influence in lebanon
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100%, just as we
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Continue to see a rocky road in gaza,
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My understanding is that approximately 40%
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Of gaza is still under control of hamas.
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And so the same challenge is going to be true in lebanon.
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You know, the problem is, once you allow this is lawmaking
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Influence, and this is lawmaker stronghold
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In the sense of their ideology and the mentality that, again,
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They must remove israel off the face of the planet.
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How do you get rid of it?
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You can't negotiate your way out of it. that's the problem.
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Unfortunately, they will never negotiate their way out of it.
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They're going to have to be removed.
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As long as this regime in iran is breathing,
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Hezbollah will continue.
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As long as this regime in iran is breathing,
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Hamas will continue.
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So if you want to cut those heads off,
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You got to go after the main head.
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And that's not going to happen
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When we continue to give them deal after deal.
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And now, by the way, the regime came out this weekend
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And knowledge that they had gone 50.
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I think it was 55 days.
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Erick, without being able to have any sales,
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They have all of a sudden had
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A massive amount of oil sales just in the last ten days.
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So we're giving them money that is not going to go
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To the iranian people
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That to continue to fund their mechanism.
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So there is no there is no life in any peace
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Agreement as long as this regime is breathing and iran.
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Yeah, well, said pastor schram,
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Hating folks, truth and love ministries.
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And when we return, we're talking middle east.
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Well, america is facing a unique battle both abroad and
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At home, as islam and islamists threatened to dismantle
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Our western way of life.
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We'll discuss
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That and more with pastor sharon hayden after the break.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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The rise of islam is happening right before our eyes
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And in our own backyard.
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Growing cultural division and competing
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Loyalties are threatening our western way of life.
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Pastor sharon hayden joins us now to explain
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Why he believes he's issues deserve greater attention.
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Right here in america.
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We're talking middle east.
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But man, again, in our backyard, we have an islamist
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Explosion, places like dearborn, new york city and beyond.
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What concerns you the most as you look at the landscape
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Right now in the united states and the rapid and i do mean
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Rapid islamic expansion.
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Well, first of all, i would say that
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It's a little bit of reliving history for myself
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Because the same playbook that overthrew iran in 1979
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And the same players
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Are the same players
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In the same playbook that is working to overthrow america.
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Erick, it's incredible.
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We've been,
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You know, in our ministry, we've been warning about this
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For over two decades now, trying to say, america, wake up.
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And it's easy to say, well, it was just happening in states
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Like minnesota or michigan or now new york city within,
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You know,
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The largest muslim population in any city in america,
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The largest number of mosques of any city in america.
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But it's it's in texas.
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It's in florida.
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It's happening in in states
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Also that maybe surprise a lot of people.
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And we don't know the playbook.
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That's the first problem.
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We don't listen to
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Their own words
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When when the islamic movement tells us in their own words
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That we're going to sabotage you, that we're going to also
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Use the left,
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We're going to use your hands to sabotage your own house.
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And that's why you see this merger between the left and the
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And the promotion and the normalization
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Of socialism, marxism and communism
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Now merging with islam.
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And of course, in new york is the poster child
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Of this, of this movement, of this merger now.
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And mamdani honestly, is the is, is
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Is a younger, more good looking version of khomeini.
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This is the same playbook.
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I mean, it's incredible.
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I feel like this is 1979 again.
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But americans i don't know, erick.
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You know, it's hard to get them to listen.
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It's hard to get them to believe that this is rapidly,
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As you said, happening. this is not something that's,
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You know, 50 years down the road.
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This is happening in real time in alarming ways.
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And the election
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In new york city just last week was an example of that.
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Absolutely.
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You've been warning, as you said,
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For years, you've been warning about this.
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And, mom, donnie, keep point there that you made
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I call him the smiling face of islamo communism,
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This unholy alliance of islam
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And the left with the shared goal
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Of destroying judeo-christian western civilization.
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By the way, we've got a clip here, sharon,
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From just over the weekend in dearborn, michigan.
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It's an eye opener. take a listen.
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What are you
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Saying?
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Hallelujah.
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Now that's the heartland.
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That's the midwestern united states and are having a mass
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Ashura islamic holiday of ashura celebration.
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This is not good, sharon.
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Needless to say, and we're seeing,
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I think, a replay of what we've seen
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In europe develop over the past few decades.
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And now there's these power bases
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New york, minneapolis, dearborn.
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But as you said,
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Unexpected places texas, florida, and even in
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The heartland as well.
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There seems to be no doubt a strategy here.
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Absolutely.
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And the strategy i refer
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To this strategy within the two houses of islam.
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People are very confused about this concept sometimes
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Because they go, well, i don't understand,
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You know, is form operates differently here than it does
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Maybe overseas or in other countries.
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No, it's just the same playbook. they just don't understand.
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There's two houses.
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There's the lower house, which is the house of war,
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And then there's the upper house when they get control
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And they call it the house of islam,
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Where the house of the surrendered one,
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And in the lower house they are working with the left,
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They're working with those that, you know, and it's
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An unusual connection, you know, why would you see moslem
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Supporting, for example, the lgbtq community
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Or trans community or supporting feminism?
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This doesn't make sense.
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Well, it makes sense when you understand
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That in the lower house, deception is permitted.
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They can make those
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Agreements, those treaties, until they get power.
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We've seen this in places like hamtramck, michigan,
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Where once they took over the entire city council.
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Erick, guess one of the first things they did
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In hamtramck,
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They banned pride events, they banned pride flags.
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So the left was like, what happened?
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I thought we were buddies.
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I thought we were working together.
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No. what happened
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Is islam took over the red transitions to the green.
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And that's exactly what happened in iran.
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The infiltration of the red for many decades.
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Yeah.
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And khomeini
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Rounded up the socialist, the marxist,
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The communists and had them killed
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After they supported his rise to power.
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Unfortunately, sharon, we got a rapid there.
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This was great, my friend. folks.
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Truth today that's a show hosted by our friend sharon haydon.
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Truth today you can catch it on rumble.
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It's a must watch. check it out, sharon.
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God bless my friend. we'll have you back again soon.
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Great job.
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And coming up after the break,
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We talked a bit about the iranian people.
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Remember them?
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The main victims of this tyrannical regime.
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Our good friend reza
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Safir, has an on the ground update on the state
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Of the people of iran right now and how we can pray.
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That's next. don't move.
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That's next. don't move.
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Tonight.
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Right now, as you watch this, millions of ordinary iranians
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Are living under oppression, uncertainty and fear.
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Yet in the midst of
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That darkness, something extraordinary is happening.
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The underground church inside iran continues
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To grow as more men and women are encountering jesus.
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Even under the threat of severe persecution.
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Joining us now with the inside story is our good
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Friend, pastor reza safir, director of tbn, tv.
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Reza, always great to see you.
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A few months now since operation epic fury launched,
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Of course, reza and we have this memorandum of understanding,
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A cease fire of sorts, i guess you could say, between the u.s.
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And iran.
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What is the state of things right now for reza,
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For the iranian people, number one and number two,
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The iranian church.
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Erick, it's good to be with you, as always.
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You know, the past 47 years,
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Iran has become a place of darkness
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With the islamic sharia law oppressing people financially.
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People are in a horrible situation spiritually.
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Although, you know, we have the prophecy
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Going back to the scripture, how god would pour his spirit
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In the last days upon this land, and many will come to faith,
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And god will establish his throne
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Among these people, and god is doing that.
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And so we have seen since we started the broadcast,
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Tbn najat,
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We've seen tens of thousands of iranian coming to christ.
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And right now, you know, after this operation
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Fury, there's been such an oppression
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Over people because people have been hoping for a change,
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For a new regime, for for freedom.
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And that has not been fulfilled.
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And so people are desperate these days.
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The calls that i get from iran, the emails and responses
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From social media sites that they're just
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They're just hoping and praying for a change.
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Yeah.
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Reza, is there an openness to the gospel in these dire times?
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There's been obviously, iran, probably the fastest
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Growing church in the world, largely underground.
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You've played a big part in that, by the way,
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My friend, reaching millions
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Upon millions of iranians with the gospel through tbn, tv.
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But in your conversations, the correspondence,
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You have reza with people on the ground in iran right now,
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Do you sense and openness
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In these dark times that maybe even more people
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Could be turning to jesus, despite all the oppression?
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You know, the word of god.
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It's like a light that always shines a strong in darkness.
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And you know, the scripture says, when
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God who slew them, then they turn and sought him.
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And there's always conditions of people.
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People, when they're in horrible conditions,
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They seek out a power beyond them.
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And now with thank god for tbn
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That has made this possible for this broadcast to go.
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We've been there since 2003,
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Broadcasting 24 over seven in people in farsi language.
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And this has enabled tens of thousands
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And possibly millions hear the gospel of lord jesus christ.
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You know,
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70% of the population of iran are dependent
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Upon the satellite network because they're there.
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They iranian people in majority now, they hate that government,
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Especially with the recent
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Massacre that they killed over 40,000 people.
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People are hurt.
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I mean, you could see this in the stadium here in los angeles
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When the soccer players were playing, people were,
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You know, booing him down in the world.
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That tells you how much they're hurt.
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Absolutely.
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How much hurt is in hearts of people against this regime
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That nothing they can do physically to make a change.
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Yeah, folks, when you support is laid out,
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When you support tbn, you're supporting the work of tbn,
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Tv, you're spreading the gospel inside.
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Iran doesn't get better than that.
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Reza, less than a minute left, my friend.
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Final thoughts on how we, the viewers,
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Can pray for the people of iran right now about 40s left.
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You know, i would say just pray.
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A lot of people are facing oppression and depression today.
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You know god.
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God needs
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To encourage these people, and we do that on a daily basis.
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But at the same time,
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The prayers of god's saints are so important
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And so factual in its in its power.
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Yeah.
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Well said folks.
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It's tv or are tv
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Or tbn tv director reza sofa reza.
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Keep it up, my friend.
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We'll have you back in soon with important
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Updates from on the ground in iran.
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God bless you.
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Coming up, we're talking about remembering, right.
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My final thoughts on that, a biblical nugget
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On the importance of remembering how it applies to america's
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250th birthday. that's next.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks,
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As we wrap up here.
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What an informative show tonight.
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And as we approach this
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Saturday, july 4th, america's 250th birthday.
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As a nation, i can't think of a better time
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To heed that biblical admonition to remember then.
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Right now i think of isaiah chapter 46, verse nine.
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Remember the former things those of long ago
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I am god, and there is no other.
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I am god, and there is none like me.
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Amen.
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Remember what made this nation great in the first place?
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Faith, family, and freedom. tomorrow.
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Aaron mullen joins us all the way from australia.
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Bill canning here as well.
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It's going to be a great show until then.
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God bless you. we'll see you soon.
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June 29, 2026 | 23:29

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