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Erick Stakelbeck: February 19, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight

February 19, 2026 | 23:29

Erick Stakelbeck: February 19, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight
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 | Erick Stakelbeck: February 19, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight | February 19, 2026
  • Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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  • I'm erick stakelbeck.
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  • And if you have any doubts
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  • That islam is on the rise in the west,
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  • Or that the warnings of sharia law coming
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  • To a neighborhood near you are just a crazy headline.
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  • Think again.
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  • Our next guest has seen firsthand how islam
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  • Has transformed his home country of great britain,
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  • And how sharia law really knows no
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  • Borders in 2026 and beyond.
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  • Nisser hussain is a public advocate for religious freedom,
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  • And he joins us now to share his personal story.
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  • Nisser, great to have you with us.
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  • Okay. let's start.
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  • You're born in birmingham, the second largest city
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  • In the uk, of course, behind london.
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  • You're born there into a muslim family,
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  • But then you start discovering christianity,
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  • The teachings of jesus.
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  • And as laid out in the new testament, in the bible.
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  • Tell us what happens then and how you end up
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  • Converting to christianity. yeah.
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  • So if i may,
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  • Just give a little introduction.
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  • Born in 65, as you say, quite rightly, to a pakistani,
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  • Kashmiri parents,
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  • First, generation.
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  • Born to immigrant parents.
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  • Grew up with
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  • Every wonderful, british freedom
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  • That you could think of, which i took for granted.
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  • We were taught britishness, which, of course, britishness.
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  • I didn't know what it quite meant.
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  • Multiculturalism.
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  • In the early 80s, this word multiculturalism.
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  • It seems to then, you know,
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  • Come against the british culture with a vengeance.
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  • Okay,
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  • So just to give a very brief overview,
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  • I had a conversion experience at the age of 15
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  • Through a school friend of mine, john lennon.
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  • Not the john, not the john.
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  • But john lennon.
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  • God bless him. yeah.
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  • A very a rough,
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  • Racist kid.
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  • But then on one such occasion, he's come
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  • And the mohican hairstyle is gone.
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  • He's looking, very civilized.
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  • His dress code piercings have gone, and,
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  • He has a a book in a bag which used to pull out every,
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  • Break time,
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  • Which i came to know as the holy bible
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  • And very approachable. now.
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  • He was just the transformation.
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  • Complete transformation. wow.
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  • I spent hours with him, actually.
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  • And then he imparted to me a gideon new testament.
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  • Now, again, as we were taught, it's a taboo thing.
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  • You know, it's it's false. it's corrupted.
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  • So i put in my school
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  • Uniform blazer pocket and went home,
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  • Put it in my mattress, and i used to read it
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  • Of an evening and, i'd read the gospel message,
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  • And i was convinced that jesus christ was lord
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  • And savior of my life. i was a sinner, rich.
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  • I needed christ as my savior,
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  • And i made a confession of faith.
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  • Now how did your family react to this conversion?
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  • I don't know.
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  • There's no way i was going to even,
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  • Tell them.
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  • Yeah. idea.
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  • So i was a secret believer.
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  • What happened was that, freedom.
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  • The bible, the the new testament in my bedroom.
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  • My mother asked mothers to,
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  • Saw the light on, walks into my bedroom,
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  • And she found the due to some of my chest, sleep.
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  • Wow. took it from me.
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  • And so i remember, the following morning, a saturday morning.
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  • No school day.
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  • She was waiting for me at the bottom of the landing,
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  • And, she was screaming and yelling,
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  • You know, and cursing me, and,
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  • You know,
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  • Christian and all the curses and then
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  • Threatening to go to my father.
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  • Okay.
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  • And as a result of that, she was still the fear of god
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  • In me, father.
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  • Being a big man, as a rule, with the rod of iron.
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  • Yeah. actually.
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  • And i fell away from christian fellowship.
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  • The terminology terminologies backslide. yes.
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  • You know, and so, you were. young.
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  • Oh, yeah. and,
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  • I didn't,
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  • Rededicate my life until i was 30.
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  • And that was through my, younger brother's death.
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  • Iftikhar.
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  • Very painful, very traumatic experience of my life.
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  • As was laying his coffin.
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  • I said, lord, if you do take me back, i want to serve you.
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  • You know, i've been, ducking and diving
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  • And this much of time before i'm there.
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  • But i want to serve you.
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  • And, so i've been serving the lord since 96.
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  • You're outside your home? yes.
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  • Going to your car. it's 2015. yep.
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  • And all of a sudden, you are set upon.
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  • Yeah.
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  • Once my very close buddy, a british born brit,
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  • Pakistan brit,
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  • Not so british.
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  • When i informed him of my conversion.
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  • If you like.
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  • He, gave me an ultimatum.
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  • Never to contact him.
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  • He then told others, you know, circle of friends.
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  • They spread like wildfire.
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  • Naturally.
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  • And that's when our problems, began.
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  • Acts of terrorism.
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  • Car torching, drive by kings.
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  • You name it, you know?
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  • It's medieval.
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  • I was, i was almost killed.
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  • I was almost bludgeoned to death.
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  • I was ends up being kneecapped.
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  • Suffered, shattered.
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  • It was broken in multiple pieces,
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  • Preventing my head from being bludgeoned.
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  • Got it. other plants. i had other. plants.
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  • And one of the reasons is you're
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  • In the united states right now with a cautionary warning
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  • For americans about the rise of sharia law.
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  • And what's happening in the west
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  • Will pick up more with nissar hussain folks after the break.
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  • What about america?
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  • You hear what's happening in the uk right now.
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  • What about the united states? are we here?
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  • The last line of defense
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  • For western civilization and for the gospel.
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  • More with nasser hussain after the break.
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  • Stick around.
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  • Stick around.
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  • Welcome back to start.
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  • By tonight we're talking to nissar hussain,
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  • A courageous christian convert who was attacked for his faith
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  • By muslim radicals in great britain.
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  • Yes, folks, it's
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  • Really happening to our cousin across the pond.
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  • Kind of. come here.
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  • We'll break that down with nissar.
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  • But nissar first,
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  • In the aftermath
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  • Of this brutal attack in 2015, you're nearly killed. yes.
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  • What does the british government do.
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  • And what about the british religious leadership?
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  • Yes, sir.
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  • So the police,
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  • Since, 96 and,
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  • My conversion troubles, actually,
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  • They willfully refused to acknowledge apostasy.
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  • Actually.
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  • And again, they treated us with contempt,
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  • Viewing myself and my young family
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  • As the perpetrators and the perpetrators as victims.
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  • This is the muslim community.
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  • We must never offend them. okay?
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  • And they are terrified of
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  • Being labeled as islamophobic or racist.
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  • By the way, you're in hiding now.
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  • I mean, you live with your family. yes.
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  • Undisclosed location? yes. so.
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  • Because of the threats.
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  • Further to my attack,
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  • You appreciate it was a, a massive blow to physically.
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  • I've never known excruciating pain,
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  • And, a life changing injury such as, kneecap
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  • In very debilitating and as,
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  • Somebody who's done sports since he was 13 years of age,
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  • Believe in me.
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  • Just knocked me out.
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  • Took me several months to get back on my feet.
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  • My wife was nursing me throughout, and,
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  • I couldn't even go to the toilet because i had this terrible
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  • Contraption on top of my hip, down to my ankle.
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  • So the knee cap knit together
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  • And, actually, and they would have killed you.
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  • I was going to be killed. yeah.
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  • The police called it a mere assault.
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  • They put it out from the paper.
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  • Some hate crime.
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  • That was it.
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  • All perpetrators were never caught.
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  • No. open and shut case. that was it.
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  • The police have signed my death warrant.
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  • It's a failure of british state.
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  • My mp was muslim.
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  • She was never going to
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  • Support me because the patriarchy system.
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  • The blocked muslim votes.
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  • Vote these people in to do their bidding.
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  • So they're more worried about kashmir,
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  • And palestine and.
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  • Yeah. and this is happening in the uk.
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  • They've become muslims.
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  • There have become a very powerful voting bloc.
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  • We know that europe is in some pretty big trouble now
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  • Because of the mass muslim migration,
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  • The lack of assimilation there, weak leadership there.
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  • Yeah. what about the united states?
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  • How do you see the situation in the united states right now
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  • When it comes to islam and the rise here?
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  • Yeah, i'm very fearful also of the united states. and,
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  • I was actually at the patriot academy speaking there,
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  • And i gave america five years to turn this around.
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  • But, the pastor, chris,
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  • Who was there, actually spoke after me,
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  • And he turned around and said to me, actually,
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  • And it's all you've been very generous.
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  • We don't have five years.
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  • So if this great nation,
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  • That's been created under god's law,
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  • One nation, one people,
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  • Through biblical law, actually
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  • Fails to, well, if it yields to sharia.
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  • Yeah.
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  • Western civilization is gone as far as we know it.
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  • Yeah.
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  • It's not it's not going to exist.
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  • The america right now is pretty much the last.
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  • Yeah. and people are sharia law.
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  • They say, well, what's the big deal?
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  • What's what's so bad about sharia law?
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  • Can you give us a quick, quick overview?
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  • You know why it's so dangerous for western society?
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  • Yeah. so i brought along with me a couple of books.
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  • So this is the villains of the traveler.
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  • It's a classic
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  • Manual of islamic sacred law.
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  • Yeah.
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  • Unbelief is, you know,
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  • It's the worst of crimes.
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  • And, actually, and then he goes on to say that,
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  • Apostasy from islam, it deserves he deserves to be killed.
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  • So leaving islam
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  • To conversion to christianity is worthy of death.
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  • To worthy of death.
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  • And that's an authority in islam.
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  • That that's this is the manual. yeah.
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  • Sharia manual for muslim
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  • Daily living and instruction of life.
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  • And that's why you have this great organization
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  • By the way, called legalize apostasy.
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  • Legalize apostasy?
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  • Yeah.
  • 00:11:04.522 --> 00:11:05.690
  • Meaning legalize the right to actually leave islam and
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  • Convert to christianity.
  • 00:11:08.493 --> 00:11:09.594
  • And this one we picked up from the bradford library
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  • In the uk, in the uk, islamic
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  • Law of in the in the contemporary.
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  • Well today today.
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  • And if i refer your attention ve
  • 00:11:21.739 --> 00:11:26.844
  • Apostasy is capital sin.
  • 00:11:27.378 --> 00:11:30.581
  • Capital.
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  • Punishment, death penalty, death penalty, death penalty.
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  • And you of brave this this are.
  • 00:11:35.153 --> 00:11:36.854
  • And you knew when you accepted jesus into your heart
  • 00:11:36.854 --> 00:11:39.957
  • Became a follower of jesus. you knew what you were doing.
  • 00:11:39.957 --> 00:11:42.794
  • You knew the stakes.
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  • You knew the potential consequences,
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  • But you did it anyway.
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  • And you follow the prompting of the holy spirit.
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  • I was born, raised and, western civilization.
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  • Yeah, i've seen it change under
  • 00:11:53.871 --> 00:11:56.874
  • Seventh century barbaric sharia law.
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  • Yeah.
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  • I do love,
  • 00:12:00.711 --> 00:12:03.214
  • Western civilization.
  • 00:12:03.214 --> 00:12:04.282
  • I don't want this great nation to yield to sharia
  • 00:12:04.282 --> 00:12:09.787
  • Because it's going to hunt you down like it did me,
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  • Your children and your children.
  • 00:12:12.323 --> 00:12:14.292
  • Yeah. bizarre. yeah. well said.
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  • Thank you for saying it.
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  • We appreciate. are you doing, my friend?
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  • God bless. keep up the great work.
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  • We'll have you back in soon to unpack this more.
  • 00:12:21.199 --> 00:12:23.634
  • There's a lot to unpack, but every american,
  • 00:12:23.634 --> 00:12:25.536
  • Every western needs to hear it.
  • 00:12:25.536 --> 00:12:27.371
  • And coming up after the break, a courageous muslim convert.
  • 00:12:27.371 --> 00:12:30.875
  • Another converted to christianity.
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  • Now beaming the gospel into iran.
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  • Folks, an amazing and timely story.
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  • You're going to want to hear it. stick around.
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  • You're going to want to hear it. stick around.
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  • Welcome back to stackelberg tonight.
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  • While freedom fighters are still risking it
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  • All for a chance at regime change in iran.
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  • The rest of us watch to see how the west will respond.
  • 00:12:51.540 --> 00:12:55.143
  • Our next guest knows the risk
  • 00:12:55.143 --> 00:12:56.979
  • Iranian protesters are taking
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  • For the chance at a brighter future.
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  • Doctor homo shariat is the president
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  • And founder of iran alive ministries.
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  • He came to america after the islamic revolution of 1979,
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  • And he knows firsthand the brutality of the regime.
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  • Doctor shariat, always great to see you, my friend.
  • 00:13:12.794 --> 00:13:15.764
  • Let's start.
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  • We want to dig into your great book,
  • 00:13:16.598 --> 00:13:17.733
  • Which is more timely than ever.
  • 00:13:17.733 --> 00:13:19.434
  • But let's start with an on the ground update,
  • 00:13:19.434 --> 00:13:21.570
  • Doctor shariat, what is happening
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  • On the streets of iran right now?
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  • You say
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  • The regime has not let up in slaughtering the iranian people
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  • And targeting them. tell us more about it and how we can pray.
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  • Well, thank you, erick, for inviting me.
  • 00:13:34.149 --> 00:13:36.885
  • After that massacre a few weeks ago and the continuous killing.
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  • Anybody come on, the streets, get killed.
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  • It's pretty quiet on the streets of tehran,
  • 00:13:45.294 --> 00:13:48.497
  • And people are just waiting for trump to see what he does.
  • 00:13:48.497 --> 00:13:52.301
  • And, no matter what, this revolution is going to continue.
  • 00:13:52.301 --> 00:13:56.672
  • With or without trump and with trump, they
  • 00:13:56.672 --> 00:13:59.441
  • They prefer that president trump will do something.
  • 00:13:59.441 --> 00:14:02.511
  • But every day the news changes
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  • And the attitude and the mood of the people of iran changes.
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  • One day.
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  • They're very helpful, and one day they're very of hope
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  • Less so they can go up and down any day.
  • 00:14:14.890 --> 00:14:19.061
  • But, they don't do not dare to come on the streets anymore.
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  • They're waiting to see what happens.
  • 00:14:23.498 --> 00:14:25.367
  • Yeah, but doctor shariat, yet you think long term, no matter
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  • What happens, the unrest will continue eventually.
  • 00:14:28.337 --> 00:14:32.174
  • No matter what happens.
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  • What?
  • 00:14:33.108 --> 00:14:33.709
  • President trump decides,
  • 00:14:33.709 --> 00:14:34.743
  • The iranian people will be back on the streets.
  • 00:14:34.743 --> 00:14:36.979
  • And do you think this regime is living on borrowed time?
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  • God willing?
  • 00:14:40.382 --> 00:14:42.317
  • Depends on, the strength of the regime.
  • 00:14:43.118 --> 00:14:46.088
  • If they are united, if the regime have internal
  • 00:14:46.088 --> 00:14:50.959
  • Unity and strength, no chance for the people.
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  • I tell you, there is no chance.
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  • They have their brutal.
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  • They brought some mercenaries from lebanon to kill the people
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  • Just last month.
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  • And they will.
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  • They're saying, the clerics are saying
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  • If we have to kill 100 thousands of you,
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  • We will do it if we want to stay.
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  • And if we ever go,
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  • We will give iran to a destroyed country, to you.
  • 00:15:13.415 --> 00:15:17.486
  • So they do not care about killing.
  • 00:15:17.486 --> 00:15:20.322
  • Hundreds of thousands have to declare death.
  • 00:15:20.322 --> 00:15:23.325
  • And you know, in islam, there is no value for for life.
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  • Not just like christianity,
  • 00:15:27.763 --> 00:15:29.598
  • Especially if it's a for the cause of islam to stay.
  • 00:15:29.598 --> 00:15:33.535
  • That's a good cause to kill people
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  • From the beginning of islam till now.
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  • So their theology not only stops him, not to stop him,
  • 00:15:38.173 --> 00:15:42.377
  • But it encourages them to continue to kill those
  • 00:15:42.377 --> 00:15:46.048
  • Who come to protest. there is a verse that says
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  • Being
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  • Dissident is worse than being killed.
  • 00:15:50.619 --> 00:15:54.523
  • So what they're thinking is that if i kill is better
  • 00:15:54.523 --> 00:15:58.160
  • Than what they doing on the streets?
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  • According to koran,
  • 00:16:00.095 --> 00:16:01.797
  • What they're doing is worse than killing.
  • 00:16:01.797 --> 00:16:04.032
  • So our killing,
  • 00:16:04.032 --> 00:16:05.534
  • Is it better than what they're doing on the streets?
  • 00:16:05.534 --> 00:16:08.203
  • So they have koranic verses
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  • That encourages them to continue to kill the people of iran.
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  • It is jihad.
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  • There is no value for human life, doctor.
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  • Sharia as you said, and you know the ideology very well.
  • 00:16:16.211 --> 00:16:19.081
  • You were raised muslim in iran.
  • 00:16:19.081 --> 00:16:21.183
  • Now you are one of the world's great evangelists, in particular
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  • To the iranian people and doctor shariat
  • 00:16:24.853 --> 00:16:27.155
  • I think that's one of the great untold stories right now.
  • 00:16:27.155 --> 00:16:29.591
  • We know the iranian people are rising up,
  • 00:16:29.591 --> 00:16:31.393
  • But the church is growing.
  • 00:16:31.393 --> 00:16:33.228
  • In iran, the world's fastest
  • 00:16:33.228 --> 00:16:34.596
  • Growing church is in iran, largely underground.
  • 00:16:34.596 --> 00:16:37.632
  • You wrote a great book about it, iran's great awakening
  • 00:16:37.632 --> 00:16:40.302
  • How god is using a muslim convert to spark revival.
  • 00:16:40.302 --> 00:16:45.140
  • Tell us about iran's great awakening.
  • 00:16:45.140 --> 00:16:47.809
  • I mean, talk about a prayer point for our viewers.
  • 00:16:47.809 --> 00:16:50.479
  • The iranian people are turning to jesus.
  • 00:16:50.479 --> 00:16:53.281
  • It's amazing to see
  • 00:16:53.281 --> 00:16:54.516
  • You're on the front lines of it, beaming the gospel into iran
  • 00:16:54.516 --> 00:16:57.519
  • As we speak.
  • 00:16:57.519 --> 00:16:59.154
  • Well, i wrote that book several years ago,
  • 00:17:00.055 --> 00:17:02.257
  • For five years ago, but still up to date.
  • 00:17:02.257 --> 00:17:05.427
  • It has three parts.
  • 00:17:05.427 --> 00:17:06.428
  • The first part is my personal spiritual journey,
  • 00:17:06.428 --> 00:17:10.031
  • Which includes the execution of my brother when he started
  • 00:17:10.031 --> 00:17:13.535
  • The show saying hormoz knows firsthand about the brutality
  • 00:17:13.535 --> 00:17:17.672
  • I do because my younger brother was executed by the government.
  • 00:17:17.672 --> 00:17:21.710
  • Then the second part of the book is about the prophecies,
  • 00:17:21.710 --> 00:17:25.780
  • Line by line study of the prophecies.
  • 00:17:25.780 --> 00:17:28.250
  • And i can show
  • 00:17:28.250 --> 00:17:29.518
  • You even better today than then, that what's happening in iran
  • 00:17:29.518 --> 00:17:33.421
  • Exactly matches the prophecies in jeremiah
  • 00:17:33.421 --> 00:17:36.458
  • 49, verses 34 to 39.
  • 00:17:36.458 --> 00:17:39.694
  • So i study that, and it's more relevant today.
  • 00:17:39.694 --> 00:17:43.064
  • And then then i talk about how iran is being revived
  • 00:17:43.064 --> 00:17:46.334
  • And how people are coming to christ.
  • 00:17:46.334 --> 00:17:48.103
  • I even talk about the missiles that they are developing
  • 00:17:48.103 --> 00:17:51.173
  • To reach america and to reach europe.
  • 00:17:51.173 --> 00:17:53.675
  • Now, five years later, they already have that.
  • 00:17:53.675 --> 00:17:55.877
  • So the book is not too old yet.
  • 00:17:55.877 --> 00:17:58.280
  • Yeah, it's coming to a head, certainly.
  • 00:17:58.280 --> 00:18:00.182
  • And folks, that's one of the great things about iran.
  • 00:18:00.182 --> 00:18:01.983
  • A lot of ministries, it sets them apart,
  • 00:18:01.983 --> 00:18:04.119
  • Talking about how god, how jesus is moving
  • 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:07.355
  • In the nation of iran and doctor sharia.
  • 00:18:07.355 --> 00:18:09.591
  • You know this better than anyone.
  • 00:18:09.591 --> 00:18:10.625
  • Look, iran, that's ancient persia.
  • 00:18:10.625 --> 00:18:13.461
  • This is a bible land.
  • 00:18:13.461 --> 00:18:15.697
  • We're talking mordecai, esther, cyrus, darius, ezra, nehemiah.
  • 00:18:15.697 --> 00:18:19.601
  • That all went down in iran, which was then called persia
  • 00:18:19.601 --> 00:18:22.971
  • In biblical times. tell us more about that.
  • 00:18:22.971 --> 00:18:25.040
  • Tell us more about
  • 00:18:25.040 --> 00:18:26.274
  • The great biblical heritage of the people of iran
  • 00:18:26.274 --> 00:18:30.111
  • And what the future holds for them.
  • 00:18:30.111 --> 00:18:31.613
  • Prophetically, god is not done with this nation.
  • 00:18:31.613 --> 00:18:35.283
  • Yeah.
  • 00:18:35.517 --> 00:18:36.184
  • After israel, iran is the most
  • 00:18:36.184 --> 00:18:39.688
  • Talked about in the bible, especially the old testament.
  • 00:18:39.688 --> 00:18:43.258
  • I can, and i teach seminars on that.
  • 00:18:43.258 --> 00:18:46.328
  • But i to briefly it goes back to genesis 12
  • 00:18:46.328 --> 00:18:50.298
  • At genesis 12 talks about the blessing and curse
  • 00:18:50.298 --> 00:18:53.535
  • Of a blessing abraham and cursing his descendants.
  • 00:18:53.535 --> 00:18:57.939
  • And many nations qualify for the cursing over the,
  • 00:18:57.939 --> 00:19:01.710
  • Centuries in history we have seen
  • 00:19:01.710 --> 00:19:03.979
  • Many nations have tried to wipe israel off the map and kill,
  • 00:19:03.979 --> 00:19:08.149
  • And we have seen what happened to them.
  • 00:19:08.149 --> 00:19:10.185
  • But the only nation that qualifies for the blessing,
  • 00:19:10.185 --> 00:19:13.955
  • According to the bible, is persia.
  • 00:19:13.955 --> 00:19:16.691
  • According to the bible,
  • 00:19:16.691 --> 00:19:18.193
  • Persia is the only nation that blessed the jews.
  • 00:19:18.193 --> 00:19:21.129
  • You know, cyrus set the captives free, set them back.
  • 00:19:21.129 --> 00:19:24.366
  • Not only set them back, he gave them money
  • 00:19:24.366 --> 00:19:27.402
  • To build a temple.
  • 00:19:27.836 --> 00:19:29.471
  • Sometimes it's my,
  • 00:19:29.471 --> 00:19:31.373
  • Jewish friends like this.
  • 00:19:31.940 --> 00:19:33.341
  • I say, do you know that, western wall you go to pray to.
  • 00:19:33.341 --> 00:19:37.479
  • Yeah. yeah, i still there.
  • 00:19:37.479 --> 00:19:40.215
  • I say the iranians paid for it, so don't forget.
  • 00:19:40.215 --> 00:19:44.853
  • And iranians are saying,
  • 00:19:44.853 --> 00:19:46.421
  • Hey, cyrus the great netanyahu israel.
  • 00:19:46.421 --> 00:19:48.923
  • Yes. cyrus.
  • 00:19:48.923 --> 00:19:49.891
  • Yeah, we did a favor for you.
  • 00:19:49.891 --> 00:19:51.826
  • Please now return the favor.
  • 00:19:51.826 --> 00:19:53.995
  • We set your people free.
  • 00:19:53.995 --> 00:19:55.630
  • Come and help set our people free now.
  • 00:19:55.630 --> 00:19:58.333
  • Yeah, and there are many,
  • 00:19:58.333 --> 00:19:59.367
  • Many persian jews living in israel right now.
  • 00:19:59.367 --> 00:20:02.771
  • And things i think are moving hopefully
  • 00:20:02.771 --> 00:20:05.874
  • Towards a cyrus accord.
  • 00:20:05.874 --> 00:20:07.475
  • We've heard about the abraham accords,
  • 00:20:07.475 --> 00:20:08.977
  • Perhaps a cyrus accord we will see very soon.
  • 00:20:08.977 --> 00:20:11.713
  • And people need to remember
  • 00:20:11.713 --> 00:20:13.014
  • Doctor shariat you know this very well.
  • 00:20:13.014 --> 00:20:14.449
  • You were living in iran at the time.
  • 00:20:14.449 --> 00:20:15.784
  • The u.s.
  • 00:20:15.784 --> 00:20:16.551
  • And israel both had good relations
  • 00:20:16.551 --> 00:20:18.620
  • With iran prior to the islamic revolution.
  • 00:20:18.620 --> 00:20:21.623
  • 47, years ago.
  • 00:20:21.623 --> 00:20:23.992
  • Doctor shariat that this was great, fol
  • 00:20:23.992 --> 00:20:25.527
  • Iran alive ministries, check them out
  • 00:20:25.527 --> 00:20:27.062
  • Online across social media.
  • 00:20:27.062 --> 00:20:29.230
  • And doctor shariat, you
  • 00:20:29.230 --> 00:20:30.365
  • Can you take us out in prayer for the people of iran?
  • 00:20:30.365 --> 00:20:34.869
  • Of course.
  • 00:20:35.170 --> 00:20:35.837
  • Yeah, they they need protection.
  • 00:20:35.837 --> 00:20:38.473
  • They need hope.
  • 00:20:38.473 --> 00:20:39.908
  • And, there is no easy way out for them right now.
  • 00:20:39.908 --> 00:20:44.245
  • They're looking up to trump to be a savior.
  • 00:20:44.245 --> 00:20:46.948
  • He may do something, he may not do something.
  • 00:20:46.948 --> 00:20:50.085
  • But we know there is only one savior.
  • 00:20:50.085 --> 00:20:51.953
  • So my number one prayer, god, you promised in jeremiah 4938,
  • 00:20:51.953 --> 00:20:58.593
  • You promised that you will sit
  • 00:20:58.593 --> 00:21:01.796
  • Your throne in iran.
  • 00:21:01.796 --> 00:21:04.432
  • We remind and we believe that promise and redeemer.
  • 00:21:04.432 --> 00:21:08.336
  • We are reminded of that promise.
  • 00:21:08.336 --> 00:21:09.971
  • So we ask you, lord, we know don't know what the way out is.
  • 00:21:09.971 --> 00:21:14.909
  • We don't know if you have chosen trump to be
  • 00:21:14.909 --> 00:21:17.345
  • The cyrus of the day or not.
  • 00:21:17.345 --> 00:21:19.047
  • But we trust you, lord.
  • 00:21:19.047 --> 00:21:21.883
  • You said it. you will do it.
  • 00:21:21.883 --> 00:21:24.018
  • You will save iran and you will sit your throne in iran,
  • 00:21:24.018 --> 00:21:28.890
  • According to jeremiah 4938
  • 00:21:29.457 --> 00:21:31.993
  • And you will make iran a blessing to the world.
  • 00:21:31.993 --> 00:21:34.996
  • So i pray for a fresh revival, a new fire of revival in iran,
  • 00:21:34.996 --> 00:21:40.034
  • Even that a massacre that happened a few weeks ago.
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  • Lord, use that
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  • To prove to the people of iran that islam is not the way.
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  • Islam is the way of death, and jesus is the way of life.
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  • Lord, bring more more salvations, rapid
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  • Salvations, rapid transformation for the people of iran.
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  • Lord, we know we are praying according to your will.
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  • So we thank you
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  • For hearing our prayers and answering them. yes.
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  • Amen. amen.
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  • Doctor hormoz shariat, always great to see you, my friend.
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  • Thank you so much for that prayer, for this great insight.
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  • It's encouraging.
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  • God is not done with iran by a long shot doctor.
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  • Shariat, thanks so much.
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  • God bless you. we'll see you again soon.
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  • And coming up after the break,
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  • My final thoughts on how god is moving in iran and everywhere.
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  • That's next. stick around.
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  • That's next. stick around.
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  • Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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  • Tonight we have some powerful, powerful testimonies
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  • From the nissar hussein and hormoz shariat.
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  • And we're talking christian persecution.
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  • The price we must pay to follow jesus.
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  • And we may think, look, in america
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  • Here, we'll never have to pay that price.
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  • It's very comfortable for believers in the united states.
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  • Yet i think of second timothy chapter three, verse 12.
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  • In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life
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  • In christ jesus will be persecuted.
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  • It may not always be physical persecution, of course, but
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  • There is always a price to pay for following jesus.
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  • But boy is it worth it.
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  • Someone knows that
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  • Very well is our good friend, pastor jackson lahmeyer
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  • He will be with us tomorrow sharing his
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  • Incredible personal testimony.
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  • You won't want to miss that until then.
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  • God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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