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The Third Watch with Gary & Sara: # 9: Prediction · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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Speaker 1: And here we are again. Thank you God. This is
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Speaker 1: Sarah Jewel, co host with host Gary mccantz of The
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Speaker 1: Third Watch for Challenges of Faith Radio. I'm grateful to
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Speaker 1: all of our listeners and to Gary who makes it
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Speaker 1: all happen. As you well know. On the Third Watch,
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Speaker 1: Gary and I are on the tower keeping an eye
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Speaker 1: out for information and events. Like the ancient watchers who
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Speaker 1: were stationed on the tower to alert the community of
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Speaker 1: threats from raiders and robbers. Well, they also watch for
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Speaker 1: messengers with important news, and so Gary and I are
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Speaker 1: scanning the horizon for any threats or messages that will
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Speaker 1: impact our relationship with others and with God. A part
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Speaker 1: of this is we want you to be alric to
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Speaker 1: God's activity and demonic activity disguised as everyday interactions and occurrences.
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Speaker 1: In the Book of John Chapter ten, vers one, Jesus says, truly, truly,
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Speaker 1: I say to you he who does not enter the
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Speaker 1: sheep fold by the door, but climbs in by another way,
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Speaker 1: that man is a thief and a robber. Then Jesus
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Speaker 1: explains in verse seven, truly, truly, I say to you,
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Speaker 1: I am the door of the sheep. All who came
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Speaker 1: before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did
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Speaker 1: not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone
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Speaker 1: enters by me, he will be saved and will go
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Speaker 1: in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only
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Speaker 1: to kill and steal and destroy listeners. We are the
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Speaker 1: sheep of this world. Jesus is the way. Following the
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Speaker 1: latest trend, believing a popular celebrity or adhering to a
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Speaker 1: news platform or an influence's opinion, that's the way of
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Speaker 1: the world. Who we are not to be reduced to
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Speaker 1: someone's socioeconomic theology. And what's that you might ask, Well,
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Speaker 1: that is the people who want to separate us based
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Speaker 1: on education, income, ethnic group, and of course, as always
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Speaker 1: skin color. We don't belong to that world and its plans.
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Speaker 1: We belong to Jesus and his plans. And so I
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Speaker 1: offer up a prayer, Lord, God, King of Kings, and
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Speaker 1: Lord of Lords, please guide us in this conversation today.
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Speaker 1: Please open our hearts and our minds to the Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit's encouragement and conviction. We need you now more than ever,
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Speaker 1: and we believe that in sovereignty you are giving us
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Speaker 1: another chance to come to you. You were giving us
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Speaker 1: a choice to turn to you. We remember your words, Jesus,
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Speaker 1: as you told your apostles in the first part of
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Speaker 1: the Book of Matthew, chapter twenty eight, verse nineteen, Go
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Speaker 1: therefore and make disciples of all nations. And then in
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Speaker 1: verse twenty you said, teaching them to observe all that
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Speaker 1: I have commanded you. And behold that I am with
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Speaker 1: you always to the end of the age. Jesus, we
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Speaker 1: believe you you will be with us to the end
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Speaker 1: of the age, and then we will enter that new kingdom. Amen,
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus. Amen. I want to share with you some
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Speaker 1: thoughts because God and our host for the Third Watch,
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Speaker 1: Gary shared some thoughts with me regarding what has been
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Speaker 1: happening in these recent times, and it got me to
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Speaker 1: thinking about what God shows us through friends, colleagues, and
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Speaker 1: other sources. And so Gary's thoughts opened my mind to
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Speaker 1: God's activities, made things a little bit clarif me and
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Speaker 1: I wanted to do more research about what God has
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Speaker 1: been doing and revealing, and I thought of the First Corinthians,
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Speaker 1: Chapter two, verse twenty. It says, these things God has
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Speaker 1: revealed to us through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything,
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Speaker 1: even the depths of God. So if we pay attention,
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Speaker 1: if we're alert in faiths, if we lean on spiritual discernment,
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Speaker 1: God will open our hearts and eyes no matter how
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Speaker 1: unimportant we think we are. And here is a wonderful example.
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Speaker 1: I came across an interview on YouTube with retired firefighter
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Speaker 1: Mark Taylor, and he is on the seven hundred Club
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Speaker 1: Interactive YouTube program. In twenty eleven. This man prophesied Trump's
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Speaker 1: election and the said Trump would have a second term.
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Speaker 1: He thought Trump's presidency was for the twenty twelve election,
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Speaker 1: but of course another was elected to that time frame.
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Speaker 1: But let's remember that God's timetable is not the human timetable.
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Speaker 1: So let me read you a portion of the interview
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Speaker 1: and you can find it on YouTube under his name
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Speaker 1: Mark Taylor and seven hundred Club Interactive. He said he
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Speaker 1: was watching the news in April of twenty eleven when
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump came on the screen. He said, I didn't
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Speaker 1: know a lot about Donald Trump. I just knew he
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Speaker 1: was a very powerful businessman who had built his empire,
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Speaker 1: and he was toying with the idea of running for
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Speaker 1: president at the time. So I'm listening to an interview
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I just heard the voice
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Speaker 1: of the Lord say, you're hearing the voice of a president. Stunned,
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Speaker 1: Mark said, he then started to write what the Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit was saying to him, and this was that America
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Speaker 1: was going to prosper like never before, the ties between
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Speaker 1: Israel and America would be stronger than ever before, and
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Speaker 1: that the dollar would be the strongest. He said that
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Speaker 1: God used Trump to stop the anti Christian agenda that
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Speaker 1: was taking hold of America. Mark went on, God's going
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Speaker 1: to clean out the news media. You know, God is
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Speaker 1: looking for his people right now, his millionaires and billionaires basically,
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Speaker 1: to come in and start investing in these places, in
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Speaker 1: buying them out, taking over. God's going to rebuild them
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Speaker 1: and restore them because there's no spirit of truth in
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Speaker 1: them right now. And that's what God's gonna do. He's
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Speaker 1: going to restore. Now. Keep in mind Mark Taylor's prophecy
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Speaker 1: of all this was in twenty eleven. Mark thought that
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Speaker 1: the prophecy would happen in the presidential election of twenty twelve,
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Speaker 1: which of course didn't happen at til twenty seventeen, when
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Speaker 1: Trump was in fact elected. And as for the second term,
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty one. Well Trump didn't make it, however,
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Speaker 1: and this is a big however. Trump did get his
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Speaker 1: second term only in twenty twenty five. He was overwhelmingly
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Speaker 1: voted back in goes to show you God's timing is
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Speaker 1: not our timing, that's for sure. So you see, God
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Speaker 1: has been revealing his will and his plans to many
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Speaker 1: of us at different times. He's been revealing to me
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Speaker 1: the clarity of these last four years as being built
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Speaker 1: on Satan's tactics of division and misinformation. The United States
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Speaker 1: has been marked with radical changes in beliefs, morals, and
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Speaker 1: overall truths, and as Mark Taylor said in twenty eleven,
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Speaker 1: we have been experiencing some massive turning away from Christian values,
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Speaker 1: regardless that we were a country that was built on
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Speaker 1: God we trust. But we are seeing it in other
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Speaker 1: countries as well. Total secularism, and that is truth that's
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Speaker 1: based on the perception of human truth, not God's truths,
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Speaker 1: which seems the right path for some, is seen as
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Speaker 1: the path of real distortion for others because it's against
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Speaker 1: the will of God and all that God has proclaimed
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Speaker 1: in his word, and because these last four years have
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Speaker 1: been engulfed in powerful negative behavior and thought distortion. God
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Speaker 1: is moving among us again because he's hearing our prayers
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Speaker 1: for restoration. I think of God's promise in Second Chronicles,
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Speaker 1: chapter seven, verse fourteen. If my people who are called
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Speaker 1: by my name humble themselves and pray and seek my
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Speaker 1: face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will
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Speaker 1: hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal
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Speaker 1: their land. That's an amazing scripture, isn't it. Yes, God
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Speaker 1: has heard our prayers and he's healing our land. But
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Speaker 1: we have to turn from our ways that are not
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Speaker 1: of God and stay strong in God's commandments and teachings. Now,
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Speaker 1: from my limited research, I did come across so many
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Speaker 1: people and groups who have been praying for our country
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Speaker 1: because those of faith have been witnessing the very same
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Speaker 1: thing that Mark Taylor said in twenty eleven, the crumbling
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Speaker 1: of our Christian beliefs. And I'm going to give you
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Speaker 1: some examples. We've seen certain groups of people who mock God,
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Speaker 1: and I know many of you know who these people are.
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Speaker 1: Yet they're embraced and encouraged by society in the derision
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Speaker 1: of God. And we've witnessed gender swapping to the point
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Speaker 1: where some medical people will encourage gender change proceedures not
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Speaker 1: only for adults, but for young children and teenagers, and
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Speaker 1: for those who have made gender transition. For instance, transgender females.
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Speaker 1: Their new identity overrules the right of biological females in
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Speaker 1: sports and in bathrooms and in locker rooms. But then
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Speaker 1: we also have those that are praying for our economy.
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Speaker 1: Inflation has ordinary Americans struggling in all areas of spending,
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Speaker 1: drastically affecting their equality of living. It's affecting every single person.
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Speaker 1: And then there's immigration. Now, listeners, we want immigrants, we
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Speaker 1: want them, but we want legal immigrants instead. We've had
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Speaker 1: masses of illegal immigrants freely entering our country, and nearly
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Speaker 1: thirteen thousand of these people were found to be murderers
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Speaker 1: from other countries. And the illegal people they're living freely
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Speaker 1: in the United States with incredible benefits and getting better
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Speaker 1: benefits in our veterans and homeless population, in drugs from
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Speaker 1: the cartels. They've been surging over our boarders, killing thousands
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Speaker 1: of our citizens. But we also pray for our Jewish
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Speaker 1: residents and students. Anti Semitism is rampant in our colleges.
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Speaker 1: And universities flags for terrorist groups who proudly waived at demonstrations,
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Speaker 1: where are the US flags? And lastly, parallel to all
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Speaker 1: of this and encouragement of these events and behaviors is
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Speaker 1: who the mainstream media machine that runs with constant support
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Speaker 1: through propaganda and untruth. Remember I read what God revealed
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Speaker 1: to Mark Taylor in twenty eleven. I'm going to repeat
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Speaker 1: it again because it's important. God's go to clean out
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Speaker 1: the news media. You know, God is looking for his
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Speaker 1: people right now, his millionaires and his billionaires basically to
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Speaker 1: come in and start investing in these places, buying them out,
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Speaker 1: taking them over. God's going to rebuild them and restore
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Speaker 1: them because there's no spirit of truth with them right now.
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Speaker 1: And that's what God's going to do. Let me give
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Speaker 1: you a side story. I was walking my dogs the
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Speaker 1: other day in a park and to my right were
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Speaker 1: two pine trees growing beside each other. They were huge,
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Speaker 1: and they were at least fifty feet tall. One was
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Speaker 1: alive and vibrant. The other one was dead without bark.
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Speaker 1: It was just skeleton. But I could see the beauty
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Speaker 1: it once was. The limbs were fluid and graceful. It
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Speaker 1: must have been lovely in its time. The two trees
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Speaker 1: actually formed a sort of arch, and that's when it
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Speaker 1: hit me. Two beauties started out the same, only one
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Speaker 1: now was live. And I clearly saw how we as
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Speaker 1: a people can go in opposite directions and those people
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Speaker 1: I see is alive like the vibrant pine tree that
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Speaker 1: needs the sun and rain of those people who are
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Speaker 1: alive with hope, faith and trust that have the power
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Speaker 1: of God in their lives. In that scene of the
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Speaker 1: two trees, I clearly felt that God was showing me
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Speaker 1: he is on the move. He was showing me how
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Speaker 1: he views spiritually dead and spiritually alive people. He was
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Speaker 1: alerting me to keep me cautious on the lookout for
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Speaker 1: both types of these people, and he would show me
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Speaker 1: who they are, because it was as clear as the
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Speaker 1: sight of the two trees, and he was alerting me
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Speaker 1: keep away from the spiritually dead. As a people of God,
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Speaker 1: we have seen first hand what life without God in
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Speaker 1: our country and other countries can do to the fabric
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Speaker 1: of our nations. There are many tears and holes in
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Speaker 1: our societies, whether you're in the United States or outside
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Speaker 1: of the United States. And think of nations that are
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Speaker 1: larger without God, like Russia, like China, like North Korea.
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Speaker 1: But those of our nations that have a remnant left,
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Speaker 1: who uphold God and look for God's strength, will see
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Speaker 1: miracles happening. In the US, we're seeing one now. A
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Speaker 1: man largely hated by the progressive left, the bureaucratic machine,
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Speaker 1: and some people on the right as well, and certainly
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Speaker 1: the media, was chosen by God to move this country forward,
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Speaker 1: at least for a time. Now. You might not like
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Speaker 1: the man, and he has his fault, submittedly, but consider this.
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Speaker 1: He was nearly assass and not just once. But remember
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Speaker 1: God's hand was on him. God saved him. It wasn't luck.
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Speaker 1: And understand our opinion of him is not important to God.
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Speaker 1: God has a plan for all of us. I've read
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Speaker 1: the scripture before in past podcasts, but it's worth repeating.
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Speaker 1: It's from the Book of Jeremiah, chapter twenty nine, verse eleven.
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Speaker 1: Write all the plans I have for you, declared the
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Speaker 1: Lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
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Speaker 1: Plans to give you hope and a future. Well, God
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Speaker 1: is using him Trump Donald Trump, as imperfect as he
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Speaker 1: is in regardless of who hates him. God is revealing
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Speaker 1: his will. Remember these scriptures. This is from the Psalms
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Speaker 1: Psalm seventy five, verses six to seven. But God is
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Speaker 1: the judge. He put us down one and set us
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Speaker 1: up another. And then in the Book of Daniel two,
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Speaker 1: verse twenty one, it says he removes kings and promotes kings.
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Speaker 1: God is the one in charge. Ultimately, it's not us.
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Speaker 1: We will stick together in prayer and we will be
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Speaker 1: spiritually alert. We will take in all of the signs
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Speaker 1: of God's activities among ourselves, our communities, in our countries.
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Speaker 1: God is giving us all another chance. And as watchers
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Speaker 1: on the tower, we have awakened, and you are on
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Speaker 1: the tower with us.
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Speaker 2: Two.
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Speaker 1: And as watchers, it's our duty as believers to keep
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Speaker 1: the robbers from coming into the sheep pen. It is
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Speaker 1: our duty to an courage and spread the word of
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Speaker 1: God to others, offering hope and peace. Jesus is the way,
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Speaker 1: and Jesus is coming soon. I want to read you
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Speaker 1: some encouragement from the Book of Ephesians, and that's chapter three,
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Speaker 1: verses sixteen through eighteen. That according to the riches of
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Speaker 1: His glory, he may grant you to be strengthened with
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Speaker 1: power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that
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Speaker 1: Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that you,
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Speaker 1: being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to
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Speaker 1: comprehend with all the saints. What is the breadth and
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Speaker 1: the length, and the height and the depths, And to
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Speaker 1: know the love of God that surpasses knowledge, that you
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Speaker 1: may be filled with all the fullness of God. If
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Speaker 1: we are filled with the fullness of God, Listeners, how
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Speaker 1: can we lose? We have strengthen Jesus and his truth.
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Speaker 1: We are under the shadow of his wings, and under
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Speaker 1: the shadow of His wings we find comfort, peace and
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Speaker 1: protection from all of the chaos. And so, my friends,
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Speaker 1: I'm finished with my thoughts, but I want to share
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Speaker 1: with you that twenty eleven prophecy. And I thank you listeners,
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Speaker 1: and thank you as always Gary, you make challenges of
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Speaker 1: faith happen. And thank you for hosting the Third Watch.
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Speaker 1: And yes, my friends, you are on the tower too.
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Speaker 1: God is moving, Jesus is coming soon. We see his
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Speaker 1: work underway and we must stay alert. So, my friends,
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Speaker 1: this is Sarah signing off and thank you Gary.
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Speaker 2: Thinking my sister Syah, welcome back to challenges of faith
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Speaker 2: radio program the Third Watch like Technoledge God, And of
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Speaker 2: course you are listeners, don't you sometimes just shake your
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Speaker 2: head and wonder what on earth is happening in the world.
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Speaker 2: Have you thought about all the numerous changes in the culture,
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Speaker 2: have you, because unfortunately not all have been good. If
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Speaker 2: believers of the Household of Faith hope to make an
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Speaker 2: impact in this world, you know, it's it's imperative that
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Speaker 2: we have to understand that. How about all that blurring
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Speaker 2: of the line between right and wrong? You know, the
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Speaker 2: words made it clear the one day right was gonna
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Speaker 2: be h identified as wrong and vice versa. Many followers
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Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ, including believers of the Household of Faith
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Speaker 2: and others, have replaced sanctified common sense with political correctness
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Speaker 2: running around defending those who commit crimes rather than those
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Speaker 2: who are hurt by the crimes, the victims. And when you,
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Speaker 2: as a follower of Jesus Christ, stand again or share
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Speaker 2: what the scripture teachers for against some behavior, attitude get
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Speaker 2: labeled and tolerant and it no longer carries the way
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Speaker 2: that once did. Now you know that's the blurring of
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Speaker 2: the line between right and wrong. Do you see the
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Speaker 2: growing ignorance of biblical knowledge, politicians trying to quote from
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Speaker 2: the scriptures, you know, misquoting like the devil did and
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Speaker 2: has done and is demonic forces pastors used to teach
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Speaker 2: the scriptures. Now we have a famine on the land,
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Speaker 2: not a famine of bread or water, but of hearing
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Speaker 2: of the words of the Lord, like Amos chapter eight,
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Speaker 2: verse eleven talks about. And then you see an embrace
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Speaker 2: of postmodernism. Think about it. No authority is classified as valid,
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Speaker 2: and those who hold this position challenge authority, asking who
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Speaker 2: are you to tell me what to believe? You see
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Speaker 2: how respectful authority is practically gone, and when it comes
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Speaker 2: to rules, to make me clear that you should make
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Speaker 2: up your own mind about what is right and wrong
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Speaker 2: and only follow those rules that you feel are right
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Speaker 2: for you. Also talking about how that reality consists only
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Speaker 2: of image or appearance rather than substance, and God forbid
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Speaker 2: you talk about any type of morality, because that's a
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Speaker 2: more a matter of choice, meaning it's okay to live
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Speaker 2: high every where you want. You notice the cold word
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Speaker 2: cod is tolerance, you know, the type that says everybody's
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Speaker 2: belief systems are okay, except the beliefs of those who
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Speaker 2: are not tolerant say what words? Yes, words, they don't
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Speaker 2: have any inherent meanings, so true communication is impossible. Think
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Speaker 2: about it. In the relationship you just met the person,
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Speaker 2: and could you imagine they're answering you a question so
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Speaker 2: that they can make a distinction, so that they can
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Speaker 2: be discerning, so that they can understand, so that they
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Speaker 2: can process, or they can decide whether or not they
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Speaker 2: want you in their life, or vice versa. And your
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Speaker 2: words don't even have any meanings. Words carry weight or
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Speaker 2: they carry nothing. Yet in today's society, the importance of
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Speaker 2: words continue to enrolled. People walking around talking about Western
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Speaker 2: culture is oppressive here in the United States. You know
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Speaker 2: what's interesting? But I don't know. Maybe it's just me.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's not if everybody around the globe is
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Speaker 2: trying to go to the United States, come to the
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Speaker 2: United States. There's something wrong that picture me. Since everybody
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Speaker 2: claims the United States is oppressive, meaning that someone else,
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Speaker 2: somewhere else always has the answer to improve culture that
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Speaker 2: is better than the United States answers. You got. The
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Speaker 2: line between troop and entertainment is removed, So guess what.
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Speaker 2: Hollywood becomes a source of truth rather than the Bible.
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Speaker 2: Look at the recent election in the United States as
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Speaker 2: relates to actors, rappers, and entertainers, each who have one vote,
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Speaker 2: one vote. Images and fantasies interpret reality and the images
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Speaker 2: in AI or television becomes reality for kids who are
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Speaker 2: growing up under their influence adults to what people believe
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Speaker 2: is right so they can do anything to obtain their goal,
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Speaker 2: whatever their goal happened to be. Think about a postmodern
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Speaker 2: thinkers believe it's acceptable to react any way you wish
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Speaker 2: if you feel wrong, because whatever you believe is right.
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Speaker 2: Really all those challenges it presents for the believer in
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Speaker 2: Christ because followers of Jesus of Christ, you know, you
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Speaker 2: need discernment because that the sermon is going to keep
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Speaker 2: it from being deceived and dissolution. Think about it, that
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Speaker 2: the sermon is going to tell you that this situation
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Speaker 2: that you're involved in is leading to a bad conclusion,
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Speaker 2: so I'm not gonna go there, and people of the
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Speaker 2: sermon can avoid many of the pitfalls are living in
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Speaker 2: today's society. Think about it, you need direction, and the
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Speaker 2: direction is going to provide you with the goal to
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Speaker 2: pursue showing you what you should be doing. But direction
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Speaker 2: also can force you to make hard decisions and show
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Speaker 2: the courage to do the right thing in the face
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Speaker 2: of opposition and discouragement. All that pure pressure out there
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Speaker 2: here respect to where it comes from, you know, it's
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Speaker 2: so easy to be swept along by the waves of
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Speaker 2: our times. Why aren't you going to stand for something,
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Speaker 2: my bresident of the House or the faith. But you
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Speaker 2: can only stand under the power of the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 2: of God, not of yourself, because you're forgetting who you're
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Speaker 2: dealing with, the devil, the money forces, and two leg
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Speaker 2: individuals who have a right not to believe. The problem
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Speaker 2: begins when they're telling you who not to believe in
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Speaker 2: when you you know, as Sarah was sharing about the
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Speaker 2: individual who was predicting, not as a modern day Biblical propit,
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Speaker 2: not as a modern day Biblical prophet. But there was
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Speaker 2: a recent article title Annoying It by God the Christians
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Speaker 2: who see Trump as their savior, and it was written
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Speaker 2: by a Lame Macbull who is the Religion editor at
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Speaker 2: the BBC. He shared the following and I'm going to
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Speaker 2: expound on that which I believe would be accurate from
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Speaker 2: a biblical not secular standpoint. He starts off with standing
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Speaker 2: on a podium in a Florida convention center on the
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Speaker 2: night of the election, a roll of American flag behind
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Speaker 2: him and a jubilant crowd looking on, Donald Trump declared,
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Speaker 2: many people have told me that God spared my life
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Speaker 2: for reason, and that reason was to save our country
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Speaker 2: and to restore America to greatness. My take, yes, God
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Speaker 2: is to give her and take her of life. And yes,
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Speaker 2: the followers of Jesus Christ, we believe God has a
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Speaker 2: plan and purpose for our lives, irrespective of our roles.
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Speaker 2: And when you look at it from biblical history, God
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Speaker 2: does use people that you and I would never use,
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Speaker 2: that we would never turn to. You know, think about it, individuals,
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Speaker 2: to turn around your neighborhood or city, or village or
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Speaker 2: province or country for his purpose. The United States is
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Speaker 2: no different, Aling continues. This is one of the most
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Speaker 2: striking themes of his election campaigns, that he had been
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Speaker 2: chosen by God. Yet even before the attempt on his
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Speaker 2: life on the thirteenth of July in Butler of Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 2: millions of Americans already felt guided by their faith to
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Speaker 2: support the former now future president. My tape, why was
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Speaker 2: that the case? From a biblical perspective, if you, as
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Speaker 2: a follower of Jesus Christ, was running for a physician
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Speaker 2: in contrast to a non follower of Jesus Christ, and
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Speaker 2: your policies were in accordance with the follower of Jesus
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Speaker 2: Christ's belief system versus the other person, who would you
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Speaker 2: vote for? For support for a follower of Jesus Christ
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Speaker 2: who knows and believes the word of God, It's an
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Speaker 2: easy decision, he continues. Some cast the election and apocalyptic
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Speaker 2: delight and liking Trump to a biblical figure. My response,
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Speaker 2: I don't know about that, the author continues. Last year,
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Speaker 2: on the Christian show Flashpoint TV, evangelist Hank Koonman describe
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Speaker 2: a valtle between good and evil, adding there's something on
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Speaker 2: President Trump the enemy fears. It's called the anointing welcome.
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Speaker 2: My standpoint is from the Biblical perspective, when you're talking
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Speaker 2: about a battle between good and evening, that's similar to
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Speaker 2: what you see in the Book of Daniel or the
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Speaker 2: Book of Esther. As an example, Jim Kaviasy, an actor
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Speaker 2: who played Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, proclaimed,
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Speaker 2: albeit jokingly, that Trump, with the new Moses then in
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Speaker 2: the months leading up to the elect and many of
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Speaker 2: his supporters referred to him as a savior. My take
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Speaker 2: on that the human president, but the feet of clay,
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Speaker 2: is not a savor from a biblical perspective. If the
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Speaker 2: person was speaking of saving a home, neighborhood, city, state,
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Speaker 2: or nation from that which is destroying it, and that
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Speaker 2: would fit what they were saying. Moses was used by
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Speaker 2: God to free his chosen people, the Jewish nation. Again,
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Speaker 2: God can use whoever he chooses as followers of his
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Speaker 2: son to do the same or a matter of fact,
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Speaker 2: or non followers. That's is his purpose. He even us
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Speaker 2: a donkey or asked to get his message crossed in
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Speaker 2: the word. The author continues, the question is why what
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Speaker 2: makes so many sees this man who isn't known to
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Speaker 2: having an especially strong faith, that sent from God. My
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Speaker 2: take on that if you have spiritual eyes and ears
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Speaker 2: to see what the Word feeds up, it's not about
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Speaker 2: the man or his faith or lack of their up.
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Speaker 2: It's about what the follower of Jesus Christ know of
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Speaker 2: God that the non believer and non growing believer do
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Speaker 2: not spiritually see. There were religious leaders in scripture that
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Speaker 2: our Savior told them they could not see. The author says,
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Speaker 2: and what does that say about Christianity? More broadly, in
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Speaker 2: a country where the numbers of church gorses in rapid declimate,
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Speaker 2: might take on that it doesn't say anything about Christ
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Speaker 2: who is Christianity. It speaks to men and women, women
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Speaker 2: and men, and whatever their pastor is or is not teaching,
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Speaker 2: and what they believe. He next says, all of us
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Speaker 2: have sinned. He's correct, He continues to say. Reverend Frank
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Speaker 2: and Graham is one of America's best known evangelists and
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Speaker 2: the son of Billy Graham, arguably his most famous preacher.
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Speaker 2: He's one of the Trump believers convinced that there is
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Speaker 2: no doubt that the elect was chosen for this mission
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Speaker 2: by God. The bullet and went through his ear, missed
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Speaker 2: his brain by the millimeter, and his head turned just
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Speaker 2: at the last second when the gun was fired. He said,
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Speaker 2: I believe that God turned his head and saved his life.
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Speaker 2: My take on that, I believe that as well, along
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Speaker 2: with any Bible believing follower of Jesus Christ who had
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Speaker 2: been to death's doorway. The question asked about Trump's character,
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Speaker 2: including the accusations of sexual misconduct and his alleged affair
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Speaker 2: with adult film stars Stormy Daniels an associated hush money trial.
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Speaker 2: Don't damn mister Graham's view. My take, Remember when Jesus
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Speaker 2: told the crowd that the one without saying CASTI first
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Speaker 2: stone and had slowly the entire audience began to disappear,
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Speaker 2: all of us at sin He continues. Part of the
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Speaker 2: reason some Christians may find it easier to look past
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Speaker 2: questions of character is that during Comp's first term in office,
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Speaker 2: he delivered on a particular promise to appoint anti abortion
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Speaker 2: judges to the US Supreme Court. My take, the King
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Speaker 2: David or Jacob, while others were here, he would have
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Speaker 2: a problem with them. Remember the religious legal political leaders
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Speaker 2: had a problem with Jesus Christ, but eating with sinners.
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Speaker 2: I think what the gentleman was alluding to it is
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Speaker 2: to Christian supporting President the elect. If he made a
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Speaker 2: promise upon what the followers of Jesus Christ of the
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Speaker 2: scriptures wanted, and he carried it out versus someone else
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Speaker 2: who claimed that they are were or don't even profess
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Speaker 2: to be does not, then that's why the followers of
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Speaker 2: Christ would support him. He continues to say, mister Graham
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Speaker 2: points to this as evidence that the president elected is
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Speaker 2: a man of integrity. This is a big win for
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Speaker 2: Christians where evangelicals, he'd say, we believe the president with
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Speaker 2: the faded religious freedom of the Democrats, but not my
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Speaker 2: take on that is what he does said not being true. Again,
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Speaker 2: God used never Can the same way did he not do?
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Speaker 2: And I would encourage you to look in the scripture
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Speaker 2: to find the leader of never Can ever the king
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Speaker 2: who was not a believer, who later became one, and
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Speaker 2: how God used him for his purpose. The selection of
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Speaker 2: Mike Huckeby as ambassador of Israel, there is already a
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Speaker 2: hint that faith might shape some foreign policy. US evangelicals,
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Speaker 2: including Huckaby, are among the country's most fervant supporters of Israel,
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Speaker 2: says the author. He continued to say that many of
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Speaker 2: them believe that Jews should populate behold of the area
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Speaker 2: of biblical Israel, including what is now the occupied West
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Speaker 2: Bank and Gaza, in order to precipitate events of leading
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Speaker 2: to the second coming of Jesus Christ. As we close
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Speaker 2: out this segment of the Third Watch, and in correlation
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Speaker 2: of what Sarah and I was sharing today, did you
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Speaker 2: know that there was a new study suggesting that it
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Speaker 2: was Christian voters who were the sites a factor in
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Speaker 2: Trump's win. George Barner, director of the Cultural Research Center
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Speaker 2: at Arizona Christian University, published his post election report last
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Speaker 2: week showing that Christian voters made the difference in the race.
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Speaker 2: Prior to the election, Barner had anticipated voter turnout among
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Speaker 2: Christians followers of Jesus Christ would be low, that many
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Speaker 2: as forty million simply choosing not to vote. While Christians
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Speaker 2: did vote in fewer numbers than they did in twenty twenty,
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Speaker 2: Barner noted that the potentially devastating impact for the Trump
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Speaker 2: campaign was blunted by the even lower levels of turnout
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Speaker 2: among the Harris campaign's target segments. Overall, fifty six percent
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Speaker 2: of self identify Christians voted in twenty twenty four, which
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Speaker 2: Barner pointed out was barely higher than the involvement among
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Speaker 2: people aligned with non Christian faiths fifty three percent, but
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Speaker 2: significantly higher than among voting age Americans who have no
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Speaker 2: religious faith forty eight percent. Interestingly, Catholic voters and Christians
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Speaker 2: with a biblical worldview both outperformed their twenty twenty turnout
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Speaker 2: by three points, with the key code word code being
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Speaker 2: biblical worldview. Trump was a heavy favorite among most of
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Speaker 2: the three dozen Christian segments studied by the Cultural Research
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Speaker 2: Center surveys. The former president received the landslide fifty six
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Speaker 2: percent to forty two percent margin of victory. Among all
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Speaker 2: self identified Christians, barn Are observed among their approximately seventy
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Speaker 2: five million votes Trump's got in the election, more than
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Speaker 2: three quarters of them seventy eight percent came from the
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Speaker 2: Christian community. Partner also noted that Vice President Harris scored
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Speaker 2: low among all Christian denominations and demographics, with the exception
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Speaker 2: of mainline and traditionally black Protestant congregations. Overall, less than
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Speaker 2: two thirds of Harris's votes came from Christians. The majority
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Speaker 2: of Christian voters also identified their religious beliefs, the differing
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Speaker 2: party platforms, and the inside of their family as the
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Speaker 2: biggest impact on their choice of candidates. Consistent with the
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Speaker 2: patterns established, Trump voters were twice as likely as Harris's
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Speaker 2: voters who identify the religious faith as a major influence
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Speaker 2: on their candidate of choice three percent verses fourteen percent, respectfully.
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Speaker 2: Barn noted Adam Rasmussen who worked on the post election
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Speaker 2: report with Varner, explained just how the sites of a
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Speaker 2: role Christians played. What we saw is that seventy two
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Speaker 2: percent of those who came out to vote were Christians,
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Speaker 2: and they have values, Rasmussen said. He continued, and we
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Speaker 2: saw that probably because of the platform of the Republicans
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Speaker 2: then President ELECTRONK Christians was seventeen million vote advantage or
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Speaker 2: cushion to the president elect, and because the margin between
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Speaker 2: the two of them was less than that, it was insurmountable.
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Speaker 2: Inflation and immigration were consistently ranked as top concerns among
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Speaker 2: the general population heading into the election, and Barner's post
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Speaker 2: election study found that Christian voters also placed the greatest
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Speaker 2: emphasis on those values. Overall, nearly forty percent of Christian
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Speaker 2: voters identified inflation as a major concern that determined who
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Speaker 2: they voted for, and thirty four percent rating immigration and
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Speaker 2: border as the same. Evangelical voters, however, placed the higher
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Speaker 2: premium on immigration, with forty percent identifying it as a
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Speaker 2: major concern. Rasmussen said that this was likely linked to
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Speaker 2: a concern over the breakdown of law. That's one of
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Speaker 2: the major responsibilities of the federal government is a half
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Speaker 2: safe borders. How could it not and that was the
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Speaker 2: decisis the factor for certain, he said. Addressing the issue
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Speaker 2: of the forty four percent of Christians who chose not
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Speaker 2: to vote, Rasmussen recommended that pastors and church leaders should
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Speaker 2: encourage their congregations to vote in according with Christian principles.
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Speaker 2: We found that perhaps if there was a last minute pushed,
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Speaker 2: pastors and family members and churches could encourage those thirty
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Speaker 2: two million Christians we were calling to come up and vote,
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Speaker 2: he said. I like to close out with Colossians Chapter one,
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Speaker 2: verse sixteen, because it reminds us that Sarah and I
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Speaker 2: was talking about if you didn't hear anything else. For
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Speaker 2: in him all things were created, things in heaven and
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Speaker 2: on earth, visible and invisible, Whether thrones or powers, or
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Speaker 2: rulers or authorities, all things have been created through him
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Speaker 2: and for him. He is before all things, and in
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Speaker 2: him all things, both together