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Brad Reaves: Who Equips Believers When Church Leaders Don’t? · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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  Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events,
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  defending biblical Christianity, no topic, off limits.
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  And now, here's your host, David Firazzo.
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  Friends and family in Christ, welcome to the new podcast.
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  Thank you so much for tuning in for sharing God Bless You, got one of my brothers back
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  with us, Dr. Brad Reeves, pastor, author, missionary, prophetic teacher.
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  He's dedicated to equipping the church to stand firm in an age of deception.
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  He's the founder of Coming Soon Ministries.
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  He's also the senior pastor at Crossway, Christian Fellowship and Hagerstown,
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  Maryland. He leads mission work in Africa and other places.
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  He's worked in law enforcement as a Maryland state trooper.
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  He's also the author of some great books, The Beast System Unleashed,
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  and then also his brand new book, and I've got the Amazon page up.
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  This is phenomenal. And times, deceptions using biblical truth to understand the last days.
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  I have my copy. I encourage you to get yours.
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  Brother, Brad, thank you so much for coming back.
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  David, so good to see you. Thanks for having me back on the show.
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  You're most welcome. We've got a lot to talk about.
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  And we're going to do two shows with you.
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  But let's start off with this one. See, this is recorded in advance,
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  but it's my first time back after the World View Matters conference.
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  And you've got a conference coming up, which we'll talk about after,
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  because we got a little time to promote that.
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  But redeem the time was the theme for the World View Matters conference.
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  And by the way, friends, if you missed it, we did live stream for free this time.
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  Next year, I don't think so. But anyway, it is available.
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  It's on the World View Matters YouTube channel.
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  If you want to go watch plus, we are going to be trying to maybe cut some of those presentations
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  and put them up online so you can enjoy some of the phenomenal speakers.
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  And Brad, I'll start right there.
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  I was so blessed by the speakers and the content.
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  And I've got an advantage here because I talked to so many great
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  men and women of God on the biblical World Views strong on doctrine.
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  And everything, the whole Council of God and prophecy.
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  And I just want you to share a little bit about your speakers in a minute.
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  But how important is it?
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  We talk about all the technical stuff and everything else that we need to do
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  when we put on a conference.
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  But how important is it to get the message that'll glorify God and edify the body of Christ
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  with the right speakers?
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  Go ahead and share your thoughts on that first.
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  Well, this is really why we're doing this, David.
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  And I know behind your heart, too, is gathering strong teachers who are grounded in the gospel,
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  grounded in the Word, awake to what's going on around us spiritually and otherwise,
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  and speak into those issues with clarity that the world needs, especially the church.
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  And you hit the nail in the head.
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  The church needs edified.
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  People sometimes are a little kind of maybe put off by the idea of prophecy.
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  And really, God gave us prophecy.
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  It's a blessing to hear about what God is doing in these days.
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  And it's exciting as a church, as part of the church, to look around and say,
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  wow, look how God's plan is coming together right before our eyes.
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  And so I encourage believers, get to get to one of these conferences.
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  Mind, David's, there's a number of groups around that put these things together for that purpose.
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  And it's, people want to project it as maybe where a bunch of tinful will have people
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  that are running around or anything like that. It's not. It's a hunger for the Word.
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  It's a hunger for clarity and discernment in these days that you open up the newspaper,
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  you turn on the news in the morning, you're looking around at the world and you're thinking,
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  what in the world is going on here? Well, the Bible has the answer. It's already told us.
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  And so you had just a fantastic event. I wasn't able to come.
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  I was in another event that was happening that same weekend.
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  But great time to be a believer in a life.
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  Yes. And I got to tell you the inside story. This is funny.
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  So Alex Newman kicked off the conference. And this is how God works. This is really amazing.
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  So I had asked him to come. This was maybe, I don't know, five months ago, six months ago.
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  And he said, yes, right away. And he looked at his calendar about a month and a half before the
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  conference, maybe two months, but a month and a half before he says, Dave, my team made a mistake
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  on my schedule. Originally, they had me off this weekend, but I had committed last year to speak
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  at a conference in Mississippi, this Mississippi prophecy conference that weekend. I thought,
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  uh-oh, can we work anything out? Or do we have to reschedule what? Because I know you committed,
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  he committed them first. He looked at the time of everything. He said, if I can get in there on
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  Thursday night, I can speak on Friday. And then I'll fly out in the afternoon. And that's what he
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  did, but long story short. So he made it and work. And by the way, um, I wasn't planning to have him
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  Friday night. But because he was, he had to speak right when the conference started kicked off
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  Friday. I think more people came to see him at the beginning, which I wouldn't have thought of
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  that, but God worked that out. And as he knocked it out of the park, so friends, that presentation by
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  Alex Newman is called Doctrine of Demons. And he talked about the Progressive Education System,
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  Marxism and Communism. There's infiltrated the Teachers' Unions. And so much more the history of
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  education in America, that's on the YouTube channels right now. You can look it up and watch
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  Alex Newman's presentation. I highly encourage you to do that. Pull that up and watch. PowerPoint is
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  up there. We specifically edited this one message so you can see it. It's very, very important.
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  So that's what kicked it off, um, Brad. And that just set the stage for a world view, missionary
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  prophecy and, you know, pro-Israel talks and media and all these different things with all the
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  different speakers. By the way, just want to just mention one more time. Just the great people I had.
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  Alex Newman, Elijah Abraham, Scott Shera, Brianna Clawson, Olivier Melnick, um, Jay Seeger,
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  Jake Jacobs, Gary Caw, Laura Perry Smart, Smalts, Tim Chafee, and Mark and Amber Archer with
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  Fearless Features. Wow. I want to line up. It was amazing. It made an amazing two days. I was blessed,
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  but I was even even more so by all the feedback and the people that were just responding
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  just so positively. And just I continue to hear compliments on just the content and the
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  everything that went down. So I'm so blessed. There were technical issues with sound or microphones
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  crackling and just other little things that I will do differently next time or do whatever is
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  in my power. But Brad, like we said at the very top, it's important to get the right people with
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  the right message. They're aligned spiritually and doctrinally, right?
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  Absolutely. And you know what? Alex is such a powerhouse of information.
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  He's not a pastor. He is a global news. He's a news agency. I mean, he goes around the world.
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  He appears at places like the World Economic Forum. And I mean, right into the throat of Satan's
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  heart and talks to these people, interviews them. And he has a great world view that's strong
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  in the Bible. And so, you know, looking at his organization, Liberty Sentinel, you get so much
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  information and perspective that many people miss. So he's an expert on what's happening culturally
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  in our world. And you were very fortunate. And I was down at Mississippi. So, you know, I knew he
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  was going to be there on Friday. Someone said, well, maybe he's just streaming in. No, that's not
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  Alex. He shows up. He is a powerhouse. He is a force. Yes. And then he, you know, he just hops on
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  a plane and comes down to Mississippi that day. And I had the pleasure of taking him to the airport
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  to take him home. I don't know how he does it. But God's given him a battery and a battery charger
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  that I wish I could have. But what a great voice for you to start off your conference.
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  And you and I can say, well, he's young. I mean, he's not, you know, at 20 anymore. But he compared
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  to you and I and some of the people we rubbbles with Alex has got the energy for a reason. But he's
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  also got the biblical world view and the experience and the education to back that up. And he's
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  homeschools his kids. And he's just, he practices what he preaches. But I do want to mention before
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  forget. So by the way, Brad, you were one of the sponsors of our conference. I thank you again,
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  so very much. That's why I want to continue to have you on. Well, there's so many things to talk
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  about with you and your books and everything else. But I want to mention our, just the major
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  sponsors, Alpha Omega Gold. They were excited to jump on board. I didn't know about them. They found
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  out. We were doing the conference and they found us. So I was such a blessing and also creative
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  edge productions. They're out of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Freedom Project Academy, huge
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  harbingers daily, a huge sponsor, his sword ministries, and one way Christian church, my pastor,
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  David Roth right here in Northeast Wisconsin and Green Bay. They were the major sponsors and
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  there was many others. But I was just so blessed with the support next year. And now I'm kind of
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  transitioning slightly. I don't know if I should have done this, but I already did. So we had
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  what 11 or 12 speakers. I already contacted five men who were not speaking here this year. And I
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  said, if we do another conference in early May, what would it take to get you to Green Bay? Would
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  you want to come in? They all said yes. So now I've got to decide now. I've got to slow down
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  and decide, who do I want to bring back from this great lineup of speakers? And then who do I want
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  to add? So Brad and friends listening and watching pray for wisdom from me. But we're going to look
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  at early May again. It's a good time for us and a good time maybe for this area as well. And we've
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  got to find a bigger venue. That's that's decision number one. Challenge number one. And then
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  lock in the dates. Then go back to the people that already said, sure, we'll do it and see if
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  they're still available. Oh, so anyway, Brad, I want to start talking about yours a little bit more
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  now. It's called Abraham to Armageddon. And it's a 2026 prophecy conference. It's going to
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  be in Gettysburg. You're from Maryland. So tell us why you decided to hold it in Gettysburg.
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  Well, Gettysburg is such an important location historically for America. And we are approaching
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  the 250th anniversary of our country. And I don't think there has ever been a time
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  spiritually speaking that the battle for us as Americans is more important. The church is at
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  a threshold, David. And it's time for the church to really wake up to the days we're living in
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  what's going on around us. We have so much lawlessness forming all around us. We have cultural
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  Marxism that's rising up. We have Islam that is trying to take root in parts of our country.
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  And the church seems to be asleep at the wheel at this. We are, we can't be lay to see in
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  this in this era. This is a time if there's ever a moment in the history books when they come back
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  if the Lord should carry. And they're looking back that they should look at the American church
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  in this moment. The American church woke up and rose up. We trimmed our wicks. We filled our lamps
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  full of oil and we shined the light into the darkness. And so the northeast has become, in my
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  opinion, the fallow ground. I live in, I affectionately say my church is in the communist republic of
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  Maryland and you come right, we're here in Maryland. And we're the East Coast version of
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  California, maybe worse in some ways. And so when we were looking for locations and I was putting
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  this together, I wanted to find a venue that was going to speak into the heart of what we're
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  looking at. And Gettysburg is pretty close to us. It's within good distance of the DC area
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  airports. So within an hour, if you land at Dallas or Reagan or BWI Harrisburg International,
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  you can get to Gettysburg pretty easily. The venue is a beautiful hotel conference center at
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  the Wyndham of Gettysburg. And we have enough to seat 500 people. Awesome. Great. And so I started
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  making phone calls with people I knew and my friend Olivier Melnick was helping me with this. And
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  we got a, I know JB very well. So JB was a quick yes. And I'm living in, I have both no brand
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  and hold house very well. Rock Harbor church in Bakersfield, California. He is such a prolific
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  voice in what the church needs to hear today. And so we were able to get branded on. And
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  and then Tom Hughes, who I hope for our times, great well-known speaker, pastor, author.
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  And he came on Olivier Melnick, who leads Shalom and Messiah, speaking into the anti-semitism
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  that is rising. And we can't miss this moment church. Anti-semitism is growing at a rate that
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  it should never happen again. You know that when, when World War II ended, the Jewish people
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  said when it came up and said never again. But here we are. We're seeing it happen again.
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  Church is time to wake up and stand with the Jewish people against the anti-semitism. And then,
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  of course, Andy Woods from Sugar Land Bible Church, amazing theologian. And then you got me too.
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  So you get these guys all together in one day. And it's not to be sensational. It's to be
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  is to help edify the church and really speak into the days that we're living in. And what we can do
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  is a church. Because knowledge with, you know, if we get knowledge, but we don't do anything with it,
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  we'll then know it's waste. So we want to equip the church to march out of there with hope,
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  with strength and with the power of the Word and the Holy Spirit within them.
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  Yeah. Thank you, Brad. Equip is a big, big word. Sadly, too many churches are not equipping
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  the saints, equipping the flocks. And that's why we're doing what we're doing. We're trying to.
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  But August 1st, if you're in the Northeast, get there. Or if you want to take a vacation to the
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  Northeast early August, great conference. I love every one of those great men of God.
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  So I do want to talk to you about a couple news stories, Brad. And we'll be continue to talk
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  about your conference and these great men. Sure. But I do have an article from Alex Newman that
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  about the Southern Poverty Law Center that I want to talk to you a little bit about in whatever
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  news story you'd like to talk about as well in the remainder of our time. But first, I want to
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  at freedom project academy again. Freedom4school.com to get started. Okay, Brad Reeves.
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  We're going to do another podcast with you talk more about things, news stories,
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  ICE immigration and everything else culture. Evil being called good from a law enforcement
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  perspective. But right now, Alex wrote this one aside from funding hate. SPLC Southern Poverty
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  Law Center helped corrupt education and brainwash children. And he gets into some of this
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  and what they were doing. We just thought they were always trying to help minorities. And I mean,
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  what a good name Southern Poverty Law Center and they're supposed to be a beacon of truth and
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  justice and everything else. But I want to quote Alex and then let you respond. We'll talk about
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  this because I mean, what they're funneling and what donors are sending in. We should be a shame
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  for not, you know, trying to resist this a lot sooner decades maybe decades perhaps. But
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  Alex Newman said in fact in 2018, this writer wrote an extensive report for the law enforcement
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  intelligence brief warning about the SPLC's dangerous lies and deception tactics. The report
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  went on to every police chief and sheriff's office in America. The SPLC repeatedly attacked
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  this writer to Alex. Most recently in a hit piece on Charlie Kirk published just a couple months
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  before Kirk was assassinated. Now this SPLC Brad, you know, they've labeled Christian conservatives
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  and pro family groups as hate organizations, even parents. So let's talk about their their
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  influence. I'm glad they're being exposed. I wish it would happen sooner. But what are you
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  familiar with them, right? And some of the work they do. Yeah, the Southern Southern poverty law
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  center has been one of these epicenters of just dirty exposures, dirty funding, dirty everything
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  for so long. And you and I have known that we've watched this. And finally, that we have an indictment
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  against them. They have a lot of allegations that are in this indictment, but mainly they're
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  being indicted on wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements. And what they were doing
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  is they're rerouting money to hate groups, extremist organizations like the Klux Klan area nation,
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  area nations, and the neo-Nazi groups. And at the same time, they're publicly presenting themselves
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  as an anti-hate watchdog organization. Now, we know that we can see that there's a lot of dirt
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  behind them. And so Alex just kind of underscores in his article, this idea of how
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  these groups like the Southern poverty law center and others, they're teaching tolerance
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  and using that tolerance to undermine our culture. And so they're bringing in and promoting
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  educational materials like critical race theory, general ideology, identity politics, activism
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  over academics, and collectivist worldviews. And so Alex exposes this as it is that these programs
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  are encouraging children to identify themselves primarily through identity groups, including
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  sexual ideologies. I mean, these are kids. We're feeding them this filth, but they're at at the same
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  time, they're undermining parental authority, weakening patriotism, and they're blurring biblical
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  distinctions regarding gender and sexuality to what is doing is it's generating confusion. And
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  David, what I think I really believe that we are watching a concerted effort to dismantle the
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  West. And we are watching this happen, not only in our schools, which is undermining families,
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  but we're also watching this in our churches and how people are infiltrating churches to
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  bring about these weakened gospel that doesn't teach repentance, it doesn't teach turning away
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  from sin. Instead it teaches you that you're doing body or sin and God embodies whatever you
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  like. But the long term cultural revolution pushed in all of this is the Marxist thought,
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  the Frankfurt School, and the radical activism that is pulling our society apart. We have a
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  president, think about this David, we have a president that is sitting in office right now that
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  has had three very close attempts on his life. These aren't just like somebody threatening,
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  it's not Kathie Lee Gifford holding a or Kathie Gifford, holding a head of Trump on a poster,
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  these are men armed with weapons in close proximity to the president that are trying to take him
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  out. When have we ever seen this happen in our culture? But we have, I think a lot of this and what
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  the Southern poverty law center is doing, we'll see when the indictment comes out, we'll see when
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  all the records are released, what exactly all that does is it is part of polarizing our nation,
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  which is really, Bill Ares really went on this as a contender, this is how you pull apart the
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  West, this is how you take apart democracy, is you polarize. Bill Ares is the former weather
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  underground radical, he was an anti-war revolutionary, and one of the ways he said that we had to
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  infiltrate and overtake the West was to infiltrate education. And so Alex does a great job
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  criticizing the SPLC for praising Ares as an educational visionary despite his radical history.
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  And so this is a broader attempt to transfer schools into engines for ideological activism,
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  and Alex has a great book, I'm trying to remember, indoctrinating our children to death is what
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  is called, and a great book, get it, go on Amazon, go to LibertySentinel.org and order it, fantastic
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  piece on how this is happening and how this has been happening for quite some time.
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  Thanks Brad, by the way I want to mention where you can read more deep more in depth than what we
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  were able to get into here, it's at LibertySentinel.substac.com, and then over at Harbinger's Daily
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  News, World News Biblically Understood, I love these people there in this news site, Alex's
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  articles there, the SPLC didn't just fund hate, it also worked tirelessly to radicalize American
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  classrooms, so look that up there if you can get to Harbinger's Daily.com, either way, LibertySentinel,
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  we love both of them. But one quote real quick, Alex says consider the SPLC's flagship quote,
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  teaching tolerance program later rebranded as learning justice after years of scandal.
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  The program reached hundreds of thousands of public school teachers with free curricula,
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  magazines, and training materials that amount to cultural Marxism dressed up as anti-bias
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  education. So he gets into depth and just exposes some stuff that we should have known years ago,
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  and by the way Brad, only two and a half minutes left for this episode, we will continue this
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  conversation on the next podcast with you, we'll call it part two. But there was a shooter that went
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  to the Family Research Center, I believe in 2017, a little less than 10 years ago, because Family
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  Research Center was labeled a hate group on the Southern Poverty Law Center's map, so this shooter
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  goes in there, wanted to shoot up Christians and conservatives, and then also turning point USA
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  was put on the SPLC, and I think it was not too long before Charlie Kirk was assassinated,
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  I don't know the timing of that, but there are wackos out there that will follow up with some of
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  these, and they'll just say, oh, hate groups, yeah. So Brad, your final thoughts in the last
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  minute and a half here, and we'll wrap it up. Well, it's interesting that a lot of this political
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  and cultural violence is coming from the radical left, and that doesn't mean that every Democrat
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  or every left-leaning person has a violent tendency, I'm not implying that,
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  but what I'm saying is that the narrative that is being projected is fueling these people,
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  these wackos that think the answer to dispute is through shooting the person, you'd Charlie Kirk,
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  Donald Trump, whoever it is, the Family Research Center, whoever it is, that's the answer.
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  Charlie Kirk did such a powerful job. He said when dialogue stops, bad things happen, and he's
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  right on, which is why we held these conferences, which is why we want to have the dialogue,
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  because that's what matters, that's where we have to get back to having civil discourse
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  about truth and coming to good agreements as a culture. That's right, brother. We'll continue this
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  conversation. By the way, for you guys viewing, it'll be next week with Brad Reeves. We'll have
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  him on again, I'll record another podcast, but it's coming soon ministries.substac.com, coming soon
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  ministries.substac.com. Brad, thank you so much. We appreciate your brother. We'll talk more.
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  David God bless you. Thank you. All right. Thanks, friends. Family in Christ. God bless you,
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  and as always, keep speaking the truth about things that matter. We'll see you next time.