Latest / Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo / Brad Reaves: Worldview, Western Values Vs. The Red-Green Axis
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- 0:03Welcome to Worldview Matters.
- 0:05Discussing controversial issues.
- 0:07Discerning current events.
- 0:10Defending biblical Christianity.
- 0:13No topic.
- 0:14Off limits.
- 0:16And now, here's your host, David Fiorazzo.
- 0:20Hey, friends, family in Christ.
- 0:21Thank you so much for tuning in.
- 0:22Another wonderful podcast with another great guest.
- 0:25I love doing this because I love the people I get to talk to.
- 0:28And we get to learn from and rub elbows with a lot to catch up on with Pastor Brad Reeves of Crossway Christian Fellowship.
- 0:36MyCrossway.org.
- 0:37Also, you can look him up on LinkedIn.
- 0:39His books are on Amazon.
- 0:41They've got a YouTube channel, and his main website for Brad's ministry is ComingSoonMinistries.org.
- 0:50ComingSoonMinistries.org.
- 0:54Brother, good to see you.
- 0:55Thanks for your time.
- 0:57Dave, so good to see you.
- 0:58It's been a while, and we've been busy with a lot happening.
- 1:03Your conference, my conference, things happening, but boy, it's good to see your face again.
- 1:08Well, I don't know if I told you, but I actually watched much of your conference, the Abraham to Armageddon.
- 1:13I thank God for live streaming, and I was able to watch it.
- 1:18So give us a recap, your takeaways from the recent conference you had in Gettysburg.
- 1:24Well, as you said, it was in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, August 1st.
- 1:28We had a venue set up for 500.
- 1:32We sold out to 430 people in attendance at this one day with Brandon Holdhouse, Tom Hughes, Olivier Melnick, J.B. Hickson, Andy Woods, and myself all packed into one day.
- 1:46And what an incredible day it was.
- 1:49Dave, the Holy Spirit was so prevalent the entire day as we started off with worship.
- 1:57And you could just feel the Spirit of God there just shining into this room.
- 2:02And we had just this cadre of teachers that came along and poured into the hearts and the edifying of the church on this one day.
- 2:16And people, I don't know how many people walked up to me that day and shook my hand and said,
- 2:21Thank you so much for having this on the East Coast.
- 2:24We have been missing this.
- 2:25We have been wanting this.
- 2:26We always have to go out to the Midwest or the West or somewhere else to find this.
- 2:31And there was so much hunger.
- 2:34And that's the word I would use to describe it, David.
- 2:38It was hunger for this.
- 2:40And so we're already planning now, 2027.
- 2:44I know you've already been working on your conference that's coming up, and we're already planning out 2027.
- 2:51It's going to be – we're looking at a two-day conference, looking at August 6th and 7th.
- 3:00of 2027 and we have the same six guys coming and i've already also added to that a list of guys being lee brainyard and mike spaulding so we are it's going to be a a rocking
- 3:17couple of days in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, we're holding the ground, we're breaking up the fallow ground in the Northeast, because, you know, America needs this.
- 3:25America needs, it's not so much just about prophecy, David, it's about...
- 3:32being biblical again.
- 3:34And one-third of the Bible is prophecy.
- 3:37And a major portion of our scripture is given to us from Jewish hands that have written these scriptures, and Israel that has been such a blessing to the world.
- 3:49that we're standing firm with Israel.
- 3:54And so my heart is to edify the church.
- 3:56My heart is to bring the church back to its biblical roots, get away from some of the sensational stuff, and just dig back into the root of Scripture.
- 4:08We're known as the pillar and the buttress of truth, according to Paul's letter to Timothy.
- 4:13And so we've got to be that.
- 4:14Yeah.
- 4:15be that pillar of buttress of truth in these days that are growing darker.
- 4:19But when the darkness comes in, that's when we shine our light.
- 4:23We're the salt and the light of the earth.
- 4:24We are the agent changers that Christ put in place to encourage people, to bring hope of salvation to people, but also bring clarity into the days we're living in, which is why prophecy is so important, right?
- 4:40Amen, brother.
- 4:41And I want to say before I forget, Brandon Holthaus brought the full on caffeinated presentation that he gave.
- 4:52He was like on fire.
- 4:53I mean, all you guys were wonderful.
- 4:55He was.
- 4:55But Brandon like took it up a notch.
- 4:57I'm going, whoa, I'm glad.
- 4:58So I booked him for next year.
- 5:00Before I forget.
- 5:01Awesome.
- 5:01Before I forget, I want to bring up our conference page.
- 5:05Jeff, go ahead and bring that up.
- 5:06I haven't talked about it every podcast yet.
- 5:09And everyone might be thinking, well, this is a long ways off, David.
- 5:12It's April 30th, you know, next year, 2027.
- 5:15Why are you talking about this so early?
- 5:17So go down the speakers.
- 5:18We'll just talk about who's coming.
- 5:20Look at that.
- 5:21I got Nathan Jones from Lamb and Lion.
- 5:23I got Brianna Clausen from Harbinger's Daily.
- 5:26Alex Newman, Liberty Sentinel.
- 5:28Yeah.
- 5:28Hadia Miramati Falco, if you're not familiar with her story, friends, and her expertise on government and Islam and what we're going to talk about in part today, just go look up her podcast.
- 5:40Mark Henry, Andy Woods, Mark and Amber Archer, Pete Garcia, Steve Smotherman, Matthew Mayer, Brandon Holthouse, J.B. Hickson, and Brian Thomas.
- 5:52Why am I telling you this?
- 5:53Why are we talking about this so early?
- 5:56So many people said, oh, David, I wish I would have known about this earlier.
- 5:59I have plane tickets booked to, I don't know, California, Florida, who knows, wherever.
- 6:05I have a family vacation for 10 days right during that time.
- 6:08Well, I'm giving you enough notice now.
- 6:11So if this is important enough to you, my friends, and like you said, in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, that area,
- 6:19Green Bay, Wisconsin, we need this kind of conference because there's not much around here.
- 6:26So friends, if this is important to you, the first one sold out early.
- 6:31We increased, we got a new venue.
- 6:33We're at the Tundra Lodge on Lombardi Avenue down the street from Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
- 6:38No excuses.
- 6:39And I know I'm being straightforward with you because a lot of people think, yeah, I would have wanted to come.
- 6:45But, you know, so make plans to be there.
- 6:47And then make your vacation around something as important as these expert speakers coming to talk about the biblical worldview on all these different subjects and topics of importance to the body of Christ.
- 6:59I'm done.
- 6:59I'm off my soapbox, Brad, but we need to redeem the time.
- 7:03That's our theme again.
- 7:04We do.
- 7:04So, yeah.
- 7:05We do.
- 7:05Go ahead.
- 7:06And David, I tell you what, there is something just incredible.
- 7:11Yeah.
- 7:12about 500, 600 believers gathered together in one room, united as believers that are expecting the return of our Savior very soon.
- 7:24And there's a hunger in that room.
- 7:26That is, the day flies by.
- 7:29So if you've never been to one of these events, you've got to be a good one.
- 7:32Get registered for Redeem the Time.
- 7:34Get out there to Green Bay.
- 7:36And then put on your list to come down to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in August 2027.
- 7:44And you will walk away with a greater love for your Savior.
- 7:52I promise you that.
- 7:53And you will walk away with a greater hope and a greater love for the body of Christ.
- 7:57So Pastor Brad Reeves, we were going to talk about, and we are going to get there, what I've titled today's podcast, Worldview, Western Values, and the Red-Green Axis.
- 8:07But first, I want to go back to something we were just kind of talking about with our conferences.
- 8:13You've got a podcast, or maybe it's a sermon.
- 8:15It's over on your Substack, comingsoonministries.substack.com.
- 8:22From earlier this month, Being the Remnant Church.
- 8:27And that's who we're really drawing into this.
- 8:30It's not new believers necessarily.
- 8:32It's definitely not unbelievers, but it's people that want to get engaged or that maybe they're battle weary.
- 8:39Maybe they need encouragement.
- 8:41But the remnant church, talk to us a little bit maybe about that standing faithful in an age of compromise.
- 8:47And then we'll jump into the topic for today.
- 8:50Well, as I mentioned before, my heart is for the church of the day.
- 8:54David, we live in an incredible time.
- 8:58What a day to be alive as believers.
- 9:01But unfortunately, there's a portion of the church that has become Laodicean.
- 9:08We've become very sleepy, indifferent to what's going on.
- 9:13We were talking about before the show about the issues of abortion, and the church is just kind of—
- 9:19You know, it's like, okay, now off to the next topic.
- 9:23Exactly.
- 9:24And these are critical things.
- 9:26And remaining remnant, remaining the remnant church is critical.
- 9:33We have to be strong.
- 9:36It's going to cost us something to stand for Christ in these days.
- 9:41And the remnant church...
- 9:44is a group of people that have said, I'm going to step myself out.
- 9:52I'm going to be the church.
- 9:54I'm going to be intentionally the salt and the light in a world that has grown very dark.
- 10:03And the church has fallen asleep at the wheel.
- 10:07You know, when Christ said to Jesus,
- 10:10the lady who's seen church, behold, I stand at the door and knock.
- 10:13He wasn't saying that to nonbelievers.
- 10:16He was talking to the church at that point.
- 10:19And I feel like there are churches today that Christ is saying, hey, I'm standing at the door and knocking, open up and let me back in.
- 10:30On my Wednesday night prophecy updates that we cover before we start our Bible study, we cover a lot of these churches that are preaching just crazy stuff.
- 10:44And you can see the grief in the church.
- 10:47But my heart is that some of these pastors would wake up,
- 10:51and get passionate about Jesus as they are about some of these apostate topics that they're talking about, like LGBTQ issues and so on and so forth.
- 11:01So as your conference says, this is the time for the church to redeem the time.
- 11:06This is the time for the church to be awake.
- 11:09And find a remnant church and get involved.
- 11:11Incidentally, by the way, speaking of Wednesday nights, we're starting 1 and 2 Thessalonians in our fall Wednesday night Bible study.
- 11:21You can find that online.
- 11:23And we're talking about living as a church expecting the return of Christ.
- 11:29So if you have a Wednesday night Bible study, if you're watching and want to get involved in a Wednesday night Bible study, check us out online.
- 11:36Hey, first of all, for those who may be new believers, Revelation 320 was what you referenced.
- 11:43And that's the Laodicean churches that was the lukewarm church, meaning not hot, not cold.
- 11:50So Jesus warned these five out of the seven churches.
- 11:54But Brad, what city is your church, Crossway Christian Fellowship, in?
- 11:58Remind us.
- 12:00So we're in Hagerstown, Maryland, about an hour west of D.C. And easily, we got people that drive an hour or more to get to our church.
- 12:10And we had a couple show up the other day that drove two and a half hours to get to our church.
- 12:15so they could attend service.
- 12:18It's a great fellowship.
- 12:20But if you're not nearby and you're looking for a church that teaches the Bible, check us out online.
- 12:27We have a wonderful online community that would welcome you in, whether you're here physically or whether you're here virtually.
- 12:34You'll be welcomed and loved.
- 12:35Well, I've been blessed by your ministry.
- 12:37And by the way, I forgot to mention your book, End Times Deceptions.
- 12:41That's your most recent.
- 12:42I just want to mention that.
- 12:43Yeah, you got it right there.
- 12:45End Times Deceptions.
- 12:46And what's the other one?
- 12:49The Beast System Unleashed.
- 12:50Yes, The Beast System Unleashed.
- 12:51There it is.
- 12:52Yes, yes.
- 12:54Yeah, so I wanted to mention those books, but I appreciate your ministry since, I think it was a J.B. Hickson that introduced us, Brad?
- 13:01Yes, yeah, I think it was.
- 13:03And we've just been able to form a nice partnership and friendship, David, and you were able to bring a video message to the conference.
- 13:12Everybody loved hearing from you, and we really appreciate it.
- 13:16Awesome.
- 13:17Well, praise God.
- 13:18Works both ways.
- 13:19So maybe we'll get you on video for ours.
- 13:21Anyway, Brad, let's jump into this.
- 13:23It's going by very, very fast.
- 13:25We were talking, I think, in an email exchange, or maybe it was a text message about Western values and how they are
- 13:32They're not compatible with Islam or communism, but yet we've seen more, actually thank God for some of the men of God, some women of God, but people that are talking about this red green axis or alliance.
- 13:45That's really kind of crazy, crazy times indeed.
- 13:48But whatever you want to share from that, I know it's incompatible, but I think people need to connect the dots to be able to explain that in conversations.
- 13:58So go ahead.
- 14:01Well, what we're watching in the United States is a systematic infiltration of Islam.
- 14:08Understand that a lot of people need to understand Islam is not a religion.
- 14:12It's a political ideology wrapped around or shrouded around a religious construct.
- 14:18But at the heart, Islam is a political ideology that seeks to dominate, that seeks to take over
- 14:29wherever it goes.
- 14:31You can look back historically, and I was just perusing through countries through history that were predominantly Christian and became overrun by Islam.
- 14:44Turkey, for example, in fact, we were just talking about the letters that Jesus wrote to the early church.
- 14:50Those
- 14:51Those churches are located in modern-day Turkey, and Turkey was the center of Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
- 15:00It's now 99% Muslim.
- 15:02Egypt, again, Egypt was a Christian center.
- 15:07It was where some of the earliest Christians existed.
- 15:11Some of the oldest Christian groups exist in Egypt, but now it's 90% Muslim.
- 15:15Syria, Iraq.
- 15:18Northern African nations like Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Bosnia, Albania, and so on.
- 15:26The list goes on and on and on that Islam comes in with this strategy to overtake whatever
- 15:38wherever it is going.
- 15:40And we're watching this happen real time in Europe, with especially in like Great Britain, where 216,000 girls have been victimized by these rape gangs.
- 15:59Think about this, David, 216,000.
- 16:01Now I'm not talking, young girls.
- 16:05And they're being victimized, taken over by these rape gangs.
- 16:10And then when the parents complain or try to file charges, they're the ones that get arrested.
- 16:16And now some of these girls who are traumatized by what they've experienced, now they're being arrested for public drunkenness.
- 16:22And nothing is happening to the perpetrators.
- 16:28The reason is, is because they're Muslims.
- 16:30They're part of Islam.
- 16:33Five of the biggest cities in Great Britain now have Muslim mayors.
- 16:38Think about this.
- 16:40Five of the biggest cities in Great Britain now have Muslim mayors.
- 16:43And this is part of the systematic overtaking that Islam...
- 16:49goes through.
- 16:50First, there's actually four stages that are documented historically.
- 16:54First, there's the infiltration.
- 16:56They move into non-Muslim countries, and they begin to bring these waves of immigrants that overtake.
- 17:03The Muslim birth rate is very high.
- 17:06In fact, if you look at what's going on in Great Britain right now, the number one name of newborn boys in London is Mohammed.
- 17:18I remember.
- 17:18I heard that.
- 17:19Yeah.
- 17:19True.
- 17:21So, and so, and then when the pushback comes back from, from this mass immigration or from the culture that Islam introduces, what do they do?
- 17:31They claim Islamophobia.
- 17:33Well, you're Islamophobic.
- 17:34Well, you know, you're racist and so on.
- 17:36And so then comes consolidation of power where the second stage, where we begin to see these, these Islamic,
- 17:47leaders start taking office in key positioned areas.
- 17:53We're watching this happen right now in Dearborn, Michigan, for example.
- 17:56We're watching this happen in other places around the country, including in Texas.
- 18:02And I think Texas is a strategic location where they are building mosques.
- 18:09It's
- 18:09If you ever pull up a map of the mosques that are being built in Texas or have been built in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, it's astonishing.
- 18:18So the consolidation of power comes along, and the tolerance of non-Muslims diminishes.
- 18:26And the favor for Muslim groups increases.
- 18:31So if you want to get a good business loan, well, you better be Muslim.
- 18:35If you want to get better free government this or better government that, then you better become Muslim.
- 18:41And the overt rejection of non-Muslim society's legal system and culture begins to take place.
- 18:50Stage three is the open war leadership and culture, where I think this is where Great Britain and parts of Europe are at right now.
- 18:59They are formulating a open war with leadership and culture to overtake the culture.
- 19:05And then stage four is totalitarian Islamic theocracy, which we see with places like Morocco and the Middle East and Northern Africa.
- 19:17Now, what does this have to do with us?
- 19:20Well, we're in a critical stage right now as Americans, and I'm not saying that tomorrow we're going to be an Islamic country, but we're watching this take place in the early stages of integration, of infiltration.
- 19:41So, yeah.
- 19:42It used to be that, you know, less than 1% of the country's population was Muslim.
- 19:48Now we're seeing that increase and we're seeing the movements for Islam to take control.
- 19:56Here's where I want believers to wake up.
- 19:58Mm-hmm.
- 19:59Islam is not compatible with Western culture.
- 20:02Islam is not looking to integrate to American values.
- 20:08They're looking to take over American values.
- 20:10Okay.
- 20:11So someone will say, well, how is Islam not compatible with American values?
- 20:16Well, you look at what they talk about with marriage.
- 20:19Okay.
- 20:21Islam does allow, in Sharia law, child marriage.
- 20:24In fact, Muhammad, most people don't know, Muhammad married a young girl named Aisha at the age of six, and they consummated the marriage at the age of nine.
- 20:36So Sharia law allows a man to marry, under Quran 65.4, allows a man to marry a girl prior to marriage,
- 20:46when she begins menstruations.
- 20:49So this is part of the Islamic culture.
- 20:52The question is, what happens when an ancient religious concerning marriage collides with modern laws protecting children?
- 21:01Well, typically in Islam and the countries where this has happened, eventually the Islamic laws over supersede or take...
- 21:13erase the values that were taken out before.
- 21:18Look at the Quran 434, which talks about that it gives permission for a Muslim man to discipline his wife through physical force.
- 21:28This is even granting the most restrictive interpretations of Quran 434.
- 21:35A husband possesses a divinely sanctioned disciplinary authority to strike his wife.
- 21:45This is protected under Sharia law.
- 21:47Now, compare that with our biblical values, where Paul says in Ephesians 5.25 that husbands are to love our wives as Christ loved the church.
- 21:58Again, where would the women's rights be?
- 22:03This kind of treatment of women.
- 22:04I mean, it's certainly not should not be tolerated in any construct.
- 22:09And it is permissible under law in Islam.
- 22:13Then you go into, you know, we've already talked about the the the the the the gangs and where a Muslim and what what is happening in Great Britain is Muslims are looking at Great Britain as a conquest.
- 22:32So they see the girls not as fellow citizens, but as slaves as part of who they are conquesting.
- 22:46So when they take their hand upon these girls, they are permitted under Quran 424 to have sex with them, whether they want to or not.
- 22:58And then, of course, there's the...
- 23:02If there's apostasy, you can kill the person.
- 23:06You talk about homosexuals.
- 23:10Christ tells us to show mercy, to preach the gospel to people who are living in sin.
- 23:18The Quran, in Quran 7, 80 through 84, permits Muslims to kill the homosexuals.
- 23:25So when you talk about a...
- 23:29Queers for Palestine who are chanting, you know, they're going to go to Gaza and set Gaza free.
- 23:34Well, they go to Gaza, they're going to get thrown off a rooftop.
- 23:37Again, incompatible with Western values.
- 23:40And then, of course, jihad is permitted and so on.
- 23:45I'm not afraid of my Muslim neighbor, David.
- 23:48I'm concerned about an ideology whenever it teaches that religious authority should override freedom, especially in our Constitution.
- 24:00Amen, brother.
- 24:01And I know you shared a lot there, and I hope people understand.
- 24:05Pastor Brad Reeves is not exaggerating.
- 24:08These are verses he was sharing, or surahs.
- 24:11And these are things that I think there's so much ignorance in the West—
- 24:15about the truth.
- 24:17So I'm glad you made those points.
- 24:18And as our friend Elijah Abraham would define, I think I jotted down what I believe his definition of Islam is a socio-political and economic system that uses a false deity to advance its agenda.
- 24:34What is the agenda of Islamic conquest?
- 24:37Not assimilation.
- 24:38They'll either do it by jihad, violently, or immigration.
- 24:42Well, in the West, they would lose if they tried to attack us via war.
- 24:47So they would lose that battle because of our military.
- 24:50And I think the Second Amendment in America.
- 24:53So they're doing it by immigration.
- 24:55And the birth rate, you're right.
- 24:57For Muslims, it's off the charts.
- 24:59I want to all that.
- 25:01I want to also say our Muslim neighbors need Christ.
- 25:05They do.
- 25:05They need to hear the true gospel.
- 25:07They've been sold lies about Christianity.
- 25:09Some of them have no idea what we believe.
- 25:12So they need to be presented the gospel.
- 25:14They can be saved.
- 25:16So they're not our enemies.
- 25:17However, there's enough of a percentage, even if it's 5%, 2%, that are radicalized, and they will take the traditions of Muhammad and their verses in the Quran, they will take that to heart, and they'll do some of the things that you just shared.
- 25:32Brad Reeves, two minutes.
- 25:34Wrap us up on this red-green axis, please.
- 25:38The key is what you've already said, David.
- 25:40First of all, we need to be sharing Jesus.
- 25:42This is a time for the church.
- 25:44We need to be salt and light.
- 25:46We need to know our faith.
- 25:47We need to know how to defend our faith, as Peter tells us, to always have a defense, an apologia, be—
- 25:54ready with apologetics.
- 25:56That's not a seminary course for somebody else to take.
- 26:00That is us knowing our faith and knowing how to share our faith.
- 26:04If you're a pastor, you need to be teaching your church how to share their faith with people around them, be it agnostic or Muslim or anybody else.
- 26:13This is the time, this is the moment a
- 26:17critical point in the church today to be awake, aware, and awaiting, and standing up for the truth.
- 26:23And that's where I wanted to bring us today, Dave, so I'm glad you brought that in.
- 26:28I'm sharing all that, not to, you know, be a, you know...
- 26:33be a chicken little or anything, but to stand firm on the fact that we have a mandate, we've been given the time to occupy until he comes, to be clear with the gospel.
- 26:46That's the hope for people.
- 26:47And we don't want anybody to perish.
- 26:50So let's be that salt and light, brother.
- 26:53Yeah, we need to understand the times and know how to respond because we're seeing what's happening in cities around us or states around us, even in Texas.
- 27:01This is not something we could ignore much longer, friends.
- 27:05And in the church, unfortunately, more people still need to wake up.
- 27:08There's still time and there's still hope as long as we are still here.
- 27:12And Jesus has not returned yet, so let's be about God's business.
- 27:15Pastor Brad Reeves, coming soon, ministries.org.
- 27:19Thank you for your time today.
- 27:20We always appreciate it.
- 27:23Dave, thanks for having me on, and we'll look forward to seeing you again soon.
- 27:26Will do.
- 27:27God bless you, friends.
- 27:28Thanks for sharing this one and for praying for both of our ministries.
- 27:32God bless you, and as always, keep speaking the truth about things that matter.