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Andy Woods: U.S. Losing Nationhood, Identity, & Strength · 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.
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No topic off limits.
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And now, here's your host, David Fierazzo.
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God bless you, friends, family and Christ.
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Thank you for tuning in.
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Andy Woods is with us again today.
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He's been traveling.
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He's been speaking.
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He's always busy preaching at his own church and then going out and speaking at conferences.
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And I just want to bring him in.
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We don't waste any time.
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Andy Woods, Andy Woods Ministries, thank you so much for taking the time today, brother.
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David, pleasure to be here.
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As always, thanks for having me.
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Good to see you.
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Now, you were at the Prophecy Summit in Orlando put on by Prophecy Watchers.
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That was just new within the last several weeks or within the last month.
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I can't believe how many great men of God were there speaking.
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There was a huge conference.
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How did that go?
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And I'm sure it's always encouraging to the remnant when they go to one of those.
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Oh, yeah.
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Great attendance.
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People were so encouraged and there's, I don't know, there's really nothing like being
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in a room, a giant, I mean, big, big crowd of people that share your beliefs and the
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given take, the conversations you can get into, different presenters, the literature that's
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available and the book tables.
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And I think the point of those conferences is just to encourage people and fortify them.
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This one certainly accomplished that goal.
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Praise God.
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And what you said, we reminded me a little bit of church when we go to church where we
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like minded believers, hopefully, right?
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But something like that is at another level where you've got people from all over the
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country, sometimes different parts of the world, the body of Christ coming together just
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to encourage sharpen each other and encourage each other and glean from some of these men
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of God.
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And the saints can be equipped and unlike your church, in many churches, the saints are
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not being equipped.
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So that's a problem.
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But also, you just recently, over the last weekend, you were at stealing the mind in
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Idaho and you mentioned before we got on, you had a presentation there that was similar
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to what you talked about in the past.
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But when you do that, I'm sure you find it important enough to give this, you know, whatever
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caution, warning information to the people you talk to at the conference, tell us about
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that.
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Well, yeah, I submitted my topic to Bill Perkins, who's the great organizer of this event
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year, yearly.
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He does such a great job, him along with his wife, Susie, who I know you know.
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We've had him on your show, I think before many times, but I submitted the topic the
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days of lot, you know, because Jesus was asked a question, what's it going to be like?
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When you come back and he didn't say the world is going to have a great, big revival, he
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said that it's going to be just like the days of lot.
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So the question is, what was it like in the days of lot given the totality of biblical
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revelation that we have on the Sodom and Gomorrah issue going back to Genesis 19?
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And I developed from that seven characteristics, some negative, some positive.
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For example, intercessory prayer, which preceded the Genesis 19 story where God, you know,
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told Abraham, should I hide what I'm going to do?
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And how, you know, should I spare Sodom if there's 50, 40, 10?
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So it's an example of great intercessory prayer.
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And I think if it was just like it was in the days of lot, when Jesus comes back, we
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can not only see the gravity skyrocket, but some good things as well, like the power of
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intercessory prayer.
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When you said I just want to share something real quick, you probably maybe talked about
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this from second Peter 2.
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I find this very fascinating.
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And this is what a lot of us are dealing with here in the United States of America.
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It talks about in verse seven, God rescued righteous lot and get this.
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And it describes who was oppressed by the perverted conduct of unscrupulous people.
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And then it says for by what he saw and heard that righteous man while living among them
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felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds.
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And then it goes on.
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But Andy, I've been making the point in these last couple of years.
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I got a chapter in my book, Souls tormented by evil.
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And that's what we can relate to.
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It's not just in America, it's around the world, but in our country, we are believers in
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Christ, true believers in a way, in a sense, tortured, tormented, vexed by what we see
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out in our culture, knowing the history of our country and how it was founded and seeing
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it today, and the evil, the moral decline, and then the lack of biblical worldview, even
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in the church.
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And I'll stop right there and just let you comment.
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Well, I mean, that's a sad reality.
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In fact, one of the things that I just recorded a show about concerned something called
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maps, minor attracted persons, which is just another way of saying pedophiles.
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And there was a conference held recently where they're trying to mainstream that the same
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way, the same sex movement, mainstreamed homosexuality back in the 1990s, the identical
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arguments that they used then, the maps folks are using now.
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And I just remember the words of Jesus, he says, if you offend a child, it would be better
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for you if a millstone was tied around your neck and you'd be cast into the sea.
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And these people are going into a level of sin that God is not going to turn to blind
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eye too.
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I mean, as that gets normalized and mainstreamed, that will bring the judgment of God.
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And so much like Lot, you know, I find myself vexed over that kind of subject matter.
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Yeah.
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And if we are kind of tormented in this way about our own culture and where we live, like
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Lot was, what do you think God feels about humanity?
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You know, I mean, we know, right?
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We know judgment is coming, of course.
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And what would Jesus say?
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Well, we have two, we have six letters.
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Is it six or seven in Revelation two and three?
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Five.
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How many?
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Five letters.
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Anyway, well, no, there's, yeah, it's chapters two and three, seven letters, seven letters
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to the churches.
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So, you know, people often ask, what would Jesus say to the church in America?
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And I'm going, whoo.
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We have a little bit of an idea.
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But anyway, let's get into some stories, Andy, that you have spoken about recently on
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your pastor's point of view.
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And by the way, friends, it's on YouTube.
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You can go to Andy Woods on YouTube and the pastor's point of view.
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Wonderful content.
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By the way, you only did an hour recently.
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So you're cutting them down.
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You could go for three hours.
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But anyway, that was probably a strategic move, right?
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Well, we have some folks picking them up, well, Brandon House, my friend, his world view,
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weekend plays them every night from nine to 10 central.
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And it's also being recorded on something, it's an app called Grace Global Radio.
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And they sort of, you know, read me the riot act saying, you know, you've got to keep
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these within an hour.
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And so that's the hardest thing for me to do is to figure out what to leave out because
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there's so much going on.
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So I've been sort of forced into a time discipline that I think I've needed for a long time.
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Because I'm a little bit like Paul, you know, I'll just go on and on and on.
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Ember Uticus fell asleep there, fell out of the window because Paul preached all I want.
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That's kind of how I am because there's so much happening.
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But I think the time discipline is needed.
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And then you can say, finally, brothers and go on for a couple more chapters, right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That reminds me of the kid that his father, the preacher was preaching and the preacher
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said, now finally, and the preacher and the kid turned to his father and said, what dad,
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what does that mean?
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And the dad said, it means absolutely nothing.
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Finally, in conclusion.
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Oh, okay.
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So Andy, several of the stories you shared disappointing, but this one was Washington state
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apparently passed a bill to teach about Palestinian Holocaust.
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Now, this is a true story, true story.
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And this was over at Front Page Magazine.
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So let's talk about this.
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How, I mean, you've got to avoid reality and obviously not know the truth about really
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history.
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Can you share a little bit of what you shared on this story?
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Yeah.
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And just in the interest of full disclosure, that was pending when we talked about it.
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But I think it's been defeated a lot of people have emailed me telling me that, but to
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me that doesn't matter because, you know, how the left is, they'll just keep bringing
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this back over and over again with new garb, you know, in disguise, it is something else.
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But it's kind of this idea that we're going to, you know, to marginalize what Israel went
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through in her real Holocaust.
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We're going to subject the youth to a fake Holocaust and pretend like the Israelis by rooting
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out terrorism in Gaza are committing a Holocaust against the citizens of Gaza.
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And it's basically historical revisionism, trying to make it sound like Israel is in a
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apartheid state and a genocidal state.
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And the truth of the matter is, if Israel is a genocidal state, she's doing a lousy
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job of it because the Arab population has increased in Judea and Samaria since 1967.
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And if Israel is in apartheid state, she's doing, because they're trying to equate Israel
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with South Africa in apartheid state that was, you know, criticized rightly back in the
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1980s.
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They're trying to say Israel is the same, but if Israel is in apartheid state, she's
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doing a lousy job of it because you have non-Israelis that move to the highest echelons
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of society and government.
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So this moral equivalence argument that they're using is wrong.
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Israel is not a perfect country, there is no perfect country.
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But you can't equate what Israel is doing in self-defense in any way, shape, or form
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to the real Holocaust that she went through in the Hitler World War II era.
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But this curriculum that was introduced is designed to do that by making it sound like
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the Holocaust was really no big deal, because after all, Israel has committed her own holocausts
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is essentially what this curriculum was trying to do.
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And fortunately, it was defeated, but it'll come back at some point.
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Well, yeah, that's a very good point just because this bill didn't go through the front
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door.
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They'll find the side door, they'll find the back door, they'll find an escape hatch
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coming up from the underneath underground, that's kind of prophetic, or when you think
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about Satan and the underworld, it'll come up from somewhere.
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But it's interesting what it said, and it was originally broke by the post-millennial,
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the Washington Democrats slapped the surprise Hamas amendment on the Washington state Holocaust
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education bill.
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So yeah, I'm not going to say it's just going to be in Washington because unfortunately,
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this kind of ideology is spreading.
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Look at our college campuses, and we just proved that point.
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So let's go over to the next story, Andy, the IAEA chief.
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This is just almost like, this is one of the more astounding ones that we're going to talk
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about today.
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It says, we have lost track of Iran nuke progress.
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And one of the sentences in the story was there's been no progress in resolving the issue.
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So how can people are thinking, okay, how could this happen where we don't keep track
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anymore?
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We lost track of Iranian nuclear programs or the progress there.
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So can you explain that what you got out of the article?
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Well, I think it's significant because Persia, you know, modern day Iran is predicted to
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play a role in the end times coming against the nation of Israel.
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So the fact that the Iranians are on the fast track of joining the nuclear club, to
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me is state setting for this type of belligerence from Iran that Ezekiel, chapter 38, you know,
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predicts for the future.
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And one of the things to understand is Iran is a Shiite, a theocracy regime, meaning
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they see their purpose as creating chaos in the world to usher in the 12th Imam, that's
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what their belief system is.
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And these are the people that are about ready to get their hands on nuke's if they don't
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have them already.
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And the world community seems with the Iran deal that we've entered into again.
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There's almost powerless to slow it down because when the Iranians come to the table for
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negotiation, they are allowed to engage in something called tekea, meaning they're allowed
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to lie as long as it's advancing the cause of Allah.
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So you have to understand that when you enter into a deal with these types of countries,
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the two sides aren't operating on good faith.
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One side is holding the one set of morals from the Judeo-Christian climate that should
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not lie.
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The other side is allowed to lie.
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And so the fact of the matter is through subterfuge, through stalling, through the article
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talks about banning inspectors from the UN, they're just playing all these games to tell
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these people what they want to hear.
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So they can just keep building and moving, crossing the nuclear finish line.
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And it's like the world community seems powerless to stop it.
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And the only one that's in control, being in control of this thing is God.
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God is allowing this to happen for a prophetic purpose.
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And we have America, not we, Christians, but America, the Obama administration has given
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billions to Iran.
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And it's just a head scratcher because that's taxpayer money.
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So Andy, the next one, let's bring it over to America and a not surprising story.
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But the numbers might be an eye opener for a lot of people if they haven't been paying
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attention.
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Criminal attacks on American churches are up 800% in the last six years.
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Now family research council has done a recent survey on this.
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There have been others.
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This is no surprise.
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If you think about once they, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, think about all
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the attacks on churches and pro-life pregnancy centers.
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And it's not going to stop your thoughts on this, Andy.
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Well, yeah, you have that group, James Revenge, that, you know, it goes around like BLM for
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that matter, engages in riots and arson.
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You have situations where rocks or bricks are thrown through church windows.
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I mean, you know, these kind of things are on the ascendancy.
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And this is why it's so critical that pastors of local churches start to develop a relationship
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with local law enforcement.
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Yes.
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We have a guy running out here in Fort Bend County for sheriff.
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I'm very happy.
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He's a believer.
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He just won the Republican primary.
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He now moves into the general election.
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I don't mind promoting him on your show.
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His name is Marshall Slot.
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Fort Bend County Sheriff and local pastors of local churches out there kind of need to
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keep their eyes on folks that you think are going to help you when, you know, the rubber
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hits the road.
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So that's why, you know, a new story like this, you know, I think is very significant.
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Yeah.
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I mean, yeah, they've documented 915 acts of hostility against churches in these, in the
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six-year timeframe.
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And we're talking about vandalism.
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We're talking about, you know, death threats.
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There have been other things that have been documented as well.
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But again, Andy, not surprising in our current climate.
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And after what we saw in the year 2020 on American streets when the Black Lives Matter Global
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Network Foundation, what just, you know, wreaked havoc.
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I mean, one life is supposedly to justify what happened to George Floyd.
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But dozens of people died in the next six to nine months.
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And some of them were minority business owners.
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One was a black, black police officer.
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I think it was in St. Louis.
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But yeah, it was all to justify the greater cause.
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And it's just amazing that some of the law enforcement were told to stand down.
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Yeah.
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So churches, yeah, it's good to know who's your local sheriff and police officers.
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So let's go to the next one.
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And this is just amazing.
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This is on purpose by the left, the Biden administration admits flying 320,000 migrants
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secretly into the US to reduce the number of crossings at the border.
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And so that's their rationale, Andy Woods, they, oh, they're trying to help by reduce
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the number of border crossings, but they're still importing them aren't they?
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They're still getting them in there.
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Go ahead.
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Well, the truth of the matter is if you can't enforce your borders, you're not a country.
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It's like we believe in immigration, but use the front door.
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Yeah.
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It's like I'm the head of my home and no one comes into my house unless they use the front
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door.
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I mean, they're not going to come in against my knowledge through the back door or through
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a window.
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And if you don't give me the power to protect my own home, I'm really not a head of my
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family.
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And so if you can't enforce your own borders, you're really not a country.
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Yeah.
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And that's sort of the vision of these globalists.
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They don't want America to be its own separate, independent, free and prosperous nation
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state.
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They want it to be just to kind of meld in with the other nations of the earth into some
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kind of transnational government.
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So that's why this issue of the borders is a big deal.
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And our southern border is wide open.
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And surprise, it's worse than we thought.
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Yes.
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Not only is it not only is it a crisis, but now we learn secretly through some great reporters
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like Todd Benzman, you may have had him on your show before.
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He does a great job explaining that it's way worse than we thought.
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The Biden administration without anybody knowing it has been flying people in under the
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radar.
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And we know why they're doing it.
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They're trying to flip Texas from red to blue.
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And if that happens, you can never see a Republican president, you know, mathematically.
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It's almost impossible to see a Republican president again.
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And this allows them to stay in power.
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So I think the definitive issue that's coming up in this the next election cycle is the
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border.
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I mean, are we an independent country that can police are on borders or not?
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Because if you're not going to give us that ability, we're really not a country anymore.
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No.
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And what you're saying is not hyperbole when you talk about Texas flipping, I'll never
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forget that very close election.
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I don't know how many years ago between Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke, money poured in from
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the left and they almost stole that Senate seat from Ted Cruz, really fascinating the
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battle for Texas.
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But years ago, I listened to a talk show host Michael Savage, I don't know if you remember
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him, but he would always preach on borders, language culture, borders, language culture.
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And your recent pastor's point of view about a week and a half ago, you had a slide in
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there on nationhood from Andy's YouTube video on borders, common language, the culture,
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the common culture and common currency.
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Go ahead and walk through these, I will only have five minutes left, Andy, but go ahead
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and walk through these and stress whatever points you'd like.
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Yeah, well, I probably added to Michael Savage's list.
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Andy may have had three, you know, I have four, but I call these the Sinny Kwanan of
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nationhood, Sinny Kwanan is Latin and it basically means without which there is not.
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In other words, you take away one of those things and you're not a country.
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So what do you have to have to have a country?
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You've got to have a common currency, you've got to have common language, common culture
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and enforceable national borders.
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And you'll notice, David, that today, every single one of those is under severe attack,
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because they don't like the idea of America, American exceptionalism, America being just
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not necessarily better than everybody else, but the exception to the rule.
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America is the exception to the rule.
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As most of the countries around the world and in human history, by default, have been
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tyrannical, you know, America is different.
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Most of the people around the world languish in poverty.
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America is the exception to the rule, et cetera.
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So if you want to bring in the new world order, you've got to get rid of American exceptionalism.
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And what better way to do that than to attack over and over again, the four pillars that
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you need to have a nation.
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And remember that God himself established nationhood at the Tower of Babel.
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Yeah.
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God says the best way to govern the human race is not through global governance, but through
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the independent nation state, Satan's agenda is to erase that and move us back to the Tower
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of Babel.
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That's what the whole end time scenario is about with an anti-Christ, you know, who will function
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just like Nimrod did in Genesis 11.
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So it's just very interesting to me that at this stage in history, this now is the definitive
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battle.
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I would say maghaw make America great again is a reaction against this globalism that
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people are pushing.
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So on these bullet points, the one that's very curious is the common currency, because
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that's what the globalists want to get us out of the US dollar and the US dollar is
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being purposely weakened.
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And boy, look at this list, Andy, these bullet points and it's somewhat disheartening.
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If we weren't aware of where America is or is not in Bible prophecy and that they're
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planned to destroy America, at some day they will probably have some success.
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But talk about the common currency, where do you see that headed?
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Well, you know, they're trying to move us away from the dollar into these digital type
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currencies, central bank digital currencies.
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There was a great book written by Jerome Corsi a few years back where he was saying the
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agenda is sort of to regionalize America and make her part of the North American union
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where they were trying to merge at that time under the second bush, Canada, Mexico and
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North America into what's called the North American union and to have a common currency
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between those regions called the euro, you know, phasing out the dollar.
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It's the exact same thing they did in Europe where they got rid of the individual European
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currencies and moved, you know, towards the euro because Europe has been regionalized.
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And my understanding is there's basically going to be ten of these regions around the
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earth according to Daniel chapter seven and they will eventually be merged into global
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governance.
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So regionalism is kind of the stepping stone into global governance.
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And I think that's the reason these ideas are being pushed today.
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Andy, wow, we could do, we could do an hour or a couple, yeah, a couple.
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Anyway, what I, it just goes by so fast.
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I mean, at least you have an hour and your pastor's point of view, we have a half hour
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here.
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But brother, what do you have coming up while we're going to be in April?
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Yeah, the end of April, April 27th, I think that's a Saturday.
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I'm going to be hosting the DCY radio rally with Jim Schneider there in Milwaukee.
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So this will be my first time doing that conference and I'm looking forward to that.
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Also going to be in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Mid-America Prophecy Conference featured with, I think
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it's called the Bible is written.com.
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So prophecy ministry, Brigette Gabriel, who I think you probably know is also one of
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the speakers, so that'll be a good time as well.
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So how do you find the time to do all this?
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I mean, pasturing a church, you know, you write books, you do your pastor's point of view,
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you travel.
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I don't know how you do it, brother, and I'm thankful for the time you take with us.
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But man, you must have really good assistance.
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You know what to delegate and your time management, kudos.
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Don't know how you do it.
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I'll be honest with you, my wife has been a strong advocate of trying to get me to slow
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down.
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So she may be winning the argument at this point, but you know, I have a very good supportive
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team, you know, both at home and in the church.
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So it's not, it looks like a one-man show, but that's not what it is.
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Yeah, it rarely is, but praise God, brother.
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Thanks for your ministry.
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We'll talk to you again soon, Lord willing.
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Thank you.
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Thanks.
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All right, guys, thanks so much again for sharing the podcast.
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God bless you and as always, keep speaking the truth about things that matter.