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Breanna Claussen: The Need For Christians To Discern News Biblically · 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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  Hello friends and family in Christ.
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  Thank you so much for tuning in, another great topic, and of course another great guest.
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  I'm excited to bring back Brianna Klassen, she's, well, founder, president and editor in
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  chief of Harbingers, daily news, the website of course, Harbingers, daily.com, or so
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  thankful for what a great website, what great information, and I don't know how they keep
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  up with everything, but we're going to ask her about that.
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  Brianna, thank you so much for being back on the podcast, good to see you.
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  Thank you so much for having me.
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  So before we get to some of the topics, I want to bring up our first podcast with you,
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  I'm glad to connect with you.
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  It was called Overcoming Lies in Media and Compromise in Christian Media.
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  There Jeff just showed us how to get to that first one, go to worldviewmatters.tv and
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  type in Brianna Klassen, and the first episode will come up and then this one.
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  But anyway, it's so great the work that you do.
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  It's just taken on new life, especially with the current conflict over in Iran.
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  Before we jump into some of the articles and topics, how do you keep up with everything?
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  I know you have a staff there, but it's a small staff.
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  My goodness, it must be kind of exhausting.
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  You have to pick and choose what to go with and when, explain that process for people
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  that have no idea how it works.
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  Well, I mean, it's a lot of hours, but when you're doing work in ministry, we should never
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  look at it as the amount of hours that you're putting into everything.
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  It's all about serving the Lord and you don't really get any off hours from serving the Lord
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  and neither should we want any.
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  So, you know, it's a lot of time and dedication into doing it, but I'm very grateful to the Lord
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  for giving me the ability to reach people through this means and I enjoy it very much.
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  So, one of the big reasons it's so great to have you on.
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  I was thinking, right before we got on the podcast, I was thinking, do I have how many true
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  journalists with the biblical worldview or people that I can go to that I have?
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  I've got Alex Newman and I've got you, you know, not that you're journalist, but with that
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  news background and that desire for truth in media and there's not a lot.
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  So, we need to discern as the body of Christ.
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  Christians need to be more discerning than ever because you mentioned a few
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  before we got on the podcast of how we've got to really be careful what we're hearing.
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  Even from influencers and formerly, I don't know, I'm talking about Tucker Carlson now.
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  You know, maybe he's a Christian, maybe he's not, I think he is, but I don't know where he's at.
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  He just went down just what we can call a wrong path now in his lies and the propaganda that's
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  out there and people are buying it hookline and sink or there. You know what, let's just start
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  with that one. Yeah, that's a good place to start because I loved the way Ambassador Mike Huckabee
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  responded to really, it wasn't an interview, it was an interrogation, it was like an attack.
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  And Brianna, you wrote about this and in one of these articles over at Harbinger's Daily
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  calculated lies against the Jewish state and you talked about that venomous inquisition,
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  you called it. I think that surprised a lot of people, but I'm so glad for the way that Mike
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  Huckabee responded in truth and love. Go ahead and share whatever you'd like about that.
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  Well, I think the first thing I would say with Tucker Carlson is, you know, while we're not
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  supposed to judge somebody as to whether or not, you know, they're saved the intentions of their
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  heart, the Bible does say that we can know by the fruit. And the problem that we've seen very
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  recently with Tucker Carlson is I don't think that he, I think that it was the things that he's
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  saying are quite deliberate. When he went to go and do the interview with Mike Huckabee,
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  he went into the Israeli airport, the Bangerian in Tel Aviv. He didn't leave the airport and he
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  came out after before the interview was released and said that he was wrongfully, you know,
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  detained at the airport and that they were mistreating him. And, you know, Israeli airport authorities
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  came out after and said that's absolutely false. Mike Huckabee said it was completely false that
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  they were just, you know, following standard procedure. And there was also footage that came out
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  that show Tucker Carlson, you know, laughing and smiling and taking pictures with some of the
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  Israeli officers that were there. But so it, that shows that's a great groundwork for the interview
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  because it shows that it's deliberate lies. It's a deliberate attempt to change and distort how
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  people see the nation of Israel. And Mike Huckabee, he handled himself very well. But I mean, he,
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  he was not allowed to respond to any extent, really. And that was a problem. And anytime that,
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  you know, Mike Huckabee actually got the ability to go into a subject, Tucker would pull him in a
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  different direction. And, you know, Mike Huckabee called it really a gacha and an interrogation,
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  as you said. And he actually had to go onto social media afterward and elaborate because he was
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  given no time to respond on what his actual answers to these questions were. And it's a reminder
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  also to conservatives, you know, I would stay away from jumping on board with doing an interview
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  with Tucker Carlson. Because especially on this topic, there is nobody, he was one of the most
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  qualified, if not the most qualified person on the planet, to be arguing in defense of Christian
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  Zionism. He, you know, he served as a former pastor Mike Huckabee. He was the former governor of
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  Arkansas. He's been in politics for like the time. He's been to Israel dozens and dozens of times.
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  And he's now the US ambassador for US ambassador to Israel. So he's defending this on a daily basis.
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  If anybody could have, you know, put Tucker in, you know, in a line and invested him in, you know,
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  an interview, he would have been him. But the reality is that you're just going to be treated with
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  disrespect. You're just going to be cut off. And there's no point in any more conservatives,
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  you know, piling on to to join him in that. Yeah, I think they know what they can expect now.
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  If they do, you know, a certain interview, I mean, it's really interesting. I used to watch him
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  when he was really more of a truth defender and proclamer Tucker years ago. But he took a page.
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  It seems like his, his tactic and how he interviewed, at least Huckabee and a few others,
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  read out of the Democrat socialist media playbook. Just attack, accuse, don't give an opportunity
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  to respond and just let your talking points go out. And that's what the other outlets pick up.
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  So, but let's move on, Brianna, speaking of the Democrat socialist media away from Harbinger's
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  daily now for a moment. And this is a reason to be discerning and for a reason to have more people
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  do what you do. Let's go over to, well, you made it, let's go to CNN first. And this is a story
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  over at Fox News and other outlets. I don't know who this is because I don't watch the Communist
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  News Network, but Abby Phillips or Abby Philip. She lies. And she claimed, she had to apologize,
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  I guess, now, but she claimed that the New York City terror attack recently was by Republicans,
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  and it was against Zoran Mamdani. And so finally, she apologizes, but this is just not only irresponsible,
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  but she didn't know the facts. She didn't get them. She went out and she apologized and said that
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  she didn't have the right, whatever wording of it first. And she, anyway, this is just so sad,
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  but she's on a major, well, not major anymore, Brianna. But anyway, she's on a minor cable
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  network CNN. And she puts this out there, not surprising, but just another reason for us to just
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  avoid these outlets, right? Yeah. And they distort and twist in twist reality. Even when they're
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  reporting on breaking news, that's usually a time where people are just, you know, it's so fast
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  moving. They haven't been able to figure figure out what the spin is yet in a lot of cases.
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  But you've got to be so careful with your wording because even an article that doesn't look
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  overtly bias when you're reading it from CNN, MSNBC, any of these places, you know, there's so
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  many subtle wording changes that they add in there, such as like claimed and, you know, allegedly,
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  you know, and even the order that they give you of event of events is all designed to give
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  the reader an impression about how they should feel about what they're reading. And when it comes
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  to anything like the war in Iran, anti-Semitism, they have a direction that they want you to be
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  thinking. Yeah. They want you to be thinking with Trump that, you know, he didn't try the diplomatic
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  solution with Iran and that, you know, this military action was too far and beyond his powers
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  as a president and all of that. So you've got to pay attention to who they quote. You've got to
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  pay attention to the order of things, how they word it. And it's best to just avoid them all together
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  because a lot of people think, well, for some things, I'm still going to go to these bigger groups,
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  you know, the associated press and all of that. But just there's so much deception interwoven
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  into any of these. And you have a lot of these groups, even, unfortunately, conservative groups,
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  like Newsmax and Breitbart that very regularly use articles that are really filler articles that
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  they purchase from the associated press. And I tell you, I'm half a sentence in before I'm like,
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  okay, so this is AP, you know, you can tell right out of the gate just by the little ways that
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  they word it to try to like the impression that they're trying to make. Well, you can, you can,
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  a lot of people apparently can, but the AP, I mean, it used to be reputable, maybe in the 80s and 90s,
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  not anymore. I mean, they're so uber liberal and biased. But by the way, so Abby Philip, the CNN
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  person, apologized via tweet over on X first. And that failed, I guess. And then she had to
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  apologize on there. This is just, it's a circus. So now let's go over to a media research center now
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  over at newsbusters. And here's just one example of the incredible bias over on the main networks,
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  ABC, CBS and NBC. How long did they spend on the popular voter ID bill zero? They didn't even
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  mention it. They didn't cover it. Now let me explain this. This is the Save Act on voter ID.
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  Safeguard American voter eligibility. Save act. 70% of people support this, right? Because it has
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  to do with voter integrity and voter ID. So if you're fair and reporting on this, you're going to
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  cover it. If you're opposed to all things Trump, you could attack it or whatever. But what did they
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  do? They pretended it didn't even exist. I'm talking about zero. All the major networks
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  did not touch zero seconds. That was, of course, they don't want to spend time talking about it
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  because it makes sense. And it's going to be popular because everybody's going to say, well,
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  of course, you need to prove who you are, who you say you are before you can vote. Isn't that
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  basic? Yeah. You know, but the Democrats still want to be opposing it. But it doesn't surprise me
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  at all that they would spend no time in talking about it. And by the way, it's a common sense law.
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  Yeah. So I don't have this list in front of me. But you've seen the list, most people watching
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  or listening, you've seen the list of all the things that you need either a voter and ID or
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  a driver's license. You need an ID for, I mean, I'm buying alcohol or just different things.
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  Not only drive a car, but you know, airports getting a plane ticket, different things you need
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  an ID, but not to vote. It's just like what? Oh, it's insane. I mean, some of the most liberal
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  countries in the world, the most progressive wouldn't don't have any interest in, you know,
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  making people vote and without, you know, actually requiring identification to prove who they are.
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  So it doesn't make any sense that that wouldn't be required. Okay. So we're going back to some
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  of Brianna's articles. Now, you least over on Harbinger's Daily, let's start with this one. This
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  is actually from Decision Magazine. This is going to be a quickie here at Brianna because this came
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  out earlier this month. Trump administration sends warning letter to all 50 states as foster
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  care system actively discriminates against Christians. We've known this for decades, but now we
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  have an administration that's trying to do something about it. So this is a Joe Biden liberal
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  Democrat era rule that requires potential foster parents to prove that they will support a gender
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  transition or the LGBTQ identity of their prospective foster children. And this is so discriminatory
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  and so wrong. So that's what they're trying to do now. Your, your brief thoughts on this
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  move on? I think that they know what they're doing. They know that a Christian is not going to be
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  able to go along with that. And, you know, they're very much in favor of this, unfortunately, this
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  perversion of children, this manipulation of children pushing them into the, into rejecting how
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  God designed their bodies. They're trying to put children in rebellion against God right from
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  the start as early as they can. And they don't want Christians in the foster care system. And that
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  article noted that there's a larger percentage of Christians that are willing to be foster parents.
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  Then, you know, all these other, you know, group religious groups or atheists or
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  so you, but you're really alienating these individuals that are going to care and safeguard
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  children against dangerous ideologies. And that's obviously not what they want, but it's Christians
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  that are being targeted in that. Yep. And, and this is nothing new, friends. We shouldn't be
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  surprised by this. But when we see blatant examples of bias or discrimination and it is against
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  the biblical worldview or Christians, we need to call it out early support people who are trying
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  to raise awareness about this. So, um, let's, we're moving fast today, Brianna. This going by way
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  too fast, but let's move over to Iran now. And one of your articles that came out earlier this month
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  on March 2nd, President Trump is right. The downfall of Iran's regime is it's unrelenting
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  desire to practice evil. Let, let that headline soak in, just sink in a minute, friends,
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  because this is what they do. Have everyone saying, well, can you compromise with them?
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  Can you make a peace treaty with them? Can you negotiate? The answer is no, because we understand
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  underlying all this, it's spiritual at its root. Go ahead and share about the article.
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  Yeah. Well, so, um, President Trump, when he announced the operation, he said, we tried to do
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  diplomacy with the Iran. We tried again and again and again. And he said the problem with that,
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  the reason why diplomacy didn't work was because, quote, they just wanted to practice evil.
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  And that is such a clear statement to come from a president. Yes. Because that's exactly what it is.
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  It is a spiritual thing. This is a, a rationality that comes with people who are demonically driven,
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  ideology driven in these things. And, um, one of the most dangerous ideologies in the world,
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  this Islamic ideology is so, um, intertwined within the Iranian regime. They truly believe,
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  the leadership of it truly believes that they're going to, um, you know, bring about the coming of
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  their Mahadi, it's it's called, or it's also called the 12th Imam, their version of an Islamic
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  Messiah, and how they're going to bring that about is by attacking Jews and Christians. So that's,
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  you know, Israel and Western civilization, they're going to get that by striking terror into
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  individuals, um, across the world and causing chaos. And that's why they don't care about their own
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  people. That's why they're so single-minded and irrational in what they're doing. And, um,
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  Eric Stackelbeck, host of the Watchman newscast, and Stackelbeck tonight, he does an absolutely
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  fantastic job. Yes. But he pointed out, um, all of the failures that Iran has experienced over the
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  past two years since, uh, at following October 7th, you know, you have their ring of fire proxies
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  that are there. And, you know, Hamas and, um, in Gaza, Hezbollah and Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen,
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  and their proxies in Iraq and Syria also, they've been largely crushed by the IDF by military
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  operations over this time. The leadership of all of these groups is dead and long dead for, you
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  know, for quite some time. They are shells of their former self. That is completely embarrassing
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  for the nation of Iran. Then you also have every time that Iran has tried to attack Israel with
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  ballistic missiles, uh, the interception rate has, uh, from the, Israel, from the iron dome system
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  has been unbelievable. And it's been such an abysmal failure that it's like over and over and over
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  again. They're faced with these, like, just complete embarrassment, you know, and yet they don't
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  stop what they're doing. And then you had the, in June, you had the 12-day war where, you know,
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  Israel had complete control over the skies over Iran, complete control. And we're carrying out
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  precision strikes throughout that whole period of time. And it was concluded with the United States
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  targeting three of their nuclear facilities. And then within Iran itself, you have unrest with
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  their people. You have economic turmoil and rolling blackouts and severe drought. And the point
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  that he was making is you would think that a rational nation would say, let's take a step back,
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  you know, let's, you know, keep quiet for a little while at least. But that's not at all what we're
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  seeing. And, um, Eric Sackelbeck ended by saying, evil is relentless until it's utterly crushed.
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  Yes. And that's the reality of this. There's so irrational in mind that they do not care about
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  their people. They do not care about anything that they are suffering, they are pouring all of
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  their money into funding terrorism, all of their money into, um, pursuing their goal of
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  destroying Israel and Judeo Christian Western civilization. And Benjamin Netanyahu warned
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  all the way back, you know, in 2015, he stood before the United Nations, he stood before Congress
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  when they were putting forward the, you know, joint comprehensive plan of action, the JCPOA
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  under the Obama administration. And he said, you know, this post diplomatic solution is not
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  going to do anything. And the reason why is because you're not actually addressing the bad
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  actions that are here. You're not saying that a deal is predicated on you not continuing to fund
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  terrorism. You're not saying that it's predicated on you not causing terror abroad or seeking to,
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  you know, annihilate the nation of Israel. They should have been required in all of that
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  to change those actions and become a less radical regime in order for a deal to be made. But
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  they're not willing to do that. They weren't willing to do that. And just like Benjamin Netanyahu
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  warned, then that delay in period of time where Iran, they provided sanctions relief and Iran said,
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  okay, we're not pursuing nuclear weapons. It just made Iran stronger and it made their
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  proxies more deadly also. And Trump had it right. I saw an article from Christianity today
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  that basically blamed Trump for Iran and the state that it's in today by saying that, oh,
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  it's because he left the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear deal. And that's the reason why we're seeing,
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  you know, such an aggressive Iran. And it's just, it's nonsense. But I don't expect much from,
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  so, you know, anti-Donald Trump, so like illogically thinking groups, very ideology-driven within
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  like Christianity today. Yeah, Christianity, Australia. We mentioned then the last time we had you
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  on the podcast when we talked about compromise in Christian media. And there are way too many outlets
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  that have gone progressive and left and woke or whatever. But back to your article, you bring
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  in the spiritual dynamic. And this is important to remember, who's driving Iran? Who's driving
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  their leaders? Remember Satan, he fell because of pride. So pride is causing them to act even more
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  arrogant, more boastful, as Stacklbeck said. But you go on, and I'm quoting you in the article,
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  says, but how do we know that the Iranian regime and its supreme leader were satanically motivated
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  through God's word? We know that the devil is the father of lies and a murderer from the beginning.
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  Demonically driven individuals are often consumed with delusion. I love that, Brianna, good wording
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  there. Working against their own best interests. And then you say scripture also teaches that Satan
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  has a relentless hatred for the Jews and Bible believing Christians. Please elaborate on this for us.
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  Yeah, well, and another point that I make there is that people who are demonically driven,
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  you know, we have examples from the Bible which show they work against their own self-interest.
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  You have examples, unfortunately, in scripture where it shows that people that are demonically
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  possessed are throwing themselves into fires and cutting themselves and all these kind of things
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  because you're so single-minded in being demonically driven in that.
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  And that show that we see that within the nation of Iran because they're not worried about
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  self-preservation really. They're not worried about their people really. They're working against
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  themselves. They're not thinking rationally. That was actually a point that Nanya who also made
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  in 2015 is he said, people are making a problem here because they're treating Iran like it's any
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  other nation and they're just not. And a big part of that is this false religion that they're
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  and false God that they're worshiping through Islam. And it's apocalyptic ideology that just wants
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  to wreak havoc and terror. And it's obvious where that comes from. Obviously, Satan is the father of
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  that. Satan hates the Jews. Satan hates that God has interwoven them into his plan of redemption
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  for the world. He hates followers of Jews, obviously, because we're ambassadors for Christ and we're
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  being salt and light in the world or at least we should be. But diplomacy was not an option with
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  Iran. And there's such an irrational component there. Yeah. That word keeps coming up rational or
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  irrational. Yeah. But by the way, thank you for ending your article. We're running out of time
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  already. And you it's this is a good way for us to close or get close to closing here. Please
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  remain in constant prayer about the situation friends for the protection in wisdom. Not only of
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  our president and administration, but the nation of Israel, as well as our military leadership,
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  as they continue to carry out operation epic fury. And then you quote first Peter 5, 8,
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  be sober, be vigilant because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion walk off the
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  bout seeking whom he made devour. Great way to close out the article and get our time together.
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  But wrap us up in the last couple of minutes. Whatever thoughts you like to share.
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  Well, praying for Israel, I think a lot of Christians don't understand that it's it's not just
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  a suggestion. It's something that God calls us to do as Christians. We are called to love
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  the Jewish people. We're called to pray for them and the nation of Israel. And right now they're
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  facing coordinated strikes from Iran and Hezbollah. They're using Iran and Hezbollah are using
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  cluster munitions, which are extremely deadly, where instead of having just a straight warhead,
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  they have sub munitions that fire out indiscriminately from that. And they're a lot more difficult to
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  shoot down by the Iron Dome. In fact, over 120 countries have banned the use of cluster munitions
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  because of the problem with civilians being harmed as a result of them. But Iran doesn't care
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  about that. They're specifically targeting the most popular areas. They're targeting Tel Aviv and
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  Jerusalem. And so prayer is so incredibly important. And letting the Jewish people that you know
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  know that you're praying for them and you're praying for the nation of Israel is also important.
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  We need to be proper ambassadors for Christ by showcasing the actual love that God has for them.
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  We need to not present them with the same version of Jesus that we see in replacement theology
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  that you know, that presents Jesus as somebody who despises and rejects them. We need to show them
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  that God loves them because it's and Jesus loves them and that Jesus is their promised Messiah
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  and that we love them and support them as a result. That is what draws people. That's what draws
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  Jewish people toward the gospel, toward wanting to know more and ask questions. So that's really
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  important. Amen. Good way to wrap it up, Brianna. And by the way, friends, I didn't mention our
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  conference yet in this episode. Brianna is going to come to Green Bay along with Alex Newman,
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  Olivia Melnik, Tim Chaffey, Jay Seeger, Jake Jacobs, Gary Caw, Scott Shera, Mark and Amber Archer,
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  Laura Perry Smoltz and Elijah Abraham. WorldviewMattersConference.com and go to HarbingersDaily.com.
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  Brianna, Lord willing, we'll do this again. Thank you for your time. Yeah, thank you so much.
• 27:45
  God bless you, friends. And as always, keep speaking the truth about things that matter. See you next time.