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- A defeated politician boards a plane. The United States opens the door. This is The Gospel Briefing. I'm Charles King. A senior State Department official confirmed Tuesday that Flávio Bolsonaro and his family will receive U.S. visas. The confirmation came days after his weekend loss to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro lost by roughly four million votes. He has refused to concede. He is under investigation in Brazil for corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion. A court ordered him to surrender his passports by noon Tuesday. He appears to have left the country instead. His father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, is serving a twenty-seven-year sentence under house arrest for attempting a coup after his own election loss. His brother Eduardo, who lives in Texas, was convicted in absentia in June of illegally lobbying the Trump administration. One family. Three generations. An escape route running through the United States. Why this matters: when a political family moves across borders to avoid courts, it tests how nations handle rule of law — and how Christians handle disappointment when their side loses. Hear Jeremiah seventeen, verse five. "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord." Not because politics is evil. Because flesh cannot hold the weight we put on it. Thrones fall. Visas expire. If your hope rides on an election, your hope is already on a plane somewhere. Open Jeremiah seventeen in Bible Copilot and sit with that passage today. Second story. A floating home ran out of fuel. The Odyssey, a U.S. residential cruise ship, suspended its three-year global voyage this week in Cambodia. Two hundred and three passengers from fifteen nationalities — most of them Americans — have been told to leave the ship. Operator Villa Vie Residences said monthly fuel costs per cabin, once averaging eighteen hundred dollars, have climbed to between six and eight thousand dollars in parts of Asia during the war with Iran. Two hundred people sold their houses, boarded a ship, called it home. This week, home docked and stopped. Jesus said in Matthew six: do not store up treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy. He did not call earthly treasures evil. He called them fragile. Even the floating ones. Pray for wisdom today before you repeat what you have heard. Third story. The Pentagon put a number on the war. U.S. Central Command now estimates the war with Iran has cost the American military at least forty-seven point one billion dollars as of mid-October. That's up from thirty-seven point five billion three months ago. Twenty-nine billion is replacing munitions already fired. The war enters its ninth month this week. The Congressional Budget Office projects two to three billion dollars every month it continues. Numbers that large stop feeling like money. They start feeling like weather. That is the danger. Today's practice — pray for restraint. For the service members. For Iranian civilians. For leaders on both sides weighing whether to light another match. This episode is presented by Bible Copilot. Today's verse is Jeremiah seventeen, verse seven. Open Bible Copilot and study the Verse of the Day first. You'll walk through a guided study — what the passage says, what it means, what it teaches about God, and how to apply it. Three questions each day are free. Start at mybiblecopilot dot com slash gospel. That's mybiblecopilot dot com slash gospel, or search Bible Copilot in the App Store. Here is Jeremiah seventeen, verse seven. "But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream." A tree does not flee when the heat comes. It drinks deeper. Visas run out. Fuel runs out. Munitions run out. The stream does not. Thanks for listening. I'll see you tomorrow.