Cruise Details, Joe Biden, Tim Keller

Greetings, welcome to The Dividing Line. My name is James White. It is a Tuesday and it is getting toward the end of the month of January, if you can believe that. We're almost a 12th of the way through 2020.

How does that happen? Well, it happens faster and faster as you get older and older. Speaking of getting older and older, we are going on a cruise this year at the end of September, and I guess I'll let the experts explain to you what happens at the end of the month, but I've talked to a lot of you folks and there are a lot of people just go, oh man, believe me, I'd be there in a second.

I had one young fella, one young fella said, well, she said yes, we're gonna get married, but that means I don't get to go, so I'm not sure what to do. And I'm like, priorities there, son. Anyway, so hopefully I'm going to be joined here in a moment.

You have everything queued up there? All right, so let's bring Mr. Alaska himself onto the program today, and right now all I have is a frozen screen. Do you have more than that? Oh, there we go. He's just asleep?

Okay. Hi, Mike. Bless me, Father Farias, it has been 28 years. This feels like a regular confession, because I can't see you and you can only see me, so I'm getting flashbacks here. Well, we don't want you to have any flashbacks to such negative experiences as that, but anyways, because I have many other negative experiences I could remind you of.

Yes, we do have that on one another. We do. I mean, I notice you're up on the second floor there. I have recollections of your second floor apartment early on. Are you doing all right, young man? Anyway, let's not...

I'm not on the second floor. I'm here in the back of my house. It's a beautiful day out here in Florida. Just got my jungle behind me here. Yes, yes, I do recall that. I do recall that. Anyways, I called you Mr. Alaska, because I think it's still the most famous commercial we've ever had.

You voiced for us and you started off. I can't do it, because I think you're the master of it. You just handled it just so well when you invited everybody to Alaska. We're not going to Alaska, are we?

No, actually. If you take a look back at the history of things that we've done with Alpha Omega since 1999, James. That's when we were in another century during the worst. And you and I look like we were in another century.

That's for sure. I'll tell you, folks, a lot of people are asking about why is it that we're doing the cruises and so forth. I know that G3 has just decided to do a cruise. But what we always did and the whole purpose of why we had the cruises was to be able to put on apologetics conferences, as well to have debates.

So the first debate that James and I did was with Robert's genus. And then we did the Caribbean. And then after that, we had a debate with John Sanders. We had debates with John Dominick Crossan, Bart Ehrman.

All of those were because of what we had done on the cruise, that we were able to put those on and so forth. But this year, James had me contact the Pope. We're going to have a debate on Marxism. But unfortunately, apparently, his handler said that he was unable to do it, that he might.

So his handler, Russell Moore, told me he wasn't able to do it. So he might be able to do it for me. So anyway. So the next step here is that we do have Rome starting in this will be in this coming September.

And it's a great time to be out there that they actually have a fall. And if you think of Rome, whether you want to think of like mid North Carolina, South Carolina, somewhere in there. But we do have an opportunity to start with a small get together in Rome.

And then it'll be yourself and Pastor Jeff Durbin. Is that correct? Yes. And then as well, I believe your daughter, Summer Jaeger, will be with us as well. Well, I haven't told you this. I really hadn't wasn't ready to announce this.

Do you want to put this on a screen or do we have to because he is he only up right now? Well, you might want to can you can you put me in a screen or something if I'm going to mention this? Because they're OK.

All right. So I can't see it. Yeah, I know. So here's the problem. Just found out that I'm expecting my fifth grandchild right in the middle of the cruise. Wow. So, yeah, I did mention that if she still went and the child was born at sea, it could have like it could have passports to like Libya, Greece, Italy.

I mean, you know, it'd be great, but it's probably still not going to happen that way. So, yeah, yeah. We don't want one of the white children to have Turkish citizenship. That could complicate matters a bit.

That would complicate things a lot. Yeah. Yeah. No question about it. So that's that's not looking real good on that end there. But hey, you know, it's a good trade off. That's great. That's great news, James.

But yeah, maybe another time. But this time, folks, we have had my goodness. So I'll go back to where I was before. And I know that we have a tendency to go off on all sorts of different rabbit trails.

But Rome, we're going to be going to Rome, of course, to be going to Cyprus. We'll be going to Israel for three days, both Ashdod and then and that's the port that actually goes into Jerusalem. So it's only about an hour and 10 minute drive and you actually go up.

People don't realize how much really the geography changes from from Israel at sea to where Jerusalem is, which is at high altitude. And then as well, we'll be heading for one day out to the Dead Sea, to Masada and to Qumran as well.

After that, we'll be heading to Ephesus, which is fantastic. Fantastic. It's absolutely, I think, probably one of the best preserved ruins anywhere in the world. It'll give you a real good sense of really how advanced the culture was back, you know, even just before Christ and then in the first few centuries before Ephesus eventually became ruins.

Then we'll head off to Athens and we'll be going up and we'll be on Mars Hill. And then to Olympia, Greece as well, and where James will be taking an excursion and taking folks for a run. So just a short one, short one, very short one.

But during this time, James, what are you planning on teaching on when we're on the ship? Well, that's a good question. Obviously, I've lost track of how many debates I have between now and then. So it's hard to say.

Obviously, when we're at a particular location, you know, the standard thing is, do John 6 in Capernaum or something about the Garden of Gethsemane when you go to Gethsemane, and that's what everybody's doing.

And I know when I was there recently, as I was listening to other groups, when you'd be in a particular area, that seemed to be what was going on. To be honest with you, what we did is we had a Jewish tour guide, and so we were just witnessing them, it didn't really matter where we were.

So I did all sorts of interesting topics. But the at-sea stuff, as you know, we sort of developed a tradition, I don't know, very, very long ago, again, 20 years ago or so, of having discussions, theological discussions, out under the stars, when, obviously, when the weather permitted.

I don't know what the Mediterranean's like in October, to be honest with you. You have far more experience with that than I do. But when we were in the Caribbean and stuff like that, we did all sorts of theological dialogues late into the evenings.

Yes, that was something that we started a long time ago, back when I was young, and when I could stay up past 10 o 'clock at night. I'm in the boat with, same boat with you, literally. So we're going to have to find one of our young folks to lead the discussions.

And what we really wanted to do was to have a bit more of an open, Socratic kind of discussion on theology and apologetics, and even with disagreements and so forth, and have it well moderated, just to, and I think it was what we had then that maybe we're starting to miss now is the ability to have disagreements and to be able to work through some of those just by talking and really looking through the Scriptures and examining our own beliefs and being sharpened.

That's something that, in the world of Facebook and Twitter, doesn't seem to exist much anymore. But those are things that certainly we would like to be able to look at. During this time, folks, we will be having some fairly special excursions with Dr. White and making sure that we get into some areas such as in Ephesus there at the amphitheater, where there was biblical history that took place there at Mars Hill.

And if you've never been up on Mars Hill before in Athens, and you see what Paul was looking at, where he could look down below him at the Agora and see all of the temples of all the gods there, you're able to see what he saw when he was bringing men and women closer to an understanding of God, the true one triune God.

So these things, I think, are going to be an amazing experience. You know, so many of the times that we've been on cruises in the Caribbean or Alaska, you know, it's beautiful, it's wonderful, and there's great teaching on board, and there's fantastic fellowship.

There's the additional part of this of where you get an opportunity to be in the place where Christ and the apostles brought the gospel, and there's really nothing that can compare to that, I don't think.

No, not really. It's not necessarily, and I would say this, we are going to be doing a lot. So for the 14 days or so that we're together, that's if you come before and after. You know, we'll be in Rome.

We will be going to the Vatican. We'll have express entrance. We'll also be going to St. John the Lateran, and where you can actually see the chair there. We'll be going up the sacred steps up to the Holy of Holies.

We will, I mean, this is what we're going to do. We'll also go to St. Paul's as well, and St. Paul's, of course, and I think everybody historically would agree that is where St. Paul was, of course, had his last day on earth before being in the presence of the Lord.

So these things all together are really, really exciting for everyone, and I think that this gives an opportunity not only for folks to get to know James. We have a few hundred people that have already signed up, and one of the reasons we're on right now is that come February 1st, I have to release our unsold inventory back into the cruise line.

So if it is something that you're considering doing, I think we've got incredible pricing. We've always tried to do that. That's why James lives in the same house that he did 30 years ago. Thanks for letting everybody know that, but it's only been 22 years, but anyway.

So the point that everybody needs to understand is that this particular point in time, it's not our choice. It's just simply the way the cruise industry works, is that at a certain point, if you have unsold inventory, then you become accountable for it, basically.

And so you have to release it back, or it could end up costing you an arm and a leg if no one takes it or something like that. And so it's not that people can't come after February 1st, but it'd be more expensive to come after February 1st.

Right. In other words, well, you might not have any cabins left. Once we release these back into the inventory of Celebrity, these cabins will get snapped up pretty quick. So what James is correct is that it's not that you wouldn't be able to.

They'll be necessarily more expensive, but also the issue is going to be that other people that are wanting to come on what is a very, very popular cruise will likely snap those up. So it's called attrition.

So once we reach that point in our contract, it's time to let some of those cabins go. But we do have a few hundred folks that are on board. We have the lowest demographic of any sailing I've ever done out there before.

Really? Yes. The average age is around 34 or so. That's average age. So, you know, I think it's balanced out by a lot of two-year-olds and three-year-olds. I have a group coming just after you on the same cruise that is a rather large reformed ministry based in Orlando, Florida.

Yes. But I think the average age is somewhere the demographic is around 70. There you go. There you go. So in other words, everybody would be much, much younger than James and myself. Yes, yes, yes. So this is true.

But please try to try to be merciful to us. Yes, we will go. We will try to move as quickly as we can. I can still do that. I'm not sure about everybody else, but I won't mention anybody anyway. So now one thing I want people to understand, we've we've sort of arranged this so that you can you can come along, you can do the cruise, you can you can go into ports and things like that.

But the reason, you know, some people have sort of gone online and they've looked at other cruises like this, and they're a whole lot more expensive. And the reason is that the excursions that we have are something that you you have to opt in or out of.

So you don't have to there's a place that you you don't necessarily want to get off. And that's certainly been me in the past. It's not going to be me this time. But that's me in the past. I mean, you know, it's always been you.

Yeah, it's it's it drives people crazy. But, you know, when we go on cruises, there's just all sorts of excursions. I'm just sort of like, you know, I really like this ship. It's very nice. And I'm not getting off.

And so, you know, but the way that it's working, the way we're doing it is there. The cost is up to you. You get to choose how many of those places you're getting off at and how many excursions you're going on and so on and so forth.

But there there will be a cost for those. So the low number is because of that and allowing other people to go now I'm not getting off today type of situation. And one of the things to remember, too, is that when you look at first of all, we're giving you a base cruise price.

We're trying to to allow as many people that would like to be able to come to be able to come, that it's not, you know, a hugely expensive price. But within that price that you have in the cruise, you get your accommodations, you get all of your meals on board.

You have almost all of your drinks unless you're a Presbyterian. The thing is not included, of course, is sodas as well. But then also you get all of your teaching and so forth on board. This pays for our conference room.

This pays for the audio visual and everything else as well as the speakers that are coming with you. When it comes to the excursions, yeah, you can pick and choose if you want to go on all of the excursions with Dr. White.

You can. And to be able to be there as he does a lot of live on the site teaching like we're going to be going to Migdal there in the Galilee region will be as well going to the Mount of Beatitudes. And we have already reserved a spot there for our group.

So, you know, you're going to have opportunities to be in really amazing places. We're talking about the actual places like Migdal someplace that James had really wanted us to add to the schedule. And do you want to explain why that is, James?

Yeah, sure. I mean, I even put a picture up when we were talking about it a couple weeks ago. And that was of all the places that I saw. Now, obviously, Capernaum is super special. John 6, the synagogue there.

But the synagogue there is probably third century, not necessarily first century. The Migdal location, they found it by building a hotel, which is half the time how you find stuff in Israel, as you know.

So they've actually built the hotel over it. So you have to go under it to see this. But this is very clearly the first century synagogue. And the gospel is very clear. Jesus went about in all their synagogues teaching and preaching.

And Migdal, of course, is where Mary Magdalene, Migdal, Mary of Migdal, Mary Magdalene is from. And so, these are the stones that would have heard Jesus teaching. And in a lot of the places that you go in Israel, it's possible, maybe, but of all the places I saw, this was one of the most obviously yes situations, which then obviously opens up opportunities for you to address almost anything that Jesus preached about in those synagogues and the events that took place.

And it just makes it really special. So, yeah, that's why I wanted to make sure that people got to see that. It's not like it's huge. The whole thing about Israel for me is there's nothing huge. It's not big.

You stand on the shore of the Sea of Galilee and you can see the other shore. It's a long ways off. It's a big, big lake, but it's a lake. And that was the thing that was a real takeaway for me, was to realize, yeah, you could walk all this stuff.

It might take you a little while, but you most definitely could. And that's exactly what the disciples were doing. So, we've only got a couple days left. And if people have been sort of walking the line, they need to call Sovereign.

They need to talk to Kathy or to whoever else might be dealing things. Now, who's going from the staff? Do you know who's going with us? Uh, it's, we're kind of, we're already kind of drawing straws on that.

Drawing straws. Who has to go on yours? Oh, who has to go on? I understand. So, the short straw goes. Is that what you're saying? No, we will be bringing a crew. Most likely, it'll be me. And then as well, um, probably Kathy Kiang for a good portion of it.

Uh, possibly Ryan Dick, um, for at least half of it. Uh, then Stuart Adams, uh, who I believe that James has met Stuart before, uh, his wife. And so, uh, they, they will be, uh, being incredible. And understand when we do something like this, folks, uh, James, maybe you can add in a little bit here.

We really try to make sure that we take care of you. The moment you get out of your, off of your plane to the first hotel that we're going to be at, as we transfer onto the ship, as we, we head through all of these different ports and all of these different countries and cities that we're going to be visiting.

Um, we want to make sure that we're really taking care of you with this, which is much... You've learned a lot over the past 21 years. Well, sure. Yeah. Yeah. You know, cause I, I, I'm, I'm still thinking about finding tickets in, in tennis bags.

So, you know, that was, that was 21 years ago. So you've... I was 29 years old. And you still had a good backhand back then too. So, uh... Well, yeah. Um, but yeah, we, we have, I mean, we, we have, uh, obviously an opportunity to be able to have an incredible, uh, trip, really a once in a lifetime trip for so many of you.

And James was saying about Israel, you know, you're in Israel and you're looking over this way. Oh, there's Jordan. And Oh, over this hill is Syria. You know, that's literally, you're looking at about a very, very small space that you can drive easily in about a half of a day that, and it feels like you're basically in Southern California, uh, through a good portion of it.

Very well-developed, very contemporary and so forth. But this is where Jesus was. And, uh, as you're driving down the road and you're passing by the street signs of the exits and so forth, it's like, Oh, well that was in the Bible.

Oh, and so was that. Yeah. Except, except, except a bunch of it's old Testament. And so most people are like, what's that? I don't know. Who knows? Well, isn't that where David and... Yeah. Yeah. I mean, so, oh, and Jericho, if you take a left is this way as you're heading down to, to the dead sea, you know, and it's just, it's, it's incredible.

And I think that if you have the opportunity to be where, where the Bible really, um, the, the, the center and source of our civilization, of our church, of our faith, where everything happened, where, where Christ's ministry was, where of course, what James is just referring to in the old Testament, where all of it pretty much took place a good portion of it, at least, uh, when you're there.

And then as well, we head to Ephesus and we head to Athens. Um, I mean, folks, this is an opportunity to really have things make sense, especially if you're a pastor and you're preaching to be able to, to know what that looked like.

Yeah. And, and make sure to bring lots of rolls of film. Rolls of film? Who does that? Oh my goodness. Don't you remember? Don't you remember? That's, that's how we would have done it even, even back in 1999, probably.

Um, but yeah, no, just wait. In other words, bring, bring lots of large SD cards and, uh, you'll, you'll be fine. But, uh, but now, now really quickly, the only reason I asked if Ryan was going is because, um, I think I seem to remember him saying that he'd be willing to debate me on paid a baptism on the ship.

Um, so I wanted to make sure that he was going to be able to do that. I'll make sure that I get in touch with Ryan to explain to him what paid a baptism is. Um, and no, I'm just kidding. No, no, right.

Ryan, uh, you know, he's, he's already been over and, and to his, from his standpoint is that the Holy Land cruise meant a lot to him, uh, that he did a few years ago with his grandfather and that it really helped to codify a lot of things in his faith and the way that, that he understands things.

Um, do want to say again, we will have two days before the cruise in Rome and that's important. We might do a little something there. We thought about, I was joking before about the debate, please don't write me emails about, uh, the name I mentioned, but, um, the, we will be trying to do something there and we'll see as that develops and we'll hopefully be able to have an announcement for those of you that are in Europe.

If you'd like to come and visit with us the night before, that might be something we can do as well. Right. So, um, looking forward to doing that. Right. All right, man. So, um, the information's at aomin .org or you can go, uh, to the, uh, the website, um, which interestingly enough, mine's coming up as, as Sovereign Experiences.

That's not supposed to, it's supposed to be Holy Land, isn't it Holy Land Cruise? Yeah. Holy Land Cruise, theholylandcruise, all one word .com. Uh, we'll take you over to Sovereign's website and you can get all the information, get ahold of folks and now's the time to do it because like we just said, uh, come February 1st, uh, can't guarantee having any availability left.

So, uh, if you want to come along, now's the time to do it. Thank you, Mike. Look forward to it and, uh, you have yourself a good day there in your jungle. Great. Thank you, sir. All right. God bless.

Bye-bye. All right. Thank you very much joining us. And like I said, that's the first link. And when you go to AOMIN, the banner ads at the top, you'll see, uh, the Dome of the Rock there, uh, and, uh, just click on that and that will take you to where you need to go.

Uh, some people are a little confused as to why I would want to debate, um, Ryan on pentebaptism. Uh, Ryan Dick is R .C. Sproul's grandson. So that was where the joke was. Uh, we love Ryan and we have lots of fun with Ryan and, uh, Ryan has lots of fun with Mike and it's, it's just a good time.

So, uh, we wanted to get that out. Uh, that was a fair amount of time, but again, like I said, um, so many people said, oh, I want to know. I just don't know. And, um, I, I'm not sitting here saying we're never going to do it again.

Um, but I don't know when we would be doing anything like that again. Uh, and it certainly wouldn't be for, for quite a long period of time. Um, so we'll see. Um, just, just don't know. Um, but it, uh, it is quite an itinerary and, uh, there are places there I haven't been to.

So, uh, I've not been to Ephesus. I've not been to, uh, uh, there's a stop in Cyprus. We didn't mention that, but I was looking at the itinerary, the stop in Cyprus. I didn't even know that. I certainly never been to Cyprus.

Um, and, uh, Athens and, uh, and things like that. So it's, uh, it's quite the, uh, uh, it is quite the itinerary. So it will be, uh, a great, great time. So, all right, let's, uh, let's move away from that.

Transgender Rights as “Basic Human Rights” and the Logic of the Left

Uh, let's do something a little on the, um, cultural side here for a moment. Um, I have a tweet here. Not sure if you can see it or not, but, um, this was January 25th. Uh, vice president, former vice president Joe Biden.

Let's be clear. Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time. There is no room for compromise when it comes to basic human rights. Uh, sometimes I, I just, I wonder what has happened to my country, to my culture, to my world.

Um, everybody knows that. And if you're thinking I'm picking on Joe Biden, um, just realize there is no one on the left that would for a moment dispute what he said, that would be political suicide. Um, so mayor Pete could have said this.

Elizabeth Warren could have said this. Uh, I don't even know who else is running anymore. Uh, could have said the exact same thing. Now, the one thing with Joe Biden is he's been in Washington forever.

And you know, the 20 years ago, he didn't even know what a transgender person was, let alone, did he think it was a basic human right? And in fact, nobody, almost nobody 10 years ago would have even been able to understand this, but now it is the new orthodoxy.

And when a cultural, when a culture's cultural orthodoxy can be defined in a single decade in direct opposition to everything that has been considered settled reality and belief, uh, up until that point in time, um, in that society, you have a revolution going on and it is a revolution of such speed and magnitude.

The worldview that lies behind this statement is a very dangerous worldview. Basic human rights were defined in this nation on the basis of a creator that mankind has certain inalienable rights, but they are mankind's inalienable rights because mankind was created by God.

And that therefore these inalienable rights originate in what is truly good for everyone. Once you adopt the idea that human rights find their origination either in mankind, in some autonomous choice where I, I choose, I simply decide in my mind that I am a two spirit questioning mighty wind.

And when the rest of the world has to go, Oh, okay. So what pronouns would you like? Cause what pronouns do you use for mighty wind? You know, I want, um, there are some other mighty winds we can come up with along those lines.

I mean, seriously, uh, but the rest of us all of a sudden have to bow down because you have the autonomous right to determine, um, who you are and how all the rest of us are interacting to interact with you.

That worldview either places it there in the individual, which leads to absolute anarchy. Intersectionality leads to anarchy because you're always looking for more intersectional authority and power. And so you're going to be constantly looking for this kind of, of I'm different than you in this way.

And that leads to anarchy. So when, when the anarchy shuts everything down and there can no longer be a cultural, a culture at peace with itself, then the totalitarian step in and they provide the rescue, uh, from the destruction of the cultural fabric that critical theory is designed to create, but it will not be a rescue that has, um, Liberty freedom, uh, that has any meaningful ground for human rights.

Because once human rights are derived from the government, we know as Christians that the government is simply a concentration of sinners. There it's a concentration of sinners, uh, which is why, uh, the men who founded this country, not all of whom were Christians by any stretch of the imagination, but many were, and those who were not lived in a culture where Christianity was normative, um, divided power and they divided it out so that you would not have, uh, this very kind of, of situation.

We, I continue to, and we will continue the rest of this year to have the constant conversation because the evangelical elites have determined, um, that they are going to demand that Christians support the idea of their own illegalization to do the right thing.

So what you do is you abandon any time type of biblical theology or understanding of nationhood, borders, law, uh, taxation. Um, you reject all of that and you create a crisis. And what you do is you say, if you're really going to be a Christian who follows biblical teaching, then you're going to agree with the people who at least want to do something about migrants and what they're going to do in the process is say, and please ignore the fact that those people who talk about that likewise are going to demand your children from you.

They're going to demand your children from you. Uh, they are going to shut down homeschooling and they are going to demand that your children spend the majority of their day being instructed in government schools.

And what are they going to be instructed about? Well, they're gonna be instructed there's no male or female. They're gonna be instructed there is no God, that there is no transcendent source of values, that you are a human accident, that homosexuality is the greatest thing that mankind has ever come up with.

And that marriage is not between a man and a woman, but between two men, three men, 10 men, 47 men, five dogs, and 14 dolphins. It does not matter as long as you call it marriage. And they are going to be told all of those things each day, every day by the government, which will then shut down anyone who protests shut, shut down any church that would say Jesus is Lord rather than Caesar's Lord.

But you've got to vote for these people. You've got to vote for that worldview because of the poor that Jesus said will always be with you. And that the church is supposed to be dealing with not socialism, but you still have to do it to be a good Christian.

And that's what you're going to hear. And you're going to hear it over and over and over again. It's going to be a drumbeat. And I don't know how to look someone in the eye more plainly and simply say, would you please wake up?

Can you not see what you're doing? I know that we live in a fallen world. And I know that there is no such thing as a perfect candidate. And I wish that there were wonderful choices. I didn't feel I had a choice last time.

This time around, we are dealing with open, plain socialists who have made it clear that one of the first things they'll do is they will pass that Equality Act, which will simply shut down almost all of us who are seeking to promote godliness in this culture.

And every single one of you sitting there going, well, but, you know, it can't be a one-issue voter. This is not a one-issue voting situation. This is a socialist, anti-Christian worldview versus something else.

At least it's something else. I'm not saying it's great. I'm not saying the Apostle Paul's running for office. He's not. But if you can't see, if listening to Joe Biden, creepy Joe, I don't look when he was vice president.

I thought it was so weird back then how he touched females constantly, but nobody said a word about it back then. It was before the me too. So guess nobody cared, but you and I both know that Joe Biden in the 1980s, didn't even know what a transgender person was.

And now it is the civil rights issue of our time. I really wonder, my black brothers and sisters who are sitting here going, yeah, we've got to vote for these people, civil rights issue, transgenderism, drag queens.

This is the civil rights issue of our time. What worldview is behind that? How do you even begin to defend that? How can you not see the radical natures? I don't know, but please notice his words. There is no room for compromise on transgenderism, on transgenderism, the greatest example of moral and ethical insanity that I've ever encountered in my adult life.

And according to one of the primary and every single other socialist candidate would agree with him on this, no compromise, no comp. There's no room. If you, if you do not agree with this, there is no room for you in this nation any longer.

Vote him in. Hey, that's the right thing to do. Okay. I don't, I, at times I'm just left going, how obvious does it have to become? I mean, once we're both sitting in the same gulag, maybe you'll go, you know, you might've had a point back then, but by then it'll be a little late.

It'll be just a little bit late. Yeah, folks, I'm going to tell you, um, now don't get me wrong. I've said it before. That worldview cannot last. That worldview cannot create a culture. That's why it collapses.

And when it collapses, the totalitarians take over the totalitarians. We all know what they did in the Soviet union. We know what they're doing in China. We know what they're doing in North, uh, North Korea and those nations eventually fall, but it can be slow and bring a tremendous amount of death in the process.

Um, but they, they can't, they can't create anything that's going to, it's going to last. By the way, I mentioned on Facebook this morning, I'll just be very brief. Um, God is not surprised by coronavirus.

Coronavirus is not new. Um, keep something in mind. The communist government does not have any foundation in its worldview to honor or care about the weak. Once you reach an age in their perspective, where you are now no longer able to contribute to the society up to a certain level, they don't want you around anymore.

Um, because the state is all individuals mean nothing. Um, from what I'm reading, I'm not an expert on this, but from what I'm reading, this coronavirus, um, is survivable by anyone. It basically gives you pneumonia and with proper nutrition and, and so on and so forth, a healthy person is this, this is not, um, the dystopian, uh, flesh eating viruses, uh, you know, that you, we find in all of our movies anymore.

Okay. But you see, it actually seems to work pretty well for the communists because it gets rid of people they want to get rid of anyways in the long run. And so, um, let, let's not do the panic thing.

I mean, that's what, that's what media is for, is for the creation of panic. Um, but God knew about this and, uh, God has a purpose and God has a plan and, uh, wash your hands and be Scottish. Amen. That's right.