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You're listening to radio looks lucid. I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 74 The title of this episode is happy new year 2022

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Pope Francis still up to his old immigration tricks Well, happy new year 2022.

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It's great to be here for another year And this is actually my 14th year as a blogger podcaster and youtuber

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Thank you for your support now for all of you for all your support over the past year in 2021 is my honor to serve you with radio looks lucid podcast during the year and Lord willing 2022 will bring many more opportunities for doing the same

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Now one thing that that kind of interested me about all this when I was getting this podcast together here is

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Is the the grammar Surrounding happy new year. So it is a happy New Year's or is it happy new year?

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and Every year every new year I kind of go through this because I only of course talk about it once a year and then by the time the next year

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Rolls around I'm thinking okay. I I kind of sort of think I remember what what the correct idea is, but Me, um,

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I've kind of forgotten and I feel a little bit shaky And I I don't want to start off my podcast and title my podcast using bad grammar

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That's that's kind of a bad way to get started on things. So I found this article in in Newsweek and The the way this works is there are actually a couple of different constructions here in certain circumstances

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Happy New Year's is correct. And in other circumstances. Happy New Year is correct and It has to do with it

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I say it just it has to do with the context in which you use it and this particular article in Newsweek Let's see if I can find here what it talks about Said the in the case of the apostrophe s in New Year's it's required when discussing things that belong to New Year's Eve or January 1st such as party plans or Resolutions made this is because apostrophes are the way the

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English language indicates either possession or something belongs to another as a result The following three examples are all correct applications of the apostrophe in New Year's New Year's Eve December 31st is the eve of 2022

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New Year's Day January 1st is the first day of 2022 New Year's resolution a state of goal or aim for the new year

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There is in each example a clear relationship between the new year and the noun the eve the day itself and the resolution

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This is because they're all specifically related to the new year meaning New Year's becomes the modifier of each noun

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It's consequently correct to say we're throwing a New Year's party and I've made a list of New Year's resolutions

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Now from on the other hand for midnight on December 31st and for a few succeeding days people say

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Happy New Year New Year is also correctly used with no possessive apostrophe s when discussing the year as a whole in Contrast New Year's refers to one specific night day and one resolution

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But New Year usually comes up when people are talking Generally about the year often before it has begun or while it is still early in the year

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This means the following examples are correct are the correct use of New Year December is a very busy period for me.

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It's when we should get so we should get dinner early in the new year Now it is the new year.

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I have much more free time to socialize Happy New Year to you all Note in the above examples

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New Year is capitalized when the holiday or January 1st is being discussed But not when the new year as a time frame is being referenced.

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So that's all very interesting so that's that's kind of grammar nerdy kind of stuff there and As a result,

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I titled my podcast. Happy New Year 2022 because I'm referring to the the year as a whole.

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I Believe that's the correct application It's kind of funny that I'm even thinking or discussing about this because when

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I was was a kid when I was going through school I hated English class And I hated

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English grammar and so what do I do I end up growing up and I become a podcaster and and a blogger

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Go figure right that that just makes perfect sense, right? You know, I spent all of my time in English class basically goofing off now.

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I'm not recommending that I shouldn't have done that I'm not saying that's a good thing But that's what I did and it wasn't until I got into college and I actually started taking a foreign language

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I took German that I really started to to learn English grammar and and to have some appreciation for it

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I my my use of language grew quite a bit when I was in college for having done that and I really didn't even want

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To take German. I mean I ended up having to do it to fulfill an elective requirement I kind of surprised myself and found out

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I liked it So it's kind of interesting but most of the grammar that I know I actually know through having studied foreign languages

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One other thing kind of a short thing. I wanted to talk about. Well, I had a couple other things I want to talk about just by way of introduction here in the new year

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Now one of them was UC football now my my Bearcats. They made it all the way to the college football playoffs that's the final four playing for the championship the championship trophy for the

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College football for the year and they ran into a buzzsaw called, Alabama And it was it was kind of a rough game.

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It was on it was on well New Year's Eve and What happened it was kind of what

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I was afraid of I mean they just I think they really just got overmatched During the game by Alabama, not that that's any real shame.

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I think Alabama. I don't know. They they're really a machine I think they're the number one program right now in college football and have been for several years

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Their coach Nick Saban a lot of people think he's the greatest football college football coach ever And it's kind of hard to argue with that.

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I believe he's already has seven national titles I think sometimes maybe they ought to bump, Alabama up to the

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NFL and in this not not not force the the college teams to Play them, but you know congratulations,

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Alabama. They played a great game They deserve to win and I hope that they go on to win the win the title

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You know, they definitely are I think the best team that that I've seen out there this year in in college football

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But also congratulations the Bearcats, you know, they had a great season. I was really proud of them I really enjoyed watching that team this year

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Maybe more than I've enjoyed watching anything in in sports in a long time And I guess maybe some of that has to do with just the fact that you know

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We live in this time when there's so much that is so negative. I mean not only is there no good news

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The news that's out. There is almost universally bad I mean, it's there's all this this stuff going on politically with with kovat with a lot of things that that I think are very frustrating to me as a

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Christian as an American as someone who loves Liberty and and Capitalism free markets these kinds of things.

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I mean, it seems like the bad guys are winning Time after time after time and there's there's not a whole lot of good that's going on right now at this particular time and it was really nice to have something to get a little bit excited about this fall and And enjoy that really kind of took my mind off of some of that stuff you know

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I read and I talk about that probably even more than most people just because of the Kind of work that I do here either with the podcast or with the blog and it's nice to just Get my mind off of some of that for a while.

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So congratulations to the Bearcats They had a wonderful season and I look forward to watching them again next year one last thing and this is going to be the last time

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I mentioned as I've talked here some about Christmas lights and the the neighbors we had

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I Found out that they had placed I think second last year in The the top

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Christmas lights and in Cincinnati one of the local stations and sure enough they they placed in that group again

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I don't think they were second this year, but they did place in that group and it was one of the local

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TV stations Wlw channel 5 featured them on its web page and I'll include a link to that page in the in a description and Interestingly enough when

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I they actually have I thought originally was just a still photograph But they actually have a video of of the display

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So you can if you click on the link and you scroll down your your see their display They're number 20 and there's a little video of the of the of the house.

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So it's it's kind of interesting in that regard So anyway, I guess congratulations to to them as well

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They placed once again on the the top lights in in Greater, Cincinnati a very respectable 20, by the way

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I mean when you think of all the people who have Christmas lights out I guess it's not bad coming in in the in the top 20

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So today I wanted to now I wanted to turn to the the main topic of today's program

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And and of course that has to do with with Pope Francis still being up to his old immigration tricks and The the trick in this particular case is a very common play that that the

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Roman Catholic Church runs especially around Christmas and that play is

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It's basically comparing the what's sometimes called the flight to Egypt that is when when

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Joseph took Mary and Jesus and fled to Egypt when he was warned by the angel and to leave Judea and because of apparently because of because of Herod and because of the

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The murders that that Herod was committing he was warned in a dream to flee to Egypt to get out of the the danger and what the

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Roman Catholic Church says is that the the flight of the family to to Egypt is

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Really sort of the archetype sort of the pattern the the representative of all migrants everywhere

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So when you you see migrants, you know millions of migrants pouring across America's southern border

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Well, really what we should do is we should see, you know, Joseph's Mary and Jesus in their faces, you know what they're doing is exactly the same thing as is what the

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Joseph and his family did and when warned by the angel Gabriel and I guess if if you

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Reject them in the Roman Catholic Church's way of thinking what you're really doing is is you're opposing

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Christ himself That's essentially what their argument is and you're an all -around very bad person and you need to repent of your sins it's an attempt by Rome to seize the moral high ground and Make you feel guilty if for instance if you don't think having your country flooded by millions and millions of foreigners

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That then go on the welfare dole If you don't think that's an awesome idea. Well, you're an all -around very bad person in the eyes of the

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Pope So let's take a look at this particular article You can find there there are many such statements of this out there

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But this is a recent one. This was done in the middle of last week. I believe it was last Wednesday It was a a sermon that that Pope Francis gave

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So we'll kind of we'll break that down and look take a little closer Look at some of the ideas that he put forward.

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So this is a headline from Breitbart news and by the way Breitbart I found is a really good source on The the doings of the

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Pope. They've got a fellow who's in the Rome Bureau. It's called his name is Thomas D Williams And apparently he is a former

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Roman Catholic priest himself, I guess he ran into some personal Trouble I found

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I looked up his biography, but he's a good writer and he you know I don't know what his you know where he is in terms of his his faith

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I don't know. I assume he's probably still a Roman Catholic, but he does a very good job reporting on Some of the things that are done in Rome particularly as they relate to issues of immigration

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Yeah, I found a lot of articles in Breitbart that are quite good in reporting some of the comments that Pope Francis makes so here's a headline from Breitbart the article is by Thomas D Williams and The article again, it's titled

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Pope Francis. St. Joseph was a persecuted and courageous migrant okay, so, you know again, so if st.

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Joseph was a persecuted and courageous migrant and These people and that are coming across America's southern border in the millions and it quite literally is the millions right now

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These people are all also persecuting courageous migrants just like Joseph was and if we reject them, well, you know, well we are

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Rejecting them in the same way as if we would have rejected Joseph and again, you know

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That's that's an attempt to basically guilt people in to allowing their countries to be overrun by by welfare migrants

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So let's read a little bit of this article and we can talk about it So the dateline is Rome Pope Francis presented st.

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Joseph as the foster father of Jesus as a persecuted and courageous migrant in a provocative address in the

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Vatican Wednesday The evangelist Matthew described st. Joseph as quote a persecuted and courageous migrant the

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Pope said during his weekly general audience in the Vatican Another quote from the Pope this particular event in the life of Jesus Which also involves

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Joseph and Mary is traditionally known as the flight to Egypt The Pope continues the family is neither as such

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Nazareth suffered such humiliation and experienced firsthand the precariousness Fear and pain of having to leave their homeland

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He continued Today so many of our brothers and sisters are still forced to experience the same injustice and suffering today

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I think we need a prayer for all migrants Migrants and all the persecuted and all those who are victims of adverse circumstances be they political historical or personal circumstances the

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Pope said Let us think of the many people who are victims of wars who want to flee from their homeland

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But cannot he said let us think of think of the migrants who set out on that road to be free

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So many of whom end up on the street or in the sea Let us think of Jesus in the arms of Joseph and Mary fleeing

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In him each one of the migrants today He continued migration today is a reality to which we cannot close our eyes is a social scandal of humanity

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End quote now that last bit there is is really I think the key and listen.

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I want to repeat that here again This is quoting Pope Francis Let us think of Jesus in the arms of Joseph and Mary fleeing and let us see in him each one of the migrants today

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So so when we look at migrants what we're really supposed to do is we're supposed to see Jesus and his family fleeing

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Judea to go to Egypt and again if we If we reject migrants today, it's the same thing when the

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Pope is saying this now This isn't true and I'm going to explain why this is the case But the Pope wants you to say that if we reject this sort of mass welfare migration that's going on that it's it's really the same tantamount to rejecting

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Christ himself and And again, this is an attempt to intimidate and guilt people into accepting mass migration

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And let's see here. It looks like my for some reason my screen froze up. Oh, there we go I don't know.

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I I had this update that was done. I always hate this the Microsoft a they wanted me to update from Windows 10 to Windows 11

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So I went ahead and I accepted the update and it seems like every anytime you do an update like that a major update of changing

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Operating system they're always it gets a little a little buggy sometimes

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I don't know if that's what this is or if it's something else, but okay, so My screens unfrozen here.

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So let's take a look at a few additional things now. I mentioned that this idea that We are supposed to you know, as the

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Pope said that we're supposed to see Christ in the faces of all the migrants that are pouring across our southern border if you're in Europe all the migrants who are flooding

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Across the the Mediterranean or coming in through a land route and if you reject these, you know, you're you're according to the

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Pope You know, you're rejecting Christ. This is a very common Assertion that's made by Roman Catholic either people who are actually formally part of the church or by Roman Catholic politicians and even by ignorant

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Protestants Who who make the same argument very common and you see this throughout the year, but you see it especially at Christmastime and That's why

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I wanted to address this right now. I've wanted to talk about this in the past few weeks I haven't gotten around to it

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I'm actually glad I waited because this particular article by the Pope the one that I just read through that didn't come out until the

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Wednesday after Christmas, so it's it's kind of convenient that that he said what he said when he said it

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Well as I mentioned there are a few other examples of this kind of thing And I just wanted to go through and cite a few of these there was a story and this is from Fox News This is actually from 2018

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December 25th 2018 and the headline here. It says Ocasio Cortez says Jesus was a refugee in Christmas tweet and Just reading through a little bit of this

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It says US representative elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Democrat, New York Wish her Twitter follows a

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Merry Christmas Tuesday by referring to the newborn. Jesus is a refugee joy to the world

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Ocasio Cortez wrote Merry Christmas everyone Here's to a holiday filled with happiness family and love for all people including refugee babies and majors plus their parents end quote

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Okay. So now this is actually kind of an interesting tweet here because she is attempting to to state the immigration

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Ideas of the Roman Catholic Church, but she doesn't get it quite, right And Fox News points this out

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They kind of call her out here and they say Mary and Joseph are not depicted as refugees in the nativity story

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According to the Gospel of Luke Joseph brings the pregnant Mary to Bethlehem So that he may enroll in a census ordered by the

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Roman Emperor Augustus The couple are forced to take shelter in a stable where Jesus is born due to a lack of room at the end

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However, the Gospel of Matthew in the Gospel of Matthew Mary and Joseph flee into Egypt with the infant

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Jesus after King Herod of Judea orders the murder of every boy aged to and under in Bethlehem after the

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Magi ask him where to find the newborn king of the Jews The holy family escaped the slaughter and are told by an angel to return to Israel once Herod is dead.

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So Ocasio -Cortez she confuses the birth of Christ and the flight to Egypt and The the

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Pope has never claimed that the birth of Christ represented a refugee Family in a refugee birth.

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It's the flight to Egypt that he claims is is the The archetype the the pattern for all all migration.

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So Ocasio -Cortez, she doesn't doesn't quite get it right here And it's kind of comical Actually how how wrong she is she doesn't even state the bad doctrine of Rome correctly

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Well, anyway, there's another tweet and this was also put out by Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez the same day and It's interesting and this is a the podcast format here now just to let you know

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This is actually the second edition of of this of episode 74 I did a live stream last night of this and I had some technical difficulties

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The main technical difficulty was was me When I started when I record these

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I I do the live stream I use a service called called restream that allows me to stream out to to Facebook and to YouTube and to Twitter and I use that but I also at the same time

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I record the The live stream on on a podcast recorder that I have well

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Kind of there was a technical difficulty with the podcast recorder yesterday. And well, they say the technical problem was me

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I forgot to start it, you know, it's amazing But these the podcast recorder really works Well when

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I actually turn it on but when I don't turn it on it doesn't work at all for some strange weird reason I don't know why that is

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Anyway, that's really frustrating stuff I got to the end of that. Oh good grief. I didn't turn this on well, the good thing is

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I The the restream service actually does record and I was able to download and I edited a what

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I was going to go ahead and put Out as a podcast, but there were some also problems with the restream there was some internet issues it seems like and and there were a lot of dropouts and and issues with with that it that actually happened during the live stream and I could see it was dropping in and out and The recording was kind of the same way and I thought this is some important material and I want to have a better Audio version of that.

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So I'm gonna go ahead and I'm re -recording episode 74. So this is actually take two I'm gonna go ahead and leave the live stream up as it is the original live stream

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But I'm also going to go ahead and I'm re -recording episode 74 as well

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So the the podcast is podcast is going to be the same material But it'll be slightly different from the way it was presented on on the live stream

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So with that said and I'm gonna put a link in the show notes to this for this article or this tweet rather but there was another tweet that Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez put out back on Christmas in 2018 and the tweet itself

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Yeah, I'm not going to read what she had to say here But the reason I wanted to cite it is because there was a an image that she included with it and the image that's included

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It's it's a drawing of these it appears to be a Hispanic couple

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With with a child so they're they're walking through the wilderness The the wife is is carrying the child and they all have halos, you know

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Like you see some of these and I don't know if the term icon is the correct term to use But when you see some of the iconography from say the early church, you know

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Whether it was the Roman Catholic Church or Eastern Orthodoxy and there's a saint They always put sort of a halo around the the head of the person well when you look at this particular picture both the the husband the wife and the child have halos surrounding them and the the halo surrounding the child is a special type of a halo and I suppose that means to identify the child as Jesus and it's this this

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Latino couple and they're they're going through the wilderness presumably headed to the United States so again, this is taking that idea that Pope Francis talks about that were to see in the in the migrants the

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The family of Jesus that were to see Christ in the in in these migrants in the in the face of these migrants

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It takes that idea and it puts that in picture form So again, and I'm only bringing this up because I just want you to understand just how common a concept this is within the

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Roman Catholic Church Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez is a Roman Catholic. She went to a

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Roman Catholic school and I Went to a

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Jesuit school I'd have to go I need to go back and double -check that maybe I shouldn't say that But I know she went to a Roman Catholic school and she's very heavily influenced by Roman Catholic economic and political thought

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So, of course naturally she would put something like this out another example of the use of of the image of the flight into Egypt is if you go out to the

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The justice for immigrants page the justice for immigrants website that's a website of the

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US Conference of Catholic bishops and justice for immigrants that is a

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It's a I don't know what the correct term is. It's either a It's an organization run by the

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United States Conference of Catholic bishops So when you you go to the justice for immigrants page and again I'm gonna put a link out there so you can see this you can see the logo for the

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United States Conference of Bishops and Right next to that is the logo for the justice for immigrants organization and It also depicts the flight to Egypt.

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It's kind of stylized. So it's it's not completely obvious I mean if like if you looked at it apart from from the from knowing

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Roman Catholic doctrine about immigration You might not pick up the fact that it's supposed to be, you know depict the flight of Joseph Mary and Jesus But that's what this is they change the logo every now and then this one's a little bit harder to pick up But some of the logos they've had in the past have even been more explicit about it

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But again, you know, this is the United States Conference of Catholic bishops This is an official organization within a Roman Catholic Church.

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And again, they're also promulgating that that same idea through their logo That is the idea that in the face of the migrants that we should see

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Jesus Again, this is this is Roman Catholic Teaching on on the subject of immigration

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Now the Pope's rhetoric, you know when we we read the article there in Breitbart in Breitbart You know the

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Pope's rhetoric may be impassioned But is it biblical? That's the question that we want to ask here.

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Yeah, the Pope's rhetoric about immigration Yeah, he he can give an impassioned sermon But is it a biblical sermon?

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You know that is does do the scripture support the Pope's claims now the short answer to that is is no

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No, it does not Now as Christians, we should know that anything coming out of of the

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Pope's mouth is Is going to be false in one way or the other Why is that because the office of the papacy is the office of Antichrist?

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Now that's something that used to be widely understood by the reef by Reformed believers Well that started to change in the late 19th and early 20th century

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The 1647 Westminster Confession of Faith, that's the original wording the Confession of Faith had it right and it read this

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This is from chapter 25 of the 1647 Westminster Confession of Faith quote

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There is no head of the church But the Lord Jesus Christ nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof but is that Antichrist that man of sin and son of perdition that exalteth himself in the church against Christ and All that is called

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God and quote Now if you go out to your Westminster Confession today If you're a Presbyterian and you you you go out and you see the version of the

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Westminster Confession That's used by your church. It probably just says this There is no head of the church

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But the Lord Jesus Christ nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof full stop

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That everything that comes after that that identifies the Pope as Antichrist the man of sin the son of perdition

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Etc. All that stuff's been removed. It's just been completely dropped In my opinion, that is a major mistake

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It's a bit and in it's it's almost as if Protestants It's almost as if reformed believers have engaged in an act of what used to be called unilateral disarmament

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Now if you're an old guy like me, I'm in my mid -50s and maybe you grew up during the

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Cold War The term unilateral disarmament is something that you'd recognize now if you're younger person

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Maybe you've never heard that term before but back during the days of the Cold War Unilateral disarmament was was something that was very often discussed.

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So so what was unilateral disarmament? Well, there was this idea at least it was put forth by some people

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These sort of hippie dippy type thinkers who would go out and they would would say well you know this this whole conflict between between the

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United States and the Soviet Union and you know in the The free world as it was termed back then and and the

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Soviet bloc. Well this whole conflict it's really just a great big misunderstanding and if the

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United States if if why if we just beat all our swords in the plowshares and get rid of all of our tanks and and fighters and bombers and aircraft carriers and nuclear missiles and we get rid of all that stuff and we show the the

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Russians that the the Soviets that that We that we we just love them and and and you know, we just have you know, we're we're gonna all wear, you know flower power

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T -shirts or something like this and you know If we all just get together and sing kumbaya or something why they realize that that they like us and in all of the all

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Of the threat of nuclear war is gonna go away. Well, you know, I mean that was was pretty darn naive There's no question about it

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But there were people who did argue that way You know that the way that to solve the Cold War was for the

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West to just put aside all of its weapons you know beat its its swords in the plowshares and and and Demonstrate our good intentions to the the

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Soviet Union the Soviet Bosses in the Kremlin. Well, I mean that that's pretty stupid just to be blunt about it

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But there were people who thought that and in like fashion. I think that the Protestants have unilaterally disarmed themselves

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It used to be that Protestants and you didn't have to be a Great theologian understanders regular ordinary church members understood who

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Antichrist was But that teaching has been completely is completely disappeared from Protestant churches

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I mean ask yourself this have you ever heard a sermon? I mean if you go to a say a Bible believing

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Protestant Church, and it doesn't even have to be necessarily explicitly Reformed Church but if you go to a church that claims to to adhere to the scriptures that teaches the gospel of justification by belief alone have you ever heard from the from the pulpit in your in person a sermon identifying the papacy as Antichrist, I Would say you almost certainly have not

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I personally have never heard that myself And I think that's probably true of most people now.

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I you know, the churches that I have gone to in my life are not Liberal churches, they're not

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You know, they are Bible -believing churches, they are churches that do teach the gospel

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But they they do not teach this point and that's true across Protestantism anymore

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That that idea has almost completely disappeared. I remember a few years ago. There was a

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Person in the United States that was running for president. I can't remember was it in 2012 maybe or 20 I think it was maybe 2012.

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Her name was Michelle Bachmann and She and her husband went to some conservative Lutheran Church and it came out that I guess the church

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Was teaching or maybe I don't know if the confession of the church had this in it, but that that the

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Pope was the Antichrist and it was this great big scandal and and Michelle Bachmann went out there and worked very hard to distance herself from that You know, it's almost as if Protestants are embarrassed to talk about this sort of thing

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Now, of course, you know as a woman she shouldn't have been running for president So I'm you know, that's a whole nother issue and I don't want to get off on that particular

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Side right there, but I'm just bringing out the fact that that was one example where I have seen it come out

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Where somebody would say hey you you think that the Pope is Antichrist and people run away. Oh, no, please don't accuse me of that Oh, I'm so sorry.

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You know, I mean this is how how people are I Mean we're embarrassed to speak the truth

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We as Protestants and this is in brothers and sisters this has got to change that we cannot be afraid of talking about this

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So anyway that kind of went on a bit of a tangent there But you know again, you know, the the

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Pope's rhetoric is very impassioned But this is coming from the lips of Antichrist. So we know it's wrong

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Now we may not know exactly when you first read an article such as the one I read there in Breitbart We may not know exactly what's wrong with it

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But we can be sure that there there is foolishness in it that there are lies in it

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And it's our job as Christians to go compare what the Pope has to say to the scriptures and find out where the foolishness is

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So where is the foolishness in the

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Pope's address? Well for that let's turn to a key papal text guiding Rome's immigration stance and The text

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I want to refer to here today. It's it's a 1952 Apostolic Constitution was written by Pope Pius the 12th called excel familia

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Nazareth Anna or excel Excel familia

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Nazareth Anna simply just means the the emigre family of Nazareth if you want to put that into into plain

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English And I'm going to provide a link to that document in the show notes

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But I just want to read the first paragraph from that From that constitution would talk a little bit about some of the ideas here because this

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Apostolic Constitution is really the source of what Pope Francis is teaching

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So again, let's just read the first paragraph and then we'll we'll break it down a little bit here

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So quote and this is from excel familia Nazareth Anna The emigre Holy Family of Nazareth fleeing into Egypt is the archetype of every refugee family

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Jesus Mary and Joseph Living in exile in Egypt to escape the fury of an evil

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King are for all times in all places The models and protectors of every migrant alien and refugee of whatever kind who?

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Whether compelled by fear of persecution or by want is forced to leave his native land his beloved parents and relatives his close friends and to seek a foreign soil and quote so this

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Apostolic Constitution is I don't know. It's probably not true that this was the first Use of this idea of of the the

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Holy Family fleeing into Egypt as the As the archetype of all migrants everywhere, but it is the document which these concepts were formalized again

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It goes back to 1952 is written by Pope Pius the 12th. I think his real name was a eugenio

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Pacelli, I believe it was I think I'm pronouncing hopefully I'm pronouncing that correctly or at least close to correctly anyway

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But it was written by Pope Pius the 12th. Interestingly enough Pope Pius the 12th He was the subject of a book that was written

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I guess a little bit over 20 years ago now in the late 1990s it was called Hitler's Pope and Pope Pius the 12th.

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He was the Pope that signed a concordat with the Nazi government of Germany and He has you know received a lot of criticism in that that particular book for Essentially aiding aiding the

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Nazi regime in Germany, which which he did I mean what I mean the the Church of Rome supported the fascists in in Europe both in In Germany, they had an alliance with them both in Germany and in Italy In fact, there was a book that just came out

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There's a book that came out in 2014 and I just found it over the the last couple days talking about the relationship between the the

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Pope between the Roman Catholic Church and And the fascists and I haven't had a chance to read it yet I just got it and maybe

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I'll use that and refer to that in in some future podcast or future blog posts But anyway, that that was that's a little background on Pope Pius the 12th here, but he wrote this

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Apostolic Constitution Now you may be asking yourself. Okay, so what's an apostolic constitution? Well, an apostolic constitution is a lot like a is like a in encyclical but it's actually even more authoritative than an encyclical and if you go to Roman Catholic sources and you you look up what the term apostolic constitution

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There are a number of official Roman Catholic sources. It will tell you that is considered the most

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Authoritative of all papal type letters. I mean there are different types of letters of Pope's right, you know, there are encyclicals there are exhortations

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For example and in probably some other types of documents as well. Well, the Apostolic Constitution is the top dog that's the alpha dog of all the all the the papal writings and An apostolic constitution is used to establish a lot of times a an entirely new organization

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Within the Roman Catholic Church, and I think that may have been the case here with with exile familia

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But anyway, that's just kind of a general definition of what an apocalypse thought Apostolic Constitution is so you can take the words that are written here.

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These are this is a very important document Within the Roman Catholic Church and what's kind of interesting is a lot of people will say well

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You know the Pope Francis why he's kind of a kind of a loose cannon And he's out there doing all these things that are are way outside the the the history and the teaching of the

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Roman Catholic Church But you know in maybe in a few things he's tried to break some new ground But but really if you look at the bulk of what he he argues

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He is very well within the church tradition. So when you see all of this leftist

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Leftist type of argumentation to saw a very socialist type of argumentation that he uses He's not stretching

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Roman Catholic doctrine at all, that's what Roman Catholic Economic and political teaching is all about.

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It's that at its root So he's not brief, you know, it's not like he's importing foreign ideas into Into the

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Roman Catholic Church. He's speaking from the church's own resources. I Think that's important to understand and everything that Pope Francis talked about in that that sermon that he gave this past week on migration

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Can be traced right to Exile Familia Nazareth Anna Right down to this idea, you know that you know

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The Pope had this idea that you know, we should see in the migrant the face of Christ Well, I mean that's coming right here from that very first paragraph that I read to you from Exile Familia You know the idea that the

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Holy Family of Nazareth was fleeing Egypt is the archetype of every refugee family And that's why the

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Pope said what he said Now there are several reasons.

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I don't want to challenge these ideas I mean, I think this this whole assertion that's made by By in Exile Familia is easily refuted from scripture

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You know, what's interesting and it's probably not surprising of course, is that the is that Pope Pius XII?

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Didn't cite any scripture. I should say he didn't cite very much scripture. There are at least in the main body of the text

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I don't think there are any scriptural quotations He does quote canon law for example, but he doesn't quote the

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Bible and again That's not surprising because of course the Bible is not the controlling text for the ideas that are put forth by the

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Roman Church state You know, that's you know, the idea of sola scriptura or scripture alone.

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That was a concept That was one of the key concepts that was put forth by the Protestant Reformers They were to take our ideas about not only

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Christian theology But also about politics and economics were to take all of our ideas from the

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Word of God's by scripture alone You know that all the statements of all men must be brought back to scripture and compared to it

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And that's what I'm gonna do here I'm gonna I'm gonna apply that idea of bringing the all statements of all men back to the scriptures and comparing it to the scriptures

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That is what Martin Luther, you know, he termed the Schriftprinzip. I like to say that that's a

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German term Schriftprinzip It's kind of fun to speak German But anyway

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The Schriftprinzip, I mean if you translate that in English, it simply just means writing principle

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And again, it's the idea that that all statements of all men must be brought back to scripture and compared to it And when we do that, we're gonna find that there are a number of problems with With the assertions that are made not only by Pope Francis But even more fundamentally in the the document

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Exsul Familia itself I'm not even gonna touch on everything because it'd be too much to do just in one one podcast

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But I want to give you at least a little flavor of some of this. So let's start here First, you know, it's very common for people to to refer to To hear

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Jesus and his family described as illegal immigrants or illegal aliens But it's worth asking this question.

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You know, what immigration laws did they break? you know Egypt and Judea were both parts of the

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Roman Empire and Their flight from Judea to Egypt was not across national boundaries in in the sense that say what's taking place on America's southern border

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What they did was more akin to moving from one state to another rather from one nation to another for instance in you know

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If I get in my car and I I drive south and I cross the Ohio River I can be in Kentucky and you know

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Probably, you know half an hour 40 minutes something like that. I can go to a different state. Well, that's not immigration and There's no law against my doing that.

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I mean, I'm just moving from one American state to another So in in that's really what what was going on?

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I think more similar to what was going on in the the flight to Egypt Then then what the you know

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Then what the document Exile Exile Familia lets on or what the Pope let's on Egypt and Judea again

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They were both parts of the Roman Empire. They're both provinces of the Roman Empire So they were both under the same government the same national government at any rate

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Now second, you know the flight to Egypt was was a clear case of of refugees fleeing religious persecution now,

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I generally don't quote the UN Favorably at all, but I am going to quote the from the

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UN's Definition of a refugee it comes from the 1951 Refugee Convention and I think it's a pretty decent definition

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So I'm gonna go ahead and use that and it says this this is how how the UN defines a refugee quote

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Someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well -founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race religion nationality membership in a particular social group or political opinion and quote now one of the things when you you listen to rhetoric from the

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Pope's or you read Various church documents as you can find within those documents some isolated statements that are true

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You know Rome doesn't just give you 100 % false information, but what they do is they mix falsehood with truth

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Now John Robbins talked about that I think he talked about for instance is like he's an example putting strychnine in the orange juice and you can have orange juice

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It's maybe 99 % orange juice and in 1 % Strychnine well, but if you take that you're gonna die, it's gonna kill you, you know mixing mixing lies

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Missing mixing falsehood with truth is very very dangerous because it can appear to people that you're speaking the truth

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You know, you can smuggle in false ideas under the cover of certain basic truths

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So, I mean we're we're Joseph and Mary and Jesus were they refugees? Well, yeah, I think they definitely did fit that definition

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I mean they were certainly fleeing persecution Now they weren't, you know leaving there, you know

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It depends on how you want to define the term country As I said, they're moving from one province of the Roman Empire to another But yeah, they were certainly fleeing persecution and they had it was a they had a well -founded fear of being persecuted

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I mean they were told by the angel you better get out of Judea, you know, take your family and go and you know

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And if they had stayed, you know Some very bad things probably would have happened to them So it's good that they they obeyed the the voice of the angel who was sent by God and they left, you know, they fled

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But a lot of what's going on today and and this is where where you talk about mixing truth and truth and error a lot

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Of what's going on today? These aren't refugees in the sense that there are people that are flurrying fleeing persecution

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But rather they are coming to Europe they're coming to the United States for economic reasons and among those reasons

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Are included the massive welfare subsidies they expect to receive and Which the are the

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Roman Catholic Church state and other social organizations demand the taxpayers provide to them now

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In fact some of the the migrants coming up They've been interviewed by various reporters and some of the migrants refer to something they call a lot invitation

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La invitacion that's Spanish now, you don't really need to know a whole lot of Spanish to be able to translate la invitacion

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What's that mean in English? Well, it just means the invitation, you know, the invitation, you know, maybe in capital letters

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Surrounded by quotation marks. Well, you know, so what does some of these migrants mean when they talk about the invitation?

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well, they're referring to the Now some of the statements that have been made by Joe Biden and by the

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Democrats over the past couple couple of years Basically throwing open the the gates of the

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United States to insane come one come all And you think back during the 2020 presidential election

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This was early on in one of the debates and there were a whole bunch of these Democratic candidates on stage

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Maybe about a dozen or so and the question was put to them, you know, who? Who supports the idea of giving universal health benefits to They didn't use the term illegal aliens, but that's essentially what they were asking

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So, you know, you didn't have to be a citizen the country to anybody who's in the country for any reason who supports putting these?

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people in line to to receive Taxpayer funded health benefits in the hand of every single one of those candidates went up.

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I think Joe Biden was included in that That particular group every single candidate raised his hand now

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These Democrats knew full well that this is a very powerful message. It was being sent out to Migrants in South and Central America saying come one come all you know and I mean if if you're in living in Nicaragua or Guatemala or Mexico and and you're not making much money

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Maybe you don't make any money at all and you're struggling financially. Are you gonna want to respond to that and say well?

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Hey, I can go to America and I can get free health care Plus I can get a job and I can could do better than where I am now

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I'm going up there and you know, I can understand why they do that. And I'm not angry I'm not angry at the people who are

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Engaging in some of this migration because I understand why they're doing it They're being encouraged and incentivized by these politicians

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Who in many cases are I think deliberately carrying out the Vatican's immigration policy?

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I mean Joe Biden himself was a Roman Catholic. He goes to a a Jesuit run parish and he basically spouts

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Roman Catholic Jesuit rhetoric when it comes to immigration and a whole range of things not just immigration, but certainly immigration is

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He he's very closely to to what the Roman Catholic Church wants He's essentially their boy in the

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White House So, I mean there's that that law in Vitas, you know

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And of course there are other things that that they have done to sweeten the pot as well You know, they're they've gutted ice, you know immigration and Customs Enforcement To the point where there's there are very few people that are being deported

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They have and this is absolute lunacy They were talking about giving I think up to four hundred thousand dollars to each member of a migrant family who was was separated

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During Trump's presidency. So I mean this was a situation where you could have had

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Millions of dollars in payments going to a single family now right now The the Democrats have kind of dropped the whole idea

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It seems like I think they were getting way too much heat for that And of course the congressional elections are coming up in 20 2022 here

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So they're coming up in what I guess about 10 months and I don't think they think that that's politically

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Feasible for them to push at this time, but I wouldn't be surprised if they come back with that idea If if they you know, say the election if it goes their way,

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I mean, it's it's absolutely stunning what they're trying to do You know, and I think it's very interesting in all this discussion whether it's in the

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Pope or whether it's from the Democrats What's good for the American people never comes up? the only people who's

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Who's good and well well being is discussed are the illegal aliens The people that are crashing our borders that people that are violating

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American immigration law They're held up as righteous and if you're an American who says hey, wait a minute There's a problem here.

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Well, you know, you're called all kinds of names, you know, you're called a racist and you know, blah blah blah You know in an all -around very bad person so I mean

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It's a this whole thing with with the the way the the Pope frames the migrant issue The way the the press carries forth the that same framing the way the politicians frame this it's a case of calling good evil and evil good

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Now, of course the Prophet Isaiah pronounced a woe on that But this is something that goes on And and it's it's a very obvious attempt to guilt -trip

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Americans and of course the same playbook the same play is run in Europe and any other

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Western country To to get them to accept migrants. It's a it's a giant guilt trip.

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So let's see moving on third where Pope Francis said no country can exempt itself from the duty to take in migrants now, this was a an article that I had discussed

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I Believe last week or the week before and in this particular case the

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Pope seemed to focus his remarks on Victor Orban of Hungary and The Pope said this

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I'll read the article here. This is also a Breitbart piece by Thomas D Williams interesting enough He's the same one that wrote the the first Breitbart article that I talked about It's dated

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December 22nd 2021 Rome Pope Francis appeared to take a shot at Hungary on Wednesday insisting

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No country can exempt itself from the obligation to take in migrants on Tuesday Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban rejected a ruling by the

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European Union's Court of Justice that his government had failed to fulfill its Obligation to relax its immigration laws.

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We will maintain the existing regime Even if the European Court ordered us to change it Orban said

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Tuesday in the end of your news conference so You know here

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Pope Francis is talking about the duty the obligation of Receiving countries to take in migrants and this is something you see.

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This is another concept another idea That's that you see all the time in Roman Catholic immigration rhetoric.

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It's your duty. You must do this You have an obligation to to take in these people

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It's very Kantian. You know, if you're familiar with the out the philosophy of Immanuel Kant at all He was always talking about you know the you have a moral duty, you know, it's your duty

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It's your job, you know and in some ways the Pope here He kind of reminds me a bit of the Pharisees, you know

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Jesus said of the Pharisees and they tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men's backs but they themselves won't move so much as a finger to lift them and And the

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Roman Catholic Church is just like this or I was talking about it your duty. It's your duty It's your duty. You must do this. You have an obligation to take these people in now in in a course it goes beyond just Exempting oneself or it goes beyond just accepting migrants in your country

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So it's not enough just to for migrants to come in your country, but you have to foot the bill for them as well

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You have to foot the bill for them. Now.

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Here's the thing the Bible makes no provision for governments to make welfare payments the welfare state

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You know the socialist welfare state that has grown up in the West whether it's in the United States or in in other

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Western countries is no part of the scriptures. There is no provision for it in the the

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US Constitution It is un -christian. It is unconstitutional. It is immoral to force one person to subsidize another person

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Now the the proper term for that is theft You know the Apostle Paul said and what somewhere he I can't remember what book this is in but you know, he said

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If he if he will not work and neither let him eat You know, we all have an obligation

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To to work to support ourselves all of us have that and the government does not exist to take money from people who are working

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Productive people and give it to people who won't work You know that or or who don't have what they quote need in their own eyes

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That that does not exist. That doesn't exist One American does not owe another American a living and if one

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American does not owe another American a living much less does do Americans owe a financial support to foreigners and Yet Pope Francis continually talks about no country can exempt itself from the duty to take in migrants

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And it's again. It's not just taking them in and this is one of the things This is the way the Roman Catholic Church works is they they talk they they don't talk about At least overtly the obligation and the cost of Paying for all of the the care and maintenance of these migrants once you take them in No, they they lead with SD of taking them in and people say oh, well, it's one thing to take them in Yeah, I'll be happy to do that But then of course you have to turn around you have to pay for it and then who pays for it

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Well the taxpayers do but you know The Pope is always he's a little bit vague on where that money comes from And of course, they don't want to say it up front because they know that they get massive pushback and rightfully so now you think about this and and this is is something that this very interesting and getting back this idea of why the

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The the flight to Egypt is not a good model for for migration

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The kind of migration it's it's not it's not a good application of scripture to the current migration situation that the

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West is facing Is that we don't know? how the How the family was supported while they were in Egypt?

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Okay, Joseph took Mary and and Jesus and they fled to Egypt Now there wasn't any welfare state back in in Joseph's day.

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So they they weren't supported by They didn't go on the public dole and even if there had been a welfare state of some sort

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It would have been sinful for them to to have taken advantage of that Because that's theft that represents theft

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Now the Bible is silent on how they supported themselves. I mean we can speculate on how the family supported itself

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You know, I mean, of course Joseph was a tradesman I think he's usually Thought that he was a carpenter

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And so maybe he worked as a carpenter. Maybe he did that Applied his trade while he was in Egypt and supported the family, you know

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Maybe they stayed with the Jewish community that was in in Egypt at the time. There was still a sizable

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Jewish community in Egypt at that time from the from the diaspora after the you know after the the

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Babylonian exile I think there was a large Jewish community for instance in in Alexandria at the time

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You know, we don't even know where in Egypt they stayed. We know that they went to Egypt that that's all we know Maybe they stayed with him.

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Maybe they got support from other members of the community Maybe God miraculously provided for them.

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We don't know but they didn't go on the dole There's no evidence that they went on the dole and again Even if they had that would have been sinful and I highly doubt

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That that Joseph would have done that or that God would have allowed that as a means of supporting his his son when when in Egypt You know,

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I think we can read we can reject that I mean that would have made Jesus a recipient of stolen property and and of course

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Christ never sinned So we know that he wasn't that the family was not involved in in the kind of welfare state schemes that the

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Pope demands Be applied to to modern -day migrants a fourth problem with this particular analysis this idea that the

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The flight to Egypt is a model for all migrants everywhere is the scale is all wrong

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Now in the case of Joseph and his family, there were a total of three people who fled to fled to Egypt There's just three people but I mean the numbers that are taking place today in Terms of migration are almost cartoonish and I found just a few examples here.

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I wanted to just go through these briefly with you Here's a headline. This is from Newsmax and headline is this

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DHS more than 52 ,000 Afghan refugees resettled in u .s in 2021 and this is dated

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December 31st, 2021, so it's just a couple of days ago and Just reading briefly through this the

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Department of Homeland Security is reporting that more than 52 ,000 Afghan refugees have been resettled throughout the u .s

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Yesterday the last group of Afghan nationals temporarily housed at Fort Bliss, Texas as part of Operation allies

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Welcome departed the base Fort Bliss is the third of eight Department of Defense Installations supporting the resettlement of Afghan nationals that are also known as safe havens to complete operations

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The agency announced in a press conference to date more than 52 ,000 Afghan evacuees have been resettled in communities across the country

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These resettlement efforts are led by the Department of State in close coordination with more than 290 local

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Resettlement affiliates. So these are refugees just from Afghanistan from that big airlift that they did

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And of course, they're they're being resettled at one of the biggest Resettlers probably the biggest resettlement of them is

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Catholic Charities and Catholic Charities gets paid very handsomely by the US government to resettle these these

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Afghan refugees in your community And of course put them on the dole because refugees are are eligible for the entire panoply of the

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American welfare state So they're gonna come over here and they're immediately gonna go on the dole and they're probably going to stay on the dole

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You know, this is welfare welfare Migration immigration and refugee resettlement.

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It's weaponized against the American people. We're being forced to bear the burden for this

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Here's another headline nearly 400 ,000 anchor babies born in 2021 outpacing u .s.

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Births births in 49 states. So so what's an anchor baby? Well, we have this insane Law here in the

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United States of America that if a woman gives birth within the territory of the United States That child is automatically considered an

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American citizen Now it matters not what the the ties whether or not the the mother or the father

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Has any kind of legal ties to the United States? They could have sneaked across the border an hour ago

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You know, they could have come through. Yeah through the come across the Rio Grande and The mother could have given birth a short time later and presto change

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Oh, you've got a new American citizen instant American citizen, you know, just add water and of course that child is eligible for all the massive subsidies of the

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American welfare state and it becomes very very difficult to deport the parents regardless of how they came because they have this this

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American citizen child and that's why they call them anchor babies and for the last several years

01:00:10

The Center for Immigration Studies has estimated that About 400 ,000 anchor babies are born in the

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United States each and every single year Think about that for a moment.

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That's more births than were That is is more births than occurred to American citizens in all but one state

01:00:34

Only the state of California were more children were more than 400 ,000 babies born to American citizens

01:00:41

So that goes to show you again, you know, we're talking about scale here, right? You know, we said the scale is all wrong

01:00:47

With the the flight to Egypt. I mean the numbers are just huge 52 ,000 Afghans 400 ,000 anchor babies born and it gets worse than that still here's another this is an article here

01:00:59

This is from The Hill Newspaper called The Hill and the headline is situation to southern border worse than you probably realize

01:01:05

And this is back from November 15th of 2021 So it's about a month and a half old and it talks about the shocking numbers of people coming across the southern border

01:01:14

And let me scroll through here. Yeah. Yeah here. Here's the paragraph. I wanted to read So I'm just gonna read one paragraph out of this article

01:01:21

Quote the Border Patrol apprehended more than 1 .3 million illegal crossers in the first eight months of the by demonstration

01:01:28

This brought apprehensions for fiscal 2021 up to more than 1 .6

01:01:33

million Which is the highest number of illegal crossings recorded in any fiscal year since the government began tracking illegal crossings in 1960 and 10763 of the illegal crosses were convicted criminals

01:01:47

These figures do not include gotaways That is migrants who successfully avoided apprehension after making an illegal entry that was detected by the customs and customs and border protection sensors

01:02:01

Video cameras or agents and again, no one knows how many migrants succeeded in making an illegal entry without being detected

01:02:09

So during fiscal 2021, there were 1 .6 million illegal immigrants

01:02:15

Apprehended by the Border Patrol. That's an insane number. I Mean again, you know, this isn't three people we're talking about millions and how many people were not apprehended.

01:02:27

We don't know So how many people illegally poured across America's borders in fiscal 2021?

01:02:33

I didn't the number is probably north of 2 million. Maybe it's north of 3 million or 4 million I don't know, but it's a huge number.

01:02:40

It's a gigantic number and And this is all being encouraged by the

01:02:46

Biden administration. It's a lot invitation It's one of the results of that and the the writer

01:02:52

Nolan Rappaport He he concludes his article by saying this he says this is the worst border security crisis

01:02:58

We have ever had it is likely to get even worse unless Biden reverses his immigration policies and starts enforcing our immigration laws

01:03:05

Well, you know Biden has to some degree reversed himself not because he wants to but I think because he politically has to But what you have to understand is that the

01:03:14

Biden administration, you know, you got a Roman Catholic president well,

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I Don't think he's a legitimate president, but he's in the office And so you have this Roman Catholic sitting in the office of the presidency who's carrying out the the immigration policies of Pope Francis Now one last one would just to give you an example of the scale of the crisis that's occurring here

01:03:41

One last example that this is a tweet from Griff Jenkins now Griff Jenkins is a reporter for Fox News and he covers immigration

01:03:48

And this is a tweet that from December 29th Just a few days ago quote crisis at the border and not taking a break for the holidays in the

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Customs and Border Protection Rio Grande Valley sector more than 1 ,100 in the last 24 hours up 160 percent and a surge in unaccompanied minors up 428 percent with nearly 20 ,000 this fiscal year to date as for known gotaways 12 ,000 535 since October again, these are stunning figures so what he's saying is in the 24 hours preceding the the tweet that he sent out on December 29th, there are more than 1 ,100 in the last 24 hours

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Let's see 1 ,100 yeah up on everything. Okay, so I think he's just talking there about Illegal immigrants who are apprehended in that 24 -hour period that is insane and that's just in one sector

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Okay, the Rio Grande Valley sector, which I I don't know for sure But I think that that covers the the basically the border between Texas and Mexico.

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Yeah, that's the Rio Grande River And he talks about the surge in unaccompanied minors 20 ,000 this fiscal year to date

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Well the fiscal year for the United States federal government starts on October 1st of every year. So from October 1st 2021 through December 29th, there were 20 ,000 unaccompanied minors just within the

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Rio Grande Valley sector 20 ,000 kids and again for known gotaways He gives the the number is 12 ,000 535 again since October probably going back to October 1st

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So these are huge numbers and this is just in one sector And this doesn't include the people pouring across the border in Arizona.

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It doesn't include anything that's going on in, California It doesn't include Some of the other types of illegal immigration, for instance

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I mean there are examples of people taking their boats and running them up on the beach and Getting out and making a run for it.

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I mean that's that's happened I think that happened in South Carolina or maybe it is I guess it was in Florida I think it was some people from Haiti doing that and I I don't know how much of that goes on But yeah,

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I mean this is just one sector This is just part of the border and you've got these insane numbers going on So again, the the crisis is the the scale of the current crisis we're facing the

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United States is is orders of magnitude greater than the three persons going from Judea to Egypt The fifth point that I wanted to make about this and this is another problem with the the analysis of the

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Pope and of the Exile familia the apostolic constitution fifth. It is inexcusable

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That exile familia and Pope Francis and other representatives of the Babylonian harlot

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Focus on a passage that offers little parallel to the current migrate migrant crisis while ignoring completely passages that apply

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Directly to our current migrant crisis the current situation that we're facing now think for a moment

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You just think with me here and ask yourself this. Are there any passages in the Bible that speak about?

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Mass migration are there any examples in Scripture of say a mass exodus? Well, if if you came up with the the the

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Pentateuch and in the book of Exodus in particular Well go to the head of the class. Congratulations. Yes in the the book of Exodus.

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There's an example of a mass exodus Who knew right? It's shocking and And you know when we look at the you know,

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Israel coming out of Egypt, you know It's interesting to ask ourselves a question. Of course, how many people came out of Egypt?

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well in Exodus 1237 it gives the number of men who left Egypt as 600 ,000 and again, that's just the number of men who who you know left with Israel and you know the

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Israelite men who who left left Egypt and and went out during the

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Exodus 600 ,000 men so that's not including women and that's not including children So the actual number of people was much greater than that In fact if you look that that 600 ,000 number it's also given three other times in Scripture in three times in the book of Numbers it gives the number of men as 600 ,000 or a figure very close to that so we can be confident that that's an accurately reported number

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And I think that's a believable number. I mean there are some some critics have said well, it couldn't be that many Well, I think that it actually can be

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I mean when there are 70 some persons came down to to Egypt from Canaan You know with when

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Jacob came down to to stay in Egypt there they numbered, you know 70 some And there were about 400 years between the time

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Jacob came down and the time they left and their numbers grew Considerably, I mean, that's one of the things in fact you read about that in Exodus that the the

01:08:47

Hebrew population exploded While they were while they were in Egypt and in addition when the

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Exodus took place It wasn't just the the the Hebrews left There are also some Egyptians that were that were that joined them

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Apparently there are some Egyptians that believed and left so the number was augmented not just with with native -born

01:09:06

Israelites But also even some Egyptians joined themselves to Israel So you had this large number of people and you know, so what was the total number involved in the

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Exodus? We would just have to estimate we don't know for sure but The estimates that I've seen are between 2 million and three and a half million total.

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So that's a lot of people That's a pretty sizable crowd. I think that you would agree. They left Egypt So that's an example of a mass migration and it's the closest thing we have in Scripture to the kind of migration it's going on right now into the

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United States and and into Europe in terms of just sheer numbers and What I what

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I would assert is the the biblical account that you find in the Pentateuch in in Exodus You know

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Leviticus numbers in Deuteronomy That biblical account of Israel's Exodus wanderings and eventual move to the promised land is a much more appropriate

01:10:03

Scriptural passage or passages a much more appropriate application of Scripture to our present circumstances of mass migration than is the the flight to Egypt so let's take a look here and one of the there's a couple of things about the like I say about the

01:10:26

The Exodus that that I think really make a good application our own time

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First of all, the scale is correct, you know, so we're dealing with a a mass migration of people second

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There are two passages and I think the second reason is really maybe the reason why Rome doesn't use the

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Exodus as as the archetype of of all migrants everywhere and That is that the the account of the

01:10:57

Exodus is very specific About how the people were supported they were supported of course by God's grace in the wilderness.

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I mean they had the manna So they weren't out there robbing neighbors and and taking people's stuff

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They were were given their their manna by God himself Now also later on when

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Israel was getting close to actually going into the promised land This is in the book of Numbers There are a couple of very interesting encounters between Israel and some of the surrounding nations

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And I wanted to talk about that. The first one of these took place. This is numbers chapter 20 verses 14 to 21 and That particular passage records

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Israel got up to the border of Edom now You may recall that Edom the Edomites they were the descendants of Esau.

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So essentially they were were Israel's brother basically, these were a kindred people and When when they got to Edom they they they weren't interested in in Conquest of Eden of Edom all they wanted to do was pass through and what

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Moses did is he sent a delegation I don't know if he sent it to the the king of Edom or maybe to some some officials some high officials within the

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Government of Edom, but he sent a delegation and this is what that delegation told the

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Edomites and this is a quote Says quote we will not pass through fields of vineyards Nor will we drink water from wells.

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We will go along the king's highway We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory

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End quote so you can see here several things about About Moses and and what his his basic assumptions were

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Now no here. He says we will not pass through the fields of vineyards. We're not going to take your stuff you know, we're not going to through you go through your fields and dinner in vineyards and Steal your property and and tear up your fields and tear up your vines.

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We're not going to do those things We won't drink your water from the wells, I mean the water that's a very important natural resource obviously

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We're not going to take your stuff. You know, we're not here to take your stuff We respect your property rights and Moses is acknowledging the property rights of the

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Edomites Unlike the Pope, you know, he didn't think that Edom had an obligation or had a duty to support

01:13:16

Israel You know, he didn't think that Israel had a claim on the property of the

01:13:22

Edomites You know, there's a concept in Roman Catholic theology is called the universal destination of goods

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It's actually, you know Roman Catholic economics and John Robbins talks about this in his book ecclesiastical megalomania

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And the universal destination of goods is basically says this I'm just going to summarize it

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It's the idea that private property is sort of a man -made legal construct and and Rome says, okay

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You know private property is all well and good up to a point But when push comes to shove when somebody really needs something he has a right to take it so if somebody really needs food or really needs water or really needs clothing or or something else and You have surplus food water clothing, etc

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Land or other things. Well that person who needs it has a right to take it from you And if you don't, you know, if he doesn't take it from you directly

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It's it's right for the government to take that stuff from you and give it to them You know, that's that's the basis of Roman Catholics of The of the socialism of the

01:14:25

Roman Catholic Church. It's this idea called the universal destination of goods But you can see that Moses doesn't isn't thinking in those terms at all.

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He respects the private property of the the people of Edom Says we're not going to take your stuff.

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We're not going to take we're not going to go through your fields We're not going to go through your vineyards. We're not going to take your grain. We're not going to take your your grapes

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We're not going to try to steal your wine. We're not going to take water from the wells We're gonna stay on a King's Highway.

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We're gonna mind our own business and we just want to pass through Something else here that that's interesting too is of course you get this sense from the passage that you know that they weren't going to tarry

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Long in in Edom at all. They just wanted to pass through now You know You got two million maybe up to three and a half million people now

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How long would it take them to go in the King's Highway and pass through Edom? I I don't know exactly but I would think that that could probably be accomplished pretty quickly

01:15:18

You know think about didn't eat during the Exodus when Israel passed through the the Red Sea when when

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God parted the Red Sea for them They went through there pretty quickly. It doesn't give a time frame, but it seemed like they did it did it pretty fast

01:15:30

I I don't know. It was almost the same day. I think they all went through that that opening

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In a single day now, how long would it take them to go through the Kings Highway? I don't know exactly but you know, maybe a few days at most

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You know, they seem like they move pretty fast and you know, if you you you move quickly and you You know you you do the things that you're supposed to do

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Yeah, I think that you could probably get to or maybe even up to three and a half million people through Edom pretty quickly

01:15:58

They weren't going to stay there You know Unlike the the kind of migration that Rome talks about Rome is all about first Getting people into the

01:16:07

United States or into any country I'm just going to use the United States as example since I live here Rome was all about getting people into America and then making darn sure that they never leave

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They get them in by hook by crook get them in any way they can and then they fight tooth and nail to make sure

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That they never leave for any reason whatsoever That's that's Rome's model.

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You know, you think of kind of like a house guest, you know It's it's great to have company over maybe have somebody stay in your house a week or two or a day or two, but if you get past what past three days that I think is usually the

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The the customary length of a house guest day, you know, then it becomes a but then it becomes a problem, you know so I mean it's kind of the difference between Say having a house guest over for one or two nights or having a house guest over for say ten years

01:16:57

You know the the model that Moses talks about is the house guest that stays there one or two nights on the other hand the

01:17:03

Pope He wants to invite the entire world into America and then make sure they never leave Millions upon millions upon millions of people on top of that all of which whose freight has to be paid for by the

01:17:14

American Taxpayer they have a duty and an obligation to do this thunders the Pope Well, just to kind of give you an example of this of what

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I talked about They know the fact that Rome never wants, you know once in never leave You know this this idea of the

01:17:28

Roman Catholic Church. There's a provision in American immigration laws called temporary protected status and what it does is it allows people who

01:17:38

Large numbers of people whose country may be a subject to say like some natural disaster. This is a common use common way temporary protected status is invoked and It allows people to stay in the

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United States indefinitely until the the emergency passes Well, there are people there was a a hurricane that hit and I'm going by memory here

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So my maybe my details may be a little shady Sketchy here, I'm pretty sure I have this right, but there was a

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I think it was a hurricane that hit Costa Rica Way back in the late 1990s and the

01:18:11

Costa Ricans were granted temporary protected status in the United States Well, guess what? Over 20 years later.

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They're still here and during the Trump administration They the Trump administration tried to revoke temporary protected status and the the

01:18:26

US Conference of Catholic bishops through a fit Oh, you can't remove these people. This is unjust blah blah blah, you know and and all these they they have

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American children and you can't remove these people and oh there was all kinds of screaming and Carrying on and I I don't believe that the temporary protected status was ever lifted.

01:18:42

You know, there's this old joke It says there's nothing more permanent than a temporary government program. Maybe that's something

01:18:48

Ronald Reagan said I don't remember for sure. But yeah, I think there's there's also there's nothing more permanent than a a temporary migrant

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I mean once in again, you know The the Church of Rome will move heaven and earth to to make sure that that person never leaves

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Now sometimes they're not successful But they they they do everything they can to make sure that nobody's ever deported or nobody has ever kicked out of the

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United States Or nobody has ever sent home for any reason whatsoever But that wasn't the way

01:19:17

Moses did things I mean Moses wanted to make quick work of this is hey We want to pass through your territory on the Kings Highway.

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So I mean that would have been probably a an improved large road Bush we're through we're through eat him.

01:19:28

We're gone. Thank you very much. We appreciate you're doing that for us and We'll we'll be moving on from here

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Now he didn't refuse Moses, in fact, they sent out some armed men and and they blocked their way and and In what what number says is that Israel Israel departed, you know, they they didn't make a big stink about it you know

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Moses didn't seem to think that he had the the right and the duty to To pass to even so much as pass through Edom Edom's territory without first asking

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Asking the king whether he could do it. He certainly didn't think he had a right to their property. I Mean, you know think about it.

01:20:07

I mean if anybody could have thundered about Migrant rights. I mean certainly Moses could have you know, he could have said well, you know, we're on a on a mission from God You know

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God himself said that that we we have a right to Migrate and and we're we're going to the promised land and and you people don't have any right whatsoever to deny us passing through your territory

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In fact, we even have a right to take all your stuff and we might even sit there and camp out for a few months Or maybe a few years in your territory and you can't do anything about it because God said that that you know

01:20:38

We're God's chosen people and and we're headed to the promised land and we're gonna do what we want to do I mean did

01:20:44

Moses say that no, he did not say that There's not even a hint of that in his in in what

01:20:49

Moses said, you know it talks and you know one place and in the the Pentateuch it talks about you know,

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Moses was that was the meekest of all men and And you really you don't see the kind of attitude

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You don't see the kind of ego out of Moses that you see out of out of the modern -day migrants

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Or the people that support them now, what's interesting?

01:21:12

I mentioned there were two Bible passages in the very next chapter of numbers numbers 21 Moses made the exact same offer to Sihon king of the

01:21:20

Amorites. He said we just want to pass through your territory now What's interesting there in in the second example is that Sihon actually came out and attacked

01:21:28

Israel now Edom sent some apparently sent some armed soldiers to probably block the

01:21:34

Israel from passing through but Edom did not actively attack Israel well Sihon did and he ended up getting the worst of it

01:21:41

You know, he went out and and actually attacked Israel after Israel had you know, Moses and made this very reasonable very peaceful request

01:21:49

Sihon went out and attacked Israel and Sihon probably wished he hadn't done that because the

01:21:54

Amorites were defeated and in Israel took their land, but that wasn't their original intention so, you know here here we see again just to kind of summarize this the the scale of the

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Exodus is correct and The defense of private property and also just national sovereignty if you want to use that term

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Are both evidenced in the in the way Moses approached

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Asking for permission to pass through territory the territory of both Edom and the territory of the

01:22:29

Amorites now the both those ideas private property and Independent national sovereignty are both anathema to the popes of Rome because of course the popes of Rome the only property that's sacred of the popes of Rome are the the property of the church and the only government that has

01:22:47

That has any any sovereignty in their eyes is the government of the Roman Catholic Church You know the the governments of independent nation -states have to bow before the

01:22:56

Pope That's what went on during the Middle Ages and that's what was ended as a result of the Thirty Years War And the signing of the the

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Peace of Westphalia in 1648 But the mean the Pope's still think that they have a right to rule the world

01:23:11

I mean in the Pope's in the Roman Catholic Church generally is constantly talking about world government and working to bring that about You know, they don't want a nation to have the right to say no, we're not taking in migrants

01:23:23

We're not bringing these people in we're not forcing our our citizens to pay the freight

01:23:29

As Victor Orban is doing Victor Orban is refusing the Pope and of course, he's getting hammered by the

01:23:35

Pope constantly over this You know, we need to pray for Victor Orban, you know that his faith remained firm

01:23:41

Victor Orban's a Calvinist I mentioned that in my last podcast and I want to mention that again. Most people don't don't realize that So I mean in in that situation

01:23:50

Hungary you've got a prime minister that actually is interested in defending and standing up for his people against the

01:23:58

The globalist Antichrist Pope Francis It's quite an extraordinary thing that's going on and we need as Christians We need to be aware of that and we do we need to pray for for Victor Orban All right.

01:24:12

So let's see. I've been going at this for a while. What are we getting up on? Oh goodness It's a hour and a half. My goodness.

01:24:17

I think it's the longest podcast I've ever done. All right Well, I better be quiet here I was gonna say a little bit more but I think that's enough here for today and I wanted to present that to you.

01:24:26

I hope you found that that interesting if you love liberty I think if you love limited government if you love private property and capital is this whole issue

01:24:33

The Bible is entirely on your side is one of the completely 100 % of our time And that means when the

01:24:38

Pope says you must see the face of Jesus in the faces of welfare migrants When the

01:24:43

Pope claims you have an obligation to let them into your country and to fork over your property to support them

01:24:48

You can say to the Pope get thee behind me Satan as always

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Thanks for listening. It was great to have you here today I look forward to having you back for our next podcast until then