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At the end of 2023, a right-wing beer company presented the Conservative Dads' Real Women of America calendar. Now, I did not look through this calendar, but the cover was enough, with swimmer Riley Gaines and as salacious a pose as any stripper.
Other models included Ashley St. Clair, who works for the Babylon Bee, and Sarah Gonzalez of Blaze TV. Though it's been argued that a few of the models wear more clothes, the purpose is clearly to market risque women for dads to lust over.
Jesus said, if you look at a woman with lust, it's the same as committing adultery with her in your heart. How is this conservative? But this is how mainstream conservativism is going. A year before, Jeremy Boring, who calls himself the CEO and God-King of The Daily Wire, a conservative news outlet, launched Jeremy's Razors in a commercial with swear words and barely-dressed women.
PragerU and Blaze TV also brand themselves as conservative, yet they publicly congratulated Dave Rubin when he announced he and his faux-husband were expecting children through a surrogate. Megyn Kelly, Meghan McCain and Chris Ruffo also said congrats and Stephanie Hamill of TPUSA.
Speaking of, Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, which promotes conservative politics to young people, defended the openly gay Rob Smith as a conservative at a TPUSA event. Is this really surprising?
When the first president of the United States to enter office as LGBTQ-affirming was not Bill Clinton, Barack Obama or Joe Biden. It was Donald Trump, the conservative, though he's a pornographer, casino and strip club owner and serial adulterer.
If conservatives aren't conserving the most fundamental facts of life, like male and female, man and woman, father and mother, and that sex is for marriage between a husband and wife, they're not conserving anything.
Ancient Israel became like the pagans around them, worshiping their false gods and perished in judgment. These things happened as examples for us, so that we would not desire evil as they did. Do not be idolaters as some of them were, and engage in sexual immorality as some of them did and were destroyed.
Do not put Christ to the test when we understand the text. In the generations before God judged the world in the Great Flood, Genesis 6 -4 says the Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them.
Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. There are a few different theories concerning who the Nephilim were. In Genesis 4 we're given a dark genealogy in the line of Cain, and in Genesis 5 we read the genealogy of his brother Seth.
So one theory goes that the sons of God were the descendants of Seth who were righteous, and the daughters of men were the descendants of Cain who were unrighteous. These two came together, bad company corrupted good morals, and their offspring were violent and evil, so that you could no longer tell the righteous from the unrighteous.
Another theory is that the Nephilim were fallen angels, since sons of God is used in Job 1 and 2 in reference to angels. However, angels are unable to procreate. Jesus said that in the resurrection there is no marriage, for we will all be like angels in heaven.
So a third possibility combines the other two theories, and the Nephilim were men possessed by fallen angels, who bred with women and raised mighty yet violent sons. This would explain how the Nephilim were in the earth before the flood, and also after all life on earth was deluged with water and destroyed.
A day is coming where God will again destroy the unrighteous, men and fallen angels, this time by fire. The only way to be saved is to believe in Jesus Christ when we understand the text. Jesus and his apostles warned us, beware of false prophets.
Now we tend to think of false prophets as being fake Christians, but heathens have their prophets too. Just consider the false prophets of climate change. In 1972, the United Nations predicted we have 10 years to stop the catastrophe.
Then when 1982 came along, instead of admitting they were wrong, Mustafa K. Tolba of the UN said that if things were not fixed by the year 2000, we would experience an environmental catastrophe as bad as any nuclear holocaust.
In 1989, they doubled down, saying that by the end of the century, we would experience global disaster. Once those prophecies failed, the UN predicted the end of the world would be in 2012, then in 2020, then in 2030.
In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the world was going to end in 12 years, which was past the UN's prediction. Then some teenager from Sweden made global headlines when she said we only have 8 years.
These false prophets want to ban your cars, cows, stoves, power, farms and families, and force you to get vaccinated and eat bugs and synthetic meat. But the day of the Lord will come, like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the Earth and its works will be found out.
That's a climate change prediction that won't be wrong. Turn to the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved when we understand the text. Warning! The following video contains a picture of a dead deer.
I'm just warning you because it looks tasty and might cause your mouth to water. Cabot Phillips of the Daily Wire posted a picture with his wife who had just killed a deer, followed by a picture of the deer's meat after butchering.
A woman by the name of Fiona Moriarty, who has a show called Facts with Fiona, said this is the MAGA murder cult, brutally murdering innocent animals for clout and Instagram likes. Demented savages. Jesus would never.
Hashtag fake Christians. Well, Fiona just doesn't know the facts. Luke 22, 7 -8 says, Then came the first day of unleavened bread, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare the Passover for us, so that we may eat it.
Jesus ate lamb at Passover. Thousands of lambs would have been sacrificed that day. Jesus killed and ate fish with his disciples, even after his resurrection. See John 21, 1 -14. In Acts 10, Peter saw a vision of all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the sky.
And the voice of Jesus was heard, saying, Rise up, Peter. Slaughter and eat. Dining on animals is not murder. But the butchering of unborn children? That is murder. It happens by the thousands every day.
1 Timothy 4, 1 -5 says that Those who forbid the eating of certain foods are seared in conscience, teaching the doctrines of demons. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. Thank God for good food, when we understand the text. In Romans 16, 1, the Apostle Paul says, Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church at Syncriae, that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and that you help her in whatever matter she may have need of you.
For she herself has also been a benefactor of many, and of myself as well. Now many have taken this verse to say that Phoebe is described here as a deacon. After all, the word for servant can also be translated deacon.
In fact, some translations do just that. Both the NIV and the NLT say, I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church at Syncriae. But that same word is also used in Romans 15, 8 for Christ, who has become a servant on behalf of the truth of God.
It's the same Greek word for deacon. The word is also used in Romans 13, 4 to describe the government, God's servant for your good. So Paul is not saying Phoebe holds the office of deacon. She's a servant.
But his naming of her is still a very high commendation. She was a godly woman who served the church. You don't need to hold an office in order to do that. The qualifications for deacons are given in 1 Timothy 3, 8 -13.
A deacon is to be a qualified man, whose wife also must show herself to be a godly woman. But all men and women in the church are called to the work of ministry. And you don't have to be a pastor or a deacon in order to be a servant, when we understand the text.
An accuser of the brethren who goes by Brian claims he has proof our dear brother Justin Peters is a false teacher full of nonsense.
In this video, we're going to hear from Justin Peters in a brief clip describe what he thinks is absolute proof that cessationism is true. Let's hear what he has to say.
If all of the signed gifts were still operative in the church today, there would be no debate about it. There would be no debate about it. The very fact that there is a debate as to whether or not these signed gifts continue is inherent proof that they haven't.
See, what he just basically said there was that the fact that there are people who disagree with me, that's proof in itself that I'm right. That's what Justin Peters just said.
No, the point Justin made is very simple. If continuationism is true and the miraculous signed gifts for divine revelation are still regularly at work in the church today, then proving it should be really easy.
You could end the debate by pointing to a genuine miracle like those seen in the book of Acts. Show one healing where a man lame from birth immediately received new legs and walked. Show one person who has raised the dead.
Show one group of people miraculously speaking other languages they did not previously know. Show one modern prophet with a 100 track record of making miraculous predictions and they came true. It should be easy to produce these proofs, but you can't, because the need for apostolic signed gifts has ceased.
Instead, they debate about the continuation of miracles, which proves they don't have the proof. That was Justin's point, whom Brian slandered, calling him a false teacher. As 1 Corinthians 13 says, If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal, when we understand the text.
Eschatology is the study of last things, pertaining to death, judgment, and the final destiny of mankind. The term is often used in reference to the end times, Jesus Christ's second coming, the resurrection of the dead, the millennial kingdom, and so on.
In biblical theology, there are two main views of eschatology. Premillennialism and Postmillennialism. But that's a lot of syllables, so we like to shorten it to premill and postmill. These two views differ on the timing of Christ's return in relation to the millennial kingdom described in Revelation 20.
Satan will be bound and the dead in Christ will rise and reign with him for a thousand years. Will Jesus return at the start of that reign, the premill view, or will he return at the end of that reign, the postmill view?
Premills believe the millennium will be an actual literal kingdom on earth when Jesus sits on David's throne in Jerusalem. Postmills believe the millennial kingdom is right now, as Christ reigns on his throne in heaven, and those Christians who have died are reigning with him.
These two views also have differing perspectives. Under premill is dispensationalism and historic premill. Dispensationalists believe Christ returns in a seven-year tribulation that precedes the millennium, while historic premills do not.
Under postmill is amillennialism and classic postmill, which disagree on how Christianized the world will be prior to Christ's return. While these four perspectives disagree on some things, they all agree Jesus Christ will return to judge the living and the dead, and those who believe in him will also reign with him.
We should not divide over this. The Bible says comfort one another with these words, when we understand the text. In the seventh episode of The Chosen, the show reimagined the conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus as found in John 3.
This is where it is written for God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. This is such a well-known gospel verse that show creator Dallas Jenkins wanted to be accurate.
There's a great weight and responsibility when it comes to shooting this scene almost more than any other scene we shoot. And so we really wanted to get it right.
But if you compare the scene with John 3, 1 through 18, you'll see the two conversations are quite different. Even the setting has changed. Lines have been added and moved around so that when Jesus gets to the words of John 3, 16, they have an altogether different context.
At one point, Nicodemus asks, is the kingdom of God really coming? And Jesus says, what does your heart tell you? What is this, Disney? At the end of the scene, Nicodemus bows before Jesus to confess he is the Christ.
But Jesus says, what are you doing? You don't have to do that. Everyone has to do that. The Bible says every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. When The Chosen was confronted about this, they said, did it happen?
We don't know, but it's very on brand.
What?
When did Jesus ever tell anyone they don't have to bow? This response is a great slogan for their show, Did It Happen? We Don't Know. Let's see them put that on a t-shirt. One of the shirts they sell has this line from their Jesus, get used to different.
Ironic, since this is a different Christ than the Christ of the Bible. Accept no substitutes when we understand the text. Jonathan Rumi is a Catholic mystic famous for playing Jesus in the hit streaming show The Chosen and hippie Lonnie Frisbee in the film Jesus Revolution.
Frisbee was a self-proclaimed prophet in the 60s and 70s during what was called the Jesus Movement in America. What the movie doesn't cover is that he was also a homosexual who died of AIDS. Listen to what Rumi said in an interview about how he prepared for the part.
Before I started work, I went over to Christ Cathedral and I sat by his grave and I prayed a rosary with him. The space just to his right is empty. So I got to sit down or lie. At one point I even lied down because I just thought it would be kind of interesting to try to connect in some way.
And I said, Lonnie, I want to honor you with this film and I really want to bring justice and, you know, the testament to the gifts of God's grace and powers that you displayed while you were on this earth.
And so if this is a good idea that I do this film, have somebody give me a sign. Give me a sign, have God give me a sign. And the minute the words left my mouth, behind me there was a door open to the cathedral and this giant cord rang out for about five seconds.
So I heard that and I was like, okay, thanks for that.
God's law says there shall not be found among you anyone who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Galatians 5 .20 and Revelation call this sorcery and say such persons will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Isaiah 8 .19 says, when they say to you, inquire of the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
To the law and to the testimony, if they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. Their hearts are full of darkness and not the light of Christ. When we understand the text.
The popular TV show, The Chosen, shared a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of season four and right there in the shot, someone propped up a gay pride flag. When asked about it, The Chosen responded, just like with our hundreds of cast and crew who have different beliefs or no belief at all, we will work with anyone who helps us portray or honor the authentic Jesus.
Portray or honor the authentic Jesus, huh? Actor Giovanni Cairo, who plays the disciple Thaddeus, posted a pride flag and said, we stand with our brother. Jordan Ross, who plays the disciple James, said that he stands by the LGBTQ members of our chosen family and called criticism of the pride flag hateful and unlike Jesus.
Altogether, half of the actors who play disciples of Jesus came out as LGBTQ affirming. And Jonathan Rumi, who plays Jesus, has supported the gay pride movement for some time. One of the show's cameramen is Daniel Fritz, who claims to be married to a man.
He is often wearing a pride flag and putting them on set. On his Instagram and TikTok, he shared nude photos of himself. This is who Dallas Jenkins hired to film his crowdfunded Jesus show? These men do not portray or honor the authentic Jesus.
In Matthew 19, Jesus said,. Apparently, the cast and crew of The Chosen haven't read.
Love comes from marriage.
Love is love.
The real Jesus said sexual immorality and pride are evil. And unless you repent, it will be more tolerable on the Day of Judgment for the land of Sodom than for you, when we understand the text.
The real Jesus said sexual immorality and pride are evil.