Road Trip Dividing Line: No, Seriously, STOP IT

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Greetings and welcome to the dividing line. My name is James White. We just sort of threw this together at the last moment. We're gonna try we were gonna try to do some phone calls and stuff like that.

But that require a whole lot of stuff that we didn't have time to do. We'll try to get to that later on. Need to be able to do that in the future. So man, I hate seeing myself on a big screen. It's just Fell out of the ugly tree hit every branch on the way down just getting old man.

That's just all there is to it. But hey, I've done 240 mile bike rides in a row at high altitudes. So a Few of you in the audience probably couldn't do that. I can't do it as fast as I used to man. It's sad to look back and and see where you've ridden these routes before and then you just sort of go.

Okay, but anyway. Wow, what another day? Where where do we start what there's so many things I guess we can sort of start a lot of the stuff that I've been looking at is is on Twitter and Really think I'll be honest with you.

I'm thankful for Twitter right now. I think you should be too. I mean, okay, maybe you're not.

Using it, you know, I.

Don't know but there is a.

Whenever.

Louder sound. Well, if you say so it's about the best I can do, um. People tell me what to do. It's sort of like Biden with his ear thing. What? Read to end of life. It's not quite that bad yet.

But.

Anyway, I I'm not sure if I can. Yeah, here it is. All right, I can find it. Um. Here is the. Was that okay. Yeah, I. Well no, that's not it. There there are a couple clips. The thing with Eric Trump Saying that Marriage and abortion is like worrying about spots on the wall rather than trying to save the whole house type thing.

That shouldn't surprise us.

I.

Never believed in 2016 That Trump had a Christian worldview or his family at a Christian worldview or anything like that. There have been lots of Christians who've tried to make money off of pretending that they do but they don't and.

The.

The complete collapse. What I was looking for was a clip and I I didn't bookmark stuff. So that's that's what happens when you don't bookmark stuff, but I was looking for a clip of Vivek Robson's money, whatever whatever whatever his name is.

He was on and I don't know where that where that went. Well, there it is. There it is. And I'm not gonna show this because I it was videos audio only anyways. But Denny Burke posted a tweet that said Listen to Vivek Ramos Rama Swami.

Reassure young liberal voters that they can vote Republican because the GOP no longer opposes gay marriage and no longer supports a federal ban on abortion. This is a watershed moment. Social conservatism has been marginalized within the GOP.

Their influence in the party will be negligible for the foreseeable future. This is an excerpt from today's episode of the Megyn Kelly show on Sirius. So I Think this should work. Hard to test these things when you're alone, but Let's let's see if this works.

This is the Republican platform right now is the Republican platform as it exists today at this convention is not opposed to gay marriage. She points to abortion women and their bodies. Literally this has said it is a not a federal issue.

Donald Trump to myself when I ran for president to now the Republican Party opposes a federal ban on abortion. So part of their strategy now Megan seems to be there's only four months left on the election until the election.

Just tell the voters something other than the Republican policies because the actual Republican policy platform is quite appealing to most Americans. So we can't compete on that. Just assume for the next four months.

We can tell them the Republican platform is something that is other than what it actually is and maybe most voters won't notice. And it might be their best bet. Actually, if you think about it winning on the merits in this short of a time with the numbers looking like what they are.

Instead people get their news from different places. Just bet on the fact that enough Americans are going to think that Republicans support a federal ban. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have both said Donald Trump would sign a federal ban.

That's false. In fact, he's taking heat from Republicans. Yes, we're saying that he's opposed to a federal ban. That's right, but their strategy now seems to be less on the merits. And even less on the histrionics.

It's one of the forks in the road for Biden, which I can come back to in a second but the remaining strategy is just lie about what the Republicans actually believe and.

So.

Too many things to do so. What Republicans actually believe. That's that says to me. That the party that had pretended This way the party that had spoken about Real marriage that had spoken about Saving unborn children was lying the whole time.

Was lying the whole time. It was all just a matter of looking at poll numbers. And once the poll numbers say yeah I don't want to believe that anymore. Don't want to talk about that anymore. Okay, and so for all of us.

That these these things represented a worldview they didn't represent their worldview and so they don't have any problem. You know, we've there's been tremendous criticism of Joe Biden. For being a Roman Catholic that doesn't believe what Roman Catholicism teaches in morals and ethics and.

Whether they'll continue teaching. That is up in the air these days. As Francis, but. But he clearly pivoted prior to the 2020 election.

Well the.

Primary season. Because he he had to run away from everything he had said About abortion actually run run away from a lot of stuff. He said about crime and everything. To be relevant today, basically and That's what you've just seen.

You can't really. Yeah, you can't blame Trump, you know Trump tried to take credit for a while. For Roe the overturn of Roe. He's not doing that anymore. He wants to get as far away from that because you can see the poll numbers.

You see what happened in, Ohio. So you run from it. But the whole the whole party which right now is Trump's party, I mean, that's what it is. Has now pivoted and is running scared the other direction.

I'm not sure how this JD Vance guys get it. He's a he's a new Romanist. He converted Roman Catholicism in 2019 his young guy I'm not sure how he can. Well, it's the way that every Of Roman Catholic politician since JFK has done it.

I'm personally opposed, but I will not make that a part of my platform blah blah blah blah, you know this Gnostic Schizophrenia that somehow they get away with because Rome never does anything about it so it's like well, actually I did I did see some local priest or bishop someplace that refused, you know told some Democratic lawmaker or something to take a hike rather than come to mass Recently, so there's a there's a few mavericks out there.

But hey. The guy in San Francisco did that and Nancy Pelosi went to the Vatican and the Pope gave her mass so There there you go. That's what you're dealing with.

Anyway.

You know, I I feel sorry for people like JD Vance who might have some kind of.

Uh.

Some level of meaningful ethical commitment someplace but man once you go to Washington that stuff just gets flushed down the drain and so we're watching this taking place and Realizing That this really shouldn't surprise us.

It really shouldn't. There was a Here it is at least this one I can find. Whatever you think of him dusty Deaver's. I'm gonna read a fairly lengthy thread here. I don't necessarily agree with everything, but I think He's pretty much on here.

He says the removal of Christian morality from the RNC platform this week is a travesty that I fiercely oppose. But we must be realistic about what the previous platform really was and this is what I want to talk about.

That's why I'm letting somebody else say It was a tool for tricking Christian conservatives into thinking neo-conservatives. The previous Republican establishment were our friends. Now, let me explain the neocon establishment which dominated the party ever since George HW Bush Defeated Pat Buchanan in 1992 Republican presidential primary paid lip service to being pro-life and pro-family while barely lifting a finger to defend pre-born children.

They simply didn't have the passion for social issues or the backbone to really take on the left. I would just stop here and say. And the reason they didn't is they were primarily secularists.

I'm.

Continuing they fought for nothing and conserved nothing their social views merely Trailed a few years behind the lefts. That's quite true. But they needed Christians in their coalitions. They paid lip service to pro-lifers and allowed for Christianity in the party platform.

But they never intended to take the bold action that needed to be take. Forget abolition bills or human life amendments. Only one pro-life law was passed by the federal government in the 36 years since HW Bush became president.

Despite multiple instances at multiple instances of total GOP control. Even then it was the partial birth abortion ban of 2003 which only prohibited the killing of children outside the womb. Like most others.

It was a do-nothing pro-life bill and I have over the past You know five to ten years learned a lot about the do-nothing pro-life bills. Any reasonable assessment of the social conservative neoconservative alliance results in the conclusion?

The Christians were played by the neocons who pandered to us for votes, but never gave us results. During this time any churches receded from moral majority type engagement to build more seeker sensitive churches that explicitly shunned political engagement as divisive and Distracting the work of the gospel.

These were all euphemisms. To cover the cowardice these churches as they refuse to speak out on important cultural political issues but our Lord speaks plainly about in his work and I would add in his law and I would add if you believe I Was I was checking out at a little mini-mart place where I just filled up the truck For the trip tomorrow because I'm on the road tomorrow and I just bought some you know, one of those packs of bottles of water and it was ridiculously expensive and.

I.

The guy behind the counter said so I said something he said something I forget how it was but he made some statement that you know the world's gonna be utterly changed by what happens in November and there's possibility that.

And I just looked at him and I said well, I don't know what's gonna happen in November but I know Jesus is still on his throne and No one's gonna be removing him from there. And I think he was a little surprised by The forwardness of the statement.

He says, oh, yeah, I believe in Jesus he said there are people staying behind me, so I wasn't exactly able to continue that conversation, but If you believe that Christ is reigning ruling and reigning it makes all the difference in the world.

I was not raised with that Christ ruling and reigning. Christ being King of Kings and Lord of Lords 1 ,000 spiritual had nothing to do with government had nothing to do with calling magistrates to Save pre-born lives and to not pervert marriage or things like that or a warning to a nation Kiss the son lest he become angry.

And.

You perish in the way. And that includes not just you as a leader, but the nation as well. I'm continuing with dusty Deaver's the Attractional Seeker-sensitive church was a perfect fit for the attractional compassionate conservative Republican Party.

Out of these two Attractional entities came the weak and compromising pro-life establishment organizations. It was a cozy and spineless pro-life pro-family arrangement that benefited everyone except Preborn children and I might say family, too.

So when we rightly rebuke the current RNC for conceding on social issues We should do so under no misconception that the party was previously a stalwart defender of Christian morale. We should do so with zero intention to return to the Christian neocon Alliance.

We should do so while looking forward to a potentially new Republican Party that has both a backbone and Christian values. Which brings us to Donald Trump sick of spineless feckless family values neocons.

Republican voters emphatically handed the reins in 2016 to someone who didn't speak the typical GOP language. But who capitalized on populist energy and often brash opposition to the left? While Donald Trump has referenced God and Christian morals.

One would be hard-pressed to say he has run on a consistent Christian platform or that he is a social conservative quite true. That much has been made increasingly clear culminating with his recent success in removing Christian values on abortion and marriage from the 2024 RNC platform.

However, the populist movement Trump cultivated has led the rise of right-wingers who are more socially conservative than Trump. Who unlike the neocons actually have some testosterone and a backbone?

Men like Ron DeSantis Josh Hawley JD Vance and Ken Paxton. Under the previous neocon Establishment such men would never have been able to rise as they have and while they are not where they need to be on abortion And marriage they are the sort of men who are pulling the party to the right and who actually fight Excuse me actually fight what they say on the campaign trail.

There is the potential To move guys like this to abolish abortion restore the American way of life and achieve other important objectives in a way that the neocons were never going to. I just have to stop right here and say I think the only way that anything like that would ever happen is if These men and many many many many many more like them were actually true Christians not just inconsistent secularists.

I.

Think it's a matter of how many of these you can come up with. There needs to be a consistent commitment to worldview and a willingness to sacrifice for it and. Right now it just seems to me like for almost all Republicans.

Not dusty Deaver's but for almost all Republicans. It's. How much is it gonna cost me with the media? Which of course hates everything. It's true honest just righteous and everything else. My main point is this there's no going back.

What's behind us is even worse than the train wreck. We are watching at the RNC right now. We must look forward continue to minimize neocons and influence the new right with abolitionist and Christian nationalist principles.

It's dusty Deaver's terminology. While we should be horrified at the current actions of the RNC and righteously rebuke everybody responsible Trump included we should be thankful that we are not having this conversation with Jeb Bush.

So.

Excuse me. Yeah, I don't even know what to say at that point so.

I.

Think there was a lot there that most of us are thinking. I certainly was not operating under the Assumption in any way shape or form that Donald Trump has a Christian worldview. It was very obvious that you know.

Those weren't fake pictures of him holding LGBTQ flags and gays for Trump and stuff like that. He does not have a moral foundation. To understand the destructiveness of the LGT LGBTQ movement. I I would like to think that maybe at least.

Some type of I mean look if the secular European Union is starting to realize the stupidity of using puberty blockers and mutilating children. If they can figure out you know, this doesn't this doesn't really make much sense.

Hopefully the United States can too and hopefully Donald Trump could. Um, we know the Biden regime certainly just wants to continue mutilating children and everything else in the process, but. It really does make you wonder along those lines and.

So I just. I just looked down Ben Zeiss loft just sent me seven minutes ago. Maybe he's watching you. Are you watching Ben?

Um.

These comments would provide for some excellent dividing line fodder.

Yeah.

April a joy. People who genuinely believe God spared Trump but killed the man behind him are not worshiping a good God. So, you know we talked about that on the last program and That is that is an issue that I think most Christians don't think about and haven't thought about.

You know if you've you know. We were talking about the Virgin Mary and the five point five six cartridge and all this that stuff on what you know just yesterday. Mary That's nothing to do with any of that kind of stuff and is totally unaware of all that stuff, but It's true.

That.

This situation has forced us to think through why would God spare Trump but take a Christian and The vast majority of people do not have a theology that would allow them to even begin to consider That this was all part of God's decree.

I don't like using the term plan because that sounds like No sounds very Creaturely time-bound. That type of stuff, you know. Every time you go into battle you have a plan and that it immediately unravels when the first shots fired.

So I.

Like you know the Biblical term decree God's decree of what he is accomplishing in time and what his purposes are and in that decree. At that point in time Donald Trump turned his head to look at that.

That's a jumbotron thing. The graph that was being displayed and That's why he's alive. There was a pretty decent video that appeared that showed what a you know, what a reticle in a You know from a rifle with a telescopic scope.

What it would look like when he was facing forward if it was going for a brain shot. And then when he turns and it hits the air. It was you know, it really does communicate very well how close that was and If you don't if you don't believe that.

If you believe that God's only just reacting to us down here. And he's just trying to do the best he can to put stuff back together again but we messed stuff up then we really don't have a Reason to be talking about this and if you really believe that that God would save Donald Trump, but kill a Christian.

When there is no overarching decree. That is determining these things it's just sort of a He loved Donald Trump more than he loved this Christian type thing. Again not really in the conversation. But serious minded Christians are going.

Yeah, all right. God's decree must be an amazing thing. Given the billions and billions of actions by human beings every second and Yet he can prophesy. There's a lot of people who say or he can give prophecy.

There's a lot of people who would say well, you know, God just God does the big stuff he does the floods and the earthquakes and the tsunamis and and he just doesn't sweat the little stuff even though all of those things can fundamentally alter the course of time and how things turn out if Everything is supposed to be to the praise of his glorious grace.

Then his decree has to be exhausted. That's the only way you can read Ephesians 1. If everything is going to be to the praise of his glorious grace, then you got to go down to verses 10 11. He's working all things after the Council of as well.

But there's a lot of people still want that. Oh, we're just all a bunch of puppets. No, you're not I'm sorry. God is big enough To have a decree form the fabric of time and have everything that happens in time.

Be meaningful and if your God isn't big enough to do that, I'm sorry. Could I introduce you to Christianity? Can I introduce you to the Bible?

So.

Yes, I I do realize that all this wild and wacky stuff that's going on is not coming Thanks be to God from the reformed camp despite all of the Stuff that happens to me within the context of Reformed them and the way I can be, you know the way that Reform folks can be jerks at times.

Right now I can say and maybe I've missed it. I am on the road, but I'm seeing a fair amount of stuff I have to say that really and I'm gonna Repost the link that rich just posted some more folks can watch.

Um I'm not seeing the craziness coming from reform folks. I'm seeing it coming from Charismatics The TBN crowd and I'm seeing it coming from The we think Donald Trump is the new Messiah group because there are Sadly a lot of folks out there like that too, which is a little bit on the scary side.

So at least for now You know, you're not gonna find someone who is self-consciously reformed is not going to Be playing these types of games because you you have that concept of God's decree and all the things that go along with that including the fact that All of our days are written in this book before they begin and that included Cory of the Christian who was Shot and killed.

Let me just remind you that that happens every single day all across the world Especially in places like Chicago Detroit Los Angeles Phoenix. You just don't hear about very much and hence don't think about it very much and just ignore it.

But.

Either those lives had meaning and How they were to interact with everyone else had meaning or God's just shooting dice. And evidently, there's a lot of folks that Don't have problem with the idea of a God who just shoots dice and does what he can with the outcome of that.

So now this afternoon. This afternoon we hear.

That.

Joe Biden has code and you've probably already seen the talking heads on MSNBC Joy Reid and others literally saying.

That.

Well if Biden recovers from this in a few days That'll that'll be a demonstration of his strength just like Trump. Continuing the campaign. Having been shot this I. Like I said, there's some Twitter feed that's out there says we don't hate the media as much as we should.

It is pretty astonishing. What you. Wow what these people do and what they say and you know, the scary thing is Jesus his words about being judged for what you say is just as true for them as anybody else.

And man when you lie for a living just lie for a living and you know, you're lying, you know it. Wow, there's gonna be Responsibility. Etc, etc. So the thought crossed my mind and it look it. It crossed your mind to just be honest.

It crossed your mind, too.

Oh.

Biden's got code. Can't speak tonight. Not making the campaign stop he was supposed to make etc, etc. Yeah, he's 81 years old. What if you get complications.

And.

We're all just sort of sitting around going. Would they do that? And I go. Well, of course they would. Of course they would. Could this be how they do it. Could this be how Kamala ends up as the nominee.

I. I Don't know but. But I started saying last year. It's really hard for me to be making plans for 2025 because it just seems to me.

That.

It's not gonna get any saner. Very soon it's gonna stay really really wild for a long time. And Lord have mercy. Don't know no grounds for having mercy. Outside of his own goodness and kindness and compassion, but the old it's sadly now an old saying.

But things keep getting worse. Guys gonna owe an apology to Sodom Gamorrah. We were saying that in 2000. Long before. Month-long celebrations of sexual depravity. With the government's not only assistance, but force of law in many instances.

So we'll be keeping an eye on what happens with with Joe Biden and He certainly doesn't have the Cover that he used to have from the media and So we'll see what happens. I don't know. Have you seen the Bob Gagnon just retweeted it.

I think I retweeted it earlier today. It's a little incline up to a door and it says protect yourself from government sneak attacks. Get the newly invented government deterrence system today. And it's all about this Cheadle woman the head of this Secret Service a very clear DEI hire who has been her number one priority has been to get more women Secret Service agents.

We see how well that's worked out. I Mean if this woman still has her job three days to now. Just give it up. I mean. But the whole thing was she said she literally came out and Said that they didn't have snipers on that roof and it wasn't covered.

Because it had a slope to the roof. Vast majority of roofs have slopes. They really do.

The.

Secret Service snipers who eventually shot the guy were on a roof on a roof with a slope I think more than the other one. It's just so insane. And so now you know the little thing has a slope up to your door so the government won't come through that way.

Oh. The best mean the best mean that I saw and I've reposted this morning said this is just This is getting too crazy was the clip from Star Wars with Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi and You know give it up Anakin.

I have the high ground is what what was in the film and They had changed it to I have the slope. That was I don't know who did it, but congratulations to them. That was that was very very well done. There there you go, so Sloped roofs will not be covered by the DEI Secret Service because you might fall off.

Because you're wearing heels. Okay, and then I actually retweeted one just for the program started it's from What's called a few good men month cruise, and you know you can't handle the truth just a memorable memorable film.

And it's where he's Yelling you can't handle the truth. It says the roof you can't handle the roof oh. You gotta you gotta try a smile once in a while in the midst of all of this.

Insanity um.

Stuff's going on here. Yes, okay, all right. So Virgil Walker posted this not. I want to make sure everybody get because I had so many people completely miss. One of the things that I said about Ephesians 611 as.

If I was saying that that chapter is in the Bible or something and what I had said was the chapter and verse divisions were added. The ones we use today specifically the verse divisions appeared first in 1551.

They're not a part of the original writings. And that's what that's. What they got confused by is that I'm saying verse divisions are not a part of the original writings and people thought I was saying that Ephesians 6 wasn't a part of the original Writings.

I said no. I'm talking about the verse divisions and. So Virgil Posted this guy. I don't know who this guy is. But he he posted it and it and it said Please please please stop this foolishness. And once I listened to it I then reposted it with a longer version of please please please stop this foolishness I don't again.

I don't know who this guy is. Obviously some kind of charismatic or something. You're really seeing people doing everything you can to make money you get followers and make money. That's what that's. There's no other motivation for this stuff.

And if if this is how Scripture is handled in these churches. I can understand why we have so many problems in the church. The Bible is not a Little can of Play-doh. That you just empty it out and you form it into what you want to form it into the writers had A message they were communicating to a particular audience in a particular context and they use particular words to convey a particular meaning and.

To.

Start connecting. Modern events. To biblical narratives.

Now.

Is there a valid way of. Didn't I just did. I just said we're gonna Oh Sodom Gamorrah an apology. If things keep going the way they're going and what I'm saying is There was sexual sin. I know everybody says no it wasn't it was just inhospitability.

No, it wasn't there was sexual sin in Sodom and Gomorrah and Not sure what that sound is hopefully it's coming from outside the rig. Um, there was sexual sin in Sodom and Gomorrah and there's sexual sin in United States.

Sodom and Gomorrah was judged and destroyed and God would be perfectly just and righteous to judge and destroy a nation so in love with sexual perversity and Rebelling against Islam. Okay, so there's an application, but that's not what we have going on here.

Misusing Leviticus 8 to Read Trump Into the Bible

Here's this guy. And again, I'm just gonna hope that I Think this should work. Yeah, it should work. Oh I actually have. I'm gonna have to Say I have to Turn off my microphone unmute the TV hit that and then reverse that process every time I play something.

It's um and I normally forget something so here's. Here's what this guy was saying, all right here here we go.

What if I told you that the Holy Bible says not once but twice. That blood on the right ear is a sign of consecration is a sign of being devoted to God's service. That's the sign that the Lord instructed Moses to do for Aaron and his priest sons.

Because they were supposed to be consecrated to perform the service of the Lord. I'll read for you first from Leviticus 8 23. Moses Slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear.

Same ear that President Trump was shot at. There was blood on his ear. And then in Exodus 29 19 and 20 you read. Take the other ram and Aaron and his sons lay their hands on its head. Slaughter it take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons.

If you skip down a few verses then it says that he and his sons and their garments will be.

Consecrated now. There's a there's a graphic up in the corner says LSN TV. I think it's life site news. So I Don't that doesn't tell me who this guy is. So I I don't know. Maybe some of you out there know and and you can tell me please feel free to Let me know because I'm I'm on Twitter and I'm watching it.

So I might see it. Could we look at Leviticus 8 for just a second? I I mean, I I know that's not what these people really want to do. But Leviticus 8 is the ordination of Aaron and his sons so this is the beginning of.

The.

Levitical priesthood and it describes. Then Yahweh spoke to Moses saying take Aaron and sons with him and the garments and the anointing oil and the bowl of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread and Assemble all the congregation at the doorway of the tent of the meeting.

So there's a bunch of stuff here.

And.

When people try to make connections, it's sort of like when Roman Catholics try to make connections to marry. Everywhere in the Bible they just pick and choose. And so you've got Garments and anointing oil and the bowl of sin offering the two rams a basket of unleavened bread.

Is there. Let me think. Pennsylvania agriculture bread. See how easy this is. We can all do it together. And then God gives.

You know.

You have the washing and the tunic and the sash and the robe and the ephod the breastplate the urim and the thummim. None of which we have. Actually in Pennsylvania. In Butler, Pennsylvania. Turban on his head.

Well his hair. You know, if you really want to make it work you might you know. Golden plate Holy Crown all these things. It's like you get down to what he quoted from 818. Then he brought near the ram with a burned offering and Aaron and sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Then Moses slaughtered it and splashed the blood around on the altar and he cut the ram into its pieces. See all this stuff. You can just skip over. You don't worry about.

Details.

Then Moses offered up the head and the pieces and the sweat suet in smoke and He washed the entrails and the legs with water. Then Moses offered up the whole ram and smoke on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a soothing aroma.

It was an offering by fire to Yahweh just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. Then he brought near the second ram the ram of ordination.

And.

Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram and Moses slaughtered it and took some of its blood and Put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear. Now. This is where the guy stopped in both places.

He just stopped. He always got a check and Moses slaughtered it and took some of his blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and The big toe of his right foot and he also brought Aaron's sons near.