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Welcome to the Wrap Report with your host Andrew Rappaport where we provide biblical interpretation and application. This is a ministry of striving for eternity and the Christian podcast community. For more content or to request a speaker for your church go to strivingforeternity .org.

Well welcome to another edition of the Wrap Report. I'm your host Andrew Rappaport. I'm joined by Bud. Bud how's sunny Florida today? You know Andrew.

Greetings first of all. Not sunny today man. It's like 59 degrees. It's raining.

It's almost like you're here. Well it is sunny outside here. I just don't know the temperature because it's well probably too cold to walk outside yet. Well you're all cozy indoors so yeah. Yeah well I'm still still got the fireplace going indoors so I'm waiting to do a fire outside you know but it's getting there.

Then I'll buy one of those logs you know and put in our fireplace which I don't even know why we really have them in Florida but it was fun ambiance you know.

You could just get one of those those electric ones that they even give off the electric heat and it looks like it's a log on fire. Yeah well I've gotten some.

Really some of those orange strips of paper and just put it on a fan and laid the fan on its back so it blows up and looks like those displays in some of the stores you see. Well you can't go to stores anymore so but you remember when.

That was that was BC before COVID. Yeah before COVID. Yeah people are now gonna identify everything as BC and AC right before COVID lockdowns and after. I mean hey look 15 days to slow the spread has turned into a full year.

Oh yeah it's gonna turn into four years probably. Four years. What would that be tied to huh?

Four years. What happens in four years? Kind of just coincidental. Yeah. Yeah.

Probably things happen. You know I will say before we get started you know this year something didn't happen bud. There was no reason rally. Oh. And if for folks that don't know for the past couple of years every four years the atheists would get together.

I mean they're not really atheists but they didn't they're suppressors of God. But that's what we should call them. We shouldn't call them atheists just call them suppressors of God. Yeah suppressing the truth.

Yeah truth suppressors. Yeah so the suppressors of the truth aka atheists would have this big rally and they wanted to do it to show the politicians because they do this in DC that the clout of atheists.

The first year they did it they well they didn't have that many people show up and they said it was because it rained. Though we still the Christians I striving fraternity organized an outreach to the reason rally and we we set up we set up open-air preachers at every corner around the National Mall so that there was no way for any of them to get into the rally without passing us and getting tracks.

So we covered every corner. Yeah. I forget how many different like 16 or 24 different teams that we set up. So we had a couple hundred people there and they had a couple thousand people and the four years later they were gonna show that they were a force to be reckoned with.

They were predicting 30 ,000 people and so I reached out to Ray Comfort and asked whether he'd come out for it and help us out and so the most conservative numbers that we heard and that was a beautiful day by the way but the most conservative numbers that we heard was that there were 5 ,000 people there of which the Christians were over a thousand.

We made up 20 of the reason.

Rally were the Christians. I mean fundamentally that's the way it should be if you've rejected God you've rejected reason. Yeah. We're the only ones that have.

Truth. So after that rally the reason they said they didn't have the 30 ,000 is because everyone was afraid of those Christians that were gonna show up. Now I will admit they came out and the I think what's his name now the the president of the American Atheists David Silverstein.

He's a Jewish guy but anyway he was. He called the police and restricted us we had to be that basically we were only allowed to be in an area where there were no people. The irony was that we ended up doing Ray and his team did some open-air and the irony was is that they moved us to do the open-air where we were away from people but they put us up on this hill and so because we had so many people all the atheists came over to see what was going on.

So it actually worked out better when they moved us it just didn't work the way they wanted so they said they were they. I guess they didn't organize it this year. I guess the Christians were a stronger force in in proclaiming truth than they were in suppressing it.

Well.

Yeah true that well they were following the science. That's right that's right.

Yeah yeah that's what it was. Because science says nothing. Scientists are the ones that speak. So you know Bud before before we get started I do have to give you an announcement and let you know so. But I'm curious how did you sleep last.

Night? It's been an early morning but pretty well. Well I know what would have.

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Yeah I like this sir. So for folks who listen to the episode we did last on on Robbie Zacharias and we talked about how easy it is to make your own. You make your own you you patreons will see this and they can they can they could see it or you'd have to go watch the Apollo Jacks live but it's basically you you downloaded a picture of a diploma from Universal Life Church Seminary and it says your name here and so you wrote in permanent marker my name where it says your name here.

So yeah of course I appreciate that now I like Robbie Zacharias could say I'm a doctor. I don't know if that's a good thing but I like what Apollo Jacks live with our friend Justin Pierce said he said that the this I mean cuz this is a solid frame you got here and my wife said it probably cost you more to ship than than the frame and then I said yeah but the you know Justin said yeah but the the frame cost more than the degree oh wow I paid nothing for the degree so.

I hate to you know. Congratulations on the on the doctorate. That's that's an achievement that will last in your memory for a couple minutes so you probably moved and take it off the wall. And whatever I wasn't planning I was gonna tell you I I apologize that that's exciting news on the my pillow thing seriously my effort to get a sponsorship out of Hasbro with the mr. potato head that got boiled.

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Sponsorship. Mines mines fried. Oh that's great. Well we're we had a little bit of a different show for you folks today. This is gonna be well it's kind of a potpourri. We have a bunch of articles that have been just stacking up that we've been wanting to get to for well sometime and they're.

They're ones where well they could probably take a whole show to be honest but we're not gonna do a whole show on any of them. We're gonna try to just tackle as many as we can and bud is going to let us know what we're gonna start with.

We have I don't know. It's like this. Looks like a dozen dozen and a half articles we have let me see and I'm I've printed them out. Of course you printed them. Have the videos can see it. So I'm gonna let you pick whichever ones you want to start with and we're gonna.

We're just gonna see how many we get through. We may have to do this as a two-parter and do one this week and one next week to finish up because there's just a lot of things in the news that we want to give some a Christian.

Perspective on. Well you know I think the biggest one that there's just so much but the Equality Act. Yes particularly now. You're no law. I think this guy and Nadler Jerry Nadler in New York. But you're familiar with him.

Because you live up there where. Well I used to live in New Jersey. Yeah. But you know I left the communist state of New Jersey and came to a state where I'm allowed to carry guns and I'm not beat up as much when I don't wear masks and things like that.

So you want to start with his. Well yeah. Let's look at his.

Representative Jerry Nadler defends the Equality Act and says. Actually I want to read the whole quote and this was pretty interesting after hearing a this a representative speaking against the Equality Act.

A guy from Steubey. Representative Steubey I think from Florida. That's your state. Look Nadler.

What's his name. That's your state. You should know how to. You should know how.

To I don't announce your representatives. Yeah but this guy Jerry Nadler expressed his dissatisfaction. He said mr. Steubey if I'm pronouncing that right what any religious tradition describes as God's will is no concern of this Congress.

Hmm.

Yeah that sums up the next four years. Yeah. Well the reality is that there's several things we could look at with that. I mean we're gonna have to get into the Equality Act. But my first thought of this this claim itself that God's will has nothing to do with what Congress is doing shows that he doesn't understand God he is in government.

He's he's in the place of government that he's in because God allows it. It is God who sets up governments. It's God who who uses governments. You know many Christians but think that like Biden getting an office was somehow against God's will.

Like we needed Trump. That was God's will. The reality is God uses nations even to teach his own people. People forget this. Read the book of Jeremiah and you'll see that Jeremiah prophesied that God would use a wicked it was a wicked nation pagan nation of Babylon and that they were gonna come in and be you God's instrument of justice God's instrument of judgment on the nation of Israel God's chosen people.

God was gonna bring this pagan wicked nation in to bring Israel his chosen people into captivity to curb them and cure them of idolatry. And that's exactly what happened. And then when those 70 years were done God judged Babylon.

So God uses nations for his own purposes. He sets up rulers. They're in that place because they're there to serve God's purpose. So that is God's will. So when he says well you know this is not you know anything to do with God's will.

Well this is what scripture says. Reading from Romans 13 every person is to be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God. Wait say that part again. No. For there is no authority.

No authority includes. I could be mistaken. But no authority includes mr. Nadler. It includes the United States Congress. So every person is to be subject including mr. Nadler. Every person is to be subject to the governing authorities.

For there is no authority except from God and those which exist to establish are established by God. Therefore anyone who resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God and they who who have oppressed will receive condemnation upon themselves.

This is Romans 13 1 and 2. It makes it crystal clear that every governing authority does so by God's will and they're they're established by God's will and you obey them or or resist them in either opposition to or submission to God's will.

So I'm sorry mr. Nadler but Congress is there to do God's bidding. Sometimes God's bidding as we would see in Romans 1 is to bring judgment on a wicked sinful nation. And mr. Nadler that's what you're part of he's actually part of God's judgment.

Because this nation has has rejected God and his will and they're in a oppression to the ordinance of God. And we have Jerry Nadler as the judgment of God and he's a judgment upon himself as. Well so very true you know.

And and just speaking.

To that point it always I don't want to say amused me but it but it always concerned me that evangelicals which evangelicals have now become really we're meeting a little lobby. Yeah it's. It's really identified as a political lobby and certainly not a gospel steward given the antics that are going on in the visible church.

But when the evangelical pack or lobby would get a conservative of any flavor on the ballot elected it's God's man for the hour. But when it turned south it's no longer God's man for the hour. No this this man right now in the White House fits the same criteria.

He's God's man for the hour. And it is just as you indicated because God establishes all authority it is not accidental. So the point is as we can amply see judgment.

Yeah and I think for too many Christians they don't want to think about judgment.

They want a comfortable Christianity. Yeah well they think that way I believe because they don't have an apprehension first of all sovereignty they profess it but they don't really think it through to understand the implications of God's sovereignty over all things.

He just you just read it his authority or all authorities are established by him he is sovereign over all that you know. So they fail to apprehend that and certainly in a spiritual faithful sense they fail to.

Apprehend holiness. So where do. So where do you want to go next. Well let's talk.

About the Equality Act a little bit and there were a number of really helpful articles that I found. I know there are a lot more but Heritage Foundation has some that are kind of the the practical implications from a political and social standpoint.

Josh Bice had a great article called the Equality Act and the cost of freedom. Gabe Hughes on his website. The majesty's men had had one titled the Equality Act makes everyone potato heads but I found one.

Ken Ham had written answers in Genesis that the Equality Act is set to destroy religious freedom and I think that's the implication that we're most concerned with. We understand depravity in the culture.

We expect to see where it is going and what is driving the Equality Act culturally. But the implications for the church I think are critical for us to grasp. And I don't know that there is a lot of outrage among Christians.

I have talked to a few folks about it. Most of them aren't familiar with it. They're more familiar with the restrictions on you know HR 1.

Vote-by-mail than they are. Equality Act. Really. Yeah. And this actually you mentioned something that I was gonna hit on because this is the thing that's kind of frustrating me is that everyone seems to be more focused on the political things going on than the religious that the Equality Act is a direct attack on Christianity.

That's the goal. It's gonna be something that's gonna be used to shut down every church and every ministry. You're gonna have to have you're gonna have to have you know a someone that is LGBT on every board and an equal number.

In California this is already the case that even for nonprofits even Christian charities are gonna have to have a practicing homosexual on the board at least one. Unless they have was it. If they have six members then they have to have two or three so to be equal to be fair.

And this is what we're seeing now. Now the Equality Act itself it is something that is the argument is to make everything equal. I mean it always sounds good doesn't it. We're just making equality. It sounds like a good thing.

But it's not equality. It is an attempt to suppress Christian views. Now you don't see this being used against Muslims who have a much stronger view against homosexuality Christians. What we will do to someone that practices homosexuality is give them the gospel and try to get them to have truth and come to repentance.

Muslims will throw you off a building and kill you. Which one is more dangerous. You know. You think.

Why do you think that is do you think it's just a function of numbers and the the sense that America in some in some way had had come out of a Judeo Christian ethic and not to mention that it's primarily identified with white.

Cisgendered self-proclaimed Christians I mean well I believe what it is there's a couple factors. The number one factor number one factor I would say is probably because evil doesn't divide against evil.

You know they're on the same side the when you understand Islam they will work within the political means until they have a majority and then they will silence those that they disagree with. So there's an aspect where I think that their terrorism has worked and the Marxist want to use the same kind of terrorism of fear.

It's the fear of being canceled losing your job things like that that is driving people now to say well we don't want to go against Muslims because we're afraid of them. We don't want against go against the Marxist because we're afraid of them.

So it's it's the same form of the same idea of terrorism. They're using the same playbook I think and so they they know how the playbook works and they don't want to. They want as many in their camp as they can.

Yeah but the the goal will be silence the Christian silence the Jewish people. Then when they go to silence the Muslims the Muslims will rise up. And I've always said this atheism versus Islam. Islam wins because atheists have nothing to live for other than this life.

Muslims are looking at a a they have a wrong view of it but they're looking at an eternal life. So they have something beyond this world to fight for and so the atheists will give up. That's that's my thinking.

No I think that's right. No when it comes to the comment you made though HR 1 HR 1 is this bill about voting where they want to nationalize the voting and basically make what we had in this past year's election nationwide for all elections have have the mail-in ballots that worked very well for Democrats to pull off a coup.

It was not voter fraud by the way it was not you know election tampering. It was a coup. Let's call it what it was. We need to stop giving in to the Marxist language in you know calling it capital riots.

No riots are where people are we're doing in for seven months in the cities. That was riots when they're burning things down the in Capitol Hill. Now we're hearing the the all the testimony the FBI has announced they didn't.

They didn't find a single gun. That's not the case in BLM riots. There's there's footage of the police opening the doors and welcoming people in. There's 36 officers that have been charged with assisting the the protesters that day.

This was a staged coup. It was it was staged to make it look like it was an insurrection. The reality is the real insurrection. A proper definition of an insurrection is when you're trying to take over a country.

Well what do we have for seven months people marching the streets burning streets saying burn it down. We need to start over. We need to overturn this country. That's an insurrection. When they go into city streets and go into an area and they put up barriers and they say we are a new country.

That's what they said with chop and and Chaz. That is an insurrection. And that was supported and funded by the very people that are trying to prosecute what happened on January 6th and the Capitol. Okay and they go well but no one's ever broken into the Capitol.

Yes they have several times before within our generation when Brett Kavanaugh was the hearings were going on. They didn't just break in. They went all the way into. They were standing there during the the the voting.

They were standing there during the hearings. They got all the way in and no one chased out the the the Senate. They didn't go. The Capitol police didn't just rush them off in fact. But now that we have the timeline the police rushed them off in on January 6th.

They rushed him out before many people were even in the Capitol almost as if they knew that they were supposed to be there. Could that be the reason the police opened the doors and welcomed them in. Because the protesters weren't actually going in at first until they were welcomed in and then it was like oh yeah look they're all over the place.

There was less than a hundred people out of 300 ,000. That's not the same numbers that we see when we look at what went on with BLM. And we see that there there was there was thousands of people and thousands of people.

Writing. Yeah true but there is a difference between those two things really there is the driving agenda of the culture at the moment and a large degree of driving agenda in the visible church the issue of melanin and the oppression so that that validates one and certainly is not applicable in the.

Other. Well the thing is is that that's not actually true because there's actually more white people that are marching in Black Lives Matter protests than blacks. Now interesting Black Lives Matter the organization had to take down their goals.

Why. Because I know yeah many African Americans saw that the goals of Black Lives Matter are for the destruction of the black family of the very things that they know. The black communities need strong family and education and their goals were to destroy the patriarchal family to support single mothers not to get a job or take care of their kids.

No support single mothers that they can go out and protest to. You know it was it was everything against what they need and many blacks started to realize that it was. It was made blacks who pulled away and now you got whites that are going.

Well we got a still March. Well I understand. What you're saying is absolutely true it is factual nevertheless the power of optics that's.

In play. No it is the power of gaslighting. What is gaslighting. Gas lighting we used to back when Bill Clinton was president. You may have heard the term tell a lie long enough and people will believe it's true.

That is what he did. He kept saying the same things over and over that what what he was doing was just his in private and he would you know when he was having an affair things like this and and you know giving away government secrets to the Chinese that these were not supposed to be big deals.

And he told a lie over and over saying this was just this is just personal relationships you know working with the Chinese and giving them satellite technology they didn't have but the reality is gaslighting is from a movie where basically what happened was is this husband wanted to drive his wife nuts.

So what he was doing was they would have back when they had a gaslight for the for lights he would turn the lights down and tell her that they're bright and turn it up and say that they were dim. And he would keep doing this until she started to question her own sense of reality.

She started to wonder she couldn't tell now because he kept telling her it was bright when it when she didn't think it was bright or it wasn't bright when it was he drove her nuts to where she couldn't trust her own version of reality.

That is what gaslighting is. And that's what we have. But what we have is a bunch of people who are trying to in the media who are trying to convince all of us that wearing a mask will protect you from a virus.

That is that you're using a mask that's not designed for viruses. It even says it on on the packaging. This does not protect against viruses but everyone thinks well I got to wear this. There are certain masks that would be more beneficial but those masks are supposed to are supposedly not to be used.

Hmm. So following the science like when when we look at the testing of a virus and we test it and we spin so many cycles that we no longer get valid tests so everyone's positive when they really aren't things like this.

So you know now of some Biden's president we changed the testing cycle so now we're getting more accurate readings and what's happening the virus is coming down the number of cases worldwide. Yeah CDC is now using the proper number of cycles to spin for the spinning of the test.

Yet many people knew that that was a problem before complained about it but we're shut up. So the the reality is is it's you tell the lie long enough and people will believe it. And that's that's really what we have going on.

It's got it's the power of gaslighting and you see the gaslighting in big tech in the suppression of anything that goes against their narrative. Right there they're sitting and saying oh you say that there's election fraud.

No that's that's conspiracy theory. We got a we got a you know remove that comment. But then when they want to and they're actually trying to do this there's a Republican who is seated in the House of Representatives won by 22 votes and the Democrats are still trying to call for an audit to unseat a sitting House of Representatives member with a Democrat after the fact but at the same time saying to the the Supreme Court arguing that to throw out the cases because Biden's already sitting in office and so there's no need to go through this and do an audit everywhere when we already saw in Michigan's already accepted that Trump won Michigan there's now gonna be an audit in Arizona.

We'll see what happens there Pennsylvania. Well that one they went against the law that one should have been heard. So there's three of the states you know this the reason they don't want these the cases heard is because they're trying to unseat a Republican with a Democrat but they don't want to unseat Biden with Trump which is what should end up happening.

You know if we were to do the audit so so that the Equality Act is something Christians we're gonna have to be watching. We'll probably end up having to do an entire show just on the ramifications of the Equality Act and and but there's when we talk about the Equality Act there is a problem with some of the Christians and their view of the Equality Act.

This is why I think we'll end up having to do a whole show because there unfortunately are Christians who are trying to support the Equality Act and argue that this is son that that Christians should get behind when the Equality Act is going to be something that will will be used to shut down any church that does not.

Support and promote homosexuality. Yeah the whole agenda of the LGBT movement and and people need to understand that technically what this does and this is what just it. The irony is thick but the the Equality Act essentially is just adding a couple of phrases to the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

They're adding in sexual orientation as a protected class and gender identity as a protected class. The thing that strikes me and I'm certainly not intelligent enough to explain this. But what are we doing.

We're making objective concrete law using language and words that will enshrine subjectivism as a legally protected ideology which itself uses especially now. In the postmodern times used it it also uses language in words but in a non concrete and very fluid fashion.

So we're making a concrete law. We're using what the words mean to protect a group that has no concept of a concrete definition of words. Just struck me as is ironic that we're gonna do something objectively to legalize subjectivism contrary to certainly science and contrary to reason.

But the implications for Christianity are are dire with this. You think it's gonna pass.

Do you think we're gonna see this. Unfortunately. Yeah this is probably unless unless the Senate was to require a 60 vote it's it's gonna be late just like the the stimulus bill. That's gonna go down party line and Harris will be the the making the difference.

And she'll she'll do the tie-breaking vote. Yeah. So unfortunately they're what they're trying to do is to enforce the their way of thinking their agenda on all of us. And and what the Equality Act is going to do is going to legalize and enforce gaslighting.

It's going to take a whole generation because they're gonna put this they're gonna drive this into the schools. And why do I think that this is the number one concern that we should have as Christians.

What is my big issue with the Equality Act. And I said we'll probably do a whole episode on this. But what I see with the Equality Act is this the Equality Act the agenda behind it is to get the country justifying the hatred of Christians.

And once they can do that once they make a scapegoat of one group of people and people think it's acceptable to hate people for any whatever the reason is you're only one step away to the arrest and killing of mass people.

People feel justified to be able to hate Christians right now because of these views that they have that they say we should have. Yeah. And because that this is no different than what happened in Nazi Germany.

You had a you had someone that to stay in power he made scapegoats of the Jewish people. And once that started Hitler could not stop the train he started because the moment he stopped using the Jewish people as a scapegoat that's when he didn't have the unity of all the different groups of people.

It was. It's no different than in the Arab world where they all hate Israel for the sake of keeping themselves together. If they stopped hating Israel they would start warring with one another. What keeps the unity in all those Arab states their hatred for Israel.

It's no different with Nazi Germany. They hated the Jews. He created a hatred for the Jews so he could keep power. But that has to constantly be escalated. Escalated escalated until it comes to the mass termination of six million Jewish people.

This is what we're headed for in this country is it's just not gonna be Jewish people. It's gonna be Christian because you're seeing the mass hatred that the encouraging and indoctrination of mass hatred for a group of people known as Christians.

And that will end in their death.

Executive Orders, Immigration, and Government by Fiat

Yeah the just unthinkable lunacy of being able to go on you know a website and order Mein Kampf but you can't order Dr. Seuss. Now if you go read a book like the rise and fall of the Third Reich which you've just referenced what do you see in the history of Hitler's rise there.

Well one of the things was we've got to get rid of all the propaganda so you see book burnings. We got that it was only a little step from burning books to burning bodies. Yep this is where it.