RLL 57: War in the Middle East and John Kerry in Rome

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May 23, 2021

00:23: Hello everyone, this is Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for Radio Luke Solicit episode 57 and the title of this episode is
00:30: War in the Middle East and John Kerry in Rome Well before I dive in to talking about a couple of kind of weighty subjects.
00:40: I did have a Cicada update for you. Yes, we live in Cicada City. I used to be at Cincinnati But I think maybe we should call it
00:47: Cicada City now because these things are coming out in force Yeah, these are the the 17 -year cicadas and I saw my first one on Wednesday First one
00:58: I saw I think it was it was out. I was on the sidewalk It was pretty much dead at the time, but it was definitely one and and then
01:05: Thursday. I saw a few more and Then Friday, I actually started to hear them for the first time so you can they start making this this noise
01:16: The cicada noise kind of a chattering type of a noise and they were out just a little bit Friday and then today
01:22: It's even a little bit louder and I expect that's gonna be increasing every day here for You know until they hit their peak right now.
01:30: They're not anywhere close to their peak. They're just kind of just getting warmed up. So So, yeah, we've got the cicadas look forward to for the next few weeks and I'm sure that I'll have some some update
01:43: Updates for you. Hopefully you won't see any flying around in the the background here They do have a way of getting into your house.
01:49: So you never know. Yeah, there might be a cicada in a future the future live stream
01:54: Well, anyway, I had a couple of items here that I wanted to talk about today
02:00: I wanted to talk about war in the Middle East and John Kerry in Rome as the title suggests and so let's go ahead and Dive right in here.
02:08: We'll talk about the Stuff going on in the Middle East right now now one of the things that of course the news that it's been in the news quite a bit here over the past week the events going on in in Israel and in Gaza and in the fight between Hamas and in between Israel and For right now anyway, it appears that there is a ceasefire that was drawn or were declared
02:34: Between the the two parties that seems to be holding for right now I mean one of the things when we you know, looked at this last week and Anytime you see this kind of conflict stir stir up in the
02:47: Middle East You always wonder about the possibility of a wider war it appears at least for right now that that that's been avoided
02:55: And that's a good thing I mean we can can be happy that that has stopped and We can be we can pray that that would would continue and if for nothing else simply just for the people that are involved and Really for the stability of just the region and also as well for the for the wider world because things could get out of hand there
03:17: And and there's no You know, it's it's hard to say sometimes when the shooting starts starts where it's going to stop
03:25: But at least for right now it appears that that the the fight has stopped Now one of the things and I wanted to to follow up on this because this is something that That we had talked to talk some about last week the the correct biblical position as well as the correct constitutional position
03:45: For Americans and for American Christians. I'm speaking here as is an American Christian Toward the fighting in the
03:52: Middle East is one of neutrality And this is something that I had quoted from John Robbins 2006 essay the religious wars of the 21st century last week and In that that particular piece
04:07: John Robbins made the very important point that Christians do not have a dog in that fight
04:12: You know what? You're looking at here is a war between Midi medieval
04:20: Judaism and medieval Islam as Christians this isn't something that concerns us but and this is also something that John Robbins pointed out in his essay the religious wars of the 21st century because of Jews and because of Dispensationalist evangelicals we are involved because they continually
04:43: Push our involvement and it's not just Jews and and evangelical Christians that push this.
04:48: There's also a increasing Muslim contingent in the
04:54: United States as well. You see that in the house there are a lot of comments that are made by for instance Rashida Tlaib and As well as oh
05:05: The the one from Minnesota her name is escaping me right now Ilhan Omar They actually were both very vocal supporters of Hamas yeah, and again, this isn't a fight that America needs to be a part of but unfortunately because of Because of people who have very strong feelings for one way or the other for for one of these sides we are involved and of course there has been decade after decade after decade of It's not unquestioning support for Israel among both parties in the
05:40: United States certainly something very close to it and And this is something that has actually harmed the
05:46: United States. It has gotten us involved in the conflict that we don't need to be involved in and And yet this is something that that has
05:56: Continues to go and it does it shows no sign of letting up Now a few things here and one thing that really stood out to me about The reaction from American politicians over the past week
06:09: Is some comments are made both by Joe Biden and by Ted Cruz now you might look at that You say well
06:14: Joe Biden you consider him to be kind of a liberal ish Democrat A liberal
06:20: Democrat and you look at Ted Cruz you say well, he's a conservative Republican certainly one of the leaders of the the
06:27: Republican Party in the Senate and somebody who Who holds himself forth as a Christian and he may be a
06:33: Christian I don't know, but he certainly presents himself as a Christian and You wouldn't think you would think that these two men would would not have a whole lot in common
06:43: But they found common ground on one particular thing and that is that the u .s. Has to pay for Israel's war
06:51: There's a headline And in fact, let me Let me share this here
06:57: Go ahead and see if we can get that Taken care of okay, all right, so Let's take a look here.
07:09: Okay. So here's a this is a headline. This is actually from the Australian broadcasting company
07:15: ABC but that's the that's not the ABC in the United States. Of course. We have the ABC here the American broadcasting company
07:23: This is the Australian broadcasting company. I'm just I'm not gonna play the video here It's about three and a half minute video
07:29: Which look at the headline video Biden says u .s. Will replenish Iron Dome and contribute to Gaza rebuild now if you're not familiar with term
07:37: Iron Dome it's a missile defense system that was developed apparently a joint effort by Israel and by the
07:44: United States and Israel expended quite a large number of rockets The it's a it's a missile defense.
07:51: I mean when the the Iron Dome it shoots anti -missile missiles That were designed to block the rockets that were being fired at Israel from Hamas and Apparently these things as modern weapons tend to be are pretty expensive by the piece
08:07: I think I may have read somewhere and I don't have it in front of me I'm sorry I don't have this but I want to say it was maybe on the range of like twenty thousand dollars a pop for these these
08:17: Iron Dome missiles and they fired quite a few of them over the the fighting that took place for several days so Joe Biden thinks that the
08:26: American taxpayer should pick up the cost for for Israel's wars And in replenish their their
08:32: Iron Dome missiles and he doesn't stop there either He also not only does he expect the United States to pay for Israel's weapons?
08:39: But he also expects America and I shouldn't say just the United States It should say really American taxpayers because that's ultimately who's footing the bill on this
08:46: And he says that you the u .s. Is supposed to contribute to the Gaza rebuild. So, you know
08:51: Israel Had I think fighter planes and that that were were dropping bombs and I I don't know if they had other ways of Delivering ordinance on Gaza, but there was a lot of damage that was done in in Gaza by the
09:07: Israeli Defense Forces and Joe Biden thinks again that the American taxpayer should pay for that now.
09:14: I'm deliberately avoiding the whole issue of Who started this thing I'm not interested in delving into the politics of of Israel But I'm just analyzing this from just from a high level
09:28: Israel is a foreign country and yet you have Joe Biden running around out there saying that the
09:34: United States has to pick up the Cost of Israel's wars. Well if if Israel fights a war and we're told, you know
09:41: Israel has a right to defend itself and I'm not here to quibble with that But if Israel has a right to defend itself, it also has a responsibility to pay for its own defense not the
09:51: American taxpayer Now along those same lines
09:59: Ted Cruz came out and He's also saying exactly the same thing as Biden Cruz calls on Biden administration to replenish
10:06: Israel's Iron Dome United States Senator Ted Cruz led a group of Republican a group of Republican senators
10:12: So it wasn't just Ted Cruz But it was mean it was a group of Republican senators led by Ted Cruz Wednesday and calling for the
10:18: Biden administration to stand with Israel as Israelis are under constant attack from Iran -backed terrorist groups, including
10:24: Hamas Senator Cruz a part of the blame for the current conflict at the feet of the Biden Harris administration
10:30: Cruz said the world just six months ago is a very different place with Israel at peace with Arab neighbors and the
10:35: Abraham Accords negotiated By the Trump administration was a major reason why so I guess apparently, you know
10:41: What he's saying is that Joe Biden has caused this war in the Middle East and therefore somehow the
10:46: American taxpayers Need to to pay for this well You know one of the things that Ted Cruz doesn't talk about here
10:54: And this is something that was brought up when I was was doing some reading on this You may recall that Benjamin Netanyahu the long -serving prime minister of Israel has been in a lot of Political and even legal difficulty and there are some questions if he was even going to be able to continue as prime minister even as recently as two or three weeks ago and it's interesting that this war broke out right about the time that That it looked like he might be removed as as prime minister
11:26: You know, is it possible that? the Benjamin Netanyahu may have
11:32: You know, maybe helped helped along the you know if not start the war provoke it or at least
11:41: Come up with a very harsh response to the war to the to the
11:47: No to the provocations of Hamas in order to help himself politically
11:52: I mean, I think that certainly is one possibility, but Ted Cruz doesn't really want you to consider that here
11:58: He wants to hang all the blame on the Biden administration and therefore the American people have to pay the freight.
12:03: Well Whether or not the Biden administration had anything to do with it I don't know and I'm not here to debate that point.
12:10: But the bottom line is Israel is a foreign country Israel undertook a war, you know, whether there's a defensive war.
12:16: I mean if you want to argue a defensive war, that's fine Israel needs to pay for that Not the
12:22: American people, you know, not the United States But but Ted Cruz and and Joe Biden agree that that the
12:29: United States does have a responsibility to do that And I would say that that their arguments are both
12:35: Unconstitutional. I mean there's no provision in the US Constitution to give the kind of foreign aid whether it's civilian aid or military aid to Israel that that America America has
12:49: For quite some time And and there's no there's no biblical case to be made for it
12:54: I mean when you're talking about taking money from the American people and sending it to a foreign country Whether that foreign country is
13:00: Israel or some other foreign country that is theft. That is not an appropriate use
13:06: That's not an appropriate function for the civil magistrate to do you know and But I mean this is something that we do all the time and there's there's very little real discussion about that and it's something this
13:19: Is bipartisan you can see both Ted Cruz and a group of Republican senators were saying this and apparently he prevailed on Joe Biden And Joe Biden's out there, you know mouthing the same words and and I think this is an outrage
13:31: And it's the kind of thing that needs to stop now one of the things
13:39: And I have to say here with with Ted Cruz I I find him very frustrating because he's a guy that in some ways, you know as a
13:48: Christian That I should be able to look to and say, you know, there's someone who who
13:53: I can admire There's someone who I can get behind. I mean, he he's obviously a very bright guy I mean he graduated from Harvard Law School I saw one of his professors as a well -known law professor
14:04: Alan Dershowitz was on TV just praising his intellect Dershowitz thinks he's brilliant and and so do a lot of people and and I'll take their word for that you know,
14:13: I mean They're there Ted Cruz is a very smart man and he's very well educated and he's someone who claims to be a
14:19: Christian and like I say as a Christian that should be somebody that I feel like I could get behind Because certainly as Christians we we need defenders in in the civil government
14:29: Whether that's at the federal level or state level or at the local level because Christians in the United States of America are under serious attack
14:37: And I'd like to be able to get behind Ted Cruz, but unfortunately with Ted Cruz is he has this bad habit of What of Really putting the interest of foreign powers.
14:53: I Country and and that's a real problem And so what do
14:59: I mean by that well there was you know in this particular case he's
15:04: He's flacking for Israel, but this isn't the first time that he's done that there was a
15:12: Piece that he wrote and this goes back to 2015. This is dated September 3rd, 2015
15:17: You may recall it was at that time that Pope Francis made his visit to the
15:24: United States and and a day or two later after this particular piece was written that Pope Francis the first time if any
15:34: Pope ever addressed a joint session of Congress or at least address Congress and And that was a pretty big deal.
15:41: And and so here's Ted Cruz writing this this really pretty glowing article on On the
15:49: Pope now Ted Cruz is a Southern Baptist, but he has no problem going out and in praising the
15:54: Pope I mean, here's you can see the headline here Ted Cruz Pope Francis leads an abortion marriage and religious liberty
16:03: And he even adds this this sub headline here He says in an era when many global leaders are descending to relativism
16:09: Pope Francis continues to proclaim the truth Well good grief Pope Francis does not proclaim the truth
16:18: Pope Francis is a Jesuit and in Pope Francis sits in the seat of Antichrist Pope Francis does not proclaim the truth.
16:26: He may say some things that in isolation are true But if we consider it within the entire system of Roman Catholic theology when you consider his
16:35: Jesuit background when you consider his position He does not speak the truth. I mean the devil can quote scripture
16:41: I mean we know that because of Jesus temptation is recorded for us in the book of Matthew So simply because the devil can can quote scripture, which is true
16:53: That doesn't mean that he speaks the truth, I mean he was was twisting scripture he was misapplying it in order to to get
17:01: Jesus to to bend to his will and so just because the Pope comes out and says something that may be in Isolation true he's not speaking the truth because it's within the the the this it's within a false theological and philosophical system
17:20: I Mean you have to consider what someone says Not just in in an act in in in isolation
17:28: But you have to fit it into their larger system of thought Pope Francis does not speak the truth
17:34: Any more than any other Pope speaks the truth because they all see it sit in the seat of Antichrist I mean that is what
17:41: Pope Francis job is, you know in Ted Cruz seems to have no clue About that there was another article and I don't have it here in front of me
17:50: I guess I should have should have grabbed a link to it But there was another article where in fact it was in it was in Christianity Today and it quotes
17:59: Ted Cruz And it also quoted. Oh The fellow he was the the governor of Arkansas Mmm, I don't know why
18:12: I can't Oh Huckabee Mike Huckabee. Yeah, Mike Huckabee is quoting Mike Huckabee who
18:17: I believe was it not only as a Southern Baptist But I think he actually was a minister if I recall correctly, but Mike Huckabee was also singing the praises of Pope Francis now,
18:29: I mean a lot of people look to the Southern Baptist Convention as a very conservative
18:36: Denomination, it's certainly the largest Protestant denomination in the United States But I mean here you have these guys out there singing the praises of Pope Francis and and it's it's just it's disgraceful
18:49: He Pope Francis is not a Christian he's not a brother in Christ He does not know the
18:54: Lord because he does not believe the gospel of Jesus Christ He does not believe that one is saved through faith in Christ alone or through belief in Christ alone
19:04: It's it's a mongrelized Works faith system it's in it's filled with massive doctrinal errors and on top of that He's the one that sits at the top of this whole
19:16: Corrupt church and and as as I mentioned here, he sits in the seat of Antichrist and Protestants used to understand this
19:23: But it doesn't seem that anybody understands this anymore. Maybe with just a very few exceptions and Unfortunately, we know whether Ted Cruz understands it or not.
19:32: He's certainly not willing to speak out about it Now, I guess on one hand I can't be too super hard on Ted Cruz because of that because very few
19:41: Protestant ministers Either believe that the office of the papacy is the Antichrist as a reformer forefathers did
19:50: Or if they do believe that they're not willing to say it So, I mean if the church if the
19:55: Protestant Church can't get this, right? I guess it it shouldn't be too surprising if if a senator
20:01: Doesn't get this right as well So let's take a look here.
20:07: There's a few other things Okay, I guess this is actually going to lead into my second story, you know we're just talking here about the the support of Of the office of Antichrist the support of the office of the
20:23: Pope by American politicians Leads into that next story here John Kerry meets
20:28: Pope Francis in Rome So let's take a look at this here. Now. I'm gonna turn to the
20:36: This is some really highbrow journalism. Okay, this is the the highbrow the the highly respected
20:43: People magazine I've got another source on this as well
20:49: But I think this is just as legitimate of sources as any in talking about this and in the the story seems to be accurate
20:56: And so let's let's go ahead and start with this. It's got the headline here John Kerry meets
21:01: Pope Francis applauds him for being ahead of the curve on climate issues We need everybody in this fight
21:06: John Kerry the US Special Climate Envoy said after meeting Pope Francis So let's just read through a little bit a bit of this here
21:14: John Kerry the by the ministration special envoy on climate change visited the Vatican over the weekend.
21:20: Now, this is last weekend The story is dated what the date on this story is
21:26: May 17. So yeah, this was was a week ago John Kerry the by the ministration special envoy on climate change visited the
21:33: Vatican over the weekend to meet Pope Francis and Discuss the world's efforts to quell the growing environmental crisis.
21:39: Okay. Well, you know, how do we know that's a growing environmental crisis? I mean we know that because The people that very much want a growing environmental crisis.
21:48: Tell us so Yeah That's that's a big problem, but we're not
21:54: I'm not gonna gonna get off on that tangent right now Maybe that's I will save that for another time So let's continue here
22:00: Kerry 77 greeted a smiling Pope Francis 84 on Saturday according to America magazine
22:06: Now I'm gonna refer to America magazine in just a moment. That's a Jesuit magazine The Catholic News Service now they call it the
22:14: Catholic News Service, which I suppose is true in a way, but it's a Jesuit magazine The Pope is one of the great voices of reason and compelling moral authority on the subject of climate crisis
22:24: Kerry said in a Vatican News interview after their meeting. He's been ahead of the curve. He's been a leader
22:30: President Joe Biden named Kerry the first ever u .s Special Presidential Envoy on climate giving them the role of coordinating the country's efforts to combat climate change with other nations around the world so, of course you can see
22:41: Joe Biden and John Kerry are both globalists as well as is Pope Francis and Pope Francis and John Kerry and Joe Biden All three
22:51: Roman Catholics. They they hope to be able to use climate to promote their favorite pet project of globalism of Undermining Subverting the sovereignty of the
23:05: United States of America and subjecting us all to world government You know and I'm going to talk a little bit more about this but one of the the real frustrations that I have
23:13: I know I've mentioned this before is The fact that so few people seem to be aware of what's going on right in front of their face
23:21: You know, sometimes I really think that it's it's almost you know, the devil mocking
23:28: Christians and saying you know I double -dog dare you to do something about it because these guys don't even try to hide their globalist ambitions
23:35: I mean, it's just in your face right out in the open and see there's some pictures of John Kerry and the
23:44: Pope and his funny hat there and full papal regalia So, let's go on to to the next story here this is the story
23:54: In fact, this is the one that the people magazine referred to in America magazine. You can see up here
24:00: It's America the Jesuit Review. This is a very Often quoted very kind of highly regarded source of news from the
24:10: Jesuits and They they pushed their line unashamedly as you would expect them to That's one of the things is kind of interesting.
24:18: You know, you're you look at Magazines say Christianity Today, for example, it's supposed to represent evangelical
24:25: Protestants, but they they don't In fact, there's very little in Christianity Today. That's Christian I think
24:31: John Robbins once called that a hotbed of feminism and socialism and All this kind of thing and he was talking, you know 10 or 15 years ago, and it's only gotten worse
24:41: In time, I I actually do and I probably shouldn't admit this I actually do subscribe to Christianity Today But I do it to get some of the articles and keep tabs on what it is.
24:51: They're saying so you don't have to That's my service to you as the re is as the listener to this podcast so Let's read a little bit a little bit out of this
25:04: Asked why he came he that is John Kerry asked why he came first to visit
25:09: Pope Francis. Mr Kerry who is Catholic said Quote the Pope is one of the great voices of reason and compelling moral authority in the subject of climate change
25:17: He's been ahead of the curve. He's been a leader His encyclical Laudato si is really a very very powerful document eloquent and morally very persuasive
25:28: Endquote. Mr Kerry said he believes the Pope Francis quote will be a very important voice leading up to and through the
25:34: Glasgow conference Which I believe he intends to attend Mr. Kerry was also overheard telling his staff that the
25:41: Pope would attend the Glasgow conference now the Glasgow conference apparently it is some kind of Environmental conference that I assume being held in Glasgow Scotland Sometime in the near future, let's see
26:00: Should have looked this up. Okay, it's next it says it's in the next November according to this According to this article, so I'd take it that would be
26:07: November of 2022 Yeah, in fact here and this is from the same article says mr
26:15: Biden also plans to the United States to play a leading role to 26 UN climate change conference of the parties
26:22: In Glasgow next summer and next November a gathering of nations have signed on to the
26:27: Paris Accords of 2015 which unfortunately our globalist
26:33: Imposter president and yes, I did say he's an imposter. He's he was I I don't for a minute believe that The Joe Biden was was legitimately elected president.
26:43: I think he was was selected. I think he was rigged into the
26:49: Oval Office Which is actually kind of interesting I mean when you think about it America's had two Roman Catholic presidents
26:55: John F Kennedy and now Joe Biden and Kennedy both in 19 in 1960 and of course
27:01: Joe Biden in 2020 60 years later Both of those elections were marred by very serious and very credible charges of election fraud and I guess that's not surprising, you know, we've we've talked about that here in the space before that the
27:17: The Democratic Party and both of them are Democrats, you know that the Democratic Party it's the party of rum
27:23: Romanism and rebellion as Sam is the Civil War vet and Presbyterian minister, dr.
27:30: Samuel D. Burchard commented way back in 1884 and Burchard was right then and and he is right today
27:37: And you're seeing this at work right in front of our faces. I mean this stuff is right in our faces
27:43: So here you got you got John Kerry running around saying, you know, Laudato si is just awesome well,
27:49: Laudato si Is I think you could really consider it. It's a 2015
27:56: Encyclical written by Pope Francis on the environment and in fact when he came over in 2015 because this was released
28:02: I think is around June or so at 2015 when he came to the United States in September of 2015
28:07: He proceeded to lecture the Congress and by extension the American people about all of their environmental sins
28:15: And and this was sort of the the his basis for his his lecture
28:21: Now, you know, one of the things that's interesting too is I think it would be fair to say of Laudato si that basically it's the blueprint for Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez is absurd ridiculous
28:36: Unconstitutional and I would say even quite evil Green New Deal that was introduced Goodness was that in 2016 or 2017?
28:45: 2018 I can't remember right now, but I know it's been within the last three to four years something like this
28:52: And it's kind of interesting because when that the Green New Deal was introduced it was introduced by two people who had
28:58: Jesuit educated Ocasio -Cortez herself has degree has a degree.
29:04: I think maybe two degrees I know that she did at least get her undergraduate degree from Boston College, which is a
29:11: Jesuit school and by her side in presenting. This was Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts who graduated both as an undergraduate and also has a law degree from Jesuit Boston College So you got a
29:26: Jesuit Pope whose work is now is being built upon by a Jesuit representative and presumably her staff and people wrote this thing, but she was the one who was was put out and Was the public face of this as well as as well as another
29:42: Jesuit educated senator And again, this stuff is right in your face. You don't have to look hard it's it's right out there and I wish that I Wish this weren't so and I wish
29:54: I didn't have to sit here and point this out But I feel like I really need to because so few people actually do point it out as Christians We need to be pointing these things out
30:04: You think about you know, the Apostle Paul didn't did he not exhort I think it was in his letter to the
30:10: Ephesians He talked about marking those Who caused divisions, you know have no fellowship for the fruitful works of darkness, but expose them
30:18: He said and I think in another place he talked about marking You know those who you know who teach false doctrine
30:25: So we're to point these things out. We're called to do this This is part of our job as Christians is to point this stuff out
30:32: And and the Protestant Church needs to stand up and point this stuff out You know, and I know it's hard I mean, it's you know, you can can be called, you know
30:42: You seen as intolerant or hateful or or as a terrible person, you know, we I don't hate
30:49: Roman Catholic people but we do disagree with them and when you have a
30:55: Coordinated organized effort by a foreign power in the Roman Church State is a foreign power as Americans as a
31:05: Protestant I I we need to stand up and speak out against this even some Roman Catholics are very critical of the
31:12: Pope in fact There are some Roman Catholics that do a far far better job of criticizing the
31:17: Pope for his globalism for his socialism for his nonsense about the environment than Protestants do
31:26: I mean there are Roman Catholics out there have had may have very incisive comments. There was there was one
31:31: Roman Catholic Representative, I can't remember his name right now, but I recall it's distinctly
31:37: He was a representative from Arizona and he refused even to go to the congressional session where the
31:43: Pope was speaking because of objections to the Pope and Into his the
31:48: Pope socialism and I thought you know would that God's people
31:55: Had the the insight and the the courage of that one man You know,
32:01: I was was actually very impressed with what he said now I don't believe as a Roman Catholic he's a Christian, but he understands the
32:09: Understood the issues at hand better than an awful lot of people who who claim to be
32:15: Christians so, you know, not only is
32:20: Laudato si not only is it is it a document written by a Jesuit and the
32:25: And promoted by people who are themselves Jesuit educated it's not it shouldn't be surprising to anyone that the
32:35: The Laudato si is also a very globalist document. Here's here's an example.
32:40: I'm just gonna quote This is some paragraph 175 of Laudato si now, this is Pope Francis writing here
32:45: He says given this situation it is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized
32:51: International institutions with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments and empowered to impose sanctions
33:03: So I think this is interesting I mean first of all he makes his comment that you know the functionaries You know, in other words, he's promoting this sort of globalist technocracy.
33:13: Well, he wants the functionaries appointed fairly So I guess I don't know we get a whole army of Anthony Fauci's, you know
33:18: Go out and slap masks on us and you know lecture us about all of our deficiencies
33:23: So he wants a whole army of people like this, but he wants them fairly appointed By agreement among national governments.
33:30: Now. I don't know what fairly appointed means. I have no idea. What's fair in in the Pope's mind here
33:36: But it's it's probably not something that any of us would like. Of course. This whole thing is ridiculous
33:42: This is something should be soundly rejected by any patriotic American or anybody who's a patriot of Of a country where he lives anywhere
33:50: I mean if you value the Westphalian world order if you value national sovereignty if you value not having your your nation subject to a foreign power such as the
34:01: Vatican You need to oppose this and you need to pose this loudly but this is what the
34:07: Pope wrote this is from Laudato Si and it's just one of You know goodness. I I mean, you know people will say, you know
34:15: Well, if you think that that the the Vatican's gonna push in world government, you're a conspiracy theorist. Well nonsense
34:21: There's no no no guesswork to this. It's not like you have to go dig through, you know, some some dusty dank dark 12th century library, you know that you know, it's it's not like something out of What was that book that was popular a while back?
34:40: The Da Vinci Code, yeah, you know, you got to run around and put together all these really obscure clues And I know this this stuff's right out there in the
34:46: World Wide Web, you know in in in Rome You know the the Pope and other church functionaries are constantly advocating for world government.
34:55: I Mean you have to be will I mean if you even just just briefly read through Documents in the
35:02: Vatican. I mean this stuff just hits you right between the eyes. They don't try to hide it They don't even try to soft -pedal it it's in your face
35:09: I mean they are literally in your face and I I think sometimes you know These guys say they I wonder if they're just laughing at us because you know
35:17: They they they say this stuff and I don't think most people who really hear what they're saying.
35:22: So, I mean, here's Pope Francis Calling for world government and if that quote that I gave you wasn't enough, you know the idea that that there should be
35:31: Organized international institutions with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments and empowered to impose sanctions
35:39: So, I mean that's that's what governing authorities do they impose sanctions? So do you want some some international body?
35:48: favored by the Pope imposing sanctions on your country, you know, whether you're an American or whether you live somewhere else and say
35:54: Oh, it's a great thing. No, that is a disaster That is an evil system that is world government, you know, that's the
36:02: Tower of Babel Which they're they're working very hard to try to To reinstate now if that quote wasn't enough in the very same paragraph a few sentences later
36:17: Francis quotes John the 23rd And I quote John the 23rd was the
36:23: Pope that was presiding at the at least at the beginning of Vatican II back in the 1960s now
36:31: John the 23rd he died before the end of that but he was was was Pope at the time
36:37: Vatican II was called and There's a quote from a somewhat lengthy quote from John the 23rd
36:47: I'll just read part of it here. He said this is John the 23rd quoted by Pope Francis in Laudato Si John 23rd said this there is urgent need of a true world political authority as my predecessor the blessed
37:03: John 23rd indicated some years Ago, and I'm gonna have to apologize. I actually misread that that quote was from Benedict the 16th
37:12: So that was the Pope that preceded Pope Francis and so Pope Francis is quoting his predecessor
37:20: Benedict the 16th who himself was quoting John the 23rd Who who was was openly advocating for world government and of course
37:29: Benedict the 16th openly advocated for world government as well In fact, that's one of the things that you can find
37:35: It's Pope after Pope it to Pope its statement after statement after statement and cyclical and cyclical after encyclical as well as in other church documents
37:42: You can't miss this stuff The Pope's want world government. You have to understand this as a
37:48: Christian And and I know I kind of pound the table on this type of thing and I talk about it a lot but I think that this is
37:57: Is something that's so important as Christians that we understand the evil of the Roman Church State the nature of the
38:05: Roman Church State the Roman Church State it is the Mystery Babylon the great the mother of harlots that you see in Revelation The office of the papacy is the office of Antichrist And I think it's important to understand this yet as Christians.
38:22: We've almost we've almost unilaterally disarmed ourselves, you know, and and We can't go out and provide any effective pushback and any effective fight back on This kind of stuff that's being pushed by the
38:36: Pope and by the church unless you first understand who it is You're dealing with and unfortunately today right now the
38:45: Speaking strictly here for the American Church, and I'm talking here about conservative American Protestants. I don't talk about the liberals
38:50: I'm just talking about conservative Bible believing Churches in the United States do not teach this they do not understand it and and I'm very much afraid
39:01: That that we have have blinded ourselves to the real danger and the real evil of the
39:07: Roman Church State Now I'd like to close tonight, you know, we talked about a couple of things that I mean, there's some some weighty stuff out there and quite frankly the the news isn't very good
39:19: You know, I I had a friend of mine a few weeks ago. He texted me and he says is there any good news? And you know,
39:25: I replied to him I said, you know Not much I mean not at least if you look at the headlines anyway of of the of what's going on because it's it's it's terrible stuff and you know whether you're talking about on issues of globalism or Environmentalism and the kind of terrible things that they they they have planned for For the
39:50: United States and for the other countries of the industrialized West You know, if you look at the the political arrangement, you've got critical race theory taking over our institutions
40:00: I mean the the latest institution to fall is the military which seems to have gone full woke You know, you see it in schools and universities
40:11: Businesses, I mean you can't get away from that stuff the the critical race theory Our economy is is not doing well.
40:18: There's still massive unemployment. We've got tremendous amount of price inflation prices are going up at a very fast pace and Probably will continue to because the because of all the money printing that has already been done and will continue to is being done and will continue to be done for the foreseeable future
40:38: I Mean there's there's problems everywhere. There's problems socially. There's problems economically
40:45: There's problems politically both in domestic politics is whereas as well as foreign politics geopolitics
40:53: There's a very unstable world out there, I mean, there's just a lot of bad stuff happening. I mean you've got
41:00: You've got people trying to to undermine the First Amendment here in the United States and they have to Remarkable degree done.
41:08: So you've got people trying to undermine the Second Amendment as the right to keep and bear arms You have a president and the whole administration is very hostile to the idea that Americans have the right to own guns
41:19: Which they do and it's guaranteed in the Constitution You know, I know Joe Biden doesn't like that But the
41:25: Constitution says that I as well as my fellow citizens of the United States have a right to keep and bear arms
41:32: You know that that right shall not be infringed yeah, but the as the
41:37: Constitution says but you know our Our politicians don't have a lot of respect for that.
41:44: So yeah, you know, there's a lot of really bad stuff going on You know the the mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot just the other day and she's a lesbian the mayor of Chicago Actually said she was going to refuse to give
42:01: Interviews to white journalists. She would talk to black and brown journalists only a Lori Lightfoot is black
42:07: I mean an openly racist statement and almost nobody rebuked her In fact, the only person
42:12: I've actually seen really take her to task Was a former Democratic representative from Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard Told her that she should resign over her racist remarks and she should she won't but she should
42:27: And she ought to be kicked out of office if she doesn't resign, but that's probably not going to happen either but that's the tenor of Our politics in the
42:36: United States today. I mean, it's it's openly raced the the amount of open Anti -white racism in the
42:43: United States is truly shocking. I have never seen anything quite like that, but it's
42:50: Not only is accepted but the people that promote this stuff by and large are congratulated For it.
42:57: I mean, there's very little pushback on it. It's it's it's an amazing thing. So we've got that to deal with too
43:04: So there's all these problems out there and you know, it's it's very easy as as Christians to to get discouraged
43:11: I mean, I know, you know, I get discouraged. I like to sit here and say oh, you know, I I you know This stuff doesn't bother me.
43:16: It just you know rolls off like the water off a duck's back but I mean, it's kind of hard to see the sorts of things that are going on in the country today and And not be bothered by them and not be concerned by them because I am you know
43:29: I mean, this is where I live. This is where the many people that I love lived live and I mean
43:35: I have deep roots in this country Goes way back. I mean we there were Matthews living in America before there was a
43:42: United States of America So, I mean I've got a you know, I've got a lot of skin in the game and and I hate hate hate
43:51: The things that I see going on in my country But as a Christian, you know as somebody believes in the sovereignty of God, you know
43:58: I know that these things are of the Lord and and he has his reasons and I think some of these reasons we can discern
44:05: I think in some ways this is chastisement. I think you know, I had a friend of mine one time tell me
44:11: And I think a very perceptive friend as well doctrinally theologically He's a Christian and he said, you know
44:17: You know that I believe that the United States is under under God's curse and and you know, and I think he's right and it's kind of hard when you look at the kinds of things that go on here to say that we don't deserve that and In one of the things that you see in Scripture is
44:32: God talks about, you know, destroying the counsel of the wise You know, he talks about that and in fact in one of John Robbins essays he quotes several
44:46: Passages in the Bible where God talks about destroying the people's ability to think straight because he was intended to destroy these nations and I mean one things for sure is you certainly have people in this country that they can't think straight a large numbers of people
45:02: Cannot think straight. They can't think logically You know and even even very things that were just taken for granted a few years ago people cannot think think logically
45:13: And we don't even know what marriage is. So I mean people if we can't get a question like that, right?
45:19: How can you get any anything more advanced, right? I think it'd be pretty difficult But you know for all of that, you know, there is a passage and I actually was in my
45:28: Bible reading this past week I came across this and it's one that's Really resonated with me and it's something
45:36: I want to leave you with because you know when you read through this stuff as I said It can be very discouraging But this is for this is a passage.
45:43: It's a couple of three verses from from 2nd Samuels toward the end of 2nd Samuels 2nd
45:48: Samuel 22 2 to 4 and and here the the words of David are quoted
45:57: And I'll just just read this here And he and when it says he is talking about David and when he that is
46:04: David said The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer
46:09: The God of my rock in him will I trust? He is my shield and the horn of my salvation my high tower and my refuge my
46:18: Savior Thou savest me from violence. I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised
46:25: So shall I be saved from mine enemies? And you know, that's a
46:32: Remarkable passage. I think one of the things that really strikes me about is is the way that that David just piles on all of these
46:42: Descriptions of God and who he is I mean, you know, he could just have been satisfied with saying the Lord is my rock in my fortress
46:49: But he doesn't stop with that. I mean to say the Lord is my rock in my fortress Well, yeah, that's that's true. But he just he adds on he adds on he's he's my deliverer
46:58: He's my shield. He's the horn of my salvation my high tower my refuge my
47:04: Savior And in The God of David is the same
47:10: God is is our God He's the God of you. He's the God of me you know, he's our
47:16: God the same God that David called upon who delivered David from his enemies from Saul from Absalom from the
47:24: Philistines from some of the other surrounding nations that same God is is our
47:30: God and in him We trust and in trusting him.
47:36: So shall we be? Saved from our enemies now. I don't know exactly how everything is going to work out
47:42: You know, sometimes people have been killed for their faith, you know And I think as Americans and I think as you know, if you happen to live in the
47:49: West I mean we're facing some very difficult times, you know, there have been reports out of out of Canada several reports of I can think of three off the top of my head of ministers who have been arrested churches have been shut down Padlocked or had fences built around them for for violating kovat orders
48:11: You know, and I don't think that this is something that's going to go away You know,
48:16: I think another source of Of real persecution can come from the homosexual lobby and that that already has happened
48:22: I believe that has happened in Canada and in other nations if it can happen in Canada and other nations of the
48:28: West it can happen in the United States or anywhere else and You know as Christians I mean, it's easy sometimes to want to just just shrink back to not say anything to not speak out to to lose hope
48:43: But you know you think about David and Dave was in some pretty dire straits, right? I mean in David even got discouraged.
48:49: I mean, you know one time, you know, he he fled to the Philistines and he served the one the
48:55: I can't remember the Philistine Kings one of the Lords of the Philistines and and and he served him and and Because he thought that that maybe he didn't have a future he said, you know
49:06: Surely Saul is gonna kill me if I stay here. And so even David seemed to get a little
49:12: Maybe struggled a little bit with faith at times, you know, and and so it's
49:19: You know if David can struggle me I think we certainly could admit to struggling too but I mean you see the words of David and you know in David did ultimately trust in the
49:28: Lord and And that's that is who you and I have to trust you think about the great line from Martin Luther You know a mighty fortress is my
49:36: God you know that that the right man is on our side the man of God's own choosing and It's through studying the scriptures.
49:44: It's through Strengthening one another then Lord praying for one another praying for the country speaking out when you see when you see the the enemies of of God attack
49:57: You know when you when you see this kind of thing when you see people trying to get us Involved in in wars that are not ours when you see
50:04: The Pope attempting to oppose world government on on on our country
50:11: We need to pray against this stuff and We know that God is on our side for this, you know, we and and and we know that he's able and we know that he's faithful and And he's been faithful to us so far and he will continue to be faithful And so that's something
50:28: I want to leave you with. It's a I think a hopeful verse. So Anyway, that's all for this week.
50:34: Thanks so much for listening. I really do appreciate that and Until next time may the spirit of truth guide you in all truth as you're reading study