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

Hello everyone, this is Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for Radio Luke's episode 57 and the title of this episode is 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 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 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 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 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 the cicada noise kind of a chattering type of a noise and they were out just a little bit Friday and then today 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 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 to look forward to for the next few weeks and I'm sure that I'll have some some update 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 so you never know there might be a cicada in a future the future live stream. Well anyway I had a couple of items here that I wanted to talk about today.

War in the Middle East and American Neutrality

I wanted to talk about war in the Middle East and John Kerry in Rome as the title suggests and let's go ahead and dive right in here we'll talk about the stuff going on in the Middle East right now now one of the things that of course the news is 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 declared 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 Middle East you always wonder about the possibility of a wider war. It appears at least for right now that that's been avoided 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 and and there's no you know it's hard to say sometimes when the shooting starts starts where it's going to stop 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 for Americans and for American Christians I'm speaking here as is an American Christian toward the fighting in the Middle East is one of neutrality.

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 John Robbins made the very important point that Christians do not have a dog in that fight.

You know what you're looking at here is a war between medieval 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 push our involvement.

And it's not just Jews and an evangelical Christians that push this. There's also a an increasing Muslim contingent in the United States as well. You see that in the house there are a and as well as oh 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 if not unquestioning support for Israel among both parties in the United States. Certainly something very close to it and and this is something that has actually harmed the 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 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 is some comments were made both by Joe Biden and by Ted Cruz.

Now you might look at that. You say well Joe Biden you consider him to be kind of a liberal ish Democrat a liberal Democrat. Then you look at Ted Cruz. You say well he's a conservative Republican certainly one of the leaders of the the Republican Party in the Senate and somebody who who holds himself forth as a Christian and he may be a 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 but they found common ground on one particular thing and that is that the US has to pay for Israel's war.

There's a headline and in fact let me let me share this here go ahead and see if we can get that taken care of. Okay all right. So let's take a look here. Okay so here's a this is a headline. This is actually from the Australian Broadcasting Company 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. 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 but just look at the headline video.

Biden says US will replenish Iron Dome and contribute to Gaza rebuild. Now if you're not familiar with term Iron Dome it's a missile defense system that was developed apparently a joint effort by Israel and by the United States and Israel expended quite a large number of rockets.

The it's a it's a missile defense. 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 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 $20 ,000 a pop for these these Iron Dome missiles and they fired quite a few of them over the the fighting that took place for several days.

So the Joe Biden thinks that the American taxpayers should pick up the cost for for Israel's wars and replenish their their 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 but he also expects America and I shouldn't say just the United States just to say really American taxpayers because that's ultimately who's footing the bill on this and he says that you the US is supposed to contribute to the Gaza rebuild so you know 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 Israeli Defense Forces and Joe Biden thinks again that the American taxpayer should pay for that.

Now 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. Israel is a foreign country and yet you have Joe Biden running around out there saying that the 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 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 American taxpayer.

Now along those same lines Ted Cruz came out and he's also saying exactly the same thing as Biden Cruz calls on Biden administration to replenish Israel's Iron Dome United States Senator Ted Cruz led a group of Republican a group of Republican senators.

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 Biden administration to stand with Israel as Israelis are under constant attack from Iran-backed terrorist groups including Hamas.

Senator Cruz a part of the blame for the current conflict at the feet of the Biden-Harris administration. Cruz said the world just six months ago is a very different place with Israel at peace with Arab neighbors and the Abraham Accords negotiated by the Trump administration was a major reason why.

So I guess apparently you know what he's saying is that Joe Biden has caused this war in the Middle East and therefore somehow the American taxpayers need to to pay for this. Well you know one of the things that Ted Cruz doesn't talk about here 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 even 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.

You know is it possible that the Benjamin Netanyahu may have you know maybe helped helped along you know if not start the war provoke it or at least come up with a very harsh response to the war to the to the Oh to the provocations of Hamas in order to help himself politically.

I mean I think that certainly is one possibility but Ted Cruz doesn't really want you to consider that here he wants to hang all the blame on the Biden administration and therefore the American people have to pay the freight.

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 but the bottom line is Israel's a foreign country Israel undertook a war. You know whether there's a defensive war I mean if you want to argue a defensive war that's fine Israel needs to pay for that not the American people you know not the United States but but Ted Cruz and in Joe Biden agree that that the United States does have a responsibility to do that and I would say that that their arguments are both 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 has for quite some time and and there's no there's no biblical case to be made for it.

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 Israel or some other foreign country that is theft that is not an appropriate use 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 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 and it's the kind of thing that needs to stop now one of the things 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 Christian that I should be able to look to and say you know there's someone who who 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 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 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 Christian and like I say as a Christian that should be somebody that that I feel like I could get behind because certainly as Christians we we need defenders in in the civil government 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 and I'd like to be able to get behind Ted Cruz but unfortunately with Ted Cruz is he has this bad habit of of really putting the interest of foreign powers I think many times ahead of the interest of his own country and and that's a real problem.

And so what do I mean by that. Well there was you know in this particular case he's he's flacking for Israel. But this isn't the first time that he's done that there was a piece that he wrote and this goes back to 2015.

This is dated September 3rd 2015. You may recall it was at that time that Pope Francis made his visit to the United States and and a day or two later after this particular piece was written that Pope Francis the first time if any Pope ever addressed a joint session of Congress or at least addressed Congress and and that was a pretty big deal.

And and so here's Ted Cruz writing this this really pretty glowing article on on the Pope now Ted Cruz is a Southern Baptist but he has no problem going out and praising the Pope. I mean here's you can see the headline here Ted Cruz Pope Francis leads an abortion marriage and religious liberty.

And he even adds this this sub headline here he says in an era when many global leaders are descending to relativism Pope Francis continues to proclaim the truth. Well good grief. Pope Francis does not proclaim the truth.

Pope Francis is a Jesuit and and Pope Francis sits in the seat of Antichrist. Pope Francis does not proclaim the truth. 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 Jesuit background when you consider his position he does not speak the truth.

I mean the devil can quote scripture. 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 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 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 this it's within a false theological and philosophical system.

I mean you have to consider what someone says not just in in an act in in in isolation. But you have to fit it into their larger system of thought. Pope Francis does not speak the truth 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 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.

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 Ted Cruz and it also quoted oh the the fellow he was the the governor of of Arkansas.

Hmm I don't know why I can't. Oh Huckabee. Mike Huckabee. Yeah Mike Huckabee is quoting Mike Huckabee who 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 I mean a lot of people look to the Southern Baptist Convention as as a very conservative 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 he Pope Francis is not a Christian. He's not a brother in Christ. He does not know the 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. 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 corrupt church and and as I mentioned he he sits in the seat of Antichrist and Protestants used to understand this 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. 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 Protestant ministers either believe that the office of the papacy is Antichrist as a reformer forefathers did or if they do believe that they're not willing to say it.

So I mean if the church if the Protestant Church can't get this right I guess it it shouldn't be too surprising if if a senator doesn't get this right as well. So let's take a look here. There's a few other things.

John Kerry, Pope Francis, and Climate Globalism

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 Pope by American politicians.

So this does it leads into that next story here. John Kerry meets Pope Francis in Rome. So let's take a look at this here. Now I'm gonna turn to the this is some really highbrow journalism. Okay this is the the highbrow the the highly respected people magazine.

I've got another source on this as well but I think this is just as legitimate of sources as any and talking about this. And then the story seems to be accurate and so let's let's go ahead and start with this.

It's got the headline here. John Kerry meets Pope Francis applauds him for being ahead of the curve on climate issues. We need everybody in this fight. John Kerry the US Special Climate Envoy said after meeting Pope Francis.

So let's just read through a little bit bit of this here. John Kerry the by administration Special Envoy on climate change visited the Vatican over the weekend. Now this is last weekend. The story is dated what the date on this story is May 17.

So yeah this was was a week ago. John Kerry the by administration Special Envoy on climate change visited the Vatican over the weekend to meet Pope Francis and discuss the world's efforts to quell the growing environmental crisis.

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 tell us. So yeah that's that's a big problem but we're not I'm not gonna gonna get off on that tangent right now.

Maybe that's we'll save that for another time. So let's continue here. Kerry 77 greeted a smiling Pope Francis 84 on Saturday according to America magazine. 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 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 Kerry said in a Vatican News interview after their meeting.

He's been ahead of the curve. He's been a leader. President Joe Biden named Kerry the first ever US 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 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 Roman Catholics they they hope to be able to use climate to promote their favorite pet project of globalism of suburb of undermining subverting the sovereignty of the United States of America and subjecting us all to world government.

You know and I'm gonna talk a little bit more about this. But one of the the real frustrations that I have 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.

You know sometimes I really think that it's it's almost you know the devil mocking 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.

I mean it's just in your face right out in the open and see there's some pictures of John Kerry and the Pope and his funny hat there in full paperwork area. So let's go on to the next story here. This is the story.

In fact this is the one that the people magazine referred to in America magazine. You can see up here it's America the Jesuit review. This is a very often quoted very kind of highly regarded source of news from the Jesuits and they they pushed their line unashamedly as you would expect them to.

That's one of the things is kind of interesting. You know you're you look at and magazines so say Christianity Today for example it's supposed to represent evangelical Protestants but they they don't.

In fact there's very little in Christianity Today that's Christian. I think 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 in time.

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 they're saying so you don't have to.

That's my service to you as there is as the listener to this podcast. So let's read a little bit a little bit out of this. Asked why he came. He that is John Kerry asked why he came first to visit 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. 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.

In quote mr. Kerry said he believes the Pope Francis quote will be a very important voice leading up to and through the Glasgow conference which I believe he intends to attend. Mr. Kerry was also overheard telling his staff at the Pope would attend the Glasgow conference now the Glasgow conference apparently it is some kind of environmental conference I assume being held in Glasgow Scotland sometime in the near future.

Let's see 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 November of 2022. Yeah in fact here and this is from the same article says mr. Biden also plans to the United States to play a leading role to 26 UN climate change conference of the parties in Glasgow next summer and next November a gathering of nations have signed on to the Paris Accords of 2015 which unfortunately our globalist imposter president and yes I did say he's an imposter.

He's he was. I don't for a minute believe that the Joe Biden was was legitimately elected president. I think he was was selected. I think he was rigged into the Oval Office which is actually kind of interesting.

I mean when you think about it America's had two Roman Catholic presidents John F Kennedy and now Joe Biden and Kennedy both in in 1960 and of course 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 the Democratic Party and both of them are Democrats. You know that the Democratic Party it's the party of rum Romanism and rebellion as Sam is the Civil War vet and Presbyterian minister dr. Samuel D Birchard commented way back in 1884 and Birchard was right then and and he is right today and you're seeing this at work right in front of our faces.

I mean this stuff is right in our faces. So here you got you got John Kerry running around saying you know Laudato Si is just awesome. Well Laudato Si is I think you could really consider it. It's the 2015 encyclical written by Pope Francis on the environment and in fact when he came over in 2015 because this was released I think is around June or so at 2015 when he came to the United States in September of 2015 he proceeded to lecture the Congress and by extension the American people about all of their environmental sins and and this was the sort of the the his basis for his his lecture 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 unconstitutional and I would say even quite evil Green New Deal that was introduced oh goodness was that in 2016 or 2017 2018.

I can't remember right now but I know it's been within the last three to four years something like this and it's kind of interesting because when that the Green New Deal was introduced it was introduced by two people who had Jesuit educated.

Ocasio Cortez herself has degree has a degree. I think maybe two degrees. I know that she did at least get her undergraduate degree from Boston College which is a 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 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 that was was put out and was the public face of this as well as as well as another Jesuit educated senator.

And again this stuff is right in your face you don't have to look hard. It's right out there and I wish that I wish this weren't so and I wish 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.

You think about you know the Apostle Paul didn't. Did he not exhort. I think it was in his letter to the Ephesians he talked about marking those who cause divisions you know have no fellowship for the fruitful works of darkness but expose them he said and I think in another place he talked about marking you know those who you know who teach false doctrine.

So we're to point these things out. We're called to do this is part of our job as Christians is to point this stuff out 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 you seen as intolerant or hateful or or as a terrible person. You know we I don't hate Roman Catholic people but we do disagree with them. And when you have a coordinated organized effort by a foreign power in the Roman Church state is a foreign power as Americans as a Protestant I I we need to stand up and speak out against this.

Even some Roman Catholics are very critical of the Pope. In fact there are some Roman Catholics that do a far far better job of criticizing the Pope for his globalism for his socialism for his nonsense about the environment than Protestants do.

I mean there are Roman Catholics out there have had may have very incisive comments. There was there was one Roman Catholic representative I can't remember his name right now but I recall us distinctly he was a representative from Arizona and he refused even to go to the congressional session where the Pope was speaking because of objections to the Pope and into his the Pope socialism.

And I thought you know would that God's people had the the insight and the the courage of that one man yeah 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 understood the issues at hand better than an awful lot of people who who claim to be Christians.

So you know not only is Laudato Si not only is it is it a document written by a Jesuit and the and promoted by people who are themselves Jesuit educated. It's not it shouldn't be surprising to anyone that the the Laudato Si is also a very globalist document.

Here's here's an example. I'm just going to quote this is some paragraph 175 of Laudato Si. Now this is Pope Francis writing here. He says given this situation is essential to devise stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments and empowered to impose sanctions.

So I think this is interesting. I mean first of all he makes this comment that you know the functionaries you know in other words he's promoting this sort of globalist technocracy. 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 go out and slap masks on us and you know lecturers about all of our deficiencies. So he wants a whole army of people like this but he wants them fairly appointed by agreement among national governments.

Now I don't know what fairly appointed means I have no idea what's fair in in the Pope's mind here but it's it's probably not something that any of us would like. Of course this whole thing is ridiculous.

This is something should be soundly rejected by any patriotic American or anybody who's a patriot of a country where he lives anywhere. 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 Vatican you need to oppose this and you need to pose this loudly.

But this is what the Pope wrote. This is from Laudato Si and it's just one of you know goodness. I mean you know people will say you know. Well if you think that the Vatican's gonna push in world government you're a conspiracy theorist.

Well nonsense. 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 not like something out of what was that book that was popular a while back the Da Vinci Code.

Yeah you know you got to run around and put together all these really obscure clues and I know this stuff's right out there in the world wide web. You know in in Rome you know the the Pope and other church functionaries are constantly advocating for world government.

I mean you have to be will. I mean if you even just just briefly read through documents in the Vatican I mean this stuff just hit you right between the eyes. They don't try to hide it they don't even try to soft peddle it.

It's in your face. I mean they are literally in your face. And I I think sometimes you know these guys they they I wonder if they're just laughing at us because you know they they say this stuff and I don't think most people really hear what they're saying.

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 organized international institutions with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments and empowered to impose sanctions.

So I mean that's that's what governing authorities do. They impose sanctions. So do you want some some international body favored by the Pope imposing sanctions on your country. You know whether you're an American or whether you live somewhere else and say 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 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 Francis quotes John the 23rd.

I quote John the 23rd was the Pope that was presiding at the at least at the beginning of Vatican II back in the 1960s. Now John the 23rd he died before the end of that but he was was was Pope at the time Vatican II was called.

And there's a quote from a somewhat lengthy quote from John the 23rd 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 John 23rd indicated some years ago and I'm gonna have to apologize I actually misread that that quote was from Benedict the 16th so that was the Pope that preceded Pope Francis and so Pope Francis is quoting his predecessor Benedict the 16th who himself was quoting John the 23rd who who was was openly advocating for world government.

And of course Benedict the 16th openly advocated for world government as well and in fact that's one of the things that you can find. It's Pope after Pope after Pope it's statement after statement after statement and cyclical and cyclical after encyclical as well as in other church documents.

You can't miss this stuff. The Popes want world government. You have to understand this as a Christian 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 is something that's so important as Christians.

We understand the evil of the Roman Church state the nature of the 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 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 Pope and by the church unless you first understand who it is you're dealing with.

And unfortunately today right now the speaking strictly here for the American Church and I'm talking here about conservative American Protestants. I'm not talking about the liberals. 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 that that we have have blinded ourselves to the real danger and the real evil of the Roman Church state.

Hope in God Amid National Judgment

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. You know I I had a friend of mine a few weeks ago he texted me and he says is there any good news.