Nebuchadnezzar Knew

Daniel 4 and Nebuchadnezzar’s Lesson in Creatureliness

Some of the most important lessons we often learn from sources that we did not expect to be learning from at all, and one of those, biblically, is found in Daniel chapter 4. You probably know the story.

It is the story of Nebuchadnezzar, a global leader, in those days, global, and a powerful, powerful man who experiences what many powerful men experience. I can think of at least one such powerful man today who reminds me in many, many ways, many ways of Nebuchadnezzar.

He is looking at his domain. He is looking at what he convinces himself he has built by his wisdom and his might and his power. Obviously, he's not the one that did it, but he... People can convince themselves...

Self-deception is a reality, and when you have a lot of people around you, bowing and scraping to you and telling you how great you are, self-deception can become a daily thing. So Nebuchadnezzar is looking at his realm, and he starts talking about how he has done all these things, and it's all focused upon him, and you remember the story.

God decides, not as if God decided right then, oh, I never saw this coming, let's respond to this. God punishes Nebuchadnezzar by taking away from him the very things that should be the first means by which a person recognizes their creatureliness, because he's ignored the testimony of his reason.

Any reasonable person would recognize how frail our life is, how dependent we were as children and young people upon others, how dependent we are even at this point in time upon our food, and even the most powerful man in the world...

I was at DFW a few weeks ago, not going to be doing that much in the future, but I was there, stuck there for hours on end, and it was late in the evening, and it was during another interminable flight delay, and all of a sudden, there's this...

I see this movement out of the corner of my eye, and this crash! And I thought somebody in one of the restaurants had lost a cart or something down some stairs or something. But as I was walking by later, the maintenance guys are there, and I ask them what happened, and part of the roof fell in, and there was a big old section...

Not old, but a big section of roofing, because there was a lot of rain and wind and everything else. I don't know if that had anything to do with it, or it just happened to happen, but this big old thing comes crashing down to the floor.

I was in D, and if you know the D terminal at DFW, the roof is way up there. It's multiple stories. It's probably three stories taller. So, what if you're walking by? The most powerful person in the world can't avoid everything.

We're all mortal, and we should know that, and Nebuchadnezzar should have known that, but we're also capable of self-delusion and self-deception. And so God takes away from him that which he has been ignoring, and he becomes like the beasts, and he can no longer groom himself, and his hair grows out, and he is removed from the human realm for a period of time.

But then, at the end of that period of time, he lifts up his eyes toward heaven, and his reason returned to him, and it says, Now, before, when he had his quote-unquote reason, he had been an idolater.

Somehow, someway, there's so many questions that could be asked, and the vast majority of skeptical or unbelieving biblical scholarship will dismiss this story. It's a pious fraud. It never happened. You don't have any evidence of this outside of Daniel, which, of course, I'm very sure that his contemporaries are going to be recording this.

But the idea being, well, look, this man, what he says couldn't have happened because we're naturalists. We're materialists. There can't be anything supernatural going on. But let's say God wanted to actually humble a world leader, so he takes his reason from him, and then, in the process of that time period when he is reduced to this status, reveals himself to Nebuchadnezzar.

Now that he is not distracted by all of the self-deceptive elements of property and possession, having people following him around and telling him how great he is and everything else. And so, So, all of a sudden, he knows that there is one who lives forever, and it's not him.

That's part of the returning of his reason to him, is that it's not him. For his dominion is an everlasting dominion, not mine. I thought mine was. I was an idiot. I was self-deceived. My reason has returned, and so I've turned my eyes away from my stuff and the stuff of this world toward heaven.

That's what the reasonable person does. The reasonable person recognizes the brevity of one's life, one's dependence upon God. A reasonable person recognizes his own mortality and the massive limitation of the amount of knowledge that anyone can have.

You know, I've talked about how many times, many times I've talked about Jason Lyle, smartest guy I've ever met. Really is. I mean, just the highest IQ, genius-level guy around. But the nice thing is, Jason's a fellow Heir of Grace, and so Jason will tell you what I know of the created universe is minuscule.

It's tiny. I can only know what we know now, and what we know now, we've forgotten some of the stuff we used to know, and we certainly know a lot more than we have in the past in some areas, but I still only know a portion of that, and that's nothing in comparison to what God knows.

That's what the reasonable person does. The reasonable person recognizes human limitation, the brevity of our life. Even if you have a voracious, unending desire to learn, that knowledge dies with you unless you pass it on to others, and that knowledge remains extremely partial and limited in comparison to what God knows.

So Nebuchadnezzar, his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation, and I don't. I don't. This is the lesson that he has learned, the brevity of life, the limitedness of mankind, the creatureliness.

Remember, what was he reduced to? Like a beast in the field. Like a beast in the field. But the beast in the field had learned what the beast in the field should know, and what Nebuchadnezzar didn't know when he was strutting about in his fine clothes, up on his palace wall.

He had learned. It's God's kingdom that endures forever, and therefore he says, and this is totally different than what the religions that he would have been raised in would say, all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing.

All the inhabitants. See, he would have been raised in religious beliefs that would have taught him that the rich and the powerful, the noble, the royal, they aren't counted as nothing. They're next to the gods.

But now he knows all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing. This is a phrase found elsewhere in scripture. Remember in Isaiah, all of the inhabitants, like sand on the scale, just little grains of sand.

They can't accomplish anything in and of themselves. All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, but he does according to his will in the host of heaven. Now there's a lot of folks. I have a quote somewhere in God's Sovereign Grace from Charles Hatton Spurgeon.

That's not much of a trick. About every book published these days has a quote somewhere from Charles Hatton Spurgeon. But this particular quotation is about how mankind is most happy to have God busily active in heaven dispensing gifts to men and taking care of natural wonders and the weather and things like this.

But men gnash their teeth when you proclaim the idea that God is sovereign in the affairs of men. So that's one thing. He does according to his will in the host of heaven. Sure, yeah, up there in the heavenly realm.

We'll let God be in charge up there. It's interesting. I sort of go, well, you know, if you're so all-fired concerned about mankind's autonomous will, why aren't you concerned about the will of heavenly creatures, for example?

If it is dehumanizing for us to be the creatures of God under his sovereign decree, why isn't it wrong that the heavenly creatures who have so much power and live so much longer, shouldn't that even be a greater concern?

But we don't think about things like that. So that's one thing. He does according to his will in the host of heaven. So even those mighty creatures, their wills cannot thwart God's intentions. He does according to his will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth.

There's what Nebuchadnezzar had learned. Nebuchadnezzar had learned what many people today simply refuse to confess. That God's sovereignty in heaven is just as real upon earth. He does according to his will among the inhabitants of the earth.

Well, that's just a sort of a general thing. That's not specific. That's not what Nebuchadnezzar said. He says no one can ward off his hand. No one can ward off his hand. I saw a video just before the program started.

Somebody posted to Twitter. Spanish police were arresting a woman for not wearing a mask. And so the crowd around them ripped off their masks and rescued the woman and grabbed her and pulled her back from the cops.

And there were only four cops and there's probably 30 people. And once they started chanting, the cops are like, okay, I think we're going to back off her. That's called warding off someone's hand. They had put hands on her to arrest her for not wearing a mask.

They warded off their hands, the hands of the police. That's what they did. And Nebuchadnezzar says no one can ward off his hand. Now, what that means is God is active amongst the inhabitants of the earth.

His hand is stretched forth in power and no one can slap it away. So this isn't just some benevolent general, he keeps the creation running, sovereignty. He is sovereign amongst the inhabitants of the earth.

So no one can ward off his hand or say to him, what have you done? What have you done? But is that not the very essence of mankind's constant response to God's decree? What have you done? Now think about the foolishness.

And it is foolishness. Think about the foolishness that must fill the heart of an individual to say to God, what have you done? You say, no, we're creating God's image. It's a good thing for us to do that.

Now think for a moment. What lies at the heart of this? What lies at the heart of someone saying to God, you need to give an answer to me for what you have done in my experience, or just generally in all of history.

Here's a man who has been reduced to the status of a beast. He's had his reason removed from him and in the process, when his reason returns, he has seen and come to understand who he is as a mere creature and that he has no right and no basis for daring to try to put God in the dock, to use the English phraseology, to bring God before the court and demand an answer from him.

You think maybe Paul might've had this story somewhat in the back of his mind in Romans 9? Yeah, I think he did. I think he did. Who can say to him, what have you done? The rhetorical question is intended to remind us that no one can say that.

You and I know people who do it every single day, but the point is it shows foolishness on their part to do so. Because if you know the one true God, before whom all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, the one true God who's the maker and sustainer of all things, then you know he has a purpose.

He has a reason for what he does. And he doesn't have to reveal that purpose or reason, but very often he does. What he has revealed is his actions will be in accordance with his own nature, with his own goodness.

Not some external stuff, rules that he has to somehow obey, that come from outside of him, but he is perfectly self-consistent because he is all good. But we as his creatures are never in a position in this life to have enough information to be able to bring judgment against him.

No matter how dark and dreary things may look, we have the promise that God's working all things according to the counsel of his will. And so here is a pagan, an idolater, and God has dealings with him.

And when he comes to his reason, he's a Calvinist. How did that happen? Now we aren't told if there's a time lapse between the return of his reason and when he said these things. But I sort of like to have the idea that probably for political reasons, the insiders have kept his condition quiet so they can have power and authority and maintain stability economically, politically, militarily, etc.

So they've got him in a particular place where he can do his grazing and everything else and his fingernails have grown out and his hair is... Can you imagine what you would look like after... We were all talking about what we look like after a couple of months of COVID lockdown.

I mean, can you imagine Nancy Pelosi? I mean, we know she's been sneaking in to the salons, but what if she had actually followed her own rules? What would she look like by now? So extend that period of time out a good bit.

And old Nebby baby is looking... He's scary looking. Big old claw type thing. Hair hasn't been combed in forever. It's just grown out. A beard that would make any of the guys at Apologia just look like, oh, wow, okay.

So we're talking Maine here, you know? So you're the first palace servant that sees him coming through the door standing on his own two feet. And you think, oh great, he got out of his pen. But actually he starts speaking.

Was this the first thing he said? We aren't told. But can you imagine the impact it would have had if he looked like this when he said these things? We're not told. Don't know. I like to think about things like this.

I like to go, I wonder, you know, did he... What was it like when he first comes to, in essence, and stands up and smells himself and realizes what has happened? And did he know the passage of time? Did he know how much time had passed?

And what was the response of the people who've been enjoying their super duper power for a while? Don't know. But did he wait until he was all cleaned up and in his right mind and showered? I guess it wouldn't be showered.

Bathed. Back in his royal clothes. Eaten human food. Got a good pedicure. A manicure. Boy, that haircut must have been rough. You know, the whole nine yards. And then does he come in before his nobles?

And does he say to them these words? I don't know. We're not told. All we are told is that when you are a reasonable human being, you will believe that God is not like you and me. That God's completely other.

That God has a purpose. That God is sovereign. You will recognize your creatureliness when you are a truly reasonable human being. Now I say all this because there's so much in scripture that speaks of God's sovereignty over human affairs.

We have Psalm 115, three and 135, six, and these, these, these basic statements of God does what he will in heaven and upon earth. This is, this is the God that we worship. And then that becomes the extended discussion and foundation of, of the trial, the false gods and Isaiah 40 through 48.

And, and it underlies the whole message of the prophets and it, and it comes into the new Testament as well. And it's foundational to what we are to understand about God and his nature and his, therefore everything he does, including his self glorification in the gospel in and through Jesus Christ is this fundamental reality of his sovereignty.

The Meaning of Divine Sovereignty Against Human Autonomy

Last night I saw a, I didn't, did not listen to all of it. Didn't have time to listen to all of it, but there was, I had a horrible day yesterday. I tried to do something mechanical and all that just all was really not good.

I was trying to, I got some things repaired, but anyway, you never, ever, ever have the tools you actually need to do. And be very, very afraid of anything. It says you do not need tools to do this. There will be a very special tool that you will need to actually accomplish this.

And this had to do with my bike. And that tool thankfully was available from Amazon overnight. So hopefully I can, I can finish stuff up this evening sometime, but the wife will appreciate having the living room back from all the stuff that's spread out a little bit, but anyways, in the midst of all that, while I was getting all the oil and stuff off of my hands repeatedly, because I was working with chains, I saw this video that Chris Date had done.

Now I didn't know this until last night, but Chris Date now works for the same seminary that Layton Flowers teaches for. And so I hadn't seen that. I hadn't made that connection. But here is a video that Chris Date put out where he went through video after video after video after video of Layton Flowers with Layton using his constant regular argument on the basis of the term arbitrary.

God arbitrarily does this. God arbitrarily does that in Calvinism. And that what he means by arbitrarily is on a whim, without a reason, without a purpose, in a completely unconstrained manner. Now, I learned from watching this first, because as soon as I saw the tweet and I started watching this, I was going, if I ever did this, it would take me weeks.

I mean, you're talking two, three hour videos, and you're pulling out specific sections that have one particular. How do you do this? And he said, well, I had volunteers that helped me and the transcript feature on YouTube.

And I'm like the transcript feature on YouTube. And so I clicked on it and oh, look at that. And I actually played around a little bit. You can just select it and copy it and then you can do searches on it and stuff like that.

Now, I don't know how accurate it is. I can't imagine that the lower the sound quality goes, that it would be overly accurate. But wow, still, it was extremely impressive because he just went on for quite some time.

And so here's this date and man, an easy half of the videos, easy half of the videos are about me. It's just I don't think Leighton really recognizes just how imbalanced he is. I mean, he only deals with one subject.

Like I said, evidently, this is how you do evangelism in Texas for Texas Baptist is you respond to Calvinism. That's called evangelism in Texas. Anyway, but he's just going through video after video after video.

And here is at such and such a time index. And it's just this constant repetitious thing on Dr. Flowers part to talk about how in Calvinism God is arbitrary. But then when he uses other language, he defines that as doing things on a whim for no reason.

You see now it's understandable why this is. And in fact, by the way, that video went on to cite about 472 English dictionaries prior to the death of prior to and contemporaneous to the death of Jonathan Edwards, just to make one point.

It's like, okay, we get that point. Yeah. Anyway, it was fascinating to see the change in the meaning of the term arbitrary over time. When Jonathan Edwards talked about God's will as being arbitrary, he didn't mean what we mean today as a whimsical, flighty, no guiding principle type activity.

He was talking about the term really when we use sovereignty, kingship, kingly rule, ability to act without reference to external sources of authority or rules, power in and of oneself. Anyway, I was thinking about, because you just keep hearing Leighton Flowers repeating himself over and over and all these different contexts and going, this is exactly what you would expect from synergists.

This is the synergistic urge. I am thankful for synergists who fight it, but then there are other synergists who are absolutely consumed by it. It is the synergistic urge. What does synergism do? Synergism recognizes the necessity of the divine action, but limits the power of the divine action to accomplish anything to what mankind will allow by mankind's input, whether it's a lot of input or just simply a faith input and everything in between.

But this is the essence of being Nebuchadnezzar on the rooftop, not Nebuchadnezzar coming into the palace having his reason returned to him. This is the essence of having a fundamental fear of a god who is actually accomplishing his own purpose in everyone's lives, in all that takes place.

There is a point of recognition where we come to realize that not only does the world not revolve around us, we're born thinking the world revolves around us. We cry and our parents show up. A few years later we fall down and skin our knee and we cry and our parents show up.

And we learn to behave in such a way as to get help, get assistance, get things, get attention. It's all about us. Maturity is supposed to be when we start realizing that it's not all about us. That's been lost in our society in general.

But that's what's supposed to be happening when you grow up anyways. And it's supposed to lead to the fundamental recognition of just how mortal we are, how brief our lifespan is. Which is why scripture says it's far better to spend a day in the house of mourning than the house of feasting.

The house of feasting, you're not thinking about the future. In the house of mourning, you're faced with it. You're faced with who you are and who God is. So, the synergistic impulse is meant to keep us away from the God who is accomplishing His own will.

And there comes a time, by grace, where we really realize that God is God and we are not God and that God can do with us as He wills and as He pleases. As He pleases. He did not have to save us. He could have done with us what He did with Pharaoh.

For His own glory. He could have done that. And I just think there's a lot of people who are absolutely terrified to trust the God who reveals Himself in scripture. That's why when you see people going off to the left, what's one of the first things they do?

What's one of the first and almost universal things that people do? They dismiss the Old Testament scriptures as having any true validity. Historical validity? Oh, He didn't do any of those things. Why?

Because the God of the Old Testament is so amazingly sovereign as is the God of the New Testament. But when you take the Old Testament story away, then you can massage the New Testament to make it fit a little bit better.

In essence. So, as I listened to Dr. Flowers over and over again, talking about arbitrary, arbitrary, I've said many, many times, the true God of scripture cannot be arbitrary. In the modern sense, in the modern developed sense of that term, the way that Leighton's using it, God doesn't do anything on a whim.

He has a decree. And it's interesting, the same terminology that's used, for example, in Isaiah 40 -48 comes into the New Testament, Ephesians chapter 1, where everything God does is according to the kind intention of His will, His good desire.

When God acts, it's based upon His ultimate power and purpose and goodness. Elect according to the kind intention of His will. That is the greatest answer that could ever be given. To want something other than that.

To say that we should be elect based upon our behavior and our attitudes, which is exactly what provisionism says. Why does God the Father give anybody to the Son? Because they've already believed in God.

Because they've already obeyed God. Because they've already learned from God. It's all man's prior actions. Because your choice meets! The choice meets or given to the Son. And no matter how often you point that out, unless given ear is to hear, it's going to be ignored.

But there can be no diminishment of the reality that I can certainly remember when it first truly struck me. When I was first really faced with the fact that I had always used my traditions to tame the God of Scripture.

To make Him much less than He really is. Much less threatening. Much less fearful. I remember that. I don't want to forget that. That's a gift of God's grace. But it's right there in front of us. Any Scripture we look at, we're going to see it.

It's right there. Well, I went a lot longer than I thought I was going to go to there. But I hope that is useful to you. Shifting gears real quick here. Please pray for Pastor Josh Williamson. New Quay Baptist Church in Cornwall in the UK.

He used to be down in Australia. Was one of the guys that had me down there at one point. This is from ChristianConcern .com. Police tell pastor not to offend gay pride as mob threatens to burn down his church.

This is the United Kingdom. This is the England of the Westminster Assembly. And Spurgeon. You just start going down the line. When the light goes out, it gets dark indeed. And so police tell pastor not to offend gay pride as mob threatened to burn down his church.

And so Josh had... Well, on August 13, 2020, Pastor Williamson responded to an article on a local news outlet's Facebook page which reported that this year's Cornwall Pride would be canceled. Now, if you've ever watched pride parades and you're a Christian, you're thankful that that kind of public display of rebellion against God is canceled.

Even if it's canceled for a bad reason. The COVID panic. He simply posted, wonderful news. Wonderful news. Asked by an online user why the news was wonderful, he responded, saying, because I don't think sin should be celebrated.

Answering further questions on his views, he quoted from the book of John, James, and 1 Corinthians 6, verses 9 -11. Ho! We all know what that says. On his personal Facebook page, Pastor Williamson then shared the news article and commented, Hallelujah, we prayed at our prayer meeting on Tuesday night that this event would be canceled.

We also prayed that the Lord would save the organizers. One prayer answered, now we wait for the second prayer to be answered. Well. Organizers of Cornwall Pride searched his personal page, took a screenshot of the post, and posted along with negative comments made by other users about gay pride.

By blocking out the names of each comment and mentioning Newquay Baptist Church, it appeared they had all been made by Pastor Williamson. Don't worry about anyone being honest on that side. Online threats followed against the pastor's wife, and his head was superimposed onto an image of homosexual pornography, which was then shared online.

Yes, that's people that we're dealing with. Then, this should sound familiar. Cornwall Pride then called on as many supporters as possible to report the pastor to the police for hate speech and hate crime.

LGBT sympathizers threatened that they would protest at his Sunday services, would seek to have the church's charity status revoked, and have Pastor Williamson deported to his native Australia. Following these threats, Pastor Williamson was invited to a meeting by a transgender member of the community.

Pastor Williamson accepted the invitation in an effort to share his actual beliefs, and met for an hour with two members of Cornwall Pride to discuss matters at the meeting. Pastor Williamson reiterated his stance and Christian beliefs, and welcomed members of the LGBT community to attend his church.

Hoping to help them understand his position and beliefs, Pastor Williamson ended the meeting by sharing a leaflet with permission on what the Bible says about homosexuality. Images of the leaflet were then shared throughout the LGBT community, creating a perception that Pastor Williamson was distributing them widely, which he was not.

With further calls for police to investigate Pastor Williamson for a hate crime, a post in an LGBT group called for Nuquay Baptist Church, which often houses families, to be burnt down. Another user agreed, responding, let's burn a church, let's burn a church.

Well, pray for Josh Williamson and the work there in Nuquay. Josh had talked to me about coming down there at some point, and this was back when I was going to London so often that I was paying taxes eventually.

That's probably not probable in the future, but anyway, pray for their ability to continue to testify to the truth, the safety of their facilities, of course, because these people will do this type of thing.

And it's just a modern example of what we're up against in a society that is in love with its own rebellion and sin. In love with its own rebellion and sin. Speaking of being in love with rebellion and sin, what was this one?

Oh, okay, yeah. Got a couple rebellious sinful folks here. This video popped up on my feed. I was tagged with it. And, well, I get the feeling just by looks and the rainbow bracelet she's wearing, the super liberal Lutherans look like this.

So that's sort of my guess, is it's probably an ultra liberal Lutheran female minister person. But how would you respond to this? Here's, well, I'll just play it for you.

Denying the Great Commission and the Authority of Matthew

Teach them to carry out everything I have commanded you and know that I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Here ends the reading, not according to the anonymous gospel storyteller, which we call Matthew.

No, no. You can't get out of first year New Testament classes and not learn that the vast majority of New Testament scholars agree that this particular ending of this anonymous gospel was added much later.

And the reality is that Jesus, in all likelihood, never actually said these words. Let me be clear. The so-called Great Commission was added to the gospel by the Christian community sometime around the year 325 to bring this gospel into line with the brand spanking new creed, which the church had just written, which we know as the Nicene Creed.

Now, whether or not you agree with the preponderance of evidence unearthed by New Testament scholars about the very real possibility that Jesus never actually issued the Great Commission, you still must begin to understand that these words, whether Jesus said them or not, these words became the justification for the doctrine of discovery.

So I'm thinking that that iPhone watch thing, iWatch or whatever they call it she's wearing, is probably about to explode from the amount of false information that she just spewed out there. I don't know.

325 is everything. People wonder why when I teach church history, I make sure everybody knows when the Council on Isaiah was. Well, that's one of the reasons right there. The poor little flowers on the right should probably wilt and everything else.

So I actually had a little discussion because Peter Gurry saw that and he said, she must be talking about Mark. She must just confuse Mark and Matthew because she must be talking about the long writing of Mark.

No, I don't think so. The quote-unquote form criticism, quote-unquote higher scholarship. Now, I don't even know any of those people that are radical enough to say that the actual ending of the Gospel of Matthew did not take the form it has today until the 4th century.

That's silly. Not only do you have manuscripts, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, now we don't have papyri. Endings and beginnings of books are frequently not found in our papyri just simply because of how books are transmitted.

First and last pages are the first ones to get lost. So if you look at P66 in the Gospel of John, the last portions are extremely fragmentary and some stuff is missing like John 20 -28. You have the page, but it's badly damaged.

So that's not unusual. But we have the great 4th century manuscripts around that time period which evidently just must have magically gotten it right in time for printing, I guess. But clearly, these words were known from the beginning.

They're quoted by numerous sources in the time period prior to 325. We have no manuscript evidence whatsoever to substantiate this type of stuff. So when these people talk about evidence that's been unearthed, what they're talking about is sort of like when Shabir Ali, and I think today is Shabir Ali's birthday.

Happy birthday, Shabir. I think it's like when Shabir Ali and we debated the identity of Muhammad as the Comforter. He utilized ultra-leftist Christian sources that theorize about various forms of the Gospel of John and versions of the Gospel of John that may have contained different portions of John 14 and 16.

Because if you actually read John 14, 15, 16 together, it's very plain that Muhammad is not being referred to there. So we had to try to break that up. Now, we have no manuscripts to substantiate any of that, but the idea is, you know, at places like Union Theological Seminary, this is unearthing evidence, which means the wild fancies of people who have absolutely no manuscript evidence to back up anything they're saying and are ignoring the manuscript evidence that's already in existence.

And that's what you've got. But this is the kind of thing, you know, imagine if this is all you ever heard. Imagine if this was all you ever heard, this was all you were ever raised with, how weird it would be to hear someone like me.

You know, you'd go, that guy can't be right. That guy can't be right. Well, there you go. That's next what I need to warn you about. Some of you have seen it, some of you haven't. But you need to know what your tax dollars are paying for these days.

This is what's going on in our society, and if you had stayed at the company that you worked for, Mr. Pierce, you would have had to, you would have. You would have run into this. You would have run into this.

My wife was running into it before. Oh yeah, I know, I know. I know your Prescottonian blood would have. Yeah, I get it. This is a woman that I've seen before. Interestingly enough, she actually puts up here her GoFundMe stuff, but I don't even know what to say to stuff like this.

I don't know what to say to anyone who would appear in public like this, to be perfectly honest with you. I don't know what to say to someone who can be this blatantly, wildly racist and do it with a smile.

But this is the end of woke ideology. This is what critical race theory and intersectionality, which all of a sudden, last week, no one knows what those things are anymore. We've been talking about them for years, but no one knows they are anymore.

Everything shifted. I commented this morning when I posted it. I said, would I have sat in this room to be told the things this woman was saying? Where she's saying that white people are not born as humans.

That they're all racists. That you're just born as a racist and I'm here to teach you how to become a human because you're born below that level. And I said, yes, for research purposes. To know how to expose this kind of racist tripe that is being paid for.

And this is the kind of stuff that President Trump was saying. We shall not spend taxpayer money to do this anymore. And people are just freaking out. This is anti-racist training. This is what it means to be an anti-racist.

You're either a racist or an anti-racist. But to be an anti-racist is to believe that all whites are racists. The world has lost its ever-loving mind. Logic, reason, rationality, out the window. Because you can't have debate.