The David Knight Show - Romans 13 Was Weaponized — Church Leaders Still Won’t Repent
Episode Date: August 7, 2025Pastor Chuck Baldwin joins the David Knight Show to discuss Romans 13 and how it has been twisted and used as a tool of control as well as Zionism and the insidious influence it has had on American Ch...ristians. Follow the show on Kick and watch live every weekday 9:00am EST – 12:00pm EST https://kick.com/davidknightshow Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHTFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.
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All right, joining us now, we're honored to have Pastor Chuck Baldwin of Liberty Fellowship in Montana.
You can find the website at Liberty FellowshipMT for Montana.com.
Also, Chuck Baldwin Live.com.
Thank you for joining us, sir.
David, it's great to be with you. Thank you.
It's been a long time since we've talked because of timing and time.
scheduling and things like that. You're only able to do interviews in the afternoon. I wasn't able
to do that at InfoWars, but we're able to do that here. So I wanted to get you back on with what
is happening now. You've got a book that you're selling at your website. We'll get into that
in a little bit. But last time I interviewed you, we talked about another book that you and your son
had done, Romans 13. And it seems like people did not understand.
Romans 13, or I don't think that we would have gone through what we went through in 2020 with
locked down churches and all the rest of stuff. I remember when we talked, you know, the standard
line was, you do whatever the government says unless they start infringing on your religious
freedom. And I said at the time, I don't believe that they're going to stand up for their religious
freedom if they take that tact. And of course, we saw when the lockdown happened under Trump
that they didn't. Tell us a little bit about your opinion about what happened with that and the
aftermath of it. Well, I think what we saw was exactly the open demonstration of what you and I had
discussed. Yeah. That is that the false interpretation of Romans 13, and you alluded to the book
that my attorney son and I wrote, Romans 13, the true meaning of submission.
And we took all of the verses in, well, not all, but the vast majority of the verses in both
Testaments, old and new, to show that nowhere does God command his people to submit to evil authority.
And, you know, that doctrine of submission to civil authority per the first couple of verses of
on the chapter 13, has made sheepy servants of the state out of what should have been and
once were courageous, bold men of God, unafraid to speak truth to power, and to resist
the attempts of those in authority to make slaves out of God's people.
I agree.
And we are servants to only one, and that's Jesus Christ.
That's right.
So I think that the doctrine, the false doctrine of Romans 13, as it has been taught in the not a part of the 20th century and then the 21st century, has produced exactly everything that we saw demonstrated during the COVID tyranny.
And I think the evidence of that still continues today.
But, you know, before, you know, it was always about something that they consider to be non-biblical.
You know, like if you are talking about abortion, if you are talking about the intrusion of our Fourth Amendment liberties
and invasion of our privacy and the Second Amendment and all of these issues, constitutional issues,
these Romans 13 preachers and Christians would say, well, you know, God's called me to preach the gospel,
and I'm not going to get involved in all these, quote, political things.
and when you know when they tell me i can't preach the gospel then then i'll show you know some
resistance and they would they would poo-hoo any attempt to stand for basic fundamental god-given
liberties and they use roman 13 as a cop-out well then coldly came along and guess what they said
you can't meet in your church services you can't preach you can't assemble you
can't observe your resurrection day services.
You can't see.
You can't observe the birth of Christ.
I mean, all these are, you know, these are not constitutional issues.
These are, you know, basic fundamental biblical issues.
And pastors just rolled over.
Yeah.
Shut their churches, didn't have, you know, their meetings.
They shut down their operations entirely.
and they prove them that they are truly nothing more than slaves of the state.
So I think that was a great wake-up call to the condition of the church.
I agree.
And a big part of that is that they want to, at all cost, avoid any kind of political controversy.
You don't do that, and I appreciate that.
You speak to what people are living in their daily life,
and you say, this is how we think the biblical principles apply.
here. And I think that is something sadly missing in most of the church. Now, we had a lot of people,
there were a few churches that never closed, and I interviewed some of those pastors. There were some
churches that closed for a while, then kind of came to their senses or whatever, and we opened up.
And some of them talked about the fact that they got it wrong, that they interpreted that wrong,
and they would never do it again. But there were some very big churches that did not go back,
even though they opened up and even though they had fights,
they never went back and corrected their commentaries
or their statements on their website
or what they told people about Romans 13.
And I think that's very important, yeah.
I mean, we can all make mistakes.
We can all make mistakes, but we need to be public about it.
And the way I look at it,
a lot of the people who shut down for four or five months
and then opened up and then got into big fights
with the government over it,
they just kind of ignored what had happened
in those first four or five months.
I think that's kind of like a pastor
who's been caught in an adulterous affair
just kind of say, well, let's forget about
that, will move on, you know.
Yeah, it's hard for, I don't know why,
but we've reached a point in our history were,
I don't know, somehow it's a sign of weakness or something
if you acknowledge that you were wrong
in what you taught.
from the pulpit. I mean, I've run into this
with the Zionist issue
and big time.
That's, you know, but, you know,
for example, there was
John MacArthur, who recently
passed away, a pastor
of a large church in Southern
California, and well-known
writer and broadcaster.
He was a man that
for decades
throughout his
career,
He would impugn pastors around the country who would resist governmental usurpation of their power
to intrude upon the freedom of speech or the freedom of religion and so forth on even the freedom of assembly in certain cases.
And he would castigate them as being disobedient to Romans 13, and he was one of the most,
foremost advocates of the false doctrine of Romans 13 in the country.
And because of his influence, he impacted a lot of fellow pastors.
Then when COVID hit and his church was hit personally there in California,
you know how California was about everything.
Oh, yeah.
And so he actually reversed his position.
position on that issue. And he challenged the authority of the state of California to close
his church and so forth. And he actually was willing to go to court to fight it. So I admire him
for doing that. But to your point, he never won time during all that period of contest between
him and the state of California, he never one time publicly got up and said, you know, I was wrong in
the past, you know, all these other issues that men of God were, you know, were fighting a long
time before I fought this issue. Yeah. You know, they were fighting issues of freedom and faith
for a long time, and some of them were paying a very heavy price for resisting, and he never
took their side. He always condemned them for violating Romans 13. Now, he's doing the same thing,
and he's resisting the, you know, the... I remember when that happened. He shut down from
What was at March till about July or whatever, and then they opened up.
I think the final straw was when they said, all right, all right.
You can get together, but you can't sing.
It's like, okay, we're done with this nonsense.
But like you said, he didn't go back and change his commentaries or anything.
And a year later, you had Todd Friel, who was also fairly well known on YouTube and other places,
and very connected to MacArthur, as they were getting away to.
roll out the vaccine mandates in September. He said in August, again, you know, the Romans 13 line,
and he said, and look, John MacArthur says this, this, this, and I played the clip, and I said,
yeah, but that's not what John McCarthy's been doing for the last year. Maybe you need to take a
leak of the difference between what he said in his former commentaries and what he's actually
doing today. And I thought that was what Todd Freel said. I call him pinwheel Freel because he said,
if government tells you to wear pinwheels on your head, you wear pinwheels on your head.
And it's like, yeah, but you don't have to become a pinned cushion for a poisonous
Kool-Aid injection. That's the insanity of all this stuff. But yeah, I think when I look at it,
let me get your take on this. I look at it as from a political sphere, when they become,
when they're installed in their office, government employees swear to uphold the Constitution.
And so their authority comes from the Constitution, and it comes from their fealty to it.
And if they are in rebellion to the Constitution, they don't have any authority.
And I see Romans 13 in the same way that, you know, Romans 13, he talks about authority coming from God.
He's established these governments.
Well, how do we know if it's a legitimate government?
Well, we can take a look at what they're doing.
And if what they're doing is in rebellion to God,
then they don't have authority.
It's just like if they were rebelling against the Constitution.
What do you think?
Is that a way to think of it?
In our book, we make that very clear that Romans 13 was not giving a blank check to civil authority
to run roughshod over the God-given liberties of the people.
In fact, that same passage,
in Romans chapter 13 that talks in the early verses about submitting to the higher power.
And if you keep reading, and they always stop at verse 2.
But when you keep reading it, like, for example, verse 3,
for rulers, civil rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil.
That's right.
Well, then be afraid the power do that, which is good,
us out, praises the same.
For he is the verse, verse four, he is the minister of God to be for good.
So at the same time that Romans 13 tells us to submit to government,
it's telling government that government has the responsibility to be good, righteous,
and just in their implementation of law.
and if they are not good, righteous, and just in their implementation of law, there is no implication
in the duty of the Christian to submit to that evil.
I mean, that's like saying, okay, if the government commands you to do such and such,
which is obviously evil, unjust, immoral, etc., you have no moral authority to submit to that.
you have a moral authority to resist that.
I agree.
Well, that's a part of the entire passage.
So it's a twofold, you know, it's a responsibility on government to be good and
righteous and just.
And when government is good, righteous and just, then you should have the support of the people.
But when government is not good, righteous, and just, it should not have support of the
people.
So that is clearly defined in Romans chapter 13 as well.
because I just choose to skip over those verses.
Yes, yes, I absolutely agree.
What we're talking about civil government,
we just had the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima.
I'm curious to get your take on this,
and if you think that fits in,
and what we talk about frequently is a just war theory,
which was something that's been put out by many Christians
trying to restrain the evil of war as much as possible.
and trying to restrain the way that it's conducted and the conditions under which it has fought.
How do you view Hiroshima?
Oh, I think it was one of the greatest tragedies in U.S. history.
I agree.
It is an everlasting blight on the reputation of a nation that was supposed to be the city on the hill.
I agree.
the nation that set the standard of good government, honesty in government, righteousness
in government, a protector of humanity, a protector of life, a protector of freedom,
everything that America was valid on, the goodness of government and the righteousness
and the accountability of government to we the people.
and the restraint on government by the Constitution
and the rule of law over the will of man
and all these principles upon which America was founded
when we dropped those bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
atomic bombs.
By the way, we're the only nation in the history of the world
that was ever used in the atomic bomb.
What a reputation.
And on a civilian target,
as well. That's the key thing, isn't it? The civilians. And they're done a civilian target,
and I think that's the key thing, isn't it? The fact that, and that was really kind of a
hallmark, a turning point, I think, in World War II, of attacking civilians, and both sides did it.
There was a bombing of London, then they retaliated with Dresden and Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
and it's really heinous. It's something that I think Western civilization kind of went straight down
the tubes with that. We haven't recovered since.
then? No, in fact, I think we're still seeing it being played out today in the genocide in Gaza.
Yes, exactly. And the way that the American government is supporting the wanton slaughter, genocide,
deathly cleansing, all of the above, emitted by Israel with America's total support. We're supplying
the weapons, the bombs, the missiles, the munitions, the intelligence. You know, CIA and the
thought of working hand in hand to implement all of this, all this atrocity.
And, you know, all of that, I think, is just a continuation of what happened at the end
of World War II with the dropping of those two of atomic bombs.
That's right.
We lost our way.
It did more than just kill hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian Japanese people.
It seared the conscience of the, you know, of the.
of the American government.
That's a good way to put it.
Where the American government felt like, well, we have the right.
We are morally superior to anyone else in the world.
We can define goodness and righteousness as we want to.
We are the exceptional nation, and we have the power to do it.
And so we can do anything we want.
And so we are seeing that today in 2025, which is just a continuation.
of the false war doctrine, the unjust war doctrine of the end of World War II.
I absolutely, I agree.
Yeah, many times the excuse is made by the Pentagon and others that, well, that allowed us to end the war early.
But if they had used that against military forces, I think it would have had the same effect.
The key thing is that the targeting of civilians, which is what we're seeing in Gaza now,
and the idea that we don't start wars.
Now we start wars preemptively.
And that was, in the beginning of World War II,
that was something that was a day of infamy
when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
Now, of course, we know that FDR stood down
and invited that in many different ways.
Nevertheless, for them to initiate war,
that has still been, everybody understands
that, you know, there's always an argument
as to who began the war.
We see that argument playing out between Israel and Gaza.
We see that argument playing out between Russia and Ukraine.
So everybody understands that that is unjust.
And what I'm concerned about when I look at what's happening with Israel
and with much of this other stuff that Christians are cheering,
is that even atheists and pagans understand instinctively
the right and wrong about starting wars,
the right and wrong about targeting civilians
and sustaining this when there's no threat to you.
And it is really amazing to me to see Christians who are cheering this type of thing.
But, of course, that is coming out of what I think is about theology.
And you've got a book that addresses that,
the incredible Schofield and his book, I think you have on your website.
Tell us a little bit about that.
Yeah, that is the most thoroughly documented and fully researched biography of Cyrus.
Schofield ever written.
And when you were talking about
what you just
said, the whole
impetus behind that is
Billfield Futurism,
also called dispensationalism,
also called Christian Zionism.
And it was
started not by Schofield,
but by
a man named John Darby,
who was a generation
in front of Billfield,
but they overlapped in the latter years of Darby's life.
Mm-hmm.
And a Darby disciple, by the way, the idea of a rapture,
a pre-second coming resurrection of Christian people,
that concept was never taught in church history,
from the time of Jesus all the way up until the mid-1800s.
Yes.
So for over 1,800 years, there was never a doctrine called the rapture or dispensualism or futurism or futurism or call what you will.
And yet now that is pretty much taken over, that's pretty much taken over in terms of American Christianity.
Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
It's dominant, yeah.
Yeah, but the history of it is there was a prophecy conference in Glasgow, Gotland, and I think the year was 1830.
and there was a woman
who had self-identified trans channeler
Margaret McDonnell, I believe was her name
and she spoke in this conference
and you know this whole trans channeling stuff
that's the mind
and she went into a trance on stage
and she started to babble forth
this two-stage return of Christ, with the so-called rapture being stage number one.
And that was the first time that I can find in my research, where in church history,
that doctrine was taught, and it wasn't really even taught. It wasn't a pastor getting up
and exalding the scriptures. It was this demonic transchanneler that went into a
trance and, you know, said that this is what she was shown by the spirits and all this kind of
stuff. So the whole beginning of the rapture was demonic, in my view. Well, anyway, it was
picked up by the founder of the Plymouth Brother, and by the name of John Darby. He became
the champion of this doctrine. He had a man that disciples of E.I. Schofield, who was young
at the time.
And
Schofield was a
con man. He was a fraud.
He was the thief. He spent
six months in
jail for
fraud. He was a
deserter of his family. He walked out
on his wife. Now we're talking
you know, this is the mid-1800s.
There was no social security.
There was no welfare.
There were no benefits.
I mean, he just left his two little
girls and his wife.
he, you know, gave himself a lawyer title.
He never went to law school.
He was never a lawyer, but he put a law degree behind his name,
and he started working in law.
After his so-called conversion, and he got onto his religious kick,
he gave himself a theological degree that he never earned.
He never went to college.
But, you know, if you look at the Schofield Bible, it'll say,
Spirassai, Schofield, D.D., well, that's just the degree that he gave himself.
I mean, this man was a fraud's fraud.
He was the con man's con man.
I mean, he's, you know, he would have made P.T. Barnum jealous.
Well, the Wizard of Oz, right?
Yeah, and this is the guy that founded, what we now know is Christian Zion.
or Schofield Futurisms, and the thing that, the genius of it, the thing that made it
suffice, they say, why, how did this sweep the country and become bog, you know, and seminaries
and Bible colleges and churches all across the United States, the genius of it was, I got to explain
this to you just a minute, to help you understand how this became so popular. It didn't become
popular because of the doctrine. It didn't become popular because of what was being said in the
Bible. Until the time of Scolfield, Bible scholars, you go back into the post-Reformation days like
Adam Clark and Albert Barnes and Matthew Henry and John Gill and all the James and
Fosset and Brown, you name it. All these commentators,
whenever they would study the scripture, they would write their commentaries in a separate book.
They would not put their words on the same page as the words of God,
because they had such a holy reverence for the words of God that they felt it would be sacrilege for them to put their words,
their commentaries in the same page as the scripture.
So therefore, they would write their books in a separate,
and that complete separate volume.
So if you wanted to read the Matthew Henry commentaries, for example,
the classic foremost commentary of all the time,
you would have to have your open Bible on one side of the desk
and then your open Matthew Henry commentary on the other side of the desk
and look back and forth, and that's how you had to study and learn.
So what Schofield did, he ignored that, and he put his comments on the same page as the Bible.
So whenever you open the Bible, you had the scripture verses and his commentary on the same page.
Well, this was a breakthrough in that it was such a convenience.
for people. You didn't have to carry two books around. You had to look back and forth. You could
just open the Bible, and you had the commentary and the Bible on the same page. So it was a marketing
tool. Yeah. And we see that today. I'll walk into a Bible store, and they've got a different,
they got a Bible for different professions, let's say, right? You know, or for men or for women
or whatever, and they dress up the cover, and they'll have stuff in there about the profession,
or this or that, and they'll try to tie it into whatever section of the Bible
that they're in, but it's all about marketing.
All right, right, and the gal got that from Schofel.
He's the one that started that, and that's why it became so popular.
It wasn't because of what he wrote.
It was because of the marketing tool in the way that the book was published.
And, of course, it was financed by Oxford Press.
Oxford Press was owned by Zionists.
the Zionist agenda was promoted in Schofield's notes.
Schofield was an uneducated man.
He never finished any kind of formal education.
He was intelligent.
He was articulate.
He knew how to talk.
He knew how to read.
He did teach himself and all that kind of thing.
But he did not know theology in any shape, manner, form.
The only thing he knew was what he was taught by.
by Darby, and he'd simply regurgitated the Darbyism, which became Skullfithism.
During the time of Darby, he was a contemporary of the great preacher,
maybe the greatest Baptist preacher of all time, Charles Burr, London, Neon.
And whenever he started hearing the doctrines of Darby and this split resurrection theory
a priest's second coming rapture
and tribunal
of seven year tribulation and all this stuff
Carl Spurgeon
publicly repudiated
Darbyism and he warned
the church that if they
follow this it was going to lead
disaster but
when Skolfo came along and published
his Bible that sealed
the deal and then
the seminaries and the Bible
colleges started picking it up and then
the pastor started picking it up
And today, 80% of evangelicals buy into Christian Zionism.
It's a monster.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you know, when you look at this, Christ told us that the way we'll know false teachers
and false doctrine is by their fruit.
And I would say the fruit has been really, really bad of this.
And that's one of the things I've told people that said, look, you know,
everybody's got their complicated eschatology charts and everything.
And it's like, let's just take a look at what.
the result of what this teaching is getting you to do.
It's getting you to cheer the starvation and murder of children.
And maybe you should go back and take a second look
because your eschatology should not be trumping.
The obvious principles are laid out in the Bible for us.
Yeah, the legacy of C.I. Schofield is the genocide in Gaza.
Yeah.
The slaughter, everything that is happening, and America's support for it.
And let's face it, let's be real.
I mean, there's a lot of reasons why America is supporting this genocide in Gaza.
They support anything Israel does.
And, of course, we know about the Israel lobby, A-PAC, and, you know, dozens of other lobby groups representing Israel.
are literally buying the U.S. Congress, members of both parties.
I mean, that stranglehold is starting to crack a little bit
because of the utter grotesqueness of the slaughter of the essence in Gaza.
Yes, and I think it was becoming...
I think that, along with the appearance of Ted Cruz on with Tucker Carlson,
I've got a lot of issues with Tucker Carlson,
But he kind of laid that out.
It's just like, what?
Can you explain that?
Can you defend that?
And, of course, he couldn't.
And I think a lot of people saw that and started scratching their head and saying,
wait a minute, maybe there's something really wrong here, and there is.
There is something really wrong.
Yeah, that wasn't an interview, David.
That was a snuff film.
That was amazing.
I mean, Tucker just slaughtered Senator Cruz.
and maybe it looks like the idiot that he is.
But, you know, aside from the stranglehold of the APAC lobby
on Congress in the White House, which is massive.
I'm not diminishing that at all.
I mean, it's ungodly the way our Congress is being bought
by a foreign government via the Israel lobby.
I mean, it's unconstitutional, it's illegal,
it's a moral, it's an American, it's everything bad in the world, you know, that's happening
through APEC and the Israel lobby.
Remember when Trump said Israel used to own Congress, and he said rightfully so?
They do, they do own Congress.
Yeah, we know that.
They do own Congress.
Yeah.
But the reason that that's able to be successful, this is my point, is that that couldn't work
if the evangelical churches of the country
were not supporting it.
I agree. Because they're providing the moral and spiritual
cover for this.
You know, if the great notable preachers of the day,
the ones who have the giant platforms
and are speaking to hundreds of thousands of people
and have the ear of so many folks in our country,
If they would stand up and preach the truth about Israel, about the new covenant, about, you know, what is right and wrong in the eyes of God under the new covenant, and the truth about biblical Israel, expose a Christian Zionism for the falsehood that it is, and really speak truth to power, they would be able to negate the power of the Israel lobby.
and they have the power to change the course of the country.
I'm talking about the pulpits of America, the pastors.
This has always been the case.
I agree.
But because they're providing cover morally and spiritually for what Israel is doing,
there's no incentive for anyone to change course.
You know, for the longest time...
I really put the blame for this at the feet of the pulpits.
I agree.
For the longest time, I've looked at a lot of these churches,
very left-wing churches that will have their rainbow celebrations, you know, where it's basically
a worship service for LGBT. And I look at that and it's like, you know, that is, you know,
what does the matter with these people? And the people on the right will look at that and just
shake their head and say, you know, they have, they're not worshiping Christ. They're
worshiping something else that is against Christ. And yet the conservatives do the same thing.
We've got a lot of churches like Hagee's church,
where it's just basically a worship service for a political entity,
a foreign government, Israel.
And I see that as being an exact correlation to what's happening
with the progressive leftist churches
and what they're doing with the LGBT or with CRT or whatever,
you know, DEI, that type of thing.
They have their leftist ideology and they worship it,
and the right is doing that as well.
And as people are trying to speak against abortion, against child mutilation, and these other things,
we've got people who are looking at the vast majority of Christians who are applauding what's going on in Israel because of their eschatology.
And they're shaking their heads and saying, you know, you say that you stand for innocent life, but you don't stand for innocent life at all.
And so it's a reproach, it's a hypocrisy that has seen, I've seen Caitlin Johnstone.
many people who are not Christians, just shaking their heads and saying, you Christians,
what's the matter with you? And I look at it and I think, what a reproach it is to the body of
Christ? What a reproach it is to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for them to do this kind of
stuff? And everybody sees it. I've seen one essay after another from people who are opposed
to this war and saying, what's the matter with these Christians? It reminds me of what happened
in Corinth, where Paul was saying, you Christians in this church, you are embracing sexual
practices that even the pagans don't embrace. And that's basically what I see happening here.
They've got a moral sense of what a justified war is that Christians have surrendered because
of their eschatology or whatever reasons.
No, you're exactly right. I have several videos that are making the grounds on social media.
A lot of people have picked up these videos and are reposting.
them and some of them are reaching hundreds of thousands and even millions of people.
And I'm making that very point.
I'm saying that what's happening in evangelicalism today is that the pastors who are promoting Christian Zionism
and their unreserved support for this godless state of Israel is driving people away
from the gospel.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
We're supposed to be
preaching the gospel, reaching people for Christ
with the gospel, showing people the love of Christ,
showing people the grace of God,
showing people that what Jesus said on the cross
has brought us together as one
in one body in Christ. Neither June or Gentile,
bond of free. We're all one in Christ.
Everyone is equal at the cross.
And yet, the doctrine of Christian
Zionism is separated.
people into caste systems, and it's separating people away from the gospel of Christ.
And what you're saying is it's making people sick to their stomachs when they see the
way that Christian scientists and pastors are supporting the awful, awful atrocities that are going
on every minute of the day over there, and they're seeing the videos of it.
Now, social media, when we're seeing it every day in front of our very eyes, live at a time, you know, and we are seeing it.
And they're looking at the churches, and they're hearing what they're saying, and they're saying themselves that that's Christianity, I don't want it.
That's right.
And it's a statistical fact that there are more people leaving even evangelical churches today than any time in our nation's history.
Yeah, that's right.
And that started in the year 2000, with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when Bush launched all that.
Yeah.
It started then, but now then it's come to a tsunami.
Yes.
It's a tsunami of people that are leaving churches, and it's driving people away from the gospel.
So it's more here at stake than just the secular, more here than just the political.
And it's not just...
This is also impacting the spiritual
fiber and fabric of America.
I agree.
And it's not just the people on the outside.
This is something that's been a problem
within the church as well.
People become so attached to the rapture
and the prophecies and all the rest of the stuff
that they'll break fellowship with you as a Christian
if you disagree with them on this.
And it has become the most important thing to them
and you have to say, but wait a minute,
the most important thing is the Lord Jesus Christ.
You know, he said, you search the scriptures, you think you have eternal life in them.
But they testify of me.
That should be your hermeneutic.
That should be the view that you approach the text with.
Why does this tell me about Christ?
And especially even revelation.
It's the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It's not, you know, what's going to happen to Israel, but that's the way it's read.
Right.
It's amazing to me, but it's a real problem.
That's why I'd like to, I'm going to have to get to a book,
The Incredible Schofield and his book, and that's available at your websites.
And I know that you had to go.
I think we've gone over the amount of time that you've allotted here.
So I'll wrap this up pretty quickly.
Again, people can find Liberty Fellowshipmt.com.
That's where you can find the book.
That's where you can find Pastor Baldwin.
And also on Chuck Baldwin Live.com.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Always interesting and important to talk to you.
Thank you so much, sir.
Thank you, David, very much.
Thank you.
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