The Eric Metaxas Show - #35 - John Zmirak

Episode Date: January 10, 2026

In this episode, I talk with John Zmirak about the Super Centennial year, satirical 2026 predictions, Venezuela shockwaves, and a wide ranging discussion that spans election systems, judges, Cuba, Iran, and the spiritual war behind politics. TIMESTAMPS(0:00) Intro(2:18) John Zmirak Joins(4:39) 5 2026 Predictions (12:46) What Happened In Venezuela, Exactly? (14:01) Did Smartmatic Impact US Elections? (17:42) Is Maduro Safe In New York? (19:27) Is Ukraine A CIA Colony? (28:04) Is Cuba Collapsing, And What Next? (30:26) Is Revival Rising In Iran?SPONSORS AND TRUSTED PARTNERS SECURE YOUR FUTURE WITH A GOLD IRA: https://metaxasgoldira.com Help Save Lives in Israel TODAY: https://savinglifeisrael.org Legal Help Center - Get Free Legal Help Today: https://legalhelpcenter.com MyPillow — Save BIG with code ERIC: https://mypillow.com Christian Solidarity International: https://csi-usa.org/metaxas/ ten Boom Coffee— Save 10% with code ERIC: https://tenboom.coffee

Hey there, folks. Happy Supercentennial to you. We are now in the super centennial year. This is America's Supercentennial 2026. 250 is the Supercentennial. We are now in the year. So many things are going to happen this year. Many wonderful things are going to happen this year. Buckle your seatbelts. It's really, it's very exciting. I'm going to be talking in just a moment with our friend John Zem. Mirak, we're going to be talking about things that have been happening. He has some predictions for the new year. They may be joke predictions. I'm not sure.

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Hey there, folks. We have our friend, John, I believe this is the way you pronounce it. Zemirak. Did I get that right? No one knows how it's pronounced. I think there's no correct pronunciation. It's one of those rare names that has. no correct pronunciation. I think there's supposed to be a vowel in the original Hebrew between

the Z and the M. Nobody knows. John Zmirak, let me wish you officially a happy supercentennial. We have begun the supercentennial year of the United States of America 250. This is going to be, ladies and gentlemen, mark this down. This is going to be a very, very big year. We've started it with a bang and then some. John, I want to jump right in. We've had, by the time this airs, I don't know what's going to happen. Because right now, Maduro is in a detention center,

not far from where I sit. Mamdani is the mayor over the territory containing this detention center. we're in a new world. I mean, really and truly, we're in a new world. All the buildings are lit up green and the Islamic call to prayer is echoing five times a day all throughout the streets of New York City. So congratulations Osama bin Laden. It looks like your conquest succeeded. All you needed to do was bomb the city and bomb America in order to get the president, then George W. Bush, to declare Islam a religion of peace and

massively increased Muslim immigration. So we told the jihadis of the world what to do. Bomb us, we will go make terrible military mistakes, and then you can flood us with immigrants, and we will then turn our major cities over to you. Your producers asked me to give five predictions for the year, the way it used to be amazing. What was it, Johnny Carson would play a psychic

and would do five predictions on New Year's. He would wear a turban. Do you remember this? Well, sure I do, but I'm trying to remember what it was called. I was going to say the amazing Creskin, but it wasn't the amazing Creskin. It was Carnac, Carnac. Carnac. This is Zarnak.

Zarnak. Zarnak, the Magnificent. I have five predictions for 2026, so I'll just shoot them out to you and see what you think. You want to start with the predictions? Well, I... So these are John Spirax or Zarnax, super-central. Pretennial predictions for the year 2026? Let's go. I mean, I, you know, I tried to get Gene Dixon, and it turns out my sources say that she is currently, and this could change, but that she's

currently deceased. So we had to go to number two on the list, and that is Zarnak the magnificent. Zarnak, what are your predictions for the super centennial year, 2026? Okay. First, a federal judge will order President Trump to restore Nicholas Maduro as president of Venezuela. Just as for some reason, the Trump administration obeys all such illegal orders, they will try to comply. But the new communist running Venezuela don't want to give up their jobs, so they won't agree. So Trump will then be ordered by a different federal judge to appoint Maduro chairman of the Federal Election Commission. So that's number one. Number two, a third federal judge will declare Trump's renaming of the Kennedy Center in Washington illegal and will alter

its name to the Jeffrey Epstein Center for the Arts in recognition of the importance of both sexual predators and the CIA in America's culture industries. You know, that's beautiful. I hope that that happens. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. Number three, in response to this final insult by a federal judge, MAGA's supporters will start subjecting lawless judges like that to citizens' arrests for

tyranny, the way the Patriots did governors of states during the American Revolution. When those citizens themselves get arrested, President Trump will take them into federal custody as witnesses and give them pardons. After two or three such citizens arrests, the federal judges will stop violating the Constitution. We're not dealing with courageous people. You know, it's interesting. Obviously, you know, before you go on, Zarnak, to your other predictions for the super centennial year 2026. I have to say, in writing my book on the revolution and looking into what happened in 1765 in particular with the Stamp Act, how there were these mobs that intimidated these officials. These were, you know, officials sent commissioners making a lot

of money, working for King George III. to do very little making a lot of money and how the mobs in Boston intimidated them, not just in Boston, around the colonies, but intimidated them into leaving those positions. It's really fascinating that history, and I look forward to putting the book out just so people can read about it.

But it is, it really, it sort of gets you thinking what happens when people are pushed so far that they feel they have to take mob action. I don't think we're living in a time right now where people need to take mob action. But studying our history, it is interesting, the role mob action played in 1765. When they made up that fake kidnapping plot of Gretchen Whitmer in Minnesota, I'm sure the deep state agents, the FBI agents who invented that kidnapping plot and then went out to hire

disgruntled rednecks to put the plot into effect, they were looking to American Revolutionary history. They were cynically looking back at legitimate rebellions against tyrants and saying, yes, I'm sure these grubby peasants will think they're acting in the spirit of their ancestors. And the ironic thing is, since Whitmer had illegally locked down the entire state and locked everyone in their homes, and all her actions were subsequently declared illegal and unconstitutional, it would have been the made-up plot that the FBI created, ironically, had some moral legitimacy to it. But of course, it was all made up, was all designed to make Whitmer look like a victim and set up for the January 6th Fed Surrection.

And by the way, we're coming up to the anniversary of the January 6th federal fake insurrection. And I have the column that I wrote about January 6th on January 7th, it appeared two days after the riot, the federal riot, the police riot. One day. Sorry? I'm sorry, yes. What will appear, it's going to be run again over at Emerald Robinson's substack. I now edit a section of the wonderful substack of the courageous journalist Emerald Robinson. I know run a little newsletter there called Christian Nation and some great writers to join me there,

Tim Snyder, Tim Furnish, Chenwan Schneider, Jules Gomez. So go over to Emerald Robinson's substack and read what I wrote two days after the January 6th, fedsurrection. I was one of the first people to call it out as a as a federal, a fake set-up- I have to say, John, that that amazes me as prescient as you usually are. Your ability to see that immediately is astonishing. It really was an astonishing thing. And I guess, you know, this brings us, I want Zarnak to finish his stuff here. There are two more, three more predictions because I want to get to the exposure of the deep state that is happening even as we speak. So go ahead.

We'll get back. Okay. Number four, Governor Tim Walts of Minnesota, who just had to drop out of the race for reelection, will now announce that he now identifies as a seven-year-old Somali girl in daycare. And he will start receiving gender and race affirmation therapy at taxpayer expense. So he will be changing gender and race. and ethnicity and religion. He will be, you know, we will have to recognize him

as a seven-year-old Somali girl in federally funded day. And I already have, but go ahead. And number five, the Venezuelan government working with our CIA will select a new president at last, and it will be Kamala Harris, and she will accept. All right, these are depressing, John. I'd like to move on to more positive, actual things that are happening right now.

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gift of getting their life back. Provide life and freedom for someone right now. God bless you. Right now. Now again, this is airing in the middle of the week. We're taping at the beginning of the week. so we're not sure of the details. But there seems to be an earthquake happening around the world right now. What happened in Venezuela, we know it's not about Venezuela. It's about the whole world. It's about Iran. It's about China.

It's about Cuba. It's about bad actors across around the globe using Venezuela as a launching pad for evil. And when we say evil, folks, you know, we mean evil. mean every horrible thing you can think of, including subverting the will of the American people through voting machines. All of this stuff, it seems to me, by the grace of God, is going to be coming out. We're going to be seeing what actually happened. It's going to be undeniable. There are people are going to deny it anyway. I can't wait to hear what some of them say. Let me get into details. I think based on some of the reporting I've seen by Emerald Robinson,

others. The main reason Trump intervened to remove Maduro was to uncover proof that Venezuelan software created by the company Smartmatic, built in Venice, which was from Venezuela, was they created software to help steal elections for the communist government in Venezuela. From what I've seen, Dominion acquired that software. It was put to a company called Sequoia, and was put in place across the United States. That software stole the 2020 election for Joe Biden, and it was used, in fact, to steal down-ballot races in 2024. The key thing Trump has done in removing the Venezuelan leader

is to bring a man who will be able to testify to that election fraud and will be strongly incentivized to do it to stay out of prison. We already have the former head of the Venezuelan secret police. their military intelligence has testified that they created the software to steal elections, that it was being used in the United States, and that the Venezuelan government was working with election officials around the United States to keep this software in place. Okay, now you say election officials. What election officials?

Are we not talking about James Comey? Who are we talking about here? Who's running this? Again, he didn't name names, but I'll give you an example of an election official. I know. I'm talked, but I want to talk about election officials. I'm talking about Ratzenberger in Georgia. I thought you might be bringing up Georgia. So governor of Georgia and the secretary of state, we now know there were more than 200,000 illegal ballots in the state of Georgia cast all for Joe Biden.

And the Republican secretary of state and Republican governor refused to look into it. and in fact violated state law in order to certify those votes for Joe Biden. This sort of thing happened in multiple states. So I think the most important fruit of what happened in Venezuela will be the exposure and the proof of profound corruption in the election infrastructure across America. Think about this, this little South American country that has voted itself into poverty and then was subject to a socialist dictatorship. became the lever by which they hijacked the United States of America and its government.

Starting, Ashley, in around 2006, this software started being installed across the country, and it was used to steal primary elections for rhino Republicans and general elections for Democrats. People need to watch David Clements movie, Let My People Go. It's available free on YouTube. goes into all the details with election experts and mathematicians showing you that what you saw with your own damned eyes in 2020 as swing states that were going for Trump suddenly stopped counting and then miraculously we're all going for Joe Biden by similar margins. That was not a miracle. That was not an accident. That was a plan. That was an algorithm. And God willing,

Nicholas Maduro will be forced to testify to this. I'm worried. that he was sent to face a federal court in New York. He's going to have a New York jury, and I'm worried it's going to be another OJ jury, like the ones that keep letting illegal immigrants go. You don't think Donald Trump and his people thought about this? No, I don't think they thought about it, or they would have sent him to Florida.

I think there are wicked actors. There are enemies within the FBI and throughout the CIA, have not managed to clean house. I cannot explain why Maduro is going to New York to face a New York jury. I think that sounds like a catastrophic mistake to me. I think they need to move him somewhere else because he will be set free. Just the way I'm afraid that James Comey and Letitia James will never see the inside of a prison cell because the left has decided if they can't control the judge, they will get enough people on the jury.

who will vote the right way. Look, Derek Chauvin, who was the cop who allegedly killed George Floyd, among his jurors were members of Black Lives Matter. They were not disqualified from the jury. The left is willing to corrupt the system at every level, from the very top, director of the CIA, John Brennan, to the very bottom jurors who will vote according to their ethnicity and their politics rather than the law. So I worry about that. It's interesting. Interesting. You don't seem to have as much confidence in President Trump as I do. I think President Trump has gamed this out. And I would be surprised if he hadn't thought about these kinds of things. But we'll see. I hope you're right. I hope you're right. I'm just, it's my job to worry about things.

It's my job to look for the flaw in the, in the tapestry that's going to make the whole thing unravel and try to try to fill that hole. I mean, we can't just trust the plan. We have to influence the plan. Trump is under so much pressure from the left and from untrustworthy people within the administration, because there aren't enough good people in America to staff the federal government, or at least they haven't been identified. So there are plenty of people. The deep state that Donald Trump relies upon are not on his side. They conspired with the Ukrainian government to create the Russia collusion hoax. Zelensky was part of the Russia collusion hose.

And in fact, this is my insight, my private hope. Maduro was Russia's asset in the Western Hemisphere. And Trump just removed him. I suspect this is part of a very quiet deal between Trump and Putin and that very soon we will see Zelenskyy removed from power. He is the CIA's puppet in Russia's backyard. I think our CIA did an amazing coup d'etat in 20, I think it was 2016, 2015, and took over the Ukrainian government, removed its elected president, and put in a CIA puppet, took over Ukraine.

Ukraine became a colony of the CIA and still is a colony of our deep state to this day. And that horrible war with a million casualties, which Joe Biden made possible, it's all a result of our deep state's ruthlessness, its willingness to use an entire country, Ukraine, and its people, as pawns in its war against President Trump and American conservatives. Okay. Well, is there any good news here, John? Yeah, the good news is this is the good news. I think Zelensky is going to be next.

I think you're going to see a more moderate figure be put in plower in Ukraine and you're going to see peace break out there. my prayer. I mean, obviously, well, there's nothing obvious here. What Trump did in this extraction of Maduro has so many layers to it. Yeah, it does. First of all, and I, you know, I hadn't been following any of this, but the theft of American assets in 2007 by Chavez, mobile, ExxonMobil, Conoco Phillips. These are multi-billion dollar companies that invested billions of dollars in Venezuela. It was taken by the communist thieves and never paid back.

So that's what Trump is talking about. He says this is the greatest theft in the history of our country. And now we're going to get it back. That would be great. And I'm glad we're not going to do to what Venezuela will we do. into Iraq. Iraq, we removed the whole governing structure. We dissolve the Ba'ath Party and we say, we're going to build an American-style democracy. We're going to turn Iraq into New Hampshire with town meetings and congregationalist churches and shaker furniture. Well, that didn't work. Trump is, and it's a little

bit surprising, the Communist Party that runs Venezuela is still in place and his number two is now currently running Venezuela. I don't think that's going to last. I think over the course of time, you're going to see the worthy, noble, courageous opposition figures in Venezuela having street protests and that that regime is going to undergo a transition to one that actually reflects the will of the people. Well, that's the plan. I'm sure that's Trump's plan. Yeah. That's my hope. But it's not as radical and head over heels. It's not as radical and crazy as what Bush did in Iraq, which is we're going to occupy the whole country

and dissolve all its infrastructure and rebuild it from scratch. That's neoconservatism and that's nuts. And we saw where that leads. What Trump did with a surgical abstraction, it was brilliant. It was like removing the keystone of an arch and then you see the pieces gradually fall away from it.

So I don't agree with, with the Tucker Carlson's of this world who say, oh, this is just the neocons. This is another neocon adventure. We voted against nation building. America first. Well, America first includes keeping communist puppets out of the Western Hemisphere. John F. Kennedy was...

Have you followed what Steve Bannon has said about this? I think Steve has been kind of careful. I don't think he's said that much about it yet because he's trying to watch, he's trying to follow events. Steve is a pragmatist and he's usually driven by data. He's not an ideologue. So I think he's being careful and monitoring the situation with guarded optimism. And that's what I would say. It was crucial to remove Venezuela as a Chinese Russian deep state pawn in our hemisphere. We have to remember Venezuela was also in bed with our own Democrat establishment.

They took communist software written in Venezuela, put it on Chinese computers, and installed it in all our election headquarters across the country, and used it to steal the 2020 election. And they tried to steal the 2024 election the same way. It was some white hat hackers with backgrounds in the CIA and military intelligence who, on election night of 2024, interoper. with the data centers, apparently the main one in Serbia, which was linked to John Brennan, they hacked the data centers that were supposed to steal the presidential election for Kamala Harris. We came this close to a Kamala Harris, Tim Wall's presidency,

and it was the courageous actions of like three or four guys interfering with that Venezuelan software being used in Serbia to steal America's 2024 election. The rot goes deep, and our own deep state has ties to Venezuela. There are members of the CIA who have been working with the Venezuelan regime, according to Venezuela's fore ahead of its secret police. So Trump is dealing, Trump is like a cancer surgeon helping someone with stage four cancer. That's the state of our intelligence community. he's heroically battling using whatever tools he has in his hands

Trump's hands are tied right now on all domestic activity removing human traffickers and drug smugglers federal judges will step in and stop him we have to get to the point where Trump simply defies these federal judges because they are completely overriding the Constitution and trying to run out the first two years of his term in the hope that he loses the midterm elections. And then the government is just a two-year impeachment circus, one impeachment after another coming out of the House of Representatives.

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spoken about that. And I have to say, I've revised my opinion of Marco Rubio. I'm extremely impressed with his behavior as Secretary of State. I think he's shown a lot of stature, a lot of competence, a lot of principle. I really think we should be looking, maybe looking at Marco Rubio as our nominee for 24. And believe me, I never thought I would say those words. Well, one of the things that I love about Marco Rubio is how fiercely anti-communist he is. We need someone who has a visceral hatred for the satanic ideology.

that is Marxist communism. And he certainly does. My best friend at high school was a refugee from Cuba. And he told me how on Sundays, all the kids from school would be forced to march in parades in order to keep them from going to church. That's the kind of regime we're talking about. Well, most people who are following this understand that

what we've done with Venezuela, with their oil, cutting off Cuba, Iran, Russia. We're choking Cuba. I mean, I don't know. Cuba has been propped up, you know, first by the Soviet Union, then by Chavez. I don't know. Those people run out of everything. They have nothing.

I think that the electricity is on, you know, only for a few hours every day in Cuba right now. So the question is, who steps in there? Yeah. Well, again, this is going to be something that Trump has to work out with its foreign sponsors. There are people saying, well, if we can remove the government of Venezuela, China will feel free to do that in Taiwan. They might. They might. It might be that we end up controlling our hemisphere and they end up controlling theirs. Another very hopeful sign is what's going on in Iran. The people of Iran are thoroughly sick of their wicked regime that rules them. They're thoroughly sick of Islam as a totalitarian system controlling their lives.

I keep hearing about the growth of the underground church in Iran. There are mosques are closing in Iran because nobody goes to them, and underground churches are appearing. Christian preaching is illegal in Iran, but I hear, many anecdotal cases. People are getting dreams and apparitions of Jesus and are becoming Christians in Iran by the thousands. The church, while it may be shrinking in places like Europe, it's growing in places like Iran. It's thriving in places like Nigeria, where it's being persecuted viciously by Muslim thugs,

by jihadi thugs linked to ISIS. And Donald Trump, to his credit, did some bombing of ISIS to be. punish them for their attacks on Christians. It seems like Christianity is maybe hardest to practice where it's comfortable, where it's treated with amused contempt. It's not persecuted. It's just sort of laughed at. That's where it seems to die away. But when it's under fierce persecution, when it's in fighting shape, when it's like rocky training at the beginning of the movie, Christianity seems to thrive. It seems to be a religion that thrives in adversity and wilts when it gets too

comfort. Which brings me to the pathetic pontiff from Chicago, Pope Leo the other day, maybe it was yesterday morning, put out the classic limp-risted post on X about how he is deeply concerned about the developments in Venezuela. and I thought this kind of religious piety, I think, makes most people who hate evil want to throw up. Can you imagine? He wasn't deeply concerned about Maduro torturing Christians, murdering people. He didn't put anything about that, but he suddenly feels like a need to, you know, I'm troubled by the fact that the authoritarian Donald Trump would have gone in there.

It's embarrassing. I've always said I'm a pro-Catholic, non-Catholic. I'm just amazed, honestly, that that's, I mean, I guess the point is, because I'm used to this kind of garbage coming out of the Greek Orthodox leadership in the American Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. It's the same kind of religious garbage. We're deeply concerned. It's completely meaningless. And what it does is it makes anybody with a sense of, reality say, you know, that religious stuff, I'm not interested because I don't know what planet they're on, but they don't live in the real world. That's what Pope Leo's tweet told me. What about you? Just a month ago, Pope Leo said that it was unchristian to be concerned about Muslim immigration and Muslim takeovers of your society because Christians and Muslims can live together in peace. Look at Lebanon. Oh my gosh. Look at Lebanon. Lebanon used to be a majority Christian country with religious tolerance. It was called,

Beirut was called the Paris of the Middle East. Then Muslim immigration, so-called refugees, floods the country. Now Christians are a small persecuted minority living on the sufferance of Muslim militias like Hezbollah, living in fear. And Pope Leo points to Lebanon

as the model of what we should look for for Christian-Muslim coexistence. I tell you what, If Christianity really taught that we have to have unlimited immigration and allow ourselves to be conquered by intolerant ideologies and intolerant religions, that would prove one thing. That would prove Christianity was false, that it was a civilizational suicide cult. And that's what the devil is about here. What the devil is really about, screw tape's real long game, is to convince us that Christianity is a suicide cult so that we abandon it and become. neo-pagans, far right?

Well, liberal Christianity is a suicide cult. Liberal Christianity is not Christianity. And that's why the kind of pious garbage that Pope Leo put out the other day, which, again, most of us have seen our whole lives. It's why so many people don't go to church or why anybody who really cares about things says, whatever that is, whatever they're selling, I'm not interested. I'll stay home on Sunday morning. That is a suicide cult.

It's a feminized suicide cult. And most people are not interested in that kind of Christianity, which is fake Christianity. Tragically, it took over large parts of the evangelical world. Look at Christianity today. Look at what happened. The Southern Baptist Convention was running charities that bring Muslim immigrants into America, right alongside the U.S. Catholic bishops and Catholic charities and Lutheran charities. You had people being told, you have to welcome the stranger.

That's literally the only verse of the Bible that applies. Welcome to Stranger is the only verse of the Bible. Everything else is just secondary. The key thing is let us bring immigrants into your country. We make billions of dollars. The U.S. Catholic bishops made $5 billion in 15 years in the immigration business from the federal government. That repaid dollar for dollar every penny they had to pay out in sex abuse cases. So their crime of smuggling priests who committed sex abuse from one parish to another and not warning people, not calling the police, they paid for that crime by bringing in jihadis and third world people who would be on welfare indefinitely and vote for pro-abortion Democrats.

It was the perfect scam. And it's true across most of the churches. The only churches I can think of that aren't in this business are the Pentecostalist churches. And probably just because nobody has figured it out yet. you can get rich from this. Well, no, it's actually true that, I mean, much of the evangelical church is dying. Praise the Lord. I mean, I've said it many times. It's like when Jesus cursed the fig tree for bearing no fruit, he cursed it to wither and die. And there are many of those kinds of churches in the United States right now. And I have spent the last three years speaking everywhere I go,

including on podcasts, including on this program, telling people, if you go to one of those churches that looks the other way with regard to evil and that tells you not to be involved in politics, which is a wink-wink way of saying you can vote a Democrat, you need to get out of those churches or you are yourself complicit with evil just as the German churches were complicit with the Nazi evil in the 1930s. It's very simple. But I'm hopeful, John, because I think a lot of people have woken up, are waking up, have ceased to go to those churches. COVID, did a big sifting where all the churches that were really, you know, playing it safe, they withered and died mostly and that the churches that were heroic and bold saw their numbers

explode. I think of my friend Jack Hibbs and Chino Hills, California, his church exploded. There's so many churches that are saying the right thing that are not shrinking from the political or from any of these issues. And there's a hunger for that. And I think it's why we are seeing real revival, because, people aren't afraid to speak these kinds of truths. Well, I'm certainly hopeful, and I think here's a good limous test.

Is your church echoing the same things being said by Harvard, the New York Times, Google, the World Economic Forum, Vanity Fair Magazine, the New Yorker, George Soros, all the richest, most powerful secular institutions in the world have a unified political line. And one of the key things is open borders. Another one was COVID medical fascism, was lockdowns and forced vaccinations. It's pretty easy to tell when a church is sold out to Caesar when they're not apostles, but they're actually Sadducees. Okay, John, just a couple of minutes left.

Final thoughts, my friend, for the supercentennial year of 2026. Well, right now I think we should be praying for the people of Venezuela, for the people of Iran, but the people of other troubled places like Minnesota and New York City and Ukraine, places where political evil fed by secular godless ideology or corrupted worldly Christianity has subjected innocent, hardworking people to persecution by the greedy, the envious, the disgruntled, the sexually distorted, the, unhinged. We need to be praying for the Holy Spirit to give each of us what we need for the particular battles that each of us face. And each of our battles is different. The struggle of

someone trying to be an honest college professor at a secular state university is very different from the struggle of an underground Christian in Iran. But it's the same spiritual war. We're all soldiers in one great spiritual war facing one enemy that puts on different matters. And at different times. And we need to be praying for each other to Christ to keep us all going in difficult times. But he has promised us the victory. If you flipped at the end of the Bible, spoiler, Jesus wins. We'll leave it there, John. God bless you, my friend. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, everyone. If you were injured in an accident, listen up. We have legal professionals standing by to answer your questions. You can find out if you have a case.

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