TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Biden Pressured to Ban Army Munitions’ Plant from Selling Ammo to Public

Episode Date: February 2, 2024

The largest source of ammo in the United States of America may stop selling bullets to the American public. President Joe Biden is under pressure from radical gun grabber Democrats to order the U.S. Army to stop selling ammo to American retailers. We give you those details later in the program. First however we look at our World War 3 update. Sky News Arabia reported today that US strikes against Iranian targets are expected to commence within hours.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 02/02/2024Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting https://www.TruNews.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Now is the time to protect your assets with physical gold & silver. Contact Genesis Gold Today! https://www.TruNewsGold.comGet high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!https://tru.news/faucielf

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to stop selling ammo to American retailers. We'll give you the details later on in today's program. First, let's take a look at our World War III updates. Sky News Arabia reported today that U.S. strikes against Iranian targets are expected to commence within a few short hours. Joining me right now is your host, Rick Wiles. Hello, Rick. Beautiful scenery there today. Yes, sir. Decided to work at home here today.

So, Doc, I came across a story in Sky News Arabia, and what they are reporting in the Middle East is that Middle Eastern countries are bracing for the attacks to start within hours. So from what I can tell, everything depends upon the weather, the visibility, that the Pentagon will initiate the attacks when the visibility is conducive for the military strikes. But there's indications that this is going to start within hours. So here we are. We're at noontime right now on Friday. And, you know, perhaps by the end of today, those attacks may have started. So Iran has sent out a warning to the United States today that the U.S. can expect retaliation

if the U.S. attacks Iran. Yes. So whether they carry it out, I don't know. Let's take a look at what they said. This is a France 24 article published this morning by the Paris news agency, and it says that Iranian President Ebrahim Rassi issued a stern warning Friday against any possible

attacks by the United States in retaliation for a strike that killed three American troops in Jordan. This is a quote from the Iranian president. We have said many times that we will not be the initiator of any war, but if a country, a cruel force wants to bully us, the Islamic Republic of Iran will respond firmly. And he made this remarks during a visit to a Gulf naval base operated by the Revolutionary Guard Corps. And he went on to say that Iran's military power in the region was not and is not a threat to any country, but a source of security, in his opinion. He said, quote, today the enemy has no ability to do anything against us because they know that our forces are powerful and capable. So, Doc, I guess the question is, is it just tough talk, which is the usual response from the Iranians? They talk tough, but they don't do anything. Or have we reached a moment that Iran's going to

respond? And I don't know, based on the past, I would say they're not going to do anything. Well, that's the wild card right now, isn't it, Rick, that we really don't know what's going to happen. And multiple sources are saying that Iran is ramping up for a response to whatever the United States and the allies are going to do here in retaliation for the strike on the Tower 22 site. The Guardian is reporting that Iran is on high alert as President Biden is considering his response to the servicemen that were lost in Tower 22 in the Jordan frontier. And so some of the what I read, some of the reports I was getting today coming out of the Middle East, reporting that a lot of Iranian cities, the streets are empty. You know, gasoline stations are closed. A lot of stores are closed.

But they are on a really high state of alert, expecting major attacks inside Iran. Well, this has been coming for a long time. And finally, the United States has a reason to do a major strike against Iran forces, whether they're in Syria or whether they're stationed in Iraq, the allied forces, the revolutionary forces that are being blamed for the drone attack here last week. But we're about to see that the whole world is on high alert right now. air forces that are being blamed for the drone attack here last week. But we're about to see that the whole world is on high alert right now, not just Iran. But this report, this is coming out of GB News out of the UK.

This is reporting that British forces are on high alert in the Middle East as the U.S. is preparing to retaliate over Iran attacks. It's saying British troops have been preparing to send an aircraft carrier worth three and a half billion pounds to the Red Sea this week as Houthi rebels pledge to continue to disrupt shipping supply chains. However, troops in the region have been issued with a heightened warning in anticipation of potential counter strikes from Iran. So this is about ready to set fire in a couple different directions. We could see a U.S. attack in Syria and possibly Iraq against forces there, and maybe the U.K. against forces in Yemen. And what will be the response of Iran? Well, we have to wait and see at this point, right, Rick? That's right. That's right. You know, Doc, for our viewers, if you are, you know, under, I would say under the age of 50, you probably are not aware that

there was a day not too long ago that Iran was a friend of the United States. That's correct. When I grew up, Iran was one of our friendly nations. We had good relationships with Iran. I remember, I clearly, Doc, remember in 1979 when the Iranian revolution occurred and they overthrew the Shah of Iran. I remember it very clearly. And I remember what I said to myself. I mean, I was, you know, in my 20s. I remember standing in front of a television set in my home, watching video of the revolution in Tehran. And I remember saying to myself, this isn't going to end well. This is the beginning of some serious trouble. Well, Rick, I'll add to that. I was in high school

when that occurred, and I still remember them having a school assembly, bringing the whole, all four classes of high school into the gym, and they wheeled out a TV on a cart and they showed, you know, what was going on with the revolution in Iran. And so that was it was a big, big news item. So they interrupted your school day to show you that Iran had been overthrown by the by the the radical Shia Muslims. And so, yes, it was a big deal because they captured several hundred American citizens who were working in the U.S. Embassy

and they held them hostage for over a year. It's what brought down the presidency of Jimmy Carter. It's what got Ronald Reagan elected. On the day that Reagan was inaugurated, January 20th, 1981, Iran released the hostages. Yes. That Jimmy Carter could not get set free for over a year. is because the only thing the Iranians knew about Ronald Reagan was that he was a cowboy who rode horses and shot guns and killed people. Right.

And they thought, we've got a cowboy president. He's probably going to shoot us. And they released the hostages on the same day he went into the White House. That's right. Now, the Democrats tried to make it, they tried to create a scandal and said that Reagan had secretly negotiated with the Iranians during the election, which wasn't true. So ever since 1979, Iran has been a wild card. And I guess the easiest way to, the simplest way to say what they've been doing is

that they like to talk big. They like to talk about destroying Israel, destroying the United States. They like to meddle, you know, they carry out, obviously, they carry out terrorist attacks through proxies. There's no doubt that they do those things. And they always talk big, but when it really comes time to fight, they don't fight. Back home, we would say they're all hat and no cattle. That's right. So that's why I'm wondering, are they going to just take a pounding from the U.S. military and just, you know, absorb their losses and then go talk big again? Or are they this time going to respond? But they know that when when they respond it's going to be lights out right in tehran so i really don't think that they're going to do anything i think they'll just settle back and and go you know return to their ways a couple weeks or a month from now, I might be wrong. This might be the one where

they say, okay, we've arrived at the moment. We have to fight the great Satan. And they see America as the great Satan. And they may just say, this is it. We have to fight now. We're going to find out here very soon, Doc, probably in the next 72 72 hours how they're going to respond uh the other day you mentioned here on the god cast that iran if they were going to make a move they missed the opportunity uh with the situation in gaza do you still feel like that's the case oh absolutely they They needed a concerted effort. Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, the Houthis, all of them together, just going berserk at the same time. That was their only way of overwhelming Israel and the united states like you know i said yesterday netanyahu crazy as he is but he's he's a wily fox man i mean he he rolled the dice he he he wagered a bet and said i'm betting that i can attack hamas and

israel and hezbollah will stand down. And he won that bet. Now he's going to roll the dice against Hezbollah. And he's betting that Iran will stand down. Why are they going to stand down? Because the U.S. is going to smack them today. That's right. And we have this from Times of Israel reporting that U.S. Defense Chief Lloyd Austin hints major strike on Iranian proxies is imminent.

And notice that they say they're – this is – we're doing this. We're moving forward with this. And so – Well, you know, Doc, he's being criticized. People are saying he gave away too much information because yesterday, remember, we read that Iran was withdrawing their forces from Syria and Iraq. Yes, I recall that. And so they're blaming Lloyd Austin and saying, you know, he gave them advance warning.

Our attacks are imminent. They're ready to begin. And so whether that's true or not, we're going to bomb something, you know, today or tomorrow. The landscape will be different when Monday comes. But, Doc, I think what's going to happen is the U.S. is going to, they're going to give Iran a very serious punch. It's going to hurt. I think Iran's going to sit back, absorb it, beat their chest, pull their hair, talk big. But Netanyahu will then read that response as the green light to invade Lebanon.

Yes, I agree with you. That's going to be the case. And then we're moving to phase two of this Middle East war, aren't we? Yes. Hey, you know, when I looked at the Israeli papers today, I don't see signs that the troops have withdrawn. You know, we were told yesterday that the troops had withdrawn from Gaza. But the reports I'm seeing is that they still have major operations underway, particularly they're moving to seize control of Rafah at the Egyptian border, which Egypt's not going to be happy about. So they're still fighting going on in Gaza,

but I think they want to wrap this thing up in Gaza because they need their troops in Lebanon. Remember what we talked about yesterday? The Israeli Emergency Services Agency, I don't recall the official name, it's their FEMA, has told Israeli citizens to be prepared by the middle of this month to have food and water and be prepared to go without electricity. So that tells me that an offensive into Lebanon is going to start within two weeks. Yes. Some sort of action is going to take place. Well, if there is a hostage deal, that means there's going to be a ceasefire in Gaza. They'll get the hostages out.

So that tells me that all the hostages will be released within two weeks. And as soon as they get the hostages released from Hamas, then Netanyahu is going into Lebanon to go after Hezbollah. The U.S. will have smacked Iran in the face and said, if you want some more of this, come and get it, which means Iran is not going to come to the aid of Hezbollah. It is a good strategy. I mean, from the standpoint of Israel and the United States, it's a strategy that's working. And they're isolating the alliance

and picking them off one by one. Right. And let's face it, no one's going to cry any tears about losses in Hezbollah. It's one thing to be killing babies in Gaza. But when you're up against a primed military operation like Hezbollah with technological advancements that can really go head to head with Israel and any attacks from there, it's a whole different scenario. It's a real war.

It is. Yes. But let's keep in mind there are a lot of Christians in Lebanon. Absolutely. A lot of Lebanese Christians. And so they're going to be caught up in the middle of a great war. Right. And we need to be praying that our brothers and sisters are protected and the bombs don't fall on them and the bullets don't hit them. And once again, members of the body of Christ are going to be in the middle of a great war that they're not the ones fighting it.

But they're going to be the ones who are going to suffer for it unless God protects them from the bullets and the bombs. You know, Rick, over the past few months, I've heard of prayer rallies in churches to pray for Israel and to intercede for Israel, but I can't think of a single church that gathered to pray for the Christians in Gaza, and there won't be churches organizing prayer rallies for Christians in Jordan either, will they? No, no, in Lebanon, no, even the head inside the churches, there was no response from the churches in America. It's very sad. Yeah, it is sad. The escalation of things continues here.

We have this from Hindustan Times here, where we spoke about the Houthis here a little while ago, but they launched retaliatory strikes in the Red Sea after the U.S. military's attack. We have this from the Hindustan Times. It says, the U.S. military said in a statement yesterday that it shot down an anti-ship ballistic missile from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen, adding there were no injuries or damage. And following the U.S. military's response, the rebels intensified their attacks on merchant vessels in the Red Sea on Friday, including an attack on a fuel tanker operated by the trading firm Trafigura. Now, yesterday, the Houthis launched three separate attacks in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The U.S. Central Command forces shot down a drone over the Gulf of Aden and destroyed a Houthi explosive uncrewed surface vessel in the Red Sea.

And so, once again, this is another area that you're seeing a continued response, all related to the israel gaza situation here now yesterday we did a story that talked about that there were going to be assassin teams that were going to be going out to various countries and everything and that iran had actually pulled back some of its diplomats out of syria and then we have this story from the financial times today that an iranian military advisor killed in suspected Israeli airstrike in Syria. And so it seems that Israel is making good on its promise to hunt down and find those people that are leading attacks against Israel. Yes. So what do we have here, Doc? We've got both sides, you know, picking up the pace of activity. The Houthis, you know, I thought, well, several days

ago, I think, I want to say Tuesday, the Houthis sent a signal to the U.S. saying, hey, we're going to lay low for a while. You know, we're going to go play shuffleboard or something, you know, take time out. And so it looked like, okay, the Houthis, they've gotten the message. The U.S. is going to do some serious bombing here very soon. Let's see if we can get off of their target list. That was Tuesday. But by yesterday, the Houthis were attacking ships again. So, and then you've got Israel.

They've got their snipers moving around in Syria shooting Iranian military leaders. Right. So nobody is, nobody's trying to lower the tension. Everybody's still trying to, you know, everybody's continuing to goad each other. Right. They're all. Until there's a big fight. Right.

They're all juiced up for the big game. You know how it is when you have a big football game or anything like that. Both teams are fired up. They're ready to go. And if there's a delay of game, that just creates more tension and things like that. That's exactly what's happening here right now. Everyone is geared up. They know we're going into the big game. And when it starts, it's going to go everywhere. Now, it's not going to be limited to the Middle East. There are going to be other players around the world that are going to be taking advantage of the situation.

When World War III goes full bore here, it's going to go big real fast. Possibly, Doc. Possibly. I don't know. You know, we may see a lot of fighting in the Middle East before it erupts in a greater style in Europe and Asia. I mean, this could be stretched out over a year. We're going to know. I guess we're going to find out here in the next 72 hours how big are the targets that Joe Biden has selected and how much damage is the U.S. going to do to Iran and what response will Iran have to that bombing? Now, Rick, now there are two schools of thought on this response. If Joe Biden,

Joe Biden actually has to come out and do a major strike against our Iranian proxies. He has to do something big. If he does anything less than big, it's underwhelming and it makes America appear weak. So that's something that the Biden administration is having to deal with. And even the delay that we've had over the past five or six days here has generated a sense of weakness within the Biden administration by, are they going to respond or not? Yeah, so you got John Bolton, you know, basically calling Joe Biden a sissy. You know, John Bolton is saying he's procrastinating, he's delaying. Let's get the bombing going. What's he waiting for? Why is Lloyd Austin giving out hints? Just do it. So you're right, Doc. Joe Biden's under

pressure from war hawks to hit hard. But he's also, Joe Biden is also very concerned that if he hits too hard, um, his, his reelection campaign may also be hit because the American people don't want to be in a big war. Right. It's like, like the American people like bombing other countries, but don't like to be, they don't want to be in a big war. Isn't that the truth?

Yeah, they, they do like bombing other countries, but they don't, at the same time, they don't want to be in a major war. And and so there's Biden's dilemma. How does he look tough and yet not set off, you know, a powder keg that he can't put the fire out? That's that's where we're at right now so um there's something else i want to talk about doc and that is uh you know we've mentioned in the past there's an ammo shortage in the world right and a gunpowder shortage? And how is this going to affect us here in the USA as civilians? Just

to be able to purchase ammo for self-protection, for sporting, for hunting, and so forth. Could we ever see a severe shortage of ammo in America? Could we see an outright famine of ammo in America, where it's impossible to buy ammo? And I'm concerned that we are moving in that direction. And there are people who want to make sure that by the end of this year, there's no ammo in America. I want to show you a story. This has been ongoing now for several months. This is the NRA American Rifleman. And you've got a Czechoslovakia group that has acquired Vista Outdoor, which is one of the largest manufacturers of sporting and outdoor products. But they own some of the biggest names in ammunition in America.

Like Remington and Spear and others. Federal. Right. Yeah. CCI. So it has been sold to a foreign country. It's been sold to a corporation in the Czech Republic. Right. And this was back in October of this last year. So this isn't a new thing that has occurred. This transaction actually took place back in the middle of October. The value of the all-cash transaction was nearly $2 billion. And as Rick said, it includes brand names like Federal, CCI, Remington, Spear, Heavy Shot. So we probably have a lot of True News viewers and listeners that are aware of those brands and have used those brands. But now they're owned by a foreign entity.

Well, the sale has not gone through yet. And I want to jump down to number 10 on our list. So this was published in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette newspaper. It says, Ohio Senator Calls to Block Sale of Ammo Firm to Check Company. And of course, that senator, as you see there in the photograph, is Ohio's U.S. Senator J.D. Vance. So Senator Vance is saying, wait a minute, we got a national security issue here. We're selling one of the largest manufacturers of ammo in America. We're selling it to a foreign company. We need to look at this. And so, Doug, from what I can tell, Senator Vance is the only major politician in Washington who has said a word about it. He's probably one of the few that's even aware of it,

because most of these guys aren't even aware of things like this. Well, the last time I checked, Arkansas has two U.S. Senators and several Congressmen and a Governor and so forth. Where are they at? Do they not know what's going on in their state? These transactions that take place, Rick, a lot of the politicians just aren't aware, but it's good that J.D. Vance is bringing this up, but this isn't the only issue that's being bandied around as far as ammunition is concerned. There's an effort underway by the Biden administration and other powers that be to limit access to ammunition.

I think it's part of a new plan. It's one thing to talk about gun control and taking away guns, but if you don't have any ammunition, the guns are pretty much useless, Rick. I've warned this for years. I've told everybody, you're all fighting the wrong battle. You know, I'm talking about the Second Amendment rights defenders. You know, you're all fighting to defend the right to own firearms. That's a good thing. I'm for that. Right. But what about the right to ammunition? If you don't have any ammo, it doesn't matter that you have a gun. Have you considered the possibility that the gun grabbers are simply going to grab the the ammo right and i you know several years ago michael bloomberg the the billionaire in new york former mayor of new york city he said why don't we just sue the the gun manufacturers and drive them into bankruptcy?

So there are strategies that have been underway for years to eliminate your right to own firearms. And if they can't take the gun from you, they'll take the ammo from you. So what Doc is talking about here, and we're going to take a look. This is a New York Times article. And it was entitled Inside the Army Factory That Makes AR-15 Ammunition. Yeah. And this is the Lake City Army ammunition plant back in Missouri. And it's been around since World War II.

Where's that at, Doc? What part of the state? Just near Independence, Independence, Missouri. And it's been operated by various federal contractors over those years. Now, over the past decade, the site has increasingly produced rounds for the commercial market as military demand has diminished. Now, remember, this is back in November that this article was published. The Army says that the commercial business is meant to keep the factory in good working order so that military production can be quickly ramped up while also reducing the cost of its ammunition.

The current contractor, Olin Winchester, did not respond to inquiries. More than a million pages of search warrants, police evidence logs, ballistic reports, forfeiture records, and court proceedings compiled by the New York Times provides a sweeping accounting of how Lake City ammunition, once intended for war, has sometimes fallen into the hands of criminals. And notice what they're doing here to you, right? They're saying that the ammunition is getting into the hands of the bad guys. Kind of like what they're saying about physical money. Right. You know, we got to get rid of dollars because they're in the hands of criminals.

Now, for most of the time since World War II, its commercial operations outstripped its military business. But by 2021, commercial output, and that includes retail sales like at gun stores, gun shops, the big box stores, as well as purchases by law enforcement agencies and foreign governments, had outpaced military production by more than two times, according to a historical overview provided by the Army. So the reason why we're bringing this article up to you is we're showing this is a very important facility in the production of ammunition both for the military and for the commercial retail market. So why are we telling you about this? Well, there's an effort underway to shut the Lake City ammunition plant down. Well, not to shut it down, Doc.

No. Well, if they had their druthers, they would. They don't want to shut it down. They don't want to shut it down. And I'll tell you why. There are two – it's a two-fold reason why this movement is underway. Number one, to choke off the supply of ammo to civilians. Yes, you're right.

Number two, so that Israel and Ukraine have more ammo. Yes, there you go. They're not going to shut down the plant. They need the plant. Bibi the baby butcher needs more bullets. Zelensky needs more. Zelensky. Zelensky the clown, the coke addict, needs more bullets. Zelensky. Zelensky the clown, the coke addict needs more bullets. They've decided you don't need

any bullets. Because Netanyahu needs the bullets that you're buying. And he won't have to buy them. You will pay to give it to them. Because you're going to be taxed to give the bullets to Netanyahu.

You're going to be taxed to give the bullets to Zelensky. The Zionists need ammo to kill people. And so we will be stripped of our ability to defend ourselves. And they're going to use our own tax money to do it to us. That's what's happening, Doc. Basically, they're going to deny the American citizens the right to have access to ammo, but be able to give it to the Zionists. Yes. Because we've got two big Zionist wars underway right now.

Zelensky and Netanyahu. And they need ammo because they're killing people every hour and they're running out of ammo. B.B., the baby butcher, has killed so many children. And we've got a story here today, Doc. I mean, he's had to pull back on his operations in Gaza because they're low in ammo. Right. They've got more babies to kill and they don't have enough bullets. Hey, I'm sorry I'm talking like this.

No, I'm not sorry. It's the way it is. They're killing babies. They're killing children. We've got a crackpot congressman here in my district, Brian Mast, a Republican, who said yesterday or day before that there are no such things as innocent Palestinian babies. This is the congressman who wears an IDF military uniform to the U.S. Congress. This is the congressman who goes over to Israel to participate in Israeli military activities.

Right. He's my congressman. A Republican. Somebody needs to run against him. Somebody should challenge him in the Republican primary because that guy has said some of the most outrageous things about killing Palestinian children.

He also said there's a lot more infrastructure in Gaza that needs to be destroyed. Yes, he did. In other words, half of the houses are still standing. Half the roads are still operating. Yes. They haven't torn. Half the roads are still operating. Yes. They haven't torn up all the roads yet. And, Doc, if we have enough time here today, I'll tell you how we've got reports today from the Telegraph

how they're destroying the farms and the orchards. They're deliberately destroying the Palestinian orchards and farms. Yes. There's no end to the wickedness of the Zionists. But anyhow, they need more bullets. And so back here in the United States, what they're doing is that they've got the left-wing attorneys general from various Democrat states, like Letitia James, who are leading an assault, a political propaganda assault, pushing Mr. Biden to prohibit the army from selling ammo to retailers in America, thus cutting off the supply of ammo to you and me.

Right. So that's the same Letitia James that's been going after Donald Trump. Yes. And the NRA. She's put the NRA almost out of business. I mean, this woman is wicked. She's evil. This is a communist warrior. And so, you know, Wayne LaPierre is. That man's on the verge of bankruptcy himself he's retired, he's announced his

retirement, they've got him in a box that I don't think he can get out of this woman is out to destroy the second amendment and if she can't rip it out of the constitution, she's going to use lawfare to wage the Second Amendment. And if she can't rip it out of the Constitution,

she's going to use lawfare to wage war on the Second Amendment. So we just had that headline up from the Brooklyn Reader there. And notice the headline here and how it's worded. Multi-state coalition aims to stop sale of military-grade ammunition to civilians.

What is military-grade ammunition, civilians. What is military-grade ammunition, Rick? What is it? Well, this would be ammo for AR-15s. Right. That's what they're defining as military-grade ammunition. So this would cut off just about all AR-15 ammo in the United States. And she's in a coalition with about 20 attorneys general from around the country that is investigating reports that a federally funded contractor, they're speaking about the Olin Winchester Group, has produced military-grade ammunition for sale to civilians.

The coalition is asking the Office of Gun Violence Protection, sounds awesome, doesn't it, to investigate how a facility overseen by the U.S. Army, talking about the Lake City plant that we just talked about that had been featured by the New York Times, produced billions of rounds of ammunition that were sold on the civilian market. Now, just the tone of that right there suggests that the plant was producing illegal ammunition, doesn't it? They make it sound that way, right? But all this ammunition is perfectly legal because the weapons are legal. Yes. The point we are making to you is that there is a very serious

operation underway in the United States to eliminate ammo for civilians. Right. Citizens. To take it away. To cut off the supply. And in their minds, it's a double-headed win. They disarm you and me, and they arm their Zionist armies in Ukraine and Israel. It's a Nazi army led by a Zionist in Ukraine. Well, and you got a Nazi Likud party operation in Israel.

And they both need more bullets. And you've got Putin saying, we're fighting the Antichrist. These are strange times that we're living in, Doc. They are. Very bizarre times. Just to give you an idea, so there is pushback. I've got a report here from radio station 1380 KCIM. So Iowa's attorney general leads a 28-state coalition opposing the shutdown of the Lake City ammo plant. Another one, this is from Alaska. Alaska's governor and attorney general joined the pushback against federal limits on ammunition sales to civilians.

And so this is a red and blue state divide on this, isn't it? It is. But let me ask you folks, did you ever think you would hear and see headlines like this? A very serious threat that the supply of ammo could be cut off in this country. At the very time we're going, we're in World War III. The very moment, here we are, the possibility that we could have fighting on the homeland of America. Right.

And they want to take away your ammo. That's exactly right, Rick. Now, we've been mourning for a long time about this. But even back here a few months ago, KO2A and Rapid City, they had this article here. Wars across the ocean could make it harder for people to get gun ammunition in the U.S. And what had just happened two weeks prior to this, the October 7th events in Israel and Gaza. And so just within a couple of weeks, the warning came, hey, you know what?

All this fighting in Ukraine and Israel, you know, it could impact your ability to get gun ammunition. So if you'd seen this headline back in October, you would have gone out of your way to make plans to be prepared in that area. Yes. So we're not selling ammo and American reserves doesn't have ammo. I wish they did, but they don't, but they do have food and they have gravity-fed water filters,

the best that you can buy, British Birkfeld. They have shortwave radios. They have generators, solar-powered generators. You better get those things before before our internal enemies, our domestic enemies, decide that they're going to find a way to take those things from you also. That's right. Folks, they will do it. They will find a way to take away what you need to survive. So stop, pal, while you can, americanreserves.com. You can look at the food that they have, the 30-day buckets for one person. You can get multiple buckets. There are

side buckets with vegetables, with fruit, with meat, powdered eggs, powdered whey milk. A lot of food supplies there at AmericanReserves.com. And the food is delicious. I've tasted it. It is very good. And most of it, all you need is boiling water. Yes, that's right. Very easy.

That's it. They've already done the preparation. They've added the flavors and the spice, everything. The food tastes great. All you have to do is just put boiling water onto the food and you've got yourself a meal. And, you know, a water filter, that's another thing. If the water is cut off, see, what did they tell the Israelis this week? Expect water to be cut off. For up to two weeks, they said. Yes. Where are you going to get water? So a water filter, have a gravity-fed water filter. You may have to get water from a source

that you would not ordinarily drink from, but you could put it through a gravity fed filter and with the ceramic filters, it's going to clean that water. I mean, in an emergency, I wouldn't do it on a regular basis, but if it came down to a dock and this is the only way I'm going to have water to drink.

Yeah. You know, if I have I get a creek right over here. If I if I had to go over to that creek and put water in my British Burr filled filter, I would drink it because I would know it's clean. In an emergency, I would do that. So I use one in my house every day. I don't, you know, I'm not using creek water. I have a well. And my well is clean. I get clean water, but I still like to put it through the British Birch filter just for one more layer of filtration. Just one more layer. And the water tastes better. I like it for coffee. And so I use it every day, even though my water supply is good. I don't have fluoride. I don't have chlorine. It's good, clean well water. I drink the well water out of the tap

if I have to. It's not a problem, but I like putting it in the filter for one more layer. Now, if you have a well, you may have various substances in your water. It may have an odor. You may see little things swimming around in it. You don't want cryptosporidium. You don't want the microscopic parasites that can be in well water. With British Birkfield, you can get filters, the candles, that will remove fluoride. I don't have a problem with fluoride. I don't have a problem with fluoride. I don't have fluoride here. But you might be in a city that has fluoride in the water, and you want to get rid of it.

Go to AmericanReserves.com, check out the supply, and look at what they have. One of the other things that the Israeli government told the Israeli citizens this week to buy are radios. Get yourself a shortwave radio. I didn't catch that part of the story. I didn't know that. Yes. Yes, doc.

They told him to buy radios. Well, what do you know? Radios. It was food, water and radios and, and batteries. You know? Sun-powered radios. It was food, water, and radios. And batteries. You know, you need batteries.

Now, if you can get, and by the way, American Reserves has, they've got solar-powered radios. I think they have a hand-crank radio also. We do, yes. Okay. So check it out, AmericanReserves.com. Don't procrastinate. Folks. We're giving you, every single day, we're giving you the most complete up-to-date report on World War III anywhere in the world. I don't know. We should change our name to the World War III News Update because I don't know of anybody else in the world that is giving

this much news every day to the battles that are being fought in World War III. I can't imagine World War II that there were no, you know, there were news reports. They had the newspapers, they had the magazines, and they had radio. And you heard about the fighting in other countries before the U.S. got involved in World War II. People could listen to the radio and hear about the attacks in other countries and thinking, well, it's way over there. We're not in it. And then one day, on a Sunday, the radio program was interrupted by a special report from Pearl Harbor that America was under attack and life changed. At that point, everybody in America knew America was in World War II. And people went, men went to the military recruiting offices and volunteered and signed up to go fight the war. Folks, we've got a Pearl Harbor moment coming.

It's coming. I don't know how far away, but it's coming, Doc. I believe that it is rick and when that happens then everybody's going to know we're in world war three and then the panic starts you should be well prepared before the panic starts when your neighbor says to you do you know we're in world war three and you can say yeah I've been trying to tell you for over a year or two. But when that happens, they're going to go berserk buying everything that they can buy. You want to sit back and just relax and say, I already

have what I need. I've been preparing for a long, long time. That's my recommendation. Get ready. We're giving you the information that nobody else is giving you. We are in the war right now. Folks, something is going to happen before Monday. When we return on Monday, we're going to be talking about the bombings that took place on the weekend. I can't imagine that Biden's going to hold this off till Monday. So I already know our news reports on Monday is going to be the fighting that took place on the weekend. And whether there was a response from Iran or not.

And we know that in two weeks, something big is going to happen in Israel because they're telling the people to stockpile food and water and radios. Across all of Israel. Yes. They expected that to impact 60% of the population in Israel. Yes. Be prepared for a lack of food, a lack of water, a lack of electricity,

a lack of communications. Why? Because if they go into Lebanon, Hezbollah is going to rain down hundreds of thousands of missiles. They have this massive arsenal of missiles. They have this massive arsenal of missiles. It's going to be ugly and nasty. So we're giving you the heads up.

We're warning you. We're preparing you. What you do with it is your business. This is my business. My business is to tell you. And then my conscience is free because the Lord told me to be a watchman. That's all I am.

I'm a weatherman for heaven. I'm just telling you what the weather forecast I see. And I see a big storm right now. I pray and I hope that this storm dissipates and goes away. But right now, it looks like it's going to be a doozy. And there's something big coming in in the next two weeks. And you better get ready for it. I don't know how it's going to impact us here. But in the Middle East, it's going to impact people in the Middle East. So let's, I think, what do we got here, Doc? Five minutes?

Yes. Oh, let's see. I think we've gone through. Well, you did want to share with folks about what Israel is planning for Gaza here. You talked about the orchards being destroyed and everything. Yes. And that Israel has been planning a new border for Gaza. This is from the Telegraph here. Number 22, Israel's new Gaza border, published today in London. Israel is accused of clearing a one kilometer buffer zone inside the Gaza Strip as part of a new security border that could shrink

the overall size of the Palestinian territory. So, Doc, they know that the West is getting ready to pressure them to recognize a Palestinian state. And so they're saying, OK, well, we're going to make it so small. They're not going to have much room to move around in there. Satellite images show more than 1,000 buildings destroyed around the land perimeter. Western allies have warned Israel against the buffer zone. The Israeli government has denied carrying out the operation. The London Telegraph witnessed at first hand the widespread destruction on a recent trip through the buffer zone. The IDF told this newspaper it was blowing up buildings that showed evidence of Hamas infiltration. Further analysis

using satellite images taken up and down the border found hundreds of homes razed, fields and orchards destroyed, utilities blown up, and schools and mosques flattened. But they didn't commit genocide. Right. The northeastern corner was one of the first points of entry for the military. The area around the town of Beit Hanan was once famous for its orchards and farming with citrus groves, dragon fruit trees, and prickly pear cultivation. Much of it was destroyed by Israeli military bulldozers. The fruit trees, the fields, the greenhouses have been plowed into the ground, exasperating food shortages with long-term effects. Folks, would they destroy the food supply in order to destroy a people?

Absolutely, they would. Would the globalists destroy our food supply to starve us to death? Absolutely, Rick. Yes. This is what I'm learning out of this news. The first thing that they go after is the food supply. Yes. We have been watching here in the United States,

and Doc, I'm trying to watch the time, so I don't, you know. We've been watching here in the United States for several years an unending stream of attacks on food processing facilities, on farms, like chicken farms, you know, canning companies,

food production facilities, fires and explosions. That go beyond coincidence. You can't even keep count of all of them. It's not a coincidence. We're in World War III. Somebody is deliberately destroying our food supply. So the smartest thing to do is stockpile food and get through the war so that you're not standing in a food line waiting on a soldier to hand you a can. Look at where the Palestinian people are at.

They're dependent on the Egyptians getting some aid into the country. And maybe they might get something to eat that day. But what are the Israelis doing? Blocking the trucks. Yes. Hey, a long time ago, in my early days of true news, there was a woman who was,

oh, I want to say her name was Bettini. I'm trying to remember. She was the head of the UN Food Agency, and she said, food is power. We use it to change behavior. And they have been. So, well, Rick, we're in our last 20 seconds. Any final words here before we switch over to Morning Manor? No, sir. We got to go. I'll let you take the steering wheel and drive it home. All right. Well, thank you for joining us today for True News. We'll be taking a break here in just a few moments for Morning Mana. Stay tuned.

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who gives us eternal life. Father, we praise you. We magnify you. We glorify you. We exalt you. We lift up your son for all to see that the world would see his magnificence, his glory, his love, his mightiness. Father, let him be glorified in all the earth. Father, thank you for feeding us natural food and spiritual food.

So we come to you today for spiritual food through your word, but also through the body and blood of your son, Jesus Christ, that was shed for us on Calvary's hill. Thank you, Father. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Well, welcome to today's Morning Manna. Today is Friday, February 2nd, and today we're going to be in Matthew chapter 3 and reading verses 16 and 17. So we're privileged to have you joining us from all around the world today. Already 16 countries checking in here for this international Bible study. So if you've got your Bibles, please turn to Matthew chapter 3 and read along with me starting at verse 16. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water, and lo, the heavens

were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him. And lo, a voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. God bless the reading of this morning today. Amen. All right. Verse 16, and Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water. And lo, the heavens were open unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him. I take my time in reading these scriptures during our class because it's by reading the scriptures slowly, out loud, word by word, that we better see what the Lord is saying to us, but we also can discover mistakes

that we've believed. Right. That's the big thing. Yes. Or suddenly you go, wait a minute. I never saw those words there before. And that's why I take time. Because you look at each word, each phrase. Okay, so you break it down. And Jesus. So we know who we're talking about.

When. When he was baptized. So what we're going to study right now took place when he was baptized. What did he do? He went up straightway out of the water. Then what happened? The heavens were open unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him. So let's break this down. And first of all, we'll talk about the historical baptismal site in Jordan. Doc and I had been there several times. We have people in the Morning Manor class right now who live in Jordan and know a lot more about that site than we do.

We've only been visitors. We have members of this class who are Jordanian and they could be teaching us right now about the site. When you get there physically, it's nothing like what you imagine. The River Jordan has been reduced in size. It's polluted. The Israelis have cut off the flow of water to reduce the size of the Jordanians will say they are deliberately polluting the river just to mess up the baptismal sites for the Christians who are coming there to be baptized in the river. I don't know if they're doing it deliberately, but personally, I wouldn't get in the water. All right.

It is pretty creepy looking. It's creepy. And and I've had people there tell me they've seen large snakes swimming around the people who were being baptized. And the people didn't baptized at that site anyhow. Right. Here's what I mean. So across the river is the Israeli side, which up until 1967 was still Jordanian. But they took the West Bank from Jordan, the West Bank of the river. Right. So they took the West Bank of the river in 1967, and it's still occupied territory.

It's not Israeli territory. It's occupied, but it doesn't matter. The soldiers are standing there with the guns, and when you go to the baptismal site, it is guarded by IDF soldiers with armed rifles. Yes, and they're looking at you from across the Jordan. They're watching you. That's right. So according to church history, Jesus was not baptized on the west side of the river.

He was baptized on the east side of the river. But that doesn't fit the Israeli narrative for tourism. So the actual baptismal site is, what would you say, Doc? About a half mile? Yeah, it's several thousand feet away from the river.

Yes. I don't think it's a half mile. I would say maybe a quarter of a mile because we walked it fairly easy. Yeah. But it's definitely not where the Jordan River is now. The Jordan River has changed course. Yes, it's changed course and also if i understood the the tour guide correctly uh where jesus was baptized was really more like a a uh tributary uh or a

right an offshoot of the river they didn't go according to them they didn't go out into the actual river there was kind of a side creek that John used for baptism there is a place there with stones it is a

walkway there are steps that go down into a baptismal pool now obviously well um i don't think those steps were there when john was there but the the early churches built the steps because it was well known that that was the site where jesus baptized. In fact, there were four churches built around those steps. That's right. And the remains of those churches are still there today. They're not on the east side of the river.

There's nothing over it. Isn't it interesting, Doc? There's no ancient church history on the east side of the river. Excuse me, on the west side. On the west side. So the ancient churches. But me, on the west side. On the west side. So the ancient churches... But there is a tourist site there. Oh, there's a modern tourist site,

but there's no ancient church site. Yeah, a beautiful facility. And so when people make a trip, let's say they go on a trip to Israel and they take you out by bus to the baptism site. That is not the site where the baptism of Jesus took place. If you were looking from the West Bank over into Jordan, you wouldn't even be able to see it. You'd see churches, some buildings,

but you wouldn't be able to actually see the actual baptism site. That's right. Isn't it another, it's another interesting fact, Doc, on the West Bank, there are no modern churches built there, but on the Jordanordanian side on the east side there are numerous churches hey i uh i you know i'm i'm confident that the actual baptismal site is is on the east side in the country of jordan i i'm not i don't have any doubt about it at all. You have churches there dating back to at least 400 AD. Yes. And they were all... Yeah. And they're still discovering archaeological evidence that churches were built there even

earlier than that. That's right. So there was something at those days that convinced church leaders that that was the site where Jesus was baptized. Let's talk about the mode of baptism. Some Bible scholars and theologians argue that Matthew chapter 3 does not make any definitive statement about the mode of Jesus' baptism. Was he immersed? Was water poured on his head? Did John sprinkle him? And so therefore they teach that because the passage does not provide conclusive evidence for or against any particular mode of baptism. Therefore, any mode of baptism is legitimate in the church today. So my question to my class today is, does the Bible tell us anything that would help us conclude the mode of baptism? Did John dunk Jesus into the water? Did he pour water on his head, or did he sprinkle Jesus? the text says that after Jesus was baptized,

Jesus went up straightway out of the water. For me, that's all I need. Right. You only come up out of the water if you first went down into the water. Right. You can't come up unless you went down. Precisely. I don't understand what the confusion is about. I mean, the implication is, well, he stood, the phrase went up straightway out of the water.

That doesn't mean he came up out of the water. It means that as soon as he was baptized, he climbed out of the river and climbed up the bank. That's what I've seen some Bible teachers teaching. I don't interpret it that way. To me, it says that the moment Jesus came up from beneath the river water, the sky opened. Immediately, he came straightway. Straightway means immediately. He came up out of the water. The moment he came out of the water, something big happened. And I don't believe the Holy Spirit waited on him to climb up the bank of the river. And, Rick, in addition to that, there had been a long tradition of, you want to call it baptism,

hundreds of years leading up to this too. Ever since the exile to Babylon, there would be people who would become proselytes to Judaism. And when they would go through the process of learning about Judaism, at the end of that process, they had to take a, they called it a ritual bath, but it was a baptism in the mikvah. The mikvah was kind of a carved out tub that was in synagogues.

Like we have baptismals in churches, right? Well, they had the mikvahs in the synagogue and they would, at the completion of their process to become a Jew if you will the proselyte class they would be dunking water and to give you an example modern day example of this everyone knows who Ivanka Trump is right well she is now Yael Kushner, but she went through the process of abandoning her Christian faith and becoming a Jew. She had a long process, and the final step of that process is she had to go through the mikvah in the synagogue there in New York City. So, they do this to this day. So, that period of time leading up to this particular event

baptism had been going on in synagogues uh for a long long time john was doing something different here he was using the baptism as a way of saying listen the old judaism it's not working. We need something new here. We need repentance here. And so anyway, for I agree, Doc, it was an immersion before John the Baptist. Yeah, I don't think he went out there with a sprinkler. Yeah. Now, I have heard commentators say, well john the baptist took along the banks of the jordan there you have hyssop reeds right hyssop is you know like bamboo and they can be

split and when you cut them uh red juice comes out like blood and i heard one commentary one time say what john actually did is he he dipped the uh he would split the hyssop rods and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the people. Kind of like what you see some of the Catholic bishops and cardinals do today where they're sprinkling people. And the idea was that the hyssop, the red juice of the hyssop and the water, that was supposed to symbolize the water in the blood. But that's just a tradition. Yeah. Why didn't the Bible just tell us that? Yeah, it doesn't.

It says to beam straightly out of the water. Right. And besides this, Doc, John was a Baptist, and we know that all Baptists immerse. That's right. that's right there i mean not john the sprinkler it wasn't john the lutheran john john the methodist it was john the baptist those those that are watching right now or listening right now, you can have confidence that the Bible teaches baptism is immersion. Immersion in water. Jesus was immersed in the Jordan River.

And so you can have confidence in that and not have any questions about it. That's right. It was not John the Ang's right. It was not John the Anglican. It was John the Baptist, and he baptized him in the water. Right. So, the word straightway means immediately. So, Jesus came out of the water. Immediately something happened. It denotes a rapid succession of events. A quick transition from Jesus being baptized to what follows. And what followed? And lo, the heavens above them were opened, appearing as though they had been split apart, rent asunder, creating a glorious scene. So to me, this phrase, the heavens were open,

signifies that a significant divine event was now taking place. The sky was dramatically open. This wasn't a tiny little peephole. Something spectacular happened in the sky. It materially, physically opened to make way for a visible manifestation of something from heaven. There was an actual parting of the clouds, an opening of the heavens,

allowing for this visible manifestation. So it indicates that the heavens open for Jesus as a divine sign associated with his baptism, because you have the word straightway, immediately. He comes out of the water immediately. The sky is open. Right. The recipient, the verse says, and lo, the heavens were opened unto him. Who is him? Does the verse refer to Jesus or John? Did both of them see it? Did only Jesus see it?

Did only John see it? Did both of them see it? Did everybody see it? And lo, the heavens were open unto him. And this is why you read the scriptures out loud slowly, word by word. And lo, the heavens were open unto him. So when I read that, I paused and thought, wait a minute, who is him? I've always assumed it was Jesus.

But then I began pondering this for this class. Does this say it opened unto Jesus? Or does it mean it opened for John's benefit? Who needed to see the skies opened? Jesus didn't need to see it, did he? No. And I think we can rule out all the other people. Right.

I don't think anybody else saw it. I don't think any of the bystanders saw the sky open. Was it Jesus? Was it John? Was it both? Now, John? Was it both? Now, I think both saw it. But Jesus knew what was happening. He scheduled it before he departed heaven to become an embryo in Mary's womb. Right.

Jesus knew what was happening, but John needed to know not only what was happening, but why it was happening. It was for John's benefit. That's right. And how do we know that John saw it? Well, we know that from John chapter one.

It says John bore witness. This is in verses 32, 34. I saw the spirit descend from heaven like a dove. This is John saying this like a dove and it remained on him. I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to him, he on whom you see the spirit descend and remain. This is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. I have seen and have borne witness that this is the son of God. So John saw that. John the Baptist saw that. Now there's no indication anyone else saw it, but obviously John the Baptist relayed this information to his disciples. That's why we have a record of it today.

We wouldn't know otherwise, would we? That's right. John the Baptist shared this, either shared this information with his disciples. At that time, John had a lot of disciples. Or he shared it with Jesus' disciples later. We don't know how that information got transmitted, but John saw it. We have record of that in John chapter one. It's right. And so let's go through this verse word by word and Jesus. We know who

that refers to. When he was baptized, Jesus, went up straightway out of the water, and lo, the heavens were opened unto him. So now the question is, who is him? The heavens were opened unto him, and he, would not he be him? Would he be him? And lo, the heavens were open unto him and he saw. So who's the he? Let's read it like this. The heavens were open unto John and John saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon Jesus.

It wasn't Jesus saw himself and then he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon himself. Yes. It's John who saw these things. But Jesus saw it too, because he's the one who scheduled it. He knew what was coming up next on the schedule. Hey, when I come up out of the water, I'm going to part the skies. John's going to see this. So I believe it refers to John.

I do too. And to me, that is confirmed in John chapter 1. Because John says that, he said, I saw this. I'm the one that saw this. Yes. And something else, Doc, in John 1 1 verse 32 through 34 again let's listen to this John testified saying I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven and it remained on him he saw it land descend on him okay John said, I didn't recognize him. I didn't know who this was when he came to me to be baptized in the water. When John was baptizing Jesus, he didn't know who he was. He didn't

recognize him. He's just another Jewish guy who wants to be baptized. And then he said, but he who sent me to baptize in the water said to me, who said this to John? God, God, the father, God, the father, John heard God, the father Father. God the Father. John heard God the Father speak to him. But he, God the Father, who sent me, John, to baptize in the water, said to me, John the Baptist, on whomever you will see the Spirit descending. Now, here it is.

And remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit I have seen and I have testified that this is the Son of God that this permanent and perfect resting of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus in his official capacity as the Son of God is a significant manifestation of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit didn't come upon Jesus and then fly away. Remained on him. That's right. There are parallels between this event and other biblical accounts where heavenly manifestations were granted to individuals.

We can read about it. Stephen's vision in Acts 7. Paul's vision in Damascus, Acts 9. But these were experiences that were personal and not witnessed by others. Now let's talk about the dove. Matthew 3, verse 16 says that the Holy Spirit descended as it were a dove. It mentions that this was not just a dove-like motion, but a manifestation in the shape of a dove. Doc, I've heard people teach that, well, the Holy Spirit didn't come down as a dove. He came down like a dove yeah they're you're using luke chapter three on that it says as it were a dove it says in luke 3

but no no doc i had to go this morning and i had to go to luke 3 22 to figure out wait a minute am i am i recalling luke Luke 3.22 from memory or from what it actually says? And it says, and this is Luke 3, verse 22. And the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form. Yes.

Like a dove on him and a voice came out of the sky saying, you are my beloved son. In you, I am well pleased. So they only read half of that. It makes it confusing. Yeah, so once again, you know,

things in your mind that you were taught, suddenly it becomes evident that that's error when you read the scripture word for word the Holy Spirit did not descend like a dove

Luke says the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him. Right. Pretty clear. So, this symbolic significance of a dove-like form of the Holy Spirit's descent tells us that this was a miraculous event. It signifies a divine supernatural nature of the occurrence.

What's the significance of the dove? Why did the Holy Spirit take on the shape of a dove? Remember, this was for John's benefit. Jesus knew the Holy Spirit. It was his spirit. This was for John's benefit and then for all of us. The imagery of a dove symbolizes tenderness, purity of heart, harmlessness, gentleness. These are all qualities associated with doves. The dove-like descent also symbolized aspects of Jesus' nature and mission,

his meekness, reconciliation with the Father, the work of the Holy Spirit in making believers meek, lowly, and harmless. For example, in Matthew 10, verse 16, Jesus commanded his disciples to be as harmless as doves. So he's telling us that the dove teaches believers about the spirit that they are meant to embody. That we are to be gentle and have the purity of a dove. There's also a symbolic connection between the dove that descended on Jesus and the dove that Noah sent out after the flood. You got it, Rick. Yes.

Genesis 8, verses 9 and 10. So the dove returned to the ark with an olive leaf as a sign from God of peace and reconciliation and a sign of the end of the judgment of the flood. Noah was trying to figure out whether the storm was over. And the dove returned with an olive leaf. And that was the divine sign. You know, in preparing for this today, I was looking up that passage there, Rick, about the dove. You know, I'd always thought he sent out the dove once, but he sent the dove out three times. Noah had sent it out three times. First time he sent it out,

the dove didn't bring anything back. The second time he sent it out, he brought back the olive branch. And the third time he sent it out, the dove didn't come back because the dove had found a home on land. That's right. So, but I had, you know, it's one of those things,

the unthinking you have to do yes you're thinking one time right well uh let's let's uh focus on peace and reconciliation the angels above bethlehem on the night jesus was, saying, peace on earth, goodwill toward men. God was announcing to the human race, to humanity on that night, the angels saying over Bethlehem, there is peace on earth, peace from heaven. Not that mankind is at peace with themselves. There are wars happening all over the world. But there's peace from heaven on earth.

Goodwill towards men. God has sent an olive leaf to you. The olive leaf is in a manger. This is reconciliation. This is announcing the end of judgment. God doesn't want to judge man. He wants to be reconciled to man. The conflict with mankind.

We're announcing a truce. There's peace. Come and be reconciled with your maker. So that's the purpose of the dove. And that's why we are to have those qualities. We're supposed to be announcing God's peace with mankind. God's desire to be reconciled with his children, God's desire not to judge people. So we also have here

Jesus our shepherd showing us the way. You could say that on that day, Doc, how do you become a member of a church? What's the requirement to be a church member? Well, you have to confess Christ. You have to be baptized in water. Yes, there it is. So all churches require baptism as a requirement. It's a requirement for membership. You have to prove that you've been baptized to be a member of a church. Who was the first person baptized? Who was the first person baptized in the dispensation of Jesus Christ?

Jesus himself. Jesus himself. Therefore, Jesus became the first member of his Christ. Jesus himself. Jesus himself. Therefore, Jesus became the first member of his church. And then the New Testament teaches we're actually baptized into him. Thank you. Man, Doc, you're tracking with me.

I've been with you 10 years, Rick. 10 years tomorrow. So it is tomorrow, isn't it? Yes. Wow. So Jesus' baptism was a public event, a public act, and it signifies his role as the head of his church. And it draws a connection to how his baptism impacts the baptism of his disciples. I'll give you two examples. Romans 6, 4, Paul said, we were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father.

Yes. So we also might walk in newness of life. And then in Colossians 2, 12, Paul said, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God who raised him from the dead. So Jesus, our shepherd, our guide, our role model. He says to all who want to be his disciples, you have to be baptized. I'm showing you the way.

Remember, he said to John, hey, John said, I can't baptize you. All right. But Jesus said, you got to do it. Righteousness must be fulfilled. Whose righteousness? Not Jesus's righteousness, but our righteousness. Yes.

So we are, we are dead in Christ, but then we're buried with him and then we're resurrected with him. Yes. That's the, that's the meaning of baptism. You're dead. You're dead. You're buried.

You're buried in the water. But in the water, there is a regeneration. The work of the Holy Spirit is alive inside of you. When you're in the water, when you come up out of the water, you've been resurrected. Your spirit has been resurrected. I know a lot of churches absolutely go bonkers if you say regeneration. I don't know any other way to describe baptism because the modern churches teach nothing happens during baptism. Right.

Like they teach nothing happens during communion. It's just you're just remembering something. It's just an act to remember. It's just a ritual. But I don't believe that jesus said if you don't eat my flesh and drink my blood there's no life in you paul said when when you were buried in baptism you were raised with him through faith in the working of god the old traditional churches call it regeneration.

They teach that you're not born again until you've been baptized. When does the Holy Spirit come upon you? After baptism. So let's talk about that the the descent of the Holy Spirit is connected to Christ anointing for his public ministry it's it's similar to the anointing of the priests in the Old Testament so Jesus's baptism was a public declaration of his identification with humanity. He identifies himself with the sheep that he leads. Yes.

And it also signified his obedience to God for a greater baptism. That would be on the cross. Remember he said, the disciples said, we'll follow you anywhere. And he goes, really? I have a baptism. Are you willing to go there too? They didn't know what he was talking about. I'm going to get to verse 17.

I'm watching the time here. And lo, a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. The most important thing I want you to see here is the presence of the Trinity. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. What we have in front of us are the three distinct persons of the Trinity. Jesus, the Son, the Holy Spirit has arrived in the form of a dove, and the Father, whose voice is heard from the sky. You have the simultaneous presence and actions of the three persons of the Trinity at this baptism.

Right. So if you ever hear somebody who says, the Bible doesn't teach about the Trinity, well then, who was standing there? Who descended and who spoke? Was Jesus a ventriloquist? Was Jesus a ventriloquist is jesus it's so obvious jesus didn't go hey watch this i'm going to throw my voice i'm going to make it sound like

i'm talking from the sky and i got i you know i'm a magician, and I got to make this dove come out of this handkerchief. Hey, hey, look at that, man. Oh, Jesus is the son that was being baptized. The Holy Spirit came down through the sky that had opened up to the heavens and God's voice spoke, this is my beloved son. The divine approval did not signal a change in Jesus's moral character because he had been baptized. Correct. He was always God. The manifestation of the Holy Spirit and the voice of the Father were the sign of God's approval of Jesus, of his ministry, that he was now consecrated to his messianic office. It's a public, solemn endorsement of Jesus as the Messiah. John needed to see and hear it.

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, himself declared Jesus as his son. His beloved son signifies the need for Jesus Christ to be the channel of the Father's love to us. The Father's proclamation identified Jesus as the only mediator between himself and mankind. That's what's happening there. God is saying, this is my son. I'm well pleased in him. If you want to reach me, if you want to be reconciled to me, you're going to go through him and you're going to be baptized just like him.

You're going to be buried in the water and resurrected in new life. Well, hey, Doc, I think we'll just wrap it up here at this point, unless you have something to say. I'm watching the time. I know we need to do. That passage right there is probably the premier example of explaining the Trinity to people. It's really not complicated. People make it complicated. But right here in that one passage, you have the Father, you have the Son, and you have the Spirit. All three identified as God. God speaks from heaven. The Spirit of God descends as a dove.

And then this is my beloved Son. And by saying it's his beloved son it makes him equal with god yes so uh so you have all three members of the trinity there and so it's a very simple passage and so um if anyone ever challenges you on just say explain this one and so hey uh we're getting ready uh to participate in the lord's supper today so if you've got uh uh the elements of communion ready, we're going to be praying over those here in just a few moments. It's interesting that our passage today is on baptism and on regeneration and us being baptized in Christ.

And that's an ordinance of the church. One of the other ordinances of the church, of course, is participating in the Lord's Supper. It seems like in today's modern world, the Lord's Supper is an option. But I look at it as a command that we need to be doing on a regular basis. We need to be baptized and watered by Christ's example. And we need to participate in the Lord's Supper by Christ's example, too. And so, Doc, right now, Wendy is asking, am I welcomed at the table? And so, Wendy, I would

say just what Doc just said. So, are you born again, and have you been baptized? If you answer yes to those two questions, yes, you are welcomed. Those are the requirements. Yes. Are you born again and have you been baptized? Right. And that's been required from requirement from the beginning. So I know people I've heard throughout my years as a Christian, I've heard people say, well, I I won't I can't be baptized because I I've sinned and I'm not going to go to church me. I mean, I'm not going to have communion. I'm not going to participate in the Lord's Supper because I've sinned and I'm not going to go there.

I'll go to church, but I'm not going to I'm not going to receive the elements of the of the Lord's Supper because I've sinned and I'm not going to go there. I'll go to church, but I'm not going to receive the elements of the Lord's Supper because I've sinned. Well, there's something called repentance. And repentance is daily. And so all of us, we've all sinned since the last Friday. Is anybody here? We got everybody in this class right now. Did anybody make it since last Friday without sinning? I don't see any hands going up, Doc. I don't see your hand going up. Nope.

So why don't we just get over this thing? Hey, you know what? We're sinners. We're sinners saved by grace. Amen. And we don't repent one time. We repent all the time. We stay in a perpetual state of repentance and forgiveness and humility. It doesn't mean you walk around with your head

down like you're ashamed of yourself. That's not what it means. In fact, you raise your head up, you have this glorious awareness that you're forgiven. So let's pray right now. Whatever is troubling you right now, let's deal with it and let the Lord remove the sin and offense, whatever it is. And then you can go to the table like you washed your hands.

With a clear conscience. Hey, you wouldn't go to the table with like you washed your hands. With a clear conscience. Hey, you wouldn't go to the dinner table with dirty hands. So don't go to the Lord's table with a dirty heart, a dirty mind, a dirty mouth. All right. Get a bath. And you get cleaned up through repentance. and he just washes away all the dirt. Then you can come to the dinner table.

Yes. And you don't want to, you don't want the Lord to look at you and go, Hey, wait a minute. You got some dirty hands there. Go get cleaned up before you come to the table. Just do it first. So let's pray. Father, Father, we confess

that we are sinners. And we confess that since our last time to visit with you at our Lord's table, that we have sinned against you. We have disappointed you. We've made mistakes. We've said things and thought things that were wrong. And there were other times we did not do things or say things that were right. And we missed your will. So, Father, we confess our shortcomings, our sins, our failures, our mistakes, our errors. And we ask in the name of Jesus Christ that you forgive us. Wash away everything that is displeasing to you. So that you would look at us and say, this is my son in whom I am well pleased. This is my daughter in whom I am well pleased. This is my daughter in whom I am well pleased.

Thank you, Father. Thank you for giving us your son, Jesus. Thank you for reconciliation. Thank you for giving us this precious meal that feeds our souls. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Rick. We appreciate that. Now, if you have the elements of the Lord's Supper there, we're going to pray for the Lord's

blessing upon those elements right now and ask the Lord to bless wherever you are in the world right now. And as I mentioned before, we have nearly 20 countries joining us today in the Lord's Supper. Join with us right now. And if you're listening to this another time of day, it's okay for you to have communion with us when you hear this. It's as if you're here with us live. And so we encourage you to participate in this most holy of ordinances of the church. Let's pray.

Almighty God, in your tender mercy, you gave your only begotten son, Jesus Christ, to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. He offered himself and made once for all time a perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. He instituted this remembrance of his passion and death, which he commanded us to continue until he comes again. And so, Father, we ask you to bless and sanctify with your word and Holy Spirit these gifts of bread and wine that we may partake of his most blessed body and blood. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed once for all upon the cross.

And if everyone would repeat after me, therefore, let us keep the feast. Hallelujah. Therefore, let us keep the feast. Let's keep the feast hallelujah therefore let us keep the feast let's keep the feast on the night that he was betrayed our lord jesus took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to his disciples saying take eat this is my body which is given for you do this in remembrance of me thank you lord yes lord thank you for your body and your flesh Thank you, Lord.

Yes, Lord. Thank you for your body and your flesh. The body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. This is the bread of heaven. Take and eat in remembrance that Christ died for you. After supper, Jesus took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them saying, drink this all of you for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for many

for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you do this, do this and remember, whenever you drink, do this in remembrance of me. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Glory to to god the blood of our lord jesus christ which was shed for you preserve your body and soul to everlasting life drink the cup of salvation in remembrance that christ's blood was shed for you and be thankful behold the lamb of god behold him who takes away the sins of the world and blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. This sacrament is the gift of God for the people of God. Feed on him by faith with thanksgiving that Christ died for you. Praise God. I'd like to just know from those that are online with us live right now, is this the first time that you've participated in communion, or maybe the first time in a very, very first time that you've participated in communion or maybe the first time

in a very, very long time that you've participated in communion? I'd like to know that. Let's break that down, Doc, into two separate questions. Is this the very first time you've had communion as a Christian? Is there anybody that this is your very first communion? All right, and then the second question, how many with us today have not participated in communion for a long time? And tell us how long. This really means a lot to us has it been a year five years ten years um so every every every week we we get people that it's the first time for communion and others who say i haven't i haven't received the lord's Supper for years. Four years.

Four years right there, Rick. Yeah. Praise God. Four years. Donna, the Lord is glad to have you back at his table. Doesn't it feel good? Doesn't it feel good to be at the Lord's table again? That drought is over. You've come in for dinner. It's good. It's good. I'm glad.

Pam says her church only has communion one time per year. Yes. Not criticizing your church, but Jesus said, do this often. Yes. As often as you do it. Yes. As often. So, I mean, I don't think annual is often, but I know a lot of churches only do it once a year, some every three months. So John's saying before he started with Morning Manna, it's been five years. So Brian, Brian said 20 years. Praise God you're here.

Welcome home, Brian. Glad to have you at dinner yeah so this is very encouraging to Doc and me because we know that we're

we're rounding up stray sheep alright so that's what's going on We're rounding up stray sheep. All right. So that's what's going on. Yes. Kate, look at this, Doc. Before morning manna, 40 years. Wow.

Kate, that's a long time in the wilderness. But welcome home. Glad to have you at the table. It's great. Fantastic. This is good. Now, what the Lord is doing is we're rounding up his lost sheep, his, not lost, stray sheep. Okay. For one reason or the other you strayed away and um the lord's been waiting on you to come back to the table you weren't unsaved you didn't lose your salvation you just didn't show up for dinner So praise God. Yeah. We're glad to have you.

All right. It's six years. It's been amazing. This is very satisfying to me. Amen. Well, and we invite you to be here with us every day, not just on Fridays for the Lord's Supper, but every day here on Morning Manor. And right at 20 countries today joining us. So that's always a blessing.

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You can also listen to the archives, not only of Morning Manor, but also of True News and other content that we're producing on a regular basis that you can listen to the replays. You can do that only on faithinvalues.com. And so we appreciate that. Any final words before we sign off for today, Rick? Well, Doug, I want to thank you for being my partner in ministry for a decade. Ten years. Am I off probation finally? You should get a medal for surviving 10 years with me. I'm very, very glad the Lord sent you into our ministry. I'm glad to be here. I really am. So it's a blessing to me.

So to imagine a quarter of my adult life I've spent with this ministry, that's something significant there. I appreciate it. And God brought me here. I believe he, you know, he led me here. And so that's where I'm at. So, yes. Well, praise God. Glad to have you here. All right. Hey, we got to go. We'll have morning. We'll have a true news coming up in a few hours. And next Monday, we start chapter four, the book of Matthew. Amen. All right. And we'll see you on find true news on frequency 12.160 from 12 p.m to 4 p.m eastern and on frequency 4.840 from 10 p.m to 2 p.m eastern connect with us on rumble, Facebook, X, and Getter.