TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Holy Land Day 6: The Journey from Mount Nebo to the Jordan River

Episode Date: May 3, 2022

Today on TruNews, the team explores Mount Nebo, and shares the last view of the Promised Land that Moses experienced before his death. Next stop, the Jordan River, as the team visits the site of the preaching of John the Baptist and the Baptism of Jesus. Rick and Doc also provide a recap of visits to other significant locations in the ‘Other Holy Land’ of Jordan. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 5/3/22.Holy Land Day 1: Ancient Roman City and Elijah's Mountain - https://www.spreaker.com/episode/49569185Holy Land Day 2: The City of Aqaba and the World’s Oldest Church - https://www.spreaker.com/episode/49573636Holy Land Day 3: Wadi Musa, Moses’ Spring, and the Gateway to Petra - https://www.spreaker.com/episode/49587574Holy Land Day 4: Explorations at Ancient Petra - https://www.spreaker.com/episode/49599828Holy Land Day 5: From the Dead Sea to the Mosaic Churches of Madaba - https://www.spreaker.com/episode/49630066

The following program is made possible by the faithful prayers and financial support of listeners just like you. To find out how you can help, visit www.truenews.com. This is True News, and this is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. Doc Burkhardt and I are standing atop one of the most sacred, holiest places in the Holy Land, Mount Nebo in Jordan. And Doc, why is this so important to not only Christians, but to Jews, to many people who look to God for salvation? Well, this is the point. According to Deuteronomy chapter 34, Moses came up to the mountain here, Mount Nebo. And the view behind us is the last view that Moses

had. He looked over into the promised land. He saw the fulfillment of the promise that God had given to his people hundreds of years before about them entering in and possessing the land behind us. Moses didn't get to enter the land, Rick. And we talked about this the other day because he struck the rock and the rock, instead of speaking to the rock, he struck the rock twice. Him and Aaron both were told by the Lord, you will not be able to enter the promised land. Aaron died shortly after that. Moses lived on more years, but he came to this place, up to the top of this mountain, overlooked into the valley there behind us, and saw the fulfillment of God's promise.

Now, even though Moses may not have entered the physical promised land, we have the promise of that eternal promised land with us as well. And so when I look over this valley, Rick, I'm encouraged in my own heart that I have those precious promises myself of a promised land, of a city whose builder and maker is God. Amen. So this is God. Amen. So this is it right here. This spot, somewhere on this mountaintop, and it's a very small ridge where we're standing. We're about 2,300 feet in elevation. But on this hilltop is where Moses, for the first time, saw the promised land. He had led the Hebrew people for 40 years through this wilderness that we had been looking at for days here in Jordan.

They left, they departed Egypt in the Exodus. They crossed over through this wilderness and for 40 years wandered around being fed by God with manna, miracles taking place. And then finally, Moses and the Hebrew people reached this point. And it's somewhere in this very close vicinity, Moses stood here on these rocks and looked out and saw what God promised him, what God promised the people of faith. Doc, the promise to Moses wasn't just land. Yes. The promise was more than land. The promise was life.

That's what the real promise was, that if people were obedient to God by faith but God was just looking for people to believe him. And that's all God's looking for today is a people that believes in that's where salvation is. The Bible says that our faith is counted to us as righteousness. It's not, you know, the going into the promised land that fulfills the promise, but the belief that God leads you there.

That's right. That's what saves. It's believing God is believing what God. It's believing what God has promised, believing what God has said, putting your faith in God. And so for us as Christians, this is a sacred place because our salvation

is based on our faith of what God said about his son, Jesus Christ. Our salvation is based on our faith of what God said about his son, Jesus Christ. Our salvation is based on what Jesus himself said while he walked this holy land here. We believe his words. And because we believe his words, because we've put our faith in the resurrected Jesus Christ

and what Jesus did on the cross at Calvary, because of that, our sins are forgiven and we are saved. And see, the real people of Israel, it is not a political state. It's not genetics. It's not by race. The real people of Israel are the people who believe God and obey him by faith. Right. And Paul makes this very clear in Galatians chapter three. He clears it up, makes no bones about it, about who the people of God are, the people that obey God. And for the last 2000 years, you cannot be in Israel and deny Jesus Christ as the son of God.

Right. It's it's incompatible to be to be a citizen of Israel, to be recognized by God as a righteous person, a citizen of Israel means you must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. You must put your faith in Jesus Christ and the atoning work that he did on the cross. Yes. And that's the message that we have here at Mount Nebo, that for Moses to look over here and see the promise, the promise of God. He was looking for a city, but it wasn't this city. Right. He was looking for a land, but it wasn't this land.

Yes. Now, on a very clear day, you could see all the way to Jerusalem from here. But it's a little hazy today. It's that time of year, a lot of dust in the air and everything. But normally you can see, you know, really the over into a lot of Israel here. And so it really is, even on a hazy day, though, it's an impressive sight. You know it was a clear day when he was here so um on the site too up here on top of mount nemo is uh the uh the remains of a byzantine church from the 6th century

and uh built in 530 right and so they've built another church another shrine above it and we have some uh footage of inside of the mosaics and everything. Once again, impressive detail. You know, this is how they worship the Lord is through the detail of the art. And something that's really lost in the church today. That's right. God is a creator. And God creates beautiful things. And he's still a creator today.

And how does he create today? He's not creating new planets. He's not creating new creatures and things. He creates through you and me. And so when you are inspired to create something beautiful and good, that is God the creator working through you. The greatest creation he does today is a new creation. When a sinner repents of his or her sin and is born again and becomes a new creature in Christ, that's his greatest new creation that he's doing every day around the world. He's still a creator. One of the other amazing things about this particular shrine and church, this is an active church, an active shrine up here. It's not just

a tourist attraction. They have worship services here. They have times of prayer up here, even though the floor itself is laid out in those beautiful mosaics. Another feature that's up here on top of Mount Nebo is a sculpture that was built by an Italian sculptor, uh johannes uh paulius a couple decades ago and the brazen serpent the brazen serpent and the brazen serpent is important because jesus related it to salvation he said in john chapter 3 verses 14 and 15 everybody knows john 3 16 but they don't recall John 14 and 15. But in John 14 and 15, Jesus said to Nicodemus, he said, just as Moses raised the serpent up in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up for the salvation of mankind. That's right.

So the serpent was sent to the Hebrew people by God as a curse, a judgment because of their sin and disbelief and disobedience. And they received healing when they looked up at the serpent, the brazen serpent that Moses was carrying. Right. Looked up at the curse. Yes. They looked up at the curse. Yes. They looked up at the curse. And so Jesus on the cross represents that same thing. And so when we look upon Jesus on the cross, we find healing from the curse of the law,

the curse that came upon mankind. And it's not just the curse of the law. It's the curse that came on Adam and Eve in the garden. From the very beginning. The curse of death. Yes. That's the first curse, the curse of death because of the first sin. And just as the people in the wilderness had to look up at the brazen serpent by faith, because nothing logical says, well, if I just look at a snake on a pole, I'm going to be better. Nothing logical says that,

but Moses by the word of the Lord said, look upon the serpent and you'll be healed. And you were healed by faith. You had to believe. And the same thing with our relationship with Jesus Christ, we have to look up to the cross. It doesn't make sense. The logical mind can't figure it out, Rick. That's right. But the spiritual man has to look at the cross of Jesus Christ and look up by faith and realize the curse has been put upon him. That's right. Everything is about Jesus Christ. evangelists, a minister, if you belong to a church, if you're connected to a ministry, and they don't talk about Jesus Christ, you need to get away from them. It's all about Jesus Christ. Everything God has done is about Jesus Christ, about saving mankind from damnation because of the sin of Adam and Eve. And so even here at this place,

which predates the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, it was leading up to it. Everything in the Old Testament was leading up to Jesus coming to earth as God in human flesh to die for the sins of mankind, to be crucified, to be buried, to be resurrected and ascended back to heaven. And that promised land that Moses was looking for was new Jerusalem. Yes. And that is what we're all looking for when Jesus Christ returns and creates again a new heaven and a new earth.

Right. Well, that's it. Well, Doc, you want to final work? Yes, sir. Rick, I know that coming here on Mount Nebo has been a very personal goal for you. Coming up here now, being up here on top of Mount Nebo, experiencing the view here, experiencing this sacred place, where are you at right now?

What are you feeling right now? It's been very quiet, very humbling. I think the two most humbling places I've been to on this trip, yesterday when we went to the fortress where John the Baptist was beheaded, that was a very humbling experience. And this one, Mount Nebo, to be actually standing on the hilltop where Moses saw the promised land. I would like just to stay here for hours and just, I'd like just to have my Bible and read and meditate and pray. I wish I could be here for the rest of the day. It's a beautiful site. The government of Jordan, working with the Franciscans, have preserved this place. And it's a beautiful place

for visitors to come. And everybody who visits the Holy Land, you should come to Jordan and see Mount Nebo. Again, we're planning to bring our first group from America to Jordan in October of this year. And if you're interested, email us at info at truenews.com. Info at truenews.com. Just say, I'm interested. Give me details. And we will start sending newsletters out in a few weeks, getting you the information as we prepare it. But I'm telling you, it will definitely be on the trip. Your trip to Jordan for Holy Land Tour of Jordan will be the vacation of your lifetime. Amen. I will never forget this experience.

It has been a wonderful experience. And I'm going home with a different understanding of the Bible than what I had a week ago, Doc. Yes. It is an enlightening experience. Well, we're going to leave Mount Nebo. And I think our next stop is the Jordan River. I'm pretty sure that's where we're headed. Now, imagine that.

Jesus was baptized in Jordan. Yes, the Jordan River. See, Jordan is the other side of the Holy Land, all right? It's the place where most Christians don't visit. They think of the Holy Land only being over in the modern state of Israel. And there's a lot there in the modern state of Israel to see, but there's a lot to see here in Jordan. And that's what we want to do. We want to focus our Holy Land tours on the nation of Jordan, because you could be here for weeks and not see everything.

That's true. And we're going to try to keep the upcoming trip down to somewhere between seven to 10 days. But you literally could be here for many weeks to get to see everything. All right. Hey, we're going to head out to the Jordan River to the site where Jesus Christ was baptized. You're watching True News. Well, we found a place to take a breather. We just left Mount Nebo, which was an awesome experience. I'm still processing where we were standing. And we found this beautiful site. It's serene and peaceful by the Dead Sea. And the scenery is spectacular. The view of the Dead Sea, the mountains, it's just a stunning,

breathtaking view from this point. And Doc, what has the trip been so far for you? Well, for me, just giving flesh to the bones of faith. That's the best way to describe it. You know, I understood some of the basic, you know, places and some of the characters of the Scripture. Of course, I've studied it most of my adult life, but to come here to Jordan and visit these places and to see these places, touch these places where real men and real women stood for their faith down through the millennia, to me it just added a whole new dimension to my own personal walk with the Lord

and I hope another dimension to my teaching and preaching as well. Suddenly it has flesh on the bones. The best way to describe it, it's come alive for me in a very unique way. And the three monotheistic religions of the world all came out of this land. Yes. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. And so for one small geographical region, this little place here in the Middle East has changed the world. We went over to

the baptism site where John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ. Now, when we got there, we couldn't take our TV camera into the site because it wasn't that the Jordanian government didn't want us to. It was because of the high security right now. Literally on the other side of the Jordan River is Israel, and it is lined with heavily armed IDF soldiers. And there's a lot of high tension right now on the West Bank with the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. There's been a lot of violence and things happening for recent weeks. I'm actually glad, Doc, that we canceled the trip over to Israel. I was planning to take the last three days of this trip and spend it in Israel. And about a month ago, I just felt in my spirit I shouldn't do it. And then the violence started happening on the Israeli side.

There's nothing going on here in Jordan. Jordan's a peaceful country. Yes. But there's violence taking place over on the Israeli side. So anyhow, when we got out to the baptismal site where John baptized Jesus, the Jordanian government said that we couldn't use a TV camera because they didn't want to agitate the Israeli soldiers. It wasn't that it was agitating the Jordanian soldiers. It would agitate the Israeli soldiers. So, you know, we've been respectful and the Jordanian government has been very helpful to us. So we honored their request. We found out that you literally had to

have permission from the Jordanian intelligence agency, similar to their CIA, in order to take a TV camera out to the Jordan River where Jesus was baptized because the tension is so high there. But you could take your phone. You could take your phone, but you couldn't talk on your phone. You could take pictures, but you couldn't record video and talk on the video because, again, the Israeli soldiers were watching everybody on the Jordanian side.

So I didn't realize that. I did record some video while I was there, but then I was quickly told by our guide, hey, put your phone down. You're not supposed to be talking on your phone right now. So anyhow, we were able to get some photographs and a little bit of video out there. The Jordanian government said that they were going to provide us some copyright-free video that we could use in True News. So we'll see if that shows up here later today. You know, we're producing each day's true news on the fly. I mean, it's as we travel and we've been

doing a lot of driving, a lot of traveling. Yesterday was, Doc, I thought Petra was exciting, but yesterday was an amazing day to be up there on that fortress. Let's talk first, before we go back and revisit that, let's talk about what we saw today at the site where John the Baptist was, where he baptized Jesus. Once again, my impression of what it was like is different than what I see now. Right.

Because according to the guide, Jesus wasn't baptized in the main Jordan River. It was in a tributary, an offshoot. Yes. And that tributary offshoot is on the Jordan side of the Jordan River. Over the centuries, they've built up around this particular tributary.

They've got a baptistry. It immense the size of it the and it's in the shape of a cross and but that site is supposed to be the place where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist where the Holy Spirit came on Jesus like a dove and where the voice of the Father from heaven said this is is my beloved Son, hear ye him. And so we've got some video of that that we're showing you right now. So you see there's not very much water down in the bottom of this particular baptistry and everything. There's a story about that. It's very dry right now.

So the tributary is not running. Right. But this site here that we're talking about right now is supposed to be the site where Jesus was baptized by John. Okay, so now people, I'm sure, are asking, how do you know that was the exact site? How do you know that? The Bible says he was baptized into Jordan. You're saying that it was a tributary that shoots off of the main Jordan River. It's not that far away. It's just a walking

distance. But how do we know that that site? So I asked the guide and he gave me some information. In the year 530 AD, church leader Theodosius wrote, five miles north of the Dead Sea, in the place where the Lord was baptized, there is a singular pillar, and on the pillar, an iron cross has been fastened. There too is the church of St. John the Baptist, which the Emperor Anastasius built. The church is very lofty, being built above large chambers on account of the Jordan when it overflows. Then 40 years after Theodosius wrote that, in a year 570, Anatolius of Pianza said, by the side of the Jordan. So he wrote by the side of the Jordan where the Lord was baptized.

At the place where the water returned to its bed. Marble steps descend into the water. And then in the year 670, Archophos of France said at the edge of the river is a small square church built, as it is said, on the spot where the garments of the Lord were taken care of at the time when he was baptized. This is raised so as to be uninhabitable on four stone vaults standing above the waters which flow below. So church history. Yes. So we have eyewitness accounts of people that actually wrote their experiences down. We're talking about in the five and the 600s. So that's not that far removed from early times. So Christians have been making pilgrimages to this site

since the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. They traveled out to this place in the Jordan and the church leaders and the local residents knew, oh, this is right here. This spot right here is where John baptized Jesus. So we have to go by those records that have been handed down orally and also in ancient writings. And those are just a few. There's numerous ones down through, you know, five, six and seven hundreds that recount you know there was this marker was put right here these steps were put right here and so this is all on the

jordan side of the river now if you come on a holy land trip uh and they take you to the jordan river you know at least on the israel side um there's a beautiful facility over there. Oh, yes. A gorgeous facility. And there was a church group. I don't know what country they were from, but they were having a baptismal service, and people were singing. It was a very joyful time to watch people go down into the river. You can be baptized from the Jordan side.

We talked to one of the soldiers, and he said, sure, anytime. You want to be baptized? There are the steps. Go down and be baptized. Just don't bring a TV camera. That's the only thing that upsets the Israelis. You bring a big television camera. So, you know, go ahead. Near the site too, as you enter, you know, this is a Christian site and everything, of course. And there's a Greek Orthodox church that sits there and had a museum, had a number of relics in there from, you know, across the centuries, dating all the way back from the Byzantine era all the way through, you know, the Crusade periods and everything. And up to the modern ages, a number of different relics and items that were in there.

A lot of portraits of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus. And that was fascinating just to see the development of the story down through the centuries. But this is one of those sacred sites again, Rick, that every Christian, you know, for two millennia, people have been making pilgrimages to the Holy Land, but it's only in the past hundred years or so that the Holy Land on the Jordan side has basically been forgotten by a lot of people. You know, Doc, in what is now Turkey and Armenia, in the mountains of Ararat, not Mount Ararat, but the mountains of Ararat. Mountains of Ararat is a range of mountains. It's like the Rockies, the various mountain ranges of the world, and the Andes and so forth.

So when the Bible says that Noah's Ark landed on the mountains of Ararat, there is a mountain, a mountain, called Mount Ararat, but it's part of the chain of the mountains of Ararat. So Noah's Ark could have landed on any of those mountains, but this is the point I wanted to make. The Jewish historian Josephus wrote that at his time, Christian pilgrims were still traveling to see the Ark. Right.

So at the time of Josephus, the Ark was still there, physically there. And people were making the pilgrimage to visit that site. And so. After thousands of years, the Ark was still sitting on the hillside. And wasn't there a shrine of some kind that was near the site? I believe there was. And so, but those are the kinds of... And you could buy a small carved wooden boat, too.

That's good. And so that's another thing here. There's a souvenir shop just about everywhere. And so, but it's, as we were mentioning earlier, the Bible has come alive in a new way for me, Rick, just to experience these sites. And we have still a number of sites yet to see this week that's shared with the audience as well. Well, yesterday, Doc, when we were up on the mountaintop where John the Baptist was beheaded, that completely changed my concept of New Testament events.

Because as I said on yesterday's program, I just assumed John was beheaded in Jerusalem. You know, they just, they had him in jail in Jerusalem and it all happened there, but it makes sense. That fortress was part of, Herod is part of his kingdom that he was overseeing for the Romans. It was a far distant outpost. Right. And he probably only went there, what, once a year at the most? A few times a year. And so he was there with his family. And now it makes sense.

John the Baptist was preaching in the wilderness. Yes. And when we say wilderness, it was wilderness. It's still wilderness, Doc. It is still wilderness. So it means that John the Baptist wasn't that far away because we just came from the Jordan River where he was baptizing people. Yeah. So it makes sense.

As the crow flies, it's only about six miles. Is that really? That's the distance? I was wondering. So it makes sense now that somebody, there was some government surveillance operation. There was an, you know, there were informants inside John the Baptist congregation, the people who were traveling out. Now, see, it makes sense now. People traveled. They traveled out to hear John the Baptist, to see this man who

was eating locusts and honey, to hear him preach about repentance. And now the picture for me is so much better. And so there had to be at least one government informant who was in the crowd who then reported back to Herod, hey, you want to hear what that preacher is saying about you? Right. And that got him arrested and it got him beheaded. Right. You know, another aspect of the events at the Jordan River is that this wasn't, you know, an afternoon trip or anything like that. If you came out to hear John the Baptist, it was a trip.

Yes. I mean, it was a long distance. You planned to stay a day or two. And I know why he was eating locusts and honey. There's nothing else to eat. There's nothing else to eat other than goats and a few things. But it's so barren out there, except when you get right up to the side of the baptism and everything,

and the plants come alive and everything along there. But you realize that when people were coming out to listen to John the Baptist, and Pharisees were coming out too to listen to John the Baptist, that this wasn't just a casual, well, let's go outside of town and listen to John the Baptist. No, you had to make plans to travel and to hear him and to stay maybe even some stayed for a long period of time yes so it changes the way I think about John the Baptist because beforehand it was just like well he's preaching and people coming out and they're going back to town and And now it makes sense that he was in chains below in the dungeon of that fortress

and up on the patio on the rooftop where we stood yesterday. That was like a patio. So Herod was having his nighttime party. They were looking at the stars in the sky. They were dancing. He had his belly dancers and he had his booze and his food. And he was getting drunk and they were having a big party. Meanwhile, down below. Down below was the preacher, John the Baptist.

And then they brought his head, had him beheaded and they brought his head up on a silver platter, brought it up and presented it to Herod. Now I've got an image of it. Now I can see it. And it all makes sense to me now of what really went down that day. But that was quite a trip. It was, I would say, second to Petra. Because Petra was stunning. Yes, it was. What we saw that day, we spent, what, a day and a half at Petra, and it was absolutely stunning. But yesterday was, I would say, number two. There's so much that we've seen, it's hard to process it all. It's, you know, we could talk about any one location or any one event for an hour just based on the Scripture. I got to make mention, some of you saw it on social media,

our journey up the road to the fortress where John was beheaded. So the road was a narrow cobblestone road, over 5,000 years old, King's Highway, with stone walls, a wall on each side, and then a cliff. In some places, the wall was maybe only about six inches tall. It had worn And our driver and our guide, Bassam, who's been fantastic, he's just given us the best trip of my life. And he's Jordanian. He knows all these sites. And he's a true news fan. So he wanted us to go up there. And I thought we would walk when I saw how steep the mountain was.

But he was in a—we were traveling in a rental SUV and a Yukon. Yes. It wasn't a little one. It was a big old Yukon. So we know how wide the trail is. Yes. It's Yukon-wide. Oh, I will tell you, Doc, there's a spot where it's shorter.

It's more narrow than a Yukon. OK, so there there got to be a place on that hill, on that mountain where I said, stop. That's it. Let me out. I want out of the I want out of the vehicle. It's crazy. It's crazy. so we made him stop and uh doc and and myself and our cameraman lee we bailed out and said we'll walk it there was no place to turn around there was no place to turn around and and so he gunned it and went up the mountain all i could think of we have no idea what's up there he's going to get up there and there's no place for him to turn around the SUV, and he's got to back down the entire mountain. But the three of us climbed, and it was quite steep.

So I want to get Bassam to come up here. Hey, come on up here, Bassam. This is our guide here, Bassam. You've given us quite a trip. Yeah. This has been awesome. So yesterday going up the mountain, that was crazy enough, but coming down. Coming down, it got really downright crazy. You know what? The guy who was guiding me

on the phone, he told me that the way is open for you because we have a permit just to go to the castle but Unfortunately, as you see we just like we stopped we cannot return back We I have to go up to the end of that way. Yes, did he know you were driving a Yukon? Yeah, I mean he said, he said, it's okay. Yes. I asked him already, did somebody before drive? He said, yes, I drive it by my own.

Yes, but what size vehicle? He didn't tell me. So coming down the mountain, it was pretty wild and crazy. And then all of a sudden we came to an abrupt stop. And I've got video. I think we'll be able to show it of us going down the mountain. And we just had this abrupt stop. And I looked out the back window and we were snagged on the stone wall.

And the SUV was hanging on a wall, a 5,000-year-old wall. And we were burning rubber. And we weren't going anywhere. And I'm thinking, okay, can the three of us pick up this Yukon and move it a half inch? We couldn't even get out of the truck. We couldn't get out. We got to climb through the windows. But on my side, it was a cliff.

So if I climbed out the window, I had to walk on like a 12-inch ledge. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Which would have been great video, by the way. But, you know, it's a challenge. Yeah, it was a challenge. It was fun. So I want to tell you what.

Well, we had one other incident on the highway. We were passing a truck, and there was another vehicle passing at the same time. And we met in the same lane and, you know, shared some metal for a little bit. And then later in the day, we tore up the other side of the SUV on the wall. But you know what this guy did for us? Because this is a rental. True story. He was up until 3 a.m. sanding and buffing out the scratches and repainting the SUV for us.

Now, that is a tour guide for you. So, we're returning an SUV that looks beautiful. Yes. It's alive now. It looks beautiful. And it's brand new. Yes. New paint job.

Yeah. So, let's do it again. I'm not going to cost too much. I'm okay. You want to do parasailing? Yeah. We could jump off the rocks here. That's right.

All right. Well, there's a lot more on this trip. We don't know where Vassam is taking us next, but we want you to watch every episode of True News the rest of this week. And remember, if you're interested in coming to Jordan with us in October, email us at info at truenews.com, info at truenews.com, and we will send information to you about our upcoming tour to Jordan,

the other side of the Holy Land. On behalf of Doc Burkhart and Basam, I'm Rick Wiles. Thank you for watching True News today. God bless you. The preceding program was made possible by the faithful prayers and financial support of listeners just like you. To find out how you can help, visit www.truenews.com.