TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Lavrov Blames U.S. for TurkStream Pipeline Attack…ATACMS Strike More Targets Today

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

On Saturday, Ukrainian drones attacked the TurkStream pipeline that carries Russian gas to eastern European countries. Last night, Ukraine used American-made, American-paid ATACM missiles to strike chemical plants inside Russia.  Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 01/14/2025Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.com             It’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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Because strength comes from smart preparation. American Reserves, your ally in emergency readiness. Visit our website and become prepared today. If I were a cynical guy, I could easily conclude that outgoing President Joe Biden is deliberately trying to start a war with Russia before he leaves the White House next week. On Saturday, Ukrainian drones attacked the TurkStream pipeline that carries Russian gas to Eastern European countries. Then last night, the Ukrainian military used American-made, American-paid attack of missiles to strike chemical plants inside Russia. This is true news for Tuesday, January 14, 2025.

Let's begin our analysis and commentary of today's top national and international news by focusing on this Newsweek article, Putin's chemical plants on fire as attack on missiles strike inside Russia. So Ukraine has targeted multiple chemical plants vital to production of weapons and explosives for the Russian military. This is according to a Ukrainian official, with Kiev launching a wave of missile and drone attacks in several Russian regions in the overnight hours. Ukrainian forces attacked the Bryansk chemical plant late on Monday, a facility on the border of the Bryansk region of Russia that props up Russia's military industry. This has come from Andrei Kovalenko, an official within Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council. Now, Russian and Ukrainian

sources reported that Kiev used U.S.-supplied long-range attackants. The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed the attack as well, in addition to the use of the missiles, but said all were intercepted. Now, Newsweek magazine has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry and Ukrainian military for comment via email, no response as of publication. But Kiev also targeted a nearby Russian microelectronics facility producing parts for missile systems and air defenses. And a number of other sites important to the Kremlin's war machine across Russia, like a chemical plant in the country's Tatarstan region. We have some video of that attack on that chemical plant.

Now, Rick, if a chemical plant had been attacked by the Russians in Ukraine, what do you think the response of the European leaders and American officials would be to such an attack? Reckless. Yes. Spewing chemicals into the atmosphere. That could endanger the lives of Europeans, not just Ukrainians. That's right. But no, Ukraine can targetussian military plants and if i recall right winds flow in the same direction

out of russia as across ukraine they do and so doc if if the ukrainian military used american built american paid attackams yes they could only be used if the Pentagon, the Department of Defense, approved it and supplied the satellite guidance and the personnel. It requires American military personnel to assist the Ukrainians to fire these missiles. That's right. I mean, the Ukrainians can't do it themselves. So the Department of Defense would only authorize it if the White House authorized it. Right. Now, I didn't say Joe Biden because I don't think he's been running the country in four years.

Whatever the committee is that runs the White House, they approved it. Why would anybody risk starting a war with Russia days away from the U.S. inauguration of a new president? That you want to saddle Donald Trump with a war. Unless you want to sabotage his administration. Right. Doc, I don't put it past these people. The night before, you know, January 19th, the morning of January 20th, I don't put anything past these people. Who knows what they will do?

Now, the other question is, what will the Russians do? Will Putin, is he going to bite his lip and say, okay? Let's wait till the 20th. We're going to wait till the 20th and see what comes in power. I suspect he will. But based on previous words and doctrines that they have laid out, if they follow their own doctrine that they've established in the past year, they're going to attack.

And it's not Ukraine. It would be the United States because we approved it. The attack on the TurkStream pipeline on Saturday, which is a Turkish-Russian project, they used British storm shadow missiles. Right. They used British storm shadow missiles. So Great Britain and the United States both involved in major attacks on Russia targets in the past, what, 72 hours or so? Just days before Donald Trump is to be sworn in. One week away, Rick. They are doing everything they can

to sabotage his administration. They put the sanctions on Russian energy products just days ago to drive up the price of fuel in America. Right. So that Donald Trump comes into the White House and he has inflated fuel prices that he's got to deal with. I don't know how they're going to respond to this. London Telegraph, Ukraine launches British storm shadow missiles in the largest attack on Russian military facilities.

This is a hundred and also Ukraine also launched 146 drones traveling 700 miles into Russia. That's on top of the missiles. Right. Again, these attacks, and this is Moscow confirming the massive attack, vowed a response. They said, this is from the Kremlin, the actions of the Kiev regime, supported by its Western curators, will not go unanswered. So if it's not going to go unanswered, somebody's going to get blown up very soon. Are they going to limit the targets to Ukraine? Doc, can you imagine the day of the inauguration and Great Britain has been attacked by Russia?

I could see it. This is what Joe Biden's gang is trying to do to Donald Trump. Just inflame the world. Burn the world down. Anything to prevent Donald Trump from having a successful administration. It's insane. It's reckless. I can't think of any time in my lifetime that an outgoing president was sabotaging the incoming president.

I mean, it's one thing to put a thumbtack on his seat. Oh, boy, wait until he sits down in that chair. That's going to hurt. Okay. You know, practical joke. But we're talking about things that could start a nuclear war. Right. Can you see Eisenhower doing this to JFK?

Absolutely not. But even Eisenhower was aware that within the machinery of government and military that there was a complex. He called it the military-industrial complex. And he warned the American people about it. And it's that that's driving this right now. That's it. And so even Eisenhower, Kennedy was aware of it too. What happened to Kennedy?

And Johnson embraced it. And so, but, you know, we spoke yesterday a little bit about the TurkStream attack. And can I just say that what we call the military industrial complex, it's called Zionism. That's what it is now. Who owns it? Who owns the defense companies? Who makes money from war? Who, when we say deep state, what are we talking about? Why can't we just say what it is?

Zionism. Yes. People say deep state and military industrial complex because they don't want to say the word Zionism. They took control of this country when they killed Kennedy. That was the beginning of it. The Zionists killed John F. Kennedy because Kennedy stood up against them. They wanted nuclear weapons.

And he said no. Kennedy was going to send U.S. commandos to seize Dimona. Yes. To stop them from building atomic weapons. They killed Kennedy. Who came into power? Johnson, who was a closet secret Zionist. Yes.

And then what did we get after Johnson's in power? We got the USS Liberty. Yes. They've been in control since Kennedy was killed. Wasn't complete control. But now it's almost, you know, what would you say, 90%? I wouldn't be shocked at that number at all. Can you – Half the federal employees have said in a survey that was published this morning, said they would not work with the Trump administration.

Half the federal employees that were surveyed. I mean just that alone, you have an antagonistic workforce that won't do what you tell them. So what the republicans have to do, which they don't have the backbone to do, they need to suspend the federal laws that protect civil servants. That's a long time coming. You fire everyone that is resisting the incoming administration. Yeah, because so many of these folks are tenured in their positions, and you can't get rid of them.

It was like the Peter Strzok situation back when he was testifying in the impeachment of Donald Trump. Why was he – he was still working for the FBI. They couldn't get rid of the guy. He wasn't even showing up for work. So, but the Republicans can solve it if they passed a law that said for the next four years, the Civil Service Act or whatever it's called, is suspended for four years. Gives the president right to fire anybody he wants to fire. That's what should happen. Then Donald Trump could fire all these people that refuse to do their job because they don't like the president. So anyway, to eradicate the bureaucracy that's dug into the country, you know, up until, I don't know what year the civil service laws started to take effect.

I don't know. But I know in the beginning of the country, Andrew Jackson's motto was, to the victor belongs the spoils. Right. What that means is you pick the people to serve in your administration. Right. Andrew Jackson said,

I get to fire everybody and hire my people. Right. And that was the way it was in politics every four years. And it was that way in state governments. The new governor, hey, everybody gets fired. Governor gets to hire his own people. That's just the way it is.

I don't have any problem with it. It's why you have elections. You vote for another party, another candidate, because you're fed up with what the other group's been doing. And yet the same people stay in power. Now, RT has this article about Sergei Lavrov. Lavrov blames the United States for the TurkStream attack. Folks, this is serious. This is why I'm saying I don't know what Putin's going to do, because his secretary of foreign affairs, Sergei Lavrov, today said it was the United States who was behind the attack last Saturday on our TurkStream pipeline.

And we talked about that yesterday. Who benefits from an attack on the TurkStream pipeline? We do. America does. And he said in these remarks, they are deliberately destroying their European partners. Yes. It's almost like we're at war with Europe. The Russians are getting it. They're looking at it.

They're attacking us, but they're also attacking their partners. They're destroying their economy. Let's go ahead and look at it. So the U.S. instructed Ukraine to target the TurkStream gas pipeline after sabotaging the Nord Stream subsea connectors in 2022. That's coming from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. During a press conference Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov suggested that the United States may have been involved in an attempt to sabotage a gas facility. He said, I have a firm belief that the U.S. needs no competitor in any field, starting with energy, Lavrov stated. The minister went on to accuse the U.S. of encouraging actions that undermine Europe's energy stability,

claiming that American officials in headlong manner give a go-ahead to perpetrate terrorist attacks that ruin the energy well-being of the EU. The U.S. prod their Ukrainian clients now to take out TurkStream after the attack on NordStream, Lavrov alleged. And we have a video of Sergey Lavrov speaking at the press conference. I'll read the captions here as it plays. They also, without hesitation, give the green light to terrorist activities aimed at destroying the foundation of the European Union's energy stability.

They are inciting their Ukrainian clients to disable, following the Nord Stream, the Turkish Stream as well. Competition in the economic sphere, of course, or rather the refusal to engage in fair competition and the use of dishonest and aggressive methods to suppress competitors is evident in their sensationalist policies. And so he's saying and making the accusation this was not only a military attack, but it was also an economic attack as well.

It's the new way world wars are fought. Right. But they are disabling Europe. And making the Europe dependent on the U.S. Yes. When you break the whole conflict down just on energy policy,

does it start making a lot more sense now? It does. Who owns the energy of this country? Just follow the money trail. It's as simple as that. There are billionaires who are going to become

super billionaires through war, through controlling energy. And it's not just individuals. These are investment firms, hedge funds, capital investment companies, which are owned by a handful of people. I mean, we're really probably looking at five or six corporations, financial corporations. They're not even bank stock. We can't even call, we can't even bash them as banks. They're not banks. Right. They're not even bank stock. We can't even call, we can't even bash them as banks.

They're not banks. They're bigger than the banks. They're bigger. They own the banks. They own the banks. Okay, this next one, Newsweek. A Russian television commentator said, we need Greenland.

And he wants a deal with Donald Trump. I was wondering when the Russians were going to start talking about Greenland. And so this says that Russia should make a deal with the incoming U.S. President Donald Trump and encourage him to succeed in acquiring Greenland. Right. What's behind it? Well, they obviously see the future, too. Andrei Gurilov, a Russian parliament member and former military commander, made the remarks during an appearance on state television channel Russia One, where he spoke alongside host Vladimir Soloyev.

We have that video, and I'll read the captions here. Trump is taking his claim to Greenland. Why don't we look at Greenland? We need Greenland, no joke. At the very least, we could make a deal with Trump and split Greenland. It is clear that Denmark will never be there again. This is close to the northern fleet, which is extremely important to us today. There will be some nice bases there affecting the whole Arctic component.

Today we need to clearly increase the military component in the Arctic based on the conditions. And they're taking place in Ukraine. The Arctic is the second larger issue that has already begun. And we need to sit down and clearly calculate everything. War, we've always said, is math. We have to sit down and do the math. The main thing is to build a proper defense there. We need to build such a defense that no one will think of sticking their heads into our what? The Arctic? All forms of defense. I like the offensive the best. So do I. So make a deal.

Make a deal with the United States. We'll split Greenland. We'll share it. Doc, I'm not going to rule out the far-out possibility that Donald Trump signs a treaty with Russia. When you mentioned that the other day, I was like, that's not a bad scenario. Wouldn't it be a great sell to the American people to say, I've made a deal with Russia.

There will not be a conflict for 100 years. There's not going to be a war with Russia. That's right. There's not going to be a war with Russia. And NATO, you don't need NATO anymore. Right. The Europeans can do whatever they want to do. They can trade with either partner, Russia or the United States.

And the U.S. and Russia would jointly build projects around the world. I think it's a great idea. It eliminates the possibility of a nuclear war between the two countries. Right. And then that leaves China. Then China is in a corner. Right. And it messes up China's plans for war.

Will it happen? I don't know. And China is actively looking at Arctic routes, too. I mean, they are building the super icebreakers now, Rick, that are going to be more than competitive to American and Russian fleets in the Arctic routes. And so they are aware that there are cycles in the weather, too, that take place. Let's take a look at what NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said. This newspaper, London Loves Business,

Wes told to either learn the Russian language or raise defense spending. He actually told them. Don't you just jump out and scare you like that, Rick? NATO Secretary General jokingly told the European Parliament that allies must spend more on defense, warning that if we don't, we will not be safe within four or five years. He went on to say, everything I'm seeing at this moment is not nearly enough, and if we don't do it, such as raise our spending targets, we are safe now, but not in four or five years. So if you don't do it, get out your Russian language courses or go to New Zealand, or decide now to spend more. And that's exactly the debate we have to finalize over the next three or four months

to stay safe in this part of the world. So Mr. Ruta is saying if you don't spend more money on war, you're going to be speaking Russian in about five years. Five years from 2025 is 2030. We're back to that. We're back to be speaking Russian in about five years. Five years from 2025 is 2030. We're back to that. We're back to 2030. He just gave you a hint. 2030.

So Mr. Ruta is saying we need more money for war. I want to go back to what I just said a few minutes ago. If Donald Trump did something big and bold and signed a peace treaty between the United States and Russia, there's no need for NATO. That's right. And now Mr. Ruta is out of a job. He needs Russia to be the bad guy, to be the boogeyman, so he can raise more money for war. If there's no need for war, what does he do? What's his job? He doesn't have a job.

There's no purpose in NATO. It has to disband. The way to deal with it is sign a peace treaty. Why is that such a radical idea? Because they don't like the word peace, Rick. You don't make money on peace. There's no money in peace. You only make money on pieces.

But if you had the money that you're spending on war, you could be putting it into education, into health care, into building better park systems. There's all kinds of things you could be doing that's for the good of society. But we spend almost a trillion dollars a year on war. Yes. Or preparing for war. And other countries are doing likewise.

Speaking of war. Yes. So now we go to the Senate hearings today. We're focused on Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. Did you get an opportunity to watch any? I did. I listened as I was working. I want to tell my audience, before you throw tomatoes at me, I'm not bipolar, okay? Because some people will get the emails, well, Rick, one day you're a Trump lover, the next day you're a Trump basher.

I'm not bipolar. I'm just independent. That can be a capital offense for some people. I'm independent. I have a brain. I can think for myself. I don't have to drink the MAGA juice. I don't have to. I voted for Donald Trump.

I like the guy. I hope he's a very successful president. But that doesn't mean I'm going to cheer every single thing he does. Okay? I've got a brain. I can look at things and go, that's not good. Nominating Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense is not a good idea. Honestly, I've told you this before. When his name came up, I truly thought he was nominated to be the press secretary at the Pentagon.

That's what he's qualified to do. He's qualified to be the press secretary. I'd have no problem with that. He's a talking face at Fox News. Yes. He does have military experience. He does have military experience. He does have combat experience. And those are all well and good.

But he has no management experience. He has no management experience at that level. At that level, Doc. The Pentagon's budget is $850 billion a year. Do you know what the revenue of Walmart is? Walmart's revenue is $674 billion. The Department of Defense is bigger than Walmart. The annual revenue of Amazon is $620 billion.

The Department of Defense is bigger than Amazon. The annual revenue of Saudi Arabco, the Saudi oil company, is $489 billion. So twice the size of Arabco, the Pentagon is. Are you telling me that the board of directors of Walmart would hire Pete Hegseth to be the CEO of Walmart? Now, you see, now you just asked a great question. Would Jeff Bezos hire Pete Hegseth to run Amazon. You know they wouldn't. Of course not.

Because he's not qualified. Is he a nice guy? I'm sure he's a nice guy. I'm not criticizing him as a person. I'm saying the Department of Defense is so big. I don't know if there's anybody that can manage it. Could Jamie Dimon run it? It would take somebody with his executive ability.

I'm not proposing Jamie Dimon to be the secretary. I'm just saying in terms of management capability, it would take somebody at the level of Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, to manage an organization that spends $850 billion a year. And when you frame it like that, too, I mean, you can't help but think that there are some governors out there that might be more qualified in this because they've managed a state government. At least that's approaching somewhat the size of the Pentagon. Are there CEOs with military experience that could handle this role at this level? Yes, there are. Lloyd Austin, he's not qualified.

What is his background? Well, other than being in the military, what other? But he hasn't managed anything. Right. And he could disappear for a month and no one knew it. And nobody knew about it. So Pete Higgseth, I believe, is, I think if he's confirmed, I think he's a disaster waiting to happen.

The defense contractors will run the Pentagon. Right. The defense contractors will be running the Pentagon. It's not going to be Pete Hegseth. Are you hearing music? No. You're not hearing the music? No, I'm sorry, Rick. I'm not hearing music. No? You're not hearing the music? No, I'm sorry, Rick.

I'm not hearing the music. I'm hearing my old theme song. Okay. I don't know where it's coming from, but I'm not hearing it. The old theme song. Do you hear this music often, Rick? No, but I was starting to go back in time. All right. So, Pete Higgseth,

again, I'm not criticizing him as a man, as a person, but I have no confidence in him to manage a government agency

that spends almost $900 billion a year and has more waste than any government agency in the world. Massive amount of waste. He will never be able to get it under control because he doesn't know how to manage.

I wouldn't. Would you hire him to run a chain of five-guy hamburger? I mean, he doesn't have any business. He'd be the spokesperson out there. He'd be the spokesperson. You know, he said, man, these burgers are business. He'd be the spokesperson out there. He'd be the spokesperson. He could do ads. These burgers are great. He'd be great doing TV ads, but would you want him to run the

corporation? No. And is that the goal? Was that, you know, let's face it, Pete Hegseth, you know, got that square jaw, he's got the good looks and everything. Was that the reason? We need a new face for the Pentagon? I think that and I think Donald Trump absolutely wants a 100% yes man in the Department of Defense.

Well, I can understand that. I'd want that too. But there are no others? Are you saying that they looked far and wide? They didn't look too far. They looked behind trees. They looked under rocks. They didn't look too far. But even setting aside his lack of qualifications for the position, I would be more concerned about what he has said in the past about things. That's right.

So I pulled up today three recent videos from Fox News. When I say recent, November. Yes. Just shortly after the election, before, I think before he even knew that he was being considered. He probably was the most shocked person of all, that he was chosen to be Secretary of Defense. But I pulled up three video clips from Fox News of Pete Hegseff talking about Russia and Ukraine. And he is a fire-breathing warmonger

who wants to go to war with Russia. That's the man that's going into the Pentagon. It's not somebody saying, hey, we got to tone this down. We're going to go into a nuclear war. This man wants to fight Russia. He wants to crush Russia. Let's play the first one.

This is where he called Russia a gas station with a flag. You can have a lot of questions, but there's no doubt the Kremlin was aware and likely behind it that nothing happens in Moscow without ultimately the blessing of the government there or at least the knowledge of it, as you acknowledged. And KT's entirely right. I mean, Russia's effectively a gas station with a flag. And when you cut off their energy capabilities, you cripple them. When you increase sanctions, as the Trump administration did, you make them more vulnerable.

And when you supply actual weapons instead of blankets to their adversaries, you're able to block them. Cripple their energy sector, supply weapons to their adversaries, put sanctions on them. He's very aggressive. That was a very aggressive position. And you're going to put him in charge of the Department of Defense, and you think you're going to bring down the war fever? Right. That guy wants war. Well, in a further comment by Pete Hegseth, his comments,

he called Vladimir Putin a war criminal. Now, do you really want somebody in charge of the Department of Defense who is calling our primary enemy a war criminal? Well, would he call Netanyahu a war criminal? Of course not. There's arrest warrants for him. No, Pete Hakeseth is a flaming Zionist. Yes. So this is what he said about,

and in this video, what you're going to hear him say is, Biden is not giving Ukraine enough missiles to hit Russia. Not fast enough. And not fast enough. You need to speed it up. Let's watch. One first big question. What's at

stake? What's at stake is repelling an authoritarian who basically is saying, I want the Soviet Union back. I want Ukraine back. I want Kiev back. And then what's at stake is making sure we don't allow it to become an Article 5 larger, broader war than that. So equipping and supplying Ukraine with what it needs faster than we have, and we haven't been doing it. The Biden administration has not been doing it fast enough so that they can further bog Putin down and push him back. It's going to be long. It's going to be bloody. But I think that's those are the stakes for the United States of America.

I would encourage folks to go watch Who is Vladimir Putin on Fox Nation. It's great. It talks about how he views human nature. It's good. It's good. And it helps you get an understanding of how he views human nature and how he views his role in manipulating it and putting back the Soviet Union. When it comes to Ukraine, though, Harris, he's going to double down on the tactics he believes will bring civilians to their knees. You know why? He doesn't play by the rules of war. We call him a war criminal, and we do, and rightfully so. He doesn't care. Russia's not a signatory to the International Criminal Court.

He doesn't feel any threat that he'll be held accountable. Ceasefires? You know what ceasefires are for him? An opportunity to reload. An opportunity to pick more targets. And he's already said, I mean, this is a precarious part for Zelensky, too. Zelensky did the right thing in saying,

hey, any man in this country, stay here, pick up a rifle and fight. But in the twisted mind of Vladimir Putin, you know what that says? Every man in the country who was a civilian is now a military target. That means any civilian target could be a military target. And women and children that are there are human shields for the men who are carrying Kalashnikovs. Think about it through the psychology of him. So we talk about the targeting of civilians and rightfully so. He's saying those are now military targets and he hasn't done it to Kiev the way he's done it in other places like Mariupol. But I think we're going to see that coming because he's bogged down and is going to double down. Do you know who Pete Hegseth's sugar daddies are?

Well, one of them's gone now. I'll tell you who tapped him. Peter Thiel? Nope. The Koch brothers. Really? Yes. He was tapped.

He was recruited. He was built up. He was sent to school. He was given open doors. The Koch brothers. That's interesting. They own him. He's a product of the Koch brothers. Wow.

Just follow the money. Follow the money. Now, this next one is, he calls on the Pentagon. This was recorded back in 2022. He's calling on the Pentagon to speed up the transfer of weapons to Ukraine to attack Russia. And to do it secretly. And do it secretly. You don't have to talk about it. Move the weapons secretly to attack Russia.

Here's incoming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Can we run that videotape, we got it this morning, of the ship, the Russian ship, the naval ship being hit with a ballistic missile fired by the Ukrainians. There you go. That must have sent one big message to Putin's navy. Because if you cut missiles like that, anti-ship missiles, I don't know how many the Ukrainians have got, but that is the writings on the wall. And they ought to get more missiles like that. And we probably shouldn't tell the world about it. Do it quietly and let the results on the battlefield speak for themselves.

More dead generals, more ships. If you think about six dead generals, they're saying reports are that there are more Russians or as many Russians killed in this month in this conflict as they lost in Afghanistan. That that isn't ultimately sustainable. And so the longer this draws out at a stalemate, the closer we are to what you talked about, which is a Ukrainian win. We are hearing that those kamikaze missiles, the hovering kamikaze, they've not gotten through yet. I mean, what are your thoughts? There is some questions about the speed with which we're delivering these weapon systems and the why

on that. We've seen this Biden White House be slow on a lot of things. What would their reasoning or rationale be for being slow on weapons? I don't know. And that's a question for the Pentagon right now. Those should be, we can move the 82nd Airborne from Fort Bragg to Poland in, you know, 24 hours. We can move javelins and stingers and switchblades into that country quickly. A man is days away from running the Pentagon. Yes. Let me ask you something. Is that what you voted for? When you voted for Donald Trump, is that what you voted for? I didn't.

I didn't vote for... If I had known you were going to get Pete Hegseth, I probably would have just stayed home. Are you serious? You're going to put an inexperienced puppet warmonger in the... And that's what he is. He's a puppet of the warmongers. Unfortunately, he is. He's a warmongers puppet. They're going to put him in the Defense Department,

put him up in the big chair, here's Secretary of Defense. Sign this, Pete. Sign this one. Sign this. We're moving missiles fast. Is that what you voted for? I didn't vote for this. This guy's going to get us more war. Is this really Donald Trump's vision? Is this his doctrine? I mean, he's Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Attorney General.

Those are your three big ones. They're with the president almost on a daily basis. But they affect the world. Yes. And why wouldn't you put somebody in Secretary of Defense that's going to keep America out of war? This guy wants to be in war. His whole mind said, well, wait till you see the next one.

The next one's a couple years old. This was recorded in Jerusalem, of all places, at the King David Hotel. Do you know what happened at the King David Hotel? Well, the Jewish paramilitary group, Ergun, bombed it. It was back when Britain was in control of the Holy Land. And the King David Hotel was being used as kind of a headquarters for the British troops.

So the Jews bombed the King David Hotel. Yes. Before 1948. Right. Maybe it happened in 48, sometime in that area. It's just ironic that that's where this meeting was held. But listen to what Pete Hegseth supports. This is what he believes. He is a raving Christian Zionist. You've got to see this one.

But we are here in Jerusalem. And today, Jennifer and I had a chance to go see the western wall of the Temple Mount, the western wall tunnels, so much of the old city. And as you stand there, you can't help but behold the miracle before you. And it got me thinking about another miracle that I hope all of you don't see too far away. Because 1917 was a miracle. 1948 was a miracle. 1967 was a miracle. 2017, the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital was a miracle. And there's no reason why the miracle of the reestablishment of the temple on the Temple Mount is not possible.

I don't know how it would happen. You don't know how it would happen. But I know that it could happen. That's all I know. And a step in that process, a step in every process, is the recognition that facts and activities on the ground truly matter. And that's why going and visiting Judea and Samaria, understanding that sovereignty, the very sovereignty of Israeli soil, Israeli cities, locations, is a critical next step to showing the world that this is the land for Jews and the land of Israel. And I believe, as was mentioned, he said you need to, what was mentioned is you need to buy the ticket.

Don't just wish for 40 years to win the lottery, buy the ticket. I would submit to you, in light of the support you have in Washington, D.C., the support you have amongst patriotic Americans, amongst evangelical Christians, amongst believers, amongst Republicans, even amongst some Democrats who can barely say it anymore in Washington, buy the ticket, take your action, do what needs to be done here in Israel, because I truly believe this is a moment where America will have your back. You have Donald Trump in the White House. You have Mike Pence as vice president. You have Nikki Haley at the UN. You have true believers in Israel and America that have your back.

And the cabal is back. So obviously that was recorded before 2020. Right. He described the 1917 Balfour Declaration as a miracle. The 1948 United Nations Declaration of the State of Israel taking land from the Palestinians, giving it to European Jews. They said that's a miracle. The 1967 war was a miracle. The 2017 move by Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the world, I guess, that was a miracle.

And he said, there's no reason the third temple can't be built. And what's standing in the way of the third temple? Al-Asqa Mosque. Yes. So, Pete Hankseth would absolutely support the destruction of the Al-Asqa Mosque. He would support the eradication of all Muslims living in the area. You don't think he wouldn't? Of course he would. And he's going to be Secretary of Defense. Now let me ask you, who pressured Donald Trump to nominate Pete Hegseth? Now it's easy to answer that question. He is a Zionist dream.

Yes. At the hearing today, at the very beginning in Hegs' opening statement, a protester stood up and said, you're enabling genocide in Gaza and you're a Christian Zionist. Really? Yeah, said it out loud. So later on in the hearing, Tom Cotton, Senator Tom Cotton, asked him about the label Christian Zionist, asked him directly about it. He said, I don't take that as effrontery. I embrace that myself, this Cotton saying this. How do you respond to that? And Pete Hgseth said,

I'm a Christian and I support Israel. And he went through a big litany of a whole bunch of things he supports Israel about, but never said the word Zionist in that whole response. I listened to it twice to be sure. He would say, I'm a Christian. I support all these Israel things. Pete He was given advice. Pete That's right. Pete He was given instructions. You don't want a video clip of saying, I'm a Christian. I support all these Israel things. He was given advice. That's right. He was given instructions. You don't want a video clip of saying, I am a Christian Zionist. That's right, because they could wave that flag everywhere.

Let's change. We'll go to Korea. Doc, you've been following this story. This is London Times. Korean police warned of tragedy if they arrest a South Korean president. What is going on in South Korea? Well, right now, President Yoon of South Korea is basically holed up in the Blue House. That's our version of their version of the White House, right?

And so supporters of South Korea's impeached president, he actually has been impeached twice now, have warned of an unimaginable tragedy if police attempt to arrest him in the presidential compound where he's been holed up since his failed bid to impose martial law. South Korean media reported that 1,000 officers are preparing to raid the presidential office in central Seoul as early as 5 a.m wednesday and so in the next hour or so uh we'll be probably here really that close 12 hour difference uh so it's uh what 5 p.m approaching four or five so a thousand south korean police officers are going to storm the presidential mansion but don't make it sound easy because the president has his own secret service,

security guard, security service like we do here, except they are combat trained. And so any kind of standoff between the police and the security personnel could explode into a much wider issue throughout the city. Are you saying that in the morning when we get up, we might find out that there was a gunfight at the presidential blue house in Seoul?

Yes, and this is hard for me to imagine because when I was living in Seoul, South Korea is very modern, very Western in style, very Western in government and everything like that. And this standoff has unsettled a lot of South Korean friends of mine. So this goes back to December 3rd of last year, where he declared martial law. We came in here that day and go, what is happening in South Korea? They got martial law. And he made the accusation that the opposing party within his government had been infiltrated by North Korea. That's why he was imposing martial law. Now, the South Koreans have a history of having strongmen in the past that have imposed partial law. And so the older folks in South Korea remember this, remember those times and everything.

Younger people don't. But the older ones do. Yeah, older ones do. Now, what you need to be concerned about is how North Korea is going to respond. Because they're watching the instability of South Korea. That's right. And so this, and one of the things that's come up in the impeachment of President Yoon is South Korea's support of Ukraine and the arming of Ukraine. There's a lot of people in South Korea that don't want to be involved in Ukraine. They don't want to be involved in European wars. They don't want South Korea to be arming anyone else besides South Korea. So this has come into the conversation as

well. This is a really interesting scenario that's taking place in South Korea. For me, it's a warning sign to me because that instability really, I think, is a reflection of the judgment of God on South Korea. And by that, I mean that I think that South Korea, even though it has some of the largest Christian churches in the world, I think that in many ways they've left their first love. And they've not kept the standard. South Korea is the number one per capita user of pornography in the world, Rick. Number one. More than the United States? Per capita, per individual user than the United States. That's just one symptom of society. The other symptom that they're dealing with is they are actually at, you know,

there's a population expectation of growth for nations. Usually that's about 1.5 for a couple, 1.5 children per couple. The South Korean rate of reproduction is at 0.72, less than one. In other words, they are declining in population. And at some point, they either have to bring more people into South Korea or encourage more babies or they're going to be overrun by the North

Koreans. It's so many things that are happening in this scenario. Do you think if there was a major shootout tonight in Seoul at the Blue House, do you think Kim Jong-un would actually make a move and start military operations against South Korea? I mean, who would be in charge? That's right. It's that period of time between... Chaos. Right. And if the military takes charge, then you're going to have a reaction from the South Korean people. This is a very complicated situation. But I think it's a foretelling of what's going to happen in other Western-style nations over this coming year. So Kim Jong-un could make motions that he's going to do something enough to provoke the South Korean military to take control,

to provoke the South Korean people to oppose the military. We'll see what it looks like in the morning. I'm going to go through some Middle Eastern news fairly quickly. I-24 News. Trump says we're very close to securing Israel-Hamas ceasefire. He sent his Witkoff, the businessman, sent him over

with a very stern message to Netanyahu and Hamas. And what I read, Doc, is that Mr. Witkoff, who's Jewish, but I guess obviously secular Jew, landed in Jerusalem on the Sabbath

and told Netanyahu, I'm here, you're going to meet with me. And Netanyahu said, it's the Sabbath. I don't care. Whatever the words were, they couldn't publish the words that he said to Netanyahu. And Netanyahu went and met with him on the Sabbath. Anyhow, he delivered a message,

get the deal done. Get the deal done. So I think in this case, Donald Trump is twisting arms on both sides, Netanyahu and Hamas. He wants this hostage deal done before he's inaugurated next week. And I think that's what he's doing his best to get done.

I hope he succeeds. Times of Israel, Ben-Gavir. Now, this guy is like one of the craziest Zionists on planet Earth. And he's in charge of homeland security. He likes killing Palestinians. He thinks it's a great sport. He said, now this is a Jewish newspaper, Gevir said he repeatedly foiled hostage deals,

and he urged Smotrich to help him stop this one too. He openly said, hey, he's telling the families of the hostages. Yes. But hey, he's telling the families of the hostages. Yes. This whole time, since October of 2023, I have been sabotaging the hostage negotiations. That's what he's saying. With the clear blue check of Netanyahu. If you were a father in Israel and your son or daughter was a hostage, or maybe your wife, and you heard the Homeland Security Secretary say, hey, I've killed every hostage deal, what would be your reaction? I'd be flaming mad.

So imagine if you were a U.S. citizen, because there are U.S. citizens being held hostage, and your son or daughter is in Hamas captivity. I think this is why Mr. Trump sent Mr. Whitcoff over and got the word across, you better get the deal done. The good news is Donald Trump doesn't like Netanyahu this time. Not going to be like he was the other time. He doesn't like Netanyahu. And I don't think they're going to patch it up.

I think Donald Trump's going to force Israel to get a new prime minister. And it's not going to be Ben-Gavir. No. I would say he's out of the running now. Not going to be him. I don't have time to read the entire text. This is what he posted on his ex-account, and then we translated it into English. This is number 16. This is him talking but anyhow we're not going to go through

the whole thing he just said he's opposed to the new deal that's in place he's obviously heard about that and that includes releasing prisoners back into Gaza that releases a certain number of hostages at this

time but he's flaming mad about this whole deal he said over the past year back into Gaza that releases a certain number of hostages at this time. But he's flaming mad about this whole deal. He said, over the past year, through our political power, we have managed to prevent this deal from coming to fruition time after time. Now, over the past year, I've been accused of being an anti-Semitic bigot because I said the Netanyahu government was deliberately sabotaging the release of the hostages. Right. That Hamas wanted to release them. Here you go. Ben-Gavir admitted to it.

Yes. And he didn't do it without the watchful eye of Benjamin Netanyahu. And why? Why would they do that? Because they needed the war to continue so they could continue killing Palestinians. That's right. The last thing they want is the war to end. Then there's no legitimate reason to kill Palestinians.

These people are sick. They're demoniac. They're wicked, and the incoming Secretary of Defense, Pete Hagseth, is going to be in love with them. Yeah. And would go to bat to defend them. Wall Street Journal, nearly half of the adults worldwide now hold anti-Semitic views according to a survey. Well, who did the survey? The ADL.

So what qualifies to be anti-Semitic according to the ADL? You don't agree with genocide? You don't like the way they do things? That makes you a bigot? You criticize? I refuse to take the survey. Right. But anyhow, according to their survey, it's never been this bad anywhere.

Half of the adults in the entire world don't like Zionism. Well, do you think, Mr. Greenblatt over there at the ADL, do you think killing 20,000 Palestinian children last year may have contributed to half the world can't stand your face? What do you think? You people slaughtered tens of thousands of children, blew them up, sprayed them with uranium, tore their body parts. Crushed them. And doing it even to this day.

And still doing it. And your feelings are hurt. His feelings are hurt, dog. Half the world doesn't like them. I'll tell you what's worse than that. Half the world can't stand you. They can't stand you because you're now out in the open. Your mask is off and everybody sees what you Zionists are.

You're demonic. You're cruel. You don't even operate at a human level. You can kill children and have no qualms, no reaction in your conscience to killing tens of thousands of children. And you can go on television in Israel and defend it and say, well, that's what they get. They deserve it. They shouldn't have been there. Shouldn't have been there. They're terrorists.

They were in terrorist territory. Then we go to the Jerusalem Post. Jewish groups push Meta, that's Facebook, to crack down on hate speech. Now the company is reversing its course. They don't know what to do. So they're admitting, the ADL is admitting, we, the ADL, pressured Facebook to deplatform people that criticize Zionists. Yes, specifically the word Zionists. If you just posted the word Zionists, you could be deplatformed on Facebook.

They're admitting it. Jonathan Greenblatt said, It is mind-blowing how one of the most profitable companies in the world operating with such sophisticated technology is taking significant steps back in terms of addressing anti-Semitism, hate, misinformation, and protecting vulnerable and marginalized groups online. I'll blow it out your ear. The world is pushing back, Mr. Greenblatt because we're sick and tired of it we're fed up with your crap we don't want it

you're not going to shut people down you're not going to stop us from talking you're not going to prevent us from having our opinions our opinion of you is that you stink that you are one of the cruelest people on the planet. You kill children for the cause

of Zionism. You crave, you covet the land of Palestinian people. You want their land. You want their houses. You want their farms. You want everything. And you're willing to kill them by the hundreds of thousands to get what you want. That's who you are. Financial Times. Is corporate America going MAGA? Again, this is a Rothschild newspaper. Is corporate America going MAGA?

Yes, for the next four years. And if they see the wind shifting in a different direction than that? If it changes in four years, they're going to go the other direction. That's right. But right now, yes, they're going MAGA. Why? They went anti-MAGA and lost. And now they're scared. Right.

And they know that they're implicated in trying to destabilize Donald Trump's presidency. So some of these CEOs are reinventing themselves. Absolutely. And one great example is Mark Zuckerberg. He's changed his hair? Yeah. He's got that scruffy look now, you know. Oh, yeah.

He's back to the old, you know, this is the cool. The robot look. And notice Wall Street Journal, Zuckerberg debuts the real Mark. This is the real me. I'm a likable guy. I used to de-platform people. But not now. I don't do it anymore.

I'm likable. I grew my hair out. I got my curls. Yeah. And the girls like me. They like my curls. I'm just a great guy. I wouldn't de-platform anybody. I won't even give you a mark. They like my curls. I'm just a great guy. I wouldn't deplatform anybody.

I won't even give you a mark because that's my name. I want to read from the Wall Street Journal article because it says something in the very first paragraph that I sent over to Rick. I said, did you catch this? Mark Zuckerberg wants Donald Trump to get to know the real Mark. That's the latest message the shape-shifting chief executive sought to relay to the masses as he pushes a frenzied effort to recast himself as a friend of the president-elect at the moment of peril and opportunity for meta-platforms. Wait a minute, Doc. If I called Mark Zuckerberg a shape shifter.

Newsweek and... The Wall Street Journal might even come out. The Wall Street Journal would say, Rick Wiles has called Mark Zuckerberg a shape shifter. He's agreeing with

the Wall Street Journal. He's implied that Mark Zuckerberg is a reptile. But the Wall Street Journal did it on their front page. They called him a shape shifter.

Do they know something we don't know? That was my question. And so now also on Friday, Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast to trash the Biden administration and extol the benefits of masculinity. I look at Mark Zuckerberg and that's what I think of. I think of masculinity in corporate leadership. And so we have a bit of a soundbite where Mark Zuckerberg is saying, you're getting the real Mark now. I've been doing jujitsu and everything. And so that's a whole new Mark now.

Watch this. It's interesting because I do think a lot of our society has become very, like, I don't know. I don't even know the right word for it. But it's, like, kind of, like, neutered or, like, emasculated. And there's, like, a whole energy in this that I think it is very healthy in the right balance. I mean, I think part of the reason, you know, one of the things that I enjoy about it is I feel like I can just express myself. It's like when you're running a company, people typically don't want to see you being this ruthless person who's like, I'm just going to crush the people I'm competing with. But when you're fighting, it's like, no, no, that's like, so I think in some ways when people see me competing

in this sport, they're like, oh no, that's the real Mark. Well, I'm sorry. Well, you know, you're not John Wayne, Mark Zuckerberg. No. God, come on. And when you talk about those neutral policies, my friend, that is at your feet. Yes for years, you used Facebook, Meta, Instagram to enforce that neutral policy. All right. So I'm going to appeal to the real Mark Zuckerberg. The jujitsu Mark. Mark, restore true news to Facebook. Give us back something like close to 200,000 subscribers you took away from us.

Put us back on Facebook. You took us off. You deplatformed us. For what reason? We were never told. I got up one morning, and our Facebook account was gone. We had nearly 200,000 subscribers. Where did it go?

Okay. What was the reason? What crime did I commit? Words? I said words? And is that standard still in place? And who pressured if you're, alright Mark, I'm going to take your word at it, that you didn't want to

deplatform anybody, but you were made to do it because the government was pressuring you. Or the ADL. Or the ADL. So tell us, Mark, who pressured you to deplatform True News? Do the right thing. Put us back on the platform.

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg to attend the trump inauguration they're all going they're all going maga it's amazing wait till you see the next one wall street journal china officials discuss option of tiktok sale to elon musk Oh, you know, there are benefits to having a... $373 billion. And a room at Mar-a-Lago. Yes. Because he's staying there now.

Yes. He rented a suite. A suite, yes. Okay. He's going to get TikTok. He does have some competition. Kevin O'Leary, Shark Tank,vin o'leary yes kevin o'leary he has also formed a group that is looking to perhaps you know acquire tiktok as well and actually made that pitch

to donald trump yes i would not be surprised if they the two of them merge that would be i like kevin o'leary a lot. I do, too. A great idea from Donald Trump today. Donald Trump proposed the External Revenue Service. You got to hand it to Donald. I love it. He said, for far too long, we've relied on taxing our great people using the Internal Revenue Service. Through soft and pathetically weak trade agreements, the American economy has delivered growth and prosperity to the world while taxing ourselves. See? The logic is there, Rick. It is time for that to change. I am today announcing that I

will create the External Revenue Service to collect our tariffs, duties, and all revenue that come from foreign sources. We'll begin charging those that make money off of us with trade, and they will start paying, finally, their fair share. January 20, 2025 will be the birth date of the External Revenue Service. Make America great again. Now, you notice he didn't announce the death of the Internal Revenue Service. No, but the birth of the External. That's right.

That's a great idea. It just means we'll That's right. But it's a great idea. It just means we'll have two tax services. It's a great idea. No, I agree with it. A couple more really quickly here. Newsweek, a pastor backs pastor who said he's been in talks with the Trump administration. And there will be raids on churches, churches that are giving sanctuary to illegal immigrants. It's always

been a policy in America. Law enforcement doesn't go in a church. Unless it's the IRS seizing a church that they don't like. Then they'll do it. But generally, typically, a church is a

sanctuary. Don't go in there. So they're setting it up that any illegals who hide in churches, the immigration law enforcement officers are going to go into churches and arrest them. there's a spate of exits from the news media, MSNBC. The top boss is leaving. She's announced Rashida Jones is announcing she is leaving the left-leaning networks as its ratings continue to plunge. Chuck Todd is going to exit NBC. And he's already been interviewing for other positions. Yes, but I don't know about that.

He's leaving NBC. Who wants him? MSNBC? And you know what? I've seen some videos of him recently, this past week we can have online, where he's been critical of the Biden administration. He's come out being very critical of the Biden administration. Oh, well, because the tide has turned, hasn't it? That's right.

The tide has turned. Norman Eisen and Jennifer Rubin, Jennifer Rubin is the Washington Post. She's leaving to start their own website called The Contrarian. Which they were anyway. Yes. I'm going to show you one of their promotion, part of their promotion video. Tell me how excited you get that you're going to go to The Contrarian website every day and get their news. Let's watch.

Hi, I'm Jen Rubin. And I'm Norm Eisen. I am here to announce I am leaving the Washington Post in order to co-found with Norm an exciting new online platform, The Contrarian. We are going to bring you written material, podcasts, interviews, social media, all in defense of democracy. Our intent is to combat the authoritarian force that we all face. To help us, we have an exciting array of contributors from all walks of life, all ages, all backgrounds to help us in this venture. Well, they didn't say it. My favorite line was coming up. We're going to have all sorts of things. We're going to have crosswords. We even have a humor column. Oh, my.

I can't wait for this. I'm sure I'd be cracking up every night. Oh, boy. Yeah, the contrarian. I'm excited about that website. Well, Glenn Greenwald responded to the launch saying this. Genuinely hilarious that Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen, two of the most banal people in media, are calling their new anti-Trump substack page the contrarian.

Neither has ever expressed a single idea that's not prevailing wisdom in corporate media and establishment DC. Glenn, you summed it up. You're exactly right. I want to give you some financial news. This caught my attention today in Bloomberg. Signet Corporation, their shares tumbled after Outlook cut on week holiday season. You go, well, Rick, what's that all about? I don't know who Signet is. Why is this important? It's a holding company for a number of brands out there, specifically in jewelry. Signet owns K Jewelers, Zales, Jarrett, Banter, Diamonds Direct, Blue Nile, JamesAllen.com,

Roxbox, People's Jewelers, H. Samuel, and Ernst Jones. That's just some of the companies they own. Right. Now, it's mainstays in a lot of malls, shopping centers. Basically, they pretty much dominate the retail jewelry market in America. Guess what? So we just finished the Christmas season here. It was a disaster.

And they did some crunching of the numbers. It was a disaster. People aren't buying jewelry. At least not high-end jewelry. Why? Because they're trying to buy food. Right. They're trying to pay their mortgage.

Because we just had four years of the Biden administration. And middle America is hurting. And they're not buying jewelry. And it showed up today. And investors ran and sold their shares of Signet. That's a sign of where the economy is at right now. People are saying, I just can't, we can't afford to buy jewelry. It's the last thing we're going to buy.

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video of him talking about the advice he would give Donald Trump regarding federal aid to California to rebuild after the fires. By the way, the fires are, I mean, right now, today, the winds are picking up. Picking back up. They're expecting the next several days to be really bad.

12,000 homes, Rick. I know. 12,000. I know. And that was this morning's number. I was watching videos today, Doc, of the helicopters and the planes bringing the water in, the fire retardant chemicals,

and it really brought me to tears. I just am looking at these are these are this is the best of America. You know, the American people are good.

We have corrupt leaders. But the American people are good. And I was just looking at the videos of these men fighting the fires. They're risking their lives. Swooping down over burning treetops to drop water and chemicals, and trying to steady the aircraft.

Very dangerous flying. And I was just thinking of all, and then the firemen on the ground, the men that are fighting these fires, God bless them. Now, I can't say the same thing about the politicians. And that's what Kevin Leary in this video, he has some advice to Donald Trump. He's saying, hey, don't give California billions of dollars to rebuild until you do one thing. Let's watch. Give me 30 seconds. And Bass, I think every taxpayer in America, including those in California,

would like to tie this aid to removing Newsom and Bass. Now, gone. Part of the deal would be, and I know Trump likes new ideas. Here's one. Not a dime until those two are whacked from their jobs immediately. They are so incompetent and all of the decisions they've made led to this. And they're still making mistakes. They're horrific managers. Whack them. Sort of a reverse. Yes. You don't get any federal aid until the governor resigns and the mayor resigns. But guess what? You get the lieutenant governor. To be the junior of Gavinism, you've got to be dumber than him.

You've got to be more incompetent than him or you'd have been the governor. That's a good point. I hadn't thought about that. Junior governor. Yeah. I mean, you're going to get to Junior Gavin. You know, I'm going to make my proposal. This would be my dream ticket for governor of California, for governor, lieutenant governor in 2026.

And it doesn't matter to me which guy takes. One could take governor. The other one take lieutenant governor. It wouldn't matter to me. Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone. Oh, boy. Run for governor and lieutenant governor. Mad Max and Rocky, huh? Yes, yes.

Clean up the state. I'd like to see that happen. Mel Gibson for governor of California 2026. One more video, then I'll go home. So a lot of people have been wondering, what did Donald Trump say to Barack Obama at the Jimmy Carter funeral? So Mr. Trump, always having fun with the media and with his opponents and enemies, is trolling them again. He released his version of the conversation. Here it is.

Well, Mr. President. For the second time. Barack, very nice to see you. Congratulations. How are you doing? A lot better, Dan. Yeah, I bet. I knew you'd win.

Oh, really? Oh, come on. Can anyone convince me that I'm a good guy? I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. better, Dad. Yeah, I bet. I knew you'd win. Oh, really?

Oh, come on. Anyone could beat her. She's just... I was just as appalled. You know what happened? You just didn't want to leave. I know. It's what happened. I did what I could to help her.

She was four-handed. I know. You know what I realized? Hillary still hates me so much i know she'll never forget me we should meet to discuss i think so too we can definitely set something up let me know whatever we got i was gonna fly back to flor Florida tomorrow for the Gulf. Okay. Did you see that? She won't even look at me. Really?

I was told. Some of her people. Apparently they said she fell off the wagon. I think she actually made it sure and also she's not really built for this amount of pressure if you're not built for it we'll do it the music in the background really added to that donald trump trolling his enemies once again he posted that on his true yeah he did Yeah, he did it. Only Donald Trump would post something like that regarding the funeral of another president. Thank you for watching.

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at verses 18 to 25. Yesterday we studied 17 and 18. We're actually going to pick it up today at 19, but I would like Doc to read from verse 18 to 25 to get the picture of, to get into the context of what we're studying today. Let's pray, and then Doc will read the word, and we will begin our lesson. Gracious Heavenly Father, Father, we lift our hands, we lift our hearts, we lift our voices in praise and adoration father that you are our god and our our king our maker our creator our provider you are everything father and we give you glory and honor and praise and thanksgiving father your sons and daughters from around the world are gathered this very moment to be taught the word of God.

And so we ask the Holy Spirit to take his seat at the table and direct this morning man a class so that all of us, teacher and students, will be blessed, will be enlightened, illuminated by your Holy Spirit. Father, I pray that at the end of this class, our faith in you will be stronger than it is right now. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. I got a question for you before we read here. Do you love the word? Do you love the word?

Yes. That's where the words of life are, folks. And so if you've got your Bibles, open up to Romans chapter 1, and we're going to read verses 18 through 25 today. And so if you're over there, and I'm going to start reading here, verse 18, read along with me, if you will. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them. For God hath showed it unto them.

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. Even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations

and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. Wherefore, God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts

to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Amen. Verse 19, Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them,

for God hath showed it unto them this phrase that which may be known of God what does it refer to it's speaking about the truth about God's existence his power

his divine attributes that are accessible to humans through observation and human reason. Yes. Because that which was made may be known of God is manifest in them. Paul is saying humans have no excuse for not recognizing God, not worshiping him, not obeying him. The truth about his existence, his power, his divine attributes can be assessed through human reasoning, human observation. This is a general revelation of God as separate from a revelation of God through the word, through Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit. In other words, this is a revelation of God

that is available to every man, woman, and child on the planet. Nobody can deny. On Judgment Day, nobody can say, I didn't know you existed. Right. In fact, you have to go out of your way to deny the existence of God, according to this verse. You're making an effort to say, no, that's not God. And yet at one point in time, sometime in the future, when you stand before the Lord in judgment, the Lord's going to say, I revealed myself to you in my creation,

and yet you rejected it. You not only rejected it, you closed your eyes to it. But on the same token, I believe God honors the faith of anyone that recognizes God in creation. And will bring him to a point of special revelation about salvation at some point. You know, having served on the mission field and everything and rubbing shoulders with other missionaries. I can't tell you the number of times you hear about people that one day they were out there in the middle of nowhere and they just started talking to God. And then God brought someone into their life to tell them about Jesus. So it's there's a it really it's God's mercy and grace that he does this, Rick.

Really, it is. He outlines his pattern, his majesty, his power in creation to give mankind an opportunity to say, if you just recognize me, I'll recognize you. Isn't that awesome? It is. You know, Doc, as you were talking, I was thinking about where I was at in the several years before I was saved. In my late teen years and my early 20s, I was saved just before I turned 25. And I just, as you were talking, doc, I just recalled there were two places

in my home area where I would go to be alone. One was by a very small creek. It's just a bubbling, you know, stream. I wouldn't even call it a creek. It's just a stream going over rocks. And I kind of had a secret place. I had to crawl back through the woods, get through the briars and the brushes, you know, and the brush to get to that place. And there was just a place with a big rock

that i could sit by this by this uh stream and the other place was along the potomac river and there were you know there was a place i would go and sit by the river this is before i was saved right and i was just realizing as you were speaking how god used those quiet times to to speak to me even though i wasn't even aware he was speaking to me yes he was showing me his beauty his greatness the creation so none of us have an excuse to say there's no god look in the universe look at this in the galaxy look at look at the stars at night i mean look at the beauty of the planet yes look. Look at the innocent children and animals. That's why lately I've been showing it sometimes at the end of True News,

I've been showing videos of children and animals. Let's just get refocused on what is, what is, what's the most innocent things in life? Because you see God in it. Yeah. And even in the most harsh environments, you know, when we were in Jordan, you know, over the past several years,

we'd drive across the desert over to, you know, over to the Red Sea. And it was just dark landscape. I mean, it's nothing but sand and mountains, and yet there was a beauty even in that, especially at night. Driving through the desert at night, it was like you could see every star in the universe as you're driving across. And, in fact, the stars were so numerous, it lit up the desert.

And there was just such a beauty about that in what should normally be, you know, a deadly environment. But that's God. He is revealing his creation. Verse 19 says, God showed it to them. In other words, God, and that word showed there is in the sense of presenting evidence in trial. God's made his case. I exist. I made this. Accept it.

Yes. My two favorite places in Jordan are the Red Sea and the Dead Sea. Yes. And in contrast of that. I mean, you think about it, a Dead Sea, but it's beautiful. It is.

And the Red Sea, you know, we were there at Aqaba, which is somewhere in the vicinity of where Moses and the Hebrews crossed over. Yes. But the Red Sea is alive, teeming with life and activity and things moving around. The Dead Sea, there's nothing going on except death. And yet, the beauty of the water and the cliffs surrounding it and the features, the salt features, you just sit back and say, who can deny the existence of God? Who really can?

You have to go out of your way to deny God. And behind you, up on the hill, is a giant tall rock that looks like a woman. Yep. And the locals say it's lot's wife because it's close to sodom and gomorrah now it's probably not lot's wife but i believe god made a rock that looked like her so he would have a testimony for thousands of years saying hey do you see that you see that rock that represents lot's wife so god is visible in nature in his creation there is there is sufficient knowledge of god for accountability on judgment day.

Humans can discern God's existence and moral order through nature and their conscience, even though they cannot fully comprehend his divine essence. Right. And this is an important point because because a question always comes up from those that want to question the gospel. What about those who have never heard the gospel of Jesus? What if, you know, what if, you know, what if somebody hasn't heard it? Are they judged differently? No, God has set the standard. He has said to every man, woman, boy, and girl, my creation is evident. You are going to be judged based on your response to the evidence I have presented.

Yes. And so that's why the preaching of the gospel is essential, ladies and gentlemen. It's essential because people are going to be judged. There's not a second path. There's not an alternative salvation path. Jesus said that the only way to the Father was through him. That was the only way. There's not some sort of alternate plan for another group of people or people who didn't hear the gospel message or for the pygmies in the jungle that never heard a single word from the King James. They are without excuse, Rick. But we are now also without excuse that we are to go into all the world and preach the gospel.

So, Doc, what you are describing, and I know you know this, but for our class, what you are describing is known in, you know, Bible schools as natural theology. Right. There is a theology of God's nature. Just creation alone testifies of his existence uh and that's why on Judgment Day every single person will be held accountable in one way or the other because they they had knowledge of God right just by looking at at creation they had knowledge of God the phrase manifest in them indicates God's knowledge is internally present it's manifest in them the God has placed in every human some type of knowledge of him

where through their conscience and their intuition they they can recognize the existence of a creator talk yesterday i i watched a just a section of a video of elon musk um interviewing a political leader in europe and i was looking at the you know the breakdown of sections in the video and near the end was a question do you believe in god and the european politician asked elon mus, do you believe in God? And the European politician asked Elon Musk, do you believe in God? The politician was saying, you know, you could tell that this woman was searching.

She was saying, the more I study things it it seems like there is some type of some type of creator some type of you know intelligent being and so she tossed it to Elon And he was not atheistic. He is agnostic. Right. He clearly, he doesn't know, and yet he's not shut the door of his heart. He's open. See, people need to be praying for Elon Musk to be saved. He's open. He didn't confess knowledge of God he didn't confess faith in Christ he just

basically said I don't know but I'm I could be persuaded it's basically what he was saying what what was that in Elon Musk it was the knowledge of a creator that was manifest in them right that Elon Musk cannot deny that there seems to be something greater than his mind can comprehend

so greater than his mind can comprehend. So, our conscience is a witness to God's divine nature. God gave us a conscience to be an internal witness that he exists. Now, people can sear their conscience. Yes. What does that mean, Doc, when a person sears their conscience?

Well, I believe it's self-inflicted, first of all. The second part is that it's to a point where if you have any inclination toward doing what's right, you make an effort to ignore it. And it gets to a point where finally your conscience just says, shut the door. It doesn't even worry about bothering you with right and wrong anymore. What a tragic situation that is because you're without morality. You're without a sense of goodness. You have no sense of really true spirituality because you have chosen to rebel against God and just do whatever you want.

You have become your own God. And in this passage later on, it says, you know, it comes to a point where God gives up. God gives them up. Yes. That's some of the hardest words in the Bible to me. God gave them up. To a reprobate mind.

Yes. And once you have become a reprobate, you can't be unreprobate. Yeah. You've crossed the line. But you see it with people who sin so often, so brazenly, and they can brush off the conviction of the Holy Spirit,

where they know they're being convicted. What you're doing is wrong. And they cut that off in their mind. That's what it means. So your conscience is a witness of God's existence. And this inner witness, this inner awareness of a god leads people to seek meaning morality purpose right they don't necessarily go in the right direction

but it gets them started on the journey. Yes. And it's enough of a start where God says, you know, this is the measure right here. So on that judgment day, I made the effort to make myself known to you. I presented evidence to you. You rejected the evidence I presented. Yes. This awareness of God is universal. It transcends all cultures, boundaries, time periods, generations, geographic locations. It's global, universal.

It's in every age, every generation. So atheism, which is the outright denial of God, and agnosticism, which is the ignorance of God, are not the result of a lack of evidence, but a willful suppression of the truth. Right. And even secular scientists have a hard time explaining this universality of an awareness of God.

In fact, there was a book out. It had to be in the mid-2000s, Rick, The God Gene. Remember that book that came out? The God Gene. And basically the premise of the book was that we are hardwired in our DNA for spirituality. You got attacked? I had a giant spider right in front of me.

You've got to look for something else. What else is up there? All right. It was dangling right in front of you. I'm surprised you didn't see it on camera. No. I just see you flailing and so I get worried about you.

That's different for a morning man a clap but uh they try to explain it that uh somewhere in the past this got hardwired in our dna well i don't disagree with him about it being hardwired in our dna i believe it is it is hardwired in our dna to be aware of the evidence that God has presented in creation. But it's not from a naturalist perspective. It's not from evolution or anything like that. It was part of the divine creation. And we have a hunger. When we look up at the stars at night, when we look at the ocean, when we see a baby in his mother's arms, we suddenly become aware that there's something larger than us, bigger than us, more powerful than us, that is more righteous than us,

that is more just than we are. And we're without excuse. So, you know, it's sad, it's tragic to see on one extreme, you can look at you know, primitive tribes that are worshiping inanimate objects.

They're trying to find God. It might be a trick. worshiping inanimate objects. They're trying to find God. Yes. Might be a tree. You know, there could be an animal. They're worshiping various objects. Could be an idol. But then on the other extreme,

you have highly intelligent people who are involved in new age religions or speculating about an ai god they still want a god yes they're still craving a god yes why would you want to develop an ai an ai god if you don't believe in god right because something inside of you says, there's got to be a God, even if I have to make one. Yes, think about that. We have to create something out of wood or metal or out of digital code to call it God. Which is even further evidence

of God's revelation to mankind. The fact that we would go out of our way to create idols, whether they're made of natural elements or they're made out of digital code, to me, in my mind, is even further evidence of God saying, I've revealed myself in creation. You're trying to figure out what it is. I just got a title for a book. I'll tell you later.

It's awesome. By the way, it just dropped in my head. It just dropped in my head about AI. You're writing a new book now too, right? I am. I've already started one excited very exciting yeah um and i'll tell you the next one i'm right because one's already done it's it's working its way towards being printed and the next one uh will be called uh uh the garden gospel praise god and that's been stirring in you for years

so that's yes oh yes over the weekend i went back and i found my notes doc from 2017 and 18 it's like wow it's been there for a long time yeah okay so Okay, so this, while this verse that we're talking about, God hath showed it unto them. God hath showed it unto them. It means that this knowledge, this inner knowledge that is given to every human being is a divine gift. Yes. God put it in him. Doc, I think it was yesterday. I was in my morning prayer.

I was talking to the Lord about. I could i can still feel it i don't know how to describe it i couldn't describe it when i was a little child and i can't describe it today but i was i guess it was the lord bringing it back to my remembrance yesterday morning in prayer. I can remember when I was four, five, six years old, I had an awareness of God. Yeah. Did you? Yeah, I prayed. I didn't even know what prayer was.

And so, because when I was a little kid, you know, I'm talking about three, four, five, we didn't go to church. Mom little kid, you know, I'm talking about three, four, five, we didn't go to church. Mom and dad, you know, they ran a bar, you know, but I'm aware of praying. I'm aware of being four or five years old and praying. I remember praying the day before I went in the first grade because I went straight from preschool to first grade. And I was I said, oh, God, help me in first grade. I still remember praying that and having an awareness of God without even really knowing. I went down even really being taught.

So I see where they come from. It's from the Lord. I mean, it's God. I mean, verses 19 and 20. You were showing that to me yesterday, and I think it's also to get ready for this class. You know, it's just show me, Rick. You were aware of me even when you were a toddler. Yeah.

I had placed an awareness in your life. You knew I existed. And I had a peace. I don't know how to describe it yeah i i knew that there was a god and i do i remembered praying to him when i was little um but my parents weren't christians They didn't go to church. Well, they were Christmas and Easter Christians. But my grandparents were devout. Everybody else in my family were, you know, uncles and aunts and great uncles. They were all devout Christians, went to church all the time, read the Bible.

But not my parents. But there was a knowledge. There was an inner awareness in me that there was a God. I didn't know the name Jesus Christ. Right. I just knew that there was something in me that wanted to talk to me. That's all I can remember. There was something, some feeling,

something awareness, something, somebody wanted to talk to me. See, God, God puts his presence in everybody. It's a divine gift. God takes the first step in making himself known to humankind.

He demonstrates his desire for relationship and accountability. Right. And then we respond to that by acknowledging him. And I believe that God then makes an effort to make that special revelation of the gospel to us and so uh god works with what you got and so because i can think of all the experiences as

a young boy and and then finally give my heart to the lord all those previous experiences and in wondering about the stars and trying to find answers brought me to a point where when the gospel came along and was presented to me clearly, I immediately responded. I was prepared for that moment in time for the gospel. And God does the same thing in people's lives. But I want to make clear to everybody that just because you have an acknowledgement of God does not mean that you have received the gospel, because the gospel is of Jesus Christ. That's who saves. But the basis for God's judgment of all mankind in rejection of God is based upon his revelation in creation.

And Paul makes that clear here. So the Father is present in our life, in our childhood. Yes. Preparing us for the day we will believe in his son yes the wonderful father he is a wonderful father um think about the times he took care of you before you knew him yes when you were protected kept from death or or serious accidents he was watching over you you didn't even know him but he was taking care of you right and he had a plan for your life so the revelation of god's existence and his divine attributes

is sufficient to hold all humanity accountable for their response to him no person can claim ignorance as an excuse for their failure to honor God. Right. You know, I've come to love the Muslim people. When you're around them, you detect they do have a very sincere desire

to know God they're in the wrong religion but they have a sincere desire to know God right I think the Muslims are the the greatest um harvest field waiting for us right now yes and we and they love jesus and that's a good start they just don't believe he's the son of god they believe he's a good man but they don't they don't believe he's the son of god they believe he's a good man but they don't they don't believe he's the son of god but see there's there's something in them there's enough in them that you can work with it yes but they'll still be held accountable based upon

the revelation that god has given them that's right as all mankind is and there might be somebody out there watching or listening they've said what's on that's unfair why you know um they're uh very devout muslims or very some very devout buddhists or very devout jews or whatever it might be but christ makes it plain that the only path to the father is through him you may not like that. You may disagree with it, but you're disagreeing with Jesus. He makes it clear that just the revelation and knowledge of God and being religious

will not be enough to save. It's not enough. And that's why we love, and I'm with Rick, with our trips to the Middle East I have of course my mind is radically changed on Islam and Muslims

but they still need Jesus a saving knowledge of Jesus there's no question about that but the picture that's painted of most Muslims today is tragic really I believe that picture that's painted of most Muslims today is tragic, really. I believe that picture that's painted of Muslims prevents us from preaching

the gospel to them. So this inner knowledge of God obligates all people to seek him, to honor him, to worship him. That's why God puts it in people. is an obligation to find out who he is and then what does he expect us to do

and those people who suppress or even worse, reject this knowledge, end up in spiritual rebellion. Yes. And they make themselves deserving of judgment. The worst places in hell are reserved for those who deliberately rejected God. What do you do with a person like that the uh internal and external revelations of god are the basis for God's righteous judgment. Again, he's fair, he's merciful, and he's fair.

He's just, he's fair, he's merciful. On judgment day, he can say to every human, I placed knowledge of myself in you. My creation spoke of my glory. You have no excuse for rejecting me. So, all

humans are without excuse for their ungodliness, their unrighteousness because God made his existence manifestly clear to them. So what we're studying here, Romans 1.19, it is part of St. Paul's broader argument that all humanity has rebelled against God's truth.

There's not one who's righteous. No, not one. And Paul makes the case later, not even the chosen people are without excuse. That's right. In other words, he levels the playing field for Jews and Gentiles in this, that all are without excuse, every one of them. And where Paul is going, we'll eventually get there,

in verses 21 through 32, Paul's laying the foundation for teaching the principle that rejecting God's inner revelation of his existence eventually leads to idolatry and immorality right there's not one human who didn't go that direction it once they rejected God they end up in immorality and idolatry they can be you know it can it can manifest in

a billionaire creating science projects to be his god it could be as simple as to be his God. It could be as simple as a mother making her children her idols. That one is home because we don't like to go there,

but you have to love God more than you love your family. Right. there but you have to love God more than you love your family right so that the revelation that's described in verse 19 is sufficient to condemn but not yes there's enough revelation inside of us to justify a guilty verdict on judgment day

but the amount of revelation that's in us is not sufficient to generate a not guilty verdict the only way you can get to the not guilty verdict is to believe in the name of jesus christ and be baptized right it the evidence that god presents in his case in creation and conscience is, like you said, it's enough to condemn,

but not enough to save. It should drive man to a point, how then shall I be saved? Yes. And then that's when God says, I got you. It's driving men and women to the cross

to see Jesus. Yes. Everything he has done has been to drive people to the cross to see Jesus. Yes. Everything he has done has been to drive people to the cross. So, you know, the question is asked, what about all the people who died before Calvary? I'm of the view, I mean, it may not be correct, but this is my personal view. That when Jesus descended to the place of the dead, when his body was in the tomb for three days, his spirit wasn't in the tomb. He went to the place of the dead. I think he held the greatest soul winning meetings that's ever been held in the universe.

I believe he went over in Hades where all the wicked, the unjust were being held. And I believe he went over there and said, this is your one opportunity to get out. In just a short time I'm going to resurrect myself and I'm going to be back on earth in my human body but right now you can believe in me and I'll get you out of here doc I think he he emptied the place. You'd have to be, what kind of an idiot would you have to be to reject him?

You know, if you're trapped in Hades and the Son of God shows up and says, hey, follow me, get out of here. That's my personal view. It may not be right, but that's the way i answer for myself do you have a you get a different opinion on it doc well i believe clearly that the bible teachers say he led captivity captive uh so he brought someone out of hades now when i say hades i mean the paradise side of hades those who, who acknowledged God by faith and were considered among the righteous dead, like Luke 16 illustrates with the story of Lazarus and Abraham's bosom. Obviously, Abraham was alive. Lazarus was alive. And the Bible says, righteous Lazarus and righteous Abraham.

And so there was a qualification for the paradise side of Hades. But he sure went over to the other side. Well, I don't know. That would be something to really chew on there.

But I do believe that he brought the righteous dead out of paradise, for sure. That was a slam dunk. Go over to the other side and say, hey. But you know what? I'm of the thought, though, Rick, of the opposite way, in that if they would have rejected God in life,

they would continue to reject him in death. In fact, that's what Abraham says to the rich man who's tormented on the punishment side of Hades. He said, they had Moses and the prophets. They had the revelation available to them. They rejected it. They wouldn't even believe that someone came back from the dead. And that was a direct reference to Jesus.

So I think I would be more on the other persuasion that even if Jesus did preach to the tormented in hell, they would continue to reject him. Wow. Well, at least he gave them the opportunity. And I could believe that he gave them the opportunity. And I could believe that he gave them the opportunity. He said, here's the gospel. And not even knowing before the gospel, they rejected it. They were rejecting the gospel. And actually, Hebrews 4 says, for unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them.

Who were them? The people in the wilderness. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them. But the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. And so that means that the children of Israel heard the gospel in the wilderness and rejected it. They rejected it because they didn't believe it.

So the main theme that we're driving home here today in verse 19 is that God has placed in every human a degree of knowledge and revelation of his existence, and it is there for the purpose of driving them to the cross to meet Jesus. If you get that, you're understanding verse 19. There's not enough revelation of God in every human to be saved. There's enough revelation to be condemned. But the purpose of the revelation is to

drive people to the knowledge of Christ, which comes through hearing the gospel and believing the gospel. The knowledge of God's existence sets the stage for the gospel's message of grace and redemption.

So God's justice and love are always working together. His wrath reveals the seriousness of sin. His grace offers salvation through Christ from his wrath. What are you being saved from? His wrath. You say, I'm saved. Saved from what? You're saved from the wrath of God because of your sin.

That's right. There's too many people in churches that don't even know why they're saved. I'm not saying they're not saved. They don't know why they're saved i'm not saying they're not saying they don't know why they're saved saved from what the wrath why don't they know because their churches don't want to talk about god's wrath on sin right they don't want to believe that god's angry oh my doc last night i i before going to sleep i listened to um um i listened to a video collection of the voices of just audio of great preachers leonard ra Ravenhill oh my goodness

you just get convicted listening to him oh yes I don't know whether it's the accent or the words that he's preaching that convicts you but yes Leonard Ravenhill what a classic preacher

Paris Readhead I haven't heard that name in a long time Paris Readhead. I haven't heard that name in a long time. I went to sleep listening to him. You did? I did. I mean,

I listened for an hour. Okay. I listened for an hour and then the whole sermon. i'm just saying i forgot i closed my eyes after listening to to paris reedhead for an hour wow um you don't know who these people are you know go go on youtube and find you know paris p-a-r-i-s read head r-e-i-d h-e-a-d you know listen to those sermons listen to uh leonard ravenhill wow we need these men again. We need them.

So verse 19. It recognizes that God has made himself known to every human. It leads to life life in christ there's an innate awareness of right and wrong that that's that's the message of verse 19 that nobody can deny the existence of god uh let's get to to uh 120. the invisible things of god for the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen think about that the invisible things are seen what what paul what did you just say the invisible things of god are clearly seen are clearly seen how can i clearly see something that's invisible being perceived through the things that are made.

Now you can see, it's not invisible things. It's invisible things of him, of God. Right. The invisible things of Almighty God, since the creation of the world, are clearly seen being perceived through the things that he made. Right. Even his everlasting power in divinity. That they may be without excuse. You ever been to Niagara Falls?

The Great, the Grand Canyon? The Rocky Mountains? The Mississippi River? the Nile River, I think in places around the world, the beauty of God's creation. I have my laptop set with Microsoft that I get a, you know, a new image of the world, beautiful places. I, you know, I love, I set, I set my homepage. That's, that's what I see every morning. Doc, I see places I didn't know existed. And every single morning is the same two thoughts.

God Almighty Father, you have made such a beautiful world. And number two, I want to go there. I want to see it with my own eyes. I want to see your creation there are places on this planet that i i'm at a loss of words to describe the beauty but when i see it it reminds me of the greatness of my Heavenly Father. The invisible things of God are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made. He made the mountains.

He made the rivers, the lakes. And then He made you. Before He made us. Even His everlasting power and divinity. Yes, those are the two things that God presents evidence for. His everlasting power and divinity. That they, who's they?

Us may be without excuse. It's Romans 1.20. The attributes, the invisible things, are not physically visible, but they are revealed through their efforts in the natural world. God's invisible attributes are visible in our natural world as beautiful as the world

is the earth what does the new earth look like oh my goodness do you know I believe he's going to have things physically present on the new earth that we can't even imagine

because they don't exist they only exist in his mind he's still the creator he's still creating he's got a plan for the new earth he's still creating he's got a plan for the new earth he's a magnificent creator and he wants to create through you yes he's given you skills that's his creation abilities this is his creativity wants to to work through you.

Those skills, look, they go at different, at different levels. They may give you, have given you a skill to build buildings. Look at Donald Trump. His skill is to put up skyscrapers right he can do that in his sleep

another person maybe a mother or grandmother and she can make the best the best meals the best pies the best best pies, the best everything. That's the creativity of God working through her. He expresses his creativity in the natural world. He's still creating. He's a creator. He wasn't a past creator. He is the creator now. Yeah, he just took one day off he's

still working oh yeah he took off one day still creating um the revelation of God's invisible attributes have been continuous since the beginning of creation. And again, this testimony is universal. It transcends time, ages, generations, centuries, transcends geographic borders, cultures. Yes. And although his attributes are invisible, they are made clearly seen. You can clearly see invisible things through the things he made right the wonders of the world praise God

the the beauty of nature the beauty of the universe um I haven't told this story for a long time. This happened, I don't know, maybe six, seven, eight years ago. It was at the previous house we had. And I was home alone one day. Susan was away with either her son or daughter. I don't recall. I had the whole day by myself, and I was studying the Word of God.

And I had, Doc, this giant book. It was old. About, it only had two top. It was like 600 pages and it was written like sometime in the 1700s. It had two topics. Baptism and

Holy Communion. It was like 300 pages on each topic wow you know those old preachers it was a german book it was translated into english and i i sat there that day just devouring that book. And sometime in the afternoon, I was on my patio and I'm facing eastward. At that time, the sea, the ocean was about five miles away eastward from where I was sitting. And I looked up and I saw this brilliant light show of lightning you can see a storm was coming in from the ocean I just stopped for a moment and I'm watching the brilliant spectacular lightning lightning flashes and uh i uh okay that's amazing okay then

then i looked up and i saw two two rainbows a double rainbow wow isn't that beautiful? Double rainbow. And then a few minutes later, I looked up again, and right over inside my backyard, we had a very small backyard, right inside my backyard, were about 50 or 60 small birds, like finches. I don't know what they were to me they look like finches i mean there's like 50 or 60 60 of them have come into my yard doc and they were doing a show for me that the blue angels couldn't do okay they were diving and cutting around each other it was absolutely spectacular it was the most amazing aerial acrobatics I've ever seen in my life

and I'm sitting there watching this and then it was just like I didn't hear it but it was like there was a whistle and they just flew south he just left my yard in one one flock together he's like they just turned and went south and then I I realized in a minute and in the space of 15 minutes there's been a brilliant lightning show. There's been a double rainbow, and there was an aerial acrobatic show, Finches. But there is no God. And I said, I prayed. I said, oh, God. and i said i prayed i said oh god that was the most amazing things i've seen thank you so much

yes and you know what i heard the holy spirit say rick i do this often for my people but they're too busy to notice. And it convicted me and I thought, how many things have I missed? How many times has God done something like that in my life and I was too busy to notice what my father was doing for me just to please me, just to say, at me look rick look at me i'm your god i'm your maker i'm your father look what i can do this is my creation speaking to you how many times has that happened

now i'm now i'm alert i'm looking for those things now. He speaks to us through his creation. There is no excuse not to know God. The order, the complexity, the beauty of his creation testify to the existence and nature of God and that makes it impossible for anyone to rightfully claim ignorance of God's existence and therefore on Judgment Day the evidence is in the file folder you knew I existed what's your excuse we don't have any excuse none leaves us all people without an excuse and again the the accountability is the foundation for God's justice on Judgment Day he is fair he is just all right I think we need to wrap it up I'm over our time limit so I just want to say to anybody that's on our Bible study today,

I don't make the assumption that everybody is in a personal relationship with Jesus. You might be here because you're searching and you're looking for answers. And I would hope that today's lesson would encourage you. You are without excuse when it comes to the day where your life is held in balance. You're without excuse.

And I invite you to respond to the Lord's call to you. He's calling to you through your conscience. He's calling to you through creation. And now more than that, he's calling to you from the word of God itself. And now you know about the cross and you know about the price that he paid for your salvation. You are without further excuse now. And I'm not saying that to condemn you, but to compel you to submit yourself to the Father and to the Lord Jesus Christ. Allow him to save you radically and to change you. Your life will be completely different the moment you say yes to Him.

I would hate for anyone to go through this wonderful Bible study and somehow miss the opportunity to not only know the Father, but to know Christ, His Son, and the intimacy of His Holy Spirit, too. And so I encourage you, say yes today. He's calling to you today in Jesus' name.

Yes. Amen. All right, everybody. That's all that needs to be said today, Rick. Class dismissed. We will regather tomorrow morning be said today, Rick. Class dismissed. We will regather tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. Eastern time. God bless you. See you on the next edition of Morning Manna.