TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - PLA General Warns Jake Sullivan: Stop Colluding with Taiwan

Episode Date: August 29, 2024

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On the surface, the Sullivan-Xi meeting appeared to be standard international diplomacy. It was another meeting, however, that was anything but diplomatic. I'm Rick Wiles. This is True News for Thursday, August 29, 2024. Let's begin our analysis and commentary of today's news with a glance at this article published by Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. Xi Jinping tells Jake Sullivan that China is committed to stable ties with the U.S. As I said, just standard vanilla-flavored international diplomacy. Nothing important in the story. Just a standard two leaders met, and that's all there is to it. It's the next story.

This is New York Post. This top Chinese general tells the U.S. to stop colluding with Taiwan in meeting with security advisor Jake Sullivan. This is the story we need to pay attention to. That's right. So let's jump into that article. This is from the New York Post. A top Chinese military officer in a rare meeting with a visiting American official demanded Thursday that the United States stop collusion with Taiwan, the self-governing island that China says must come under its rule. General Zhang Yuzhe, one of two vice chairs of the Central Military Commission,

told White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan that promoting what China calls the reunification of Taiwan with the mainland is the mission and responsibility of the military. That's according to a statement from China's defense ministry. China demands that the United States stop military collusion between the U.S. and Taiwan, stop arming Taiwan, and stop spreading false narratives about Taiwan. That's coming from the Chinese defense ministry without elaborating on what those false narratives are. Well, Doc, what do you think his message is? We're not putting up with your nonsense anymore. That's what the man was saying to him.

See, that warning didn't come from Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping arranged for a PLA general to catch him when he comes out of this room, take him aside and tell him the facts of life. And so the warning was delivered by a PLA general. Correct. And Sullivan could look at the stripes on his uniform, the medals, and say, you know, I think this guy is a military guy. I think he's sending me a military message. Oh, yes, that's definitely the case. Yes, that's what I'm saying. This isn't a diplomatic message.

It wasn't a Chinese diplomat who gave the message. It was a general. And so the reason for choosing him was to say, when it comes time to backing up this threat that we're delivering to you right now, it won't be a diplomat who does it. It'll be this general. Yes. So it's a very serious warning. And you can only imagine the expression that was on Jake Sullivan's face. I think he's in over his head. I've always felt that, Jake Sullivan. And I seriously doubt he was able to respond the proper way.

Most likely he stood there and took it. Now, look at the next article. This is South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. U.S. offer to escort Philippine ships in South China Sea risk clashes with Beijing. So this directly impacts members of my family, Rick, because this has been escalating now for many months. But this is a dramatic change in policy here. Our proposal for U.S. ships to escort the Philippines in its resupply missions in the disputed South China Sea, are in line with the bilateral mutual defense treaty, has sparked concerns that such a move could risk dangerous escalations with Beijing.

Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, told reporters on Tuesday that the escort of one vessel to the other is an entirely reasonable option under our mutual defense treaty, depending on consultations between both countries. On Wednesday, the Pentagon followed up on Paparo's comments by saying that the Philippines would remain the lead for its own operations in the South China Sea should it take up the U.S. offer, and Washington would continue to provide significant advisory support in addition to our efforts to help modernize the Philippine military. Now, Manila has been embroiled in a series of clashes with China with the latest incident occurring just this past Monday when Chinese and Philippine Coast Guard vessels collided

near Sabina Shoal, resulting in damage to two of Manila's ships as both sides traded blames and insults for the incident. Following the latest clash, the U.S. State Department issued a statement reminding Beijing that Article 4 of the 1951 U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty extends to armed attacks on Philippine armed forces, public vessels, or aircraft, including those of its Coast Guard, anywhere in the South China Sea. Now, this is sounding strikingly similar to the lead-up of what happened in Ukraine. There's the commitments that are being made.

We'll defend Ukraine. We'll do what we can. We'll supply support. We'll provide escorts and things like that. I think what we're beginning to see now is we're looking, and mark my words, this is going to be years, maybe a couple years out from now. But there's going to be a major conflict in the South China Sea. Philippines is going to be right in the crosshairs just like Ukraine is. So what's been happening, Doc?

I know you've been following it a lot closer. Yes, every night. Do you really? Yeah, I watch the Philippine news every night. So this has been going on for many, many months, where there have been these skirmishes on the sea between Chinese ships and Philippine ships, and the Chinese have used water cannons against Philippine crew members.

I think there have been a few bumping incidents. There have. And so there was actually here about a month and a half ago, there was a fistfight that broke out. Oh, that's right. I forgot about the fistfight. So the U.S. is saying to the Philippines, oh, by the way, read that treaty we have with your country. You know, if you look at Article 4 of the U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty,

it says that the United States will defend you if your armed forces, your vessels, your aircraft, your Coast Guard are injured, attacked in any way. So the U.S. is deliberately telling the Philippines, we are committed on paper to defending you. Right. So therefore, our ships are now available as escorts. All you have to do is call 911, and the U.S. Navy will respond. We will bring out our ships, and we will escort Philippine ships through the sea, and if there are any incursions from the Chinese, we'll take care of it. Is that where we're at? Yes.

But then you have to ask, in the lead-up to all this, why – the Philippines, of course, is outgunned, outmanned and everything by China, you know, 100 to 1. There's no way the Philippines can, you know, directly challenge the Chinese. But neither are they in a position to antagonize the Chinese either unless they're being provoked by someone from the outside. And it's my opinion the U.S. has been looking for an opportunity like this for a long time where we can do a stand-up against China now just like we're propping up Ukraine as a stand-up against Russia. It worked so good in Ukraine. Let's try it again in the South Pacific. So, Doc, where we're going in the world is we've been talking about two new world orders, an east and a west, there will not be globalism for a long time. Globalism has died

for the time being. So there will be at least two major new world orders competing against each other. And we can see that on the Western side, the U.S. is going to be pressuring smaller nations to take sides. I just read today that Switzerland is being advised that they need to revise their definition of neutrality. Switzerland.

What does a revised definition of neutrality look like? It means come over to our side. That's their, you know, the Western version of neutrality. That's what I mean. So all these smaller nations that are trying to live in peace with everybody and say, hey, we're too small. We don't want to rule the world. We don't want to be in a war. We just want to enjoy life, okay?

But the West is saying to them, we're going to force you to take a side. Right. we're going to force you to take a side. You've got Iran doing this with certain Middle Eastern nations. They're doing it too, just like we do it. Iran is saying you've got to take a side. China's doing it by investing in infrastructure in different places around the world and then planting Chinese military there. Doug, I read, I don't know if I sent it to you, I read an article last week about China's investment in the Caribbean,

in particular Antigua. I was shocked. I had no, I mean, I've known for some time China was making inroads in the Caribbean. I had no idea how deep they have penetrated inside the island of Antigua. Antigua has actually given them part of the island as an enclave. And the enclave will have its own laws and will issue its own passports. Yeah. China has done that in several places around the world. I'm surprised it's in Antigua.

And the prime minister there sounds like he's been indoctrinated at a Chinese communist school. He just is just oozing with praise of the Chinese way. That's in the Caribbean. So what we're saying here is China is pressuring little nations. The U.S. is pressuring smaller nations. Tehran is pressuring

little nations. All the big guys are pressuring the smaller guys. You have to take a side. And if you don't take a side, we're going to beat you up. And if you take a side, they're going to beat you up. Yes. So you may as well choose us. So choose us.

We'll beat you up less than the other guy. Right, because that's where the Philippines is at. Right. They know that China could take them any day. Well, in addition, the Philippines has allowed the U.S. They're building four new U.S. military bases in the Philippines after evicting the U.S. military a couple decades ago. But now they're welcoming them back. Because the Philippines elected a pro-U.S. president.

Yes. And so they're back in the driver's seat and they're building military bases. Right. So how does China view U.S. military bases in the Philippines? How would we view four Chinese military bases in the Caribbean? We'd take that as a threat. Yes. And we would say, you know what?

They're planning to launch an attack on us from our doorstep. But we know at some point in the future there is going to be an aggressive move by China to take Taiwan. Now we're seeing that that influence is being expanded, this operation in the South China Sea, because they plan to influence the entire Asian Pacific region, just like we plan to influence every other part of the world ourselves. Dr. Taiwan has more than the mainland island. There are numerous small islands around Taiwan that are part of Taiwan. I wouldn't be surprised if over the next six to 12 months, China just starts eating them like a Pac-Man video game. No, I can see it.

They're kind of doing that in South China Sea. How many people, what is Pac-Man? What are you talking about no but i could see china instead of an all-out attack on taiwan at one time just gobbling up small taiwanese islands and saying what are you going to do about it right and uh and we kind of had a hint at that yesterday with the uh incursion on the japanese islands they were remote they're way out off the coast of japan and everything but the chinese just kind of flew flew by it and everything just kind of said, we're taking pictures of future real estate opportunities. We're surveying. All right, let's turn our attention to World War III in Eastern Europe.

Newsweek, Ukraine strikes distant Russian region for the first time. Yes. So this is actually a major story we're going to be following up today. This is from Newsweek. It says that using drones, Ukraine this week hit a Russian region hundreds of miles from the border for the very first time. Now, the drone strike targeted the Zenit oil depot in Russia's Kirov region on Wednesday. That's being reported by Ukraine's Kiev Independent. Russia shot down two of the drones while three others fell and started a fire in a nearby town. There were no injuries reported, but the strike caused fires at two oil depots, according to the report. The strike marks the first time that Ukraine has attacked the Kirov region, which is more than 700 miles from the Russian-Ukraine border since the war began more than two years ago. Meanwhile, the Kavkaz oil depot, which they hit a week and a half ago,

which is also in the Rostov region, has been burning for the last 10 days, according to the Times. Recent satellite images have shown the fire is continuing to spread there. So this is what the Zenit oil facility looked like before the Ukraine attack, a major supply depot, obviously, for oil. 700 miles from the border. Yes. And so we have some video here of the attack. This is, fire has spread to four fuel tanks at the Russian Atlas oil depot, which is the Zenit, which is next to the Zenit oil depot. And this also was attacked by drones as well. And they're having difficult times trying to keep it under control, the fire. Now, this is the actual depot in the Kaminsky District in the Rostov region. This is the Zenit oil facility.

As you can see, these are major attacks on oil depots deep inside Russian territory. What you need to know about this is they can hit for anywhere from 700 to 1,000 miles inland. Now, flip the script. If for some reason that there was an attack on United States soil, let's say it came from Mexico, but they could fire all the way into central Missouri. That's what I was going to ask you. What is 700 miles from Rio Grande? Right. How far?

Central to northern Missouri. Is it that far? Kansas, in that area, yes. And so another 300,000 miles. Yeah. We're talking in the heartland of America. If Mexico were doing this with Russian missiles and Russian drones. That's the type of fear that would be unleashed inside America,

that you could be living in Kansas and not know whether in the morning your town is still going to be standing. Right. Now, of course, Ukraine has occupied the Kursk region now, and that has captured about 300 square miles of Russian territory. So now they can launch even further because they've advanced that much further into the Kursk region. So these drone attacks, you're going to see them increase. We saw a report the other day that they are cranking out drones like they're going out of style in Ukraine. And so why Russia hasn't taken out the drone factories, why they haven't done any of that yet, I'm just telling you, there is something afoot here that we are not seeing, that we're not understanding. I don't think Putin's a

coward by any stretch of the imagination. And so something is cooking in all this. Doug, this next story is from Euronews. And the heart of the story is that Ukrainian officials are begging the West, take the chains off of us. Let us strike Russia much deeper. Give us what we need and take the chains off of us. Let us go after them. What they're saying is we've got momentum. We've invaded. We've invaded Russia. We're attacking Russian cities. We're attacking Russian oil depots. We're attacking Russian Air Force bases. Take the chains off of us. We want to run.

We want to go. And they're actually getting support. Joseph Burrell, the European Union, is one of them in this article, says, let's do it. Let's go. So let's take a look at this article again. This is Euronews. Let Ukraine strike deep into Russia and keep the momentum. So coming from Euronews here, Western allies, including 27 members of the European Union, must immediately give Ukraine

the permission to use donated weapons. I like how they use that, to strike deep into Russia and keep up the momentum of the Kursk incursion. Ukraine's foreign affairs minister Dmitry Kuleba said on Thursday as he joined a meeting of his EU counterparts in Brussels. Now, speaking of... And notice that, Doc, he's saying immediately. Yes. Like today. Right.

That they need it. Like, stop hesitating. Do it now. Give us permission now. We're ready to go. And if they're ready to go, that means they have the weapons. They're just waiting to get the green light from the West. The weapons, the U.S. and European weapons and munitions are in their hands,

and they're frustrated that they can't fire them at the targets that they know they can reach. Because they don't have, quote, permission, unquote, yet. So they're not saying, send us weapons and munitions and then give us permission. They're saying, give us permission now. We have the weapons. We have the munitions. Yeah, I didn't see that before, but you're right. So speaking of the need to protect our cities and our children, Kaleba said the donated weapons could be deployed to attack legitimate military targets in Russia, such as the airfields used by the Russian army to fire projectiles towards Ukraine. Would the Kremlin be a military target?

Of course. That's the way they're going to see it. But you see, again, he said, let us use the donated weapons. They've already been donated. Yes. They're in the possession of the Ukrainians. They're saying, you have strings attached. Cut the strings.

We're not asking you to send us weapons. We have the weapons. But there are strings attached. Cut the strings and let us hit military targets in Russia, such as airfields. Right. So it says, speaking, if we're allowed to strike, we can go to the next card, we will significantly decrease the capacity of Russia to inflict damage on our critical infrastructure, and we'll improve the

situation for our forces on the ground, he said. So those who may try to blame Ukraine for not being successful enough should always remember that the success of Russia depends on one thing, on the preparedness of partners to make bold decisions. Notice how he worded that. He said, if decisions are taken, Ukraine is successful on the ground. If they're not taken, then do not complain about Ukraine. Complain about yourself, he added. So Kaleba is placing the blame on the West. If there's an unsuccessful incursion here, further incursion. Now, standing by Kaleba's side, Joseph Burrell, as Rick mentioned, the EU's foreign policy chief, gave his full backing and said the restrictions placed on Western-supplied weapons should be lifted in accordance with international law to enable the right to self-defense.

Okay, let's just hold it right there. Joseph Burrell, again, he's the highest level foreign policy official in the European Union. Not a military official. Foreign affairs. They're supposed to be a diplomat. And so the EU's top diplomat is saying, let's have more war. Forget diplomacy. Yes.

Let's bomb them. I mean, diplomats are supposed to be saying, hey, come on, let's sit down at the peace table and talk this out. This diplomat says, let's blow them up. Yeah. So let's put that back up on the screen. Burrell gave his full backing. Okay, if he gave his full backing, it means he has the permission, the support of the European Union. Right. He didn't do it by himself.

He spoke on behalf of the European Union and said that restrictions placed on Western supplied weapons should be lifted. So that's the voice of the EU now. It's coming soon, Doc. It's coming very soon. I mean, within one to two weeks, it's coming. It could happen over the weekend. It could happen by Monday or Tuesday. It's coming.

Now, Burrow went on and made an argument in defense of this plan of action, he says it's clear that Russia wants to destroy completely the electricity system of Ukraine in order to put Ukraine into the dark and cold for the next winter, Burrell said. Russia wants to bomb a European country into full capitulation. He said, but the matter, however, lies primarily with Washington, where the Joe Biden administration maintains limits on long-range ballistic missiles, fearing an escalation of the conflict. The U.K., another key donor, is also reluctant, pending America's approval. But as we reported yesterday, there are back-channel reports that the U.K. has already told Ukraine that they can use the storm shadow missiles in Russia. And so what this simply means is U.S. approval is coming here pretty quickly. Very soon. So the fact that Burrell came out and said this, that he's putting it out there, hey, the EU is all for this. We just need a green light from Washington. The fact that he said it publicly means they already have the green light from Washington. These things come in incremental steps.

Right. To allow the public to absorb and acclimate to the new normality. The new norm is going to be it's okay to bomb Moscow. Right. And if I would have told you even six months ago, Rick, Ukraine is going to make a major offensive and occupy Russian territory. No, I would not have believed it. I would have said no, Putin will nuke them. I would have said he would have nuk nuke them. I would have said, he would have nuked

them the moment they came across the border. But they've been in Russia for three weeks. And now making plans to further move into Russia. And they're headed towards Moscow. Yes. That's where it's going.

So, you can expect any day, I would say within the next two weeks, the Biden administration will sign off on using U.S. weapons. That then releases Great Britain and France and Germany to sign off and say, OK, you can go ahead and use our weapons too? Because a lot of their weapons came from the U.S. Right. And apparently there's a legal chain of custody issue that is in consideration. Right. You can't directly transfer U.S. weapons to Ukraine. You kind of have to hand it off through NATO. Yes, but each person who had custody has some exposure to international liability.

That's what I'm referring to. There is a liability issue in the international courts. And so there's a chain of custody. And so they've got to get the United States to sign off, which then it's like the lawyers saying in a case. OK, you've been you've been you've been given immunity. Go ahead. Do what you want to do. We've we've taken our restrictions off of what you do with our products. And so once the United States, under the Biden administration, says you can use American-made weapons to go deep into Russia, all the other countries are going to start seeing shocking attacks inside Russia, which I'm still confounded about why Putin is allowing it to happen. Your theory yesterday, it's a rope-a-dope maneuver. That may very well be what it is. It's a rope-a-dope.

You're talking about Muhammad Ali? The thriller in Manila? Just lay in the ropes and pretend like you're hurt, okay, until your opponent comes over and then knock him out. That may be what it is. It could also be, and this is where I was at yesterday and what I was saying, is that Putin has said, okay, so they're inside

our country. I'm not going to get worked up over this. I'm going to obliterate their country. See, that's at a different level of thinking. That's like saying, okay, there's a

South American gang of thieves in my house right now. Right now, they're in the spare bedroom and they're rummaging through the dresser drawers. But I'm not going to get worked up. I'm going to

go over to their place with a flamethrower and burn their house down. Okay? That may be where Putin's at. Like, okay, go ahead. Go ahead and rummage through my dresser drawers. And while you're doing that, I'm going over to your house. And burn it to the ground. And I'm going to burn it to the ground. And so when you go back to your house with my goods, there won't be any house standing.

And that could be where we're at, that Putin has made the decision we're going to strike the United States and Europe. Because they clearly have said, Lavrov said several days ago, the war will not be confined to Europe. The nuclear weapons will not be confined to Europe. The nuclear weapons will not be confined to Europe. They will find their way across the Atlantic to the United States of America. But where we're headed, Doc, is in the coming weeks, you and I are going to be sitting here talking about stunning attacks inside russia yes like mind-boggling attacks going on and we're we're going to be going this this cannot last much longer so we're going into september and

things are heating up the russian ambassador to the United States has been recalled. He's leaving the U.S. in October. Again, is Putin just, is he that calm? Is he that unflappable? That he's like, oh, we got time. I've scheduled the attack for December 22nd. I don't know what date he has. It's just like we're going to wrap this thing up in December.

Well, he doesn't have to be in a hurry. That's what I'm saying. He doesn't have to be in a hurry at all. He can wait his time for the perfect opportunity. That's where he's at. Because right now, Ukraine is not going to defeat Russia. We all know that. So all of this is kabuki theater right now that's going on. But why President Putin is allowing this, I'm really, I'm more convinced I've become that this is part of the

plan. So he's letting them come deeper and deeper into his country, and then he goes behind them and shuts the door? Right. And then he comes at them from different sides? And completely obliterates the Ukrainian forces at that point. And may have to take out... The command structure in other nations. But he may have to take out his own citizens in that region. Yeah, well, they've done it before. Read the history of World War II. I mean, they've done that before, sacrificed their own citizens to defeat the Nazis.

The advantage they have, Kursk is not a highly populated region, relatively speaking. They're farming villages. Right. But they have been evacuating people for three weeks. So is the strategy to get as many Russians out of those villages before Russian tactical nukes are used on Russian territory to obliterate the Ukrainians. Right. And Russia would be, as we mentioned yesterday, Russia would be totally justified in the international community. You had foreign troops on our soil.

What do you expect to see? If you had foreign troops on your soil, what would you do? You'd do everything you can to eliminate them, correct? Yes. You wouldn't negotiate for – that's the latest thing, too. They're going to create a demilitarized zone between Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, sort of like a DMZ like North and South Korea. Ukraine is throwing out that idea right now. There is no way Russia is going to put up with that.

They will not put up with that. I say that, but... Yeah, the DMZ is going to be made up of Russian acreage. That's right. Not Ukrainian acreage, Russian acreage. Next story, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it. Russian attacks on power sector pose risk to nuclear facilities. Reuters said a Russian drone and missile attack on Monday

forced Ukraine to disconnect several nuclear power units from the grid, posing a risk to the nuclear power sector. A Ukrainian mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency said Russia used more than 200 missiles and drones on Monday's attack on Ukrainian energy facilities. Next, we're going to switch over to domestic politics here in the USA. Now, you want to talk about Kabuki theater. Now, we're going to go totally Kabuki. NPR. Trump shooter saw the rally as a target of opportunity, says the FBI. So the gunman, according to the National Public Radio,

the gunman who attempted to assassinate President Trump last month, looked at various events or targets for a potential attack, but zeroed in on Trump's Pennsylvania rally as a target of opportunity after it was announced in early July, the FBI said, on Wednesday. Right. So in this briefing to reporters that they did by phone only, the FBI said it has conducted nearly a thousand interviews so far in its investigation into the July 13th shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania. But the FBI special agent leading the investigation said an extensive analysis of Crook's online search history has provided insights into his mindset and the research he conducted for the attack. Now, it says that we saw through our analysis of all his, but particularly his online searches,

a sustained, detailed effort to plan and attack on some events, meaning he looked at any number of events or targets. That's coming from Kevin Rojek, speaking to reporters. Then when this event was announced, this Trump rally was announced early in July, he became hyper-focused on that specific event and looked at it as a target of opportunity. That 20-year-old kid, Rick, outsmarted the FBI, the elite FBI. If you believe the FBI, then Thomas Crooks didn't want to assassinate Donald Trump. Because they're saying he didn't have a motive. That's right. We can't figure out a motive here. He wasn't driven by a motive.

He was driven by finding an opportunity to shoot anybody. Right. He just wanted to shoot somebody. And he settled on Donald Trump. That's what the FBI is saying. He had no motive. There was no driving motivation to kill Donald Trump. He just wanted to pull a trigger

and watch somebody's head get blown off. It could be anybody. It could be Taylor Swift. It could be anybody. But then Trump came to town. It just happened that Trump came to town where he lives, 20, 30 miles away. And there was the opportunity. He finally had an opportunity to shoot somebody.

That's what the FBI say. Do you believe it? Not for a cotton-picking minute. I don't believe it at all. Well, I'll tell you somebody else that doesn't believe it, you know, is Senator Ron Johnson. He's getting frustrated with the FBI's dragging their feet on giving information. I'm going to jump out of place here. Let's go down to, Lee, let's go over to number 24. And this is New York Post.

FBI Secret Service dragging their feet on Trump assassination probe, said Ron Johnson. He said this, I guess, on Sunday. Yes. It was on Sunday morning with Maria Bartiromo. You have a senior U.S. senator saying the FBI and the Secret Service are dragging their feet on investigating an attempted assassination of a former president. Yes. What else do they have to do that's more important? What's on their priority list? If the FBI is saying, we're just stretched.

We don't have a lot of time. We're working on this little mafia case over here in New Jersey. We're arresting people at school board meetings. Those are things like that. School board investigations, January 6th investigations. We're going to try to get to the Trump assassination. Sooner or later. Let's watch.

We've got a video clip from sunday's program on fox news well i'm part of the senate bipartisan investigation it's led by the chairman of the committee and subcommittee all i can really tell you is the secret service of fed you know fed bi are basically dragging their feet they're still walling us and we've gotten some transcribed interviews but the documents we request are heavily redacted. They're delivered the day of the interview. So we really can't use the documents to conduct the interviews effectively. So we're not getting squat from my standpoint, from the Secret Service or the FBI. We've requested all their 302s, their transcriptions, their interviews with hundreds of individuals.

They're not turning those over to us as well. So, Maria, if you were, if you want to design an investigation to raise suspicions and drive conspiracy theories, this is exactly how you do that investigation. I mean, I was, you know, it's just jaw dropping that they released the body for cremation before anybody's seen any autopsy or toxicology reports. Again, that's, again, it's just driving suspicion and conspiracy theories. So the FBI and the Secret Service are hiding something. If you give senators redacted documents with most of the information blacked out right well you're hiding something what

what are you hiding about an attempted assassination of a u.s president yes what state secret is uh you know being hidden here i mean tell us what it is this concerns me rick what is that that is a higher priority within this investigation than somebody that was murdered? Are they saying that there is a national security secret involved in this investigation? Therefore, they cannot talk about it? They haven't said that out loud. But isn't that the implication? Yes.

That they can't reveal something here. Yeah, the truth. The truth is what they can't reveal something here. Yeah, the truth. The truth is what they can't reveal. You know, the family of the man who was killed and the two survivors who were shot, they should sue the Secret Service for dereliction of duty, for negligence. Yes.

I mean, a man died. Yes. And two people were wounded. Well, three. Three injured. Three injured. They should sue. They should sue the Secret Service because the Secret Service is, let's just say they're ineptitude.

We'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Their ineptitude permitted this man, Crooks, to shoot several Americans, kill one of them. So the Secret Service should be held accountable in a court with a civil lawsuit. And, you know, these families should go after the Secret Service,

I don't know, the FBI, anybody else, any other federal agencies involved, and get them in court and use the power of discovery to get documents and go after them. Of course, it's going to drag out for years. Maybe decades.

Decades. Of course, because they can't tell the truth about what happened. Because the truth is, somebody in the Secret Service coordinated an attempted assassination of Donald Trump. That's the truth. And I'm amazed that no Republican senator or congressman will say it. Where this is going with the Republicans, you know, they're doing their investigation. Now, I like Ron Johnson. I think Ron Johnson, I like him.

Right. Now, I like Ron Johnson. I think Ron Johnson, I like him. But that gang over in the House that's doing an investigation, let me tell you where it's going to end up. They're going to issue a report in September, October. Right. That will be about 900 pages long. Yes. That the Secret Service failed to implement standard procedures. Right. And then they're going to give a list of recommendations for changes in policy at the Secret Service.

That's going to be the Republican report. Right. There's no way they're going to come out and say the Secret Service attempted to kill the president. They're not going to do it. Because Republicans don't have a backbone to do it. Because they're afraid they'll get shot. And this is the year for it. And if you can shoot a sitting, I mean, a former president, it's easy to shoot a House member.

I mean, a congressman gets shot, there's not going to be any news about it other than the local press. That's it. So congressmen aren't going to do anything about it. And we're just going to go deeper and deeper into that police state that we're in. Lee, I want to jump up. We'll go to the next one backwards. So this is number 11. Excuse me, not that one. I'm sorry.

I'm trying to find the one on his family. Oh, the number 22, the Daily Mail? Yes. Hiring the criminal lawyer? Yes. Yeah, number 22, Lee. So Crooks' family, his mother and father, that's his father there in the photograph, hired a powerhouse law firm in Pittsburgh. What are they afraid of?

That's a great question. What's Papa Crooks afraid of? And where is he getting the money for this law firm? I've got a screenshot of the law firm, and we'll put it up. There you go. And it's Quinn and, is it Logue? That's the way I've been pronouncing it, Quinn Logue. Very prestigious law firm in Pittsburgh.

I read the bios of these two men. Very impressive. Where is Mr. Crooks getting the money to pay for this law firm? Because I'll tell you, law firms are not cheap. No. Not a law firm at that level. And you know what? They want money up front.

Right. Yeah, they're not looking for a percentage on the back end. Hey, a law firm like that, put it on the table. Put the money on the table, and next month, put some more money on the table. And a month after that, put some more money on the table. Where is Crooks getting the money to pay for it? He doesn't look like he has that much money. And you look at the house that they lived in.

It's a very extremely modest home in Pittsburgh. You know, it reminded me of, I mean grew up in western maryland that's what that's what homes look like you know a little ranter house right um he's obviously not somebody that has deep pockets where did he come up with the money to pay for that law firm did he get a mortgage on his house? I want to know. Let's see. Did he mortgage his house to pay for the attorney? Or is somebody paying for the attorney? Right. And if somebody's paying for the attorney, who is it? And what's their skin in the game? Why would you defend the parents of a man who tried to shoot the former president of the United States?

And you can't say it's for everyone deserves a good legal defense and everything like that. No, these folks here at this level deal in criminal defense, mega civil lawsuits. I mean, we're talking nine-digit civil lawsuits. But Mr. Crooks hasn't been charged with a crime. That's right. Is he involved in a crime? Well, you know, they threw a couple parents in jail here not too long ago for providing a weapon that killed a bunch of people. Yes, but this guy, their son was not a juvenile.

That's right. Okay. So was the father involved in the planning of the assassination attempt? That's the $64,000 question, isn't it? Are the encrypted accounts in other countries are they really the accounts of the father did money flow to the father to did the father encourage his son to kill Trump? Was the father paid to encourage his son to kill Trump? Yes. Were the firearms in his name or his son's name?

What about the vehicle? I mean, there's all sorts of questions. And if the father was aware of any of those details, any involvement at all, or the mother for that matter, where does that take us? But did money flow into the hands of Mr. Crooks for the purpose of encouraging and training his son to kill President Trump? Why else would you hire an attorney at that level? And where are you getting the money for it? Those are questions I have. And we're not getting answers.

Number 13, President Trump said, he finally said he believed God saved him. I'm so glad to hear him finally say this. He said this to Dr. Phil in an interview. We've got a short video. Let's watch it. The reason you think you were spared? I mean, the only thing I can think is that God loves our country and he thinks we're going to bring our country back.

He wants to bring it back. It's so bad right now what's happening. when you look at the crime, the horrible things that are happening inside our country. And it can be solved. It can be solved fairly quickly. It has to be God. I mean, how can you say it's luck when it's, you know, 20 million to one? Okay? I mean, it's just not possible that 20 million to one, okay? I mean, it's just not possible that I was in that position. It's the only position where that bullet could have missed. And you believe in God?

I do, I do. You believe God's hand was in this that day? I believe so, yeah, I do. And you talk about the country. You believe you have more to do. You weren't done. You were spared for a reason. Well, God believes that, I guess.

We'll have to see. Encouraging. What's your thoughts? Well, you know, obviously his life was spared. And I think, you know think it was probably divine. But still, there's the apprehension in Donald Trump to really say, hey, the only reason I'm sitting here is the grace of God. Yes, that's what I want to hear him say. Right.

That's what I want to hear him say. Not that God saved me so I could save the world. Right. Or to save America. How about save you? Kept you alive. so I could save the world. Right. Or to save America. No, how about to save you? Right. Kept you alive. It's a tragic situation that occurred and everything.

But, you know, Rick, how we respond to the tragedies in our life reveal the character that's within us. And hate Trump, love Trump, you know, whatever. He has not come to a place, and this is my opinion and observation, a place of real reliance on God. Surrender. Right. Complete surrender.

And then you have this. This is number 15, Lee. Donald Trump said, my administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights. It's interesting he uses those words, Rick. Those are words of the left. Of baby killers. Reproductive rights means abortion. So why did Donald Trump say my administration will be great for reproductive rights?

He put it out on Truth Social. That's his account right there, Donald J. Trump. My administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights. And then New York Times said Donald Trump tries to refashion himself as supportive of abortion rights. And you might say, well, that's the New York Times. They're putting a spin on it from the left. But let's take a look at it from the right. There's the National Review.

Trump's abandonment of pro-lifers is complete. So the only way I can interpret this is Donald Trump is walking away from pro-life. Well, he's had somebody whisper to him, you need to distance yourself on the abortion issue. You know who I think it is? Miriam Alderson. Oh, yeah.

Because he just had dinner with her last week. Right, gave her a medal. Just before he made this declaration of support for reproductive rights. Who is Miriam Alderson? The widow of Sheldon Alderson, a Jewish billionaire, casino owner, and raving Zionists. I suspect she is the one who said, Donald, I'm willing to spend a lot of money for you like I did in 2016, like my husband did, but you've got to change on this abortion thing because Jews support abortion. Right. Now, let me ask you this, Rick. Those people that supported Donald Trump in the past because he appeared pro-life, will they abandon Donald Trump over this?

No. No, they won't. No. Because they got in bed and it's nice. And they will not hold him accountable on it. Nope. They won't do that either. They won't rise up and say, no, you cannot move away from pro-life.

They won't do it. They'll acclimate to it. Yes. They won't do it. They'll acclimate to it. Just like they acclimate to Melania Trump holding fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago for the gay, lesbian, transvestite, you know, that whole community. Nobody says anything. No one on the Christian right says a word about the Trump family raising money for homosexual rights. They just say, well, we just got to go along with it. No, you don't. You don't have to go along with it.

At least make your voice heard. I mean, but no one's said anything, have they, Rick? Not a word. Because they'll say, well, Kamala Harris is worse. Now, I'll tell you what's worse. Russian ICBMs. Yes. That's what's worse.

Because we're losing our way as a country. And the church has lost its saltiness. And it's no longer showing light in this country. Man, there's one more story. I want it so much. Let's go for it. Number 19. Man, I've been waiting all week.

Robert F. Kennedy once chainsawed off a whale's head and took it home. Oh, he's so redneck. Doc, can we get through this in one minute? Go for it. RFK once lopped off the head of a dead beached whale with a chainsaw, according to his daughter. The incident came long before the current Donald Trump supporter and former would-be presidential candidate staged a dead bear cub in Central Park to look like a bike accident as a prank.

Some four years after, doctors reportedly discovered a dead worm in his brain. That's all the comment that we need to have right there. All one paragraph. Cutting off whales' heads, staging dead bears. You've got 30 seconds to tell the whale head story. All right. In Kit Kennedy's December 2012 interview with Town & Country, she recounted that she was six years old when a dead whale washed up on the beach on Squaw Island. Her father got wind of it

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And we are studying the gospel according to St. Matthew. We are in the 21st chapter, and today we're looking at verses 18 through 22. Let's pray. Dear gracious Heavenly Father, Father, we thank you for this wonderful day. We glorify you and we praise you. We bless you. And Father, we are immensely grateful to be your sons and daughters, that you have grafted us into your family, and you have restored us to our relationship with you. Father, it could not be done without your son, who made a way for reconciliation.

And so, Father, we are gathered here in his name today to study your word about him and his kingdom. And we humbly request the presence of the Holy Spirit to illuminate our hearts and minds to see Jesus more clearly and to understand him in his precious wonderful name, Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Amen. And welcome to Morning Man of Today. This is the eight o'clock hour here on the East Coast. We're live right now, and we appreciate the hundreds of people that have joined us from all over the world. We're continuing our study in matthew chapter uh 21 and uh before i read rick i meant to say this yesterday but uh the uh you know a lot of people they have their focus when they look at the book of matthew it seems like all the focus is on matthew 24 and 25.

the the apocalyptic portion of Matthew, if you will. But you really can't understand Matthew 24 and 25 until you get through 21, 22, and 23. Because really they're all connected in one big segment here. That's right. To unlock some of the things that we're going to be talking about in Matthew 24 in a couple weeks, you have to understand this interchange that Jesus is having with the Pharisees and His disciples

over these three chapters, with the parables and everything else that are in there. So, as we're moving toward that Olivet discourse, keep that in mind because each of these lessons over the next few weeks are going to give us a greater

understanding of what's really happening in Matthew 24. Doc, I'll add this. I think in today's lesson, my focus will not be so much teaching as I normally do about what that specific verse means, I'm probably going to spend more time teaching what other teachers have claimed these verses mean. Right. And more importantly, how they've misinterpreted other scriptures referring to the fig tree. And so we're going to try to clean up a lot of misconceptions

that are very popular in American evangelical churches. But just because they're popular doesn't mean they're right. That's right. So anyhow, let's begin. Yes. Doc, we'll start there, I think 18 to 22. Right, so this is entitled The Cursing of the Fig Tree. I'm reading from the King James, verse 18 in chapter 21.

Now, in the morning, as he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it and found nothing thereon but leaves only and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away and when the disciples saw it they marveled saying how soon is the fig tree withered away jesus answered and said unto them verily i say unto you if you have faith and doubt not you shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree but also if you say unto this mountain so it's likely they were on the mount of olives be thou removed and be i cast into the sea it shall be done in all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer believing ye shall receive

so rick here we are the cursing of the fig tree and what is the standard way that this is normally taught well let's work our way to it we'll start at the at the obvious uh verse 18 it's it's an incident um that occurred between Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem and the day of the Passover. And he spent the night in Bethany. Jesus being human, all human, all God. Experienced hunger. And a genuine physical need for food, despite his divine nature. And I love verses like this because it reminds us that he was all human, while at the same time, all God. Yes. Now, being all God, he could have just made food appear. True.

But he never did those things for himself. And he experienced hunger just like you and me. So this incident probably occurred in the very early morning hours, you know, approximately 6 a.m. or so, just at daybreak. The phrase, he hungered, like I said, it reveals his physical need for food. And it says that neither he nor the disciples had food available at that time. Now, it's reasonable to assume that Jesus may have stayed at the house of his dear friends Lazarus, Martha, and Mary, brothers and sisters. But there's no scripture that affirms the assumption.

The reason I say we can safely assume is because there's a pattern of him staying at their home when he went to Bethany. But if he did lodge with them, they didn't fix breakfast for Jesus in the morning. Or he

left before they had breakfast ready. He was out on the road headed to Jerusalem early in the morning a day break and he was hungry there's also a possibility that Jesus may have slept spent the night in prayer you know know somewhere near bethany on the slopes of the mount of olives the bible doesn't tell us we just know he's in bethany he gets up in the morning to leave for jerusalem and he's hungry that's all we need to know in this verse regardless of where he slept he was hungry early in the morning.

Now we get to verse 19. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away so this encounter takes place with a solitary fig tree standing alone by the roadside hungry and obviously thinking about food Jesus approached a tree with the expectation of finding delicious figs but despite the trees leafy appearance the tree disappointed Jesus by bearing no fruit. Right. Yes.

So Jesus' response to the barren tree represents a spiritual truth rather than a statement about disappointment over not finding food. He pronounced a curse on the tree. He commanded it to never bear fruit again, forever. The term presently carries a sense of immediate action, indicating swift fulfillment of Jesus' words. If you go to Mark 11, Mark tells you that, from verse 19 through 21,

and when even was come, he went out of the city, and in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter, calling to remembrance, saith unto him, Master, behold,

the fig tree which you cursed is withered away. So they left the temple. They were in Bethany. He got up in the morning. He's on the road. He's hungry. He sees the fig tree. He goes to pick fruit.

There's nothing there. He cursed the fig tree he goes to pick fruit there's nothing there he cursed the fig tree he went on his way to Jerusalem he cleansed the temple and then when the evening had come he left the city and in the morning the next day so they stayed somewhere they camped somewhere and in the morning, the next day, so they stayed somewhere, they camped somewhere. And in the morning, as Jesus and the disciples passed by the fig tree that he had cursed, Peter said, Master, behold, the fig tree you cursed is withered away. So the curse had an immediate effect. They didn't see it until the next day but the moment jesus spoke it the curse took effect now to get to your question doc first we got to talk about a movement that I called dipsy ism dispensational pre millennial Zionism, DPPZ, Dipsy, and I call their doctrine Dipsyism. Can't go into every part of it.

Dispensational, John Nelson Darby cooked up this doctrine that God had divided time up into dispensations and that he responded to man's situation differently in each dispensation. That's what dispensationalism means. Premillennial. The doctrine that Jesus is coming back before he sets up a 1,000-year kingdom on earth. Pre-tribulation, the doctrine that he's coming back before the Great Tribulation. Zionism, the doctrine that Jesus will reinstate the nation of Israel and rule from the nation of Israel 4,000 years.

That's dipsyism. They don't call it dipsyism. That's what I call it. So when I say dipsyism, have that in mind. Think of John Nelson Darby, Cyrus Schofield, Hal Lindsey, John Hagee. Tim LaHaye. Yes, Tim LaHaye. Not just about everybody you see on TBN, because you're not allowed to be on TBN if you're not a dipsyite. So, this is, oh, no, Dr. Ed,

no, I was told it's a rule. I believe it. Under Matt Crouch, it's a rule. Nobody can be on TVN who is not a Zionist. You have to believe in a rapture,

and you have to believe in the state of Israel to be on TBN. It wasn't that way when I worked there back in the 90s. Paul Krauss did not prohibit people from being on TBN who did not believe those things. So this is where this becomes interesting. The Dipsyites, they accept the idea that when Jesus cursed the fig tree

in Matthew 21, the verse that we're studying right now, it represented 70 AD the destruction of Jerusalem in the temple they accept it they accept that the fulfillment of the curse occurred in 70 AD however they teach a doctrine known as the fig tree revival right or the fig tree generation they've got different names for it they all know what it means when they hear it they believe that Jesus prophesied in Matthew 24 and we're in Matthew 21 and so they accept that the cursing of the fig tree in Matthew 21

was fulfilled in 70 AD when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the temple there's no argument there with them on that one but where they get weird and squirrely is that when you go several more chapters into Matthew and you get the Matthew 24 and there's another fig tree mentioned by Jesus. They say that fig tree is the fig tree that he cursed in Matthew 21. And now he's revived it. He's brought it back to life and it's blossoming again. And that is the fig tree, which is the state of Israel born in 1948. Right. That's the fig tree revival doctrine.

So the essence of it is the fig tree represents Israel. Yes. How they interpret, they have to go backwards in it. So you've got the parable of the fig tree in Matthew 24. And Jesus says in Matthew 24, learn the parable of the fig tree in matthew 24. and jesus says in matthew 24 learn the parable of the fig tree almost as if saying you remember a couple days ago when we saw that fig tree learn the parable of it yes so it's not disconnected here at all they're they're connected we recognize the connection and even to some extent the dispensationalists recognize the connection the only problem is this passage says something

very different doesn't it rick it does so i want to doc i want to for a few minutes i want to stay on the doctrine of the fig tree revival. Because I guarantee you, just about everybody in this class has at some time heard a preacher or a friend, somebody on television or radio, in church, talk about the fig tree represents Israel, and the fig tree came back to life. And the next time you hear it, you need to say in your head, that's not true. I now understand it. That's not true. I'm not telling you to stand up in church and challenge the pastor, but you need to know that what he's teaching isn't true.

I mean, if you're in a church where the pastor is teaching these things, it's because he was indoctrinated at a Bible college by a professor who had been indoctrinated by a professor at a Bible college who had been indoctrinated by a professor at a bible college who had been indoctrinated by a professor at a bible college right and it goes all the way back to cyrus schofield and then to john nelson darby who made it all up yeah it's all concocted it's a fairy tale that's all it is it's a religious fairy tale so think about this the the diphthyites the rapturous they say okay we agree with you the fig tree in matthew 21 now that's israel and jesus cursed it, we agree, and it did wither up. And the curse was fulfilled in 70 AD.

We're with you on that one. But the Dipsyites would say, but where we disagree with you is we believe that in Matthew 24, Jesus told us to watch out for a revival of the of the cursed fig tree it's going to blossom again and when you see the blossoms when you see the figs on the fig tree know that the rapture is near because you're going to see the state of Israel come back into existence and when you see the state of Israel come back into existence. And when you see the state of Israel on the earth again, it means the rapture is near. Jesus is coming. That's the doctrine that they teach.

But what they don't want to deal with is that in Matthew 21, Jesus said to the fig tree, let there be no fruit from you forever. Forever. How long is forever? Long time. Does it have an ending? No. Forever has no ending.

If you travel for a thousand years following the line of forever, when you get there a thousand years later, guess what? There's more forever. Forever is eternal. There's no ending to forever. Jesus said to the fig tree, let there be no fruit from you forever and yet the dipsyites teach on tvn and daystar and all the religious television and radio stations and the

big mega churches and most of the denominational churches they teach that that Jesus didn't mean it. Right. It was only for that generation. Only for that generation. That's right. That's what they teach. So let's read what Jesus said in Matthew 24. Matthew 24

verses 32 to 33. Now learn a parable of the fig tree. When his branches yet tender, and put it forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh. So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near even at the doors. Jesus said nothing about the fig tree he previously cursed. He said nothing about reviving Israel in the last days.

Where do they hear the state of Israel in 1948 1948 where do they hear it in that verse and yet they have made tens of millions of dollars selling books claiming that jesus said it and he didn't say it it's a fabrication. So the Dipsyites teach that the revival of the fig tree through the rebirth of Israel in 1948 is an undeniable sign of the rapture and the second coming of Jesus. Right. coming of jesus right they believe that the fig tree jesus cursed in matthew 21 was revived in matthew 24 and that matthew 24 was fulfilled in 1948 when the united nations authorized the establishment of the new state of Israel. That's when the fig tree produced the leaves.

That's what they would say that is. Yes. And, Doc, I found online today, I found Dipsyite websites that teach that 1948 marked the year when Jesus stood at the door waiting to come in I'm not kidding you I'm like oh my there's a new lie I haven't heard before so why couldn't he come in Rick what was stopping him was the door locked was it barred no it's just when he walked up to the door he's still waiting he's peeped through the peephole i mean what what was the purpose of him coming to the door well they would say that the generation hasn't been fulfilled yet so oh that's not to us to make it come true no no that the time of the generation has to be

played out so that takes us to hal lindsay who was by far the most influential promoter of the fig tree revival doctrine in the 20th century yes so I'm gonna read directly from the late great planet Earth book published back there in the 1970s he sold 40 million copies of that book change the way people thought about the second coming of Christ this is what how Lindsay said in the late great planet earth quote but the most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel even the figure of speech fig tree has been a historic symbol of national Israel. When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948,

the fig tree put forth its first leaves. End of quote. Now do you understand how these Dipsyites twist and confuse Scripture? There's no such thing in Matthew 24. No, not at all. You can't find one Scripture

in the New Testament Scriptures that says the state of Israel is going to come back into existence before the return of Jesus Christ. It doesn't exist. Just like the word the rapture doesn't exist. I'll give you another one. Pastor Greg Laurie. He's another influential proponent of the fig tree revival doctrine.

This is what he said in his book. Or maybe it's a quote on his website. Quote, the fig tree in scripture is a symbol of the nation of Israel. On more than one occasion, God compares Israel to a fig tree. In Hosea 9.10, God says, I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness I saw your fathers as the first fruits on the fig tree in its first season very glory goes on to say when Jesus said learn the parable of the

fig tree he was telling us that the rebirth of Israel the budding of the fig tree will be a super sign of the last days well not just a sign a super sign a super sign wow all right that's a calvary chapel what's that doc that's a five dollar sign there wow oh yeah super size that's. I've never heard that one before. Okay, let's look at Chuck Smith, the founder of Calvary Chapel Churches. He wrote a book in 1976 titled Snatched Away. Obviously, it was a rapture book. This is what he wrote in Snatched Away. Quote, that generation that was living in May 1948 shall not pass away until the second coming of Jesus Christ takes place and the kingdom of God established upon the earth. How long is a generation? 40 years on average in the Bible where does that put us it puts us right out at the end we're coming down to the wire end of quote what year was that 1976 so

based on that he said 40 years that would put you at 1988 and what did we see in 1988 we saw rapture fever yes 88 reasons why the rapture will happen in 1988 it came from smith he didn't write that book but people were inspired by him and hal lindsey saying the rapture is is going to be within 40 years of 1948 and so they've had to adjust that number ever since oh yeah and i'm going to get to that here in just a moment doc so a major flaw in their interpretation of bible scriptures is their assertion that the fig tree is the symbol of israel but in reality the dominant biblical symbol for old is in the Old Testament was the olive tree and the biblical symbol for new Israel in the new covenant scriptures is the vine yes all right listen to this one I went look I've never heard of this. I was just searching on the Internet today for fig tree revival,

fig tree generation. I came to a website called the Christian Truth Center, christiantruthcenter.com, and they have a section about the replant. That's what they call the replanted fig tree. So I'm going to read word from word from this Christian website called the Christian Truth Center. It says in Matthew 24, we see Jesus talking of a replanted fig tree. Her branches are tender, putting forth leaves.

And then it quotes the scripture from Matthew 24, now learn a parable of the fig tree. It goes on to say, Many Bible prophets prophesied of Israel's replanting, Israel's rebirth. Israel ceased to be a sovereign nation from 70 AD to May 14, 1948, when the United Nations proclaimed Israel a sovereign nation. Israel was given her land back, thus replanted. It goes on to say, since 1948, we seen israel put forth leaves on her tender branches economically militarily financially spiritually and israel has become a world force

on news all over the world and we are about to see israel build the third temple and it says israel is god's time piece and in matthew 24 and mark 13 and luke 21 jesus used israel to tell us of a generation that will see all these things prophesied be fulfilled so there's a lot of you there's a lot going on on this fig tree who how many of you with us today have heard that doctrine proclaimed either from your church or on Christian television or Christian radio or a Bible prophecy conference how many of you have heard somebody teach those those doctrines yes and look at the that is the dominant view that is the dominant view of almost every evangelical church in america whether it's pentecostal charismatic southern baptist doesn't matter they share this doctrine the doctrine of the fig

tree revival and the 1948 establishment of the state of Israel was the rebirth of the fig tree cursed by Jesus forever they come up with this stuff I know where they come up with it so keep in mind that the Dipsyites interpret Matthew 21's fig tree as the fig tree in Matthew 24 yes they teach that Matthew 21's cursed fig tree is restored in Matthew 24, even though Jesus said no man would ever eat fruit from it again. Yes. So does that mean Jesus lied? Did Jesus lie? Did he exaggerate?

How do you explain it? Are they saying Jesus lied? Did they say Jesus exaggerated in Matthew 21 when he knew that by the time he got to Matthew 24, he was going to bring that tree back to life? Jesus can't lie. There's no lies in him. But I'll tell you who can lie.

John Nelson Darby and cyrus schofield so the dibsites say that matthew 24 is a prophecy of the restoration of the nation of Israel, which they said was fulfilled in 1948. Now, my view is that the state of Israel formed in 1948 is a satanic imposter, a forgery, and God had nothing to do with it. So according to the Dipsyites, when you see the fig tree blooming again, meaning the modern state of Israel, you will know that the prophetic seasons are changing and the rapture is near. that Israel was destroyed in 70 AD, but revived in 1948. But even that doctrine is flawed because there was no nation of Israel in 70 AD.

That's right. There was no nation of Israel when Jesus spoke the curse. Jesus never reached the nation of Israel. Not one time. Israel had ceased existing centuries before Jesus was born in Bethlehem. That's what the Jews were waiting for. They were waiting on the Messiah to restore Israel. So the Dipsyites teach that Israel was destroyed in 70 AD.

There was no Israel to destroy. God destroyed Jerusalem and the temple. He destroyed the religious system. So according to Hal Lindsey and Greg Laurie and other Gypsyites, we are in the generation that will see the second coming of Jesus Christ because we are part of the generation that witnessed the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Therefore, we are guaranteed that we will see the so-called rapture, even though there's no rapture. There is a catching away of the church. Absolutely, the church is going to be those who are alive and remain are going to be caught up into the air to meet Jesus. Absolutely. But it's not called the rapture and it doesn't happen twice seven years before i mean just before tribulation and then another return of christ seven years later it doesn't happen that way but that's what they teach so doc a common statement by Dipsyites goes something like this.

The generation that sees the state of Israel reborn and become a great nation again will be the generation that sees the rapture and Jesus established his throne in Jerusalem for 1,000 years. years they teach that that sentence in various forms from countless pulpits and radio stations and television stations so what they're saying the generation that sees the birth of the state of Israel in 1948. The leaves on the victory. Yes, will be the generation that sees the rapture and sees Jesus established as throne in. They're talking about old Jerusalem, and that he'll be there for 1,000 years.

Well, Hal Lindsey is 94 years old. So the rapture must happen soon for Hal to see it. Hey, if he's right, let's go. Let's do it. Yeah. I mean, he's 94. If he's right, we're about to be raptured. But that's why the Dipsyites repeatedly redefined the length of a generation.

They reset the bar. They reset the clock. They changed the clock. They say, equal is God's prophetic hour so for decades Hal Lindsey and others taught that a generation was 40 years

I heard Hal Lindsey on TV and countless times tell Paul Crouch a generation is 40 years Paul in 1988 we're coming up to the rapture. And like I said earlier, that's why there was rapture fever in 1988. Right. And when the rapture did not occur in 1988, they altered the length of a generation to 80 years so using their math that would put the rapture at 2028. so how lindsay bought himself some time

so if if he lives you know another four years And he's 98 years old. He still could see the rapture, according to his teaching. But just to be safe, Doc, Hal Lindsey bought himself some more time by saying that God's so-called prophetic time clock, that's another one. When you hear anybody use that phrase, God's prophetic time clock, you know right away they are a dipsyite. God's stopwatch is Israel.

He's got a stopwatch. bought some more time by saying that god's prophetic time clock paused in 1948 and then was restarted in 1967 when israel captured control of jerusalem right therefore using dipsy math new math you got new math you got dipsyite math okay so now 80 years after 1967 would be the year 2047 so that's his latest explanation and he's got a statement on his website i read it today doc where he said i never said there was going to be a rapture in 1988 no you may not have said that directly but you implied it by the 40 year generation that oh he said people miss other people misinterpreted what he said and put words in his mouth okay so the other thought here doc is God's prophetic clock must have weak batteries maybe they're corroded because sire Schofield and company taught that God's prophetic time clock stopped in 70 a.d and restarted in 1948 but if

you accept hal lindsay's viewpoint the prophetic time clock only worked for one year and stopped again right so what's wrong with that clock? Why does it keep stopping? Because God doesn't have a prophetic time clock. That's right. But they're teaching that God has to wait until the Jews are ready to do what he wants them to do. But everything revolves around the Jews. Right. And in order to get

the Jews to do what God wants them to do, he has to put them all in a piece of real estate about half the size of New Jersey and over a seven year period of time, kill two thirds of them.

And a whole lot greater. that how lindsay said that that's how lindsay's words that you know this would be a holocaust that would make the uh the for the holocaust in the 30s and 40s look like a girl scout outing two-thirds of all the jews are going to be killed in their in their interpretation of the great tribulation well that's quite a that's quite a promise isn't it yeah i mean imagine trying to evangelize a jew and saying hey we're behind you all the way and everything by the way we want you back in the promised land so two-thirds of you can be slaughtered that's not a big selling point for the gospel there no and some of the Jews in

Israel are figuring it out, because I read these articles on the Jewish newspapers, and they're like, hey, these evangelicals, they're preparing for us to die. So again, I ask you, how many times have you heard a preacher say, the generation that sees Israel become a nation will be the generation that sees the rapture ask them to show you one sentence in the Bible where Jesus said such a thing they will point to these scriptures about fig trees and say it's right there no that's a fig tree where is the state of israel show me the state of israel and they can't do it they just they'll just say well you don't have spiritual discernment no i got eyes I can read so let's go back to our verses for today Matthew 21

and when he saw a fig tree in the way he came to it and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforth forever. And presently the fig tree withered away. So what do we have here? We got a fig tree that has leaves. Looks like a fruit tree, right? It's got leaves. But no fruit does that represent what does it represent it represents spiritual barrenness that's the meaning

of this of this verse and Jesus responded to the tree's lack of fruit by cursing it and commanding it to never bear fruit again. In other words, the Son of God said, I have approached you to enjoy your fruit, and you have no fruit for me. Therefore, I curse you, and you will never bear fruit again beyond the state of israel beyond the jewish people this is a metaphor for the state of those who offer empty words to god without spiritual fruit it applies to all of us not just the Jews so the removal of the trees fruit bearing capacity symbolizes God's withdrawal of divine grace from those who remain spiritually unproductive.

And the rapid withering of the tree represents the swift consequences that follow a pronouncement of divine judgment. Yeah, it shocked the disciples how quickly the tree withered. They marveled at that. It wasn't over months. It wasn't over years. It was immediate. So let's talk about its application to Israel at that time Jesus found a tree it had lush foliage it looked like a promising fruit tree but leaves only no fruit again he pronounced a curse the curse said you're going to wither and you will never produce fruit again it's a symbolic warning against

unfruitful lives a pretending to be a believer but never producing fruit. I mean, I'm telling you, no matter, sometimes, look, our lives, we have seasons where there's not a lot of fruit on our lives, but at least there's something there. When you're in a situation like that, when you're in a situation like that when you're in a season like that you better grunt and squeeze out some kind of fruit in your life I mean make it happen why because you're staying in the game that's right there's an expectation that if you are serving the Lord that you produce fruit you put them in it if you only have one hanging on your branch you've got fruit that's right how do we

know that your faith is genuine unless fruit is produced how do we know a good a good orchard is a farmer is not going to cut down a tree that has at least one fruit on it. Because that means, hey, there's hope. There's promise. Right. This thing's still producing fruit. Leave it alone. But when the farmer repeatedly sees no fruit, year after year after year after year,

you say, what am I doing? This thing's taking up space. Cut it down. So the curse of the fig tree starkly contrasts with Jesus' miracles because this is the only instance where he cursed something instead of blessed it. That's true. So if the Dipsyites are adamant that Israel a fig tree is Israel then they have to accept

that Jesus cursed Israel forever forever Forever. Forever. Forever and ever and ever. You can't have it both ways, can you? You can't say that it's cursed forever and yet it blooms again. Which is it? I don't know, Doug. They're trying to have it both ways. Right. So, Scripture identifies Israel as an olive tree, not a fig tree. Had Jesus meant for Israel to be the focus of this parable, I'm talking about Matthew 24,

he would have used an olive tree. Right. Rather than a fig tree. That's true. So what Jesus is warning us about, all of us, is to not be spiritually barren. Like I said, we all have seasons where things aren't just aren't popping well for us but you know what that's usually when the the the orchard is does some trimming and when you trim a fruit tree it comes back much bigger and produces more fruit

the trimming of a fruit tree is not a curse it's actually a positive action to stimulate growth. So if you're in a dry season right now and things aren't really going well, don't think you're about to be cursed. That's not what this means. This is really for hypocrites. This is for people that pretend that they're Christians and there's no spiritual fruit for the kingdom in their lives. In this particular case, it was directed towards the religious elite of Judaism.

People who bore no fruit for the kingdom. God in heaven found nothing pleasing in them. There was nothing he could taste. Israel had become bitter fruit. A disappointment to him and so Jesus's command to the fruit tree to never never bear fruit again was a declaration of the impending destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. Right. And yet you have people today,

Jews and Christians, who are feverishly attempting to build another temple, to build something God himself destroyed. It can't be done. I'm not saying they're not going to put up a temple, but it won't be done I'm not saying they're not gonna put up a temple but it won't be by God it'll be by Satan because that thing in Israel I am convinced is a satanic impostor it's it's a forgery it's Satan's forgery of Israel. There's nothing godly going on in the state of Israel right now. Nothing. There are some churches, of course.

There are Christian churches inside the political boundaries. But I'm talking about the state itself. There's nothing godly going on. Nothing. You think God is... They didn't cry as loud as they going on. Nothing. You think God is pleased with their... Now as they ever did. Yes. You think God's pleased with their slaughter of Palestinian children?

What kind of fruit is that? Bloody fruit. No. I think it was Isaiah maybe Jeremiah who said that Jerusalem was built on blood it's still built on blood and the Jerusalem that's there is not even the old Jerusalem that's right everything's even the old Jerusalem. That's right. Everything's a forgery. So this is a symbolic representation of the fate awaiting the Jews who, like the barren fig tree, would soon face divine judgment.

Doug, is there anything you want to add to this? I'm just talking away here and I'm not giving you... Well, no. I don't disagree with you on any of this. This is... To me, this is one of the flaws in dispensationalism because they'll say that the fig tree is Israel and yet Jesus curses the fig tree

forever. And to me, I mean, he's foretelling, hey, not only is Jerusalem going to be destroyed, not only is the temple going to be destroyed, but Judaism itself is going to be destroyed.

The life that is in the fig tree, if you want to call it any life at all, what happens to a tree that doesn't produce fruit? Jesus himself said it is yooned down to be cast into the fire, and that's exactly what happened in 70 AD. That tree was cast down. Judaism, the temple,usalem uh it was cast down and cast into the fire that day now there are applications in our own lives today about producing fruit in our life and everything else like that but i believe that these two references to the fig tree in 21 and 24 are bookends of this narrative. You know, they've kind of been captured. They're like the quotation marks of this whole narrative here

as Jesus is preparing not only his disciples, but also the Pharisees and scribes with his teaching, especially all these parables that we'll be talking about over the next few chapters all have to do with end-time judgment. And so this is the beginning of the judgment narrative right here. This is it. Jesus is speaking as a prophet now, a prophet foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, not in the 21st century, but in

the first century. So why did Jesus speak the curse, the judgment? Because the Jews were making a public profession of religion. They told surrounding nations, we are the chosen people of God. We are the apple of his eye. We can do anything we want to do, and he still protects us because we are the chosen people. And that is the exact same attitude today. The Jews in Israel are saying, we can kill the Palestinian children because we are God's chosen people, and they are not. And the Dipsyites, the Christian Zionists in America, are agreeing with them, saying,

you are precisely right, Netanyahu. You are God's chosen people, and the Palestinians are not protected by God, and you may kill them. Yes. That's exactly what they're teaching. And we'll applaud you while you do it. Yes. Wipe them out. Wipe them out. Wipe them out.

You are the apple of God's eyes. Wipe out those Palestinians, even the Christian Palestinians. Kill them. Do you understand what I'm saying to you? You've got preachers in America who endorse the killing of Palestinian Christians. I don't endorse the killing of anybody, whether they're Jews, Muslims, Christians. I don't endorse the killing of anybody. But you have preachers in this country who are clapping and applauding in their pulpits for the Jews killing all Palestinians,

including Christian Palestinians. Right. And we didn't get to the story yesterday but that knew that cleansing now is extending to the West Bank that's right they're now killing the Palestinians in the West Bank so Jesus goes to the tree looking for fruit there's no fruit the's acting like a fruit tree, but not being a fruit tree. There's the problem. The tree is impersonating a fruit tree. But you can only be a fruit tree if you have fruit. Had leaves.

Doesn't matter. You have to have, to qualify as a fruit tree, you must have fruit had leaves doesn't matter you have to have to to qualify as a fruit tree you must have fruit so what's going on at this time in israel's history the jewish history is the son of god visited the jews and said i'm here on behalf of my father the owner of this vineyard and i have come to collect what is due him yes give me the fruit the fruit of obedience the fruit of praise the fruit of cheerfulness the fruit of of kindness generosity of love give me the fruit and he could not find any in israel can you imagine him looking at that fig tree and looking through the leaves this is jesus there's got to be fruit here somewhere somewhere on this tree look at the leaves there's got to be fruit

and the more he searched the more frustrated he got because he could not find fruit and where is he going he's going to jerusalem to be murdered by the jews yes this cursing of the fig tree is part of his entry into Jerusalem to be crucified. Crucified by a fruitless fig tree. He cursed the fig tree and the fig tree said, we're going to crucify you before we wither up. That's what's taking place here. A fruitless soul may expect to be dealt with as God did a fruitless nation.

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