TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Trouble in Zion: Could Israeli Civil War End Zionist Experiment in Palestine?

Episode Date: March 2, 2023

Thousands of Israelis marched in streets across the country again today in protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheme to change the Zionist state’s judicial system. The protests come in response to a series of bills that seek to radically change Israel’s courts and weaken the power of judges and prosecutors including the Attorney General. The plans have drawn wide public opposition, from business leaders and legal experts to military reservists who say the changes would lead to authoritarian rule. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 3/01/23 You can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 690069 Vero Beach, FL 32969. The Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielf It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. You can order the second edition of Rick’s book, Final Day. https://www.rickwiles.com/final-day

You are listening to True News with Rick Wiles. We appreciate you tuning in. To find out more information regarding the broadcast, including prayer and financial support, please visit our website at www.truenews.com. Our mailing address for all correspondence is True News, PO Box 690069, Faroe Beach, Florida 32969. This is true news, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. so help us God. Thousands of Israelis marched in streets across the country again today in protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's scheme to change the Zionist state's judicial system.

The protests come in response to a series of bills that seek to radically change Israel's courts and weaken the power of judges, prosecutors, and the country's attorney general. The plans have drawn widespread public opposition from business leaders and legal experts and to military reservists who say the changes would lead to authoritarian rule. Mr. Netanyahu, an ultra-Zionist zealot, returned to power in 2022 as prime minister. He claims his reforms are necessary to bring Israel's court system into standards with international law. His judicial overhaul scheme has sparked a wave of anger that generated mass protests for weeks. It even prompted rare demonstrations by IDF reservists who publicly vowed to disobey orders under the new Netanyahu regime. The biggest protest so far was last Saturday night when over 100,000 Israelis marched in the streets of Tel Aviv and other cities. Protesters also gathered in Jerusalem

on Monday. During the rally, dozens of police officers fired tear gas and water cannons at the crowds. Dozens were arrested and at least 11 people were hospitalized with injuries, according to a report from the Jerusalem Post. The protests have also prompted a defiant televised speech from Prime Minister Netanyahu, who said his reforms were an essential part of his effort to build a Jewish state. He compared the demonstrations to Jewish settler mobs who recently rioted in a Palestinian village, burning houses and cars. Mr. Netanyahu accused the Jewish protesters of crossing red lines and warned they could face retaliation from the police or the government. He also said that there would not be civil war in Israel.

New protests against Mr. Netanyahu's radical religious Zionist government erupted Wednesday in what organizers called a day of disruption. So our question today, is Israel on the verge of civil war? Dr. Raymond Burkhart and I are ready to discuss the possibility that the Zionist state could fall apart and implode. Doc, it seems, I mean, a year ago, I don't think we'd be talking about this. But Mr. Netanyahu is back in power, and it appears that Israel is as divided by him as America is by Donald Trump. Right.

And the two are linked together. That's right. So these protests have been now ramping up here over the past few weeks, and it really started to grow over the weekend here and now is really causing some serious problems. Times of Israel is reporting this back yesterday. Protesters launched nationwide day of disruption against Justice Overhaul. And that day was today. Right.

This was yesterday's report where the protesters said we're going to have a day of disruption against Justice Overhaul. And that day was today. This was yesterday's report where the protesters said, we're going to have a day of disruption. The day of disruption was today, Wednesday. That's right. And then Haratz has this story here. This is the national day of disruption. Protests resume in Tel Aviv

as thousands gather outside Netanyahu's Jerusalem home. And so Times of Israel is reporting protests are sweeping the nation. And as they do, police are using very aggressive means to clear these different protests, in particular the Tel Aviv rally. They're also putting their knees on protesters' necks. Right. And we've seen that before, haven't we? Yes. I wonder who came up with that technique. Well, as protesters throughout the country continued their day of disruption, rallies against the government's judicial overhaul efforts, violence erupted in Tel Aviv as police aggressively subdued demonstrators attempting to block the Ayalon Highway. Now, for the first time since the protests began some two months ago. Cops deployed tear gas, stun grenades, and water cannons

to disperse demonstrators near the Azraeli towers. Water cannons were also used at a protest near Padres Hanna. We have some video here showing the police using stun grenades on protesters. This is from Maratz. And as Rick mentioned about the knees on the neck, we've had a big controversy about that here in America a couple years ago. Where your cops went to prison over it. That's right. But in Israel, it's just a Tuesday.

But that's where they learned it. That's right. Because American police officers are sent to Israel for training. Yes. Tens of thousands. In fact, I would say I think the ADL said 150,000 American police officers over the last, I think, 10 years or so. Paid for by the ADL. Sent to Israel to be trained by the Israeli law enforcement and military.

In this next video, you will see an Israeli police officer hold a protester down on the street by putting his knee on the protester's throat and neck. That's an Israeli tactic. Watch this. I want to point out the protesters are Jewish. Yes. Those aren't Palestinians. They're not Arabs. So now Israelis are learning what Palestinians have been experiencing for a very long time. So was the Jewish protester on the street, was he screaming, I can't breathe?

Because that's a big issue here in America. That's right. It's the Israelis who teach police officers how to use that tactic. And we're seeing it now being employed against the Israeli people. Again, we're talking here today, the 1st of march of 2023 and the question is

is israel on this on the verge of civil war could we witness the implosion of the zionist state this year will mr netanyahu's government be the end of the Zionist state? There's talk of, I mean, and I hope it doesn't happen. I mean, there's been talk of assassinations in Israel. There have been warnings. Rick, Israel was built on assassinations. It's built on blood. It has a bloody history. And so God shall not be mocked

whatsoever you sow that you shall reap. So the Zionists sowed bloodshed and violence to start the state. Now the state is imploding with bloodshed and violence because they're reaping what they sowed. It's their own people. But you're going to see here in a few minutes, there was also violence against the Arabs, which got very little publicity in the United States of America. We've been monitoring it for quite some time. And we thought today's the day to bring it in and show our audience because of the violence that's taking place in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. We've got some more video of what's going on. I think the next one is the water cannons. Right. They brought out the water cannons to be used against the Israeli protesters who are against the Netanyahu government.

Let's watch the video. When the Israelis use water cannons against the Arabs, they use sewage water. Yes. That's a fact. They spray them with sewage water. That's right. So I was asking, Rick, was that regular water or sewer water? I would assume it's regular water.

I don't think they would use sewage water on their fellow Jews, but they do use sewage water. But they put their knees on their necks. They are. They're getting very aggressive because the Likud party was born in fascism. Yes.

I am not kidding you, folks. You learn the history of the Likud party. It is a fascist party, and it goes back to the Nazis in the 19, late 30s, in the early 40s in Hitler's government, and this is not a conspiracy theory, but the Third Reich, the German Hitler government, was sending vast amounts of money to Palestine to finance the Zionist takeover of Palestine. That became the Likud Party. And the Zionists that they were working with,

just as Doc said, became the Likud party. And the Zionists that they were working with, just as Doc said, became the Likud party. It was born in fascism. Right. And people can't, they're just like, how can that be? How could a Jewish political movement be associated with German Nazi fascism? Because most evangelical Christians here in America think all the Jews do over in Israel,

sit on the banks of the Jordan and play harps and eat figs and do all that all day. And sing songs of Moses. Right. But this is what is really going on. It's a nation of blood. And the reason Hitler was financing the Zionists in Palestine, they weren't Palestinians. They were not Middle Eastern Jews. They were European Jews. They were German Jews. And the deal was that if Hitler would back a Zionist state in the Middle East, then Hitler would allow the Jews to leave Germany.

That was the original plan. And as the war went on, Hitler changed his mind. They came up with the final solution and they began killing off the Jews. But there was a group of Zionists that Hitler was working with in the early stages of the late 30s and early 40s. And he was financing their revolution, their infiltration. I'll put it that way, their infiltration of Palestine. The people that overthrew the Arabs in 1948 were not Middle Eastern Jews. They killed the Middle Eastern Jews. They killed the Middle Eastern Jews. The European Jews killed the Middle Eastern Jews.

And then they started killing the Arabs after that. Well, and also Hitler was trying to solve what they called the Jewish question at the time, not only for Germany, but he was saying for all of Europe. But anyway, what's going on right now is a Jewish question in Israel right now. As protests continue,

as night fell earlier today, protests started back up after a lull earlier in the day. Here's some video as we see protests starting to ramp back up as night falls. So, Doc, that's Wednesday night. That's the night in Tel Aviv. The protests have been basically pretty peaceful. But the reaction of the Netanyahu government has not been peaceful.

They've been very aggressive against the protesters. And the more aggressive they've been, the larger the crowds are getting. And now they're occupying the center of Tel Aviv, right in the center of the city. We have some video here showing how the protest numbers have been increasing now as the days draw on. One thing that happened tonight, just really within probably the last hour, well, no, it would have been earlier because of the time difference, but... But within a few hours ago. A few hours ago, Sarah Netanyahu, Mr. Netanyahu's wife, went to a hair salon. And it's kind of like a let them eat cake attitude.

I mean, the country is falling apart. It's split wide open. And she decided to get her hair done. Right. And the protesters discovered what hair salon she was in and surrounded the hair salon and basically entrapped her. She couldn't come out. They filled the streets in front of the hair salon door. Yeah. That's like trapping the first lady of the US. So keep that in mind. That's the level we're talking about here. But you have to ask yourself,

what was she thinking? Certainly she's watching the news in Israel. She sees the hundreds of thousands of people in the streets denouncing her husband. Right. And she says, oh, I got a hair appointment. Well, you got to look good, right? Well, I will show you. This next video is a scene of the police rushing in to rescue Sarah Netanyahu. Not Jim! Not Jim! We love you, God! We love you, God! We love you, God! We love you, God! Believe this is happening, Doc? Can you imagine those kind of images here in the United States, what that would mean to us? Everybody would be questioning, what's going on in our country? And that's got to be what's going on in Israel right now.

It's kind of like what was going on in America in 2020 with Black Lives Matter and Antifa. Except we never saw the police chasing down protesters. No, they never chased them. They allowed them to burn the cities. But that's not happening in Israel. The country could split. It is politically split, but it could implode. I had a thought today, and I mentioned this to you, Doc. Michael Drossden. Yes. He's passed away. He wrote the

book, The Bible Code. Right. A long time ago. Was it the late 90s? Yes. 95, 96, I think it was. You know, the idea that there are numerical codes embedded in the Torah. And I talked to Michael Drossden a long time ago. I was living in Texas at that time, so that was somewhere between 1999 and 2004, 2005. But I don't remember the exact year I talked. But I did talk to Michael Dresden. And one thing that he, you know, he predicted the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin. That's right.

And the government, the Israeli government, would not take him seriously. And he made that prediction based on the codes that he was supposedly seeing in the Torah. Yes. Which I believe is Kabbalah. I do too.

It's Kabbalah. Back then, in those days, I believed in the Bible codes because my mind was infected with Zionist propaganda. And so I interviewed a lot of Bible code people. And then as the years went by, the Lord showed me. He said, Rick, this is Kabbalah.

This is numerology. Stay away from it. And then my eyes opened up and I realized, I got Christian leaders teaching me this stuff. What's going on here? And that's when I started to wake up to the Zionist propaganda in the church and in America. But I want to go back to, I was talking about Mr. Drosten.

He predicted the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin and he went to authorities. They would not believe him. I think he went to Mr. Rabin himself. I think he personally went to authorities. They would not believe him. I think he went to Mr. Rabin himself. I think he personally went to him. Mr. Drossen had influence. But he told me that Benjamin Netanyahu would be assassinated. And it would happen in his second term.

Now second term. Now, second term, so... Well, a lot of people said, well, Mr. Netanyahu had his second term and he's still here because he served numerous terms. But I was thinking about this this morning. Was Mr. Drosden talking about a term as we think of like a four-year term or

Mr. Netanyahu's second time around because he was removed from the prime ministership and he just returned to power. So is this the second term? Well, that's something to really consider. And now you put that together with the anger that's in Israel and the warnings by some Israeli officials that there could be assassinations in Israel. And now we're going to go into the second phase of this discussion. And if you're watching on the Word Network, you can pick up the rest of this program at our website, truenews.com, because it's an hour long, but we're only 30 minutes on the Word Network. You can also download the True News app and watch us there. But we're also going to talk about the violence that took place in the past week in a Palestinian town where Jewish settlers, a mob, burned down a Palestinian Arab town.

And you've got government officials in Israel in this new radical government of Netanyahu saying it is time to burn the town down, level it, burn the whole thing down. This is the most radical Zionist government probably since 1948. And not only are you facing an uprising from Jewish people in Israel who are shocked by how radical this government is. But the Arabs could also revolt as they watch towns burned down by radical Jewish mobs. And it appears that Netanyahu and other members of the cabinet are just kind of letting it happen.

Well, he appointed these radicals to his cabinet and then gave them power over the military and the police. That was their demand for them to cast their votes because Netanyahu's party, the Likud party, did not have enough votes to form a majority government. So he had to make a deal with the most radical political groups in Israel. And they said, our demand is we get control of the West Bank. We control the military and the police in the West Bank. Well, the West Bank is where the Palestinians live. It's occupied territory where the Israeli troops are suppressing the Palestinian people. And now these radical Zionists have control of the police and the military.

So what's been happening over the past few weeks is that settlers have been increasing in their aggressiveness and their violence until this past weekend when something significant happened in the town of Huari. Yes. So when we say settlers, we're talking about Jewish Zionist settlers, people who moved from Europe, America, other parts of the world. They weren't born in Palestine. They've been planted there. They moved. They infiltrated there.

And they are taking over palestinian lands they're they're they're kicking out the palestinians they're burning their houses they're cutting down their olive uh trees bulldozing bulldozing entire villages they're bulldozing the bedouin camps and they're just spreading out and taking over. So, you know, if you watch Christian television, you watch these Christian Zionist shows, they're clapping and applauding for the settlement of the West Bank. They don't show you the Palestinian Christians and Muslims who are being evicted from their homes. That's right. My friends, those are Palestinian Christians. Their ancestors go back to the time of Christ, serving and obeying Jesus Christ.

And they're being evicted from their homes, their farms, their businesses, so that these European settlers can take over their land. You and I have been there. We've seen it with our own eyes. We've talked to the Palestinians. We've seen the bar been there. We've seen it with our own eyes. We've talked to the Palestinians. We've seen the barbed wire. We've seen the machine guns.

We've seen the military vehicles patrolling the streets. We know what it looks like. You don't see it on TBN and Daystar and all the Christian television. They don't show it. They don't want you to see it. They don't show it on Fox News or any other place. They don't want the American people it. They don't show it on Fox News or any other place. They don't want the American people

to see the military occupation of Palestine. Now, what we're going to show you, and we only have five minutes in this segment. Again, if you're watching Word Network, you need to follow us over on truenews.com or the app to see the rest of these videos. But we're going to show you the violence that was carried out in recent days

against a Palestinian town. So this started, let's see, I think around February 26th. This is just over the weekend. Ynet News, hundreds of settlers riot, set homes, cars on fire in Hawara after a terror attack. So the terror attack was two Palestinian young men were accused of killing one or two Israelis. And that set off a mob. And so they went to the town and burned the town down. That's basically sums it up. Jewish Zionist vigilantes. Look, it doesn't matter to me if it's Arab vigilantes or Jewish vigilantes. It doesn't matter.

It's people taking the law into their own hands, and it's a mob, and people die when that stuff happens. And it's out of control in Israel. Let's put up—oh, this is a report. Okay, this is a video from Ynet News. Let's put up, oh, this is a report, okay? This is a video from Ynet News. Let's watch it. and we have more video of the basically Where is the place? Where is the place of fire? Where is the place of fire? Where is the place of fire? And we have more video of the basically where I go up in flames here. This is and I do want to say we've seen three spellings of the town's name. Right. H.U. H.A. H.V. H.V.

So we're just going with this one. But this is what the settlers did. They came into the city, basically set whatever they could on fire for the purpose of really to drive the people that live there out of that town. It's a Palestinian town in the West Bank, and they burned numerous homes and businesses and cars. And, you know, the morning after, you just saw the charred remains. Look at this. Imagine being a resident there and you're trapped in your house and the mob is out there burning your vehicles. Look at that, they tried to burn down an apartment complex

with people living in it, children. That's what happens when a mob gets out of control. We have some additional video here, morning after video. This is, look at all these cars here, Rick, just stacked up now, just burned out. It's a war zone. Right, it is a war zone. That's just it.

Americans don't know about this war zone because the media doesn't touch any stories related to Israel and the West Bank. This is why I'm a defender of the Palestinian people, and I will defend them. They are oppressed, and they are victimized, and their land has been taken from them. And two wrongs don't make a right.

I understand the Jewish desire to have their own country. I understand that. I understand their desire to never allow a Holocaust to happen again. Totally get that. I understand that. But you can't go to somebody else's country and take their land and say this, we're justified in doing this because somebody did it to us. Right. And that's literally what happened in 1948. Because the European, hey, let's be honest, the European

leaders, the kings and the noblemans and all those uppity up people in Europe, they wanted to get rid of the Jews. Yes. Let's be real about it. They wanted to get rid of the Jews. And what plan did they come up with? Hey, let's ship them to Palestine. Let's ship them out of Europe. Ship them out of Europe.

Send them to Palestine. It'll be the Arabs' problems. Well, here we are now, 2023, and there's been nothing but violence since 1948. It's a disaster. The plan didn't work. It's not working. And we may see the Zionist state implode this year. Could there be a new Israel formed in Europe? That's what we're going to be talking about in the second half of today's edition of True News. Again, if you're watching on the Word Network, go to truenews.com or download the True News app and you can watch the rest of this program. If you're watching online or by the

app, just hang in there a couple of seconds and we're going to sign off on the Word Network and be back right away with this very fascinating topic. It's another Israel coming to Europe. Let's go. Okay, now, this is where this really starts to get serious. We talked about the radicals that Mr. Netanyahu appointed to his cabinet this time. The ones who are turning a blind eye to the settlers and their aggressiveness. No, more than turn a blind eye, they are encouraging them. Yes, you're right.

They want them to burn the homes. These are, do you know who Kahani was? My heir Kahani, he was an American. He was assassinated. He was an extremely radical Zionist. And he was killed. He was too radical even for the Zionist state. But not anymore.

Not anymore. These people? They're Kahanists. They're Kahanists. They're Kahanists. And I would say, I would like to ask him the question. Ben, what's our young Zionist talk show host? Oh, Ben Shapiro?

Ben, Ben Shapiro. I would like to ask Ben Shapiro, blaspheming Ben, if he's a Cajonist. Because I suspect that he is. I don't know. I just suspect that he is a cojones that he admired the cojones movement well I know he admires my mama days he's into that that's and and certainly he's he's a cabal us there's some very radical, okay, in the Republican Party in the United States, you have the radical Likud people. You do.

They're here. The leftist Jews in America are in the Democrat Party. The far right, we call them right, the far Zionist, okay. Likud leaning. Let me rephrase it in the democrat party are basically secular jews in america they're jewish but they're not really religious jews in they like being jewish but they don't want to go to Israel. Right. But the Likud party is made up of the religious Jews.

And the far, far fringe of the Likud party is the most ultra-nationalist, radical Zionist. I mean, they want to go back. Greater Zion. To 3,000 years ago. Whatever Israel was doing 3,000 years ago, that's what they want. And that's who Netanyahu put in his government in order to get the majority to form a government. And now these people are creating havoc in Israel. So this is a recent story. This is number 15, Times of Israel. We need burning villages.

Coalition lawmaker backs unprecedented settler rampage. A member of the Knesset, the parliament of Israel, a member of Netanyahu's ruling government applauded the burning of Hawara and said, what we need are more Palestinian cities on fire. That's exactly what he said On the morning after a deadly and unprecedented rampage by settlers, I don't even like calling them settlers, but they do, who torched dozens of Palestinian vehicles as well as several homes in retaliation for a deadly Palestinian terror attack, a member of the coalition gave the rioters his complete backing saying, a closed burnt Harara, that's what I want to see. That's a lawmaker. I mean, that's a member of the Knesset, member of Congress in the U.S., okay? Can you imagine them saying, yeah, I want to see

Miami burn, burn to the ground. And we need a burnt Miami or whatever. Or Watts. Yes. We just need to burn. Imagine a politician saying, we need to burn down Watts. Yes. We just need to burn. Imagine a politician saying, we need to burn down Watts. Yes. That's what you have in the Netanyahu government, and that's happening today. Right. On top, this is happening, Doc, as left-leaning Jews are protesting Netanyahu's government. They're not protesting the riots against the Palestinians.

They're protesting the Netanyahu agenda. But the bottom line is Israel is split apart and it's volatile. Right. And it wouldn't take a lot for the country to go up in flames. Well, the article goes on to say it was a mortal danger. You couldn't leave home. You feared getting a bullet to your head at any moment. And an unnamed resident of the city told Army Radio on Monday, recounting the events of the previous night, the Palestinian Red Crescent Medical Service said two other people were shot and wounded. A third person was stabbed. A fourth was beaten with an iron bar. But in a media blitz Monday morning, Coalition member Knesset's Zvika Fogel of the extreme right,

Atsma Yehudit Party, chairman of the Knesset's National Security Committee, was unequivocal in his backing for the rioters and his denunciation of the government. His party leader, Enamar Ben-Gavir, is a member of. He said, I want to restore security for the residents of the state of Israel, Fogel told Gaeli Israel Radio. How do we do that? We stop using the word proportionality. We stop with our objection to collective punishment

just because it doesn't fly with all sorts of courts. We take the gloves off. Yesterday, a terrorist came from Harar, a closed, burnt Harar. That's what I want to see. That's the only way to achieve deterrence. After a murder like yesterday's, we need burning villages when the IDF doesn't act. Okay, so to put this in perspective, somebody from Hawara killed an Israeli. That act

was wrong. If those are facts, okay, we assume that they're facts. What this politician is saying is from now on, we don't go in and arrest the person who committed the crime.

We burn down the city. That's what he's saying, Doc. Yes, that's exactly what he said. Throw proportionality out the window. It's no longer... Take the gloves off. Right. We need to burn down.

So that would be like saying, there was a murder in Chicago last night. Burn the city down. That's what he's saying. The way to deal with crime is to burn down the city. That's how radical these people are. And he's not the only one in this either. And so another article, this is from Harar,

the Palestinian village of Harar needs to be wiped out. Israel's far-right finance minister justifies disproportionate response to terrorism. Times of Israel goes a little bit deeper. This guy right here, the same guy. Smotrich. Yeah. He is dangerous. He's dangerous.

Yes. He's a radical, dangerous Zionist. So in the Times of Israel article, Israel should wipe out the Palestinian town of Harar. He's in the cabinet. That's right. And he's in charge. Let's see. He's in charge of the military in the West Bank.

That was his demand, to get his cabinet, to get his vote for the government. He's also the finance minister, too. He's the finance minister. He's the finance minister, but his demand was that Netanyahu had to put him in charge of the IDF. In the West Bank. In the West Bank. That's right. Which means he said,

he also demanded the right to appoint generals. He wants generals that carry out the destruction of Arab towns. This is unbelievable, though. Well, far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich, one of the most senior members of Netanyahu's government, said Wednesday that Israel should wipe out the Palestinian town of Harar in the West Bank. The remark by Smotrich, who is the finance minister and also the defense ministry, a minister in the defense ministry in charge of civilian affairs in the West Bank, came days after a terrorist from Harar shot dead two Israeli brothers, which was followed by extremist settlers rampaging through

the Nablus area town and setting homes and cars on fire, resulting in one Palestinian shot dead and several badly hurt. And we don't know what the two Israeli brothers were doing. That's true. Now, the Sunday evening rioting was explicitly backed by, following the morning by coalition backbencher Zavika Fogel, a lawmaker for the extremist Otzma Yehuda party, which triggered the widespread outrage. Now, the new remark Wednesday was made by Smotrich, a far more senior politician, and it arguably went even further, saying that as a matter of policy, Jerusalem should seek to remove the entire town, which has a population of some 7,000. Now, the religious Zionism party leader, who was

taking part in a financial conference hosted by the Marker Business Daily, was asked why he had on Sunday evening liked a tweet by Samaria Regional Council Deputy Mayor David Ben-Zion that called to wipe out the village of Harar today. Well, I'll tell you why. He liked it. He added that, God forbid, oh, he said, because I think that the village,

this is his quote, I think that the village of Haragar needs to be wiped out. I think the state of Israel should do it. The state, Smotrich, the man in charge of the military over the West Bank, said the IDF should destroy the town. Yeah, he went on to say, he added that God forbid the job shouldn't be done by private citizens, Rick, the settlers. The settlers shouldn't be doing this. The government should be doing it. So he's condemning the rampage, right? So he condemns the rampage. Because the government didn't do it. And saying we shouldn't be dragged into anarchy in which civilians take the law into their own hands. But we want the IDF to burn the city down. Right. So in his remarks earlier in the week,

Fogel, the Outsman Yehuda member of Knesset told Israel Radio, a closed burnt Harar, that's why I want to see. That's the only way to achieve deterrence. And after a murder like yesterday's, we need burning villages when the IDF doesn't act. So if the IDF doesn't act. Then we're going to do it. Yes. So if Arabs said, we need burning Jewish neighborhoods, would the world condemn it? Absolutely they would. And they should. And they rightly should. Why isn't the world condemning the Zionists saying we're going to burn down Palestinian towns?

Most people don't even know this is happening. Right. towns. Most people don't even know this is happening. Doc, do you know what this is going to do to Israeli tourism this year? Well, I certainly don't want to go to Israel this year. I would love to go back to the

West Bank. I love the West Bank. I want to go back to Bethlehem. I'd like to go back and visit our Palestinian friends. Do you know how dangerous it is right now to be in Palestine? To be a friend of Palestinians with this government? Doc, they would target you. They would shoot you in the head and not think twice about it because you're a friend of the Palestinians. Yeah, and blame a Palestinian for it. No, they wouldn't.

Oh, they'd take credit for it? They'd take credit for it. This is a radical government. It would be very dangerous for somebody like me to visit the West Bank right now. If I wanted to go there and visit the churches, visit our Christian brothers and sisters, I would be risking my life

because people like Smotrick in charge of the military, all he's got to say is to one radical Zionist soldier, sniper, take him out. You better have the protection of God on you. But on the business side, this is really going to hurt Israeli tourism, public relations.

They start burning down towns in the coming week or two. There is going. So what does Mr. Netanyahu need? A war? A big war. A large distraction. So last night I saw the opening of Sean Hannity's show on Fox News,

and he came right out of the starting gate saying the Iranians will have a nuclear bomb in two weeks. Again? They said it again. Did he do like Netanyahu and bring out a big old poster board with the bomb on it? Yeah. But I thought, I looked at Susan and said, okay, get ready. They're whipping up the war fever.

Netanyahu needs a war. His government is collapsing. He needs a war. And NATO needs Iran in a war too. Yes. And Ukraine wants Israel in the war. So what do we have? World War III.

You could have fighting in the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and Haifa and all the cities of Israel and the West Bank. Imagine you've got the left-leaning Jews who are protesting in the streets against Netanyahu, you've got the far, I hate calling them right, because they're not conservatives,

the far-out, radical religious Zionists, like Smoczek, they start burning cities. Now the Palestinians rise up, and you have tens of thousands of Palestinians now burning settler towns. Then Hezbollah in Lebanon

begins firing missiles into Tel Aviv. Then Iran begins firing missiles. What do you got, Doc? You've got the destruction of Israel. I mean, you've got things being torn completely apart. And you have to be wondering, do the people that moved to Israel

want to continue to live in Israel? Or maybe say continue to live, live somewhere. I mean... There's so much anger, so much fury built up in Palestine against the Zionists and what they did to their, their parents and their grandparents. But when I go there, you know, and Palestinian Christians say to me, and I'm thinking right now of a young man, and he said, all I have is a key to my grandfather's house. That's all he's got. His grandfather gave him a big, the old, you know, the big old long metal key. Right.

Son, this is the key to our house that the Zionists took from us. This young man can't go there and live in the house because the Zionists are living in his grandfather's house. Now, I know that young man, and he's a Christian, and he's forgiven them. But there are a lot of people in Palestine who have not forgiven them. Or forgotten. And forgotten. Because they know what they did to their parents and grandparents. They know about the mass murders, the massacres. And that fury is boiling right now, Doc.

And if it explodes at the same time that there's civil unrest in Israel among the Jews. A house divided cannot stand. From an Israeli viewpoint, the best thing that could happen would be Netanyahu's government falls and Mr. Lapid comes back into power because he seemed to be a steady hand during his, he had a brief

prime ministership, but Mr. Lapid seemed to have a moderate, steady hand over governing the country. But Mr. Netanyahu is extremely radical. Okay, and so what we want to do, we want to revisit something that Doc and I talked about But Mr. Netanyahu is extremely radical. Okay.

And so what we want to do, we want to revisit something that Doc and I talked about how long ago? About 10 months ago, last April. Okay. There was, and I don't remember the man's name, there was an Arab man on an Arab television program in an interview program who said, Israel is going to disappear and move to Ukraine. And we're like, what? Where did that come from? And so we started investigating and we discovered a long trail of discussions going back, what, 10, 15, 20 years? Yes, easily. Going back 20 years, talking about the end of Israel and the reincarnation of Israel in Ukraine.

Have you heard any of this before? I'm asking the audience. I mean, if you were listening to this 10 months ago, yeah, you heard it. But our audience is changing constantly. New people are coming on board all the time. And some of this information they haven't heard before. But back last April, we found a series of articles

and I'd never even contemplated the idea before. No, this was so radical. About the disappearance of Israel. They're talking about the extinction of Israel. Well, who talks about that? Who even brings that up? So, this is an article. This is from, actually

from October 2012. This is from Haratz. So, hey, you know, Jewish publication, so it's got to be true. Has our expiration date arrived? That was 2012. Right. So we have a quote from that article. It says, the only question that remains is whether the people of Israel and their government are 70% religious Zionist or even only 60% religious

Zionist. And when will we reach the critical mass of 90% as soon as two years from now or only in another seven? So it's asking that question back then in 2012. Now, you know why, Doc? That article is entitled, Has Israel Reached Its Expiration Date? And they're referring to the percentage of the population that's ultra-religious. Right. So at that time, they were saying maybe we're 50-50, 60-40, but at some point,

the ultra-religious proportion of the population is going to reach 90%. Right. And when it does, the Zionist state is going to collapse. Yes. They're saying the more Zionist Israel becomes, the more likely it will collapse.

And now we're seeing that basically come to pass, aren't we? That's what's going on right now. The radical ultra-Zionists have seized control from the secular Jews. Right. And now the country is split apart, and we may see the end of the state of Israel. Next one. This is from the Jewish Telegraph Agency, April 2020.

Last year. Yeah, okay, this is last year. This is when Zelensky said, Ukraine will look more like Big Israel than Europe in the wake of Russia's war. Yes. And we were like, what? What is this?

Where is this coming from? Zelensky, who is Zionist, said one year ago, when this war is over, Ukraine is going to look like big Israel. That's right. And we asked last April, what does he know? Did he get the memo? Does he know the plan? Does he know the plan? Does he know the end game? So, now, there's a quote from that article.

Zelensky, Ukraine's Jewish president, said his country will look more like Israel, a democracy on constant military alert, than like their more relaxed European neighbors, given the prospect of long-term tensions with Russia. We will become a big Israel with its own face, Zelensky said at a briefing for Ukrainian media. We will not be surprised if we have representatives of the armed forces

or the National Guard in cinemas, supermarkets, and people with weapons. I'm confident that the question of security will be issue number one for the next 10 years. I am sure of it. Doesn't that sound like a wonderful place to live? Right. You're going to have- Armed guards in the cinemas.

Yeah, that sounds like someplace I want to go see the cartoons and I can't because there's an armed guard there. So, okay, so what I'm thinking about now, Doc, with this war in the state it's in, is when they get to the negotiating table, maybe this spring, maybe summer, June, July, after horrific fighting in the spring of this year. And the state of Israel is in collapse. Riots, civil war, assassinations going on in the state of Israel. Will the negotiations turn to NATO will accept Russia's demands for a security agreement in return for Russia allowing Ukraine to become the new Israel.

Now before you throw that out the window, before you say that's not possible, we have this from Times of Israel, a leaked report. 2014. 2014. Israel acknowledges Jews, in fact, to Khazar's secret plan for reverse migration to Ukraine. Now, this particular article was, they tried to deep six it, basically, and saying, well,

this wasn't supposed to be a serious article at all. It was a work of satire and everything. It was all imagination. But they kept it up and didn't put the disclaimer on it for a very, very long time. Until people discovered it during the Ukraine war. And then the Times of Israel said, oh, yeah, we did publish the article. But didn't you understand it's satire?

Right. We just forgot to put satire on it. Right. Now, if you assume that the European Jews are formerly from the Khazar region, where Ukraine is now, this next article begins to make sense, too. This is from Haratz, when Ukraine was run by Jews. And this elaborates more on the Times of Israel article. It admits, in fact, that most Jews

that are currently in Israel do descend from the Khazar region of Ukraine. Like Goda Meir? Yes. She was Ukrainian. That's right. She sure was. So that got us to thinking and searching around.

Has anyone of any notable repute at all ever suggested that Israel could potentially disappear or move somewhere else? Well, no less than Henry Kissinger. That's right, Henry Kissinger. And this is from page six. That's the New York Post. Right. This is from September of 2012. Henry Kissinger says,

in 10 years there will be no more Israel. Well, that would be 2022. That's right. So we're one year past his deadline. But is it just slightly off? Did Kissinger know the plan? Well, the article goes on to say, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,

current savant of the state of the world, you don't argue with Mr. Kissinger's know-how. He already knows how. Middle East horror. Democratic Party dissing Jerusalem. D.C.'s anti-Israel mentality. Obama busy raising re-election funds. No time for beleaguered Netanyahu,

the Oval Office attitude versus the red line, Iran's oath to destroy our only friend in that part of the world, reported to me, Henry Kissinger has stated, and I quote the statement word for word, in 10 years, there will be no more Israel. I repeat, in 10 years, there will be no more Israel. And we've got actually a screen capture of that particular article from back in September 2012. And so this is the idea. It's third hand. Right. Cindy Adams reported third hand what Dr. Kissinger reportedly said, because he said it to another individual, and then that individual confided it to Cindy Adams.

Right. Now, you would say, well, that's thirdhand then, right? But that's New York Post. Right. So is there a way we can narrow this down? Have there been any other outlets or any other organizations or groups that have considered the possibility of a world without Israel? Well, no less than the Foreign Policy Journal. U.S. preparing for a post-Israel Middle East. Post-Israel Middle East. That's the CFR. Right. That's in 2012. Yes. That same period of time there.

And it's... So, Doc, is the war, is the Ukraine war about, is it really about moving Israel from Palestine to Europe? Is the Khazar Empire coming back? Because the Khazars had Ukraine. That's right. Are the Khaz Empire coming back? Because the Khazars had Ukraine. That's right. Are the Khazars returning home? Because they're not from Palestine.

They're not Palestinians. They're not Semitic. Well, you know, that Muslim scholar that you were talking about at the beginning, he was saying that they believe Jerusalem, the biblical Jerusalem is located in Ukraine. He's saying there's groups of Jews that believe that. Now, that was really crazy.

I'd never heard that one before. Right, but that's what we led off with. And so this really brings up just so many possibilities. So what happens to the Jerusalem in the Middle East? And I will go back to what I've been speculating for 20 some years the united nations after world war three the united nations will be disbanded a new global entity will come into place and that new global government will move its headquarters to Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be an international city. And there will be UN troops on the streets

wearing UN helmets protecting the city. Right. And before you throw that out as well, when the initial proposal to set up the state of Israel was brought about, the very plan for Jerusalem was for it to be an international city, that it wouldn't belong to anybody,

but it belonged to the world. Hey, we just try to connect dots and make sense of this stuff. It's a wild time that we're living in. The end of the world only comes around one time. So be busy doing your Father's work. Be busy in your Father's kingdom. Spread the gospel.

Do whatever you can do to help the gospel be taken into every nation so that people are made disciples and they're baptized and brought in to the glorious church of Jesus Christ because the king is coming. That is certain. He is coming back. And we're signing off for today.

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taste salty, and love everybody. Well, today is our fourth lesson in the parables of Jesus. Dr. Raymond Burkhardt and I will continue our discussion of the parable of the sower. Now, Dr. Burkhardt is here to read the Word of God. He will begin with the 13th chapter of the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to St. Matthew, verses 1 through 9. So get your Bibles ready and let's read along together. The same day went Jesus out of the house and sat by the seaside. And great multitudes were gathered unto him,

so that he went into a ship and sat. And the whole multitude stood on the shore. And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow. And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and devoured them up. Some fell upon stony places where they had not much earth and forthwith they sprung up

because they had no deepness of earth. And when the sun was up, they were scorched and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns and the thorns sprung up and choked them. But other fell into good ground and brought forth fruit, some a hundred, some 60fold, and some thirtyfold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. Matthew chapter 13, verses one through nine. So each day

of our study so far, Rick, we've focused on this passage in Matthew. Some people might ask, why do you keep reading the same passage? But there's so much in this, first of all. We started on Monday. It was supposed to be a one-day lesson. Right. And we thought by Tuesday we would be moving on to the next parable. But here we are now on the Thursday edition, and we're still in the parable of the sower. Because the more you look at it, the more you find.

And we're going to dig down deeper today. So where we're going to begin today is looking at the interpretations of the parable that Jesus gave. Now, you can find it in Matthew and Luke and in Mark. And there's some slight variations. And critics might say, well, wait a minute. It's not word for word the same. I thought you guys said the Bible was without error. Well, it is without error.

Yes. Okay. Three different people heard Jesus give the explanation three different times. Right. It's not that hard to understand. I believe, first of all, the Sermon on the Mount, that was Jesus' – well, in politics, we would call it his stump speech. That's this – you know, a candidate for office has a standard speech. His platform. His platform.

And he gives that speech everywhere he goes. I believe the Sermon on the Mount was a sermon that Jesus repeatedly delivered because it was the laws of the kingdom. And I believe the parables were taught often. I agree. So his disciples heard Jesus explain these parables many times. And that's why there's a slight variation in what's recorded. But there's nothing contradictory in the various retellings of this. The best way to describe it is if you saw a car accident at an intersection and there were four people in four different corners,

they're going to see things in that car accident differently from their perspective. But it's the same accident. Same accident, but they're seeing it from four different perspectives. There's no contradiction in it, especially when you look at the comparisons when we talk about the seed and that which was sown. And as we go through the interpretations here today, I think that we'll really sew it together for you as we go through all three of them. Yeah, yeah. So we're going to read Jesus's interpretation

of the parable of the sower in Matthew and then in Luke and then Mark. So we'll start with the version in Matthew. All right. So, and this is picking back up in verse 18 in Matthew chapter 13. He says, hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. This is the explanation Jesus is saying.

When anyone heareth the word of the kingdom and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the wayside. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same as he that heareth the word and anon with joy receiveth it. Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while. He also that receives seed among thorns is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

But he that receives seed unto the good ground is he riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. But he that receives seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word and understandeth it, which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty. All right, now, we'll just go ahead and we'll read the other two interpretations. Next is Luke. This is Luke 8, verses 11 through 15. So, now the parable is Luke. This is Luke 8 verses 11 through 15.

Now the parable is this. The seed is the word of God. Those by the wayside are they that hear. Then cometh the devil and taketh away the word out of their hearts lest they should believe and be saved. They on the rock are they which when they hear receive the word with joy and these have no root which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. And that which fell among thorns are they which, when they have heard, go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they which, in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it and bring forth fruit with patience. And last, Mark chapter 4, verses 13 through 20.

Right. And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? And how then will you know all parables? The sower soweth the word, and these are they by the wayside where the word is sown. But when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

And these are they likewise, which are sown on stony ground, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness and have no root in themselves and so endure but for a time. Afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake,

immediately they are offended. And these are they which are sown among thorns, such as hear the word, and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lust of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. And these are they which are sown on good ground, such as hear the word, and it becomes unfruitful. And these are they which are sown on good ground,

such as hear the word and receive it and bring forth fruit, some 30-fold, some 60, and some 100. All right. We have been presenting throughout this week this concept that the seed and those who are sown are so closely intertwined that it's almost impossible to separate them. The easiest way I can explain it is the word is the seed,

or the word of God is the seed, but that which is sown is you and me, people who hear the word. We're the ones that the sower is sowing us, but he sows us with the word in us. We've heard the word. The condition of our heart determines the harvest that the word produces in us once we have been sown so i want to show you something i don't think we have an element to show this but

um what we'll do this i want uh guys in our control room let's go to number six. And this is unlocking the parable of the sower, okay? The sower is Jesus Christ. He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man. That's real easy right there. Right, so that's later in chapter 13 in the parable of the tares, Jesus says that he that soweth the good seed is the son of man. So we can identify the sower. But look at what he says in Matthew 13, 38.

Yes. The seed, all right, this was my statement, the seed and that which is sown are synonymous. That's my statement. But he says the good seed are the children of the kingdom. Right. So he says that in Matthew 13, 38. So he identifies who the seeds are. But he said that the seed is the word of God. I don't believe those are contradictory. I don't either. And this is what I'm trying to get people to see and understand. Jesus himself said that the word is the seed.

And then he said the good seed are those who've heard the word of God. I mean, right there it says the good seed are the children of the... The good seed are not those who've heard the word of God. The good seed are those who are the children of the kingdom. Yes.

You can hear the word and not be a child of the kingdom. That's true. Ouch. Okay? You can hear the word and not be a child of the kingdom. That's true. Ouch. Okay. You can hear the word and not be a child of the kingdom. The child of the kingdom is the one who obeys the word. That's right. And that's qualified later on in chapter 13 as well.

It says that those that hear and understand the word of God. So the next point in this is the believers are the ones who are sown. Jesus said, this is he, he that received, he that heareth the word. These are they. So these are identifying pronouns of, it sounds like people, right? Or children or whatever it might be. If it was just seed, we'd be saying it or seeds, not he seeds or they seeds or anything like that. I think the concept that we've all had for many years, Doc, is that I don't think there's been

any misconception that Jesus is the sower, but I think the misconception most of us have had in the church is that Jesus was just sowing the Word of God, tossing it. Willy nilly, everywhere. And that's what we were supposed to do. Just get a big old basket of the seed, the Word of God,

and just go out there and toss it anywhere. Where there's rocks and there's stones and everything else, and birds are picking it up. That's not toss it anywhere. Where there's rocks and there's stones and everything else. Right. Birds are picking it up. That's not what it says. No. He sows us.

When we have heard the word, we hear the word and then we're sown. And the condition of our heart determines the harvest. If there's any harvest, if there's any harvest. If there's harvest, it's 30-fold, 60-fold, 100-fold. Even the harvest is not the same. Some good seed produce better harvest than other good seed.

That's right. That doesn't sound fair, does it? Yeah, on this day of equity, we would say, that's not fair. That's not right. But in the kingdom, yes, it is. Because there are different giftings that God invests in individuals. There are different places where God places individuals in the world. There are different times and seasons.

And there are just some people that just do more with what they have. Right. And that's reflected in the parable of the talents and the parable, I mean, the parable of the talents and the teaching on the rewards. But people say, well, that sounds like we're not equal.

Well, he loves us equally, but we don't love him equally. Ouch. Yes. Ouch. See, it keeps coming back to you and me. We want to throw the responsibility off of ourselves. We want to say, well, it's the seed.

It's the soil. It's the rock. It's not us. No, it's us. It's us. And do we produce a harvest for him and even when we do produce a harvest is it the optimum harvest or is it the minimum harvest because you can be good seed and only produce 30 fold or or 100-fold. So even among the good seed, the good seed is not the same all the way across. So it comes back to you and me. How do we respond to the Word of God?

And are we cultivating our lives? Are we, you know, if you see your life as a farm field, are you tending to it? If you're a gardener, if you're a farmer, you're a rancher, you know what you got to do. You got to be constantly working the ground. And that's the way it is with our lives. So those who are good seed are constantly pulling the weeds out, removing the rocks, the thorns, the offenses, all the things that choke out the productivity of the word. I want to go on with this. So this is in unlocking the parable of the sower. The fowls represent the wicked one. This is according to Jesus' interpretation.

So when he talked about the birds coming and stealing away the word of God, when he gave his interpretation, he identified who these fowls were, these dirty birds, as we like to call them here. He identifies that as Satan. And now that's important to keep in mind because fowls are going to pop up again in other parables. And that's going to give us an indication of who Jesus meant when he's talking about fowls

in these other parables. Now the stones represent affliction and persecution. Are there different stones, Doc? I think so. I think there are people that maybe, I was talking with someone today about this particular parable and I was trying to think, how can I explain the difference between affliction and persecution? There are some people that are afflicted with maybe a handicap or a disease or shortcomings just because of life. It's just trouble in life. Right.

And sometimes storms come. Sometimes accidents happen. That is what I would count as affliction. We're going to have troubles in this world. You can guarantee that. But trouble is not, affliction is not necessarily persecution. Right. Persecution is when you are, where troubles come because of your stand on the word of God.

That's a little bit different. And your identification with Jesus Christ. Right. So afflictions are going to come to everybody and persecution will come to everyone to some degree. But just like affliction can have degrees, some can have severe degrees of affliction. Some may suffer severe degrees of persecution. But Jesus identifies these as stones.

And that's something that's been in my heart all this week, Rick, in thinking, what are the stones of affliction that are impacting my own heart? What are the stones of persecution that Iiction that are impacting my own heart? What are the stones of persecution that I'm dealing with in my own heart? And what am I doing to either deal with the stones, because I know everyone has to deal

with the stones of affliction and persecution, or am I just going to let them sit there? If I'm going to have a ground, good soil prepared, I've got to dig in and get those stones out. Not be offended when affliction comes. Not say, God, why are you throwing all this on me? So is that the key word, that we are offended? I think so.

We're offended that God allows us to be afflicted and persecuted? I think that's part of it, Rick. And this is a constant, you know, just like in that's part of it, Rick. And so, and this is a constant, you know, just like in the first part of the parable where Satan steals away the word, we've got to, you know, fight against Satan. He's seeking to steal, kill and destroy. We've got to be on the offense. Doc, well, you know this because you've gone through all this with me, but I don't know how long has it been, four or five years ago, this ministry and myself in particular, we came under heavy persecution. We were in the first wave of deplatforming. By the time everybody else got deplatformed, we were over it. It was like,

ain't no big deal. Don't worry about it. But we were in that first wave of being deplatformed we were over it it was like ain't no big deal don't worry about it you know but we were in that first wave of being deplatformed youtube took us off facebook took us down twitter i mean just we got and then the newspapers wrote ugly stories about us the new york times cnn msa late night comedians made fun of me on television um i lost a lot of friends well-known preachers would not talk to me cut off all communication it was we lost uh business accounts we lost a bank bank, not a bank account, but we lost some financial accounts. PayPal shut down our account. We went through a lot of stuff.

And it was not fun. But I got to tell you this. I'm closer to Jesus Christ today than I was before it happened. I'm a lot closer because I had to learn to love my enemies. Now, up until then, love your enemies was just,

oh, it's in the sermons here, you know. Yeah, you're supposed to love your enemies. Which you weren't required to at the moment. But I didn't, you know, Doc, I didn't have, I couldn't really name any enemies. I really didn't have anybody out to get me. I mean, seriously, out to get me. So if you'd asked me, do you love your enemies? Sure, I love my enemies, you know.

But when they're really out to get you. When you have real enemies. You got real enemies and you know that they are plotting and scheming to take you down, destroy you, crush you. That's when I had to learn to love my enemies. Amen. And I had to call upon God for grace to love them. I had to search my heart to make sure there were no stones of offense. Was I offended? Was I angry? Certainly wasn't angry at God. I never said, well, thanks a lot, Lord. Here I am serving you and

you allowed all this stuff to happen to me. and I'm not going to serve you anymore. I never said that. I never had those thoughts at all. But I also never prayed for my enemies to die. I didn't pray for a lightning bolt to come down and hit them. Instead, oh, man, I had to pray. I had to look at the Sermon on the Mount, and he said, pray that they're blessed. Right.

Like, oh, man, this hurts. But I did it. I did it. I had to do it. And so we came through it. And our ministry survived and we're growing. And we're here. And now other Christians in churches and ministries, they're being deplatformed.

And now I want to reach out to them and say, put your trust in the Lord. Don't be angry. Don't be offended. But this is the affliction. I mean, not the affliction. This is the persecution. And those stones were offended, they were persecuted. Right.

And if those stones aren't taken care of, no root is allowed to grow in our lives. And the way I look at root is that the teachings of Christ, the doctrine of Christ that root us, that ground us into the foundation of that good soil. We have to deal with these issues of affliction and persecution in our own lives. Paul said to the church in Corinth in 2 Corinthians 4, 17,

for our light affliction, which is, but for a moment, for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. He called it light affliction. Now, here's a guy that had been stoned, shipwrecked,

I mean, everything you can imagine. But he called it light affliction. Light affliction. How do we deal with it? That's the thing that the Lord's dealing with me about in this particular parable this time around. Now, it also talks about thorns in that parable. And it says the thorns represent the cares of this world

and also the deceitfulness of riches. And we want to make sure we bring that out as well. People get so caught up with just living life or like he said the other day, people get so caught up with the news and information that's going on in the world and focus on that instead of what Christ is doing in the world and doing in our lives. So there's different ways that the cares of this world can affect you. I think a lot of people automatically, church members think, well, that's people that are caught up

into the world to be successful. They're running their businesses. They're concerned about their careers and all that. But it isn't that. I mean, it is, but it's a lot more than that. As you said, like the news. People can be totally consumed with the news and weighed down by the heaviness of the news

because the news is becoming more dire, more depressing, more violent, more hopeless. And if you live in this stuff, and here we are in this age it's non-stop news reporting everybody's a newscaster everybody's got a podcast everybody's got an opinion and videos are coming at you you know and people are pinging your phone and sending you text messages and videos and memes all day long all day long. All day long. And you can just, you get to the point you just want to pull

a blanket over your head and go, I don't want to hear any more of it. The cares of this world. The cares of this world. And there's other people who are working

two and three jobs. Right. To keep going. The cares of this world can weigh them down. Right. And it also says the deceitfulness of riches in the interpretations there too. Sometimes we get so caught up with keeping up with the Joneses, making sure our house is nicer than the house next door

or having a better career or whatever it might be. None of these things are necessary, negative alone, but when they distract us from serving Christ, that's when it becomes a problem. That's when it becomes a thorn in our life. And Rick, you grew up, you know, up in Maryland and I don't know if you've ever had to clear out a row of bramble bushes or not. You know, if we're laying fence line and everything, you had to go out and clear of bramble bushes or not. You know, if we're laying fence line and everything, you have to go out and clear out bramble bushes. If you've ever encountered a bramble bush,

it's like just a limb with hundreds of thorns on it. If you get caught up in it, it's almost impossible to get pulled away from it. And that's how these thorns, these bramble bushes of the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches entrap us too. And that's why we must be vigilant to make sure that the thorns don't spring up and when they do to deal with it directly. Doc, I have seen over my years of managing this ministry, you know, a lot of people have come and gone as employees.

And some really dear ones, I mean, that I just loved. You know, loved them like they were sons or daughters, just good people, good young people that worked for us. But they would leave and hadn't done anything wrong. I mean, their relationship here was good, everything. And I would seek the Lord, why? Why did this person leave? Why did that person leave? And often the Lord would show me, it's the lure of riches. Working in ministry is not enough for them.

They're not content. They believe that they can get rich if they leave working for the ministry, working in ministry, that the ministry is restraining their ability to get rich. Well, that's the deceitfulness of riches. The deceitfulness of riches. And so they step out of God's will to go into the world. And often they stumble and fail. And I watch this happen over and over and over,

that their lives just, they never get the riches that they left to go seek. Because God's not going, he loves them too much. He's not going to let them get it. God's not going to, he loves them too much. He's not going to let them get it. He's not going to allow them to get it because he loves them. What do you mean? God's not going to let me become rich.

Not if you, you can't handle it. It takes a lot of maturity to handle wealth. Deep, deep spiritual maturity to handle wealth. Some people never learn it either. Yes, and I'm willing to go through the training school of life to develop the character that's required to handle that kind of success.

And so God, because He loves you, doesn't let you acquire that wealth because He knows it will destroy you. The deceitfulness of riches will choke the word of God out of your life. There won't be a harvest in your life. That doesn't mean the Lord won't bless you. He wants you to have enough.

He wants you to have a surplus, but he doesn't want you to be deceived in the pursuit of becoming wealthy. That's what ruins people and separates them from the father. Once you're the father's son or daughter, you're already wealthy. What else do you need? You're wealthy.

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