TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Trump Stunned Netanyahu by Seizing Gaza from Israelis

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

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Because strength comes from smart preparation. American Reserves, your ally in emergency readiness. Visit our website and become prepared today. First, it was Canada, followed by Greenland and Panama. President Trump yesterday made his boldest move yet. He said the United States would seize the Gaza Strip and develop it into a showplace. This is True News for Wednesday, February 5th, 2025. Let's begin our analysis and commentary of today's news by looking at this headline published by the Times of Israel. Donald Trump says the U.S. will take over Gaza, level it, and create the Riviera of the Middle East.

Times of Israel saying U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday declared his desire for the United States to take over and own the Gaza Strip. Again, stunning a global audience. Hours after doing so with his call for permanently relocating the coastal enclave's entire population, the Times of Israel went on to say there had been speculation that Trump would use his Tuesday meeting with Netanyahu to urge him to commit to carrying out the second phase of the ongoing Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. him a political lifeline by getting fully behind an idea, emptying Gaza that has been long endorsed by the Israeli far right and thereby giving ultra-nationalist lawmakers in Israel an incentive to keep the government intact.

And then one more before we start talking about this, military.com, Trump won't rule out deploying U.S. troops to support rebuilding Gaza. Seize long-term U.S. ownership. And I'll give you a couple more because once we start talking about this, I don't want to go back to these stories. And obviously reaction around the world after people got up off the floor and regained their breathing. Another reaction I heard last night, I was driving home, I went to dinner with a visitor and heard this on Fox News as I was driving home about 8.30 p.m. Doc, I was, you know, nonplus is not the word. I was speechless. What did you hear at 8.30? That it was, President Trump said tonight the U.S. will take over Gaza. Well, I heard it at 5.05 in the afternoon while I was driving home, doing down 43rd.

And first when he said, we're going to empty out Gaza, we're going to move 2 million people out of Gaza, I swerved a bit at that one. I said, whoa, we just talked about that today on the Godcast. Because Donald Trump said, a reporter asked, well, will Egypt and Georgia take him? Oh, yeah, they're going to take him, and other countries too. I said, oh, Rick was on the money there. He had it. And then when he said, and we're just going to take over the Gaza Strip. We're going to turn it into the Middle East Riviera.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on a second here. Stunning. I got a lot to say about this. And even though I have a lot to say, I'm still going to be guarded because what is happening in the world is so big that you really need to ponder

and think about what's happening before you open up your mouth and talk about it. Because this is so big on a global scale. I'm talking about the entire Trump agenda. Right. Here and abroad. He is remaking the world right now. I want to get, obviously, some of the reaction. Right. Both here and abroad. to take control of Gaza and for Palestinians to permanently leave the Strip. Riyadh said its commitment to a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank was firm and unwavering, and the kingdom wouldn't establish diplomatic relations with Israel without that goal.

Turkey, their foreign minister, said that, which is also a NATO member, that they are against, Turkey is against any forced displacement and all initiatives that try to take the people of Gaza out of the equation. In Great Britain, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Palestinians must be allowed to return home. We've got a video clip of him speaking in Parliament. I have, from the last few weeks, two images fixed in my mind. The first is the image of Emily Damari reunited, literally walking through the rubble to try to find their homes and their communities in Gaza. They must be allowed home. They must be allowed to rebuild.

And we should be with them in that rebuild on the way to a two state solution. Oh, they're all blowing hot air. These politicians have not wanted the Palestinians to have a state ever. No. It's just BS. All right. And that's all I'm going to say about it right now. So let's take a look.

This is President Trump greeting Benjamin Netanyahu as he arrived at the White House yesterday. You see the president walking through the White House, through the West Wing, headed to the front door. Yes. To greet the arrival of Benjamin Netanyahu, whose limousine pulled in to the White House driveway. And as you see, there's the limousine pulling up and the Marines waiting to open the door for Mr. Netanyahu. There is the man himself. Didn't bring his soul because he doesn't have one.

He did bring some things. Yes, he did. There's Pete Hegseth. There's Susie Wiles. There's Susie Wiles. Is that my wife, Susie Wiles? That's Susie Wiles. Susie Wiles.

There she is. Those are members of the cabinet there, the ones that have been approved so far. So we see Howard Letnick there. So, of course, Vice President Vance meeting everyone. And so he received the royal welcome at the White House, and there were some questions about how that would actually play out. Mr. Netanyahu brought some gifts to the White House and gave these gifts to Donald Trump. Here's Israel National News. Netanyahu's surprising gift to Trump.

And what was it, Doc? Rick, I had to double-check the story. I know. You think it's a Babylon Bee? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented U.S. President Donald Trump with a gift. President Trump met with Netanyahu at the White House, and then the two went to the Roosevelt Room where Netanyahu signed a guestbook. After he signed the guestbook, Mr. Netanyahu presented Trump with a golden beeper, a pager, and a regular pager as gifts. President Trump responded by praising the Hezbollah pager explosions as a brilliant operation.

The two then entered the purple room where they spoke and answered journalists' questions. I'm sorry, I would never accept a pager from Benjamin Netanyahu. So that was my response. My first two responses. You have to be a sick you-know-what to give a gift that represents instant death and destruction that you sent out to people. Yes. Okay. Not only kill their intended targets. But anybody standing around them. Okay. Not only killed their intended targets. But anybody standing around them.

Right. So Netanyahu is one sick, sorry sack of you know what. I mean, get the guys handing these gold pagers out. That's the first thing, how demented he is. Right. The second thing is, who in the White House Secret Service allowed Netanyahu to bring a pager and hand it to the president? Netanyahu blew up people with pagers.

And you're going to let him hand one to the president? Doc, that just... It blew my mind. The security of it is just stunning. You have what? A pager. You know why it was gold? Because the brand was, what was it called?

Was it Gold Apollo? Apollo Gold? Oh, I didn't know that. Yes. Yeah, that's why it was gold. Well, if the Secret Service didn't have those things removed from the White House within seconds. I'm shocked. They need me there at the White House to tell them, like, you don't want to receive.

That's as bad as, you know, years ago. This is like 10, 12 years ago. Vladimir Putin was at a, I think a G20 meeting. I want to say G20. Right. And he was handing out thumb drives with his monogram on it. Oh, I can believe he even did that. You know, a gift from Vladimir Putin.

And he was handing out thumb drives to world leaders. And they were putting these thumb drives in their computers. And the Russian intelligence agencies were sucking all the data from their computers. And I think, what idiot? What idiot would take a thumb drive from a Russian president? Now, remember, we did a story here a few months ago where the Brits directly accused Netanyahu of bugging the prime minister's bathroom. Remember that? Oh, that's right.

Yes. Did anybody follow him into the bathroom? Seriously, what do these guys do? I mean, he's a spy. He himself is a spy. Okay. All right. Let's's a spy. He himself is a spy. Okay. All right. Let's take a look at the...

So first, we're going to look at some video before Mr. Trump made the announcement that the U.S. was going to seize control of Gaza. So this would be President Trump and Netanyahu sitting in the White House by the fireplace. The purple room. The purple room with the fireplace. And Mr. Trump is making his comments about the situation in Gaza. So first one, he's talking about the living conditions in Gaza. They might accept Palestinians from Gaza. Well, I think Jordan and Egypt will. I know they've spoken about it with you, and they say they're not going to accept. I say they will. But I think other countries will accept also.

I think that Gaza maybe is a demolition site right now. If you look at Gaza, it's all, I mean, it's hardly a building standing. And the ones that are are going to collapse. You can't live in Gaza right now, and I think we need another location. I think it should be a location that's going to make people happy. You look over the decades, it's all death in Gaza. This has been happening for years. It's all death. If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently in nice homes

where they can be happy and not be shot, not be killed, not be knifed to death like what's happening in Gaza. And right now you have in Gaza a very dangerous situation in terms of explosives all over the place, in terms of tunnels that nobody knows who's in the tunnel. The whole thing is a mess. And I think that if we can resettle, and I believe we can do it in areas where the leaders currently say no. I mean, I've been saying that with Mexico having to do with the border and all of the things. And you saw what happened, 10,000 soldiers, and

they're going to do a good job. I really believe that. And I believe Canada is going to do a good job also. They said the same thing. And then they did something much different than what you were hearing. This is a very, very difficult situation, but we're going to get it solved. I don't think people should be going back to Gaza. I think that Gaza has been very unlucky for them. They've lived like hell. They lived like you're living in hell.

Gaza is not a place for people to be living. And the only reason they want to go back, and I believe this strongly, is because they have no alternative. What's the alternative? Go where? There's no other alternative. If they had an alternative, they'd much rather not go back to Gaza and live in a beautiful alternative that's safe. Okay, so Mr. Trump said the Palestinians are living in hell. Yes. And Satan is sitting beside you. He said, they get it. He created the hell.

He created the hellish conditions. Mr. Trump said, you know, they need to live someplace where they're not going to be shot, not going to be killed. The guy who is shooting them and killing them is sitting beside you. Right. We got to go. They need to be someplace where there are not unexploded bombs. Who put the bombs there? And who paid for the bombs?

Netanyahu put the bombs there and the U.S. government paid for them. No, I paid for it. Yes, you and I paid for them with our tax money. That's the part that just blows me away. You're sitting there saying, gee, it's really unlucky to be living in Gaza. Just bad luck. Just bad luck. Just bad luck. You know what's bad luck?

To be living on land that the Jews want. That's bad luck. That's very unlucky. Because they'll kill you. They'll kill your kids. They don't care. So, all right, that's, just to watch that whole scene is enough to send me into a fit doc.

So I got to stick with what I think Mr. Trump is doing. So he said there's no reason for the Palestinians to return. Now before we watch this, I meant to say to you before we watch the first one, in all of these videos, I want you to carefully watch the first one. In all of these videos, I want you to carefully watch the facial expressions, the body

language, the attitude of Netanyahu. Right. Especially the difference between when they're sitting by the fireplace and when they're out in the air. This is where I'm going with this. Watch his face now. Just watch Net out in the. Yes, this is where I'm going with this. So watch it. Watch his face now.

Just watch Netanyahu grin. He's just so happy. Yes. He's getting everything he wanted. OK, let's watch the next one. Would Palestinians have the right to return to Gaza if they left while the rebuilding was happening? It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn't want to return. Why would they want to return?

The place has been hell. It's been one of the meanest, toughest places on Earth. And right now, I've seen every picture from every angle, better than if I were there. And nobody can live there. You can't live there. So if we can build them through massive amounts of money supplied by other people, very rich nations,

and they'll be willing to supply it. If we can build something for them in one of the countries, and it could be Jordan, it could be Egypt, it could be other countries, and you could build four or five or six areas. It doesn't have to be one area. But you take certain areas and you build really good quality housing like a beautiful town, like someplace where they can live and not die. Because Gaza is a guarantee that they're going to end up dying. The same thing is going to happen again. It's happened over and over again,

and it's going to happen again as sure as you're standing there, Peter. So I hope that we could do something where they wouldn't want to go back. Who would want to go back? They've experienced nothing but death and destruction. Well, let's say the Chinese invade Texas 30 years from now. And then for 70 years, China occupies. And the surviving Texans fight with everything they have to chase the Chinese out of Texas. Then ask them, well, who would want to go back to Texas? Right. You know who? Texans.

That's right. You want to know who would go back to Palestine? Palestinians. But that grinning? Chesser cat. Demon. He's a demon. That man's demon-possessed.

I'm talking about Netanyahu. He's demon-possessed. The man's demon-possessed. He kills for fun. He slaughters for fun. He gets pleasure out of it. He's a sick, sick, demon-possessed man. Well, it might be a good idea

maybe to go on down to 11 here. And let's just focus on Benjamin Netanyahu. Now, remember, this is before they have the big press conference. Right now, they're just sitting around the fire, talking to reporters and everything. But watch, this is number 11 for control. Watch as Bibi Netanyahu reacts to President Trump saying Gaza is hell. Now watch this. Why would they want to return? The place has been hell. It's been one of the meanest, one of the meanest, toughest places on earth. And right now, it's, it's, I've seen every picture

from every angle better than if I were there. And nobody can live there. You can't live there. So if we can build, if we can build. He's demon possessed. He's evil. He's wicked. And these preachers like Hagee and Franklin Graham. Lift him up. Worship him. Want to be in his presence. Yes.

He's being used of God. And they'll say, he's not that way. They're God. They're God. Not my God. Well, now, remember, this was before the big... This was before Mr. Trump made the announcement. Right.

So I didn't get to see any of this yesterday. I saw it for the first time this morning. Now we transition to Mr. Trump making the announcement that the U.S. is going to take ownership of Gaza. As you listen to Mr. Trump, keep your eyes on Netanyahu. The grin disappears. He's working hard at keeping his poker face, because you know he's stunned. He didn't know this was coming.

Let's watch. The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too. We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development

that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do a real job. Do something different. Just can't go back. If you go back, it's going to end up the same way it has for 100 years. And that particular clip did not have Netanyahu in it. We have a mirror one, which is number 14, which will show Benjamin Netanyahu's reaction to

what President Trump said. All right, let's watch this one. And number 14 for control. The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do a real job, do something different. Just can't go back. If you go back, it's going to end up the same way it has for 100 years. I'm hopeful that this ceasefire could be the beginning of a larger

and more enduring peace that will end the bloodshed and killing once and for all. With the same goal in mind, my administration has been moving quickly to restore trust in the alliance and rebuild American strength throughout the region. And we've really done that. We're a respected nation. Okay, so the green office face. Yes. So, Lee, I want you to replay it with no audio split screen while Doc and I comment about this. I think the commentators, newscasters, podcasters, all the analysts that I've seen, Doc, are all missing what happened. Most people, outside of the legacy media, they're cheering for it and everything.

Most of the podcasters and so-called alternative media guys, alternative media guys, they're saying Netanyahu controls Donald Trump. Donald Trump is owned by Netanyahu. That is not what happened. I'm telling you that is not what happened. Donald Trump kept this plan to himself. Yes. He told nobody. Did not tell B.B. Netanyahu. He told nobody. He didn't tell the White House dog. He told the world at that moment with Netanyahu standing there. And what Netanyahu is thinking is, you just stole Gaza from me.

You no good. I'm just filling the blanks in Netanyahu's mind. He's saying to Trump, you no good, blankety blank blank. You just stole Gaza from me. He doesn't know what to do. And he's afraid of Trump. He's afraid of Donald Trump. For the first time, somebody is craftier than Netanyahu.

He got out snookered. He doesn't know what to do. He's stunned. Doc, you know what I told you what the Lord told me? Right. In 1998, I think it's here. I think it's here. Donald Trump outmaneuvered, outsmarted, and just plain out snookered Netanyahu.

He let him sit in the White House in the purple room and grin. Right. We're going to get rid of all the Palestinians. We're going to ship them out. We're going to move in place. We're going to tear everything down. And Netanyahu, he was, I mean, he just about. I've got more than I hoped for.

He was like, I've got to go to the bathroom. This is too much for me. Then they go over and do the press conference. And Donald Trump says, boom, we're going to take control of it. We're going to own it. We're going to build it. And he used the word owned. Owned.

He said owned. He didn't say, see, what Netanyahu was thinking was, hot dog. I got Donald Trump to do the genocide for me. He'll kill them for me. Because they're going to go in and kill these Palestinians. And I won't go to prison for it. Donald Trump will be the war criminal. That's what he's thinking.

The entire U.S. military. Pete Hegseth, who wants a third temple. They're all going to be in there killing the Palestinians. And then he gets out there in a press conference and Trump says, we own it. What do you mean you own it? Well, we own it, not you. He took it from the Israelis. Yes.

He took it from the Israelis, stole it in 67. And now Donald Trump in 2025, he didn't steal it. He took it from them. Who do you arrest when a robber robs a bank robber? Okay, now I'm going to get into some more stuff here. A lot of people in the media are trying to say that Jared Kushner is behind this plan. I don't believe it. I believe Jared Kushner gave the original idea. I do not believe that

Jared Kushner is the one behind this plan that came about. I think Donald Trump remembered what his son-in-law said to him a year ago. There's a lot of great real estate there. Yes. So I'm not going to go with the storyline, the Jared Kushner behind the Trump plan. Then we have CBS News. I'd interviewed National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. He said Donald Trump has been thinking about this plan since October 7, 2023. Right. When the war started.

Right. Let's watch. Literally nearly two million people living in a place that has thousands and thousands of unexploded ordnance and bombs. It's it's in some places like a minefield. You have buildings that are collapsing and unsafe. You have no sewage, no running water. It has become completely unlivable with this war that Hamas started on October 7th. And I, as a veteran, can tell you it is despicable and sad that groups like Hamas, Al Qaeda, ISIS literally sacrifice the lives and the livelihoods of their own people to achieve some type of ideological gain. But I think what the president is just acknowledging

is we've been looking at this over the last weeks and months. And frankly, he's been thinking about it since October 7th. And that war is, you know, everybody's heart breaks for the Palestinian people across the region, and rightly so. But he's not seeing any realistic solutions on how those miles and miles and miles of debris are going to be cleared, how those essentially unexploded bombs are going to be removed, how these people are physically going to live for the at least a decade, if not longer, it's going to take to do this. So the fact that nobody has a realistic solution and he puts some very bold, fresh new ideas out on the table, I don't think should be criticized in any way. I think it's going to bring the entire region to come with their own solutions.

Right. Now, go ahead. No, I'm just saying, you know, on the one hand, for 70 plus years, they've let this problem exist. Okay. I'm not defending Donald Trump in this. So don't take it that way. But for 70 years, they've allowed this problem to fester and everything. The world never stepped up to this point, never offered any realistic solutions, never enforced anybody to follow the rules or anything like that. Finally, we get to a point, the wild card, the trump card steps in and offers a solution so far off the chessboard. Nobody knows what to do with it. No one knows how to react. No one knows. And some people are reacting to it, and they're not even really considering what Donald Trump

has done here. No. Donald Trump has taken the Palestinian argument completely off the table. For both sides. For both sides, yes. Israel has lost their advantage. So what he's done here, I see, I'm trying to see the hand of God moving in this. I believe God just used Donald Trump.

See, the Hagees, the Franklin Grahams, they're saying God's using Donald Trump to wipe out the Palestinians so that the Jews can build up Israel and blah, blah, blah. You know, they're doing that. No, I believe God's using Donald Trump to stop the Jews from killing the Palestinians. They can't kill them now, Doc. They can't kill them. The killing just stopped. That's right. It just stopped. The killing just stopped. That's right. It just stopped.

Donald Trump just stopped the killing. He just stopped the war. Hey, you can't be in here. This is our country. And any protest from like Turkey or Saudi Arabia or anyone else where they say, well, we've got to have a Palestinian homeland. Well, Donald Trump makes a great point. You've got unexploded bombs in the rubble. That's going to take not 10 years, probably 20, 30.

I mean, they're still finding bombs from World War II in Germany, Rick. And so he's taken that argument away from folks. He has shut down the Israeli killing machine. Yes. They can not kill the Palestinian children anymore. Yes. It's over. It's over.

And he has forced these other players in the Middle East to either put up or shut up. Right. Just saying, OK, I will go in. We'll take ownership. Do you want to own it? Do you want to take control of this? Go ahead. And the Biden administration

tried to get Arab countries to commit to taking control of Gaza and they wouldn't do it. Right. You know why? Because they can't get along with themselves. I'm talking about the Arab leaders. That's right.

They're going to fight with each other. One king fighting with another king and all this. Now, so I started thinking about this today, Doc. Can Donald Trump legally take ownership for the United States? And here I found the article in the Times of London. Can Trump really take over Gaza? International law examined. Okay. Okay. So I started with who owns Gaza? Right. Legally. On paper.

Or you just automatically assume it's got to be Israel, right? Or who does it? No, I knew Israel didn't own it, but a lot of people do. A lot of Americans think, oh, the problem is Israel owns it, but these Palestinian squatters are there, and they're trying to get rid of the squatters. No, no, no, no. The Israelis are the squatters. Yes. The Palestinians were there before the Israelis. Yes. And I know that the hardcore Zionists will say, oh, but Rick, the Jews lived there. All right. First of all, they haven't been there for 3,000 years. Number two, you have no DNA whatsoever that shows that Benjamin Netanyahu and his gang have any authentic Jewish DNA.

Right. I don't doubt that they're Jews in the sense that they practice Judaism, but they're Europeans. Netanyahu was born and raised in Poland. His name's not Netanyahu. He's got about three or four names he's made up over the years. These people are Europeans that practice Judaism. They're Khazarians. All right. They moved in. They started moving into Palestine in the 1920s and 30s and 40s. And guess what? When you have enough illegal immigrants that you start to have enough clout that you outnumber the natives. And that's what they did to the Palestinians.

They just took over. But I want to get back to who owns it. So, this will send some people just into, guess what? So, I asked AI. I got people so angry at me right now, Doc, because I use AI. I'm not going to watch true news anymore because Rick and Doc use AI. Oh, how are you watching us, by the way? Are you using the Internet to watch us?

You're not watching us on TV. There were people that used to be mad at you using the Internet. I had that argument 25 years ago. Why are you on the Internet, Rick? Yeah. Don't you know? And they'll send you an email. Yeah.

So anyhow, I asked AI, what is the history of Gaza? This is what it says. The Ottoman Empire took control of Gaza in 1516. So this was part of the expansion into the Levant where they defeated the Maluk Sultanate. Ottoman rule over Gaza lasted for about four centuries with brief interruptions until the end of World War I. So the Ottoman Empire controlled Gaza from 1516 to World War I. And prior to that, it traded hands between different soldiers over the centuries and everything. But it was all Arab.

This was the longest period of time with one single. But it was all Arab. Yes. Okay. So now, what happened after World War I? Well, the Ottoman Empire, the last sovereign entity to legally own the territory, recognized by international law, Rick, ceded ownership of Gaza via the Treaty of Lausanne, signed in 1923. This is following World War I. The treaty did not specify who would take legal ownership of Gaza after the Ottoman Empire relinquished control. Instead, it set the stage for the future determination of Gaza's status. So the Ottoman Empire disbanded in World War I.

They got beat in World War I. They signed the treaty. Okay, we're done. We're defeated. We're relinquishing control of Gaza. Right. But nobody's—the treaty didn't transfer Gaza to anybody. Right.

It's just in limbo. It's just out there, no man's land, with people living in it, but no country owning Gaza. Right. So there was a treaty, the Treaty of Lisan. Now, this treaty was primarily focused on just establishing the borders of Turkey, modern Turkey, and settling some other issues related to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Like we said, it did not explicitly mention Gaza's fate.

So what happened shortly after that was the British mandate for Palestine. So after World War I, the League of Nations granted Britain a mandate over Palestine. Why didn't they call it the British mandate for Israel? They called it Palestine. That's right. And this area... You get these people arguing, they said, there's never been a Palestine. There are maps.

Got a Bible over there. I got a Bible with Palestine in it. And this area also included Gaza. They didn't distinguish back then. It was just Palestine. Yes. So this meant that Britain was responsible for administering the territory. They didn't distinguish back then. It was just Palestine. So this meant that Britain was responsible for administering the territory. They didn't own it.

Just managing it. Caretakers. The French, they got to take care of Lebanon. Yes. And so they had a mandate for Lebanon. And so, now, after the Brits left, you had the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Brits left because they got tired of getting blown up. Because the Jewish terrorists were killing British soldiers. And the Brits got to the point where they said around 1948, we're done, we're out of here. Right. So, between that period of time after the Brits left, until war broke out between Arabs and Israelis, the status of Gaza remained a contentious issue.

And then there was Egyptian control for a period of time. Now, following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Egypt effectively took control of the Gaza Strip. They had control over it for a period of time. But not ownership. Right. But this wasn't recognized internationally in a formal relation. Finally, Israeli control. Israel captured the Gaza Strip during the Six-Day War in 67.

And then as time has gone on, there have been various versions of the Palestinian Authority represented there. In later years, parts of Gaza were transferred to the Palestinian Authority as part of peace agreements. But the situation remains complex and uncontested. And that authority by the Palestinian Authority did not grant them statehood or, quote, ownership by any means at all. No, the Israelis had been illegally occupying Gaza and the West Bank since 67. The West Bank used to be Jordanian. That was part of Jordan.

East Jerusalem was Jordan. Yes. So who owns Gaza? Nobody. And this is going to be the Trump argument. That since 1923, you've got a piece of real estate that has... It's disputed. It's not even disputed. Oh, but that's going to be their approach there.

But there's not even a... There's no deed since 1923. You got to hand it to Donald Trump. He's brilliant on this. He's looking at it as a real estate deal. Hey, there's a piece of land. No one has a deed to... Nobody has a deed to Gaza Strip. And so, he

just pulled the rug out from under Netanyahu's feet and took it from him. Took the whole thing from him. Okay? First of all, took from him the pleasure

of killing the Palestinians. Okay? He wanted to kill them. He wanted to wipe them out. And then the pleasure of building it up and filling it up with Jews living on the land

occupied by the Palestinians. Now, I want to show you a map of Gaza just so we have an idea. It's a blue area, okay? So, if you look down at the lower left, you see Egypt. There's the Rafah Crossing. You know, there were three people in the Bible that went through that crossing.

Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus. That's right. You know what? Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus had to flee because a Jewish king was killing the kids. Yes. Is that the truth? That's absolutely the truth. And baby Jesus and Mother Mary and Joseph went to Egypt and hid for about four years.

And they didn't do it because they were scared. They did it because an angel told them to go. Yes. Because there was a Jewish king killing little boys. You better get out. So, that area has had crazy demon-possessed Jewish kings for a long time. Yes. That area has had crazy demon-possessed Jewish kings for a long time. Netanyahu is just the latest iteration of a Herod that kills children. So that's Gaza.

As you see to the right, there's Israel. Land that was all Palestine before 1948. But the newly created United Nations decreed, we're going to take that land and give it to the European Jews. We're going to take them out of Europe. And put them in Palestine. Yes. And let the Arabs deal with them. And so that's how we got this whole mess. Then to the north, you get into Syria, Jordan, to the far east, to the right.

But that's what we're looking at now. People don't realize just how small it is, Rick. It's only about two and a half miles wide and about 12 miles long. That's true. But guess what? First of all— About the same size as Atlantic City in New Jersey. Yes.

And you can imagine a developer just going into Atlantic City and building— Hotels. Hotels and just redeveloping the city. Who would do that? Donald Trump. That's right. Now, you've got coastline. Oh, yes.

And beautiful coastline. Beautiful coastline. This could be... Like Riviera coastline. This could be some of the most expensive coastline in the world right now. Yes. But there's maybe something even more valuable than coastline. Yes.

So look at this. This is number 20, okay? The Gaza Marine Gas Field off the coast of Gaza. The Gaza Marine Field covers the entire marine area offshore of Gaza. The license was granted by the Palestinian National Authority in 1999 to British Gas and CC Oil and Gas. British Gas was appointed as the operator of the license area. The Gaza marine field contains one trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Whoever owns Gaza owns the natural gas.

What do you think Netanyahu was after? He had to kill all those Palestinians so he could get that gas and then build the coastline with hotels and casinos. Miriam Alderson in Las Vegas. Yes. She was going to put up her casinos. But that gas field is right there on the coast of Gaza. And look.

The Palestinian people. It extends out there into the Mediterranean. The Palestinian people are wealthy. Doc, they're wealthy if they could tap into that trillion cubic feet of gas. But some greedy people

plan to get it. But Donald Trump just out snookered them and just took it from them. His biggest concern, really, is that they do to him what they did to Kennedy. Because the Zionists killed John F. Kennedy. And Doc, if I'm right about this,

oh my, I said this to you the other day privately, would Donald Trump, would he completely shatter the power of Zionism by exposing what they did to Kennedy? Do you know what the ramifications, if he releases the Kennedy files, and it says... If he had released it prior to yesterday. No.

Releases them now. Well, if he releases them now, now, that might be why it wasn't released until now. So why do you think that Billy Saw Estes audio was released? Pointing to LBJ. Who gave LBJ the orders? Israel.

Israel. If he shows, and I think on yesterday's program, I lose track because I talk to Doc and others, and I lose track of what I've said on the program and what I said in private. But I was speculating this week. What if Donald Trump takes Israel as a state? I said, which is good. Look, if he says to Netanyahu, look, if we take the money away from you and we take our weapons from you, you collapse. I mean, he's telling Canada, why are we spending all this money defending Canada?

He's saying to Europe, why do we spend all this money to defend Europe? What do we get out of it? What do we get out of it? So if he says to Netanyahu, what do we get out of this? Nothing. That's right. And Donald Trump is transactional. He's not just good-hearted.

What if he takes Israel? And this is the first step. Half the people living, half of the Jews living there are American Israeli dual citizen Jews. They're still Americans anyhow. And suddenly now Israel is a state of the USA. Okay, this gets really big and complicated. Netanyahu, you know Netanyahu is furious.

He's steaming. He's furious. He's never been out snookered. He's never met his match. I think he's afraid. And even during the first Trump term, there was not that. No. No. He's afraid. He's afraid. And even during the first Trump term, there was not that. No.

No. He's afraid. He's afraid. I'm telling you, Netanyahu is afraid of Donald Trump. Afraid about what? That Trump is smarter than him, craftier than him. And he is. Okay?

He is. And did it in public in front of the whole world. See, this is Donald Trump's style. He does things with his opponents. He does it in public. Yes, while his opponents do it in secret. Yes. He does it out in public, and he shames them.

And they don't know what to do. They have to stand there and grin. He does it in negotiations you get somebody that says well i'm going to invest a hundred billion dollars in or 100 million whatever you know in a u.s business and he goes well why don't you do 200 but he okay he does it in public so they don't have any other choice but to agree to his demand now i think we've showed this to you before. The one thing I am concerned about, Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, is a raving Zionist, Christian Zionist. And several years ago in Israel, in the King David Hotel, which the Zionist militant terrorists blew up in the 1940s, belonged to Great Britain. He's in this hotel, the King David Hotel, and he's talking

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

I don't know how it would happen. You don't know how it would happen. You don't know how it would happen. But I know that it could happen. That's all I know. And a step in that process, a step in every process, is the recognition that facts and activities on the ground truly matter. And that's why going and visiting Judea and Samaria, understanding that sovereignty, the very sovereignty of Israeli soil, Israeli cities, locations, is a critical

next step to showing the world that this is the land for Jews and the land of Israel. He said sovereignty was important. Yes. Does he still believe that? Right now, he's towing the line with the Trump policy. I don't think he knew what was going to happen yesterday either. Now, here's what you need to think about. On the site where the temple existed, the first two temples. The first two Jewish temples that God destroyed. Right. Okay. What's there now is the Al-Asqa Mosque.

Yes. If you get rid of all the Palestinians, there's nobody to go to the mosque. Right. Now you got empty real estate on a mountain. What's the purpose of the mosque if there are no Muslims to go in the mosque? If they've been dispersed

and they're gone. Right. I don't think Donald Trump is going to build a Jewish temple. He might build the trumple, a temple to himself. Oh my,

hey, you Christian Zionists, what if he built a temple and he went inside of it and declared himself God? what would you do then would he be the antichrist then what would what would you do then but we're seriously what i see doc because he said last night we're going to make International. Yes. What if he makes Jerusalem the capital of the world? I said that 25 years ago. Yes. That Jerusalem someday would be the capital of the world and that a future replacement for for the United Nations would move to Jerusalem. So what if the Temple Mount becomes a religious

shrine to all religions? Yes. You know, they've already done that over in Yeah, the Abraham Right. So what if they do it on the Temple Mount? It's a shrine. It's open to all religions. Right. So what if they do it on the Temple Mount? It's a shrine. It's open to all religions.

Right. You put a Christian cathedral there. You put the Jewish temple there. You leave the mosque there. And suddenly it's an international religious site. In Jerusalem. And Jerusalem is the capital of the world. Far-fetched?

Well, let me tell you. Yesterday morning, you didn't think Donald Trump would say we're going to own Gaza. Nothing is far-fetched right now. Nothing. This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen happen in my lifetime. I'm not going to go through all the details. I want to show you the most powerful rulers in human history, starting with Nimrod. And we'll just scroll through the list. You can read them yourself. So there's the first three. We'll go to the next

four and five. You see there is Alexander the Great. We'll keep on going. And, you know, these are just rulers. Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Bollapalm, Cyrus the Great. Attila the Hun, Charlemagne. You know, the Christian Zionists, they say Donald Trump is Cyrus the Great.

Right. Well, is the Donald Trump is Cyrus the Great. Right. Well, is the current strongest man in the world Donald Trump? Conquered Canada, Greenland, Panama, Gaza. Right. More to come. And when Cyrus was in charge of the Persian Empire, they had 158 provinces around the world. 158. Provinces. Yes. States. Like world. 158. Provinces. Yes.

States. Like states. Like states. Okay. He wasn't done with Netanyahu yesterday. He smacked him again. If you're going to smack somebody, do it twice. I'm telling you, he did it.

He did it with style. Financial Times. Donald Trump calls for a nuclear peace agreement with Iran. Boom. A what? I thought Bibi was coming to Washington to get you to sign off on bombing Iran. And Trump says to him in front of everybody, we're going to have a peace agreement with Iran. He also said Iran's a strong country.

Yes. They're not weak. Some reporter said they're weak. He goes, no, they're not weak. They're strong. He said, I want Iran to prosper. I want the people of Iran to prosper. He said there's not going to be a war.

He said it. We're not going to be a war. He said it. We're not going to bomb Iran. He said it in front of Netanyahu. Netanyahu went home with two black eyes. Yes. Donald Trump took to Truth Social to explain where he was coming from on this. He said, I want Iran to be a great and successful country, but one that cannot have a nuclear weapon. Reports that the U.S. working in conjunction with Israel is going to blow Iran into smithereens are greatly exaggerated. I would much prefer a

verified nuclear peace agreement, which will let Iran peacefully grow and prosper. We should start working on it immediately and have a big Middle East celebration when it is signed and prosper. We should start working on it immediately and have a big Middle East celebration when it is signed and completed. God bless the Middle East. And you've got to know, Benjamin Netanyahu just shriveled up into a tiny little ball. Donald Trump just took the war from him. He's not going to let Netanyahu push him into bombing Iran. Right. And now Israel cannot antagonize Iran into a fight either. Because they know they'll be the bad guys now.

So how did the Iranians respond? Look at this headline. Once again, if you would have told me this headline was coming up today, Iran's saying, let's give peace a chance. Iran is willing to give Trump diplomacy another chance, senior Iranian official says. All we're saying is give peace a chance. This is from Iran. That's stunning. So much happened yesterday.

It changed the world. Yes. So much happened yesterday. It changed the world. Yes. The world changed yesterday. There's not going to be a war with Iran. Doug, for 25 years on this show, over and over and over, almost every year, well, it looks like we're going to go to war with Iran. I mean, we showed you yesterday the 2012

video of Netanyahu at the United Nations. Look, I've got a picture of a bomb here. I've got a magic marker. When I put that mark on there, that's when we have to bomb them. And we would have been bombing them back in 2012 if we had the chance.

That's right. God has stopped it every time. He just stopped the war again. He stopped Netanyahu from killing more Palestinians. He just stopped Netanyahu from killing the Persians. Netanyahu is going to be dethroned. That's coming next. Donald Trump is going to tell the Jewish leaders he's got to go. Because he's not playing ball with me. He made this mess. And he'll tell the

Israeli people, and Donald Trump will probably do a direct message to the Israeli people and say, listen, you want peace, right? Don't you want to live in peace? You want to send your kids to school. You want to drive on the freeways in Tel Aviv. You want all of that. You want to be able to go to the market without somebody blowing you up. Then I've got to have people that work with me. He's going to bring down Netanyahu's political power. And I think he did yesterday. I think it happened yesterday. We won't see the impact of it for maybe a few days or several weeks. But suddenly, there'll be conversations in Israel.

You know, maybe we need another option. Doc, we're not done yet. I'm going to jump down to number 29, NBC News. Defense Department drafting plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria. Didn't see this one either. Because it was Donald Trump that put U.S. troops in Syria. So the Defense Department is developing plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria. Two U.S. defense officials told NBC News yesterday.

President Donald Trump and officials close to him recently expressed interest in pulling U.S. defense officials told NBC News yesterday President Donald Trump and officials close to him recently expressed interest in pulling U.S. troops out of Syria, leading Pentagon officials to begin drawing up plans for a full withdrawal, not in two years, not in a year, but in 30, 60, or 90 days they're talking about. Mike Waltz spent Friday at the headquarters of U.S. Central Command down here in Tampa last week, meeting with senior U.S. military leaders and getting briefings on the Middle East, according to U.S. defense officials. So now we're no longer going to protect the oil fields in Syria. We don't need to anymore.

We're going to bring troops out of Syria. The same troops that Donald Trump put in Syria. Yes. And they've been there all through the Biden years. Doc, what he's doing is that he's eliminating all the major hot spots. He's going to shut down the war in Ukraine. Russia's going to become our ally. Do you doubt me now?

No, not at all. Okay. Do you doubt me now? I wasn't doubting you before, but no. You're going to see Putin at Mar-a-Lago. In a lounge chair by the pool. Putin's going to become an ally of the United States. I wouldn't

rule out that Donald Trump offers to send the Palestinians to Ukraine. I'm expecting it now. They've lost 6 million citizens to war and migration. Right.

Their population is down 6 million. With 2 million Palestinians, that would be nothing. All right. So I want to put up on the, if I have it, do I have the list? Oh, the five biggest countries in Europe. I don't know if I made it still. Okay. Just have it. So five biggest countries in europe i don't know if i made it still okay just have it so five biggest countries in europe number one russia 17 million square miles number two ukraine 603 000 square miles third biggest country france 551 000 square miles. Third biggest country, France, 551,000 square miles. Spain is fourth, 505,

almost 506,000 square miles. And Sweden, I didn't know this, Sweden is the fifth biggest country in Europe. I didn't know that. 450,000 square miles. Ukraine has a massive amount of land yes rich fertile land beautiful beautiful land it's a beautiful country

it's a farming country the Palestinians moving to Ukraine it would honestly be a blessing to them. Yes. I mean, you could transfer every Palestinian in the Middle East. The ones in Jordan. Yes. The ones in Egypt.

The ones in Chile. Right. They could all go and have a country. New Palestine. If he and Putin just say, let's just carve up a part of Ukraine and call it Palestine. And their capital city is Jerusalem. Let's just give it another Jerusalem. Yeah.

East Jerusalem. New Jerusalem. It's East Jerusalem. Okay. You know, the Jerusalem they're fighting over is fake anyhow. That's right. But I'm not ruling it out that he doesn't offer to send the Palestinians to Ukraine and everybody gets

so many acres of land. And they won't be prosperous. They'll be able to farm, make a living, and nobody's going to bomb them. And the Russians would agree to protect them. And they'd have jobs helping mine the minerals. Rebuilding Ukraine.

Rebuilding Ukraine. I mean, because everybody's chomping at the bits to get in on that deal. So now you've got the workers. Where are you going to get the workers to rebuild Ukraine? You bring in two million Palestinians. Right. So now you got the workers. Where are you going to get the workers to rebuild Ukraine? You bring in two million Palestinians. Right. Look, Donald Trump thinks at a level that few people think.

And he's been thinking about this for a long time. What I'm realizing in what, three weeks that he's been in power, is that this guy is moving at a level and a speed none of us have ever witnessed in our lifetime. You know, Franklin Roosevelt was considered a powerful leader. He didn't do anything like this. Although he did carve up Europe. Yeah. Didn't he? That's right.

With Stalin and Churchill. They made new countries, didn't they? Right. So we have seen this before. So those are the countries that are available. I'll throw out another one, El Salvador. We know that the president of El Salvador in Central America says, hey, we're open for business. Right.

Give me $1,000 a head. I'll take 2 million Palestinians. Right. I'll give you another option. How about Chile? There's already a large Palestinian community in Chile. There's a possibility. But they could be distributed everywhere.

Now, should they be? That's a whole other issue. That argument has been taken out of the equation. Yes, it's going to happen now. Yes. It's going to happen now. It doesn't matter whether you think it's right, wrong.

Nope, it doesn't matter anymore. It changed. It changed last night. And our protesting about it, my... Nope, nothing is going to matter. And for me, the benefit out of it is, Doc, no more Palestinian children are going to be killed by the Israelis.

The bloodshed has stopped. There's no way Netanyahu can go in there now and kill. He can't do it. Now, the downside of this is this could turn into a horrible mess if

Mr. Trump sends in troops and the fighting continues. Then it becomes a nightmare. I mean, this is all based on the Palestinians agreeing, okay, we're leaving. What if they don't? Well, there will be some that probably will resist that. But, Rick, I'll just say it. It won't make a difference. It won't make a difference.

The decision has been made. One other story here, number 30. This caught my attention. TAS News Agency. The Russian Federation may use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression against Belarus. The reason I put this up here today, Doc, is the only time the Russians talk about nuclear war is when they feel threatened.

Or they've heard something. That's what I mean. They've heard something. They feel like... A whisper on the wind. Yes. And they'll put out a news... So I'm thinking,

what are the Russians... What's the Russian intelligence agencies picking up that they put this headline out today? Oh, by the way, Great Britain. By the way, NATO. Poland. Poland. If you do anything against Belarus, we use nukes. They sent a signal with that article.

I don't know what's going on. I got one more. I got a lot more, but we'll be here for another hour. I mean, we didn't even get to Mr. Trump getting rid of the CIA, getting rid of all their employees. That should have been the top headline. On a normal day, that would have been the headline. But you know what? That fits into the overall scenario that you talked about.

Because who's been trying to get us into a war with Russia? Israel. But is it the people? The CIA. And the State Department. Right. And the State Department. Those two work together.

I'm going to show you two more articles. Number 31, Newsweek. U.S. boasts 5,000-man strong force on China's doorstep. I'm going to show you two more articles. Number 31, Newsweek. U.S. boasts 5,000 manned strong force on China's doorstep. They're ready now for combat. I'm not going to read the entire article. Maybe we'll come back to it tomorrow. More than 5,000 U.S. Marines and sailors are deployed on three warships in the waters near China,

forming a ready-now combat power, the U.S. military said on Monday. That's really all you need to hear right now. Yes. Combat ready. Sending a strong signal to China. We're ready. Watch your step. Because China's been kind of saber-rattling with ships in the South China Sea and other areas over the past several weeks. A big story in the Philippines. We kind of touched on it yesterday. And now we're saying,

listen, just in case you're wondering, we've parked the USS America there, and we've got 5,000 troops ready to go. All right. So now I'm going to go over to the CIA article. Lee, this is number 46, Wall Street Journal. CIA offers buyout to entire workforce. It's hard to say this. It's a hostile takeover of the CIA. It's a hostile takeover of the CIA. He offered to buy out all the CIA employees. Here, we'll give you money. Just leave.

Here's your hat. What's your hurry? That's right. So without getting into how shocking this is, what I want you to see in here is the reason he's doing it. We'll go down. Okay. The agency is also freezing the hiring of job seekers already given a conditional offer. Right. An aide to CIA Director John Ratcliffe said,

some are likely to be rescinded if the applicants don't have the right background. Here it is. If they don't have the right background for the agency's new goal, which includes Trump's trade war and undermining China. This is it. Doc, he's getting rid of everybody at the CIA and hiring people for one purpose. We're going to fight China. Yeah. The focus is going to be on the Western Hemisphere and China.

He knows he's got a whole bunch of people working in the CIA that have other agendas. Yes. And he's saying, no, we're going to have one agenda. We're going to fight China. And what he's doing, he's solving these wars. He's going to shut down the Ukraine war, and he's going to make Russia an ally. He's shutting down the Middle East war, and he's taking over Gaza, and he's going to take over Israel. Yes. And he's making peace with Iran. And the way to take over Israel

is to quit sending them money. Yes. And he's going to make peace with Iran. Yeah. Why? He's clearing the table. He doesn't want any distractions. He wants the U.S. government single focus.

We must defeat China in World War III. That's what he's doing, Doc. And he's saying, I've got to get rid of everybody in the CIA. The whole kit and caboodle. They've all got to go. I've got to have new people in there

that want the U.S. to to go. I've got to have new people in there that want the U.S. to defeat China. I've never seen anything like this. But he is in a war mind. His mind, he's already fighting World War III with China. And so the Cold War in Europe is over now? It's over. He's going to make Russia an ally like it was in World War II. He's going to make Russia a U.S. ally in World War III if they just stay neutral. Yes, that's a win. That's a win. He just wants to isolate China. And who knows?

Can you imagine the China Communist Party collapsing? I don't know if that's going to happen, because I think there's going to be a war. He's getting ready for war. He's building a fortress around America. He wants Canada. He wants Greenland. He wants Panama Canal.

He's building a fort. He's settling the other fires. He's saying, we've got to be focused. This is a war for our survival that's coming up. And we've got to have everybody focused.

This war is going to be here any day. We're combat ready. And that's another reason why he wants to take over Canada as the 51st state. Yes. Because they've been open to China.

They're bringing them in on the west coast. I don't even know where it's at on my list. The price of gold. I've gone through so many things. 53 for control 53 gold prices hit all-time high okay okay so yeah all-time high for gold and let me see what the current price okay so um

that's a good reason 28 $28.82 right now. $28.82? Yes, sir. Was it J.P. Morgan? Late last year said gold's going to $3,000 an ounce? Yes. It's almost there now. Okay. I recommend that you call Gold Co.

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I got so much stuff here I want to talk about. Today is a big news day. All right. I will come back to this tomorrow. Number 48, Lee. You know what the number one thing that's being downloaded right now on

Project Gutenberg? The number one free book. The 1944 Office of Strategic Service Simple Sabotage Field Manual. How to Sabotage a Government. This was for World War II. Right. Written by, oh, the old man that Randy always says.

William Donovan. Yeah, Wild Bill Donovan. The man who ordered the murder of General Patton. Yes. He wrote this book. And basically what he's doing is he's saying we can militarize just ordinary citizens within like your workplace, at the restaurant, everything else. To slow the government down, to slow the country down.

Yes. So it was written in the 1940s to show people how to resist Hitler. Yes. So now people on the left in America are downloading this book on Project Gutenberg to learn how to slow down Donald Trump. That's the resistance. When you read what they're going to do, how to sabotage the workplace. Sounds like what they've been doing. That's just a normal work day in America.

The other one I want you to see, and I promise this is the last one, number 51. Alabama town's name attached to highly lethal new virus. Doc, I didn't know anything about this one. This is today's first time I heard about it. Researchers at Auburn University collected a mole-like animal that was found with a new species

of Henepavirus. Is that how it's pronounced? Henepavirus? Yes. Named after the Alabama town where the species specimen came from. Camp Hill virus. Camp Hill, Alabama. Dr. Wendy Hood with the Hood Lab said her team collected the northern short-tailed shrew that other researchers used to detect the Camp Hill virus.

Dr. Rees-Perry, a researcher at University of Queensland's School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences in Australia, wrote that a study is needed to gauge the Camp Hill virus's danger to humans. Dr. Perry noted that Henepavirus has high mortality rates. Where in the world is this in humans? Something like up to 75%. Right. So that's why they're keeping a close eye on this one. What a news day. What a news day. What a news day.

That's it for today. I got a lot more, but I got to go. What will we talk about tomorrow? I don't know. He's going to take the moon tomorrow. Would it shock you? No. Right now, everything is out in the open.

We're moving at a breakneck speed towards the coming of the Lord. Things are moving fast now. This is fast. And the whole world order is changing. It's easy for all of us. I mean, we just spent an hour and a half. You get caught up in this stuff because it's so breathtaking. But let me tell you the most breathtaking thing that's ever going to happen.

When Jesus Christ appears in the sky, every eye shall see him. Every eye. All the lights in the universe will be out and only Jesus will be shining. Every eye shall see him. That's the most spectacular thing that's going to happen. And we are moving at an incredible speed to approach that day. Things are getting in place in the world so that the King of Glory comes back. And I hope you're ready for it.

I hope you're looking forward. I hope you're eager, anticipating, and waiting and longing for the day Jesus Christ comes back. It's not about this politics. It's not about governments. It's about the King, the King of Kings. And so make Him your heart's desire. Set your affections on him.

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the calories and nutrients they need to survive any scenario. Don't take the risk. Try my favorite America-loving brand, American Reserves, for your emergency food supply needs. Good morning. Welcome to Morning Manna. It's Wednesday and we welcome you to this weekday Bible study sponsored by Faith and Values Fellowship in Vero Beach, Florida. And we're walking through the Bible day by day. In January 2025, we started our study of Romans. We're in the third chapter. And today we're going to study verses 15 through 20. And I'm going to pray. Doc's going to read the word and we will begin our Bible study. Most wonderful Father in heaven.

Father, we glorify you. Father, we thank you that you scheduled our lives to be in this hour of mankind's history. Father, we are witnessing things that are on a biblical scale. Father, we're honored that you chose to place us on this earth for this time. And we promise not to let you down, Father. That we will do what you created us to do. We will fulfill our roles in your great drama. For the glory of your son, Jesus Christ, and the manifestation of his kingdom.

Father, we invite the Holy Spirit to take charge of this Bible study. Teach us your word, Father. Make us great, strong, mighty warriors for your kingdom. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. And it's always an honor to gather with the people of god

live here each and every morning for our bible study and for those of you who are with us that are checking in from all over the world from japan to russia to australia to brazil thank you for your attentiveness and your devotion to the Word of God. And we're going to be reading the Word today from Romans chapter 3, verses 15 through 20. If you have your Bibles, I'm reading from the King James Version today. Verse 15, their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known there is no fear of God before their eyes now we know what things whoever the law sayeth it sayeth to them who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God

therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin God bless the reading of the word today and then we actually we were studying the verses prior to verse 15 Paul's talking about the poisonous tongues the the poison that's hidden below the tongue below the lips it concealed ready to strike to in you know to inject the venom into other people so now in verse 15 he turns from talking about the tongue now he talks about the feet yes he said their feet who's there the people he was describing with the poisonous tongues their feet are swift to shed blood now this is a once again Paul is quoting Old Covenant Scripture specifically Isaiah 59 verse 7

Isaiah said their feet run the evil and they make haste to shed innocent blood. There's almost word for word. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, wasting and destruction are in their path. So, Paul is demonstrating to the saints in Rome, and many of them were were jews who believed on the name of jesus he's demonstrating to them the consistency of biblical teaching on human depravity by quoting he doesn't say isaiah he just quotes it. Because he knew that the Jewish Christians would automatically recognize. That's Isaiah. Isaiah said their feet run to evil.

They shed innocent blood. So he's showing, look, I'm not teaching you a new doctrine. This is consistent with the Word of God. So he uses old covenant scriptures to establish the premise that violence is a historical and universal trait of fallen humanity. Just look at the world today. We're still doing it. There's never been a year of Somewhere in the world, there's violence. So Paul, by quoting Isaiah, he's reminding us that human

wickedness is not a new problem. It's been in existence since the fall of Adam and Eve. But he's refuting any false belief among the Jews that

violence is unique to one particular particular nationality or ethnic group I say no this is universal worldwide all of mankind God in his scripture always condemned violence it's not a new issue it's an old issue it's an ongoing problem that is rooted in sin let's talk about feet

feet represent the willful deliberate pursuit of violence you didn't stumble into violence, they ran to it. Again, we see it in the world today. I promise you in the news today, some politician is going to be calling for war. Some radical group is going to be threatening violence in the streets. Other groups are going to be threatening terrorism. Their feet run, deliberately run and pursue violence. Not an accident. It's their heart. People do not fall into violence by accident. They

eagerly actively seek it. If they didn't, we wouldn't, the world wouldn't spend trillions of dollars every year on war. That's right. Try to cut the military budget and watch the reaction you get. People, powerful, wealthy people, their feet run to violence. Their wealth depends on violence so Paul's saying the violence in the world is premeditated it's not spontaneous people people pursue violence. Yes.

It's a choice, a path. Even in private, in lives between individuals, there are people who are just prone to fighting. That's just the way they are. Yes. You know, when I was young, before I was saved, I had buddies that just liked to fight.

Just for the fun of it. For what reason? I just want to hit somebody. You know, and you learn that you got to get away from these people. You like them. They're your friends, your buddies, but hey, they like to fight. And if you hang out with them, guess what? You're going to end up in a fight. Either a fight that they have started with somebody else or eventually they're going to start a fight with you. That's just the way people are.

You go to people that hang out in bars, guess what happens in bars? People get drunk. When they're drunk that violence comes out of them. It was in them. Yes. The violence was in them. The liquor allows them to express that violence. It's something inside people, a desire to hurt somebody else, to bring destruction. So Paul is using feet as a symbol of people who actively, intentionally move towards violence. He describes their movement as swift. They're swift to shed blood. Yes. they're swift to shed blood yes they're not they're not content with just

carrying out violence there's got to be bloodshed with it they run to it if they're not bleeding you haven't hit them hard enough so If they're not bleeding, you haven't hit them hard enough. So, this phrase, swift to shed blood, is implying that people have an alarming readiness to commit physical harm to other humans you know look at look at our martial arts and our that's so much the martial but the the extreme fighting sports that we have today. What are we doing? We're paying money to watch two men beat each other into unconsciousness. That's a sport.

Yes. And we pay to watch it. You know why? Men like to watch other men fight. And we've taken it to the place where we've now professionalized it and we've monetized it. Men for centuries just did it out in the street, out in the field, behind the building. You go and watch

two guys fight. Somebody's going to get beat up. Somebody's going to bleed. Now, we're civilized now. We put it on television. We put it on streaming, on cable, and we charge a subscription to see it we're civilized no we're still swift to shed blood you know I where does a where does Donald Trump get his most thunderous applause wrestling events MMA events yes like Caesar walking into the arena yes these these seeds Yes, these seas are walking in. So this readiness to fight, to shed blood, is ingrained in our fallen nature. It's in us. And it's only Christ in us that keeps it under control. The swiftness to shed blood. It's throughout human society. It's throughout history, wars, conflicts, revolutions,

violent crimes, violent sports. Hey, the Romans had the gladiators, we have UFC. So humans are not the same. What's the difference? What's the difference? What's the difference? There is no difference. People paid to go to see the gladiator games. You know, they had their, they had their concession stands they bought turkey legs whatever was being barbecued they bought their hummus you know they had their their wine they had the concession

stands and they sat in the bleachers and they watched violence. They watched lions eat humans. And that was just, that was the, that was the pre, that was the halftime show. Right, right. So what Paul's teaching us here is that humans are not just capable of violence, they're eager for it. They'll run swiftly. Not just run, they'll run swiftly. Yes. To commit violence and violence that produces bloodshed. Again, Paul, he's not pointing at any particular group of people. He's

saying this is universal. This is throughout the violence. So this eagerness to shed blood is the result of man's moral corruption, of man's fallen nature. The violence reflects the depravity of the human heart. Because what people do outwardly is a reflection of what they are inwardly. And so this verse is bolstering Paul's argument that sin affects every part of human nature. Thoughts, desires, actions. And so he's teaching that violence is not just a social problem. It's a spiritual problem. You can't solve it with social programs. Yeah.

Even the most heavy-handed police state, what happens? The police become violent. Yes. You still have the violence. Violence does not harm only individuals. It, you know, physical bodies bodies it harms relationships it it harms communities it it harms entire nations yes it bloodshed leads to instability and long lasting pain and violence always begets more violence.

And I mentioned this yesterday, Rick, about actors in the early church. The Didache, and for those that don't know what the Didache is, basically a pastor's manual that was published

in the second century that gave you know instructions to pastors on how to run their local congregations and in the dedicae not only did it prohibit actors from becoming members of local assemblies but it also would not allow soldiers, active duty soldiers, to be part of local assemblies because they shed blood. Yes. Because their hands were full of violence. And so the early church took a very strong view about violence and standing up against

the violence of their age by saying, listen, we cannot have as a member of our assembly those that shed blood. We can't justify that. Now, if you turned away from it, if you put that life aside, then you could enter into fellowship with a local assembly. But that was what was being taught from the pulpits uh and in the catechism of that day that if your hands shed blood you you're guilty of that blood i did that's a hard thing to tell people today so doc would could you could you teach that doctrine in the typical American church today? Oh no, because we glorify the military in American churches. So if I had known that principle when I was a very young man, I probably wouldn't have

entered the military. But I didn't know. I just didn't have entered the military. But I didn't know. I just didn't know. But I understand why we have to have a military and everything, but the church took a very strong position on this, taught it, printed it, published it, and made it clear that if you were in the military, you could not be a part of a local assembly.

So, Doc dr the early church the early church did not allow soldiers to join the church unless they renounced the military and sought forgiveness for taking human life right the american church is the extreme opposite. The American church idolizes military life. So how far away from God is the American church? Well, I think that pretty much sums it up there. We're swift to shed blood. We'll glorify it. And, you know, I know there are already people out there that are watching or listening today, and the hair is standing up on the back of their neck.

But, hey, folks, I'm just telling you what the early church taught and what the Word of God is saying here. Their feet are swift to shed blood. We've really got to pray about that, think about that. See, America has its own religion, and it's not Christianity. There is a state religion in America. It's not Christianity.

I would call it American churchianity. But it's not Christianity. What's important to understand here is that God does not just condemn violence. He condemns the desire and the eagerness to commit violence. He's saying it's in your heart. You desire to hurt others. The violent actions are the result of the condition of the heart. So even if somebody does not physically harm another person, the desire to do so is still sinful. So God's judgment is not

just against murder but against all forms of aggression including hatred and oppression those are acts of violence that's why I have such trouble dealing with the Israelis.

And now we're about to see something even worse done to the Palestinian people. Our country is going to get involved in the violence. It's aggression. It's hatred and oppression. And God, see, there are going to be churches all over this country this week cheering. God is working. God is using Donald Trump to eliminate the Palestinian people. Let's give God a hand. And what's behind it? Military power to do it. Military power.

We're going to have to kill them if we have to. If they won't go peacefully, the U.S. Marines will take them out. You see where this is going with what Mr. Trump is proposing? If the people resist, then he's going to double down and say, well, I've got to send in the Marines. And our Marines are going to be in heavy combat in Gaza. For what purpose? To carry out the genocide that the Jews want him to do. Hard to believe this is going on. But you know, Doc, look at the timing, Mr. Trump's announcement last night and our study of Romans 3 today. Is America swift to run the violence?

Is America swift to shed blood? Yeah, that's what we do. That's the one thing we do well yes we do it so well we export it around the world yes so God holds people accountable obviously for their violent actions but he also holds them accountable for their desire and eagerness and willingness to commit violent actions. Remember, Jesus said, if you hate your brother, you've murdered him. If you just have hate towards somebody, you're guilty of murder. And murderers will not inherit the kingdom of God. So if you hate somebody

today, you might want to get over that quickly. So violence is not just physical killing. It's any action that dehumanizes other people. It includes emotional, verbal harm to other people. Now, there's a message of hope but what paul's where he's going with this message is that despite humanity's tendency to kill others to hurt maim there is a hope that jesus christ can transform your heart that only through Christ can people be freed from their natural inclination to commit violence so Jesus not only redeems people from violence but he calls his true followers to be peacemakers. The Sermon on the Mount.

Blessed are the peacemakers. They should be called the children of God. So what we see here is the work of Jesus Christ on the cross breaks down the cycle of violence. It offers a path of reconciliation. Yes. And Isaiah 52.7 says, you know, in contrast to this, you know, you got the world,

their feet are swift to shed blood. But Isaiah 52.7 says, and this is the prophet Isaiah and Paul quotes this later on in Romans. He says, How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who bring good tidings, that publish peace,

that bring good tidings of the good, that publishes salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth. So God, when he saves us, he saves our feet too, Rick. Yes. Not only do you speak it our feet too, Rick. Yes. Not only do you speak it, but you publish it.

Yes. And he calls our feet beautiful. If you've got ugly feet, you just deny that in Jesus' name. You've got beautiful feet, according to the Bible. So you've got two sets of feet. Yes, sir. You've got feet that are swift to run to violence, shed blood, and you've got feet that are swift to run the violence shed blood and you got feet

that are swift to run to publish the good news what's the difference in the feet all the feet that are that run to publish the good news or belong to people who've been transformed by Christ verse 16 destruction and misery are in their ways in their ways not are their ways in their way so he is referring to he sees again, he's quoting Isaiah. Yes. Isaiah 59, verses 7 and 8. 7 to 9.

Their feet run, this is Isaiah. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their goings. They have made them crooked paths. Whoever goeth therein shall not know peace Jesus Lord so Paul is quoting Isaiah again the Jews reading his letter

no I we know that one that's Isaiah no Paul's biblical he's backing up his argument with scripture and so his use of Isaiah is to show that sin's consequences have been present throughout the history of mankind

right that sin's effects are universal unavoidable yes even even to those who have been given the revelation of the law yes because the law singles out the violence and identifies it puts a label on it mm-hmm right so Isaiah spoke this to the Jews his prophecy condemned Israel's moral decay but Paul takes it farther and says hey it's for the whole world Isaiah was only speaking to the Jews but Paul said this

the words of Isaiah are applicable to every man and woman on the planet that sin leads to destruction and misery there is not one single sinful person alive today who will not end

up in destruction and misery. Our culture, our society, the media, we elevate these sinful people up. We lift them up and say, look at their lifestyle. Yes. But they always end up in destruction. I mean, just go back through your life and think of the people that we were told, this person is wonderful. this person is awesome. How did they die?

What state were they in? How about Michael Jackson? This guy was mutilating his face. Did he die in a state of peace? So sin always leads to destruction. Physical destruction and spiritual destruction. Destruction means personal ruin and social breakdown. Sin will destroy moral values. It will cause families, communities, nations to collapse since destruction is not only about death it is about broken relationships

the loss of purpose spiritual decay the destruction of human relationships the sin always leads to the destruction of people's lives morally relationally spiritually you can't point to one person who came out on top after living a life of sin I mean if the record is is that bad why would anybody follow that path right misery Oh Paul speaks with their misery he's talking about emotional emotional emotional suffering, spiritual despair, misery that brings guilt, shame, anxiety, emotional turmoil, sin that never produces happiness, always produces suffering. Many of the richest, most famous business people and celebrities are privately miserable. I wouldn't want their lives for anything.

He speaks of the ways the paths he's Paul's talking about the choices people make the direction they go on their own they went their ways they chose this path he's saying these paths represent moral ethical decisions that people make in life and they either lead to life or ruin so what he's showing you here is that destruction is not random it is the result of deliberate choices to reject God's ways duck right outside my office there's a park and there are homeless people there and every day my wife Susan goes over there and talks to them okay and she just goes over and just loves on them and I'm just speak some kind words to him so a couple weeks ago, we just went through our annual two-week winter.

And it gets down maybe in the 30s at night. That's a hard winter here for us. But for homeless people, it's pretty miserable. I'm only telling you this because ordinarily I don't tell people things that we do. Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. But there were various homeless people that Susan and I put in hotel rooms on the coldest nights just had to get him get him in someplace where they get some warmth and get a hot shower and stuff but there was one doc right over here next to the office a couple not married just living together living together on the streets a young guy maybe maybe in

his 30s named Joshua doc he he was so so appreciative and so respectful you, I could smell the liquor on him, but he was so respectful and so thankful. And I looked at him and took him over to the hotel and I said, Joshua, how did you get in this mess? How did you end up on the streets I mean you weren't born and living on the streets how did you get out on the streets and he told me you know he told me what you know the things that led to it and I and I I looked at I said Joshua look there's there's nothing wrong with you. You're not defective. There's nothing wrong with you.

The only thing wrong is that you have been planting bad seed. And you've been reaping a bad harvest. And man, he was listening. He soaked up every word I was saying. And I said, Joshua, you can change your life. You got to consciously plant good seed. And the first seed's going to produce some good harvest for you. Plant another one, and another one, and another one. And eventually, the harvest that you're going to get in your life

is going to be good, and you won't be living on the streets anymore. And I said, well, I don't know what to do. So I had given him some money for food. And he didn't ask for it. He actually tried to turn it down. I said, no, I can't leave here knowing that you don't have money. Okay, let me give you some money. I said, but here's what I want you to do I want you to take some of

this money and go buy food for another homeless person you do it you take part of this money and go buy food for another homeless person I said you know what that is, Joshua? You're planting a good seed. And that good seed is going to produce a good harvest for you. If you keep doing this, your life's going to change. Now, why am I telling you this story? Paul is talking about paths and ways. These are deliberate pathways that people choose to walk on in life they didn't just stumble onto the bad path they walked and they didn't stumble under the good path their choices people choose the path that they're going to walk on the early church I've said this before probably every pastor and evangelist had their own version of a sermon called Two Ways.

There are two ways in life. One way leads to destruction. The other way leads to eternal life. That's what Paul's talking about here these are people who deliberately choose the wrong path not like they were blind hey I didn't know the lights were off I couldn't read the street sign no you knew what it was. You chose the wrong path. And every time you came to a crossroad and you could go to another right road or a wrong road, you always chose the wrong road. They're just people like that. And we have them in our families. We have them in friendships.

And over years you see somebody's life just go downhill. I'm thinking of people right now. People that I know. People that made bad choices years ago. And they just kept doing this. More bad choices. Because you start hanging around other people who make bad choices. Right.

But if you surround yourself with people that make good choices, most likely you're going to make good choices. But who you associate with is a choice. So, walking on the wrong path is a deliberate choice to do what? To reject God's ways. Our life's direction is determined by our choices sinful paths lead to destruction God's path leads to peace that ought to be the message that we are sending to people all the time sin will lead to destruction obedience will lead to peace

again all applies this to everybody it's not just one group individuals families nations everywhere nobody escapes because it's the destruction and misery individuals, families, nations, everywhere. Nobody escapes. Because it's the destruction and misery are the universal consequences of sin. Now, sinful paths are not only destructive, but they are under God's judgment. Yes. God holds

people accountable for choosing paths of destruction and misery. And it's not just about punishment. It's about revealing the true consequences of rejecting Him. And it's not just about punishment. It's about revealing the true consequences of rejecting him. Because sinful choices lead to destruction and ultimately to eternal separation from God. If a person spends years and decades

of their life deliberately choosing the wrong road, at some point, they will be so far away from God that they are eternally separated from him I know God's grace he can I've heard amazing testimonies people brought back from the, really the edge of the cliff.

Why get that close to the cliff? Yes. So the point, the message that Paul wants us to hear is, sin's destruction is not just natural. It's part of God's judgment against rebellion. The worst consequence of sin is separation from God. That's the greatest form of misery. Spiritual alienation is far worse than physical suffering. Because when people reject God, they experience a deep emptiness, a lack of peace.

But at the end of their life, it's eternal misery. And so the separation is the root of all other miseries and and that will lead to a life without purpose without meaning without joy people will be so just live a life that's empty and hopeless but again the hope where Paul is taking this message we're going to see it as we continue in the book of Romans Paul is saying that despite this grim picture

of sin's effects there is a message of hope of redemption that only Jesus Christ can rescue people from the path of destruction and lead them to a path of peace but apart from Jesus, every person is trapped in misery. Yes. That he is the only escape from destruction and misery,

and he is the only means to achieve true peace in this life. Verse 17. in this life verse 17 and the way of peace have they not known reiterate that he's not teaching a new doctrine. He's just expounding on the teachings of Isaiah. peace is universal and historical yes pieces is both relational it's social and it's spiritual there's three three different types of peace I should say it affects three different aspects of life but the piece that he's talking about the supreme peace is reconciliation with God. When you reconcile with God, you will then have emotional stability in your life. When you are reconciled with God and you have emotional stability in your life, you will be free to love others. True peace only exists when people align their lives with God's righteousness,

His standards, His ways. Don't think of true peace as the absence of conflict. Indeed, you'll have conflict. True peace is a state of well-being that only God can provide. When we sold our church property, after the closing, the pastor of the church had bought it. I was over at the church visiting him, and I wanted to pray for him and pray God's blessing on the congregation. And he said, you know, Rick, when we were, our deacon board and our leadership team, as we would come out here and meet with you and tour the property, everyone said the thing that stood out the most every time they visited was the feeling of God's peace on the property. And I was pleased to hear that I looked at him and I said that's too great you have no idea how many wars I

had to fight to keep that peace it's just gonna, you don't know how many fights we had for that peace. Yes. And he smiled. He knew what I meant. This peace did not come freely. So the true peace in your life is not the absence of conflict. In fact, Satan will do everything he can to get you out of that state of peace yes he'll rock your boat as hard as he can rock it he wants you to um he wants you to get out of the out of your peace he wants you to say things that are contrary to the word of God. He wants

you to doubt God. He wants you to strike out at the people who are rocking your boat. It's not easy. But true peace is living in harmony with God's law, God's righteousness, and God's law God's righteousness and God's love so when people choose sin when they deliberately choose sin it means that they are rejecting God's design way of living which is the only way to bring peace in life if you don't have internal peace there is somewhere in your life that you are crossways with God's ways okay so pain. Pain is the indicator that something is broken. Yes. If your arm is throbbing and swollen, you know what? You probably have a broken bone. So when you have emotional pain,

something is broken. Something is not lined up with God's ways. Right. Because the way of peace is in alignment with God's moral, spiritual order. Paul says they haven't known the way of peace. So the way I read this is he's saying humans don't simply lack knowledge of peace, they actively reject it. It's willful ignorance, willful rejection, just like choosing to go the wrong path. They choose not to know the way of peace.

It's in both personal lives and collectively in society. Individuals and societies reject God's ways. But people, when they're apart from God They're selfish they're proud they're aggressive So what Paul's teaching us here is that people people don't just fail to know the way of peace they actively reject the way of peace they actively reject the way of peace yes so what do we have all right accountability Paul's driving home the message of accountability that each individual is responsible for his or her choices.

So, I mean, we know that the effects of sin, violence on society, it breaks down again, friendships, families, nations. It invites division, selfishness conflict I mean there's no no more stark example than state of Israel and Gaza. One act of violence produces another act of violence. Violence leads to violence. Yes. Well, we killed your people because you killed our people. Well, we killed your people because earlier you killed our people.

This just goes on and on and on. And neither side even remembers who was the first to do it. Yes. There's been killing. But oppression also provokes violence. And when you oppress somebody, you are driving that person out in despair to strike out in violence because they don't know what to do. They don't know how to get out of the oppression.

So oppressors are not, they don't have clean hands. True peace begins with reconciliation with God. Without God, people are enslaved to sin, and their lives will eventually have chaos and disorder. And so the failure to walk in peace is due to a deliberate separation from God. And rejecting peace is part of humanity's guilt before God, and those who reject God's peace bring ruin upon themselves. That's right. This is really important to understand.

Rejecting God's peace is not only destructive, it invites God's judgment. Yes, God judges people and nations that reject his peace. There are people around you that you know who are under God's judgment because they have rejected his ways. Isaiah, go back to Isaiah. Isaiah 9, 6.

Isaiah was prophesying of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. How did he describe him? The Prince of Peace. Isaiah told the Jews, when the Messiah comes, he will be the Prince of Peace. Yes. What did the Jews do to the Prince of Peace? They killed him. They murdered him violently. First they beat him up, then they stripped the skin off his back, and then they killed him. To the Prince of Peace. Does that drive home Romans 3? Humanity is so eager to commit violence that humans murdered the Prince of Peace. There's nothing else you can say beyond that. I mean, that's it it I could have just said that at the beginning and done the whole lesson I mean think about a dog humans were so determined to hurt bring bloodshed to bring murder to the Prince of Peace that they carried out the worst act of

our history and did it bring judgment on them yes but what happened in 70 AD? God destroyed Jerusalem. He destroyed the temple. Let me get to verse 18. Sorry. Verse 18. There is no fear of God before their eyes. Now he's quoting Psalm 36, verse 1. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, there is no fear of God before his eyes.

So Paul just keeps going back, grabbing those Old Testament scriptures to prove his point. He said, hey, you all studied this before, haven't you? I can back it up with Scripture. Anything you're teaching about God, you have to back it up with Scripture. And that's what Paul was doing. He's saying the root cause of sin is humanity's lack of fear of God. Yes.

And without the fear of God, people reject his authority. They embrace sin, and they live lives of sinfulness as though they will never be held accountable for their decisions and actions yes but what does proverbs tell us proverbs 9 verse 10 the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is understanding you you can't gain wisdom and understanding without the fear of the Lord it's not being terrified

it is being in holy reverent awe of him of knowing he controls your life controls the universe. It's a deep reverence and awe and a submission to his authority. It's not fear. It's not terror. It's submission. It's not about fearing punishment. It's about reverence and respect and submitting your life to him.

I want to get down to verse 19. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God. So Paul's saying the law was primarily addressed to those it was given to the Jews However the implications extend to all humanity And He's saying the law is a mirror It simply shows how far humanity has fallen from God's righteousness

Amen, it's just a year it was never the law was never intended as a means of justification it was always to reveal humanity's inability to become righteous yes he said every mouth may be stopped what does that mean plain and simple Paul saying no one can argue against their guilt that's right no one can justify themselves by what they say. As we say in the South, well, shut my mouth. That's really what he's saying. That was the Palestinian way of saying, well, shut my mouth. God's holiness and the law that he established will shut your mouth. You have no way to claim righteousness. He said that all the world may be brought under judgment. So the law

confirms the reality of sin and removes any hope of justification through human effort through religion and Paul's declaring the entire world is guilty in the eyes of God because the law reveals not just outward sins but the corruption of the heart the law condemns it doesn't justify I'm going to jump down here first 20 therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin. I'm repeating, the law can't provide justification. It only exposes sin. That's right.

Justification only comes through Jesus Christ, faith in Christ. So Paul's saying, nobody can be justified before God by their own works or by adherence, obedience to the law. It is only through faith in Jesus Christ that people are able to be saved. Doc, anything you want to add to this? No, I think this passage is a very telling one and everything. I know it's caused me to reflect on the things that exposure to entertainment and to sports and I'm sure that there are those that are rethinking maybe the church's relationship to the military and things like that as well. How we approach violence and think about violence, how violence is in our nature. But at the same time, we're not stuck here.

We're not stuck in that state. We can move beyond that. Instead of having feet that are swift to shed blood, we can have feet that are swift to share the gospel message. And so I think this passage, Paul does a beautiful job of this. As we move forward in chapter three, he is going to further expand on this, but bring in the case of faith. Now, how does faith play into this whole role of sin being exposed by the law? And so that's where we now start the process. All right, I've made my case now. Now here's the way out. And that's where we're going to be picking back up on verse 21.

Paul, did my video drop out? It did. We're okay though. We'll fix it in later on. So, but yeah, a few minutes ago. Okay. How long ago did it drop out? Oh, about two or three minutes ago.

How long ago did it drop out? About two or three minutes ago. Oh, okay. So, but ago. How long ago did it drop out? About two or three minutes ago. Oh, okay. So, but we heard you talk, and you were doing great. Satan heard all that he wanted to hear, right? That's right. He said, I'm tired of seeing Rick. That's enough of that stuff.

All right. Okay, let's go. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us for today's morning man. I pray that you're blessed. I pray that the word has I would say convicted some, caused others to come to repentance and but brought everyone

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