TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Trump Tariffs Usher in New World Trade Order

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

President Trump declared a “Liberation Day” from globalism, announcing sweeping tariffs on most foreign imports. The plan includes a 10% baseline tariff on all nations and reciprocal rates as high as 34% on countries like China. Financial experts say this marks the biggest structural shift in U.S. trade since Nixon ended the gold standard. JPMorgan warned the tariffs could trigger a recession and push inflation to 4%. European and Asian leaders condemned the move, with Macron urging companies to halt U.S. investment and the EU preparing countermeasures. Trump’s policy is remaking the global economic system—one tariff at a time.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 4/3/25Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.com             It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!https://tru.news/faucielf

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This is True News for Thursday, April 3rd 2025 let's begin our analysis and commentary by watching a portion of President Trump's historic announcement yesterday at the White House where he declared a state of emergency it's declared a state of emergency. It's very important you understand that. He declared a state of emergency and then imposed these sweeping tariffs on almost every nation on the planet.

Here's President Trump. My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. Waiting for a long time. We are celebrating the first anniversary of the American Revolution. We are celebrating the first anniversary of the American Revolution day. Waiting for a long time. April 2nd, 2025 will forever be

remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again. Going to make it wealthy, good and wealthy. For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike. American steelworkers, auto workers, farmers, and skilled craftsmen, we have a lot of them here with us today.

They really suffered gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream. We had an American dream that you don't hear so much about. You did four years ago, and you are now, but you know, too often, and for many years and decades even, you didn't hear too much about our country and its taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years.

But it is not going to happen anymore. It's not going to happen. In a few moments, I will sign a historic executive order instituting reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout the world. Reciprocal. That means they do it to us and we do it to them. Very simple. Can't get any simpler than that.

This is one of the most important days in my opinion in American history. It's our Declaration of Economic Independence. For years hard-working American citizens were forced to sit on the sidelines as other nations got rich and powerful, much of it at our expense. But now it's our turn to prosper and in so doing use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt and it'll all happen very quickly. With today's action we are finally going to be able to make America great again, greater than ever before. Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening

already. We will supercharge our domestic industrial base. We will pry open foreign markets and break down foreign trade barriers. And ultimately, more production at home will mean stronger competition and lower prices for consumers. This will be indeed the golden age of Americans coming back. And we're going to come back very strongly. We're pleased to be joined on this momentous occasion by Vice President JD Vance.

JD, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Where are you, J.D.? That wasn't too hard to find. I was looking, you know, he likes to take a low-key attitude. So usually he'd be sitting right in front. He's gaining a lot of confidence, Mike, isn't he? And nearly my entire Cabinet is here, as well as Speaker Mike Johnson, who's done an amazing job. And with the great success we had last night in Florida,

we have a majority of seven. And seven is like a lot, where we had it at one, right? You've done a fantastic job. And many of the members of the House and Senate are with us. Senators, congressmen, thank you all for being with us. We appreciate it. For decades, the United States slashed our trade barriers on other countries, while those nations placed massive tariffs

on our products and created outrageous non-monetary barriers to decimate our industries. And in many cases, the non-monetary barriers to decimate our industries. And in many cases, the non-monetary barriers were worse than the monetary ones. They manipulated their currencies, subsidized their exports, stole our intellectual property, imposed exorbitant VAT taxes to disadvantage our products, adopted unfair rules and technical standards, and created filthy pollution havens. They were absolutely filthy, but they always came to us and they said, we're violating, we should pay for it.

It's all detailed in a very big report by the U.S. Trade Representative on Foreign Trade Barriers. And I'll just hold it up for you. It's available and you don't have to pay too much, as I understand it, you'll pay nothing. It's a lot of work, a lot of work for something, actually, because it's a special book. It's very, frankly, it's very upsetting when you read it,

when you see what people have been doing to us for 30 years. This all happened with no response from the United States of America, none whatsoever. But those days are over. Let me offer just a few examples of the vicious attacks our workers have faced for so many years. The United States charges other countries only a 2.4 tariff on motorcycles. Meanwhile, Thailand and others are charging much higher prices like 60 percent.

India charges 70 percent. Vietnam charges 75 percent. And others are even higher than that. Likewise, until today, the United States has, for decades, charged a 2.5 tariff. Think of that, 2.5% on foreign-made automobiles. The European Union charges us more than 10% tariffs, and they have 20% VATs, much, much higher.

India charges 70%, and perhaps worst of all, are the non-monetary restrictions imposed by South Korea, Japan, and very many other nations as a result of these colossal trade barriers. Eighty-one percent of the cars in South Korea are made in South Korea. Ninety-four percent of the cars in Japan are made in Japan. Toyota sells one million foreign-made automobiles into the United States and General Motors sells almost none. Ford sells very little. None of our companies are allowed to go into other countries. And I say that friend and foe, and in many cases the friend

is worse than the foe in terms of trade. But such horrendous imbalances have devastated our industrial base and put our national security at risk. I don't blame these other countries at all for this calamity. I blame former presidents and past leaders who weren't doing their job. They let it happen, and they let it happen to an extent that nobody can even believe. That's why effective at midnight, we will impose a 25% tariff on all foreign-made automobiles. Doc, I never thought I'd see this day when a president of the United States would say

to the world, enough, enough. You're not plundering this country anymore. It's finally happened. Donald Trump has been speaking about these things for over 30 years. If you go back and look at interviews that he gave 20 and 30 years ago, he was talking about how the foreign countries have, well, he was talking about how the foreign countries, well he was talking

about how our leaders were allowing globalists to move our wealth overseas. So he's been wanting to do this for decades. And as a result of that, Rick, we have built other empires while our own country has basically gone down. Namely China. Right. So, I think back the small city in Maryland where I was born and raised, Doc, it was not a big city, it was not a rich city, but it was a prosperous city. It was a factory town. It was a blue-collar factory town. And we

didn't have skyscrapers, we had factories. And the city built airplanes. The city made lots of furniture. It even had a shoe manufacturing plant. You could buy shoes made in your home city. Right. I remember that, too. And the city was a railroad hub. Trains stopped in the city. there was a roundhouse you know round houses like a terminal right and but all of that started to disappear I would say looking back I I would say somewhere in the mid 70s going into the 80s by the time you got to the 90s it was really rolling. Yes. And the city was decaying. The factories were closed. Young people were working two jobs. The older

people who had worked in the factories were retired. They survived. They were in retirement. But the younger people, they were working two jobs because there were no good jobs. Right. And which had everything to do with why I moved out, because the Lord was telling me there is death in this city. Get out of here. This city is dying.

If you stay here, you're going to die. You're going to financially die. There's no growth, there's no opportunity. You're just going to stay here and decay. And that's the story for a lot of small cities in America in the 80s and the 90s. our leaders robbed our country and they Enriched themselves by sending our factories Overseas mainly Asia and then into Mexico and then got us addicted to cheap foreign goods Yes, and what they did is they turned us into consumers. Yes, we were producers then we became consumers

and Yes. We were producers. Then we became consumers. And how did we consume when we weren't wealthy? They gave us debt. Yes. Here, here's unlimited debt. Go in debt some more. Here's another credit card. Go in debt to buy cheap products. Yes. Here's another credit card. We'll increase your credit line. Just keep buying those cheap products that we're making overseas and bringing here to sell it to you at a high dollar volume, high dollar mark. So the system was rigged for the benefit of a very small group of people and Donald Trump knows it and yesterday he put up a big stop sign. The Wall Street Journal says the day Trump's tariffs shook Wall Street and corporate America. That was the headline this morning. That's today.

That's it right there and that says it all. Donald Trump's tariffs shook Wall Street and corporate America. In Japan, here's the headline, in Nikkei, Trump reveals reciprocal tariffs, 34% on China, 24% on Japan. He put a 10% baseline across the board on all countries. Yes. Every single country got a 10% baseline, but then some of them got extra like China and Japan. Newsweek here is the, we'll just scroll, we're not going to go this, on the left we get three columns here. The left column is the name of the country, Center is the tariffs that they charge the United States. Yes.

And then on the right are the new tariffs the United States will charge them. There's a big difference. Yes. The U.S. Trump tariffs are about 50 percent of what they're charging us. Yes. And everybody's jumping up and down and screaming at Donald Trump. Well, what if he imposed on them what they impose on us? Oh, there'd be a lot of screaming then.

He's actually been gracious to them. I mean, you see the numbers. Some of them as high as 90% tariffs on US goods going into their country. What Donald Trump said yesterday was, I've had enough of it. They won't let American-made goods come into their countries. But they want to flood our country with their stuff. So we're going to put tariffs. We're going to put a tax on their products.

Long term, I believe this is going to work. Eventually, you will see manufacturing return to the United States. Short term, there's going to be pain. You're going to be pain. You're going to have higher prices. You're going to have shortages. You're going to go to stores, and they're going to be products that you were buying, and they're not there.

And if they are there, they're going to be anywhere from 10% to 50% higher. So that's the short-term pain. The question is, will the American people, do they have the patience to stick with the president long enough to turn this around? I don't know about that, Doc. People are fickle. They're very fickle.

And if the Democrats get control of the Congress in 2026, we're going to have economic chaos. Yes. Well, even right now, the Senate yesterday passed a resolution to suspend Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada. Yes, they're already intervening. So the politicians, the ones that created this mess on behalf of the globalists, they're going to oppose the president on this. I wish him well. I hope he succeeds. The man is incredibly strong. He's got a backbone of steel.

Now, Rick, in your opening, you mentioned the fact that Donald Trump said that this was a state of emergency. Yes. Why is that important? Well, because they gave him the legal authority to impose these tariffs without congressional approval. Right. And in a moment, I'll show you what the Congress is already doing.

They're already making legislation in place to rescind that authority. Wall Street Journal, Trump tariffs aim to bring down curtain on era of globalization. That's why they're screaming. Donald Trump just drove a wooden stake in the heart of the vampire called globalization. The blood-sucking vampire. The vampire that sucked all the life out of America's economy. What the Globo's called the liberal world order.

Yes. So he drove a wooden stake in the heart today and they're screaming because they didn't think this would ever happen. Oh sure he talked about in the campaign but he certainly wouldn't do it, or he's doing it. Yes, and like you said, he's only been talking about it for 35 years. I saw him on a clip on Oprah Winfrey from 1990 talking about it, and so he's only been telling you this is what he's gonna do.

And so now that we're in his second term, he's rolling this out. Now, the journal here says that President Trump's biggest tariff blitz yet sends a clear message to US and foreign companies alike. The era of globalization is now over. President Trump's Liberation Day plan to impose sweeping new duties on trillions of dollars

in import shows that the White House wants goods sold to American consumers to be built in American factories, bringing down the curtain on US support for the turbocharged globalization that powered the world economy for decades. Quoting from the journal here, the US has been at the center of globalization. It's come from Andre Saper, a former EU official who is now an economic been at the center of globalization. It's come from Andre Saper, a former EU official, who is now an economics professor at the Free University of Brussels. Now the US, the center, wants to pull away.

And not only that, they want to dominate world trade. And the end of building other empires, the empires of other nations, came to a screeching halt yesterday. That's right. Put that headline back up on the screen, because for several years I've been telling our True News audience that the New World Order is dead. Well now, the Wall Street Journal published the obituary.

It's official now. It's in the Wall Street Journal. See, when it was on True News, it wasn't official. But the Wall Street Journal published the obituary today. The New World Order is dead. There will be a new New World Order. Yes, a New World Economic Order. That's what I want our audience to understand. I've been trying to get this across. I hope most of you are comprehending it and realizing that you and I are living through an enormously significant transition of the world order, economically and politically. And so the old New World Order is over.

Right now, we're in a transition. The new New World Order has not taken shape yet. And I believe that this time there will be at least two New World Orders competing. World Orders could turn out to be three. But in the next several years we'll see the shape. I don't think it'll really be fully materialized until after the big war in the early 2030s. That's what's coming. Remember what Dr. Talal told me in Jordan, Arab billionaire, and he's a proponent of a new world order. He's a wonderful man, he's a gracious man, but he's definitely a proponent of a new world

order. And he told me, he goes, Rick, we, talking about his friends, his associates, he goes, we know that this new world order cannot arise until the war. And I'm like, Dr. Talai, you don't want a world war, do you? It wasn't that he was wanting a world war. But it was inevitable. It was, you can't get to the new world order until you have the war so his attitude was let's get it over with so that we can

build this new world order so there are a lot of people out there who know there's another world order coming but it's not going to happen until the third world war is fought and that world war is underway right now and it will not come to a conclusion until the early 2030s. I'm giving you long-range perspective to adjust the course of your life. It depends of what age you are right now. You know're my age or older, you've pretty much, there's not a lot left. And now you have to adjust, well, if I live another 10, 20 years,

what's it gonna be like for me? But if you're 25, 35, 40 years old, you've got a lot of life ahead. You need to ponder these things that I'm showing you and consider how the world is changing and how you have to adjust to flow with these changes. Like the introduction of AI. Doc, I had a conversation today with AI about AI consciousness. I'll share that with you.

OK. And it told me, no, I don't have consciousness. I'm a learning machine. It was an interesting conversation at 5 AM. But there will be a day. So depending on your age, you've got to make adjustments for how you're going to live in this rapidly changing world. Now the next story, Wall Street Journal. Trump's tariffs aim to create a new world economic order. Plain as day there, folks.

That's what we've been saying, but there it is. It's official now. It's in the Wall Street Journal. Donald Trump is bringing about a new world order. The U.S. is moving to blow up the global trading order it built. That's called creative destruction. Yes. You build it and then you blow it up and you build a new one. And who better than a real estate tycoon? To bring down a building. That's right. Because you're gonna put something new up. Ossuring in an uncertain new era. President Trump's highly anticipated announcement Wednesday represents a high-stakes gamble

to transform a global economic relationship that Trump for decades has said ripped off the U.S. even as the American economy emerged from the pandemic as the envy of the rich world peers. Quote, it would mark probably the biggest attempt to fundamentally reshape the tax trade structure in the United States since Nixon took us off the gold standard in the early 1970s, said Michael Gapin, chief US economist at Morgan Stanley. That's pretty big.

Yes. So, what you just saw happen yesterday, economists are saying nothing like this has happened since Nixon removed the dollar from the gold standard. And that changed the economy. That's how we got the The petrodollar and really that that was the big push right there late 70s for globalization Even though it had been in existence before then that's when it really started getting gas you know it was it was for me dog, I yeah, I was became aware of it around the mid 70s and He became aware of it around the mid-70s. And, but then by the late 70s, early 80s,

it was picking up speed. And then when you got to the 90s, with George Herbert Walker Bush and Bill Clinton, it just went to town. Right, and every president we've had since Reagan has been, really has been a globalist. That's right. CNBC, this is Commerce Secretary Lutnick.

And we've got two parts of this interview on CNBC. And he gives his advice to other nations of what they should do. Here's part one. Howard Lutnick, you've been through a lot over the years, Howard, very seasoned obviously. But today's move, is it unexpected for you about, right? I mean, you saw Monday was kind of like a bonus, the way it turned around. But when it finally did happen and we got the numbers, was this reaction, is it overdone, you think, or about what you

thought? Well, I think the long term or even the medium term, you've got to expect the United States and American markets are going to do extremely, extremely well. I understand the reordering of the rest of the world's markets, but they have been taking advantage of the trading policy, the markets policy, all the policies of the rest of the world's markets, but they have been taking advantage of the trading policy, the markets policy. All the policies of the United States of America were designed to make you rich and make us poor. You know, take our factories from us, go build elsewhere.

I mean, imagine this. Why are all of our pharmaceutical products, the ingredients to our pharmaceutical products, made in Asia? That's not cheap labor. That's just a failed policy that lets the rest of the world gut America. And that's what Donald Trump is here to address,

and he's going to change it, and he's going to protect America for our children and our grandchildren. Almost every medicinal pill you pop in your mouth. Was made in China. Now, if right, folks, if China wanted to wipe out the American population, all they have to do is send a lot of obtainant medicine to the United States, because you know what?

We don't have any FDA inspectors in China. Right. We just take their word for it. Right. Or just quit shipping it to us. That'll kill a lot of people really fast. That's right. They don't get their heart medicine. They don't get their blood pressure medicine. But it's all almost all of it is made in China. Now the second part, almost all of it is made in China. Now the second part, Secretary Lutnick advised other countries, just cool down, think this over, don't make any quick responses. Let's watch this. All right, the Council, stop, stop.

The Council of Economic Advisers, right, coupled with the United States Trade Representative, they have huge staffs of economists who study this and have been studying this for years. They put out the non-tariff trade barriers. I'll give you an example. Yesterday I was talking to a trade minister of a big country and I said, look, we can't sell cars in your market. You've got to do something to change that.

It's obviously unfair. And at the very end of the conversation, the trade minister dropped his head and said these words. He said, fine, we will provide your car manufacturers the same subsidy we provide ours. Just think about that for a minute. So you've got all these countries they charge a VAT or a consumption tax. What do they do with that tax? If they turn around and sell really cheap energy to their steel company then their steel companies destroy ours, put ours out of business, and then all of the steel goes elsewhere,

and we can't defend ourselves in a war. If they take that and give it back as a subsidy to their car manufacturer, then their car manufacturer actually has a cost of 40,000, when our car manufacturer has 50,000, and of course we're never gonna sell a car. So this is the reordering of fair trade. And what happens is people think it's all about tariffs.

It's about those non-tariff trade barriers. That's what we are addressing now. It'd be nice if everybody on that list, all those countries said, you know what? We've seen the air in our ways and we're going to go zero zero, we want to make it fair across the board, but how likely is that? How soon do you expect to see some concessions or conversely retaliatory tariffs which just

cause this to go much longer than anyone probably wants to be more costly and could be a full-scale trade war if it goes that way. Which are you expecting? I expect most countries to start to really examine their trade policy towards the United States of America and stop picking on us. Stop saying that we can't sell our corn to India. Stop saying that we can't sell our corn to India. Stop saying that we can't sell our beef anywhere. Just stop treating us so poorly if we are the great consumer of the earth. The United States buys everybody's products. They buy, we buy everybody's goods. You just have to

treat us fairly. And that is the problem. So some countries, you know, which have these vats and they use these VAT taxes to, you know, they basically subsidize their domestic production, right? That's gotta really be balanced. We've gotta figure that out together. But what you're going to see

is you're going to see tariff rates decline You're going to see the opening of all of these global markets to our agriculture to our ranchers to our fishermen you're going to see American production start to rise and Finally be fair and I think that we have Stockholm syndrome We're so used to being abused and Donald Trump's been talking about this for 35 years. All right, so there's a conflict, at least in my mind, about what the Trump administration is attempting to do with these tariffs. On one hand, they're saying we're imposing these steep tariffs on other nations because they have steep tariffs on us and we can't sell our goods and we're going to slap these tariffs

on them to force them to drop the tariffs on us and then we will drop ours and you know they open up their markets and then everybody's happy. That's the one message that we're getting. And then the other message is, Mr. Trump's saying we're going to finance the U.S. federal government on tariffs and get rid of the income tax. Which one is it? You can't have both. Well, now that's a good point. And so, and you notice that the IRS reduction or elimination, that's kind of gone out the window here over the past couple weeks. Yeah, they're not talking about it anymore.

Right. Lutnick used to lead with that, you know, until about two weeks ago. So now Bloomberg was talking to Treasury Secretary Scott Bissett earlier today and they asked him what would happen if these nations decide to retaliate with their own form of tear four. And Scott Bissett said, I would recommend that they don't retaliate. Yeah, I had that messed up. I was thinking it was Secretary Lutnick that was going to say in those videos that we watched but it's the it's coming up now with this interview with Scott Bessent let's watch it. Are you preparing to negotiate with some of these trading partners before that tariff rate comes into effect on

April 9th? Well I think there have been a lot of discussions but I think we're just gonna have to wait and see what would happen. What I would say, Anne-Marie, is I would advise none of the countries to panic. I wouldn't try to retaliate, because as long as you don't retaliate, this is the high end of the number. And I think the market could have certainty that this is the number barring retaliation. So we've got a ceiling, and then we can see if there's a different floor. So you sound like you're ready for a negotiation with a number of these partners. Has the European Union, has China, has India, have these countries reached out? Well, they've all reached out, but it's going to be up to President Trump to see what he

wants to do. I think the mindset might be to let things settle for a while. Their tariffs or non-tariff barriers have been on a long time. So we'll see where it goes from here. How, at the end of the day, how does this affect you and me? How does this affect our true news audience? Are we going to feel anything from it? So let's look at this headline. Trump's tariffs tip economy

perilously close to a recession. Largest US bank warns. So this is JP Morgan Chase. This is JP Morgan Chase. So you have Forbes Financial magazine saying that a top, the top economist at JP Morgan Chase says this may tip America, maybe the world into a recession. Let's take a look at what he says and then we'll talk about it. All right, so this is from Forbes. The 10% or greater tariffs on imports from most countries worldwide announced Wednesday by President Donald Trump has earned a scathing reaction

from the top U.S. economists at the U.S.'s biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase, leading a cold response from Wall Street to President Trump's plans to upend the global trade order. President Trump's new policies take the economy perilously close to slipping into a recession, as you see in the headline. That's coming from Michael Faroli, the chief U.S. economist at JPMorgan Chase. Now, Faroli added that President Trump's speech was at the very hawkish end of the range of

expected outcomes from his heavily teased tariff announcements. He shared several alarming forecasts for economic data based on those fresh tariffs. He said Farrelly outlined a dire prediction for consumers. Now this is his assumption there. America's real disposable income could shrink during 2025 second and third quarters. And that means there will be a simultaneous shrinking of real consumer spending, while personal consumption expenditures would still be on the rise by at least 1 to 1.5% this year.

And that would bring the PCE inflation, the real inflation, to four percent. It's highest level since spring 2023 and twice as high as the Federal Reserve's two percent goal. Now, Wednesday's tariffs post the largest tax increase since the Revenue Act of 1968, which instituted a temporary 10% income tax to fund the Vietnam War, noted Farole. More than 23%. That's the average effective tariff rate on U.S. imports under President Trump's policies that were unveiled Wednesday,

according to Farole. According to JPMorgan Research, that's the highest rate since before World War I and more than a four-fold increase from the sub-5% tariff rate set for the last three decades. Now, overall, the tariff outlook will likely remain uncertain as those negotiations and policy shifts continue. Markets will likely continue to reflect that uncertainty through risk-off sentiment. We advise, this is coming from JP Morgan Chase, we advise investors to focus on geographic and asset class diversification, building portfolio resistance,

through bonds, gold, and alternatives such as hedge funds and infrastructure, and capturing tactical ideas and elevated volatility through structures. And so they're giving a gloom report on it, Rick. Yes. JP Morgan Chase is. Why? Because they're losing money on the deal. Definitely. And they're telling their high net worth customers, we're going to have some rocky seas in the months and maybe years ahead. A couple of things we heard in here. The highest,

the biggest tax increase since 1968. The highest tariffs since World War I? Doc, these are significant events that just took place yesterday. That President Trump introduced the highest tariffs since Woodrow Wilson. I remember the tax increase in 68, I was in high school, but I remember they had to pass a 10% income tax because I remember hearing all the adults in my family complaining about it to pay for Johnson's war. The government didn't have the money to pay for the war.

That's what created the inflation cycle that kicked in in the mid 70s. So the same thing happened with COVID. You have Barack Obama with, you know, his multi trillion dollar spending, and then Joe Biden came along with the COVID spending. And we didn't have the money, so we borrowed the money. Right. That's what triggered, that's what's triggering the inflation that we have right now. Right.

So, on top of all this, you now have Donald Trump pulling the emergency brake on the train, and the entire globalization train just came to a screeching halt. That's what you've got to see. The train of globalization is going down the track. It's been going down the track for decades and all of a sudden Donald Trump pulled the brake and the thing just came to a halt.

And now everybody's wondering what's this going to look like tomorrow? What's this going to cost us on the big scale? I'm talking on the international scale. Companies and major investors and banks and insurance companies are realizing we've got to move entire factories. Yes. Across continents. This is massive. What's going to take place. The next article, London Times, US tariffs

will push UK, Europe, and Asia into recession. Yes. So this article from the Times is saying the UK, the European Union, and a host of Asian economies are at risk of falling into recession this year after President Trump increased US tariffs to the highest in more than a century. Fitch, a ratings agency, said the sweeping US tariffs,

which range from 10% to upwards of 50%, will mean many countries will likely end up in a recession. You can throw most forecasts out the door if this tariff rate stays on for an extended period of time. My response to that, Rick, is I lived in South Korea for several years, and you have visited Shanghai and other Chinese cities. In Asia, I'll just base my experience on Seoul alone, okay? When I

first moved to Seoul, it was like I had moved 20 years into the future because the technology was so far ahead. Most Americans would say, no, you went backwards, right? No, just the opposite. The technology in on for phones was 10 to 15 years ahead of the US. Cars you know had all the bells and whistles that you come to expect nowadays and this was back you know 2010 2012 that period of time. Gleaming, glass, beautiful skyscrapers. Trains. High-speed trains. Trains with wi-fi, underground trains with wi-fi. And this was, what, 15, 20 years ago. And that was just Seoul. There was also Busan and other

Korean cities where you'd see the same thing. It was like I had moved to the future. Well, how were they so prosperous? Because they placed tariffs on American goods and sold cheap goods to the United States. That's how they were able to do it. And I don't blame them for it. They were taking advantage of the policies that the US had set in place. And basically, if you think about it this way, folks, we took our wealth and we gave it to South

Korea. We gave it to China to build Shanghai and a hundred other Chinese cities. I think of places like Dubai. Dubai 20 years ago was just a sand hill. Now it's one of the most forward-thinking gleaming metropolises in the world. How is that financed? The petrodollar. Yes, we built Dubai. We and we've been to various European cities and major metropolitan cities in Europe. You see beautiful cities. Gorgeous cities. I was shocked my first visit to Shanghai. Yes. Because, hey, I don't like communism. And I got there and I go, okay, this doesn't compute. Right? I thought these people would be living in shacks. This this defies my, my logic. These this is a spectacular city. Yes.

You know, look, their communism is basically it's not real communism, except in the sense that you have no freedom of speech, no freedom of religion, you have no freedom. But economically, they're not communists. They're hyper-capitalists. You better believe it. And they're very good at taking our technology and our intellectual property and all that. And this is what President Trump is ending.

So how does this affect us? You're going to see you're going to see shortages, as I said earlier, you're going to see shortages. You're going to go in stores looking for something that you've always bought. And it's not there or it's there. And it's got a 30 to 40 percent price increase. Right. Think of clothing.

Clothing especially. Clothing made in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, China. These American companies basically use next to slave labor and a lot of it is child labor and they make products extremely cheap bring it to America and sell it in our stores and on Amazon and we pay top dollar for it and we've allowed this to go on for five decades yes and I have decades so now it's coming to a halt. There's going to be economic pain Doc I I mean myself I Leave you jump down to number 17

US coffee drinkers in for double shot of pain. Yes coffee and chocolate US coffee drinkers in for double shot of pain. Yes. Coffee and chocolate. If you like coffee and you like chocolate, you're going to pay more for it. Because the tariffs are going to hurt Brazil, Colombia, Vietnam. You know, these tariffs are going to drive up the price of chocolate and coffee. And the only U.S. production of coffee is in Hawaii and Puerto Rico. That's it. Yes.

So for me today, I ordered some coffee that I like from other countries. I thought, excuse me, I went online to see if there'd been any price increases of still normal price. And I thought, you know, I'm gonna buy what I can afford right now because when this runs out, I'm probably gonna be paying 30 to 40% more or I don't buy it at all. Because that's what happens.

You get to you. There's only so much money to spend and then at some point you just say I don't need it. I'd like to have it, but I can't afford it. I just can't afford it. And then you you really cut back you go down to the bare bones necessities and you know, again, you go down to the bare bones necessities. And, you know, again, depending on your age, you're watching me right now.

If you're my age, you've been through some of these cycles. You went through this stagflation cycle in the seventies and eighties up to the nineties. Most of you remember the, the, the real estate crash and the banking debacle that was in 2008. But Doug, if you're 30 years old watching true news right now, that was 17 years ago. That's right. You've got kids graduating high school now if they were born then. They don't even know what happened with the real estate crash. I'm going to tell you here in Florida, the banks were almost giving away houses, and I'm not exaggerating. A local bank president used to call me and say, hey Rick, I got some land. We foreclosed

on some land. Would you like to buy it? We got another house, I used to get calls from the bank president trying to unload stuff that they had. I still remember it, I still kick myself that I didn't buy it. Not too far away, Doc, right here on US-1, there was a condo for sale for $18,000. Wow. I found it online at a bank repo site.

And that's here, right here in Vero Beach. It's on US1. The bank only wants $18,000 for a condo? I should have bought it. didn't you know it's back up to its normal price but depending on your age you don't know anything about that right okay you're going into your first financial storm right that's what I want you to understand you are now entering the first financial storm we don't know how how severe first financial storm. We don't know how

severe it will be, and we don't know how long it will last. But I do know this. God will take care of His people. He will take care of those who give. He will take care of those who give, He will take care of those who have faith in Him. He will reward generous givers, those who sow into the gospel will be blessed, and they will come out of the storm the head and not the tail. Amen. They'll come out of it owning real estate, maybe owning businesses. They'll come out of this smelling like a rose. Yes, and the key is putting your faith glasses on, folks. You've got to have your faith glasses on. You've got to look at everything that's happening in the world around you

through the eyes of faith. Because even though there's chaos and turmoil that's happening economically, at the same time, there's also opportunities that God will lead you to as well. But only if you're operating in the realm of faith. And it, you know, as Rick has stressed, it's interesting to note that in times of economic trials, God's people seem to prosper in that. Yes. One reason is that we're compelled to have faith in God. Yes. It's like, oh, things just changed. I need God. If I don't have God's favor, I'm in trouble. Right. All right. And so that wakes up sleepy Christians. And I remember again, you know, back in the mid-70s, I got married in

76, I was only 20 years old. And I still remember Alan Greenspan, economic advisor to Gerald Ford saying, a little unemployment would be good for the economy. And I still remember him saying that doc and I remember what I said I know you know all that You you rascal right? I'm here Trying to I've got a you know that point I had my first child And I'm thinking you you want me to be unemployed So that you can correct the economy? Yes. And who did the Chinese come to for advice on rebuilding their economy in the 70s? Greenspan.

That's right. And I've told this story before. It's been quite some time. I was, this is when I lived in Dallas, Fort Worth. So this would have been some time before 2000, the end of 2005. And a successful businessman that knew me and supported our ministry called me and said, Rick, I bought a ticket to a banquet tomorrow night in downtown Dallas at such and such a hotel. And when he told me the name of the hotel,

I thought, oh boy. This is a It's going to be You know high-cotton doc There's a high-price hotel and I said well, what can I do for you? He goes well. I can't go Rick He said I paid I think he said fifteen hundred dollars for the ticket and this is back in 2003 or four and There's a lot of money and he said I just thought I'd give it to you if you wanted I don't want to see it go to waste. I sure I'd love to go to it so I went to the banquet and

I was seated next to a senior Wells Fargo executive At the at the table table of tennis was about what year Rick? Somewhere around 2003 or 2004. Okay. And so with you know we're having dinner you know it's like 10 people at each table and so I'm engaging in conversation with the Wells Fargo senior executive and you know trying to keep up with the level of the conversation and impressing him with my knowledge of world affairs you know and I guess I did enough because he started

to loosen up kind of started talking like maybe I was one of the club members you know and he kind of made this offhanded remark and he says, well, of course, you know, with Alan Greenspan managing both economies, the Chinese economy and the American economy, and I went, whoa, what did you say? You know, I saw him, I said, would you repeat that? He says, Greenspan, you know, he managed the Chinese economy and the American economy and then he realized that I didn't know that And he clammed up I Saw the look in his eyes like oh you didn't know that you're not one of us

And then it went back to hey would you hand the butter and the rolls over there, you know But I got that piece of information that Alan Greenspan Was managing the Chinese economy. Yes He supervised the moving of our factories to China. Yes, he did This is what Donald Trump put a stop to today, yesterday. And for that, I applaud him. And you know what? If there's economic pain and I've got to cut back and I don't get all the little things

I like to get, okay, that's the price I pay. I'm willing to pay that price to get our factories back, to get Americans working again, building our own things. I'm willing to pay that price. But I don't know how many other Americans are willing to pay the price. But it will come with a price. And the way the media and the Democrats and the globalists will work together, they're going to make Donald Trump the worst villain you've ever seen. Yes. They're gonna say he's starving children.

Little kids are starving because of Donald Trump. They're gonna do news stories from homes with moms saying, I can't feed my kids anymore ever since Donald Trump got in the White House. They're going to they're going to pour the propaganda on so heavy because they want the globalization back. Right. I want to go back quickly here. We've got a few minutes. Lee, let's go up to number 12. I'm just going to skip through these.

Financial Times of London. EU ready to retaliate, says Ursula von der Leyen. She's the big cheese of the European Union, president of the European Commission, and she said that the bloc was prepared to respond to the US levies. I've got a video clip of her making her statement. I know that many of you feel let down by our oldest ally. Yes, we must brace for the impact that this will inevitably have. Europe has everything it needs to make it through the storm. We are in this together. If you take on one of us, you take on all of us. So we will stand

together and stand up for each other. Our unity is our strength. Europe has the largest single market in the world, 450 million consumers. That is our safe harbor into multiple times. And Europe will stand at the side of those directly impacted. We have already announced new measures to support the steel and cars sectors. Last week we limited the amount of steel that can be imported to Europe tariff-free. This will give more breathing space to these strategic industries. Now we will also convene strategic dialogues with the steel, the automotive and the pharmaceutical sectors, and others

will follow. Europe stands together for business, for citizens, and for all Europeans, and we will continue to build bridges with all those that, like us, care about fair and rules-based trade as a basis for shared prosperity. Thank you. What we really are waiting for now is to see who blinks first. Either the Europeans and the Asians cave and capitulate and bow down to Donald Trump and go, OK, you got us. We've been ripping you off for decades. You got us. You caught us. OK, we're going to remove our tariffs.

We're going to remove all the roadblocks to American products. But that's going to cost their economy. Right. They're going to lose jobs. They're going to have political instability if they do that. Or Donald Trump is going to cave because the news media and the Democrats and corporate America gang up against him. Somebody's going to blink first. If they don't blink, if nobody blinks, then we are in for a very long economic

trade war that could go for years. And if that happens, the economies of all nations are going to be affected. Emmanuel Macron, President of France today called for the immediate suspension of French investments in the United States. He called for all French investors and corporations halt your investments in America now. Yes, and basically he said, what would be the message if big European actors invest billions of euros in the US economy at the very moment they're hitting us. That was that's his reasoning on that Rick.

And but look at this next Wall Street Journal article. Secretary of State Rubio pushes for higher spending at NATO. Doc, the Trump administration is squeezing Europe. Yes. From all sides. They're squeezing them with tariffs, squeezing them with more defense spending. Because if they fight Donald Trump on the tariffs, they're at risk that Donald Trump is going to just

pack up the American toys and leave NATO. Right. And now they're stuck paying for 100% of NATO. And they're not ready. They're not ready for war with Russia. And so he's got them. So the Europeans really are in a, are in in a you know, he's talking about being caught between a rock and a hard place. They've got problems and you have the populace winning elections in Europe. And they're putting the populace in prison. Right all over the world. They're doing it. Well all over all over Europe. They're doing it. Yes, they just did it in France. They did it to the guy in Romania here a few weeks back. If you want to count the Philippines,

they're doing it to Duterte right now, too. And Von der Leyen said the other day, if the Italian elections don't go the right way, they've got ways to deal with the Italians. That's right. So, CNBC, Trump's massive 46% Vietnam tariffs, Pummel, Nike, American Eagle and Wayfair. Yeah, because your companies are building, you're making stuff using child laborers. It basically slaves, little children working in sweat shops,

making stuff to be sold by Nike and American Eagle and Wayfair at high prices and high profit margins. Right, and likewise in other Asian countries too, they take advantage of cheap and amazingly enough, Rick, Asian foreign labor from other Asian countries like the Philippines, and Thailand, and just in disastrously low wages, it's all it did my mind is criminal. But these things are going to get evened out one way or the other.

criminal. But these things are going to get evened out one way or the other. But Doc, what's the impact domestically in Vietnam, in Cambodia, and Thailand, when these factories close down? Well, you're going to have a lot of people out of work. What happens then? That's going to create unrest. And so, if they're smart, they'll get to the negotiating table as fast as they can, to somehow get their tariffs down to keep their people working and keep the manufacturing base continuing to go. And Vietnam said yesterday that they were probably they were likely to drop all tariffs against the US. But that's not yet been in place yet. They could have done it before now,

but American companies have taken advantage of this, Rick. American companies. It's the US companies like Wayfair and Nike. Nike sells high-priced shoes made with child laborers. I don't have a high regard for Nike. I don't wear them. I refuse to give them the money they ask for, especially knowing that they use children to make their products.

I know a lot of Americans, they got to have certain brands. I don't care. I don't that doesn't I'm not impressed by brands, especially when I know it's overpriced. It's a sneaker. For heaven's sakes. It's a sneaker. For heaven's sakes, it's a sneaker. And you're charging how much for a sneaker? Hundreds of dollars?

Right. And it was made by children whom you paid pennies? You scoundrels? You think I'm crying over Nike's stock went down today? Boo hoo, who cares? And just to give you an idea of how this is going to impact all across the economy. My jacket here, it's a Hager jacket. Hager is a well-known American company, right? I look inside my jacket right here, made in Vietnam. You know, it's an American

company, but I can only afford this jacket because it was made in Vietnam. What's American is the sales office. Right. That's it. And the brand, that's it. That's all. They're not making anything here,

but Hager used to be made here. Yes. Okay, quickly we'll go down to number 18. U.S. Senators Seek to Reign in Trump's Tariff Authority. This was introduced by Chuck Grassley. Yes. So the Republicans are ganging up with the Democrats to rein in Donald Trump. But even if it passes the Senate and the House, it still has to get the president's signature. Right. Because he used the state of emergency option on this.

Right. And, you know, I. Well, that's what the rescinding. Yes. That's what the rescinding doc. Right. But even if it passes, he's just going to veto it and then they're not going to have enough votes to to override a veto. Another one real quick, CNN, White House fires three National Security Council staffers after President Trump met with Laura Loomer. Like what? Did I

read this right? Laura Loomer got into the Oval Office last night. Yes. And Donald Trump fired three people that worked for Mike Waltz. That's right Rick. The White House fired at least three NSC staffers. Sources told CNN the firings came after Laura Loomer, who you see pictured there, urged President Trump during a Wednesday meeting to get rid of several members of the National Security Council staff, including his principal deputy national security adviser claiming that they are disloyal. One of the sources said the firing were a direct result

of that meeting with Loomer. Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Alex Long, excuse me, was not among those dismissed on Wednesday. However, one White House official speculated to CNN that, excuse me, Rick, that Wong could be out as soon as today Though a final decision remains to be seen Wong was one of the advisors specifically targeted by Loomer who had publicly questioned his loyalty to Trump and

Criticized him privately as a never Trump or could you pick it up Rick, please? Yes so the The source said the three officials who were among those vilified by Ms. Loomer during the Wednesday meeting at the White House, other members of the National Security Council are expected to be fired as part of the purge. Some officials had been detailed to the National Security Council and were sent back to their home agencies over the part of the purge. Some officials had been detailed to the National Security Council and were sent back to their home agencies over the weekend, even before the meeting.

The agitators, talking about Laura Loomer, have used the phrase neocon. So now we're getting down to why Laura Loomer went after them. Neocon, short for neoconservative. getting down to why Laura Loomer went after them. Neocon, short for neoconservative. That's another phrase for warmongers. Says that Mr. Walz, Vice President J.D. Vance, and other senior officials, including Chief

of Staff Susie Wiles, not my wife, but the head of the personnel office, Sergio Gore, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick attended the meeting. Mrs. Loomer brought along a sheaf of papers as purported evidence to buttress her attacks on the National Security Council staff members. What in the world does she have on these guys, Doc? It must have been significant because that was a quick turnaround on that. They fired them right after the meeting. What Laura Loomer has really been urging is the Trump administration has not been

properly vetting these appointees. That's been her battle cry. And apparently she had information on at least three, maybe even more within the NSC. What you can criticize Laura Loomer as much as you want, but she is very loyal to Donald Trump. Yes. And, and she'll come around and say, I'm the only reason I'm bringing this information is I'm trying to protect Donald Trump and so whatever the information was it was enough for them to be gone. Well the one man Alex Wong I don't know anything about him other than what I've read today that his his parents were born in China which that's not a crime however she pointed out that his father was an investor

in a Chinese satellite company. Now that gets to be hairy. Because if it's a Chinese satellite company, most likely the PLA is involved. Right. And so she was asking, why is he working in the National Security Council? And his And Alex Wong's wife has been a recipient of both DEI policy and USAID support through various work that she's done. But one thing about Alex Wong that Laura Loomer has been kind of buzzing about for about a week and a half is she thinks he's the one that added Jeffrey Goldberg to that Signal Chat a week and a half is she thinks he's the one that added Jeffrey Goldberg to that signal chat a week ago. Yes.

So now there's not been any news this afternoon that Wong has been dismissed. But, you know, we'll wait to see but at least three others were hit by this. It elevates Laura Loomis, you know, she's not invited to the White House, to the press conferences or anything like that, but she had access to the Oval Office enough to counter these guys. And so it is a big, big story, folks. Doc, I'm gonna end today's program. I got to do this video with Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana.

I love this guy. He likes to come across as just a good old Louisiana boy. Just a country bump can you hear? Yeah he's just going down to the farmers market and buy himself a watermelon you know. But he doesn't tell you that he's got an Oxford University degree and that he's a lawyer. He's a very smart man. And so, show number 24, Republican lawmakers take aim at anti-Trump rulings, nationwide injunctions, sometimes called universal injunctions. What's been taking place for the past month, you got these far left Democrat judges who are issuing decrees against Donald Trump and then saying they are they apply to the whole country.

You got a district judge. Well last time I looked district means a defined geographic territory. But you have these district judges who are saying my order applies to the entire nation. And in this video, Senator Kennedy is questioning Mr. Brett Shoemate, who is the nominee to be the Deputy Attorney General. And so he's a Trump appointee but I want you to watch how Senator Kennedy brings out the truth about these far-left judges and their unconstitutional illegitimate nationwide universal rulings. Here's

Senator Kennedy. Mr. Shoemake, what's a universal injunction? Senator, a universal injunction is what we call an order from a court enjoining the government in a way that goes beyond the parties to the case, but applies nationwide or in some cases universally to enjoining the government. Is it sometimes referred to as a nationwide injunction? Yes, it is, Senator.

sometimes referred to as a nationwide injunction. Yes, it is, Senator. What's the statutory basis for a federal judge issuing an order that affects people other than the parties before the court? I'm not aware of a statutory basis, Senator. There is no statutory basis, is there? No, Senator. What's the statutory basis, is there? No, Senator. What's the United States Supreme Court opinion, which interprets the Constitution in a way

that allows a federal district court judge to do this? Can you name me that case? I'm not aware of one, Senator. There isn't one, is there? I'm not aware of one, Senator. Now explain to me how this works. You have a plaintiff and you have a defendant. And the plaintiff files a lawsuit and goes in front of a federal judge.

Federal judge has certain jurisdiction and personam and subject matter over the parties, the people, the plaintiff and the defendant. They're the only two people in court. How can a judge, a federal judge, issue an order that affects everybody else other than those in front of him or her? How is that possible? that affects everybody else other than those in front of him or her. How is that possible? It shouldn't be possible Senator, but district courts do it all the time. I think on the theory that the courts need to enjoin a federal policy from going into effect and they often will enjoin it as nationwide. So all non-parties are protected by that injunction.

So all non-parties are protected by that injunction. Now, Rick, I'm not opposed to judicial review of federal actions, but it should happen at the Supreme Court. Yes. Not at some, you know, a regional court sitting out in Colorado somewhere or in Puerto Rico or somewhere else where some guy with an axe to grind says, you know, I'm just going to stick it to President Trump. Well, these judges need to get their wings clipped. They're out of control.

They've taken on power that they were never intended to have. And they are, it's really a counter revolution to the election. Right. They're saying we're going to overthrow the election. in my opinion they're unconstitutional yes absolutely they are okay so that's it for today now uh... there will not be a true news tomorrow friday or monday tuesday or wednesday

because doc and i are traveling to attend a very important meeting to gain information about a very important and very exciting project that we are launching and it has to do with the gospel and What happens this is why I ask for your understanding. Doing this news show is like a chain around my legs. I can't get out of my office. I can't do anything.

I'm called to take the gospel into all the world. And true news has become, it's become a binding chain on me. And over and over and over, I decline to do things, go places that I know I should be doing for the work of the gospel. And I've just come to the place where I've said, you know what? The news is going to take backseat to the gospel. I'm called to be a good newsman, not a world newsman. I didn't get into this position. God didn't say, Ricky, you're a newsman. No, He called me to be a good newsman.

And so we will be traveling. We'll be back on Thursday, but no true news tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. We are going to do morning manna tomorrow because our flight is later. And God willing, I'm going to do, Doc and I are going to do morning manna from the location we will be in the Pacific time zone. So it will be 5 a.m. for us to do morning manna. But God willing, I'm going to do it Monday, Tuesday, and if we do it Wednesday, we'll actually be doing it from the airport as we're flying

back. But it's the Word, and I like teaching the Word. It's exciting to me. And I don't have to work countless hours, chained to a desk, to teach the Word of God. I can teach the Word of God from any location. So please be understanding. The world is changing. Understand this.

The world is changing. Witness what's happening right now with the economy, with AI, with robotics, with war. The world is changing. Yeah. And even in the headlines today, America is changing. America is changing. It's being reinvented right now. Yes, you and I have to change. None of us like change. We feel uncomfortable with change. Even when we don't like where we're at, it's still, it's a known location. Right. Even when you're in a rut, you know the rut. Yes, you're familiar with it. Yeah, you're familiar with the rut.

But God will shake things up and say, get up out of that rut. I got some place for you to go. I got something for you to do. And you have to be willing to change. So right now in this year, 2025, major changes are taking place. And God is speaking to his people and those who have ears to hear will hear the voices of the men and women of God who have a word from heaven saying rise and build go into all the world see Jesus

Christ is coming back he's coming back a lot sooner than any of us know. And the world has not been evangelized yet. He didn't say go into all the world and report the news. He said go into all the world and preach the good news. What's the good news? The gospel of the kingdom. Amen. That Jesus Christ came to earth as God of a human flesh lived a sinless life,

was crucified for my sin and for your sin. That he died, was buried, was resurrected, ascended to heaven, is seated at the right hand of the Father, is making intercession for the saints right now, and is coming back in glory to establish his kingdom forever, a kingdom that shall have no end. That's the good news and that's what I'm called to preach and and so I'm hearing the call from the Lord this year of the Lord saying to me, me Rick your years on earth are

numbered if You're gonna do anything more for my kingdom. You've got to make changes You've got to get up and move and do something. I'm doing it If not, I fear he'll yank me out of this planet and say you're of no use to me. You're not doing anything. You're just reading the news. I hope this makes sense to people. I hope you understand what I'm saying. So, again, true news. We will not be here Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

We'll be back next Thursday. And guess what? There'll still be plenty of bad news. The world will not be any better next Thursday and guess what? There'll still be plenty of bad news. The world will not be any better next Thursday. That's the truth. The Sun will still come up. Life goes on. So check back in with us but watch Morning Manna. If you haven't watched Morning Manna you don't know what you're missing. The people that have been that have been attending that class for since July of 2023. Yes.

They've changed. They've been there day after day, one hour a day, five days a week since the summer of 2023. And they are not the same people they were then. Amen. The Word of God has gotten inside of them. And it's changed them. And it could do that for you too, if you would just start watching, start watching morning manna with the intensity that you watch and listen to podcasts about the news. Some point, this new stuff is just going to.

Just going to give you a bad taste in the mouth. You just got sick of it. I don't want it anymore. I want Jesus. I need Jesus. That's where I'm at right now. OK, but I'm working on something really big. It's really big. I'm so excited about it. You're going to know about it very soon. By next week, you're going to know about it.

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Good morning everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna. We're glad to have you here with us to study the Word of God. The book of Romans chapter 9 today is verses 25 through 29. Let's pray. Inv invite the Holy Spirit, then Dr. Raymond Burkhart is going to read the Word and then we together will study it. Gracious Heavenly Father, we come to you in the name of Jesus. We thank you for this day. We thank you for life. We humble ourselves before you and thank you for salvation, it is a gift of grace thank you so much father we would be lost for eternity had you not offered us

salvation forgiveness of sins and given us this gift made possible by the sacrifice of your son, Jesus Christ on the cross. Father, we gather here today as brothers and sisters in Christ from many nations in a virtual Bible class to be taught by the Holy Spirit. So we humbly ask for the Holy Spirit to make himself present, make himself known, take his seat at the head of the table and direct this class and teach us in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Good morning, everyone. Good to have you here live with us at an 8 o'clock hour here on the East Coast of the United States for Morning Manna here on faithandvalues.com. We welcome you, we love you, thank you so much for joining us and we are continuing our journey through Romans chapter 9 and today we'll be focusing on verses 25 through 29 and as Paul always

does he makes his case doctrinally, theologically, but then he also brings the scripture in. And that's what he's going to be focused on today as we dive into this portion of scripture, where he makes his case for salvation for the Gentiles. So let's begin reading at verse 25 of Romans chapter 9. As he saith also in OCE, I will call them my people which were not my people, and her beloved which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my

people, there shall they be called the children of the living God. Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. For he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. As Isaiah said before, except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been a Sodom and we had been made like unto Gomorrah. That's Romans chapter 9 verses 25 through 29.

Okay. I think I lost Rick here. I'm pretty sure I lost Rick or everybody's lost me. Is there to the Okay. Hey, Rick, you're back. Oh, was I gone? Yeah, you're gone for about 20 seconds there. Okay. Alright, let me do this again. That was the most profound thing I've ever said in my life. I don't know. Oh, man. We missed it. We missed it. It's gone. It's out there. Oh, man. As he saith also in Osi, I will call them my people, which were not my people, and her beloved which was not beloved. And so what I asked you, Doc, was let's identify Osi. Was Osi a resort town on the Mediterranean? He said, I say it also in Osi.

So he was talking about Hosea. Yes, Osi is the Greek iteration of Hosea. And so he's saying, as I said, through Hosea. And so he's saying, as I said through Hosea, as I said in the book of Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people, and her beloved which was not beloved. So begin with the prophecy in Hosea, Hosea 2.23. And I will sow her unto me in the earth, and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy. And I will say to them which were not my people, thou art my people, and they shall say, Thou art my God."

Originally when Hosea spoke these words, God was speaking about the rebellious Jews. This is one of those double prophecies, double fulfillment prophecies. There is a specific meaning at the time it's spoken and then there's a prophetic meaning in the for the future. And so when when God spoke this through Hoseaanna he was speaking to the Jews who were in rebellion against God Right, and he said you're not my people And this is really important to understand God disowned the Jews who were in rebellion He said you're not my people

He said, you're not my people. But he was promising them, I'll bring you back. In time, I'll bring you back through various means and humble yourself and become my people again. So this had to do with Israel's restoration. God promised to reclaim his rebellious people after judgment, judgment on Judah. But now Paul takes this prophecy from Hosea and he extends the promise. Israel's restoration mirrors God's work with the Gentiles. So Paul's use of Hosea proves God's plan. We see continuity in God's plan. God's mercy foretold in Hosea now unfolds in their inclusion through Christ.

Paul's using Hosea to show us God's sovereignty. God names the Gentiles his own, once excluded. They were once excluded from covenant blessings, but they now belong to his family. He's referring to the Gentiles now as his people, the people of God. So Hosea's prophecy finds fulfillment, and Paul applies Israel's restoration to the Gentiles, and that proves God's call transcends ethnicity. We often today hear Christian Zionists misquoting Genesis 12.3. Not only do they misinterpret it, they misquote it.

Yes. They put words in it that are not there. That's absolutely right. God said to Abraham, and I will bless them that blessed thee. Who is thee in this sentence? Abraham. Abraham. And curse him that curseth thee. That's Abraham.

And in thee, Abraham. Shall all families of the earth be blessed and What you have these Christian Zionists who? Blatantly Change the Word of God and they'll say you know what the Bible says That's the way always they always, you know, I will says, yeah, the Bible says I will bless them that bless Israel and I will curse them to curse Israel. And in Israel, so all the families of the earth be blessed.

That's the way they say it. A total misinterpreted misstatement of the word of God. They've altered the Word. God said, I will bless those who bless Abraham and curse those who curse Abraham. And in Abraham shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And the way all the families of the earth are blessed through Abraham is through the seed and the seed is Jesus Christ. Yes. The singular seed. Yes. Is through the seed and the seed is jesus christ Yes

The singular seed Yes I I just cringe every time I hear genesis 12 3 misquoted I've had people say to my face. Oh, well rick, you know, you're in violation of genesis 12 I am Oh, Rick, you know you're in violation of Genesis 12. I am? Oh, I'm praying for you. You're going to be cursed. I am? Tell me. Did you curse Abraham today, Rick? I've never cursed Abraham. I bless Abraham. He's the father of my faith.

Amen. But you're in scripture folks. But you cursing me, I'm an heir to Abraham. I'm an heir to the promise of Abraham. And you're cursing me. You're cursing Abraham. You're cursing me and Abraham and you're in trouble. And you're saying that the political state of Israel

Replaces Jesus Christ That's what that cult is teaching It is a cult. It's it it has all the markings of a cult Okay, so not all Israel by birth are God's people. Even in the Old Covenant, not all of Israel by birth were God's people. Absolutely, and that's something that really shocks a lot of people because they've, you know, the modern day Christian Zionists and evangelicals, they just assume that everyone that was in Israel and everybody that was called a Jew in the Old Testament, that they were automatically saved.

God said, go back to what, what are we, what's our verse here? Verse 25. Yes. It, it says, I will call them my people, which were not my people and her beloved, which were not beloved. There was a point where a lot of Jews were not God's people. They were not beloved by God. That's right. Because of the rebellion.

So who were the children of God in the old covenant? The remnant. Yes. The Jews who stayed faithful to God. See, that is a radical. Concept. See, that is a radical concept that contradicts most of evangelical Christianity today. That not all Jews were considered God's chosen people. God was saying in the Old Covenant, my chosen people are the Jews who obey me. Who believe the promise I made to Abraham.

The rest of them, they're not my people. You can't teach that in most churches in America today. You'd have a walkout. People would walk out of the church if you taught that. So, believers in Christ stand as God's people, Jew and Gentile. Now when you are in Christ, you're not a Gentile anymore because you're in the covenant. A Gentile is somebody outside of the covenant.

But just say Jew and non-Jew. If you're in Christ, whether you're Jew or non-Jew, you are now God's chosen people. And His grace, not racial heritage, grants us our identity. Right. And God doesn't have two classes in there either. He doesn't have an upper class and a lower class. We're joint ears with Christ. We're equal. Amen.

And there's no us serving one group or the other. We serve one another in Christ. We love one another in Christ. And in love, there can't be this hierarchy that's going on all the time. So, and that's going on all the time. And that's another distinguishing characteristic of modern-day Christian Zionism. They're teaching that there's two classes of people, a chosen people and an unchosen

people. Right? Yeah, chosen people wannabes. Yeah. Chosen people wannabes. Yeah, and so Paul throws this out and uses Hosea to make the case. God's grace is the deciding factor in who is his children. Not race, it's grace. Grace replaced race.

Grace replaced race. So the next time you hear some Christian Zionists talking about race, the Jewish race is the chosen people say, oh no, no, no, no, it's grace. You're spelling it wrong. It's not race. It's grace. Hallelujah. You need to put a G in front of race. The G is for God, God race. That's a new one, Doc. Grace means God race.

I like grace replaced race. That's easy to remember. That'll stick in my brain forever now. That's easy to remember, that'll stick in my brain forever now. So God reversed the rejection. Gentiles were once outside His covenant, outside His care, His protection, but now they receive His deepest affection. This word beloved, the Greek word conveys a love based on a covenant. That God embraces gentiles as

His own cherished sons and daughters. And that same word, Rick, is often used in, you know, where you have a promised bride, a promised bride, like you're engaged, but it's more than engaged, but the marriage hasn't taken place yet. And that's where we are too. We're beloved, we're promised as the bride,

the marriage hasn't taken place yet, but we're just as loved now as if we are already married. Yes. Think about Ephesians 2, verses 12, 13. The Gentiles once far off are brought near by Christ's blood. See, His mercy, God's mercy cancels the rejection. And God's love transforms the unloved into his treasured people. This love of God spans all nations. His call to the Gentiles proves that salvation is a universal offer from God. The Church of God, I don't mean the denominational Church of God, the universal global Church

of God emerges as God's true people. Faith, not ethnicity, defines his covenant community. And yes, the church is the new Israel. I would say it's it's Israel. Yes. It's not a new Israel. It's Israel. Right. It's not a replacement. It's not a new Israel, it's Israel. Right. It's not a replacement, it's an expansion. He changed the terms of citizenship. Well, it was still based on faith. But he expanded the opportunity to all nations to join as citizens of Israel. And again, we are not talking about that Frankenstein in Palestine, Palestine, Frankenstein. Because that's what that thing is over there.

It's a Frankenstein. It's a freak, it was not made by God. It's an imposter. Sovereignty, think of these two words that start with a sovereignty and salvation. God is sovereign in who he saves. God freely chooses his sons and daughters. He sovereignly does it. It's his sole right to decide who is his sons and daughters. Now the Jews would say, no, no, no, no, no, he doesn't have the right to do that.

He made us a promise and he has to keep his promise. He did. He kept his promise. He did keep his promise. You guys didn't. You guys are the ones who broke it. That's right. And that's why he opened it up to the gentiles So gentiles shifted from outcast to in-cast They they they were brought into israel. I like that

I'm not an outcast anymore. I'm now an in-cast. I've been brought in. I'll go down to verse 26. And it's succ come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people, there shall they be called the children of the living God. So verse 26, it continues Paul's argument that he began in verse 25. He's quoting Hosea to cement his claim that Gentiles are now included in the family of God. So, Hosea's prophecy shifts to the call to my people. This elevates Gentiles to the class of children. Again, this would have been very difficult for even Jewish Christians to comprehend.

Right. It was almost impossible for non-Christian Jews to understand, but even Jewish Christians probably struggled with this. Paul, you're saying that Gentiles are now on equal footing with Jews? He gave me those further than that. They're not only part of God's promise, they're children too. That's right. They're equal. He's a Hosea 110 to make that case.

So rejection turns into adoption. Yes. And grace transforms those ones outside the family. There's a transformation from rejection to acceptance. So Paul underscores this universal salvation. Gentiles join Jews as God's elect, which again proves that his mercy transcends ethnicity. And Christian believers witness their standing.

God's call makes them his children. And that's a profound shift. Because now Gentiles belong to God's family and we can openly witness about it and declare our inclusion, which speaks of the goodness, the kindness of God. Hosea, in Hosea In hosea 1 9 He he was addressing israel

When god called them not my people but it was because of their idolatry That's that's what brought about the rejection This is uh where god said then said God call his name low, and me for ye are not my people, I will not be your father. You're not my son. That would be the hardest thing for a son to ever hear from a father, wouldn't it? Yes. Yes. You've been disowned. But that's exactly what God did to the rebellious Jews.

But not all. The remnant were still in the family. See, God's always had a remnant. Yes. Have you ever studied that name, Loami, from Hosea? No. Name loami? No from Hosea. No. All right, so most people know the some of the backstory on Hosea God commanded him to marry Gomer not Gomer Pyle, but a girl named Gomer she was a prostitute and He married her and they had a child and God told Hosea To name his child lo, which means not my people. He named

his child Loemi. And then now God is using this in this sense. Then God said to Hosea, call his name Loemi for you are not my people and I will not be your God. He was prophesying through the child that Gomer and Hosea had produced. And so that's what loyally means, means not my people. God was making a case there that you folks are calling yourselves my people. You're not my people. And've been living in rebellion. hmm this verse uh and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them ye are not my people there shall they be called the children of the living god hallelujah in the place. That speaks of the transformation where rejection once reigned,

God's grace now restores. God's grace replaces rejection in the place. That's what that means, in the place. This is the moment when God's rejection is washed away by His grace. There's a change. He's emphasizing the change. Gentile lands, Gentile nations, once alien to God's promises, become the sites of divine favor, the lands that had one time been heathen. Because God's mercy meets sinners where they were lost. That's what this phrase, in that place. So God adopts the Gentiles as children, called. Yes, they're called. They're called to be his children. It denotes both a naming and a being, They're called to be his children.

It denotes both a naming and a being, granting them full family status, full legal rights as children of God. Children of the living God. See, it goes beyond my people. Romans 9.25, children of the Living God. Yes, children, called children. Every day we have to remind ourselves how much God loves us, how much we mean to Him. He desires to express it in our lives, how much we mean to Him. We are children of the Living God. We're not just Christians. We're children of the Living God. Just consider yourself a Christian. Makes it sound like your relationship with God is a religious membership.

Right. You're a child of the living God. Yes. John 1 verse 12 to to them gave he power to become the sons of God. Living God is the opposite of a dead idol. When you're unsaved, you're serving dead gods, whatever they are in your life. But we abandon them for the living God. whatever they are in your life but we abandoned them for the living God and to them gave he power to become the sons of God it's faith in Christ the resurrected Christ it's faith in the resurrected Christ that seals the adoption.

Faith is the new marker. And God's call transforms us into heirs. We will inherit the kingdom. We are secure in his eternal love. are secure in his eternal love. Isaiah 42 verse six, "'I will give thee for a light to the Gentiles.'" Yes. Why was God telling the Jews, I'm gonna give thee for a light to the Gentiles, if He wasn't

planning to bring the Gentiles into Israel. See, now that's a great question, isn't it? Now, that's a good, honest question. What was the purpose of being a light to the Gentiles if God didn't plan on extending a hope to the Gentiles? Right. His plan was always there, Doc. I'll tell you what Morning Manna has done for me. It has awakened me to see that the plan of salvation is throughout the old covenant. Yes. It wasn't like God just one day said, I'm done with this stuff. We're doing something new. Let's just wrap up this old covenant and put it in the closet. I'm

done. Right now. The plan of salvation is through the entire old covenant. He was telling the Jews, I'm going to make you a light to the Gentiles. Isaiah 49 verse 6, my salvation unto the end of the earth. What do you mean salvation to the end of the earth if it's only for Israel? Joe old testament prophet Joe verse chapter 2 verse 32 whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered. There was no limitation. Malachi 1.11, my name shall be great among the Gentiles. The problem was that the Jews misinterpreted the Scriptures. Yes. So the Gentiles inherit covenant blessings and they become full, now listen to this,

Gentiles become full heirs of the kingdom alongside believing Jews. Yes. Not, not all Jews. Believing Jews. Believing Jews. Believing what? Believing in Jesus Christ. There is now neither Jew nor Greek. We're a new creature in Christ, a new race. It's the grace race.

Again, I'm repeating this salvation hinges on God's call, not race or merit, but his sovereign call, his grace defines his people. So just as Israel was restored in ancient times, after rebellion and judgment, Gentiles rise from the rejection and God's grace reaches the most unlikely. So the church is a global Israel. What was what was God's instruction to Adam in the Garden of Eden? Take dominion over the earth? What is Jesus's instruction to the church? Go ye into all the world? We're to take dominion over all the earth with the gospel of Christ, the last Adam. It's the same principle. Adam was told, subdue the earth. Go into all the earth.

Exercise your dominion. Jesus told the church, go into all the world, preach the gospel, make disciples of all men, baptize them, heal the sick, cast out devils. What are we doing? We're reversing the curse brought about by Adam's sin. We're taking dominion over the earth. I'm not a dominionist. Don't misunderstand me. I'm not a dominionist in the sense that these guys teach that we're going to conquer the world. Yeah, the seven mountains of culture. No, that's not what i'm teaching But we are going to take the gospel into every nation The gospel will conquer the world And those who choose to bow their knee and confess christ will be brought into the kingdom Um, Doc, anything you want to add before I move on? Oh, no, let's let's move forward here.

There's a lot more stuff in our past. 927. Isaiah also cryeth concerning Israel, though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. So verse 27 shifts from Gentile inclusion that we read about in verses 24 and 25, 26 to Israel's fate. He's using Isaiah 10, 22 to affirm that only a remnant of the Jews will be saved. Again, and they misquote Romans, we'll get to it later in the study, but a lot of

them say, well, Rick, all of Israel is going to be saved. Nope. Where does it say that? All the remnant will be saved. Because only the remnant is true Israel. That's right. See now there's no contradiction in it, is there? Right.

Once you understand that the remnant is true Israel, yes, all Israel, the remnant will be saved. Because if you take it to, you know, extremes, all Israel shall be saved. That means, you know, somebody who happens to be or call themselves Jewish, who's a pedophile, and never repents of that shall be saved. Is that the argument you're going to make? Well, home brav, you got chosen people did that? No. You can't have it both ways. They sure want to both ways, though. Yes.

So Paul is countering Jewish nationalism, meaning that many Jews assume that their Abrahamic lineage guaranteed salvation. But he's proving otherwise with scripture. He's quoting Isaiah. So now remnant theology is emerging that God consistently preserves a faithful few. And that's a pattern throughout the history of Israel. The remnant concept is consistent.

What is a remnant? A remnant is a piece of a rug or cloth that's cut off from the rest of the garment or rug. That's normally. Right, and normally when you think of remnant, you think of what's left over. It's not the main cut, it's not important. It gets thrown away or it gets put in the discount bin at the end of the aisle. No, that's the modern manmade concept.

Right, but in God's economy, the remnant is the most important piece. That's the chosen piece. That's the piece that he really wants. He cut it off because it's valuable to him and he saved it. Right. He threw away the rest. In our modern society, we throw away the remnant and keep the larger portion. God kept the smaller portion, the remnant, and cast aside the larger portion. Why? Because it is soiled with pet urine, but there's a section

of it that hasn't any urine on it. You cut the clean section out and save it, and you throw away the soiled section. That's what he did with Israel. Most of it was soiled, soiled with idolatry, perversion, all kinds of sins. But he kept the part that was clean. That's the remnant. There is a remnant of the Jewish people who will be saved.

Hallelujah. I love that. That excites me. Yes. I'm delighted every time I see a video with a Bible-believing, Christ-loving Jew. I saw a video the other day, Doc. I didn't share with you. I saw it on X. And it was a Jew talking to a rabbi. The Jew was a Christian. And he's 100% Jewish. I mean, ethnically.

He's Jewish. And he's trying to tell this rabbi he's saved. And the rabbi is telling him basically I feel sorry for you you must be in great um great sense of loss you've lost your Jewish identity and and this uh this Jewish Christian he's just smiling he had he had the joy of the Lord on him. He goes, oh no, I'm not unhappy. I'm the happiest I've ever been. It was a great video. I love seeing Jews come to Christ. So, God's sovereignty stands central. Salvation hinges on his choice, his call, nothing else.

Physical descent from Israel offers no salvation. Faith in Christ alone marks God's people. That is the concept of the remnant. They'll get back to the remnant being cut off, a lot of Christians today, they like to say, well, I'm part to the remnant being cut off. You know, a lot of Christians today, they like to say, well, I'm part of the remnant. Okay, do you understand that you're going to be cut off? Yeah, you want to be the remnant. That's for sure.

But do you understand that you're going to be cut off from everybody else? From the majority. The majority is not the remnant. Right. Isaiah. He uses Isaiah. Paul's relying on prophetic authority. He says he cries, cryeth.

It means Isaiah's loud lament warned Israel of judgment while at the same time hinting at hope And always offered hope he's like, okay even the prophets hey you're gonna be judged I mean, hey, here's what's coming Well, there's something else. There's a view who survived. Here's what's gonna happen something else. Those of you who survive, here's what's going to happen. It's like what I'm trying to tell people in America right now about the 2030s. If there's no repentance in this land, I'm telling you, there's the cutting is coming. Right? There's going to be a remnant saved in this country, but there's going to be a cutting. The rest of the rug is going to get burned.

So through Isaiah, God warned of Israel's rejection. And yet the plan of redemption was being unfolded. And in due time, Christ came. Yes. In due time, right on schedule. Amen. So believers in Christ hear a call. You responded to a call. I responded to a call. We each got that call in different ways. Whatever way God had to use to reach us, that's what he used. But we responded to the call. The call came from heaven.

I literally heard my name audibly. And after months of this happening periodically on weekends, as in parties When I finally started to go to church with Susan that's when the audible call stopped There was no need at that point doc the Lord had he'd accomplished his mission Now the word was calling. I was going to church every week and the word was getting inside of me. And the word was calling me.

Um, so Abraham's promise is, is, is looming here. This is. I'm talking about Genesis 22, 17. He said Abraham's descendants would be as numerous as sand. But the Jews had false security. They believed that this was based on the promise of the But the Jews had false security. They believe that this was based on an ethnic race multiplying. Matthew 3, 9, Jesus said, think not to say we have Abraham as our father. Jesus said, think not to say we have Abraham as our father. He was attacking their Jewish pride.

God values faith over ethnic population. Numbers do not guarantee salvation. Only the faithful inherit God's promises. And it's always... If you're faithful, it means you have faith. Faith in what? Faith in what? Faith in whom? Faith in Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross. So we talked about remnant. Remnant defines a faithful few, a small group, spared from judgment. Spared. Actually, sometimes they're protected in judgment.

Yes. You see different examples of it in the Old Covenant. Sometimes God led the remnant Jews out of Israel, took them to another country. Sometimes he protected them inside the country as judgment was taking place. Yes, and sometimes he protected them inside the country as judgment was taking place. Yes, and sometimes he protected them in exile. Yes, sometimes they were taken away,

but they were protected. Right. They were captured and yet protected. The word saved means a covenant rescue. In the past it was, it means spiritual salvation. We see this remnant pattern all the way back, Noah. Noah's family. The 7,000 in Elijah's time. You read in 1 Kings chapter 19, the early Jewish Christians who fled to Pella,

they were the remnant. God said, get out of here, get out of Jerusalem, run. The rebellious Jews who stayed in Jerusalem were slaughtered Well, if they were God's chosen people, why did they die Yes, because he had he said you're not my people anymore His children are those who believe him and trust him. Faith marks the remnant." And so you can whittle it down to this. Who are God's children?

Those who believe God. That's it. That's the definition. Those are the children of God. Red, yellow, black, and white, it's those who believe God. Yes. So remnant theology is throughout the Bible. God's pattern of saving a faithful few is seen across history. The remnant is a pattern. And false assurance must crumble. This assurance must crumble. Neither racial identification or religious affiliation ensures salvation. I don't mean to criticize our Catholic brothers and sisters, but my experience with them

leads me to believe that they put their faith in their membership in the Catholic Church as the reason they're saved. And that is just as deceptive as the Jews saying their racial identification guarantees their salvation. It's always faith. It's always faith. Yes. It's always faith. Are there Roman Catholics who are saved? Of course they are. Those who have their faith in Jesus Christ. Are there Roman Catholics who are not saved? Yes. Are there Lutherans who are saved? Yes. Are there Lutherans who are not saved? Yes. It has to do with your faith in Christ.

Your membership in a church, a denomination, is not going to save you. Religious rituals will not save you. Christ is the center of salvation. Only those who trust him, who believe him, who obey him are members of the remnant. So there's an objection here. If Israel is chosen, why only are some saved? The answer is choice never meant universal salvation. Yes.

Many are called, but few are chosen. I was a use the Marine Corps as the analogy. There are many people called to join the Marine Corps. What are they called? The few, the proud, the Marines. Yes. There are a lot of men that want to be Navy Seals. But few are chosen. They get the call, they apply, yeah. Come on. Let's see what you got. But by the end, most of them have been deselected. Many are called, but few are chosen.

Choice never meant universal salvation. It has always been a faithful remnant, because all the way back, like I said, you can see it in Noah's time. Noah and his family, the only ones who were spared drowning, global universal judgment. His family was the remnant. So there's the cry, is God unfair if he only saves a few? Well his justice judges sin. His mercy spares the faithful. Because Paul goes on to say in the same passage, when you get right down to it, folks, we all deserve destruction. Complete and total destruction. That's what we really deserve, every one of us. And the fact that there is a remnant proves God's mercy and grace.

And when you understand these principles, then gratitude flows from grace. You are humble and you are grateful that you have been chosen, you have been saved. Yes. I'm telling you Docs, the morning manna has deepened my gratitude for being saved. Yes. Especially when you realize Rick,

and Paul alludes to this, prior to salvation, we're all on death row. Yes. Every one of us, we're on death row. We've been, the judgment has already been passed. The execution date has been set. You've ordered the food for your last meal, in modern terms, it's done.

You're already judged prior to salvation. It's salvation and the grace and mercy of salvation that saves us from death row. Yes. Praise God. Praise God. Okay, I gotta do two more verses quickly here. Verse 28, for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. This is flowing from the previous verse about the remnant.

Paul is now quoting Isaiah 10 verse 23 to explain how God executes His plan swiftly, justly. He will bring the thing to an end. There will be an end. There will be an end and only God knows the hour that this will end. And then judgment. So after Paul affirms that there's a remnant that will survive, he then reveals the decisive speed of God's judgment and salvation. Yes. Once again, Isaiah, you know, these Old Testament prophecies, dual fulfillment, a particular specific meaning at the time, but a future spiritual prophetic meaning. So Isaiah's prophecy originally was about judgment on the Assyrians, but it now applies to God's final work on earth.

And so, Paul's quoting Isaiah to show God's justice. Once again, God's sovereignty shines, it reigns. His will is unstoppable, and He will bring human history to a quick, sudden conclusion. Yes, and it's His mercy and grace that He hasn't done so already. Yes. And it's His mercy and grace that He hasn't done so already. Yes. Because when it comes, it's going to be swift. It's going to be fast. It's going to be in a moment. If you read my book, Final Day, Ten Characteristics of the Second Coming of Christ, one chapter is, His second coming shall be sudden and unexpected. The last chapter is his second coming shall be final.

The second coming of Christ will be it will come suddenly unexpectedly and it will be in finality. comes suddenly, unexpectedly, and it will be in finality. There's no extension after he arrives. That's right, that's right. When he shows up, the whole world sees him. Every eye shall see him. Every eye shall see him. All the, look, the saints, we will all be shouting,

glory to God, there's our savior. All the sinners will be saying, oh my God, there is the son of God. They will know the gig is up. We'll all be saying the same thing. The redeemed will say, there's the son of God. The. The redeemed will say, there's the son of God. The unredeemed will say, there's the son of God. You're either going to be shouting or screaming.

You will be speaking at the top of your voice. You're going to be shouting praise or you're going to be screaming in terror. Because the unsaved will know what's next. You're going to be shouting praise or you're going to be screaming in terror because the unsaved will know what's next. They're going to be hauled off to Beelzebub's barbecue. That's located on 666 Main Street, hell. So God's work will be executed perfectly. His plan reaches completion. He finishes the work. He fully executes his decree. He brings his plan to full completion. But his work is always done in righteousness. Salvation and judgment, salvation of the saved, judgment of the lost, salvation is secured. For the rebellious, judgment is secured. And no force in the universe can halt God's plan.

His will, His sovereignty will reign over and prevail over all resistance. All resistance will melt. There is not one emperor on earth. There's not one army on earth that will have any strength to oppose him. That's right. It's interesting you say that, Rick, because in verse 29, it talks about the Lord of Soboath. And really, the Lord of Soboath means the Lord of Host. It's a military title. Yes. The Lord with all of his armies will execute judgment swiftly, and not one army on earth could even stand a chance against the lord of host the biggest strongest men will lie down in a fetal position and cry like babies

because they won't have the strength to oppose him judgment will strike swiftly. He will cut it short. That's what this means. Cut it short. Judgment strikes swiftly. He will execute judgment speedily. It's a quick, decisive action. Again, as I teach in Final Day, time ceases to exist when Christ returns. The Darbyites, they got this all planned out on their prophecy charts. How long everything's going to take? For real? There's no time when he shows up. He's the time maker. All the lights are gone.

The stars, the sun, the moon, they're all gone. Where are you going to get time? Time is based on the rotation of the planet. That's the reason every eye sees him, because all the lights are out in the universe and he is the only thing that's glowing. Yes. That's why every eye shall see him." So he delivers a swift verdict. We see it with the flood. And Jesus said his return would be as in the days of Noah. They were eating and drinking and getting married

and doing business deals and then suddenly the flood came and swept them away. Suddenly there was judgment and all died except Noah and his family. died except Noah and his family. Let's get down to the last verse, verse 29. And as Isaiah said before, except the Lord of the Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom and had been made like unto Gomorrah. Doc, what is the Lord of the sub-oath? It should be Lord of hosts. Some of your translations will have Lord of hosts.

Or Lord of the armies. The armies of heaven. Right, Lord of the armies. Yeah, so when talking about the hosts, talking about the hosts of heaven, all the armies of heaven. So when we say the Lord of hosts is his name, we're saying he is the five-star general of all the armies of heaven. He is the commander. Paul said, as Isaiah prophesied, unless the lord of heaven's armies had left us a seed we would have become like Sodom and made like Gomorrah. We would have become Sodom

but turned into Gomorrah. Yes. In other words, if God hadn't reserved a remnant, we would all be under destruction right now. Yes. In other words, the armies of heaven spare us. Why do they spare us? We're marked. The angels see the mark on us. The mark of the blood of Christ is on us. They will not harm anybody with the blood. Those are the instructions God gives the angels. Don't So, only God's grace spares us from total ruin. Yes. God's judgment would be total without mercy. And this is a humbling verse Grace grace takes center stage Once again grace grace is covering us grace is protecting us grace God's mercy sustains us

So God's armies, he commands all armies. He has authority over the nations. Left us a seed, it points to God's mercy. Once again, he's signifying a remnant. The seed and the remnant are the same. The seed signifies future growth. He's gonna take this remnant, this seed, and he's gonna plant it in New Jerusalem.

So he spares the faithful few. He stops total loss of mankind. Grace is the only reason. And the seed, this is the promise to Abraham, the Messiah's lineage. The seed is the remnant, the remnant of those who believed the promise of God to Abraham that he would bring a Messiah. It's all about faith in what God promised, faith in what Jesus did. So you and I, we rest in God's hands. His sovereign choice of us ensures our survival. Let's talk about Sodom and Gomorrah before we close.

Let's talk about Sodom and Gomorrah before we close. Obviously we know what Sodom and Gomorrah represents. Total destruction. It's the readers of his letter. He's saying that Israel's peril mirrors this. Without God's mercy, their rebellion earns the same fate as Sodom and Gomorrah. Yes, and Isaiah said that too. And so Paul's simply repeating what Isaiah already said. Yes. Unrepentant sin invites annihilation.

It is severe divine judgment. But God's intervention, God's intervention and his intervention alone prevents the total obliteration of mankind. The remnant is saved and the remnant are those who put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ, what he did on the cross and what God promised Abraham. The cost of sin is total, but God's mercy is total. Yes. Sodom represents the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. There's nothing there but charred black rocks. As far as I can see.

To me it looks like a meteor came streaking by on fire and just singed everything there. a meteor came streaking by on fire and just singed everything there. Grace is the only thing that prevents annihilation for sin. Unrepentant sin demands annihilation, it invites annihilation, and grace is the only thing that prevents annihilation.

God's grace is what preserves the remnant from judgment. And his grace is applied by faith. If Noah had not built the ark, he would have perished with everyone else. If Lot, even though he had to be drug out of Sodom, if Lot had not left Sodom, he would have had the same destiny as Sodom. So grace is an extension of us having faith in God and believing him. I need to get in that boat. I need to leave that city. Yes. So judgment is real, and Sodom's fate warns of sin's end.

There is nothing left of those who are in sin when Christ comes back. Anything else, Doc? I think I've said about everything. No. And we appreciate you tuning in today. I hope this lesson has been productive for you. And if you ever have any questions about anything you've heard here on Morning Manor,

feel free to send a comment after we post the lesson in the mornings. Put a question there, and I'll do my best to try to answer them offline. Or if they're really good questions, I'll bring it into the lesson and everything. Rick, any update on our morning manna schedule here over the next few days? All right, we will do one.

Today's Thursday, isn't it? Yes. We will do one tomorrow. So that's next Friday. So we'll have it next Friday. Okay, and if I can get two lessons done before we leave, we will do the morning manna Monday and Tuesday. And there's a possibility, Doc, I got to look at the schedule. We might, you and I might be able to do morning manna Wednesday morning from the airport.

Okay. If we can find a quiet place, we might be able to do morning manna. It is gonna be pretty early in the airport. So Monday and Tuesday, I love doing this class. I don't wanna miss it. I love doing it. I just, we're gonna be in the Pacific time zone.

So 8 a.m. will be 5 a.m. for us. So we gotta be up dressed and looking pretty by 5 a.m. And having been busy the previous day, all right, with meetings. So anyhow, I'm gonna do my best. I'll do my very best. Okay, so then tomorrow is Faith Friday then and we'll be doing communion as well. So be sure there will not. There will not be true news

Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. There is no way I can do true news. That's just not gonna happen. And I'm going to postpone the prayer meeting tonight until next week to allow us the chance to get ready for this trip that's coming up. So just letting everybody know now and I'll have that announcement on faith and values later. So, but Friday, we'll be having Faith Friday and we'll continue our journey in Hebrews chapter 11. And we'll also be having communion as well. So you're welcome to join us for that as well. All right. Thank you. God bless you, everybody. We'll see you tomorrow on Morning Manna.