TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - UN Seeks Global Pact to Regulate Free Speech on Internet

Episode Date: September 29, 2023

The European Union’s thought and speech police have issued a stern warning to Elon Musk that his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, must comply with the EU’s Digital Services Act. The law will force social media companies to remove so-called hate speech and disinformation from their platforms. The plan is to take the EU law global and force companies in America and other nations to shut down voices that the thought and free speech Nazi police deem to be offensive. The EU is using Russian news as the poster child for the drive to restrict free speech. EU thought police claim that Russian propaganda is confusing the public about the Ukraine Russia war. Google, Microsoft, Tik Tok, Facebook, and LinkedIn have already signed in to enforce the new EU anti-free speech law. Elon Musk is the only major hold out who has not caved in and promised to deplatform people the EU Nazis don’t like. Vera Jourova, chief of implantation of the new anti-free speech code, vowed to make Elon Musk obey the law or face the consequences, implying that the EU could issue massive fines or block the X social media company from operating in the EU. Jourova pointed to Moscow as the main culprit that forced the EU to pass the law. “The Russian state has engaged in the war of ideas to pollute our information space with half truth and lies to create a false image that democracy is no better than autocracy,” Meanwhile, Canada is leading a campaign to enact a global UN pact to restrict free speech.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 9/29/23You can partner with us by visiting https://www.TruNews.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 690069 Vero Beach, FL 32969.Now is the time to protect your assets with physical gold & silver. Contact Genesis Gold Today! https://www.TruNewsGold.comGet high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.comIt’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

This is True News, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help us God. I'm Rick Wiles. Today is Friday, September 29, 2023. The European Union's Thought and Speech Police have issued a stern warning to Elon Musk that his social media platform, X, formerly known as Twitter, must comply with the EU's new Digital Services Act, the law will force social media companies to remove down voices that the thought and free speech Nazi police deem to be offensive. The EU is using Russian news as the poster child for the drive to restrict free speech. EU thought police claim that Russian propaganda is confusing the public in the West about the Ukraine-Russia war. So far, Google, Microsoft, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn have already signed in to enforce the new EU anti-free speech law. Elon Musk is the only major holdout who has not caved in and promised

to de-platform people the EU Nazis don't like. Vera Jarova, chief of implementation of the new anti-free speech code, vowed to make Elon Musk obey the law or face the consequences, implying that the EU could issue massive fines or block the ex-social media company from operating inside the EU. Jarova pointed to Moscow as the main culprit that compelled the EU to pass the law. He said, quote, The Russian state has engaged in the war of ideas to pollute our information space with half-truth and lies to create a false image that democracy is no better than autocracy.

Meanwhile, Canada is leading a campaign to enact a global UN pact to restrict free speech. Doc Burkhardt and I will tell you the latest details. Maybe they just don't like the competition in the half-truths and the lies. Because they've been dominating that space for years. That's right. They've perfected it. They've got it down. And now what they really don't like, Doc, is people have figured out the propaganda. Yes. I mean, what I've done for 25 years is to fight propaganda.

That's what we've been doing. And really, the way you've been doing it is you just read the headlines and you show people this is the propaganda that's being put out there. We dissect the articles. We quote that. We go back and we tell people what they said two years ago, five years ago. Just in case you forgot. Which they're counting on the people forgetting. And so a major part of what we do here is to combat propaganda.

Yes. The Western thought police are getting fed up with it because they have to work harder at controlling the thoughts and the speech of the people. Yeah, it used to be they controlled the major media outlets and that fed all the propaganda out that we ever needed. Now there's so many competing avenues for information to get out there that they have to label everything else that's not theirs disinformation or malinformation or misinformation. It depends on the definition of the day. All right. So think about this, Doc. The internet is their invention. Yes. They needed the internet to bring the world together and accept the global plan that they envisioned.

But the Internet also bit them. The Internet allowed people to gather information that previously they didn't have access to. That's right. And to share information and to express their own thoughts and to dissect the propaganda that the various states were putting out. I mean, it was just a couple of decades ago where you had just a handful of major media outlets and major newspaper syndicates in the U.S. And they basically all said the same thing. Maybe a couple outliers occasionally, but basically it was the same information fed by the same pool of information coming out of the same cesspool. That's right. You know, for our younger members of the audience,

just to give you an idea, I mean, how far we've traveled in our society, it was just a few decades ago, just decades ago, that before the Internet was introduced to the general public, which for the general public, what would you say, the early 90s? Maybe early to mid 90s. Mid 90s? Yes. I mean, for me, that's not that long ago. I know if you're 25, 30 years old, that's like ancient history.

But if you're 60, 70 years old, it's just like yesterday. But before the Internet in the mid-90s, you didn't have access to all this information. Originally, in my youth, we had three national television networks, NBC, ABC, CBS. You got three choices for news, not 24 hours a day. And really only one choice, but three versions. Three versions of the state version. And you didn't get it 24 hours a day. You got it for 30 minutes. Yes.

Everything you needed to know. Each city had one newspaper, basically. Sometimes two. There were no national news channels. No CNN. No Fox. No Fox. None of that.

Your newspaper was delivered to your house. That's what you had access to one newspaper if i wanted to read other newspapers i lived out in the country i grew up in a country in a farm area and when you read that newspaper those news articles were fed from one of maybe three major news wires out there that existed that they you know the local newspaper turned into articles. Yeah. You had AP, Reuters, UPI, McClatchy. That's about it. Now, folks, this wasn't before the Civil War or anything. This was just in the 90s. In the 90s. So if I wanted to read news from a source beyond my local hometown newspaper, I had to drive to the county seat

and go to the one library that the county had. And there I could find a New York Times, a Washington Post, and a Baltimore Sun. That's it. And the New York Times was flown in.

Yes. It was flown in on an airplane to bring you the newspaper. Remember the walls of newspapers? They would hang in the library. And then if I wanted to research old documents, I had to drive 90 miles into downtown Washington, D.C., and go to the Library of Congress and search through gazillions of files to find a document that I was looking for. Yes. And you found it on index cards.

Yes. Folks, this is, I mean, a lot of you understand this, but for younger people, you have no idea how fast things have changed in several decades. And on those index cards was a number, and that number told you where it was located or where you could find the microfiche for it. Where they took pictures of all these old newspapers and everything and put it on film, and you had to run it through a special machine so you could read it. Now, a microfiche was not a tiny fish. Right. It was a piece of film that took a picture of like a magazine or a newspaper. It wasn't on your phone.

Right. You had to ask the librarian, could you put this in the machine? And look at it. So it wasn't that long ago, Rick? The introduction of the Internet completely changed the world. And now we have the introduction of artificial intelligence. By the way, the other day, AI was given, or ChatGPT was given, full, complete access to the entire Internet. That's a major development that just happened.

What are we telling you here? The globalists who gave us the Internet are now trying to take it back. Right. Because we're using it too much. And they're working too hard at lying to us. They want to take a break. They have to work so hard at lying. They have to come up with more elaborate lies. There was a time a Walter Cronkite could just tell a lie and the whole country would believe it. And that's the way it is. That's the way it is. But it's not that way anymore. Right.

A large portion of the population is looking at news people and saying, you're probably lying right now. Most of the population is not even watching television news. So the status, the people that want to control everything, they're really worked up into a frenzy at how they're going to get control again. And so what's happening, Doc? I mean, in Europe, they're forcing. It wasn't that hard. I mean, you really don't have to twist Google's arm very far to get them to censor somebody. But Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, Microsoft, they've already jumped onto this EU law.

Elon Musk is the holdout. How long do you think he'll hold out? Maybe a few months, maybe. Because he's in business and he's going to come up with some way to just stay in business in Europe. I mean, really, I don't think he's going to hold out that long. He got a visit a week or two ago from Benjamin Netanyahu, pressuring him to censor critics of Israel. That tells you a lot right there. Do you see any other heads of state visiting Elon Musk, pressuring him to censor people?

Does that give us a clue who's behind the global movement to censor free speech? So this is going to go to another level. Of course, they're using Russia as the poster child. We have to take away your free speech in order to prevent Putin from lying about the war in Ukraine. He's making people believe that the West supports Nazis. He took an innocent moment in the Canadian parliament and made it into propaganda. We just clapped and stood up for a Nazi, and Putin made it a big deal. When Roda resigned, you know, as head of the House of Parliament there, he blamed Russia. Trudeau, in a statement yesterday, blamed Russia for that whole debacle that occurred. Right. So Putin made the Canadian Parliament give a standing ovation to a Nazi.

Putin did it. Man, he's a rascal, isn't he? So because of Putin, you have to take away free speech from everybody. Yes. So where is this going? Next story. This is National Post in Canada. Canada launches United Nations declaration pledging measures on online disinformation.

Doc, they're going to take, they want the EU law to go global. Right. They want every nation in the world. Of course, Russia is not going to sign it. There are a lot of nations that are not going to sign it. Basically, they want every Western nation to sign on to this UN. They're not calling it a treaty. No, because a treaty requires ratification.

So they do a memorandum of understanding. Yes. Let's give the details. So a new United Nations declaration launched Wednesday by Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie says signatories will take steps to address what they're calling online disinformation. So far, 27 countries have signed the document, and they're promising to implement necessary and appropriate measures, including legislation to address information integrity and platform governance.

They will do so in a manner, and listen, they actually say this with a straight face, that complies with international human rights law, including freedom of opinion and expression, the document says. say this with a straight face, that complies with international human rights law, including freedom of opinion and expression, the document says. Now, just right there, they say we're going to restrict free speech, but at the same time, we want you to be able to have free speech too. They're masters of propaganda. Yes. So they're also promising to monitor and respond to the rise of generative artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, to identify the possible risks, impacts, harms, benefits, and opportunities to the information ecosystem online. Canada and the Netherlands began working on this initiative about a year ago and launched the resulting Global Declaration on Information Integrity Online at the United Nations on Wednesday.

Signatories include Canada, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Japan, South Korea, among others. The declaration defines information integrity as a system that ensures people can access accurate information and be exposed to a variety of ideas. It sets up news media. When I read this earlier, I broke out laughing. It sets up news media as a tool to fight disinformation. Put the crooks in charge of the bank. The signatories have promised to promote user access to diverse online content, including national and international sources of news and information, and to what they say promote and respect pluralistic media and journalism and protect access to media content as one measure to counter disinformation. So they're going to restrict your ability to access information to make sure that you have accurate information.

Doc, where they're headed with this is that news organizations will have to be licensed. You got it. You have to. They're going to say you've been vetted. It's not that we're giving you a license. We're giving you a stamp of approval that you're not promoting disinformation. You've been vetted, and the government has now said you're clean. You've got the seal of approval. Well, in a speech, Yoli said the past year has seen illiberal regimes, such as Russia, continue to wage information warfare and pollute the information environment. At the same time, the rise in artificial intelligence, it says, has great potential to harm the integrity

of the online information environment. In other words, it might start telling the truth, and they're afraid of that, through AI-generated media and mass-produced disinformation. You know what that means, Doc? They're saying, we've got to get control of AI right away, and we've got to get our worldview in AI and no other worldview. That when you ask AI a question, you have to get it. It's going to be mandated that AI is programmed to give only the politically correct view. You're right, Rick.

Now, Jolie said this change is all happening at a speed and scale we've never seen before. We can't afford to wait before acting. She called the declaration a concrete step towards establishing global norms on disinformation, misinformation, and information integrity. So as you can see, we can't wait. We got to do it now. we can't wait we got to do it now we can't wait it's going to get out of control here rick people are learning too much we got to get this under control sorry it's um it's like the great oz yeah don't look behind the curtain that's what they're afraid of hey Hey, let's take a break. Let's get a message from Genesis Gold.

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That's right, Rick. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether state laws regulating content moderation practices of social media platforms violate the First Amendment. And it's the latest of several cases that the justices have taken to define the Constitution's reach into the digital world. Now, Texas and Florida both passed laws to combat what they said were content policies that disproportionately muffled conservative voices. Last year, federal appeals courts divided on whether the restrictions are constitutional. The Supreme Court blocked enforcement of the laws while it weighed whether to hear the issues. And so this fight, listen, this is a fight to

restrict the free speech of a certain group of people. And when they say conservative voices, really, that's just masking for Christian voices. Because without Christian values, there are no conservative values out there. And so this is an attempt to muffle the moral guidance that God gives through the Christian faith in this nation and beyond. That's really what they want to restrict, Rick. They want to restrict the voice of God from being heard in the world. That's at the real heart of it. That's absolutely at the center of it, Doc.

When you get into these discussions, and we'll talk about what's going on here with Florida and Texas, both state legislatures pass laws saying that tech companies can't just arbitrarily de-platform people because they don't like their views. Right. And so this is going to the Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Florida and Texas, it is going to severely hurt the censors who are trying to shut down free speech. But if the Supreme Court rules against Florida and Texas,

they now have a national Supreme Court ruling that says it is absolutely constitutional to censor people. You see how big this is? It's a big deal. It really is. But when we talk about these issues, there are several issues that have to be discussed. Number one, we're talking about censorship by government. The European Union law, this is censorship by government. Yes. This is the EU socialist. The European Union is run by socialists.

They've been in control of Europe since World War II. They don't like competitive ideas. They're trying to ban political parties. They don't like anybody sharing thoughts that they don't like. They want to get rid of Mrs. Le Pen in France. They want to get rid of the, what is the, AFD party in Germany. They wanted to get rid of Nigel Farage in Great Britain. They just don't want competition.

They're just political bullies. And so that's the issue, number one, government trying to censor free speech. Number two, censorship by an alliance of tech companies and political activist groups, such as Facebook and so forth, and George Soros' organizations, and the ADL and so forth. And they're in collusion in private meetings, deciding who they're going to shut down. And then you have this antitrust operation like what the tech companies did to Parler. When Parler tried to start an alternative to Twitter, they crushed them in one weekend. Yes. That was antitrust collusion at the highest levels where tech companies communicated over the weekend and began just shutting down various services that Parler needed to operate. And they were out of business within days. Within days.

And the owners, the investors in Parler lost all their money. It's outrageous. But then you have another issue. You have the issue of private property rights. How's this fit in? Okay. So each one of these platforms, Elon Musk owns X. Right. Zuckerberg owns Facebook. They have all these various platforms. They're private properties. These are businesses, privately owned. Do the businesses have the right to decide who uses their services?

That's another issue. So you have to factor this in too, because if the government, if the Supreme Court rules companies do not have private property rights, then any company that has a social media platform could be forced to allow on their platform the most disgusting views. Yes. I see where you're going with this. Okay.

So we just launched Faith and Values. It is a platform for conservative Christian families. There's a lot of stuff I don't want on it, dog. Right. Thank God we've not had to deal with it yet. But what do we do if somebody starts posting things on faith and values that is absolutely disgusting to us as Christians. If the court rules that I don't have private property rights, I'm going to be compelled to leave that stuff on faith and values.

Do you see what this debate is about? So somewhere there has to be a happy medium that privately owned companies have the right to remove things that they find offensive, but they don't have the right to collude with other companies like their competitors. And they don't have the right to work with the government. The government should not have— we know for a fact that the Biden administration was contacting social media companies

and telling them, take down these accounts. Yes. Censor these messages. That's illegal. And if you read the material, the reports on it, you actually have to admit that Twitter, before Elon Musk, did not want to censor a lot of people that they ended up censoring. We were one of those who got censored, got deplatformed. They did it because the FBI was calling them saying, take it down. But what if you, and I'm playing devil's advocate

here. No, we don't play devils. But, you know, what if there was a legitimate threat? Let's say that, you know, the FBI had become aware of a massive attempt by the Chinese to influence social media. Shouldn't they alert the social media companies in the event of that? Okay, that's a good argument. National security. That's a good argument. But what the Biden administration was doing was censoring people

because they didn't like their messages. And it was particularly around the COVID vaccines. That's what Hunter Biden's laptop and the COVID vaccines. And the government imposed censorship via corporate America. So how does the Supreme Court balance all these things? That's a great question. And even the cases of Texas and Florida, and I applaud them for their efforts here, you know, going after social media. Both Texas and Florida have BDS policies in both their states that if you advocate the boycott, divestiture, and sanction issues for Israel. You won't be able to access certain government contracts, won't be able to operate certain businesses in those states.

It's censorship. And that's censorship too. But that's censorship the Zionists want it. That has a stamp of approval. Most of the censorship in America is Zionist-driven. When you get down to the heart of it, the people behind the censorship movement are Zionists.

That's the truth. They don't want anybody saying anything that they don't like. Right. And it's not only just about Israel. It's just any views that they don't like. And so they use

their clout to shut people down. Even Orthodox Jews get shut down. Yes. Because the Zionists don't want them to speak. So it's not that they discriminate just against Christians. Before I move on to the next news article,

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Is it wrong to read Bible verses? And there are people in Arizona who are saying, yes, it is illegal. And a school board member has been warned never again to read scripture during a school board meeting. This is in the town of Peoria, Arizona, not Illinois. Peoria, Arizona. And here's a report from KJZZ Radio, Tempe, Arizona. And here's a report from KJZZ Radio, Tempe, Arizona. Right. And so this story is from back the 1st of June. It started out, an umbrella group that advocates for First Amendment separation of church and state is

urging the Peoria, Arizona Unified School District to stop the promotion of religion at board meetings. At least two board members have been quoting Bible verses while making general comments. In a letter to the Peoria, Arizona school board sent by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, you know those guys, Rick? Well, you know, that's led by an atheist Jew. Yes. Mickey Weinstein. I don't even know how you can be an atheist Jew. Isn't that an oxymoron? Isn't that— Most atheists are Jews.

I understand that, but how can you be a Jew who says that your whole being is about being a servant of the Most High God of Israel, and you deny that there is a God of Israel, how does that work? Well, he hates God so much that he just goes around the world, goes around the United States suing people that love God. Yeah, he was really fighting the Air Force a few years ago. It seems like everything the Air Force did related to religion, they would sue. But the Freedom from Religion Foundation sent a warning that imposing religion at meetings could turn into a big legal expense for the district. Basically blackmailed them, saying, we're going to sue your pants off.

And so the group writes that board member Rebecca Hill recently read a gospel verse warning against leading children into sin, which also suggests killing non-Christians. Did you notice that? Tell me, what Bible verse says we should kill non-Christians? Are you ready? Are you ready for this? This is it, folks. This is how spiritually blinded news reporters are in this country.

It said, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck and be drowned in the depth of the sea. That's Matthew 18, 6. And that's the verse that Hill quoted during a May board meeting. So he's actually quoting Jesus. The reporter interpreted that as a death threat. So the letter says board member Heather Rooks also, she's also reciting Bible verses at peoria meetings a district spokesperson said the board's lawyer has advised members to not quote scripture so an elected school board elected by christians in the town is not permitted to read bible verses there's no free speech no unless and you can't even actually you can't even read the porn books that they're giving to your children only your children can

read them you can't read them especially out loud in a school board meeting so because they're meant for the privacy of children porn is private that's what they're saying porn is not to be read in a school board meeting porn is for the private use of little children and you can't come in here and quote the bible that says porn is bad porn is bad and god may put a millstone around your neck and drown you in the sea it doesn't even say that it just says you'd be better off if somebody put a millstone around your neck because when god gets his hand on you you'll wish you had a millstone around your neck so fast forward to today uh the uh we have this headline from 12 News in Arizona. Peoria School Board, that's Peoria, Arizona,

school board member sues district after being told not to recite the Bible. And so we have this video report from 12 News in Arizona. Let's watch this. Lawsuit involving the Peoria Unified Schools Governing Board and a board member who says that her free speech rights are being violated. Teen 12's Gabriella Becerra got a chance to talk with her today. Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge. Psalm 16.1.

Reading a Bible verse is how Peoria School board member Heather Rooks often starts her public meeting comments. It gave me strength and it gave me the courage as a board member during those board meetings because they get pretty hectic. They get very stressful. Rooks says she was told by the school board's attorney that reciting Bible verses during an open meeting is against the law. I received a letter from the school district directing me to stop reciting Bible verses during school board meetings. The district asserts that doing so violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The Establishment Clause bans the government from establishing or favoring a religion.

Documents show multiple organizations have threatened litigation if Rooks continues signing the Bible. During a meeting six months ago, school board president David Sandoval reminded her of these warnings. We were also told that reciting scripture at a board meeting on this side of the day is, you know, goes against the establishment clause as well. Rooks claims this is a violation of her first amendment rights and is now suing Peoria Unified School District to allow her to quote the Bible once again. Our lawsuit seeks a declaration and an injunction from the federal district court saying she can read her verses, that reading a verse during a board meeting doesn't violate the establishment clause. It is a protected right under the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.

It's a protected right under the free speech protection of the First Amendment as well. The First Amendment does have limitations, but Rook's attorney, Andrew Gould, says the way she's expressing her beliefs is protected. Heather's not trying to proselytize anyone. She's not trying to state what should be in the curriculum. She simply recites a verse to give her strength to help her through these meetings. A spokesperson for Peoria Unified School District tells me they have not been served as of Wednesday, adding they would not comment on pending litigation. Well, that's what you hear in Arizona.

If you quote the Bible in a school board meeting, you have violated the law. What is the law? You had a lawyer saying it's against the law. What's the law? Tell me the law. They would say it's the establishment clause, that you can't bring church and state. Where is the establishment clause? That's what I'm saying. Where is the establishment?

Where does it say in the Constitution establishment clause? It doesn't say that. It says Congress, Congress shall make no law. Restricting the. Establishing a religion. Right.

That's a school board. That's not the Congress. The Congress did not pass a law. The Constitution says the Congress of the United States shall not pass a law establishing a religion. It says nothing about a county school board in Arizona. But we've allowed for decades, we, the Christians, we have allowed, well, most of them are Zionists.

The anti, it's an anti-Christ Zionist driven campaign against Jesus to lie to the American people and say the Constitution prohibits prayer and Bible reading in public. It does not. It doesn't. They've lied and said the Constitution prohibits all governments in this country from doing anything that looks, smells, or tastes Christian. It does not. Not in one law. If the state of Florida, if the state legislature of Florida passed a law saying Florida is a Christian state, that is absolutely constitutional.

Because the Florida legislature is not Congress. Right. Could the Florida legislature mandate Bible reading in schools? Yes. Yes. The Congress can't. The U.S. Congress can't. Yet the very first act of the U.S. Congress, the very first act of the U.S. Congress, was to pass an appropriations bill to print Bibles. Did you know that, Doc?

No. The first official act of the U.S. Congress. Was to print Bibles. Print Bibles. They didn't establish a religion. They printed Bibles. The establishment of religion was there to say, the Congress can't favor the Anglican Church over the Baptists

or the Presbyterians over the Lutherans. That's what it was about. Nobody in the Constitutional Convention was thinking about atheists or religions from around the world. They were thinking only about Christians, saying we're not going to have one Christian denomination in a position of authority over the others. Right, because they just came from England, where you had the Church of England. That's right. In fact, most people that came here initially to the

Americas, they came because of religious persecution by the Church of England. If our founding fathers, if the men who wrote the Constitution had any idea that this craziness was going to be happening in America someday, they would have nailed it down so hard in that Constitution. We are a Christian nation. I mean, they would have.

They had no idea. They couldn't comprehend this kind of insanity, this kind of anti-Christ mentality. Do you think the founding fathers said, you know, someday there are going to be men dressed as women and breastfeeding babies? We ought to put something in the Constitution about that. They would have turned and said, Ben, you've been in the moonshine again. Where did you come up with that idea? It was so foreign. Nobody could even think that way, Doc. Right. That's how perverted we are today as a nation. Our reality today is so perverted that 200 years ago, it was unthinkable.

It was so unthinkable, nobody could even imagine something so unthinkable. And why would you even waste your time imagining it but that's our normal today we're absolutely wicked as a nation as a whole we're wicked and we're allowing atheists they're not atheists they're christ haters yes mickey weinstein is a christ hater he's not an atheist he's a christ hater. He's not an atheist. He's a Christ hater. And nobody will call him out on it except me. Because everybody's afraid of him. Oh, they're so afraid he might sue you.

He sent me a letter one time. He was going to sue me. Well, I'm here. Yeah, here we are. I'm still here. What do I want to talk about? Let's switch over to World War III. Okay, so I'm going to go to number 21, Jerusalem Post.

Saudi Arabia's peace with Israel hinges on NATO-style defense pact with the United States. Whoa. We're going to bring Saudi Arabia into NATO? Or at least NATO-lite of some kind. NATO Junior? Yes. So you remember a couple years ago they were talking about a nato an arab nato yes and that was donald trump yes they were talking about a nato we were orchestrating that yes the

u.s wanted an arab nato so let's let's look at this is what uh uh this is what the jerusalem post and reuters and others are reporting today so So Saudi Arabia is determined to secure a military pact requiring the U.S. to defend the kingdom in return for opening ties with Israel. Three regional sources familiar with the talk said now a pact might fall short of the cast iron NATO style defense guarantees the kingdom initially sought when the issue was first discussed between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Joe Biden during the U.S. president's visit to Saudi Arabia in July of 2022. Now, instead, a U.S. source said it could look like treaties Washington has with Asian states, or if that would not win U.S. Congress approval, it could be similar to a U.S. agreement with Bahrain, where the U.S. has its U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet based. Such an agreement would not need congressional backing. They could just do it by rule. Washington could also sweeten

any deal by designating Saudi Arabia a major non-NATO ally, a status already given to Israel, U.S. source said. But all the sources said Saudi Arabia would not settle for less than the binding insurances of U.S. protection if it faced attacks such as the September 14, 2019 missile strikes on its oil sites that rattled world markets. Riyadh and Washington blamed Iran, the kingdom's regional rival, although Tehran denied having a role. Now, agreements giving the world's biggest oil exporter U.S. protection in return for normalization with Israel would reshape the Middle East by bringing together two longtime foes and binding Riyadh to Washington after China's inroads in the region. And for President Biden, it would be a diplomatic victory to vaunt before the 2024

election. There's a lot at play in this story, Doc. Israel wants a treaty with Saudi Arabia really bad. Yes. Okay. Saudi Arabia and Israel are still technically at war since 1948. They've never really—Saudi Arabia has never officially recognized the Zionist state of Israel. So Israel wants to get that settled. And obviously, Saudi Arabia is the big player. The two big—there are three big countries, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. And Israel wants to, I don't, Israel is not trying to get peace with Iran. They want to take them out.

But they have to get this peace alliance with Saudi Arabia. And they want to do business. And what's standing in the way? Palestine. And the Saudi Arabians are telling the Israelis, you have to create a Palestinian state before we sign this deal. But you have something else happening. You have just in August, the BRICS alliance extended an invitation, a formal invitation to Saudi Arabia to join BRICS. Saudi Arabia is the linchpin in the U.S. petrodollar going back to the days of Nixon. If Saudi Arabia joins BRICS, it's no longer in the petrodollar deal with the United States. That's obviously terrifying the Western bankers and money masters. So what are they doing? They're offering, they're dangling in front of the Saudi Arabians some type of NATO-Light, NATO-Junior partnership.

Right. Hey, we will treat you like you're a NATO member. And don't forget the story we did the other day, too, about the promise of uranium enrichment for Saudi Arabia. Yes, so Saudi Arabia wants uranium so they can have a nuclear bomb. There's a lot of stuff underway here. If Saudi Arabia is formally recognized as a NATO ally, it means that if Iran attacks Saudi Arabia, NATO must attack Iran. That's at the core of what this is all about.

And so behind this drive are the Zionists. America's Secretary of State is a Zionist. Anthony Blinken, he's a Zionist. He's working for Israel. He's driving a deal for Israel. And he's dangling a carrot in front of the Saudi Arabian leaders saying, the U.S. government will treat you like a NATO ally. And if you ever have a war with Iran, we're going to automatically be committed to fighting for you.

But the Saudis are also playing this game, too. They've been, you know, canoodling with China over the past year, making, you know, tremendous advances. Remember the big show that China put on when the Saudi minister visited China here a few months ago. What's Mohammed bin Salman doing? He's weighing who's got the best offer. You're exactly right.

So he told Antony Blinken, well, this is what China offered us. What do you got? The U.S. came back. We can give you... Uranium and NATO.S. came back. We can give you uranium and NATO. So now he's going to go back to China.

The U.S. gave me a better offer. What's your better offer? I mean, you can't blame the guy. He's negotiating the best deal for his country. You can't blame the guy for doing it. But you have to understand one country is going to win, one country is going to lose. Either the United States or China will win or lose.

And that will lock down the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East for another 50 years. I don't know which way it's going to go. Because it's changing week to week. But it is a big story. In the remaining, we've got like nine minutes to the break. There's a war that's been raging for a month or so that

we have not talked about. There are too many wars in the world. You've got a war in Africa. You've got a war in Europe right now. That no one talks about. Nobody talks about. Armenia.

Right. And Azerbaijan. And this issue is so complicated. I'm not qualified to describe the historical background of this battle. There is land between Armenia and Azerbaijan that both sides claim. Isn't that what all wars are about? Sure. Territory. Territory. And so a large number of Armenians have been living in that land for centuries. Yes. Not just decades, centuries. centuries i mean this is an old fight doc this is a really old fight this goes back i mean armenia was claiming this land back like

200 bc that's how far back these sides have been fighting over this particular land. And this particular area of the world has always involved the world powers with it, too. And that's exactly what's happening. And that's what's happening. So what we have here today, you see on screen, ABC, over 50,000 Armenians flee enclave in Azerbaijan as Exodus accelerates. And this enclave is, let's see, what is the official name of it, Doc? Nagorno-Karabakh. Yes. Nagorno-Karabakh.

And it's a region between the two countries, again, both sides claiming it. And last month, Azerbaijan launched a military operation in the region. And apparently they have succeeded. They've claimed control. And tens of thousands of Armenian Christians are fleeing. Folks, these are Christians. The Armenians are fleeing. Folks, these are Christians. The Armenians are Christians. Armenia was the first nation in the world to officially declare itself a Christian nation. That's right. And so these Armenians are living in Nagorno-Karabakh. As you said, they're Christians and they're being forced out. So about 50,000 ethnic Armenians have

now fled the disputed enclave in Nagorno-Karabakh, according to local officials, as the exodus triggered by Azerbaijan's takeover of the region appeared to accelerate, with fears its entire population may leave. 12,000 people leaving overnight. This is just a couple days ago, and thousands more continuing to arrive into Armenia on Wednesday morning in what Armenia's government has called the ethnic cleansing of the enclave. Now, Azerbaijan on Wednesday announced it had detained the former leader of the enclave's unrecognized Armenian government as he sought to cross into Armenia. Ruben Vardanyan, a billionaire businessman who made his fortune in Russia, moved to Nagorno-Karabakh in 2022 and served as the head of its government for several months before stepping down earlier this year. Now, to give you an idea of what we're talking about here, here's a map of Armenia and Azerbaijan. The disputed area that we're talking about is that in the center right part

of the screen. For those of you listening, you can't see this, of course, but... Dr. Do you ever know that Azerbaijan was separated into two segments like that? I didn't know until today. And so, but according to historical record, Azerbaijan took that portion of Armenia a couple of decades ago. And so this has been a slow fight to, you know, take Armenia apart. Poor Armenia, man, they've gone through the ringer through the centuries here. But what's interesting is that this is now, this is likely to turn into a proxy war as well. It is. And, Doc, before we get to that, I just want people to understand how serious this is. Most of the people who are fleeing are Christians.

Yes. Armenia is a Christian nation. I want to show you some video. This was recent today. Today, this is a video showing the Exodus, that highway that's lined up with Armenians fleeing the fighting. Look at that. That's incredible. My friends, do you understand? We think we have problems here.

We don't have problems. That's a problem. Yeah. When you have to get in your car with your family and whatever you can carry in the car and leave your home. Because you're a Christian. Because you're a Christian and your family has lived there for hundreds of years and you're fleeing and you have no idea where you're going. You're just getting out. That's a problem. That's life today for the Armenian Christians. They're fleeing. Do we have time for the Mel Gibson video? I don't know what the time. Let's

go for it. We have four minutes. Mel Gibson put out a statement in support of the Armenian Christians. History tragically repeats itself as we witness the modern day genocide unfolding. Yet the media silence on this issue is deafening. The Armenian people who've endured centuries of persecution due to their faith find themselves once again subjected to a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing. In the grip of Azerbaijan and Turkey, countless Armenians are enduring unspeakable horrors, loss of life, forced displacement, starvation, and isolation from essential supplies. These are the same Armenians whose roots run deep in a land they've called home for generations. I implore the international community across all nations to take swift action, extend a

helping hand to the Armenian population, offer them the protection they desperately need, and create a humanitarian corridor for their safe passage. Most importantly, let's engage in immediate diplomatic efforts to ensure that these exiled individuals can return to their rightful homes without delay. To the Armenian people who still suffer, I say don't lose heart. God is with you. So, Doc, as I said, I am not schooled in this battle. I don't know the details of it. But I have enough sense doing this show for 25 years to know that there are some big players behind the scenes.

So this morning I was trying to figure out, is it China? Is it the United States? Is it Turkey? Who's behind this war? Who started this war? Somebody's behind the war. Do you have a clue? Well, I'm looking at an article from, well, the Times of Israel from March of this year that talked about the strategic alliance between Israel and Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan is the one that launched the attack on the Armenians. Right. And this strategic alliance includes supplies of weapons from Israel. And in fact, Israel launches a number of its drone attacks on Iran from bases in Azerbaijan. But Azerbaijan is a Muslim country. Yes. It's a very interesting relationship between the two. So the Zionists are in league with a Muslim country to wage war against a Christian population. You have it, Rick. Yes. So once again, the Zionists are depopulating a country, removing the Christians.

We just saw the video. Tens of thousands of Christians in their cars fleeing their homeland. And the weapons being used against them are israeli is that it am i getting anything wrong got it if azerbaijan wasn't getting israeli weapons they probably wouldn't be doing this war would they right so somebody encouraged the azerbaijan government to launch the war beyond depopulating the christians from the region is there another strategic point in claiming that land is there an oil pipeline is are there natural resources is it a shipping lane what is it what what are they doing the

belton road initiative comes right through there from China. It never fails. It never fails. Somebody wants that land. And some people have got to be moved. Hundreds of thousands of people have to be uprooted and forced off their land so that somebody else with a lot of power

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I'm going to get into some political reporting here. Thehill.com reporting that one-third of the Republican debate watchers say that Governor DeSantis won the debate. I'm going to go through this very quickly. According to the survey conducted by the Washington Post, 33% of debate watchers questioned said that DeSantis outperformed his competitors. 18 percent said Governor Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina, was the winner. 15 percent pointed to Mr. Ramaswamy.

Then supporters of Governor Chris Christie and Tim Scott received six percent as the winner. Three percent said Vice President Mike Pence performed the best. And only two percent picked Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota. The former vice president of the United States got 3%. What is Mike Pence even doing in the race? Just barely above Doug Burgum, who I didn't even know was in the race until last week. I asked, who is Doug Burgum? So number 42, more than half of those surveyed, 54% said Governor DeSantis performed excellent or very good. Nearly half, 48%, said Vice President Pence performed poor or terrible. Wow. Mr. Pence needs to just go home to Indiana.

He's wasting it. Well, I think all of them are wasting their time right now. Donald Trump is the Republican nominee. Yeah, and this is really a debate for Vice President, but I don't see any of these folks. I think all of them are wasting their time right now. Donald Trump is the Republican nominee. Yeah. And this is really a debate for vice president, but I don't see. No, he's not going to pick any of them for vice president. Not at all. He's going to pick.

Christy Noem. Christy Noem in South Dakota. That's who he's going to choose. Almost a quarter, 24 percent who watched the debate said they thought governor christy of new jersey performed the worst what is he doing in the race there's nobody wants chris christy in his mind he thinks they do but nobody does he's he's there with uh vice president pence but all of them none of them have any chance whatsoever of defeating Donald Trump.

None of them. Donald Trump is the Republican nominee. Something like 60% of the Republican voters plan to vote for Trump. All these other guys are fighting for the remaining 40%. They're wasting their time. Governor DeSantis needs to come back to Florida and be the governor that we elected him to be.

Doc, you saw some of the debate. I didn't watch any of it. But you said that all other Republican candidates were united on sending money to Ukraine? Generally, yes, except for DeSantis and Ramaswamy. They were okay and let's start easing the money back. But when Ramaswamy said that— Keep sending money but not as much. Right.

But when they started putting that out there, all the pro-war candidates, they jumped on that really fast. Let's watch this video clip. It's in our interest to end this war. And that's what I will do as president. We are not going to have a blank check. We will not have U.S. troops. And we're going to make the Europeans do what they need to do. But they've sent money to pay bureaucrats pensions and salaries and funding small businesses halfway around the world. Meanwhile, our own country is being invaded. We don't even have control of our own territory.

We have got to defend the American people before we even worry about all these other things. And I watch these guys in Washington, D.C., and they don't care about the American people. They don't care about the fentanyl deaths. They don't care about the communities being overrun because of this border. They don't care about the Mexican drug cartels. So as commander in chief, I will defend this country's sovereignty. But it's not a territorial dispute. It's never been a territorial dispute. And 90% of the resources that we send over to Ukraine is guaranteed as a loan.

It is not—90% of the money that we send over there is loan. Well, we can talk about this, but at the end of the day, 90% of the money that we send over there is actually in the form of a loan. It's not actually not being paid by Ukraine. It's paid by the NATO, our NATO allies. So I think it's a good topic. I think it's a really good topic to debate. I will say, let's debate the fact that our national vital interest is in degrading the Russian military.

The reality is just because Putin is an evil dictator does not mean that Ukraine is good. This is a country that has banned 11 opposition parties. A win for Russia is a win for China. A win for Russia is a win for China. But I forgot you like China. That's why you're up here. You'll have your chance in just a moment. The hurling personal insults isn't helping.

China is the real enemy, and we're driving Russia further into China's arms. We need a reasonable peace plan to end this, especially this is a country whose president just last week was hailing a Nazi in his own ranks. Ukraine, that's a green light to China to take Taiwan. Peace comes through strength. So basically, they're all in favor of the war to one degree or the other. But the biggest cheerleaders are Haley and Pence and Christie. Tim Scott surprises me. I mean, he came right out and said, our objective in this war is to degrade the Russian military.

When we say degrade Russian military, we mean kill Russian soldiers. So scratch Tim Scott off. This is a good thing. Degrade the Russian military. When we say degrade Russian military, we mean kill Russian soldiers. Yes. So scratch Tim Scott off. It's a good thing. Scratch Tim Scott off my list, too. All of them. If they're supporters of the war, I'm not supporting them. I'm not going to get involved in this stuff. I'm done.

I'm finished with helping to elect warmongers. I'm just done with it. How are they any different than the Biden? They're no different. They're the same. The war party. Hey, speaking of the war party, I'm telling you,

they're taking us in to a horrific nightmare with Russia. Don't forget what Medvedev said at the beginning of this week. We are ready for a direct war with NATO. Right. And the outcome will be far more costly than World War II. That's what they said earlier this week.

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We're going to be in verses 19 through 30 today and finish up chapter 11. We'll start on chapter 12 on Monday. Let us pray. Dear, gracious, wonderful Heavenly Father, we love you. We praise you. We worship you. We glorify you.

We exalt you. And we come full of faith in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Father, we invite your precious Holy Spirit into this Morning Man of Bible study to lead us and guide us in understanding your Word, to reveal to us the majesty of our King, Jesus, and to teach us His ways and His principles to live successfully in his kingdom. This we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. It's not 19 through 30.

All right, reading from Acts chapter 11, starting at verse 19. Now, they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only. And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which when they were come to Antioch spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord. Then tidings of these things came unto the Lord. Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus for to seek Saul.

And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch, and there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be a great dearth throughout all the world, which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judea, which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. Yes. Let us begin verse 19. They therefore, who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen, traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

So the narrative in chapter 11 changes in verse 19. Luke has finished writing about Cornelius and the Gentiles. We now transition to the next scene in this story. So Caesarea is behind us now. The curtain has opened to another scene. And we transition to the next part of the story. Luke harkens back to the persecution in the time after the death of Stephen, who was the first martyr in the church. We studied that earlier in the book of Acts.

And Jewish Christians fled Jerusalem to escape the Jews who hated the book of Acts. And Jewish Christians fled Jerusalem to escape the Jews who hated the name of Jesus. Yes. It was Jew on Jew violence. Jews persecuting Jews. The Jews who hated Jesus persecuted the Jews who loved Jesus. And the Jews who loved Jesus. And the Jews who loved Jesus,

many of them fled the city of Jerusalem and they traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch. And as we pointed out in previous studies, we think, Doc and I believe, that most of these Jews who fled Jerusalem, Christian Jews, were Hellenists. Right. Greek-speaking Jews. And it

appears that most of the violence was directed towards them. And so the Hellenist Jews got out of Jerusalem and they went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch. They declared the word of God as they traveled, but they spoke only to Jews, not Gentiles. They had not heard yet what happened over in Caesarea. So they're still going with the earlier program.

The Christian faith is only for Jews. That's what they believed. We see in the first 11 chapters of the Acts of the Apostles that three lines of church expansion started and grew immediately in the aftermath of the persecution against the saints in Jerusalem, which resulted in many Jewish Christians fleeing the city for safety. Those three lines of church expansion were, number one, Philip the Evangelist's trip to Samaria and the conversion of the Samaritans. Number two, Peter's trip to Caesarea and the conversion of the Gentiles.

And now, number three, the Jewish Christians who fled to Antioch, Syria. The martyrdom of Stephen produced a violent outburst of Jewish fanaticism against Jews who believed in the name of Jesus. And one of the men mentioned in Acts 11 was Nicholas of Antioch. So we see in verse 20, but there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come

to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus. Antioch is a Syrian city. And some of the Jewish Christians fled to Antioch and to other places like Cyprus. And they spoke to the Hellenists about Jesus Christ. Again, the Hellenists were Greek-speaking Jews from Greek-aligned nations outside of Israel. Because these verses are referring to the Jewish Christians who fled violence against them in

Jerusalem and fled to places such as Antioch, I think we should revisit Acts chapter 6, verse 5. In the context was the selection of the seven deacons to wait on tables in care of widows and the poor. Stephen was one of the seven. He's the one who was martyred. Another of the seven chosen by the church in Jerusalem was a man named Nicholas. And Acts 6, verse 5 says, chosen by the church in Jerusalem was a man named Nicholas. And Acts 6, verse 5 says, And the saying pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith in the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicholas,

a proselytite of Antioch. Acts 6-5 was the first mention of the Syrian city that would someday become the mother church for former Gentiles who became Christians. As identified in Acts 6, verse 5, Nicholas was from Antioch. A proselyte was a Gentile who converted to Judaism and was circumcised. He then later converted to Christianity and was selected as one of the first seven deacons. In Acts 6, Nicholas was described as a man of honest report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom. Now, something may have happened to him many years later, and it depends on which early church leaders' writings about Nicholas you choose to believe. Modern-day Bible scholars are divided in their opinions about nicholas's later life and and i'll

just tell you i have not done sufficient research to state which view i support maybe doc has more light to shed on this i don't i'm just going to tell you the little bit I know, and I'm telling you, it's little. You'll have to do your own research. Some scholars believe that Nicholas, the name Nicholas, is the Greek version of Balaam. And that's interesting because some of those scholars also believe that Nicholas later departed the true Christian faith and drifted into heretical views, and that they believed that Jesus alluded to Nicholas when he wrote the letters to the seven churches. In Revelation 2, Jesus wrote to the church in Pergamos, and to the angel of the church in Pergamos write,

These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges. I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. And thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days where Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you where Satan dwelleth. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication, so hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

And he also addressed it in verse 6 to the church at Ephesus too. And so in Revelation 2, 6, well, I'll read verse 5. Remember, therefore, from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works, or else I'll come unto thee quickly, and remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. And so it was a positive remark to the church at Ephesus, a negative remark to the church in Pergamos. Yes. Doc, have you ever studied this,

that Nicholas the deacon later became the founder of the Nicolaitans. I've heard it before, but I'm just not that up to speed on it and everything. All right. That's where I'm at. What I found was in the time of Irenaeus, who was an early church father, the Nicolaitans themselves claimed Nicholas of Antioch as their spiritual father. That's what Irenaeus wrote, that the Nicolaitans in his age, in his day, were pointing back to Nicholas of Antioch and saying, our religious movement, the Nicolaitans, it started with Nicholas. Epiphanius is another church leader. He wrote that Deacon Nicholas sank into immorality and became the father of the Nicolaitans. And part of it had to do with, we would call it the free love movement today.

Yes, yes. And so it was just anything goes sexually. The love fest, love feast, which used to be centered around the communion, eventually, according to some sources under the Nicolaitans, descended into these basically orgies. And now that's, you know, we don't know if that's the same Nicholas or not, but it is interesting that he's mentioned in Acts several times, and then Jesus mentions the Nicolaitans in Revelation. And so it's no accident that he's listed.

And remember, he was a proselyte too. He wasn't born a Jew. He became a Jew. And then became a Christian. Right. And so he was a proselyte, so he wasn't, you know, a hereditary Jew. And so, but anyway, that's part of. I'm starting to remember part of it now. Yeah, well, so, you know, in addition to Epiphanius, Hippolytus, another church leader, also agreed that Nicholas was the founder of the Nicolaitans. Jerome, in the fourth century, agreed that he was the originator of the Nicolaitans. But on the other side, another church leader, Clement of Alexandria, strongly disagreed. So I don't know. I just, I'm not schooled enough in this to say, I'm just, it's a fascinating story that I would like to spend time digging down deeper to see if I can come to a conclusion.

Verse 21, the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord. The hand, your hand represents work. We work with our hands. Verse 21 says the hand of the Lord was with them. It means that God's empowerment and assistance was helping them proclaim the name of God's son to the people of Antioch. God was working his hand. He was working with them. God's hand upon humans is mentioned numerous times in the Bible. For example, Old Testament prophet Ezekiel said six times,

the hand of the Lord was on me. Isaiah 53 verse 1 1. Who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Wherever God works, wonders and miracles occur to validate the proclamation of the gospel. And the purpose of the supernatural workings of God is to soften the hearts of sinners to come closer to God. Yes. So God's favor was upon the saints in Antioch. He blessed their faithfulness, their devotion, their zeal for the kingdom of God. And without the presence and favor of God's hand, there would be no grace to woo sinners to repentance. It would be all man-made religious work.

And that's what happens to churches when they get outside of the anointing of God. It's just man-made religion. But when God's presence, when he is present, when his hand is upon the work, there's grace to do his work. So accordingly, a great number of citizens of the city of Antioch believed in the name of Jesus and turned to the Lord. I want you to recognize something, that the spread of the Christian faith in Antioch was done by nameless men and women who loved Jesus. That's right. There was no Saul, no Cornelius. Luke did not tell us the names of the saints who were responsible for planning the gospel in the hearts and minds of the Antiochian population.

Let's look again. Chapter 11, verses 19 and 21. They, therefore, who were scattered abroad by the oppression, meaning the Jewish Christians who fled Jerusalem. The oppression that arose about Stephen, when they killed Stephen. They traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only. Verse 20, but there were some of them who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus, and the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord. The introduction of the Christian gospel in Antioch was done by everyday people whose names were not recorded in the Bible.

Now, did they not deserve to be recognized? Well, God recognized them. He knows who they are. To this day, He knows who they are. But the Holy Spirit chose to not tell us. The Holy Spirit chose to not inspire Luke to include some of the names. Why? Because the Holy Spirit wants you and me to know

that everybody has the heavenly grace and power to carry forth the Great Commission wherever they go. And so in this case, the Holy Spirit chose not to reveal names as a sign to all of us. You don't have to be famous. You don't have to be a super apostle to do the work of the Lord. Look at what happened. The Holy Spirit is saying to us, look at Antioch. Just everyday people like you changed the city.

That's the message in this. Verse 22, the report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly, which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch. So a good report about the Holy Spirit moving upon the people of Antioch reached the saints in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Christians were changing their outlook. There was no disturbance that erupted among them when they got this report. In the past, there was trouble. A pattern was developing, and they recognized that God was now moving upon the people of Antioch. This time, there was no amazement, no bewilderment, no opposition, no questioning. The Jewish Christians in Jerusalem were starting to flow with heaven's agenda.

They were starting to get an understanding of the program. So the church assembly in Jerusalem authorized Barnabas, the one known as the son of consolation, to travel to Syria. Why Barnabas? Well, he was a Grecian of Cyprus. Right. And we have to just assume that he had knowledge, experience, and context in Antioch. And many of the Christians who fled to Antioch were Hellenists. They were Greek-speaking Jews, and so Barnabas also spoke Greek. So he was the right man to sin. Barnabas's mission was to give aid to the saints, spiritually affirm their work for the

gospel, and observe the happenings and report back to the church in Jerusalem. Once again, we see that the wrath of men against the church results in the church being enlarged. The persecution of Jerusalem's saints sent many of them fleeing for safety. They took the gospel and the Holy Spirit with them to places such as Antioch. The saints were the seeds that carried the word of life, and Jesus sowed them into cities, and they grew and produced a harvest for him. And the hand of God was with them wherever they were planted, if they were active on his behalf. I want to give you a quick teaching about the parable

of the sower. I always, since I was a Christian and, you know, from 1978, I was always taught that in the parable of the sower, the seed is the word of God. And yes, it does say it, but in another parable, it says the seed is you and me. Is there a conflict? No, there is not. The Bible doesn't conflict with itself. Here's what it is. If you have a seed, a scientist will tell you that the nucleus of the seed is where the life is at. The life that produces another plant is inside. It's the nucleus, the heart of the seed. The shell is the outer casing that protects the nucleus.

When the Bible, when the parables, one parable says the seed is the word and another parable says the seed is you. How do we reconcile it? The seed, the word of God is the nucleus that produces life. Your body is the shell that carries the seed that carries the nucleus. When, when God, when Jesus sows the word, he sows you with it because you're carrying, you're carrying the word inside you. Your, your body is the shell of the seed. I hope that makes sense.

Verse 23, who, when he had come and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all that with purpose of heart, they should remain near to the Lord. So when Barnabas arrived in the city, he observed the grace of God upon the saints who fled Jerusalem and the new converts in Antioch. And it made him glad and he rejoiced. He exhorted them. The Greek word means to encourage. It also means to invite, to beseech, to admonish, to comfort and console. He exhorted them all that with purpose of heart, they should remain near to the Lord. Barnabas invited all the believers,

all the followers of Jesus in the city to abide in the Lord with all their hearts. He pleaded with them. He begged them. He encouraged them. He admonished them. He comforted and consoled them to purposely live close to Jesus. He didn't organize a church growth conference. He didn't teach them how to witness their faith on the streets of Antioch. He didn't give them religious tracts to hand out to strangers on street corners. Instead, Barnabas told them to keep the two greatest commandments as taught by Jesus in Matthew 22, verses 37 and 40. Jesus said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment, and the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Verse 24, for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord. Luke made a point to describe Barnabas as a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. These are the identical words Luke used to describe Stephen, the first martyr. And to me, there's no doubt that Luke had affection and admiration for Barnabas. And perhaps he deliberately inserted this description of Barnabas into chapter 11 as a good man, because he knew that later in his written account of the Acts of the Apostles, he would have to tell the sad narrative about Barnabas's separation from Apostle Paul.

Right. Nevertheless, he still loved him. And, you know, the separation of Paul and Barnabas saddened a lot of Christians, but they still loved both of them. And it's interesting that the very next verse here talks about Barnabas seeking out Saul. And Luke is setting it up. Now, at the very beginning of the relationship between Saul and Barnabas, Paul and Barnabas, you know, I'm just letting you know, Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Ghost, full of faith. Don't say anything bad about him. Right.

You know, just don't say anything bad about him. I like him. He's a good man. He was a good man. Isn't that the epithet that all of us want inscribed on our memorial after we leave this world? He was a good man. She was a good woman. What else can be said? loved Barnabas, as did the Lord, and made sure that Barnabas would forever be known to many generations of people simply as a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith.

And what was the fruit of Barnabas's life? And many people were added to the Lord. Yes. How did he do it? Because the hand of the Lord was with him. Amen. And a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord. See, all this starts to make sense now, doesn't it? You can simplify it. When you love the Lord God with all your heart, mind, and soul, and you love your neighbor as yourself,

you are staying close to the Lord. And when you're close to the Lord, the hand of God is upon you. And when the hand of God is upon you, the church is enlarged. It's a real simple formula. Verses 25-26. Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul. When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly and taught many people.

The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. So Barnabas departed Antioch, traveled to the city of Tarsus, searching for Saul. We don't know if the two men communicated with each other through letters prior to this event, but it does appear that Barnabas was confident that Saul would approve of what was happening in Antioch, and that Barnabas was certain that Saul was the right man to take charge of the fast-growing Antiochian church. And I think we may also assume that Saul had continued residing in Tarsus and making his living by making tents and selling tents. So Barnabas eventually found Saul and invited him to return with him to Antioch. And for one year, Barnabas and Saul were a team, and they taught the disciples. One year of intense spiritual instruction. Imagine Morning Manor in Antioch, and the teachers are Barnabas and Saul.

So just think about us, our Morning man of class, five days a week. Hundreds of people from around the world are gathering five days a week. Where will we be spiritually in September 2024? Yes. If you stay in the word, the word will stay in you and it will grow in you. You will not be the same person one year from today. So make a commitment you're going to stay in morning manna. There may be days you got to sacrifice. Hey, this is, man, this is, I mean, three, four months from now,

you might be saying, man, I've been in this Bible study since September of last year. I mean, January, February next year, you might be saying, man, I've been going to morning manna every day since September of 2023. I'm telling you, just stay in it. And come September of 2024, you're going to be a different person. Amen. The word is going to grow in you. Now, this is really important. It was in the city of Antioch that the disciples of Jesus Christ were first called Christians. And I've heard over many years various explanations for why they were named Christians.

Some say that the disciples named themselves. Others say it was a derogatory slur placed on them by enemies of Jesus. Where I'm at now is I believe all those various explanations are in error. I now believe that the name Christian was placed upon them by divine authority from heaven, by God himself. If enemies of the cross wanted to slander them, they could come up with something far worse than Christian. They were contemptuous men were already calling them Nazarenes or Galileans. Yes. But it was God who identified them as Christians.

And here's why I believe it. The word Christ means the anointed one. The word Christians means we are anointed too. We are followers of the one true anointed one. Christian means that God has made us kings and priests unto God. It's not a slur. It is a wonderful way to identify ourselves in the kingdom.

And if you hold to that, then, you know, you look at Isaiah chapter 62, verse 2, and it reads, and the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness a new name at some point in the future. That's Isaiah 62 too. That's right. 1 John 2.27. some point in the future that's isaiah 62 too that's right first john 227 this is john speaking but the anointing that you receive from him abides in you what you mean jesus christ christ is the anointed John said, but the anointing that you receive from him, Jesus Christ, lives in you. And you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie, just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Verses 27 and 28. Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. One of them was named Agabus. He stood up and indicated by the spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius. Now, this famine is, this happened. Historians recorded Josephus, the great Jewish historian, said it was a very great famine in which many died for want of food. He said that Helena, a queen who had embraced the Jewish religion,

sent servants to Alexandria to buy a great quantity of corn and others of them to Cyprus to buy a cargo of dried fish, which she distributed to those who were in want. So there's historical records of this famine. So what we have here is that a prophet from Jerusalem went to Antioch and prophesied there's going to be a worldwide famine, a lack of food. And then verses 29 and 30. As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea, which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. So the church, the body of Christ, believed the prophecy.

And they said, the Lord is warning us. We better prepare for famine. And we need to share. We need to take care of our brethren. They didn't just hoard it for themselves. They sent food out to others, and they used Barnabas and Saul to do it. So, Doc, I think at this point, we probably should wrap it up and go to communion,

so that we can get this entire lesson into today's true news program. So I'll let you take it from here. All right. Well, and thanks, Rick, for that lesson, that preparation that you've invested in that today. And as you mentioned, each day we're learning line upon line, precept upon precept. And whether you've been with us a week, a month, whatever,

so many people have said that they have appreciated the changes that are taking place. If you have the elements of communion with you, the bread and fruit of the vine, then I encourage you right now to let's make preparation for that. What we're going to do first is we're going to pray for the elements of communion and ask for the Lord's blessing upon it. And so if you have those with you, gather. And by the way, we've seen, we appreciate the pictures that people have sent in of families gathered together, making communion together. And it's been such a blessing to us to know that we're impacting you in that way. We don't take this lightly. We ask that we take a few moments here and let the Lord search your heart for anything that might be a hurdle or a barrier between you and the Lord. And come before

him with a clean heart here. And let's pray first, and then we'll pray for the elements of communion. Heavenly Father, in Jesus' name, we come before you and ask you, Lord, to search our hearts. Lord, let us come before you with clean hands and a clean heart, Lord, as we prepare to participate in this, your supper, Lord. We ask in Jesus' name that if there be anything found in us that would be a hindrance, a stumbling block in our own lives, Lord, we ask for your forgiveness right now. We confess it before you right now, and we ask you to cover it with your blood. Lord, we just go before you right now, believing you are here with us as we celebrate this love feast before you. Almighty God, in your tender mercy, you gave your only begotten son, Jesus Christ,

to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. He offered himself and made once for all time a perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. He instituted this remembrance of his passion and death, which he commanded us to continue until he comes again. And so, Father, we ask you to bless and sanctify with your word and Holy Spirit these gifts of bread and wine that we may partake of his most blessed body and blood. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed once for all upon the cross. Therefore, let us keep the feast.

Hallelujah. On the night that he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, take eat. This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. The body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting life.

This is the bread of heaven. Take and eat in remembrance that Christ died for you. After supper, Jesus took the cup. And when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink this, all of you, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this in remembrance of me. The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting life.

Drink the cup of salvation in remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for you preserve your body and soul to everlasting life drink the cup of salvation and remembrance that christ's blood was shed for you and thankful behold the lamb of god behold him who takes away the sins of the world and blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb this sacrament is the gift, the Lord's Supper, the communion. And thank you so much for those all over the world who joined us today as we shared in this common thread of faith that goes all the way back to the night that the Lord himself celebrated this and commenced this feast. And it ties us together, makes us all one body. It connects us with the saints who have already gone ahead of us that are in Christ right now. And it connects all of us globally who participate together in the faith of Christ as well. Amen. Amen. Praise God. A good way to start

the day. Thank you, everybody. God bless you. Remember, this weekend, take time to be quiet with the Lord. Set aside time on your weekend to just be alone with the Lord, to be quiet, turn off all the outside noises, the interruptions, get alone with Him and His Word. Let Him teach you personally. Let Him teach you His Word, and just spend time with Him, and let Him talk to you. He loves to talk to his children. He craves it. He desires to talk to you. And he wants to be with you and have personal time with you. So make personal time. You set aside the time.

He'll show up if you'll do it. We love you very much. We'll see you later today. Before we sign off here, I'm seeing comments in our chat here today that this is the very first time some people have ever celebrated communion. Really? Yes. Praise God. I'm just

touched by that. I've seen several comments that this is the first time they've participated in communion. Praise God. Hallelujah. Amen. Wow. I believe that jesus is present in the communion um i believe that uh i we can't explain it the the orthodox church simply says communion is a

holy mystery and it can't be explained yep that, that's good enough for me, Doc. I'll just leave it at that. That's right. It's a holy mystery and you can't explain it. He's present. He's present in, you know, does the bread and the wine physically turn into blood and flesh? No, but Christ is in the bread and the wine. That's the part you can't explain.

Right. And Jesus said, you must eat my flesh. You must drink my blood for eternal life. We touched on that yesterday on Ask Doc. And so it's very clear. And so this is part of our faith. We feed on Christ, not just at communion. We feed on Christ, not just at communion. We feed on Christ every day.

And so how do we feed on him? He's the manna from heaven. He's the bread of life. We eat the bread of life. How are we doing? We just did. We just spent an hour eating the bread, the bread of life, his word. We consumed his word.

We're being nourished. We're feeding on Christ. And when we feed on Christ, we become stronger. In mind, body, spirit, we become stronger. Praise God. All right, folks. See you later today. God bless everyone.

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