TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Who Ate All the Crazy Beans? NATO Planning First Strike on Russia

Episode Date: November 26, 2024

The headlines have transitioned from alarming to dire to utterly insane. NATO is meeting in Montreal today to plan a first strike on Russia. Meanwhile, Russia’s military is planning to respond soon to additional Ukrainian strikes on Russia targets using Made-in-America ATACMS.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 11/26/2024Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comCelebrate Christmas with TruNews! Donate $200 or more to TruNews and receive 8 gifts: 2 Final Day books, 2 Sacrificing Liberty DVD sets, 2 The Greatest Reset DVDs, and 2 talking Fauci Elves. Donate at https://www.TruNews.com/donate, call 800.576.2116, or mail to PO Box 399, Vero Beach, FL 32961. Request your gift bag today!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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by examining this alarming headline published today by RT.com, Moscow preparing response to Kiev's attack. Now, we told you yesterday that Ukraine hit more targets in the past, I guess, 48 hours? Yes. After, this is after Putin went on TV in Russia last week. He signed the new Russian document on the nuclear policy, went on national television last Thursday night, said, we will respond. Okay? respond, okay, we will, he said, we're going to hit strategic sites of the countries that are attacking us. We will give the civilians notice to evacuate as a humanitarian gesture.

So what did the U.S. do? The U.S. told Zelensky, hit him again. Yes. Use more of those missiles. Strike more Russian targets. So what this headline is saying is that the Russian government is now preparing the response to these latest attacks by Ukraine using American-made attack missiles. Folks, this isn't going to be a response in Ukraine.

This is going to be a response in the United States and Europe. Some place in America is going to disappear very soon. Doc, some place, some city is going to disappear very soon. Doc, some place, some city is going to disappear very soon. Okay. It seems surreal that we're saying this. We've finally arrived here, Doc. We finally arrived. We're here.

We've been covering this war since February of 2022, telling people we're headed towards a nuclear war. Do you remember when I was kicked off of a major Christian television for saying it? They canceled me. They canceled me the same day for saying it. About World War. Yes. And I said, those of you watching me, you should pray because there's no guarantee that we can get through the end of the year without a world war. It was TCT.

That's who it was. Right. Out in Illinois. Okay. We were prepaid in advance. We had paid a month's worth of time in advance. And they canceled us and refunded the money and said, get lost. Get out of here.

Yes, because you talked about world war. I remember the day when it seemed like half the preachers on Christian TV were talking about a potential world war, but not today. Not anymore. You say it now, you get canceled. Okay. But I will tell you this, God canceled the owners of that network. Yes, that's true.

I'll just say it like that. He canceled both of them, husband and wife. They both got canceled. One died six months later, and the spouse, the woman who was really the ringleader, she was removed from the board of directors in a scandal at the network over money. So, look, that's God's business how he's dealing dealing with that, right? I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do, okay? I'm not striking out at any of these people. I didn't do anything against them. When they canceled us, I said, okay, I got canceled. You know, I've been canceled by the devil. Now I'm being canceled by the Christian television networks. All I'm trying to do is tell people the truth, and I'm getting canceled.

So this is what RT reported. Russia is preparing a response to Ukraine's attack on the Kursk region. The Russian defense ministry announced, not their Department of Agriculture. Okay. This is their defense ministry. That's who's preparing the attack. Last week, U.S. President Biden authorized Kiev to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles against targets deep inside Russia's internationally recognized borders. In an official statement on Telegram, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that over the past three days, Ukraine's forces had conducted two

long-range strikes on the Kursk region using Western weaponry. On November 23rd, Kiev reportedly fired five attack on missiles at the vicinity of a village some 37 kilometers northwest of the city of Kursk, targeting the position of a S-400 anti-aircraft missile division. The strike resulted in three casualties among the personnel and caused damage to the radar. So three Russian soldiers died. Right. And I'll let you go ahead, Doc, and read this line. Additionally, on November 25th, Kiev launched another eight attackums at the Kurs of Vostochny airfield located near the village of Kalino.

Seven of the missiles were shot down using the S-400 missile defense system and the Panzer air defense missile and gun system. However, one of the missiles managed to reach its target. As a result, two servicemen were injured and several facilities were slightly damaged, according to the report. The ministry noted that during the inspections of the target areas, it was reliably confirmed that Kiev's forces had carried out the attacks using U.S.-supplied Atacom's missiles. The ministry also published several photos of what are purported to be the remains of the American-made rockets. The Russian Ministry of Defense is monitoring the situation,

and response actions are being prepared. Not being considered. Being prepared. Being prepared. Not being threatened. Being prepared. Not being considered. Being prepared. Being prepared. Not being threatened. Being prepared. Doc, we're past the part, we've passed the stage of threats. The red lines have been crossed

and there's no turning back now. Right. I don't know if Biden called Putin today and begged for forgiveness. I don't know if they would hold back from striking. I think the decision has been made. So they're not just going to hit a city in America, just any city. They're not going to spin a wheel and go, okay, it's Paducah.

It's going to be a major military base that is directly involved in the Ukraine war. And there's only a handful of bases that fit that profile. And it doesn't have to be necessarily inside the USA. It could be in Europe, could be in Poland, could be in Germany, or it could be inside the continental USA. Places like South Com or Norfolk, let's say.

Actively. Or Langley. Actively engaged. Yes, it could be Langley. It's going to be a site that is actively engaged. I don't think they're going to hit Washington, D.C. right away, because the reciprocal response from the United States will be to hit Moscow. So they're going to hit a military base.

The U.S. will then respond by sending a nuke to a Russian military base. This is probably going to happen this week. Going to mess up your Christmas shopping. Definitely going to mess up your Thanksgiving meal. You'll have something to give Thanksgiving for this Thursday. You're alive. We're that close. We are that close.

I do not believe Putin's going to back down. I do not believe he's going to back down. I do not believe he's going to back down. It would be a sign of weakness. The only thing, when I just said a minute ago, if Biden called him and begged, I would say if Joe Biden called Putin and said, look, we've taken this too far. I'm going to give him my word. We're not going to attack anymore. I'm going to hold back.

Let Donald Trump deal with this. I think Putin would restrain himself. But Biden's not going to do that. Biden wants the war. He wants Donald Trump to be embroiled. I think he wants a mess so big that Donald Trump can't even

go into the White House. And I'm not ruling out. We have Kamala Harris before this is all over. Now, today in Montreal, Canada, the the nato ukraine council is meeting following russia's launch of an intermediate range ballistic missile known as the hazel right Right. The hypersonic missile that they dropped on a target, a military site in Ukraine last week, came down out of the sky like a lightning bolt. Like steel lightning. And they gave the U.S. a heads up.

They gave a warning that they were going to strike. We were going to fire it. So what are you going to do, my friends, if today or tomorrow Russia announces the city that it's going to attack? Or optional cities, plural. Maybe they won't announce. Because, you know, you want to know why they may not announce? I mean, Putin said last week as a humanitarian gesture, we will give the cities time to evacuate.

But they may change that policy today because of this meeting in NATO. Right. In Montreal. I'll tell you why. Look at this story from Eurasia Daily. NATO is discussing the possibility of preemptive strikes against Russia, says Admiral Bauer. What's wrong with these people? The best defense is a first strike option.

Is that the logic that we're entering into? They're meeting in Montreal today to decide whether to launch a nuclear attack on Russia before Russia launches an attack on us for attacking them. Which one is the first strike? Because America has already done the first strike. It just wasn't nuclear. So we've already attacked their country. America

carried out a first strike on Russia using non- nuclear weapons, conventional weapons. And all of NATO is complicit in this, between the attackams, the storm shadows, and now new long-range missiles that are being given to Ukraine.

NATO is supposed to be a defensive alliance, Rick. No, it's offensive. NATO is discussing the possibility of preemptive precision strikes. I'm glad they're going to be precise about it. Preemptive precision strikes on the territory of russia in the event of an armed conflict with the alliance of countries this was stated at a conference in brussels by the head of the military committee of the bloc admiral rob bauer he was quoted by bloomberg quote it is more competent not to wait but to hit launchers in russia in case russia attacks us a combination

of precision strikes is needed that will disable the systems that are used to attack us and we must strike first we must strike first understand that admiral bauer said we must strike first yes did they read it today in moscow yes that's why i'm thinking they're not going to give a heads up warning to any cities they're going to say well if we're not we're not going to give a heads up are we no we They're going to say, well, if we're not going to give a heads up, are we? No, we're not going to say, hey, Russia, we're going to hit this military target right here. Right now, if Putin said today we're going to hit Norfolk, Bauer would be telling Biden you need to strike now. Yes. So they're not going to give a heads up. So guess what?

This is going to be a big surprise. We can guess which city in America is going to be nuked. We've got a short video of Admiral Bauer saying this about a first strike. It's smarter not only to do that, but also to attack the archer that is in Russia, if Russia attacks us. So you need to have a combination of the precision strike with which you can take out the weapon systems that are used to attack us. And of course, because we're a defensive alliance, we will have to take the first blow. So Russia will start the conflict because we are not going to attack Russia out of nothing. So yeah, we will need more air defense.

That's one of the lessons from Ukraine. And at the same time, we are going to invest in the deep precision strike. So we're going to strike first, but we're not going to strike first. We're going to carry out a preemptive attack, but we're not going to strike first. We're going to carry out a preemptive attack, but we're not going to strike first. But you've already attacked Russia. Right.

Using attack missiles. You've already attacked them. You just didn't use nuclear warheads on the attack. And Russia, what has Russia been saying for years? All this stuff that you're building along our border, at any moment you could load nuclear warheads on them. Right. And so these attackums one day could have a nuclear warhead attached to them. And the Russians know it. And there's talk of giving nuclear warheads to Ukraine.

Yes. It's so crazy. Sergei Lavrov said NATO has thrown away all decency. That's really putting it mild. This is his quote. He said just the other day the head of the military committee of NATO bluntly stated that in order to achieve the goals of protecting and defending the member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, it is necessary to preemptively strike at those targets on the territory of the Russian Federation that, in NATO's opinion, may pose a threat to the member countries of the alliance. He went on to say, I think there's nothing to comment on here. It is just that all decency has already been discarded and the true intentions are already announced publicly.

That's a very mild response. I mean, to say all decency has been discarded? I think the Russians are just stunned at the insanity of the West. They can't believe that we're acting this way. And it's put Minister Lavrov at a loss for words. He's at a loss for words. And if you go back and you listen to Admiral Bauer, he said, we can't strike first because we're a defensive organization. But in order to defend our territories, we're going to have to strike first. That's NATO logic for you.

Well, RT, transfer of nukes to Kiev would be viewed as an attack on Russia, says Medvedev. Yes, so Moscow will consider any threat of nuclear arms being supplied to Ukraine by the U.S. as preparation for a direct war with Russia. That's coming from Dmitry Medvedev, as you see him pictured there. The actual transfer of nuclear weapons would be tantamount to an attack on the country under Russia's new nuclear doctrine. In a Telegram post on Tuesday, Mr. Medvedev referenced a recent report in The New York Times. In a piece bylined by four of its journalists, The New York Times claimed the U.S. and EU officials are discussing deterrence as a security guarantee for Ukraine, claiming a conversation is underway to consider giving Ukraine nuclear weapons. So he had this response.

American politicians and journalists are seriously discussing the consequences of transferring nuclear weapons to Kiev. It seems that my sad joke about the crazy senile Biden, who decided to leave this life gracefully, taking a significant part of humanity with him, is turning into a frightening reality. He went on to say, The transfer of nuclear weapons to a country that is at war with the largest nuclear power? The very idea is so absurd that it raises suspicions about the presence of the paranoid psychosis in Joe the Walking Dead

and all those who discuss the advisability of such a step. And yet, we have to comment on the nonsense. 1. The very threat of transferring nuclear weapons to the Kiev regime can be considered as preparation for a nuclear conflict with Russia. Number two, the actual transfer of such weapons can be equated to an accomplished act of attack on our country in the sense of paragraph 19 of the Fundamentals of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence. The consequences are obvious.

He's saying we're getting ready to go into a nuclear conflict here over this. Are you really ready to go down that road? They are. Not only are they ready, they're eager. And the fact that the New York Times even mentioned this, that meant they were floating a trial balloon out there to see how people would respond to it. And people aren't in an

uproar about it. I think they'd be okay with this transfer. They'd be acclimated to it. Yeah. They'd transfer nukes to Ukraine, which I said back in 2022 that this is where it's going to end up. What else is left at that point? But eventually we'll go there.

If you keep going down the road that we started two and a half years ago, we would eventually end up at this place. But we're here. That's right. We're here. We may as well have given Ukraine nukes back in 2022 because that's where we're at right now. That's right. I want to remind

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put your email address in the box on the American Reserve's website. Doc, me personally, you know, I've been prepping a long time. I've got a lot of food, and I plan to feed other people. But I'm buying more food. I'm buying more food.

You know why? Because there are more people that need food. Right. And I'm aware now, yesterday, I'm aware I've got some employees on my staff that don't have food. Okay? I can't let that go. I've got to employees on my staff that don't have food. I can't let that go. I've got to do something. Who do you know? Maybe you have food, but who do you know in your circle of loved ones and friends who don't have food?

Order something for them. Order some buckets of American Reserves and give it to them. Say, hey, here's your Christmas gift early. You may have to dig into it before Christmas. You may have to pop the lid on this thing a lot sooner than any of us ever expect it. Okay? So, if you have food,

think about some other people. Because that's what I'm doing. I'm thinking about other people. I'm going to buy food for others right now. I've always said when it comes down to it, I'm going to feed other people. Well, Doc, it's come

down to it. We're here. We're here. This is it. We've finally reached this part, this point where the world is going to use nukes. And tens of millions of people are going to die. For what? For Zelensky? I know it's not for Zelensky.

It's for world domination. I'll tell you something else I did yesterday. So you were in my office. We were having a team leadership meeting in my office. We do every day. And we were talking about, we had trouble focusing on the agenda because that Robert Admiral Bauer article popped up in the meeting while I was there. And I said, hey guys, listen to this. Admiral Bauer just said that NATO is planning a first strike on Russia.

Well, that just pretty much killed the meeting. So after that, we're all talking about preparedness. And so while everybody was talking there, I made a phone call and left a message. And he called me back as soon as the meeting was over.

I've mentioned this before. I've delayed in putting in a hand pump, a manual pump on my well. Okay. I've got a deep well. It's got good water and the man that drilled the well uh you know he's aware that i've got a i've got a generator that you know i could still get water out if electricity went off okay and so he called me back last night as as i was getting in my car here at the office, and he said, Rick, what's the urgency?

Because he knew I have a generator. Because I said, Bob, how fast can you get out to my house and put a pump in? And I was like, can you do it faster? Can you do it sooner? Well, what's the urgency? And I said, Bob, an extended loss of power. Extended.

And he's like, well, how long? I said, a long time. Okay. I didn't want to go into it. I didn't want to say it over the phone. I didn't want to go into it. Hey, Bob, I'm talking about a nuclear war here.

Okay. How fast can you get out here and put a pump on my well? What do you need at your house? What do you need right now? My gosh. Get up and get moving. Get up and get moving. You better act now.

I've been a casual prepper, Doc. Because this has been going on for so long. I started prepping at Y2K. And I've been in a perpetual state of preparedness. But it's been a casual.

Oh, you know, get some more of this. When I have some money, I'll get this. Okay, now we're here. Now we're here. World War, nuclear war is on our doorstep. It's not going to be over there. It's going to be over here in our country. Yes. In our country. In the moment the first nuke goes off,

pandemonium, chaos, breaks out in the United States. Doc and I were talking about it this morning. I said, so Doc, if Putin announced the city that's going to be nuked, what response would there be? And Doc said, Rick, I don't think there'd be any response. I don't think people pay attention any response. I don't think people pay attention to it.

The media will say he's bluffing. Lindsey Graham will go on Fox News and say, don't you give in to Putin's mind manipulation. He's trying to manipulate you. Don't you dare evacuate. That's mind manipulation.

That's psychological warfare. That's psychological warfare. He's doing psyops on us. We're Americans. We're not going to evacuate. Boom. Right. That's what's going to happen. Then pandemonium breaks out in America, in the whole country.

And there's nothing left in any store. That's what's coming. We're giving you 20% off on American reserves. Again, if you have plenty for yourself, buy something for your children, your grandchildren, your uncle, your grandma, your neighbor. Buy something for somebody else. And even if you've already purchased items from American Reserves in the past, there are new items on there like the Kelly Kettle and others that might fill in the gaps for you where you're not quite as prepared as others.

So it's not just about food or water but having the other items too. That's right. Be able to access communications like shortwave radios. How are you going to cook your food? That's a great question, isn't it? How are you going to cook it? Let's say you don't have access to propane or anything like that. How will you cook your food? How are you going to boil the water?

Right. And where are you going to get the water? Right. Okay, British Brookfield, I'm confident. If my well stopped working, if the hand pump stops working, I've got a creek. Right. Okay, British Brookfield, I'm confident. If my well stopped working, if the hand pump stops working, you know, I've got a creek. Right. All right? I'm not telling you to drink creek water because I don't want the FDA coming in here.

But I would do it. For me, I would do it if there's no water. Right. I'd use that British Brookfield. Yes. That's why I do it. For me, I would do it if there's no water. I'd use that British Brookfield. That's why I bought it. That's exactly right. So consider it, folks. This is the time. We're talking about survival.

We're talking about survival. So what is the United States and Great Britain and France and Germany, what are they doing to calm things down so we don't have a nuclear war? Well, Bloomberg says Great Britain sent Ukraine more storm shadow missiles ahead of strikes in Russia. Now, that headline there, they sent the storm shadow missiles before the strikes on Russia. Darrell Bock No. That headline there, they sent the storm shadow missiles before the strikes on Russia. They were preparing for additional strikes on Russia. That's what's in the story here.

George Hicks Yes, yes. Ahead of strikes. Darrell Bock So the UK government recently supplied Ukraine with dozens more storm shadow cruise missiles, according to people familiar with the matter. A first under Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has pledged continued support for the country's war against Russia. These deliveries, which were not publicly announced, of course not, took place several weeks ago and were ordered after Kiev ran low on the long-range missiles, said the people who asked not to be identified discussing security issues. They were sent before the recent decision by the U.S. and the U.K.

to allow Ukraine to fire long-range missiles at targets inside Russia. Translation, folks, they knew that they were going to authorize the use of these missiles. That's why they sent them ahead of time. The people declined to say exactly when they arrive or give a precise number citing the need for operational security. Well, the cat's out of the bag now.

Remember that meeting Storm, or Storm, Care Starmer. I call him Storm. Yeah. He had that meeting with Joe Biden and the media said he didn't get what he wanted. Joe didn't give him the okay. And I remember if I said, no, he did.

Yeah. I remember you saying that. He gave him the okay. He just said, don't publicize it. Yes. We got it on the plan. Go ahead and get the missiles over there. In fact, I think when Starmer was coming back from G20, he heard the Biden announcement

on his way back. Starmer was on the plane back to the UK and I remember the media at the London Times saying Starmer, we're surprised that Biden had announced it. Right. Sure he was. How

extreme are the times right now? It's so extreme that, bless his heart, Tucker Carlson is appearing on podcasts like Clayton Morris' redacted and telling people it's the devil, it's Satan that's running the show right now. That's where we're at, okay?

And he's absolutely right. We've reached a place, Doc, that mainstream political and news figures, celebrities are now openly saying, this is satanic. There's no other explanation for it. Let's watch. You know, a million Ukrainians dead now or permanently maimed, an entire generation of young men wiped out, a country destroyed. And they're still trying to sell this thing. And then, of course, over the past few days, we've seen the madness that is unfolding in the White House, allowing long range missiles to be used from Ukraine at NATO's direction. Make no mistake, anyone watching this knows that Ukrainians don't even know how to use these missiles.

It's NATO that's doing it, of course, and attacking inside of Russia. And now and then with add on top of that, the Biden administration now has okayed anti-personnel mines to be used, something they've long said, absolutely, we won't use. These are basically a lot of like the same pedal mines that are thrown into the ground in Donetsk and the Donbass region. And children go to the playgrounds and they find these little pedal mines that look like leaves. They pick them up and their arms are blown off or they're killed. And the Biden administration was absolutely against this. This was their stance. And now suddenly within the past week, all of this has changed. So who the hell is running the White

House? I mean, you've got again, I know you're humble about this, but you've got amazing sources there like Biden is not. Who is running the White House? Who is our de facto president? Is it Antony Blinken right now? Is it Jake Sullivan? Who is doing this? Well, if you'd asked me yesterday morning, I would have said Tony Blinken, who has been running it since the beginning. But now I would say Satan, because anybody, I really think that you've got dark forces in charge. I mean, there's no justification for using anti-personnel minds in this conflict, which can't hope to be solved with anti-personnel minds resolved in any way. The only effect of that move is to kill innocents, period. That's it. That's the only effect. And they know that. And so they're doing it anyway, because killing is the point. So it's evil. I think we should say that. I don't think it's a matter of defending democracy. The president of Ukraine is not elected. He's a dictator. He literally passed his term and kept serving. He's a dictator. And that country's shut down a Christian

denomination, but priesthood, how many more markers of dictatorship do you need to call it what it is, which is totalitarian? So everything about it is horrifying. I'm so glad that you mentioned what's happening in the UK and France. There's the complicity of Western European countries in this really, I hope books are written about it, but there's something about a dying empire, you know, collapsing demographically, totally pointless finance-based economy, no self-respect at all. Nihilism rising. There's something about that mix, the final days of a dying civilization and, you know, having orgies in the streets and all that stuff. Really, the end of an empire is more like a kind of suicide, a kind of murder-suicide, where, you know, the formerly great power kills itself and then takes a lot of people out as it does. It's, like, more horrifying than I ever thought. You got it.

Yes, it is. We're living through it right now. You know, over the years, some people have accused me of being a drama queen, over emphasizing the possibility of nuclear war. And yet I've known, Doc, at times when the Holy Spirit is telling me grave danger. It's very dangerous right now. Tell the people, get them to the cross, get people to pray, okay? And the crisis subsides, okay, and then we just keep going, you know? Right.

I pray it happens again right now, but this one looks really dire. But look at this story I found today. The BBC, London. Russian deserter reveals war secrets of guarding nuclear base. The BBC said on the day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, this guy Anton, that was his name. Anton said that Russia's nuclear weapons base that he was serving on was put on full combat alert. This is February 2022. Yes. That would be February 24th. You understand what he's saying? This young man, his last name is Anton, that he was assigned to that nuclear base in Russia. And he said on the day that Russia invaded Ukraine, the nuclear forces went on full combat alert.

He said, quote, before that, we had only exercises. But on the day the war started, the weapons were fully in place. We were ready to launch the forces into the sea and air and, in theory, carry out a nuclear strike. We had constant training, exercises. Our reaction time was two minutes. Do you think they are more prepared or less prepared? More prepared. More prepared.

North Korea sent 100 ballistic missiles to Russia. It's a world war. Yes. North Korea sent more than 100 KN-23s and KN-24 missiles, short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, that is, to Russia, according to Ukraine's defense intelligence. Pyongyang joined the fray in August and is reinforcing Moscow's troops in Kursk after Kiev launched an incursion back this summer.

It says in this article by Newsweek, the aggressor state of Russia has received more than 100 such missiles from the DPRK, North Korea. The enemy first used these weapons in the war against Ukraine at the end of 2023, said the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. Along with the missiles, Pyongyang then sent its military specialists to Russia to service the launchers and participate in war crimes against Ukraine. These KN-23s and 24s capable of carrying nuclear warheads were developed by North Korea's short-range ballistic missiles and are variants of the Hwasong-11 missile. According to South Korea's National Intelligence Service, North Korea, this was what stunned me in the article. North Korea has delivered over 13,000 containers of artillery, missiles, and other conventional weapons to Russia since August of 2023. 13,000 containers of weaponry, Rick. The defense industry of North Korea is booming.

That's right. This comes as Reuters reports that North Korea is expanding a weapons manufacturing complex that assembles short-range missiles used by Russia. Now, speaking on the growing cooperation between Russia and North Korea, Associate Fellow of London-based think tank the Royal United Services Institute's Samuel Cranny Evans, speaking to Newsweek, said, the relationship between Russia and North Korea is clearly developing into a much closer one with various aspects and shared goals. When this war breaks out, we're not just going to be limited to a little piece of territory in the Ukraine. What I see in this article is that North Korea

sent to Russia 100 KN-23, KN-24 short-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. That's what I saw. That's the most important thing there besides the 13,000 shipping containers.

100 short-range missiles built to deliver nuclear warheads. Short-range. Short-range as in Europe. A hundred of them. Telegraph. We didn't get to this yesterday uh london telegraph mystery drone spotted over british aircraft carrier i'm not going to go into all the details uh it says a mystery drone has been spotted following a british aircraft carrier at sea after unmanned aerial vehicles were seen hovering over three air bases in england yes an unidentified

drone appeared to tail the royal navy flagship the hms queen elizabeth as it entered the port of hamburg in germany on friday the german military position guards around the port attempted to target the drone with jammers before it flew away, according to German newspapers. Today, Sky News reporting drones spotted again. Again. Now, this is a first time. Over a U.S. air base in Great Britain. Right.

So they appeared last week and then appeared again this week. So a number of drones have again been spotted over three air bases in Britain that are used by the U.S. Air Force. U.S. military units on Tuesday were still monitoring the airspace over Royal Air Force Lake in Heath and Royal Air Force Mildenhall in Suffolk and Royal Air Force Feltwell in Norfolk after the unmanned aerial vehicles were sighted overnight, a spokesperson said. Rick, these drones that are flying over, why don't they knock them out in the sky? What's stopping them? I don't know.

It's the same thing like we had here in the U.S., where, remember that Air Force General said, hey, they were up on a building watching the drones. Remember that? Right. Why, hey, they were up on a building watching the drones. Remember that? Right. Why aren't you in active warfare? Why aren't you knocking those suckers out of the sky? I don't know, Doc. I don't get this.

The drones are flying over warships and military bases. And this is twice within a week on these air bases in the U.K. Okay. You get yourself a little model airplane and fly it over a U.S. military base and see, count how many minutes it takes for the military to show up at your house. Right.

Or a missile to show up at your house. Right. You're going to have some MPs over at your house, and they're going to confiscate your little aircraft and you with it. So I have to ask the question, then who are these drones? Who do they belong to? I don't know. I don't know.

What do you think? It just seems to me like if it was a – you know, we let balloons fly over the U.S. Who am I to answer that? I mean, they're trying to make it sound like the Russians did it, but if it was the Russians, you'd knock them out of the sky, right? You would think so. But are Western leaders talking big and acting little? They're all hat and no cattle, as we would say. I mean, you would be probing to see how far you can go.

What can you do? You're not getting a response. Reuters, not going to go into detail, Russia kicks out a British diplomat for spying. Times of Israel will switch over to, you know, World War III is still going on in the Middle East. Right. Major escalation today. We'll go to the Middle Eastern theater of World War III. Israel hits 20 sites in Beirut within two minutes.

Now, guess what, Doc? The IDF gave the people in those apartments. See, those are apartment buildings burning. Those aren't military bases. Right. These are the suburbs of Beirut. Those aren't, that's not, you know, Lebanese Air Force Base. Okay.

Those aren't rocket launcher sites. Those are apartment buildings. Doc, the Israelis gave the residents a two-minute evacuation notice. Two minutes. They can say, we notified them. We gave them two minutes to run. Run, little kids, run. Oh, hey, leave grandma behind. She can't run. You run, little kids. You know how sick these people are. You know how sick they are, how evil and wicked these Zionists are. They gave two-minute warnings to apartment

buildings with children and elderly and sick people living in it. I wonder if Russia is going to give a two-minute warning. Well, hey, wouldn't that be about right? If you do it the Jewish way, give them a two-minute warning. Hey, give them a warning. Two minutes. They're slow. They didn't run fast enough.

Not our fault. We gave them a warning. Two minutes. They're slow. They didn't run fast enough. Not our fault. We gave them a warning. Yeah. United Nations comes here. International Criminal Court. We got it in writing. We gave them a two-minute warning. So you're on the ninth floor of an apartment building in Beirut.

You get a two-minute warning. Yes. How far do you think you're getting? Everybody's trying to get in the elevator. Yeah. Sick. Sick. Dement demented, evil, wicked. What words can you describe the Israelis? I'll get some video.

This is fresh. This is today. These are the apartment buildings hit in Beirut. This isn't Gaza. This is Beirut, Lebanon. Right. And once again, as Rick said, this isn't an airfield. This isn't an army base or anything like that. Downtown. Yeah. If you believe the Israelis, they'll tell you oh, they hit a rocket launcher up there where

the little girl lives up on the eighth floor. All those plumes of smoke are apartment buildings. Yes. Because there might be one Hezbollah member living in an apartment building. Somewhere in that neighborhood. With 900 people in the building. So you kill everybody in the building. And the neighborhood.

And the neighborhood. That's the Jewish way. And they get away with it. Why? Because they're Jewish it's not right it's not right I'm going to tell you when this big war gets going

I believe almighty God's going to get involved in the war, and he's going to mete out some justice to people. Wall Street Journalists, a little politics and mostly financial, okay? So, President Trump nominated Scott Besant, hedge fund billionaire to be the new Treasury Secretary. He happens to be married to a man. His husband is John Freeman. And they have two children. No, you don't.

Two men can't produce children. You legally got children from somebody, but you didn't produce them. Show me how you did that, okay? Anyhow, that's who Mr. Trump is. He's not his husband either. So, Mr. Trump said the highest official in the cabinet running our financial system is going to be a homosexual. Okay? That's the MAGA way, okay?

Make America gay again. All right. Isn't that what it is? Are you upset about it? You voted for it? Did you vote for homosexuality? Did you do it? That's who you got. Well, let's get past that. Because America's

judgment's underway right now. It's coming, folks. It's coming really fast. Okay? What I want you to see in this article, the headline, this Wall Street Journal, Scott Pesent sees a global, a coming global

economic reordering. He sees a coming global economic reordering, a new world order. And he also said, I want to be a part of it. He wants to be part of it. Okay. So he said, we are going to have to have some kind of grand global economic reordering. I'd like to be a part of it.

I've studied this. Guess who he worked for? Now, if you're disgusted with Mr. Trump for appointing a homosexual to run the Treasury Department, this next one ought to make you double puke. Mr. Bessette joined the Soros Fund Management in 1991. From 2011 to 2015, Mr. Bessette was George Soros' chief investment officer, helping to earn more than a billion dollars for george soros that's when he left 2015 to start his own hedge fund company key square capital management but where did he cut his teeth working for george soros and george and donald trump put a george Soros man in the Treasury. How do you explain that, MAGA people?

Tell me. How do you explain that? What's your explanation for it? Are you going to tell me you're going to cheer for this? You got a gay Soros protege running the Treasury Department. Am I wrong? Am I wrong? I got all the way. Am I wrong? You're not wrong.

Your Treasury Secretary? There aren't other qualified people for the Treasury Department. Right, right. Is that the message that we're getting here? Okay. Now, okay. But I want you to stay focused on the global, grand global economic reordering. Remember, the man worked for Soros. Soros has gotten him inside the Trump administration.

Yes. Okay? Yes. Okay. Soros got his top man inside the Trump administration as Secretary of the Treasury. If Kamala Harris had won and nominated a George Soros protege. Scott Besant. Yes. Yeah, if Kamala Harris had nominated this guy. We'd say, well, that figures George Soros and gay. Yeah.

And so you got a gay Soros man running the Treasury Department. But we voted for Trump and we got a George Soros man. I'm sorry if I'm offending people. That's what I do for a living. If you're going to tell the truth, you have to tell the truth. You can't worry about what people think. I'm getting your focus on this. There's going to be some kind of grand global economic reordering.

I want to be part of it. I found this article in the Gold Telegraph. And there's Richard Nixon. And what did Richard Nixon do? He rescinded. He took the dollar off the gold standard. That's right. Okay.

And who advised him to do it? Henry Kissinger. Okay. And he put us on the oil standard. Is the United States considering a gold-backed Treasury instrument? The author is Alex DeLuce, goldtelegraph.com. For the United States issuing ultra-long-term bonds, a concept previously explored during the Trump administration under then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. However, a compelling idea is now being openly discussed instrument that includes the gold convertibility of the dollar upon maturity. She recently tweeted about a proposal for a 50-year treasury bond convertible into gold to be issued on July 4th, 2026.

That's our 250th anniversary. Are you following what we're talking about here? That the Trump administration is considering a U.S. Treasury instrument that includes a gold convertibility of the U.S. dollar upon maturity. It would be a 50-year bond. And at the end of the 50 years, you cash it out for gold.

This is amazing, Doc. I agree. This would be awesome. Although, for me, 50 years isn't a good investment at this point. But for somebody that inherits your bonds, they're going to say, man, Doc, that was awesome that you bought that. Okay, so what this is confirming is what we've been saying here for years. There's going to be a new world order, maybe two or three of them. And at least one of them, maybe two, will have gold-backed financial instruments.

Perhaps their currency. All right, we've talked about the BRICS coming out with a gold-backed currency. Now we're talking about the Treasury having a gold-backed bond. It's a 50-year bond. Now, corporations, 50 years, that's a good investment. Sure. We buy it with fiat money. 50 years later, the corporation cashes out and gets real gold.

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And, hey, I've been promising to do this, folks. He really has. I've been giving you a lot of, I mean, we dump a lot of heavy stuff on you every day. And you know what I do at night before I go to bed? A couple things I do. And don't start the music here until I'm done talking, okay? We're not on shortwave anymore. We don't have to stop exactly at one hour.

And if I want to stop at 45 minutes, I can do that. We can do anything we want to do because we're not on broadcast anymore. Oh, before I get to this, okay? Because I'm realizing I'm rushing. See, I'm looking at the clock and I'm making myself rush. I don't need to pay attention to the clock. The clock is meaningless. We have a broadcast clock here.

It's counting down. I want to go to number 25. This is the Times of London. London's Smithfield market set to close after 900 years. Man, Times is jumping all over. That's a meat market that's been open for 900 years. It's a wholesale market, Doc. This is where, you know, grocery stores go to get their meat.

It's been operating since medieval ages just hard to believe so a market has operated on or near the smith smithfield site since the 10th century in 1174 it was described by william fitzstevens clerk to thomas beckett as a smooth field where every Friday there is a celebrated rendezvous of fine horses to be sold, and in another quarter are placed vendables of the peasant swine with their deep flanks and cows and oxen of immense bulk. So the corporation was given the right to run it and other wholesale food markets in 1327 by King Edward III. Just 750 years ago. So it's not that it's going out of business. It's the city of London.

The city of London wants to develop the land. In other words, they can make a lot more money with that land than selling a side of beef there. That's what it comes down to. So they're going to tear it down and put up houses, buildings, apartments, whatever. Okay? It's valuable land in the center of London. But I quickly did some history on it. And the one thing I found out about it is that that meat market, that site, it wasn't inside the market, but the site Smithfield, is where William Wallace was executed.

That's right. Of Scotland. Braveheart. That's where Braveheart was executed. They killed him at the site of that Smithfield meat market. this is what's on wikipedia following the trial on 23rd august 1305 wallace was taken from the hall to the tower of london stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the elms at smithfield he was hanged, drawn, and quartered, strangled by hanging,

but released while he was still alive, emasculated, eviscerated, with his bowels burned before him. He's still alive. He'd been drawn and quartered, mind you. And the man was still alive. This is Braveheart beheaded and cut into four parts. Did he die?

That part. When did he die? I would have to say sometime in that general timeline. William Wallace's head was dipped in tar and placed on a spike atop London Bridge. But that took place at Smithfield Commons. Yes. Wow. Okay.

So, what I've been telling you, okay, so, you know, I've been reading this horrible news for 26 years, 25 doing a program, and at times it takes its toll on me mentally, emotionally. It does physically. I mean, it wears on you. But we don't just spend an hour here. We spend many hours

searching for this crap. Okay? I mean, we're bringing this all out. I mean, you've got to search. You have to look for it to put together a story. Here's what's happening today in the world. Here's the news that they're not going to tell you today. It takes a toll on you.

And so I learned years ago, I was at a point one time, I almost thought, I thought I got to quit to maintain my own mental health. And I told the Lord that. I said, I can't look at this stuff anymore. I just can't do it. I don't know what to do. And the Holy Spirit told me, he said, you need to listen to calm music while you're looking. That's how I found Andre Rieu. I found his orchestra.

I asked the Lord, I said, I don't know any calm music. So what am I supposed to listen to? And he led me to Andre Rieu. That's the first time I ever heard of Andre Rieu. So then I started finding other music. So I learned to listen to music. I can disengage my

mind. Part of my mind is working on finding the news and yet the other side of my mind is listening to music. So I'm able to have some equilibrium here while I'm doing this. Folks, if you spend too much time looking at this stuff, this stuff will affect your brain. It will affect.

It will rewire your brain. I'm telling you, a lot of you are listening and watching too many podcasts. And you're listening to a lot of people who don't know what they're talking about, and they're actually feeding you information that's going to hurt you. You've got to get the Word of God in you. You absolutely have to get the Word of God in you. Thank God we have all these people that are watching Morning Manna with us, taking the class with us every day. It's a lifesaver.

It is. It is. I'm spending three hours every morning preparing for a one-hour Bible lesson. That's changed me. And I thank the people that make me get up every day to do morning manna. Thank you so much. You've made me discipline myself to get up at 4 a.m. and study the Word for three hours to be ready for an 8 a.m. Bible study. Thank you. Because if these people wouldn't be showing up every day, I probably

wouldn't do it, dog. You slip back into your old patterns, okay? So, you know, I listen to music. I read the word of God you gotta spend time in prayer you gotta you gotta turn this world off every night before I fall asleep

I I I listen to old time radio 1940s comedy shows they crack me up it was like funny

funny stuff from the some of them the 30s the 40, funny stuff from some of them, the 30s, the 40s. Some of it's dated, but a lot of humor is not dated at all. It's just funny. I like the Santa skit you said. Did you listen to it? That was funny, wasn't it?

It was. Okay. That was 1942. I think it was a 1942 radio show. It was a Bob Hope radio show. Right. Okay. And the other thing to do, you know, I love animals. Okay. And so I've just had this thought, you know, every once in a while, I'm just going to end this show just showing you some animal videos off of social media just to remind you.

To remind you that God created a beautiful world. and there are things far more wonderful than the stuff that we spend our time looking at and talking about and sending text messages to everybody saying, did you see this? Did you see that? We need to keep our minds on the most simple things of life.

So I got two videos. Again, every night before I go to bed, I look at some animal videos just to wind down, hey, remember, Rick, what life is about. There's children, there are animals, there's good things. This first one,

you've got both in this video, a boy and his dog. Watch this. So you've just got a boy just enjoying the presence of his dog there. As it reminded me of Gator. All right. Just there's a golden retriever like, hey, I'm here with you.

What are we looking at right now? Okay. Second one, this is a deer. Watch this deer swim. Entering the water there, taking those first steps, and then just enjoying the water. Just a peaceful, tranquil moment. Just floating down the river. I just want to jump in, too. Right. Just a peaceful, tranquil moment. Just floating down the river.

I just want to jump in, too. Right. See, that's happening every hour all over the world, Doc. Animals don't know anything about humans. They don't know there's a nuclear war coming. They don't know about any of this stuff. And there's a lot of beauty around us that we miss because we're so focused on those little windows. We're missing the things. We're missing the beauty that's around us.

It's right near you. And that's the point I'm trying to make. There are beautiful things around you. And we miss it because we're so focused on the evil of this world and the business of the world. And I'm just encouraging you, as the world becomes more dire and extreme and evil and frightening, make a deliberate effort to think about the good things in life. That's it for now. Amen. I'll see you tomorrow.

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Our gift to you for your gift of $200 or more. Make sure you request the Christmas gift bag when you donate $200 or more. Good morning and welcome to Morning Manor. We're glad to have you with us. And today we are studying verses 33 through 38 in the 27th chapter of the Gospel of St Saint Matthew. There's one more chapter, chapter 28. We will get to that chapter in December and finish up our study of the book of Matthew for 2024. We spent the entire year in the book of Matthew. So today we're looking at verses 33 through 38. I'm going to pray. Doc's going to read the word. We will begin our lesson. Dear gracious Father, this is an awesome, beautiful day, and you have made it, and we

choose to rejoice in it. Father, we come to the breakfast table to be fed today, and we ask the Holy Spirit to give us the nourishment that we need to face this day and to understand the times. Father, bless the teaching and the receiving of your word. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. And as Rick mentioned, we are in chapter 27, and we'll pick back up again today at verse 33. So if you've got your Bibles, please turn to Matthew 27, 33. Read along with me. I'm reading from the King James today down to verse 38. And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall.

And when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet. They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. And sitting down, they watched him there. And they set up over his head the accusation written, This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand

and another on the left. God bless the reading of his word today. Amen. Golgotha there are variations in pronunciation and spelling that reflect the words used across languages including greek latin syriac. So the term, the original term comes from the Aramaic language, which Jesus spoke. He didn't speak Hebrew. He spoke Aramaic. And there are still people in Palestine today speaking Aramaic. Yes. yes it's dwindling but they are still speaking the tongue that Jesus spoke

and the reason why it's dwindling is because well we won't get into that today yes because the speakers are dwindling so the Aramaic word was Golgotha. The Hebrew is Golgotha.

And the Latin is Calvary, which is where we get Calvary. So Calvary is equivalent to Golgotha. But it's the Latin word. It's the Latin version to Golgotha. Right, but it's the Latin word. It's the Latin version of Golgotha. The Latin is Calvary. Calvary. Golgotha means place of the skull. There are different opinions about why it's called the place of the skull.

Some say the hill resembled a skull. Others say it got its name because of the presence of human skulls left behind from executions i wasn't it wasn't a good it was not a place to go to for family vacation or picnic um it's where they executed people now doc the early Christian fathers taught that Adam's skull, that Adam himself was buried there. Right. Jesus's crucifixion at that site was significant theologically because it linked the first man to the last Adam and the salvation that he brought to mankind.

Right. So that Adam supposedly was buried there. And that being where Jesus was crucified. So you got the full circle that comes around there. Now, of course, there's no way to prove that Adam was buried there. But it was a commonly held popular doctrine in the early centuries. Well, the one I heard most often as a young preacher was that the reason why it was called Golgotha is because it was shaped like a big old head.

It had the bald head and everything, so it looked like a skull. But actually, the Gospels do something different with golgotha than other writers do at that same time the other writers uh you know mentioned golgotha just a general place whereas the gospels give it a specific name it's kind's kind of hard to describe there in that they make Golgotha a proper name, whereas other writers of that same period outside of the Gospels give it kind of a general name, not a specific place name. So it's interesting that the gospel make it a specific place. This is the Golgotha, not a general Golgotha. So I'm going to stay on this theme just for a second here about the possibility that Adam was buried at Golgotha.

No, there is no biblical evidence that Adam was buried at Golgotha. There's just, there's church tradition. But I think it's wise to consider early church tradition because they were closer to the true events than we are today 2,000 years later. And they had access to information that we don't have today. That's right. That's right. So the connection of Adam being buried at Golgotha

symbolizes that just as sin entered the world through Adam, redemption came through Christ at the same location. By the last Adam. By the last Adam. Which signifies Jesus' victory over sin and death at the same site where humanity's fall began. So they actually taught that the Garden of Eden was there. That the Garden of Eden was there in the Holy Land.

Now, that doctrine was still being taught in the fourth century there's still writings available in the fourth century that that uh promoted this view now there was something else the early church fathers taught that the blood of jesus dripped down from the cross went into the soil and through the sediment touched the bones of adam right which symbolized the redemption of humanity through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross on Golgotha. Something else. The Chapel of Adam is built beneath Golgotha. And it is said to mark the spot where Adam was buried. So in the 4th century, Emperor Constantine,

who played a role, especially his mother, in Christianizing the Holy Land, his mother was, I guess guess the first biblical archaeologist. And she went to Palestine and took a lot of Roman soldiers with her and a lot of money and excavated biblical sites, built churches, built monasteries. She was very active. So the Chapel of Adam, it's connected here to Constantine because Constantine is the one who authorized

the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. And the Chapel of Adam was constructed inside the church of the Holy Sepulchre. And for centuries, and I guess, to this day, pilgrims go there, especially the Orthodox, the older denominations. They know the story of Adam being buried there. They don't doubt it. Again, we have no biblical evidence, but I'll tell you what I do have evidence.

I'll tell you what I can state for a fact that the site of Golgotha was the place of disgrace in the execution of the Son of God and it became the place of grace. The place of disgrace became the place of grace. That's a fact. You can take that one to the bank. It became the site of mankind's redemption. Praise God. Um, It became the site of mankind's redemption. Praise God. Executions were required to occur outside Jerusalem to fulfill Jewish law.

Sacrifices burned outside the camp. So Jesus' crucifixion outside the city symbolizes the removal of sin from the community. Some other points, Golgotha being near the city, outside the city, was accessible to passersby. Yes. People could see, travelers could see the executions. The Romans wanted you to see it. They wanted people to see criminals on the crosses.

Why? Because it reminded you who was in control. see criminals on the crosses. Why? Because it reminded you who was in control. It reinforced Roman authority, Roman law and order. See those guys up there? That's what's gonna happen to you if you become a criminal and break the laws of Rome. So the Romans wanted people to ride by in their donkey carts or walk by. They wanted them to see the crosses. Golgotha associated with death and shame

became a symbol of life and redemption it became a symbol of triumph over sin and death it became the location of victory over satan so golgotha's association with death and disgrace is inverted through the crucifixion and now it became a beacon a beacon of hope a beacon of hope, a beacon of salvation. And if this legend of Adam's burial of Golgotha is true, it links Jesus' atoning death to the restoration of humanity's broken relationship with their maker verse 34 they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall and when he had tasted thereof he would Matthew describes it as

vinegar with gall vinegar mingled mixed with gall Mark calls it wine mingled with myrrh so the vinegar that they're talking about here is a sour wine right it's just it's the cheapest

wine you could buy and it was common among the roman soldiers because that's what they could sour the gall which represents bitterness you know the Bible speaks of somebody in in the gall of bitterness a gall and bitterness are synonymous and And what this gall was, was a narcotic substance. Right. Some people think it was wormwood or poppy juice or hemlock. It was something to numb the senses, dull the pain of the men nailed to the crosses. And ironically, it extended the suffering. Yes. They gave it

to the victims on the crosses as an act of mercy. Like, okay, the least we can do right now, you're suffering so much, it's even making us hurt. Making us sick. Yeah.

So we're going to give you some drugs, put you out of your mind until you die. I mean, think of giving somebody cocaine before they're electrocuted. Yeah. I'm going to give you some drugs so the the shots won't hurt so much so that's what was happening here they were they were tempting to give Jesus a mixture is the drugs were in the cheap wine the vinegar. But it fulfilled a prophecy, Psalm 69, 21.

They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst, they gave me sour wine to drink. Every detail. Every detail. Prophesied centuries earlier. He tasted it, but he

did not drink it. He rejected it. Why? He tasted it, but he pushed it.

Well, he didn't. He couldn't push. He just refused to take it. He let him know, I don't want it. You know, he closed his lips.

I don't want it. He understood the purpose of the drink. The drink would have dulled his senses. He would have been under the influence of narcotic drugs.

And he was determined not to let that happen to him. That he was going to stay in his right mind and bear the suffering of the cross. That's why he refused it. His determination to bear the full weight of suffering without relief, anesthesia, narcotic drugs. No, I'm not taking it I'm going to I'm going to go through this experience in my right mind

it it speaks of his his commitment to fully endure the suffering on the cross required for humanity's redemption. Yes. He refused even the slightest bit of relief. Like, you know, I have to feel this pain. I have to go through it. It wasn't going to wake up in his tomb with a hangover.

Right. I don't know how else to put it. That's really what what this was about. He's like, I got to be in my right mind. I'm going to descend to the place of the dead, and I can't be stoned when I get there. I'm going to face the devil, and I'm going to confiscate some keys.

Verse 35, and they crucified him and parted his garments casting lots that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet they parted my garments among them and upon my vesture did they cast lots doc you want to explain what casting lots was? The closest thing we have to it today is like throwing dice. You know, that's probably the closest thing we have to it to consider today. But they were little objects, multi-sided stones or a piece of rock or even pieces of wood. And, you know, that was commonly used sometimes to help make decisions. We see examples of casting lots in the Book of Acts. But this is the Roman soldiers casting lots for the purpose of gaining, you know,

the remnants of Jesus's garments and everything and so basically it was gambling so yeah it's kind of a heads I win tails you lose thing right we're going to cast the leaves lots and depending on how they fall uh we will decide who will own the garments. I always thought it was interesting that in the movies where they portray Jesus at this point on the cross and the Roman soldiers or whoever it is down at the foot of the cross that's gambling for his garments. The garments are perfectly clean like they just came from the dry cleaners. They're white, you know, or they're red, or whatever it might be in the movies.

But in my mind, and it's always been this way since I was a teenager, these bloody garments that were wrapped, they put the garments back on him after he was scourged, after he was beaten to a pulp by the Roman soldiers in the praetorium, and then they put his own clothes back on him, and you can just imagine as he's walking down to Jerusalem, down out to Golgotha, the blood that's pouring from his body and his garments are just soaked with blood and they're down at the foot of the cross gambling over blood soaked garments um that was always an image that uh has been sharp in my mind since ever since i was a teenager why would they gamble

over bloody clothes um and it uh you know, because especially since the movies, you know, make them so white and clean and everything. I understand why they do it. But anyway, that was just a thought of mine. Yeah, that's making me think about the soldier who won. What happened to him later? He went home with a bag full of clothes soaked in the blood of Jesus Christ. Yeah. Now, if you believe the Hollywood version, John Wayne is the one that won the garments, and he was also the one that looked up at the cross. Surely this was a righteous man.

That was in the movie The Greatest Story Ever Told. It had that white garment, and it was John Wayne, so it had to be true, Rick. That's true. That's true. That's true. But that's just it. I imagine going home that night or going back to camp and said, look what I won today, guys. I won this bloody garment of the king of the Jews.

What was the purpose of winning that bloody garment? But it had to have some effect on him. I'll tell you, if he didn't get saved and healed and delivered, I don't know what else could happen. But the Bible doesn't tell us. We don't know. So we know that crucifixion was a Roman form of execution. It was marked by extreme pain. There was shame.

There was degradation. The condemned prisoner was stripped bare, laid on a cross beam, nailed by the hands and feet. Some were tied, but mostly nailed. Jesus was nailed. The cross is raised up, fixed into place. it's put into a socket in the ground, and the victim is left hanging there in intense agony until death, which is usually cardiac arrest. you know, cardiac arrest, the inability to breathe, a cruel, cruel way to die, suffocation.

They either died by suffocation or heart attack or blood loss. Those were the three. Or or combination of all three again as we said the other day the Bible doesn't go into the gruesome gory details because that's not the main the main point God wants you to know about what he wants you to know about is What he wants you to know about is not what happened to the man on the cross, but why he was on the cross.

He was on the cross for you and me. The focus is on the sacrifice. The scripture quotes Psalmsalm 22 18 they divide my garments among them and for my clothing they cast lots again details the tiniest details prophesied centuries earlier. They're going to divide up my clothing and they're going to gamble for them with casting lots. But what's important for us to know is that Jesus' nakedness symbolized the depth of his humiliation and sacrifice for us, which has enabled us to god's will and his willing to bear humanity's shame and sin see when they stripped him

what can be more shameful than to tell you what's more shameful our sin that's right our sin is more shameful than than him naked on a cross so he bore shame for us for our shame, our sin. Because when God's looking at unsaved humans, he's seeing them in their nakedness. So, it's nakedness. It's interesting that Adam and Eve in the garden were aware of their nakedness before God. Now the Son of God is naked before everyone and before God.

That's a really good point. That's a really good point. The moment Adam sinned, he knew he was naked. And God said to him, who told you you were naked? They were naked and they didn't know it. The reason they didn't know it is that there was no sin. There was no shame in being naked but the nakedness of Jesus and his suffering symbolizes this redemptive exchange his shame for humanity's righteousness yes his suffering on a cross

transformed an instrument of shame the cross into a symbol of redemption amen up until that day the cross always represented shame but for over 2 000 years the cross has now represented redemption one act on one day changed the meaning of an object the cross Psalm 22 there's a lot of Messianic overtones in Psalm 22 verse 1

my God my God why hast thou forsaken me what did Jesus say on the cross? The very same words. Why art thou so far from helping me? Verse 7 and 8. All they that see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip.

They shake the head saying he trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him let him deliver him seeing he delighted in him what were the people saying hey Jesus if you're God

come down off the cross where's your father why isn't he saving you verses 14 and 18 again this is of of Psalm 22 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint my heart is like wax it is melted in the mist of my bowels verse 15 my strength is dried up my tongue cleaveth to my jaws and thou has brought me into the dust of death 16 for dogs have compassed me the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me they pierced my hands and my feet verse 17 i may tell all my bones they look and stare up they look and stare upon me verse 18 they part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture

it was Jesus who gave the prophecy to the psalmist hey go sing a song about this this is going to happen to me someday day verse 36 and sitting down they watched him there okay what can we do with this short verse and sitting down they watched him there so the soldiers were tasked with ensuring Jesus remained on the cross until death to prevent any of his disciples from attempting to rescue him. They didn't want anyone to intervene to remove him prematurely. Right. And there's actually historical records that the Romans at times had, they brought bodies down from the cross

and they weren't dead. Right. And the people, the victims revived and took off, left. That had been some story. You i was crucified once yeah it hurt really bad you know uh that's an ornery critter get off the cross and run away all right but what was usually the form that when i went about with crucifixion is you were left up on the cross for days after you were dead. Jesus was the exception because Joseph of Arimathea made arrangements with Pontius Pilate to remove Jesus before sundown that day to be buried uh there's no record that that was that the uh two thieves on either side of jesus were buried that day no indication at all along that because

normally they were just left there uh for days and the soldiers had to sit there to make sure they died make sure they they were dead dead. But I believe one of them did die that day. They may have left his body up there, but I believe the one died that day because Jesus said, this day you shall be with me in paradise. But the fact of the matter is that the reason why the soldiers were there, they were supposed to sit there to make sure first of all, that the bodies weren't stolen or revived and to make sure that they died, died.

In fact, that's why the soldiers, you know, and the other gospels mentioned that they were going to break, they broke the legs of the thieves, but didn't, uh, break any of Jesus's bones. And that fulfilled scripture too because Jesus had already expired yes um crucifying executing prisoners was a very serious business in a Roman Empire they took it very seriously so there was not there was no slack. It wasn't done sloppily. They had soldiers there to oversee every minute detail. Everything was done according to Roman regulations.

And that's why the soldiers sat there. And sitting down, they watched him there yeah we're gonna be here all day let's just sit down and watch him think about there there's a great sermon in that verse because most of the world is sitting there watching Jesus on the cross. Oh, doc, that'll preach. Yeah. They sat and watched. You had the opportunity. You saw Christ crucified.

You see him on the cross. And yet you're just watching. You're just watching. You're not making any movement. You're not making any confession. You're just watching Jesus on the cross. I'll have to research. There's probably a high probability that Alexander McLaurin preached that sermon, Doc.

Somewhere back in the 1800s. That's a powerful message. Because the soldiers, their action of sitting there and watching represents humanity's blindness to the sacrifice of the Son of God on the cross. They could see him, and yet they didn't perceive. Yes. They could see the Son of God being crucified, yet they did not perceive it was the Son of God dying for their sins. Here it is, the moment of the world's greatest crisis. I mean, really, this is the point of all history, before and after. History hinges

on the cross right here, and they're sitting calmly looking at it. It kind of reminds me of today, Rick. There's so much that's happening in the world around us, and people are just sitting calmly by, watching missiles go by through the air, watching sin, watching men getting married. They're just watching calmly by. All of our sin was on that cross, and we're just sitting there watching it. Yes. Don't get started here, Rick.

I might have an altar call. No, because the act of watching Jesus is symbolic of humans' superficial relationship with God. It's a very superficial relationship. Oh, we can see him physically, we see him up there, but we don't understand anything spiritually. And think about what these people heard from the cross that day. They heard Jesus say things like, Father, forgive them. Today

you're going to be with me in paradise. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? So they heard these things from this just man. And they knew he was a just man. And they sat calmly by watching the show. Yes. Talking about sports and women and liquor and whatever.

I won this tuning. Yeah. Watching, sitting and watching the Son of God die for them. Verse 37, and set up over his head his accusation written, this is Jesus, the King of the Jews. Notice the accusation. Not his title. This is the accusation against him.'s the king of the Jews so the Romans

often displayed at the cross the criminal accusation the charge the indictment so everybody knew why that guy was up there on the cross he was a thief he was a murderer whatever it was they'd put a wooden board they'd nail it to the cross and they used red or black ink to write the criminal accusation on the board again it was meant as a public declaration of the crime to deter others saying you don't even want to think about doing that you'll end up here on one of these boards so that that's the idea, this sign. Every cross had a sign. Right. Now, the Gospel of Mark says that this was a fulfillment of prophecy too, though.

Yes. From Isaiah 53, 12. And it says, Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoiled with the strong, because he hath poured out his soul unto death. And he was numbered with the transgressors. And that's, Mark says that this is the fulfillment of that.

And he bare the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors. Yes. So, it was a common custom to put the sign on the cross but it was prophetic what was put on the sign and in the other gospels it mentions that the jewish leaders approached pilate and said can you change the sign can you say he said he was the king of the Jews? And Pilate says, I have written what I have written. Even he was fulfilling prophecy and didn't even know it. Yep. God used a wicked old Roman emperor, a Roman governor to fulfill prophecy. I just think it's ironic that the Jewish leaders were engaged in propaganda at the cross. This is, he said he was the king of the Jews.

Not that he is the king of the Jews. We don't want everybody thinking this guy up on a cross is actually the king of the Jews. He just said it. They were trying to change the narrative. That's right. And you know, they had lawyers there. Yeah, they had to cross.

So the sign was written in three languages, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin. Yes. All right. So it was done for that for several reasons.

Number one, to make sure everybody could read it. Yes. You were going to speak one of those languages. Aramaic, Greek or Latin. Guaranteed. Yes. The Palestinians, both the Jews and the Arabs spoke Aramaic. A lot of the educated people, the business people,

they had a Greek influence in their life. They spoke Greek. The Romans spoke Latin. And Latin was the legal language too. Yes. So it had to be legal. Yes. So that's a good point.

So the three languages signify that Jesus' kingship transcends all boundaries. That's right. Religious, the Hebrews, his fulfillment of the Jewish law and prophecy. The Greek language, intellectual, his appeal to human understanding and wisdom. Latin, the legal aspect his reign is over all earthly authority that's why it was written in three languages there's some differences in the gospel the various accounts of the gospel. Matthew says the sign said, this is Jesus, the King of the Jews.

Mark said the sign said the King of the Jews. Luke said the sign read, this is the King of the Jews. John said Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. I don't see any conflict. I don't either. It's the same thing. And don't miss the heart of the matter, though. I mean, the point of the inscription that all of them declare is the king of the Jews. He's the king of the Jews.

Yes, Pilate's intention was to mock the Jewish leaders. He was going to get one on them. Okay, I killed this guy because you pressured me to do it. But I'm going to put on his cross that he's your king. And you can't do anything about it. And they did try to do something about it. But Pilate did it for spite against the Jews. I don't think it was so much to mock Jesus. I really don't.

I think he wanted to get a dig in against the Jews. He forced me to do this. Yeah, you pressured me to do this. Now I'm going to have the final say. He's your king. The reason he's on that cross is he's your king and this is what we do yeah he wanted to um he saw jesus as a powerless harmless king but he knew that he threatened the Jews.

Think about it, the Romans didn't threaten the Jews, Jesus threatened the Jews. The Romans had weapons, Jesus had no weapons, but the Jews were afraid of Jesus. So, but the other thing is pilots derision the title that he put on the sign officially proclaimed jesus's true identity as the king and the messiah like hey that's what the court wrote you know that's what was on the

that's what was on the cross the king of the Jews what was his accusation he was the king of the Jews he was crucified because he was the king of the Jews and they rejected him and to this day, they can't get away from it. Right. So we get to the last verse, verse 38.

Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand and another on the left. The Greek word, the King James translated as thieves. The Greek word is much stronger. It implies that they were violent criminals, revolutionaries, insurrectionists. It's a much stronger term.

Right. These aren't pick much stronger term. Right. These aren't pickpockets. Right. These aren't people that just broke into somebody's house and stole granny's cookie jar with her money in it. Right. These are like seriously hardened, dangerous, violent criminals who want to overthrow the Roman Empire, right?

So most likely they were connected to Barabbas who got off scot-free Yes, and it makes perfect sense to that that center cross was meant for Barabbas another robber Yes,, you know, there was going to be, someone's going to die on that cross that day. Someone was going to die on that cross that day. It was supposed to be Barabbas,

but instead Jesus took his place. Wow. Yeah. That's a powerful thought to ponder, Doc. That center cross was reserved for Barabbas. The Romans had planned to put Barabbas up there. Right. Those other two guys were his cohorts

yeah but the Jews said no we'll take the violent killer and you crucify the innocent peaceful man but Isaiah 53 12 says the Messiah would be numbered

with the transgressors yes so Jesus' mission was to identify with sinful humanity and to bear the consequences of rebellion and sin the Romans crucified rebels yes

so jesus had to be crucified in place of rebellious mankind and it's likely you know pilate didn't reside in didn't live in Jerusalem. He lived over in Caesarea. Right. Okay. That was the Roman, for all intents and purposes, the Roman capital for the region. He came to Jerusalem for feast days and everything. While he was there, he would do trials. Okay.

That's what some commentators said, that he would do trial. So can you imagine that these two thieves and Barabbas had probably previously stood before Pilate and had received judgment for insurrection or whatever it might've been that they were charged with. So they had already stood before Pilate. They'd already been condemned, you know, before Jesus had his mock trial and everything. But these guys'd already been condemned, you know, before Jesus had his mock trial and everything, but these guys had already been condemned, Barabbas had already been condemned,

he was destined for the cross, just like these two robbers were, and so it was likely Pilate himself who pronounced judgment on these two robbers and Barabbas, which was why, you know, in that whole interchange before the crowd, he said, do you want me to release to you? Who do you want me to release to you? And they said, Barabbas, the very man he had pronounced judgment on. Yes, and doctor, the two thieves, the two violent thieves, one on each side of Jesus, one believed on the cross. He believed that Jesus was the Messiah. So the one on the right symbolizes all of humanity that is saved through faith in christ and the one on the left symbolizes all of humanity who rejects the messiah and jesus is the judge in the center yes

so center. Yes. So, Doc, any other thoughts before we close up? No. You give folks kind

of a time frame of when all this is transpiring. Most traditions have it that

Jesus, and the scripture says that Jesus was crucified in the third hour, so that would place at about nine o'clock in the morning, so between midnight the night before and this time, nine o'clock in the morning, you had Jesus that

appeared before the Jewish leaders, He appeared before Pilate. He appeared before Herod. He was scourged. He was beaten by Roman soldiers. And then by nine o'clock, they had him crucified on the cross. So a lot has transpired in these nine hours. We've spent two weeks talking about these nine hours up to this point. And there's just so much that has occurred and so much that has happened. And

for us, it's a good night's sleep, right? But so much has transpired since the betrayal of Judas in the garden until the nails pierced his hands and feet. Yet all these things that happened in those brief nine hours, hundreds, hundreds of prophecies were fulfilled in those nine hours. Hundreds of Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled. Which is a lesson to us right now, Doc. How fast end time prophecies could be fulfilled within hours. That's right.

God is not slack concerning his promises. And God's not putting it off. God can fulfill every single prophecy in nine hours or in a moment's time. It doesn't matter to him, but I just find it fascinating that so much has occurred in these nine hours, and yet so much of God's plan was revealed in these nine hours.

Even if you're not a believer, it should fascinate you, the alignment between everything that occurred in those nine hours and all the prophecies in the Old Testament that align with those nine hours. It should make even the most stubborn atheistic genius out there to say, I see a connection here. How is it possible that so many prophecies could be fulfilled in these nine hours? Doc, I'm looking at the, I'm reading the notes as you're speaking. This is the only chance I ever get to look at the comments.

And Chris made a very pointed observation. When you were talking about that the center cross was reserved for Barabbas. Okay. That's who was supposed to be up on that cross with his other two revolutionaries but they they replaced barabbas with jesus and chris wrote and said the center cross was for him it's for you and me the center cross was for you and me yes jesus took our place we were supposed to be on that cross he took our place on that cross he took the place of every human being every one of us was was supposed to be on that cross yes we're barabbas yes we're barabbas yeah so that's that's a very powerful um observation

thank you chris okay after nine i gotta get going dog yeah well everyone we certainly appreciate you tuning in here in the 8 o'clock hour for Morning Manor we appreciate you so very much we've had hundreds of people that join us every day for this live Bible study you can always listen to recorded versions

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And people from all over the world, Rick. I mean, it never ceases to amaze me. Tim in Russia, Melbourne in South Korea. I know all these folks by name now because they're here faithfully every day and join us for this Bible study. I think what impresses me most is not only the number of people from different countries, but the faithfulness to be here every single day. Amen. Amen. I am delighted. I don't want to be overdramatic, but as quickly as

world events are moving, and it seems almost certain now we're going to have a nuclear war, NATO is meeting today in Montreal. And you know what they're talking about today? Carrying out a first strike against Russia. And I'm saying this as we close because you know what? All of us may be in heaven before New Year's Day. You need to think about that. You understand what i'm saying

all of us could be in heaven by new year's day that's how serious it is right now okay i'm going to stay on my job this is my job to teach the word okay praise god that's what i'm doing i'm going to stay in my position and doc and i were talking about this yesterday doc was talking about how calm jesus was no you were talking about uh you were talking about um putin you were talking about Putin. You were talking about his speech on television that he didn't flinch. He didn't move in a chair. He didn't move his head. He was just steady, gave his speech.

And I said, we have to have the same resolve, the same calmness. We stay with the program. The program is to teach the Word of God until we can't teach it anymore. Right, and the reason I remarked on that, and I know we're closing out our hour here, the reason I remarked on that is, in my mind, the decision has already been made. The decision has already been made by President Putin, and when you mentioned that to me, I thought, you know what, we've got a decision to make too. And we've got to make, once we've made that decision, we've got to stand with the same

resolve. Yes. That you don't care about the waves and the wind that are blowing around us, that we face the wind. We get an umbrella for the rain. We, you know, we just, we are just calm in the storm because the decision has already been made. That's right. Jesus had that calmness when he went to the cross. Nobody was going to talk him out of it. He made that decision in the garden.

It was resolved in the garden. So we have to have the same attitude. No matter what's happening in the world around us, we're not budging. We're staying with the program. Amen. And the program is the gospel of the kingdom. All right, that's it. Got to go.

See you later today. God bless you. We'll see you on the Wednesday edition of Morning Manor.