And Israel is still at war as we end the year. Today is 12-29-24. We're still praying for those hostages that survived to get rescued and taken out of there. The Houthis in Yemen are causing a lot of havoc, shooting missiles at ships, some of which are American or have American products on them, as well as shooting into Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and places like that. And an Israeli official was speaking about how the Houthis are more technologically advanced than credited. I mean, they're kind of like a nomadic tribe, and yet they do have some tech. So I almost showed, I decided not to, but there was a big thing about a dance that they do. And maybe I'll show that to you sometime. But when I first saw that, I wondered why Mick Jagger was involved. But that's not Mick Jagger. The attacks on Jerusalem directly include the Houthis, who Friday night, this was talking about they'd sent missiles toward Jerusalem. This one is laying there, I don't know, to me that looks like a big gas tank or something, but it's one of their missiles. But it was shot down and intercepted by the I always want to call it Thunderdome, Iron Dome there in Israel. And then air defenses in Israel intercepted two rockets still being shot from Gaza. Everybody complains that Israel is still fighting in Gaza and that's why. And those little red dots show all the places that have been shot at just in the last few days in and around Jerusalem. And this happened just after the Houthi attack. So if you live in Jerusalem surrounding areas, you've been under fire and you've been running in and out of bomb shelters for the holidays. And while leading Israel in war, they announced that Benjamin Netanyahu today is having his prostate removed. So we'll have him in prayer. It's probably already done, actually. We'll be praying for his recovery. That sounds serious to me. Yeah, it does say that it was a benign tumor. but one that caused an infection and still could be deadly. That's the thing. Cancer is terrible, but a lot of times it's not the cancer that kills people, it's infections as a result of the cancer, the tumors itself, or the treatments even. So you just never know. So we'll have him in prayer as we stand with Israel, amen? In other news, I just want to play a little clip here showing tyrants use the lie about carbon dioxide, and it's to control us. People wonder why are they doing so much when it comes to the so-called climate change, and why are they pushing? Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant or a poison unless you breathe it. as a human being. But there are other things that need it. I mean, you know, if you breathe water, it's deadly. It's called drowning. But is water a poison? No. And that's the same way with carbon dioxide. But we've had this pounded in our heads since I was a kid. I've heard this. CO2, dangerous. It's required for life. And so this guy explains a little bit here. A lot of this environmental question depends on, I think, a very flawed fundamental presupposition. It depends on the idea that carbon dioxide is pollution. And I would argue, after interviewing hundreds of scientists, including many who've worked for the UNIPCC, many of the leading scientists in the world, that the notion that CO2 is pollution is absolutely preposterous. We exhale about two pounds of it every single day. The proportion of greenhouse gases made up of human CO2 emissions is a fraction of a fraction of 1%. The idea that that is going to destroy the planet or change the temperature of the earth is frankly, in my opinion, totally ludicrous. But from a totalitarian perspective, if you can convince people that CO2 is pollution, There's no human activity that doesn't result in CO2 emissions, including living, including dying, turning on a light switch. Every single aspect of your life then, if we submit to the idea that CO2 is pollution, then comes under the regulatory control of the people who claim to be saving us from pollution. So when they do these environmental studies and they say, well, your CO2 footprint will be smaller if you eat bugs or you do this, that, or the other, you drive an electric car, that doesn't show anything about whether that's gonna benefit the environment or not. In fact, CO2's actually been very beneficial for the environment. In interviewing Trump's climate advisor, Dr. William Happer, a physics professor at Princeton University, he said the Earth is starving for more CO2. And since we've had a little bit of an increase in atmospheric CO2 over the last 100 years or so, plants have gotten much greener, agricultural yields have improved, So I think we need to also talk about the fundamental presupposition here. Is CO2 really pollution? If it's not, then all these alleged environmental benefits are completely fictional. Amen. Listen, scientists have, by and large, not all, but a mass majority of scientists, they've fallen into a religion. It's called scientism. And so when someone looks at you and says, trust the science, they are in a religion. You're never supposed to trust science. That's what science is all about. Science is testing everything. You're supposed to test everything. That's what we tell you about your Bible study. Acts 17, 11, you're to search the scriptures daily to see if what you're hearing from others is so. You should have double that care when it comes to anything done in the name of science. And we've listed, we've shown you dozens of things, including the COVID vax and all that, where they totally got it wrong. And don't trust any, we'll say it again, there's only one infallible thing in this room. There's only one infallible thing on this planet right now, this book. Every man should be tested. I think Reagan made it famous, anyway, when he said, trust but verify. Well, Nancy, I don't even do that. I just verify. Amen? And democracy, by the way, is tyranny by majority rule, and you're being told relentlessly. You are a democracy. You are a democracy. He's a danger to democracy. You're all conservatives are danger to... Yes, we are. We don't live in a democracy. We live in a constitutional republic. And we don't want to live in a democracy because they stake the high heaven. the founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson, one of the most outspoken against democracy. Basically, he's credited, and some say he didn't really say it, but it's two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. Guess who's going to be dinner? And that's what democracy is. Because of referendums is what it's called today. Referendums is an in-and-around Republican form of government. Instead of the legislature legislating, we go directly to the people now. That's why it's enshrined in your Constitution in Ohio to murder unborn children. That's why it is now legal to purchase pot and smoke it and eat it and ingest it in other ways, who knows, for recreation. And then that just increases the number of people driving under the influence, killing people on the highways. And all the other, there's studies that they try to quash that show that irregular pot smoking is contributing to the increase in mental illness. and they even have a disease now that is skyrocketing because daily use of pot causes a condition. Can you look at a, I can't remember what it's called. We were just watching a news report on it last week where people began vomiting uncontrollably and they can't eat anything. And then they'll go for a while after and they'll think it's over and it'll come back on them and it'll last months. where it's from daily use of pot. Well, there are people now who are just daily using pot because it's legal now, and they don't know what's coming at them. Why? Because they trust the science. Because when they passed that and they promoted it here, they quoted science to get it on the books. It's called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. Cannabinoid hyper... hyper emesis. Easy for me to say. It's a real thing. They say it's skyrocketed in cases now. People getting that. But anyway, this is another one. Ohio's minimum wage. Sounds great. Let's just raise the minimum wage. OK. This is what the headline could and probably should read. Ohio prices rise. in 2025. An artificial increase in the minimum wage just gets passed on to you. Your burger is going to cost 10, 15 cents more. The french fries will go up 5 or 10 cents. The soft drinks go up 5 or 10 cents. It's not a huge amount on each product, but it's enough that over a period of the year, you're going to spend hundreds more dollars for what you buy. And each citizen then pays for that forced increase. Folks, that's Marxism. That's not free market. And you're being pushed and educated, brainwashed into believing that government control is the answer. It's never the answer. Again, to quote Reagan, the scariest words you can hear, I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Tyrants can also wear a clerical robe. In most cases, including Hitler, Lenin, you know, they use religious leaders for their purposes. And the Church of England is a church that is state-controlled, tax-funded, and they are now producing apostasy in England. It's the state church producing apostasy in England. And just at Christmas time, they were told to edit Christmas hymns, carols, that were problematic. According to the broadsheet that was sent out, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel was identified as being potentially offensive for suggesting that other religions are outside of God's grace. Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. And Jesus himself said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh under the Father, but by me. So in other words, they are taking the position of antichrist. in editing these hymns. Additionally, Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending, not a song we sing here, had been flagged for containing problematic words because it affirms that Jesus Christ is the true Messiah. Think of that. An email sent out to the diocese in Birmingham. Priests were reportedly told, quote, try to use language that won't add further confusion or tension or take away anything from the good news of the nativity, end quote. That's so warped because the good news of the nativity is that the Savior has come. So crazy. But it's not just the crazy, you know, state churches. They're fundamentalist tyrants like this. If I may say this we've got standards about sleeves down below the elbow for the platform here and the reason we do it seemed as though that as soon as you get above the elbow it seemed like they continue to go up until you get some little cap sleeves or even even beyond that the sleeveless shirts that I'm just preaching to you right now and telling you we want modesty because that's God's standard. I can tell that God's pleased with modesty. He's displeased with immodesty. Amen. Men with short pants, these little knee pants that they're starting to wear, I'll tell you, that's ungodly as far as I'm concerned. And if I may say this, amen, I've never known of a church that was able to just keep a little standard and say, well, we'll allow for a wedding ring, but we won't allow for necklaces and other stuff. Amen, unless you get the big thing. Amen. All the other things, amen, will not go. But if you get people understanding that God's against all jewelry, you don't need a wedding ring to show you're married. All you need to do is have some character, amen, and know how to conduct yourself. Amen. That'll show people you're married. Amen. God bless your heart. I'm preaching to you, amen, that Christians should not wear makeup. I cut him off, he's not done. And of course Tracy would speak up because if jewelry is a sin, she is in real trouble. Yeah? Yeah? And thankfully none of the men have to worry about the makeup thing here. Yeah. They know it's an intimidation thing. I'm sure there's guys who preach like that. I know there are that preach pretty good stuff, but most of them aren't really Bible teachers or pastors. They're mostly exhortation, evangelism, that kind of thing. But I've joked about it, but they give the announcements like that, you know. Well, tonight we're going to have spaghetti and meatballs, and I'm here to tell you Jenny can make some spaghetti and meatballs, brother. You know, that's how they do everything, no matter what they're talking about. Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. And there are apostate liberal servants, they know on the other end of the spectrum of the very well-dressed, more elite type of churches and everything, where they're hearing this over Christmas. Mary was absolutely, positively not a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus. That whole concept of virginity is kind of culturally defined anyway. But we know biologically that that is an impossibility, of course, in the 21st century. But even beyond that, listen to this. Matthew is trying to fulfill prophecy in Isaiah that he accidentally misinterprets. So Matthew is reading in the Greek, but the Hebrew word that Matthew interprets from Isaiah As virgin doesn't mean virgin. It means young woman. That is not like some outlier. That's what's taught in most of the mainline churches today. They totally deny the Bible. They deny miracles. And their God is a God who's just kind of a symbol of something. It's not an actual being. And the idea that a virgin birth, we talked about this for a short time Wednesday night. Yes, a virgin birth is impossible. That's why it's a miracle. And if you believe in God, it's no problem. Like we say, those two words answer it, but God. What kind of God couldn't cause a virgin birth? Only those fake ones. The real God had no problem with it. Galatians 5.1, stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. But throughout Scripture, we're warned about that kind of thing, and we're told to stand fast in the liberty God has set us free from man-made, traditional rudiments of the world, Colossians 2, 8 calls it. Stand apart from this world. Stand with God's Word. Amen? Be informed. Pray and act accordingly.