All right then. Current events update, Israel at war, 7-16-25 is the date of our report. 50 hostages remain, 23 remain living hostages. No major news to report on the ceasefire with Hamas as of the time we came in the building tonight. And the Israel war headlines beyond that include the fact that the Syrians have been attacking the Druze. Now I'm not mispronouncing Jews. The Druze, D-R-U-Z-E, they're kind of a strange cult religion, a sect, mainly a, we've talked about them before, but they're kind of an ethnic cult, if you want to call it that. And I think when I looked up their religion. They don't proselytize. They just want to be left alone and have kids and raise their kids to be Druze. They don't accept the gospel, so there are missionaries who have tried to reach them. They're very hard to reach. But there are Druze there in the border of Israel and Syria, and on both sides, and the ones especially inside Syria, the Syrian government has been attacking. And Netanyahu, Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, has said, we are not going to allow the Syrians to destroy these people. They're good citizens. And so he's been bombing and shelling the daylights out of that portion of Syria, including, I think, Damascus. But I think they've reached a ceasefire as far as that's concerned. That's in the northeast border of Israel. Just to give you a little indication there. Meanwhile, internal politics in Israel can be confusing and they've caused some concerns. I just want to mention this. There is turmoil over IDF service requirements for certain Orthodox groups. In Israel, you are required to serve, I think, two years in the military, and there are certain Orthodox groups who, believe it or not, even though they live in Israel, they're opposed to the nation of Israel, the state of Israel, and some of the groups are just opposed to military service, kind of like our Quakers and friends and Jehovah's Witnesses and others here in America are. But this turmoil doesn't actually threaten the Netanyahu government right now, and some people have misunderstood that. The Shas ministers to quit government, the Council of Torah Sages rule. The Shas are members of the Haredi party in the Knesset. The Ashkenazi, we've talked about them, there's two main groups of Jews, Sephardic and Ashkenazi. These are Ashkenazic UTJ who quit the government on Monday and Tuesday at the directive of its spiritual leadership. So these groups are small groups that together It's a strange thing. It's almost like you're picking teams, and whoever gets the most wins. Benjamin Netanyahu is elected prime minister, but he has to then form a government, which means he has to get enough people to sign on and join his coalition. And if people drop out, that's how they use their political power to try to influence the decisions of the government by saying, well, if you don't give us what we want, They don't always say that, but they do a lot of times. So that's what's going on. And it's not, at this point, Netanyahu will still continue to be in power, even though it does hurt some of his efforts internally. And if you want to know more about that, go to the Jerusalem Post, jpost.com, i24news.com, and timesofisrael.com, and you can learn more about it. In the meantime, Iran's leader continues his bloviating. He warns that Iran is ready to respond to any new attack and he threatens an even bigger blow. Well I'd hope so because they didn't have anything in the previous 12-day war. But he has warned that his country is ready to respond to any new attack. and the comments of course were on state TV. That's Iran's version of PBS. But Israel's military and intelligence victory was so overwhelming that an Iranian official claims that Israel has used the occult and supernatural spirits to win that twelve-day war. Abdullah Ganji, former editor of the RGC-linked newspaper J-Van, told his 150,000 followers on X that, quote, a strange phenomenon, end quote, had taken place during the 12-day war. Quote, a few years ago, the Supreme Leader had stated that hostile countries and Western, that'd be America, and Hebrew intelligence services use occult sciences and djinn entities for espionage. They claim that they're using devils or demons. for their secret service. That's what they're accusing the United States, England, and Israel of doing. And I guess when you get beat as bad as they did, you gotta come up with some excuse, amen? And wait until Tucker Carlson hears about this. In the meantime, we're gonna pray for the peace of Jerusalem, amen? They shall prosper that love thee. Here are the headlines. beyond the Israeli war. Trump continues his disassociation from those demanding transparency and the release of the Epstein files. There's been a development tonight we'll come to, but he had posted this morning, I'll summarize, that he basically says that Obama and the Clintons and the people behind the Russia hoax were the ones behind the Epstein files. And then he says, they're no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates. It's all they have, he says. Also, unlike Republicans, they stick together like glue. Their new scam is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein hoax. No, we won't. And my past supporters have bought into this, I'll abbreviate his word, BS. Hook, line, and sinker. They haven't learned their lesson and probably never will. He's talking about the people who put him in office, folks. I mean, it's just, this is one of the few times I can tell you that Donald Trump's response is stupid. He says, even after being conned by the lunatic left for eight long years, I've had more success in six months than perhaps any president in our country's history, and et cetera, et cetera. And of course, we agree with that. He says, let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats' work. He's talking about his supporters. Don't even think about taking or talking of our incredible and unprecedented success. We can do both. So he's claiming that because people are calling for a real investigation and the exposure of the Epstein files, that they're not paying attention to anything he's doing. Almost everybody I see who has challenged him on this prefaces their remarks by saying, we're not saying he's a bad president. We love what he's doing in the border. We love what he's doing with this and that defunding plan, et cetera. But that doesn't. negate this huge event in our history. Jeffrey Epstein, by both parties, has been called the most prolific pedophile in our history as a country. Yeah, and there's other big names involved. So, this is what you call gaslighting. Because Donald Trump is using the tactics of his opponents on his own people right now with this. So it's very disappointing. It is Trump and his campaign, not the lunatic left, that promoted this hoax. And here's just a little sampling. Who has Jeffrey Epstein's Black Book? Cash Patel. But who? That is, I mean, that's under direct control of the director of the FBI. What the hell are the House Republicans doing? They have the majority. You can't get the list. Put on your big boy pants and let us know who the **** are. Would you declassify the Epstein files? Yeah, yeah, I would. I guess I would. I think that less so because, you know, you don't know it. You don't want to affect people's lives if it's funny stuff in there, because there's a lot of funny stuff in that whole world. But I think I would. This isn't about Epstein or 9-11 or JFK or RFK. It is, but it isn't. It's about a bigger thing. If you're lying about that, you're lying about everything. Who's on the Epstein tapes, folks? Who's on those tapes? Who's in those black books? Why have they been hiding it? And this is something Donald Trump has talked about. The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Will that really happen? It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. Everything's going to come out to the public. The public has a right to know. Americans have a right to know. So it's not the lunatic left, that was the Trump campaign before and after his election telling everybody that they were going to do something about this and they were going to release the files and so forth. And I was disgusted by this as anybody. But we got word late this afternoon of some good news. Trump embraces special prosecutor. for a weaponization probe and Epstein vows new declassifications. So that's two facets of the Epstein story that's good news, just came out a couple hours ago. And that is that he's calling for a special prosecutor and declassification of classified documents that we haven't been able to see before. So that's progress. It also undermines what he said this morning. So it is still important in all of this not to forget that 99% of what the Trump administration has done is great. You should always give people credit where it's due. People got a little upset with me through the years. I'd give Obama and even back when Bill Clinton was president, every once in a while he'd do something right. I mean, a broke clock is right twice a day, amen? Remember, Clinton stood up for religious freedom in a way that was the opposite of Joe Biden. So anyway, I charted it for you. How many of you like charts? I'm a chart kind of guy. This will give you a visual of what it's like before Trump was elected and since Trump was elected. The good is in red. The bad is in yellow. You can see on the Trump side. And on the Biden side, that gives you a little visual. So don't forget that. Before this year, we were living in Biden world, where almost everything the White House was doing was wicked, evil. And now in Trump world, it's like night and day. But that doesn't mean you stop whenever they do something wrong, that you stop calling for them to do what's right. Amen? Other important items we'll cover real quick. Brother Martin Pickens reminded me today on his Facebook page that it was 80 years ago today, July 16, 1945, that the first atomic explosion in history happened at 529 a.m. local time, 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico. Exactly three weeks later, the bomb would be dropped on Hiroshima. leading to the Japanese surrender and the end of World War II. That's a very important matter of history, and we debate to this day, you know, the morality of using that bomb and everything, but certainly saved millions of lives that would have been lost in the fight over there, so I think the trade-off was really actually worth it. I think Harry Truman deserves credit for having the guts to put an end to that war the way he did. Now this happened yesterday with little mention of it in the news, but an asteroid the size of, I'll just jokingly put this, 145 Elmos And it went past our planet yesterday. How many of you knew that? Did you feel the breeze? No, they did. That was their headline. Asteroid 2025 MA90 is the official name. Flew past yesterday. Estimated 88.8 meters, which no one in America knows what that means. Someone can look that up. So that's why they said if you take a 24-inch Elmo, multiply that by 145 and that's how big it was. That's why they said that. So you can look that up. Why is that important? Well, if it hits something and the trajectory changes a little bit, and who knows, that may be a candidate for one of the big ones that's going to fall during a tribulation period. And some of you are probably aware that influential evangelical pastor and theologian John MacArthur died at the age of 86. He'd been sick for a little while. I thought he was a little younger than that. He's 86. And he'd been a pastor out there in California for about 50 years. We do not celebrate his death, but we do not recommend his ministry. He promoted the New Versions, undermined the authority of the King James Bible. He taught a heretical doctrine about the blood of Jesus. He pushed a very hard version of Calvinism. He taught that you could be saved after taking the mark of the beast. He taught that Christians are slaves. All those things. Now, I'll say this before we move on. Back in the 90s, he hadn't gone off on a lot of this stuff. The thing about the blood hadn't really come out. It hadn't been something he preached. It was something he taught at a Bible conference and I think was in one of his books. But I listened to him for several years when I'd take my lunch break, but it just happened to be when he wasn't teaching any of this stuff and at the time he was still using the King James Bible, as far as I remember. But then he started teaching the hardcore Calvinism and that was one of the things that really turned things and I was then forced to turn him off. Something just for you to understand, it was MacArthur's Bad Bible version. Now he uses the ESV. I think in the 90s he changed to the New American Standard is what it was. But now in most recent years he's used the ESV. Just a reminder, the ESV is nothing but the Communist Revised Standard Version of 1954 with edits. They made some edits, that's it. and it produced his bad theology. If you look in Romans 6.22, I'm just going to give you one example. In the ESV, the English substandard version says, but now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and it's an eternal life. That's the ESV. Your King James Bible says, but now being made free from sin and become servants to God. It's just different words. A slave compared to a servant. Which would you rather be? Easy answer. Which one? Servant. Yeah. It's not just us saying what we would prefer. It's that the real Bible doesn't call you a slave. And our inspired, infallible King James Bible tells us in John 8, 36, Jesus said, if the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be what? Free indeed. You can't be free and be a slave at the same time. You can be free and be a servant. That's a matter of the will. You are willingly serving the Lord. If you serve, you're a servant. Amen? And in closing, just for those of you who think you might have had a bad day today, keep your eye on this tree and that guy down the corner. He's a drummer. Watch him. He's trying to play. Now he's down to one hand. This is on TV, by the way. This is a TV. Wait for it. Wait for it. How many of you had one of those days today? Anybody? Yesterday? All right, well. Be informed, pray and act accordingly. Amen.