the current events update. Number one, we're keeping an eye on Israel at war. Today's date 8 11 24. If I have that right, according to I 24 news, this is day one 307 since the October 7th attack by Hamas, where 115 hostages remain. Um, the, uh, reports are that, uh, amid global criticism of an attack on a Gazan school that Israel has named 19 of the Hamas killers that they have eliminated. And they call this thing a school, but I don't watch a lot of what we call Democrat propaganda news networks. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC. I don't bother watching that stuff. I want the truth. I want the whole story. And so I don't know if they're telling you, but that school, quote unquote, was a military headquarters. They had turned it into a military headquarters. But it sounds better for propaganda if you say they attacked a school. Now, they said that a top Hamas operative who directed West Bank terror was killed, a guy named Neil Sikel, but those names all start to sound the same after a while, don't they? But also, Hezbollah then launched drones at the northern part of Israel after the IDF had killed a Hamas commander in Lebanon. So this is just a, to some of you may say, well, this just sounds like the same old, same old. It has been for 307 days. But these are significant events. As far as this conflict goes, and we're of course watching because God has told us that there's going to be a Gog Magog war and it'll happen either right before or right after the rapture, I believe. And Israel plays a major role after the rapture during the Great Tribulation. So that's why we keep our eyes on these things and we do support Israel's right to exist. Now, This. While things have taken a good turn for Israel this past week in some ways, the United States released $3.5 billion in military aid to Israel. And there's a lot of pseudo-conservatives out there who think that all foreign aid is wrong. We shouldn't send any money to foreign countries. If you believe that, then you're listening to too many goofballs. By the way, there's people who call themselves America First. America first means you stand with America's allies. Israel is our only real ally in the Middle East, the only sort of democracy. It's a Republican or what you could call a Democratic Republic of sorts. Parliamentary government is what they have actually, more like what they have in the United Kingdom. But they are not a monarchy. They are not a dictatorship. And they are not socialist Marxist to the extreme that you see in China and other places. But Israel and America are very socialist today. Don't get that wrong. I mean, we are under a lot of socialist Marxist policies here in America and in Israel. But because of that, I support supporting Israel and helping them with military aid. I do not want to see Americans going over there and fighting at this point. But I'm not saying there would never be a time where we wouldn't do that. Because if we're worth our word and these are our allies, then there would be a time, just like in World War II. In the meantime, also, Netanyahu's party leads the polls for the first time since October 7, which is pretty interesting. Before and since, they had not been leading in the polls. And so we're assuming those polls are correct. But in another important development, Jordan, it's a kingdom made out of thin air after World War II. But the Kingdom of Jordan is allowing Israel to use its airspace against Iran. That's an unofficial stance. Officially, they say no. because it's the world of Islam. And so they don't want to officially say that they're gonna help Israel, but they've given the okay for Israel to use their airspace. Just keep it down low there, brother. You know, that's what they say. And the source emphasized that Jordan's actions are consistent with its strategic alliance with the United States. Why? Because we're Israel's ally. That's how it's supposed to work. despite its public denials of such cooperation. This revelation comes amid heightened tensions following the recent killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran, which Iran attributes to Israel, although Israel has not officially confirmed or denied involvement. And Israel's not claiming to have taken out the terrorists, just like Israel doesn't acknowledge having nuclear weapons. If you believe that, we've got some property to sell you down in Mexico. And then there's this. The new Iranian president stands up to the IRGC, which is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, to prevent war with Israel. So that's interesting. That also, it's reported that the real leader of the country, who's the religious cult leader, Khomeini, has agreed to postpone the attack on Israel at this point. So I thought by now we had seen something from Iran in retaliation to the Ismail, Haniya being taken out. But so far, nothing. So we remain where we remain. We stand with Israel, amen? Number two, Harris and Walz, that's the Democrat Party nominees, making the world safe for pedophiles and crooks. Christians are supposed to know these things. And we have some visitors, so I'll just say this again for everybody to make it known. America is dying because of its deadbeat pastors and churches. Amen. We are to be salt and light. And pastors are reneging on telling the truth to their congregations because we have a party in this country, the Democrat Party, who has made Satan their lord. who has made killing babies, sodomite marriage, the castration and mutilation of children in the name of trans surgery, gun control, and every Marxist thing under the sun a part of their political agenda. Now, when I was a kid, you could preach against those things because it didn't hit the political parties, except for abortion by that point. But the Democrats had what they called blue dogs. And they were just conservative Democrats, what they were. But those days are over, and we now have, this is a political cult in this country. Now, we always have to give the disclaimer, the elites and progressives in the Republican Party are just as wicked. But they don't completely control that yet. But the Democrat Party is totally giving over to Satan. The Libertarian Party is giving over to Satan. The Green Party is giving over to Satan. The Socialist and the Communist Party is obviously giving over to Satan. And Christians should not be ignorant of these things, but they are because they're not being told these things. And this ticket right now for the Democrat Party is making the world safe for pedophiles and crooks. Here's a little taste of it. Hey, did you know that Tim Walz, Kamala's VP pick, signed a bill into law that could give pedophiles civil rights protections in Minnesota? The Minnesota Human Rights Act says you can't discriminate against someone because of their sexual orientation. And it used to have a line in it which specifically stated that pedophilia did not count as a legitimate sexual orientation. But then in May of 2023, Tim signed a bill into law that removed that language from the Human Rights Act, officially making Minnesota a safer place for pedophiles. Have you heard anything about this from the corporate media? Probably because broadcast networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC have spent a grand total of zero seconds covering it. Same with CNN and MSNBC. They're too busy pretending that old Tim is a moderate. Which is weird, because... Are you a progressive or are you a centrist? I'm a progressive. Anyway, next time you're in Minnesota, make sure not to discriminate against any pedophiles. It's literally a legal thing. Think about that. Think about how far the church has gone. My heroes, the men of the past, would be standing up and speaking out against this. And yet I turn on the radio programs and TV programs and go to the websites of the big time ministries now, and I'm not hearing it. And then you got that book by Megan Basham, Shepherds for Sale. If you wanna know, George Soros is buying evangelicals. let alone the Catholics and the Protestants who have gone down that road. These NGOs that are bringing these illegals in, they're doing it to replace the Americans so that they can get more people who will vote for socialism. And evangelical organizations are now part of that mix, bringing illegals in. It's all right under our noses, really. Just for entertainment purposes, thought you'd like to watch a Jamaican Indian who was raised in Illinois and Wisconsin college towns. She's going to turn into a southern black. Watch this. You know, the one thing about all of us is we like hard work. Hard work is good work. Hard work is good work. The thing that we like about hard work is we have fun doing hard work. These guys, they will call you racist. They're the racists. The Democrat leftists and progressive Republicans, whoever, the ones that are trying to shoot down the laws to keep your election safe, they believe that blacks and minorities in this country are too stupid to get a driver's license. And they go out and campaign. And all of a sudden, Kamala Harris, who never sounds like that, and this whole speech was like that, she should have just stood and said, yes, Amasa. Yes, a massa. That's how low they view the blacks in this country and the other minorities. And people gotta stop pussyfootin' around. Tell people the truth. Who are the racists? Who are killin' all the black babies? Democrats and Republican progressives. Not the conservatives. Not the ones that are called racist. They're not killin' the black babies. What cities are young black men mostly being gunned down by the dozens every single day? Democrat-controlled cities. And now you know how programming's working, folks. The programming on television especially is working, because people cannot see reality. It's amazing. George Orwell was not a prophet, but he sure called it. And these two are baby killing, sodomite allies, they're Marxist reprobates, and they're going to be coming for your guns. And together, when we win in November, we are finally going to pass universal background checks, red flag laws, and an assault weapons ban. Red flag balls means that your neighbor can make up anything they want and call the cops and they'll come and take your guns without due process. That's what that means. And assault weapons bans, they don't even know what an assault weapon is. If she ever did any kind of interviews and press conferences and someone said, could you please tell us what an assault weapon is, They just, it's any gun that looks mean to them. You can take a BB gun and make it look like an AR-15 and hold it in front of these people and they would say, yes, that's one, that's an assault weapon. It's a BB gun. That's the truth. This should be called what it is, it's pink Marxism. The Democrat party right now is pink Marxist. That means they're totally sodomite, completely given over to Sodom, and they're Marxist. And the Marxists have always been for abortion, gun control, and so forth. And that's what that party stands for. and I'm not gonna be a German in 1930s and not speak the truth, because I might offend somebody. Somebody might say, I don't believe in preaching about politics. Well, you're stupid. When politics is right versus wrong, when politics is Bible, then I'm gonna preach on politics if that's what that wicked death cult has made their policies. Amen, amen. It's just amazing. But, Open borders actually hurts everyone on the planet. It's not just hurting Americans who are losing their jobs and everything. I want you to listen to this. This fellow is going to explain. He's going to use gumballs to explain to you why our open border policy is only going to do one thing, destroy us. It's not going to help the rest of the world. Listen closely. Some people say that mass immigration into the United States can help reduce world poverty. Is that true? Well, no, it's not. And let me show you why. This gumball represents the one million legal immigrants that the United States has taken every year on average since 1990. Now, who in the world deserves our humanitarian compassion? The World Bank has one measure of the desperately poor of the world. They make less than $2 a day. How many people make less than $2 a day in the world? Well, let's start with Africa. In Africa alone, there are 650 million people who make less than $2 a day. 650 million. And in India, another 890 million people, desperately poor. China adds another 480 million people. making less than $2 a day. And unfortunately, the rest of Asia has a heartbreaking 810 million people who the World Bank says make less than $2 a day. And finally, there's 105 million of Latin America's population that are desperately poor. All told, the World Bank says there are 3 billion people in the world, 3 billion people. who are desperately poor making less than $2 a day. That's 3,000 gumballs. And every year, we take a million and suggest that we've somehow made a humanitarian difference. Of course, we don't pull our immigrants from these desperately poor populations, do we? These people are too poor, too sick, too disconnected to make it here as immigrants. We tend to pull our immigrants out of the better off poor of the world. And Mexico tends to define the type of immigrant that we bring here because the plurality of people come from Mexico. And Mexico is poor. How many people in the world live in countries that have average incomes lower than that of Mexico. And the World Bank tells us that that number is these three billion plus another 2.6 billion people. 5.6 billion people in the world who live in countries with average incomes below that of Mexico. That's 5,600 gumballs. And so why is it that the elites are telling us? They're telling us that when we take this one million immigrants, that we somehow or another are tackling world poverty. And we have to do it regardless of the effect on our unemployed, the working poor, the most vulnerable members of our society, regardless of the effect on our natural resources. Even if we went by the most radical proposals in Washington, which are to actually double our immigration to two million a year, which would totally overwhelm our physical, natural, and social infrastructures, we couldn't make a noticeable difference. And we may be really hurting the impoverished people of the world, because the million that we do take are among the most energetic, often the better educated. certainly the most dissatisfied people that if they did not immigrate would be the agents for change to improve the lot of all the people in these countries. The true heroes in the global humanitarian field are the people in these countries who have the wherewithal to immigrate to another country but instead stay in their countries to apply their skills to help their fellow countrymen. Unfortunately, Our immigration system tends to entice these very type of people to abandon their countrymen. The impossibility of making even a dent is actually worse than it looks here. Because last year, when we took one million immigrants, these countries added, births over deaths, 80 million more people into the impoverished populations. And this year, Congress is bringing in a million legal immigrants. And this year, according to the United Nations, these countries are expected to add another 80 million people. And next year, you can be quite sure that Congress, unless stopped by the American voters, will bring in another million immigrants. And these countries, unfortunately, will be adding another 80 million people into these impoverished nations. We could take 5 million a year, but we'd never get ahead of what's happening in these countries. Not in this century. Don't you see? Immigration can never be an effective or significant way to deal with the suffering people of the world. They have to be helped where they live. 99.9% of them will never be able to immigrate to a rich country. There's no hope for that. They have to bloom with their planet. The only place that 99.9% of these people can be helped is where they live. Let's help them there. and you are being called the hater, you're the unloving one, if you do not support that insane globalist plan that he just described, when the reality is they're making the world worse for everybody. There's only one answer to this problem, and that is the second coming of Jesus Christ. In the meantime, we save those who will be saved, and we help those that we can help. And keep that in mind. I want to close with this. With all the wickedness and bad news in sports today, and as football season approaches, the Buckeye season opener is three Saturdays from today, by the way, just in the calendars. Some of you are old enough to remember Randy Gratishar, one of the greatest linebackers to ever play the game. He received unanimous 1973 All-American and was 2024 inductee into the NFL Hall of Fame. And this is his induction speech. And I want you to listen closely. This is the NFL, yes. College football hero. So keep that in mind. And you'll notice the camera is going to show you Archie Griffin's face through part of it as well. So listen closely. During my senior year, growing up, I attended church, but the gospel of salvation wasn't taught. That evening in 74, the gospel was explained in four simple truths. Truth one, God created mankind in his image, and that comes from Genesis 1-27. God loves us and offers a plan for our life. Truth two, mankind's problems are from Romans 3-23, that we've all sinned and fallen short of God's glory. Therefore, we cannot know and experience God's love and plan for our lives. Romans 6-23, for the wages of sin is death. our spiritual death and truth. Number three, God made a way out of John 3, 16, that God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. Jesus Christ death on the cross, the darkest day in history and Jesus resurrections earned Jesus the right to proclaim. I am the way, the truth and the life. And no one comes to the Father but through me. That's out of John 14, six. And the fourth truth, salvation requires turning to God, repent of our sins, accept His forgiveness, and ask Jesus by faith to be your personal Lord and Savior. This is the only way to be right with God and to live out His plans for our life, not ours. There's four simple but eternal truths. Archie, you were an OSU sophomore at the time when you invited me to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting, the best invitation I've ever had. And at age 22, I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. To my key prayer warriors, Beth and Pastor Jeff and Ken. That's where I cut it off, but that was at the NFL inductee ceremony. Amen. And Archie is the one who led him to Christ. Archie Griffin. I bet he puts that on a higher level of importance than his two Heisman trophies. Amen. I thought you'd enjoy that.