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Of course the media is ignoring the reality of the latest NYC terrorist attack, but it's more concerning that we have a Muslim mayor who instead of honoring the NYPD officers as he should, he is honoring foreigners who say we should dismantle Western Civilization. What do we do now?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so that we can walk away with some peace and perspective. There's new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. Thanks for being here for the True Story. The story of the day is Mamdani, after the terrorist attack in his city that could have killed many people, instead of hosting the police officers who ran to danger and apprehended the ISIS -inspired terrorists, he's hosting a Muslim who has called for the end of Western civilization. inside of the mayor's Gracie mansion. 

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faith. So, uh, we're in Utah right now. Our goal is to show our young kids as much of America as we can. This amazing country that God blessed us with. So we're going to a bunch of, yeah, Johnny. Oh, can I finish this real quick? 

20 minutes and I'll be out and we'll play. Okay. I love you, bud. Johnny wants to play baseball. He's the best. Um, where was I? 

Ah, so we're in, uh, Arches national park. Woke up early this morning, went to, uh, Delicate Arch. Delicate Arch is the picture on the Utah license plate. And my wife said, this is like our fourth day here or something like that. And yesterday my wife said, what could all the hype be about Delicate Arch? 

How could this arch be any different or like that much better than any other arch we've ever seen? We've seen Landscape Arch, Sand Dune Arch, Double Arch, Double O Arch. We've seen a million arches. Why is this the arch? 

So this morning we woke up early because we wanted to see the sunrise at it. 

So we hiked three and a half miles at 6 a . m. and it was awesome. Totally worth the hype. so amazing, absolutely deserves the place on the Utah license plate, and God is awesome. So they're running around here, the kids are, and Johnny wants to go through the baseball round, which I will in 20 minutes. 

But first, here's what happened. Yesterday, we shared the story of two ISIS -inspired terrorists throwing bombs into a crowd of people at an anti -Islam rally in New York City. And we pointed out how the media just contorted themselves in every possible shape to not call it a bomb. They called it a smoke causing suspicious device, for instance. So now we are a day later, here we are a day later, and this is what CNN was able to cobble together. This is a real, this is a real thing they did. 

Two, this is a tweet, two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York city Saturday morning. for what could have been a normal day, enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. 

But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change, as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti -Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's house. 

Here's what we know so far. Wow. How can that be real? Someone on Twitter said, Muslim aviation enthusiasts boarded flights Tuesday morning for what could have been normal day trips to New York City, Virginia, New York, and the abnormally warm September weather. But in less than a few hours, their lives would drastically change as their planes just crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the ground in rural Pennsylvania. Here's what we know so far. 

Amazing. So what's the deal here? Here's why the lefties wrote this. The terrorists are not the main actors here. They're acted upon by life, by white supremacy. Everything's in the passive, right? 

Their lives would be drastically changed. Zero agency, classic leftist movement. Then of course they refused, they did call it a bomb, but they refused to call the Muslim or talk about where their parents are from. Instead, they're Pennsylvania teenagers. Teenagers also makes them seem like little innocent misguided victims. They're 18 and 19, also known as adults. 

And then maybe my favorite line is the, what otherwise could have been a normal day. Yeah, it could have been if you didn't make a bomb and light it on fire and throw it into a crowd of people. You're right. It could have been a normal day. NYPD came out later and said that one of the terrorists requested paper, and he wrote, I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State. Die in your rage, you kuffar. 

Kuffar is an Arabic term that refers to you and me, non -Muslims. And we're told white supremacy is the problem. All right, so what's broken here? I want to do a side by side. After these two precious young Muslim men threw a bomb into a crowd of people, one officer in particular, many officers, but one in particular was involved immediately. And there's a baller picture of him jumping over the metal barrier fence to go and capture the terrorist. 

From what I could see in the short video, it looks like the guy dropped the bomb and then ran. And now he's on the other side of the fence as all the cops. So a lot of other cops are trying to figure out what to do, like, how do I get to him? Oh, he's on the other side of the fence. This guy just leaps over the fence in a single bound. Chief Aaron Edwards. 

is his name. He was inspired to join the NYPD after he was in college during 9 -11. And he said, I saw what happened with people running in, with our first responders running into the towers. He said, and I took one of the first tests for the academy. I saw it. I felt it. 

When everyone was running out of the Twin Towers, we had our police officers and other first responders running in. I thought that was selfless heroism. It just drew me into the profession. And since I started, I fell in love with policing. That is absolutely the best of the best attitude, what we need more of in our country. And the only way to get more of it is to celebrate it. 

Meanwhile, Zohran Mamdani had a guest over for dinner at the mayor's mansion. It's Ramadan, don't you know? All I hear about is how it's Ramadan. And here's what the mayor wrote. He said, for Mahmood Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship. and by profound courage. 

A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife, Noor, when he was detained by - again, it's all - he was - it was just a normal day. He was just having a - he was just being with his wife. He was just having a nice time. Again, and was sure, because he's the victim here, to highlight the Muslimness of Mahmoud. here. Not the Muslimness of the bomb -throwing terrorist, but the Muslimness of just an innocent man sharing an iftar with his wife. 

That's the meal that breaks the Ramadan fast. He was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights and protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there's been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity, a city refusing to look away. 

Mahmoud won his freedom and a father was finally reunited with his child. Last night, as we marked the one -year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I, his wife, were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son, Dean, D -E -E -N, to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together. Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City. 

Who's this Mahmoud guy? 

Not a police officer. for sure. This is the guy who is the leader of a raging anti -semitic pro -Palestinian Marxist group at Columbia University in New York City. You may remember a picture of him. If you saw a picture, you'd probably ring a bell. He's the leader of a group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest. 

These are all just Marxists. I'm reading from their website. They say this group is a coalition of student organizations that sees Palestine as the vanguard for our collective liberation. We are a continuation of the Vietnam anti -war movement and the movement to divest from apartheid South Africa. We support freedom and justice for the Palestinian people and for all people. We know that true collect, except the ones we're throwing bombs at, we know that true collective safety will arise when everyone has access to clean air, clean water, right? 

So we're throwing in environmentalist stuff here. Food, housing, education, healthcare, freedom of movement, and dignity. So they'll just throw it all in. They'll riot for anything, anything that's against the West. This is post in particular. 

Let me pull it up here. 

One post in particular that this Columbia University group put up, run by this guy. 

We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization. Super. We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the global South. Our Infitada is an international one. We're fighting for nothing less than liberation for all people. As the fascism ingrained in the American consciousness becomes even more explicit and irrefutable, we seek community and instruction from militants in the global South who have been on the front lines in the fight against tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist world order. 

" Yikes. The leader of that group is enjoying a nice meal at the mayor of New York City's mansion. Why is this person here? Mahmoud was a, he was born in a refugee camp to Palestinian parents in Syria. He's an Algerian citizen? and he came to America on a green card. 

After his activism became apparent to the Trump administration, they claimed that he lied on his green card application, which of course you would have to do. So an immigration judge ruled that he's deportable and ordered him removed. But then all the federal courts got involved and all the activist lawyers and they blocked his deportation. You want a pancake? I'll take a pancake. I'll take a pancake. 

It's vacation. 

Five more minutes. You already had a pancake. Just to be clear, it's 202 in the afternoon when I'm recording this and they're asking for pancakes. So that would be, I'm gonna put that in the it's vacation category. 

Can we have a pancake at 202 as we're about to go get pizza for dinner? 

Why not, kids? Where was I? So all these judges said that this guy is allowed, must, must stay in America until all of his appeals are done and it's going to take forever, right? This is crazy. He's not a citizen. Kick him out. 

He's ultimately going to be deported, but he's a celebrity on the left and a bit of a martyr until that day finally comes. And he gets special dinners at Gracie Mansion. The hero cop does not. All right, let's get to the Bible so I can go have a pancake. A Bible verse I think of often is Isaiah 520. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. 

And I just thought of this, of course, because of the juxtaposition between the hero cop and then this Mahmoud guy and which one's being honored by the mayor. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. It's a classic, but rarely does the verse just before it get any attention. And that's what I want to do here. First, one more point on this one. Woe to those who call, I just want to make sure we drive this home. 

Woe to those who call evil people and evil things good. And then the flip side, those who call good things and good people evil. These people have it backwards because they're so twisted and they're so demented in their soul that it's entirely backwards. And woe means that there is divine judgment coming. It is a warning against sin and the impending doom that is coming your way. Woe to you. 

Check out the verse before. Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes, who say, let him be quick. let him speed his work, that we may see it. Let the counsel of the holy one of Israel draw near and let it come that we may know it. " All right, we got to break this one down. This is such a good verse. 

I'm actually going to, that's the ESV, and I always quote ESV first. Let me do the NIV. It's a little bit more clear. Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit and wickedness as with cart ropes. Cart, C -A -R -T, cart ropes. To those who say, let God hurry, let him hasten his work so that we may see it. 

The plan of the Holy one of Israel, let it approach, let it come into view so that we may know it. So back in the day, they had carts, right? Which were loaded with whatever you were carrying. And the cart was hitched to an animal that would pull the cart. The wicked people here are the animals, the mules, donkeys, oxen, whatever it is that's pulling the cart that's loaded with sin. And they're pulling this cart of sin without any shame. 

That's the extra key here. You're pulling their sin, parading it really, and they're doing it with no shame. And that's verse 19, to those who say, let God hurry, let him hasten his work so that we may see it. This is mockery. This is mockery. Those who are pulling their cart of sin, they're saying to God, God, if you don't like this, you say you don't like this. 

Oh, I'm doing it anyway. You say you don't like it. Let's see you do something about it. Imagine the wicked shaking their fist at God, knowing that they're sinning and doing it. It's not even shaking their fist. I think it's spitting at God, spitting at God's direction. 

I know I'm sinning, doing it anyway. What are you going to do about it? They're proud of their sin. They're parading it around. And they're saying, oh, you say, you say woe to me. 

You say, you're going to give judgment to me for this. Prove it. 

Let's go. Hurry up. Come on. Let's see what you can do, God. Open mockers. And there are open mockers of God around us, and in many cases, leading us. 

and representing us. 

And woe to those. 

Ready? Whichever one you want. I'll take the one with the bite in it. That way you get an extra bite. Who took the bite? Oh, okay. 

It looks like a bite. That looks like a bite. Mm, that's so good. These pancakes are the best pancakes. They're, what's her name? Chip and Joanna Gaines's. 

Their recipe, a couple of years ago, it's called the world's fluffiest pancakes. And the key is, see, here's the secret. You gotta use Kerrygold butter. Do not make these pancakes with Land O' Lakes or any of that garbage. You have to splurge. You have to make these with Kerrygold butter. 

They're basically just, it's just butter. It's just a ton of butter. You can use the buttermilk like it calls for. You don't need to use the buttermilk. That doesn't make the biggest difference. It's the butter. 

It's all about the Kerrygold butter. I make these, we make them all the time. And every trip I go on with people, I make them and they're like our famous pancakes. They're Chip and Joanna Gaines's. They're the best. They're so unbelievably good. 

I'm going to have it at 207. Okay. I got to go. Let's wrap up with the grand finale here so I can eat this pancake. Cause they're really good. They're amazing warm and they drop off pretty quick. 

Uh, it is up to us to lift up the righteous, to highlight the good, to call the sweet, sweet, and the delicious, delicious, and to call the bitter, bitter, and to trust God. with his timeline to bring the woe. 

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The Quran calls Allah "The Best Deceiver". It makes sense why so many of its followers would throw bombs into groups of innocent people, like what happened in NYC. On the other hand, it is impossible for the God of the Bible to lie. We are different.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day. We bring it to the Bible so you can walk away with some peace and perspective. There are new headlines every single day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here for the true story. Today's episode, we're going to talk about scoundrels, the terrorist attack in New York city. 

We'll go deeper into this word. It's in the Bible, a scoundrel. Quick programming note. This is not my normal background. Uh, we just started recording these for YouTube. youtube . 

com slash politics by faith thanks for subscribing we had 178 subscribers now we have 225 so i'm talking about thanks for doing that it's free to subscribe youtube . com slash politics by faith so we just started recording these and then um i went on vacation so now this is just a bedroom that we're staying in uh we're on a spring break trip our goal is to show our kids as much of america as we can as much as of god's glory and beautiful country that he gave us. So we're in Utah right now. Went horseback riding for a couple hours this morning, then we went to Fisher Towers. Very cool hike, super cool, like tunnels and caverns and it's really awesome. The kids, when you take these kids out on these hikes here, on these trails, they just immediately turn into golden retrievers. 

They're just like, like a little kid is in their maximum natural element when climbing rocks. We're driving to the hike and the three -year -old literally says, Hey, Jackie, do you want to, do you want to, do you want to climb rocks? She's like, so like, yes, it's all I want to do ever is climb rocks. They're upstairs running around right now. I don't know how much of this microphone picks up of their running upstairs, but it's pretty loud where I am at the moment. All right, back to the video. 

actual scoundrels. So what happened the other day? Check out this headline. It's from the New York Times. Smoking jars of metal and fuses thrown at protest near mayor's house. New York Times, smoking jars of metal and fuses. 

ABC New York called it a smoke generating suspicious device. Ah, yes. your run -of -the -mill smoke generating suspicious devices well what is that over there well that's a smoke generating suspicious device of course the lengths that the media will go to not call it a bomb or even the euphemism of IED improvised explosive device no no jars of metal and fuses New York City and New York multiple arrests made after suspicious devices found outside Gracie Mansion, home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, during anti -Islam rally and counter -protest. Now, a couple things about that headline. First, the bombs weren't found, they were thrown. Second, the headline makes it seem like it was the anti -Islam people who were behind the bombs. 

But no, no, it was two Muslim guys who threw the bombs. CBS News was maybe the closest, but still not telling the full story at all. Suspicious devices ignited. during protests near Manhattan's Gracie Mansion. That's like the best. But none of the headlines make it clear that it was the Muslims who threw the bombs. 

So what happened was there was an anti -Islam rally near the mayor's house. And then there were, alright so you're with me on the first group anti -Islam. Then there were counter -protesters, so pro -Islam people who were there. In that group, the Muslim group, there was an 18 and a 19 year old who were told were inspired by ISIS who threw these bombs. They're on video. doing it. 

They're on video throwing it and then running away or trying to run away. They didn't make it very far. And then the mayor comes in and says, yesterday, this is what he wrote, yesterday, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion rooted in bigotry and racism. Such hate has no place in New York City. It's an affront to our city's values and the unity that defines who we are. What followed was even more disturbing. 

Violence at a protest is never acceptable. The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it's reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are. " Now you're saying, well, he called him out. 

Okay. 

Very quick though to name Jake Lang. Never heard of this guy in my life, but quick to name him, white supremacist, Jake Lang. So we have the name and motivation. No mention of Amir Balat and Ibrahim Niq and how they shouted Allahu Akbar when they threw the bomb. New York state Senator Liz Krueger, she was even more obscene. She said, New York is no place for anti -Muslim hate or any other kind of prejudice. 

We don't need out -of -state provocateurs sowing fear, division, and violence in our city. I don't even know if that is any reference at all to the people who actually threw the bombs in the crowd. If it is, then the first group of people are anti -Muslim haters. And the second group, the people who threw the bombs, they're any other kind of prejudice. So just to be clear, a Muslim, too, threw a bomb full of shrapnel into the middle of a peaceful protest, and the problem is anti -Muslim hate. That's how they're spinning that. 

The Babylon Bee, who are wonderful, satire of course, but not really, their fake headline is, Mamdani condemns New Yorkers for making Muslims throw bombs at them. That's right. That's, that's the gist of all these headlines. We know a little bit more about these two. According to the New York Post, um, these two guys traveled to Turkey and other terror training hotspots. 

Bilat spent more than three months in Istanbul last year. Ibrahim flew to Istanbul and Saudi Arabia in 2024 and made a trip to Melbourne, Australia in 2019. Crazy that a trip to Melbourne is on a list of terror hotspots. The bombs are filled with something called TATP. This is, it has a name, it's called the mother of Satan, this chemical. It's so volatile apparently that it doesn't even need a fuse to go off and it can be made with just household chemicals. 

So it's cheap to produce. And this was the type of bomb that was used by terrorist attacks in France, England, Belgium, and New Delhi over the last 10 years. So it's been around for a while. It is, the point of it is to kill people. It's a miracle that they didn't go off. Two of them. 

Neither of them went off. These two need to be charged with maximum federal charges. They need to be charged as if they did go off. I hate how we do this with our justice system where like murder is terrible. Murder, you get a lot of prison. Attempted murder, no big deal. 

You tried, but it didn't work. But like, no, no, no. Same thing. These two, well, if it went off, we'd give them life. But it didn't go off. So, you know, let's just give them probation. 

Like, no, no, they need to be treated as if they went off. And whatever mosque they go to needs to be investigated. And anyone who they've been in contact with, who's not a citizen, needs to be deported. There's no reason for anyone who's a part of this in any way to remain in this country whatsoever. The FBI also raided the homes of these guys in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. I used to live there, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 

I saw a video of this. of their houses. It's a huge house. It's a giant, beautiful house. Do not believe the lie. And this lie started around 2003, maybe a little later after that. 

That terrorism, it's more of Obama, maybe 2008. The terrorism is fueled by poverty, right? And this is one of the excuses for why we need to give a lot of money to these Islamic countries because they're just so poor. And if we make them rich and they won't, nope, not true. It's never been true. We could, you know, Today's gonna be a longer episode, so I'll save it for another day. 

But we could go through all the terrorists, Bin Laden himself, all the way down to the people wearing suicide vests, who are not poor and who are not uneducated. Many are very wealthy and went to college. And same with these two, living a very upper middle -class life in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, living in a house that's, one of them at least, that's out of reach for most Americans, and still throwing bombs into crowds of people yelling Allahu Akbar. More about the family, Bill Belugin is reporting that, One of the guy's parents are from Turkey, both the parents are from Turkey, and were naturalized into U . S. citizens in 2017. 

The other guy's parents are both from Afghanistan, and the mom naturalized in 2009, the dad in 2004. What in the world? 

Naturalized? 

Why? 

Why? We have a major legal immigration problem in America. The Hart -Celler Act. We've gone over this before, I'll do it quick. From 1921 to 1965, immigration was limited to 2%. of the people who are already here from different countries based off the 1890 census. 

So whatever number of people from, let's say, France were here in 1890, we would accept every year 2 % of that number. All of these people in America in 1890 were from Western European countries. From 1921 to 1965, this was the deal, which means very few immigrants came into the United States at all. 1965, we passed the Hart -Celler Act that eliminated this quota. And that's when we opened up America to third world immigration. People were told in 1965, this is what would happen. 

Let me quote this. Ted Kennedy, who had became Senate floor leader on this legislation, chose to speak to what he said were false fears that the bill's opponents were fanning. He said, quote, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. And with Biden, it was four million, four or five million. Then Kennedy said under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same. Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset. 

Contrary to the charges in some quarters, Senate Bill 500, the Hart -Seller Act, will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area or the most populated and economically deprived nations of Africa and Asia. And of course, that's exactly what happened. Some evidence of this happening, well, in New York City last week, the fire department, FDNY, The FDNY Islamist Society had a Iftar. This is the meal that breaks their Ramadan fast. And it was held in the FDNY headquarters. They set up prayer rugs in front of the wall that has the memorial plaques to the 343 firefighters who died on 9 -11. 

Why there? I understand you have to lay the rug in such a way towards Mecca. 

Okay. 

Lots of rooms in the headquarters. Why right in front of the memorial plaques? But let's not even go that far. What are we doing? I've never read or heard more about Ramadan in my life than this last year. What is this FDNY Ramadan fast breaking? 

What is going on here? Let's go to England. In UK, the Boy Scouts in UK, they have a new Islamophobia Awareness Month badge. To earn your badge, you can, here's a list, learn about Islam. and discover what Muslims do in practice every day. Find out how the values of Islam are similar to our values in scouts. 

You could learn about the five pillars of Islam. Visit a mosque. Listen to the call of prayer. You could do an act of kindness. This is great. Islam promotes being caring and having compassion for others. 

It also teaches Muslims to look out after our environment. The prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said removing a harmful thing from the path is a charitable act. So you could enlist all these things like planting a tree and picking up litter. Number three, explore Muslim role models. Learn about the impact, achievement, and contributions that Muslims have made in the world. Number four, learn about bias and discrimination. 

Learn about common misconceptions and myths about Islams and Muslims. Invite a member of the Muslim community, such as a local sheik or imam, to visit your group. Explore the ways you might see Islamophobia in society. And then it says you should learn the five pillars of Islam. This is in England, totally conquered. Boy Scouts started as a Christian organization. 

Now it is very much not. In England, all across the country, the soccer stadiums have been playing the call to prayer over the stadium loudspeakers. This doesn't happen in stadiums in Muslim countries. It's not a thing. They'll play the call to prayer from mosques, but not from soccer stadiums. This is a, but they do in England. 

This is a humiliating thing. and it is a sign of dominance. Now we don't need to say across the pond in England, England's already gone. 40 % of New York city's foreign born. The mayor is now a foreigner born in Uganda who's Muslim. His response never mentioned the Muslim attackers. 

Of course, why would it? The mayor's wife celebrated the October, October 7th attack against Israel. She liked Instagram posts that right after the attack, which killed, by the way, 1 ,200 people and took 251 hostages. She was celebrating it. One post showed people celebrating on top of an Israeli military vehicle with the words, free Palestine under it. And the post called this an act of self -defense and a human right for the people who live under occupation and all that she'd like to support all this stuff. 

And the mayor's response to his wife's comments were she's a private citizen. We've talked about her before. The New York Sun wrote an article about her that she's really a stereotypical progressive in a lot of ways, that she was born in America, but she doesn't associate with being an American at all. The New York Times just yesterday called her a Syrian American. Her bio on her Twitter profile says that she's from Damascus. She was born in Houston. 

She's from Texas. Her website says her illustrations examine the nuances of sisterhood and communal experiences with the global infitada. But she's, see the kids trying to be quiet outside the door. She's born in Houston, Texas, but she identifies as Syrian. And now she's the first lady of New York city celebrating the death of Jews. 

Okay. 

So that's the scene. That's what happened the other day. What's broken here. Where do we start? What do we pick? I'm going to go with deceit and then we'll break down the word scoundrel. 

That's in the Bible. I'm reminded of the story, I'm reminded of the story of, by the way, if this is them being quiet, you should hear them loud. I'm reminded of the story in first Kings 21. So the short of it is you have the Ahab, king of Samaria, and Naboth. Naboth had a piece of land that the king wanted. So the king asked Naboth for the land and he said, I'll give you a lot of money for it. 

And it'll be great. And Naboth said, no, the Lord forbade that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you. That's in reference to a couple of different Old Testament scriptures. Numbers 36, seven is one says, so the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not change hands from tribe to tribe for every one of the children of Israel shall keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. So he obeyed God. Naboth did. 

Good for him. 

And the king went away very sad. He didn't eat any food. He was all depressed and whiny and mopey. But Jezebel, his wife came to him, most wicked woman who ever lived. He told her what happened. And the Bible says, Jezebel, his wife said to him, you now exercise authority over Israel. 

Arise, eat food, like get ahold of yourself and let your heart be cheerful. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite. So she wrote letters in the King's name, sealed them with the King's seal and sent it to the elders and nobles. And the letter said, proclaim a fast. So give it a religious cover and seat Naboth with high honor among the people. and seat two men, scoundrels, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, You have blasphemed God and the king. 

Then take him out and stone him, that he may die. And they did. And they accused him of a crime, and they stoned him. right there. Threw stones at him until he died. Alexander McLaren, a Bible scholar, late 1800s. 

He said, there's three dangerous types of people in this scene right here. First, you have Ahab who was wicked and weak. Then you have Jezebel who was wicked and strong. And then you have the elders of Jezreel who were wicked and subservient. No one was good except Naboth who was following God's commands. Now, a lot has been said about the story about Ahab's greed, and that's true. 

But I want to highlight a different part of the story, and that is the deceit and the contrast of Naboth. So Naboth had clear conviction based on God's word. We read it from Numbers and he said to the king, no, I will not sell this land. Compare that to the, to the deceit, the tyranny from Jezebel. First, pretending to be the king, sealing the letter with the king's seal, ordering the elders to lie, make false accusations against an innocent man. It's all lying and deceit. 

And then using scoundrels. achieve her end. The Hebrew word for scoundrel means son of Belial or son of Satan. Now God had his justice in the end. Let me finish this verse here. Concerning Jezebel, the Lord also spoke saying the dog shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. 

The dog shall eat whoever belongs to Ahab and dies in the city and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field. Later, verse 25, but there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord because Jezebel, his wife, stirred him up. So they got their justice to tie into yesterday's episode. But again, I want to highlight the fruit. of the deceit and the lying and the fasting by using a religious act to cover their murderous actions and using sons of Satan to carry out their evil deeds. Just like the use of two young men from a nice neighborhood in Bucks County, Pennsylvania to inspire them with the words of ISIS to throw bombs and kill Americans. 

Scoundrels. Sons of Satan. Now these two were believers in Islam. Okay. One of the names for Allah is best of deceivers. That's in the, in the Islam faith. 

One of Allah's names is best of deceivers. The God of the Bible is never called a deceiver. Quick note to this. You'll hear a lot of pagan and whatever people say, Oh, we all worship the same God. No, we do not. Not even close. 

The God of the Bible is never called a deceiver. The Bible says of all people. The real God in Titus 1 -2, God who never lies, but Allah in the Bible is called the best of deceivers. Jesus in the Bible, Allah in the Quran is called the best of deceivers. Jesus in the Bible is called the way, the truth, and the life. Just to drive home the deceit and how he's the best of deceivers, Allah. 

The first follower of Muhammad didn't trust Allah's words. His name's Abu Bakr. He was the father -in -law of Muhammad, one of the closest friends of Muhammad. He's called the truthful. He was called the truthful by Muhammad himself. Sunni Muslims still refer to him as that today. 

There was a book called Successors of the Messenger. It was written right after Muhammad died. About the four leaders right after Muhammad, Abu Bakr was the first. Abu Bakr said of Allah, he said, by Allah, I would not feel safe from the deception of Allah. That's the same word, same Arabic word, deception. 

I would not feel safe from the deception of Allah, even if I had one foot in paradise. Abu Bakr himself said, are they then secure from Allah's schemes and deception? None deemeth himself secure from Allah's schemes, save folk that perish. " Yikes. No Muslim can trust the words of Allah because he's deceptive, unlike the real true God of the Bible, who is truthful. So back to 1 Kings 21. 

Who's the good guy in the story? Naboth. Naboth believed God's promises. And in Hebrews 11, 37, after listing heroes of the faith by name, the writer then says, they were stoned. Naboth was. They were sown in two. 

They were tempted. They were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins being destitute, afflicted, ill -treated, all of whom the world was not worthy. Wandering about in desert and mountains and in dens and caves of the earth. And all these though commended through their faith did not receive what was promised since God had promised something better for us that apart from us, they should not be made perfect. That something different is Jesus. 

We know Jesus. We have all the reasons to be even more faithful than Naboth was. Because we follow a truthful God, not Allah. And we should do what we can to make sure that we always live in a country that follows God. youtube . com slash politicsbyfaith. 

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The President launched his "Shield of the Americas" union to fight the drug cartels in our hemisphere. This is a righteous project that needs to be celebrated. We should be grateful that our founders set up a justice system based on Old Testament principles, so now we can be the model for the world.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective because there's new headlines every day. But Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. Today, we're going to talk about the shield of the Americas. Quick programming note before we get to it, though, this is not my normal background or my normal camera. 

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We are, um, we just started recording these and then I went on vacation. Bad timing for recording nice looking videos. Apologies for that. But, uh, our goal is to go on as many trips. I want to show our kids as much about America as we possibly can while they're still young. So we're taking as many trips as we can. 

Right now we're in Southern Utah, Moab, Arches National Park. Kids just hiked, probably did four miles or so, not too much, but they have to go on these side quests and climb every rock they see. And there's just, there's nothing but rocks here. So we're just, they're just climbing on stuff all the time. So we're out there for like five or six hours or so. The parents are beat. 

My wife and I are pretty tired right now. And the kids are outside playing tag. They're fine. Also, there's a little shuffleboard table upstairs. So you may hear some banging. For some reason, the shuffleboard, it's like shuffleboard on the table. 

It's not on the ground, like on a cruise ship. It's right on the table. But for some reason, it's the loudest thing I've ever heard. So you may hear a lot of banging. That would be the shuffleboard upstairs. All right. 

So the shield of the Americas. This is a wonderful thing that needs to be celebrated and we need to know that it happened. Donald Trump has in one year completely changed the global world order. It is indeed a new world order. I know that sounds very scary, a new world order. But what I mean to say is there was an ordering of the world and now it's different. 

It's a new order of things. And that happens, right? Things are always changing. We mentioned the other day, might've been on the satellite show that the British naval fleet is a pittance. of what it once was. There was a period of time, three, 400 years when the British ruled the world. 

Their empire was 25 % of the world's landmass. Their Navy was enormous. Now it barely exists. And they refused to help us with the war with Iran because they didn't want to upset their Muslim voters. Trump, the other day on truth social, he said the UK, our once great ally, maybe the greatest of them all is giving serious, thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That's okay, Prime Minister Starmer. 

We don't need them any longer, but we will remember. We don't need people that join wars after we've already won. So that allyship is changing because it's a different country. It's a Muslim country now. The arrangements in the Middle East are all changing. Iran would be one of them, but all these Middle Eastern countries are now aligned with the United States. 

All the Trump trade deals are all about recentering manufacturing and trade towards America and against China for every country. With the Trump told every country, you got to pick a side, you're either going to pick the side of China or America, that's it. And the countries all chose America. Greenland gives us the control over the North Pole, taking out the Maduro Venezuela, that solidifies our control over the Western Hemisphere. Soon we're going to take over Cuba. 

It's going to be amazing. Now, we have no interest in taking over the world. We just want to make sure, Trump just wants to make sure that the world is centered on what's in the best interest of America. We're not going to go take over Argentina for the sake of empire, but we are thrilled that the leader of Argentina is a huge MAGA guy. So the Shield of the Americas conference, it was a conference with the presidents of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, which is right next to Venezuela, and they got a ton of oil there, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago. That was it. 

So one purpose of this gathering, the president said, on this historic day, we come together to announce a brand new military coalition to eradicate the criminal cartels plaguing our region. We're calling this military partnership the America's Counter Cartel Coalition. And then here's a bigger why. So the very specific why is we're gonna work together to eliminate the cartels. The bigger why, the president said, all the nations in this room share the same priorities, security, prosperity, free commerce, and the rule of law. Remember that one? 

That's why together we're forming the Shield of the Americas, a new organization to advance these shared priorities in our hemisphere. Now, first priority, eliminate the drug cartels. The president said, just as we formed a coalition to eradicate ISIS in the Middle East, we must now do the same thing to eradicate the cartels at home. Great, love that. Noticeably, who is? not at the Shield of the Americas conference, was Mexico. 

The president said, as part of our commitment to countering the cartel presence in our region, we must recognize the epicenter of cartel violence is Mexico. I love this president name. the enemy. The Mexican cartels are fueling and orchestrating much of the bloodshed and chaos in this hemisphere, and the United States government will do whatever is necessary to defend our national security and protect the safety of the American people. Then he went off prompt. He said it all comes through Mexico. 

And I like the president very much, Trump said. She's a very good person. She's got a beautiful voice. A beautiful woman, but a beautiful voice. I said, let me eradicate the cartels. No, no, no, please, president, please. 

We have to eradicate them. We have to knock the hell out of them because they're getting worse. They're taking over their country. The cartels are running Mexico. We can't have that. Too close to us, too close to you. 

But everything comes in through Mexico, mostly. At the same time, all of us must commit to ensuring that law and order within our own nations, and that includes showing zero tolerance for the gang activity, tremendous gang activity. 

Okay. 

I want to talk about law and order here. Quick sidebar before we do the old side quest. This is the equivalent is the podcast equivalent of the kids running off to go climb on that rock. At this conference, Shield of the Americas conference, Trump spoke and then Marco Rubio got up and spoke and he spoke in a very fluent Spanish, which I say very fluent as opposed to like AOC Spanish. Like he's like actually speaking Spanish. Now at the very beginning of the speech, Trump said, he's like, listen, I'm not going to learn your language, which is not enough time. 

He said, uh, but I have an interpreter. And he said, just give me a good interpreter. Interpreter, very important. And I know if somebody is good. This is a little president standup routine. I've never heard this act before. 

He said, I may not speak the language, but I know. I had an interpreter recently that wasn't good, talking to a very strong person from a different part of the world. And I could tell, even though I don't speak the language, I could tell the interpreter was not good. When you go, uh, uh, uh, when I give a long, flowing, beautiful sentence. And in this case, it was a woman and she gave it in about four, a quarter of the time. 

I said, well, their language may be efficient, but it's not that efficient. And I could also tell when I had great interpreters, interpreters are very important. You know, he kept going, this was getting laughs. So he kept going. He said, you have a bad interpreter and you think you're doing well. Boy, did I do a good job talking to this one or that one? 

Was I great when I spoke to Putin today or what? Was I great when I spoke to this president? Wasn't I great? But if the interpreter isn't speaking right or is weak or is ineffective or is just not good, it's not interesting or is not interpreting your words correctly. In one case, we had an interpreter who, when she disagreed with what we were saying, she actually changed it. We considered her a foreign minister, right? 

That's great. Okay. So that was at the beginning of the speech. Then Trump speaks and then Rubio gets up and he starts talking in Spanish and Trump goes back and said, is he better in English or Spanish? Is he better in English or Spanish? I think he's better in Spanish. 

And then he goes, Pete. Pete Hexhead, like Pete Hexhead, you're up next. And Pete gets up and says, thank you, Mr. President. I only speak American. And I thought that was a funny back and forth. All right. 

So back to the main topic at hand. 

Although now I think we could do a segment here on translations. 

That's a good idea. I missed that. Bible translations, what the differences are, what like interesting words in Greek and Hebrew that we don't have the same full English equivalent of that would be an interesting episode. Maybe we can do that. Alas, it's not what I've prepared. We're going to go in a different direction. 

Talk about law and order and the drug cartels. We are so blessed in America with a culture and a system that hates corruption and bribery. Did I say bribery? Bri -bo -ry. In Mexico, where the cartels run everything, they extort businesses, they run entire industries, they have paid off the police and politicians and judges. 

It's a horrible way to live. Horrible way to live. We take it for granted that we don't live like that, but it is the norm in Mexico. So let's go to the Bible. I read a very interesting analysis on what our founding fathers and grandfathers learned from the Old Testament when we, when our founders were setting up our justice system here. And the answer is nearly everything. 

They learned it all from the Bible. Samuel Langdon, he was the president of Harvard in 1774. He of course served in the during the revolution as well. He gave a speech once and he quoted Isaiah 126. And he said, the Bible says, and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning. Afterward, they shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city. 

And this is Samuel Langdon said, hey, we need to set up our systems like they did in the Bible. He said, every nation when able and agreed has a right to set up over itself any form of government, which to it may appear most conducive to its common welfare. The civil polity of Israel Old Testament is doubtless an excellent general model. And it wasn't just him, John Adams. He said that the Hebrews had a government instituted by God. They had a judge, the great Sanhedrin, and general assemblies of the people. 

So the Old Testament was the model that our founding fathers used. Even the concept that justice was something that was our responsibility, something that was in our hands, that of course is biblical. Genesis 9, after the flood. says, "...and God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth." Right after that, we'll skip to verse 6, God says, "...whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed. For God made man in his own image." A couple of really important things here. 

First of all, it must be noted that one of the first orders of business after the flood was for man to set up a justice system. This is also the first time in the Bible that God tells humans that humans, you guys, you people, are created in God's image. Because before this point, God dispensed justice, but now humans were told to take responsibility or become partners with God in dispensing justice while here on earth. Also, what needs to be noted is the equality under the law. We think that's an important system in the American, important aspect of the American system. 

Of course it is. That comes to the Bible. Verse six, again, it said, whoever sheds the blood of man, whoever, all people, everyone subject to the law. Another aspect of our justice system that we have in America, and they don't in Mexico, is property rights. And that comes from the Bible. Deuteronomy 24, 10, 11. 

It says, when you make a loan of any sort to your neighbor, you must not enter his house to seize his pledge. You must remain outside. while the man to whom you made the loan brings the pledge out to you. Can't go running in his house. Just take, even if it's yours. In cartel controlled areas, you don't have a business. 

You don't have a home. The cartel owns everything and they will get whatever they want. They will kill you for it. And then do horrific things with your body, like hang you over a bridge to send a message to everybody else. They're not following Deuteronomy 2410. Another aspect would be a jury trial. 

Numbers 35 on the planes of, are you kidding me here? Moab? We're in, the Slater family happens to be in Moab right now at this very moment, Moab, Utah. And here it is in the Bible, on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, the Lord said to Moses, come on. God said in this scene here, God said to Moses that if someone kills someone unintentionally, then there should be six different cities of refuge that they can go to. 

They will be places of refuge from the avenger so that anyone accused of murder may not die before they stand trial before the assembly. So the accused is protected from the family of those who are killed, from those seeking revenge, right? And they get to go to this place and they're safe until they have a trial. And at the trial, people, their peers decide if it was intentional murder or something that we would call it today, like involuntary manslaughter or something like that. So you have a jury of your peers and you also have innocent until proven guilty. It's amazing. 

All this comes from the Bible and much more, but we need to have a deeper appreciation of this. Our founding fathers set up our system of justice based on the Old Testament. That is not the case in Mexico or many of our neighbors in South America. that are in the shield of the America. Oh, I forgot about the bribes. Um, one more Deuteronomy 16, 18, 19 judges shall govern the people with due justice. 

You shall not judge unfairly. You shall show no partiality. You shall not take bribes for bribes, blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the plea of the just a nation cannot thrive with corrupt judges. Now we have corrupt judges, right? We have. We have judges that are beholden to a woke ideology that results in them also not dispensing justice properly. 

It's a bit of a different form of corruption, and we need to handle that. It's very important. But it's nothing like what they have in Mexico. So in conclusion, what the president is doing with this Shield of the Americas is excellent and praiseworthy. If we can all work together as countries in this hemisphere, the freedom -loving nations of our hemisphere, with our leadership, the United States of America, with our worldview, with our vision, with our righteousness, which is really just the Bible's example. 

And if we can dispense justice to the cartel members properly, thereby saving the lives of Americans and improving the lives of everyone in our hemisphere, what a righteous action that is. YouTube . com slash politics by faith is where you can watch the video. 

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