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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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Our president and our Navy SEALs killed "El Mencho". Technically, the Mexican government and the Mexican military did, but...it wouldn't have happened without constant pressure from Trump. We'll give the true story and relate it to Judges 3.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so that we can walk away with perspective and peace. 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. The story of the day is El Mencho is dead. 

I'm recording this just a couple hours before the State of the Union address. One hope I have for the president is, among others of tonight, highlighting Team USA, but also throughout his speech, I would like it to be clear about how competent this administration is. domestically, also foreign policy with the operations in Iran, Venezuela, Operation Hawkeye. Maybe he'll mention that tonight in Syria against ISIS. And what happened in Mexico the other day, what happened in Mexico is not getting nearly the attention that it deserves. El Mencho was the highest level cartel leader in the Narco state, just to our south. Brandon Darby is the head of Breitbart Border Chronicles. 

We've been talking to him for a long time, but last year or so, he has said that he will know Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, is serious about fighting the cartel if they ever do anything that hurts El Mencho. Because what Mexico did is they would keep giving us cartel leaders, but they were all the enemies of El Mencho. So every time they did that, they were helping the person they were most in bed with. Well, they killed him. It is entirely because of the Trump administration. All the actions from the administration of blowing up the drug boats off the coast of Venezuela, of course, capturing Maduro. 

It's one thing to make threats, but now it is clear and the world knows that Trump does not make empty threats. It'll give you plenty of chances, but there's an end to the road. The fact that El Mencho, who thought he was invincible, was taken out by way of the Trump administration. As Darby said, it is a new day in Mexico. El Mencho had his hands all the way through the Mexican administration. Apparently he was very close with their head of the military. 

The fact that this operation could even take place is crazy and that they could pull it off. It's unbelievable. It's honestly, it's crazy. very hard to believe that this could have happened like this. But it's also impossible to think that we captured Maduro without any American getting injured either. But here's one important thing that I want to make clear. 

El Mencho, the name of the cartel was Cartel Jalisco New Generacion. El Mencho was the leader. We now, Breitbart has it confirmed, that instructors from our Navy SEALs went to Mexico with our own equipment and weapons and held some sort of training event, a seminar, whatever we call it, a seminar. But we had our Navy SEALs there helping the top level Mexican army team. And as soon as we met, we took all of their phones and all communication devices to prevent any leaks of information, which happened all the time. And again, this is why it was so crazy that this even happened, because how was communication, how did it exist between Trump and Scheinbaum without Scheinbaum's team who were in bed with El Mencho? 

Scheinbaum was too, but his team, her team, close to El Mencho, they had to not know about this. This had to be an incredibly small number of people who knew this was going down. And how does the head of the military not know that his own military was engaging in this action without tipping off? El Mencho. I hope one day we can know everything about how this went down, what this looked like, where we met, how secretive was this Navy SEAL involvement? Did we meet on an American military base? 

That's not very secretive, I don't think. Did we meet in some remote village somewhere? I would love to know exactly how El Mencho was taken. How do we know he was there? Apparently there was a woman involved, one of his mistresses or whatever met with him. We don't know if she was in on it or we just knew that She was going there, so we followed her and knew where she was and was able to take him out that way. 

A lot of questions. I hope the president celebrates this. I hope this has given a lot of attention to praise tonight. And even if it's not tonight that people still know about it and people know that Trump did this because shine bomb knew it was either our Navy SEALs do it and you have to deal with the political ramifications of that shine bomb or you guys do it yourself and we'll give you all the help you need to do it. We will send our Navy SEALs down there to assist you all, but either we're doing it or you're doing it and this is your chance. Wow, I can't wait to hear more about how that all went down. 

All right, that's the story. What's broken? Every episode we have a what's broken section about this. Well, Mexico and our relationship at the border between Mexico and America has been broken. Bill Malugin, who's wonderful over at Fox about the border. He said, this is a reminder that a vast majority of the millions who crossed the border illegally during the Biden administration were lining the pockets of cartels like Jalisco. 

paying thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of dollars per head to be smuggled into the US. Color -coded cartel wristbands littered major crossing areas as cartels organized their human cargo by indicating who had already paid them. It was a threat. plus year free for all with the cartels earning billions, easily attracting customers with the promise that the U .S. S. government would release them into the country if they paid the cartels to get them across. 

And that's exactly what the Biden administration did in the majority of cases with mass catch and release policies. And he posted pictures of armbands scattered across the desert, like it was like the exit of a concert, right? They're like those wristbands that you would get at the fair or a concert or something or a water park. And they're everywhere, different colors. I don't know if that means like different levels of payment or if it meant like what cartel is getting you across, but all these different colored wristbands from people who are coming across illegally and all of that represented more money going to these cartels, which would then smuggling drugs into America and kill Americans. It's so crazy. 

One suggestion I had for Trump tonight at the state of the union was to replay clips. I don't think he can put like a PowerPoint presentation up there, but at the very least quote Bill Clinton at the state of the union in 1995 or Hillary Clinton in 2008, all these Democrats who wanted to do exactly what Trump is doing right now with the border to hear Hillary Clinton say, we need to deport all illegal aliens who committed crimes gone. You're out of here. No second chances here in Bill Clinton, talk about all the consequences of illegal immigration, which we're still facing today. It would be an amazing play because I think, I think the president should quote Bill Clinton. And what he said about how we got to get rid of the aliens and we got to shut down the border. 

We got to hire more board agents, quote him, have the Republican stand up and applaud the Democrats. Stay seated because of their TDS and then reveal that that quote was from Bill Clinton. So what changed Democrats? Why are you not applauding for me now? You did back in 1995. You applauded Bill Clinton for the exact quote. 

I just read. Why are you not supporting me and the American people today? That'd be pretty good. But let's bring this to the Bible right now. I could quote Romans 13 four, but we're going to save that for the TV show. We're recording it tomorrow. 

I'm going to release it here this weekend. I could quote first Peter two 14. It describes governors that are sent by the King to punish those who do wrong. Praise those who do right. That's good, but a bit too easy. I want to share instead here, a story of divine justice to evil people. 

One story that stands out judges three eight. Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. Oh, Not good. And he sold them into the hand of Kushan Rishathayim, king of Mesopotamia, Mesopotamia. And the children of Israel served Kushan Rishathayim eight years. So God gave the people of Israel what they wanted. 

They did not want to serve God. So he gave them over to this pagan king. That name that I can't pronounce means Ushan of double wickedness. So the Jews are under control of this pagan king for eight years before they cried out to the Lord. Isn't that interesting? I wonder what they were doing during those eight years. 

Did they like being under his control? Did they not care? Were they apathetic? Were they numb? Did they hate it? But they just never thought to ask God for deliverance. 

Verse nine, when the children of Israel cried out to the Lord, that leads me to believe, unless I'm reading too much into this one, that they did not cry out for eight years. But when they finally did, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the children of Israel who delivered them. Othiel, the son of Canaaz, Caleb's younger brother. The spirit of the Lord came upon him and he judged Israel. He went out to war and the Lord delivered Kushan Rishathime, king of Mesopotamia, the bad guy, into his hands and his hand prevailed over the king. So the land had rest for 40 years. 

Then Athenael, the son of Canaan died. So I want to highlight a couple of things. First, the spirit of the Lord came upon him. Uh, that name Athenael, it means enabled or clothed. The idea is here with, with God, with the spirit, spirit of the Lord. So he won, God delivered the evil king over to the Israelites. 

Great. And they had 40 years of peace and then the good guy died. So what did the Jews do? The children of Israel again, did evil inside of the Lord. So what did God do? The Lord strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel because they had done evil in the side of the Lord. 

Then he gathered to himself, the people of Ammon and Amalek went and defeated Israel and took possession of the city of Palms. So the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab 18 years. The cycle again goes on. But when the children of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for them. Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left -handed man. Why does that matter? 

By him, the children of Israel sent tribute to Eglon, king of Moab. Now, Ehud made himself a dagger. It was a double edged and a cubit in length. Cubit is 18 inches or so, and fastened it under his clothes on his right thigh. So this is where the left handedness is important because you would normally reach for this with your right hand, but he was left handed, but it was on his right thigh. So he brought the tribute to the king of Moab. 

Now, Eglon was a very fat man. That's what it says here. It's not me saying it. That's what it says, the word of God right here. silence and all who attended him went out from him. And Ehud came to him. 

Now he was sitting upstairs in his cool private chamber. Then Ehud said, I have a message from God for you. So he arose from his seat. Then Ehud reached with his left hand, took the dagger from his right thigh and thrust it into his belly. Even the hilt went in after the blade and the fat closed over the blade for he did not draw the dagger out of his belly and his entrails came out. Then Ehud went through the porch and shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them. 

When he gone out, Eglon's servants came to look and to their surprise, the doors of the upper room were locked. So they said he's probably attending to his needs in the cool chamber. So they waited until they were embarrassed. And still he had not opened the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them. And there was their master fallen dead on the floor. 

I love the part. I love the line. I have a message from God for you. 

I have a message from God on behalf of the people who you are oppressing. 

Now. A couple of notes here. The Bible doesn't say that the spirit of the Lord came upon Ehud. The Bible doesn't say, it doesn't explicitly maybe as the last, the first story we shared there of killing this evil king, but it certainly doesn't rebuke it. But here's what is clear. Wicked rulers often have judgments even before they die. 

We'll all have a judgment after we die, of course, but I'm referring to the judgment of being killed. And we will all have judgment when we die. This is Charles Spurgeon making this story very relevant to you and me. Spurgeon said, God uses many messengers to speak to us, including death. Ehud said, I have a message from God for you. It was a dagger. 

found its way to Eglon, the king's heart, and he fell dead. So shall death deliver his message to you. I have a message from God for you. He, death will say, and before you shall have time to answer, you shall find that this was the message because I, the Lord will do this. Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Thus sayeth the Lord, cut it down. 

Why cumbereth it the ground? Set thy house in order for thou shalt die and not live. Oh, may you hear the other messengers of God before he sends his last, most potent one from which you cannot turn away. Spurgeon is talking about, he quoted Amos 4 .12 there and Isaiah 38 .1, prepare to meet your God, set your house in order. Like we have warnings from prophets here and Spurgeon says, there's going to be another last warning, but at that point it will be too late. You will not be able to ignore or escape. 

death. I'm not saying your death's going to come from the Navy SEALs attacking you in the middle of the night like you're on Men's Show, but it's coming for everyone. So let's get our eternity in order. I'll end on a lighter note. 

This is a comedian that I saw just the other day. 

Or is he gonna die? 

If you live... you ain't got nothing to worry about. But if you die, you got two things. 

Whether you going to heaven, whether you going to hell. 

You ain't got nothing to worry about. That's two things. 

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