Embark on a journey through the prophetic landscapes of today's geopolitical tensions, where Israel and Iran's strife stirs deep questions about ancient scriptures coming to life. Join the conversation as we seek understanding, guided by prayer and reflection while navigating the complex realm of End Times prophecy. Olivier Melnick joins us next week to shed light on the significance of the Passover Seder and the undercurrents of rising anti-Semitism.
This week's dialogue with Dumasani Washington takes a hard look at the tangled web of cultural and legal issues, from the heated debates on abortion in Arizona to the striking statistics revealing America's spiritual orientation—or lack thereof. We grapple with the UK's CAS report's findings on children with gender dysphoria and the implications for society at large. As we probe these topics, we underscore the urgency for awareness and informed action in these transformative times.
Power dynamics shift as we explore the insatiable energy demands of AI development, juxtaposed with the military tech revolution manifesting in conflicts like Ukraine. We analyze Iran's missile and drone offensive against Israel, the prowess of the Iron Dome, and the strategic alliances shaping the Middle East's future. Through these discussions, we aim to equip you with insight into the prophetic signs of our times, urging vigilance, wisdom, and preparation for the challenges that lie ahead.
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Embark on a journey through the prophetic landscapes of today's geopolitical tensions, where Israel and Iran's strife stirs deep questions about ancient scriptures coming to life. Join the conversation as we seek understanding, guided by prayer and reflection while navigating the complex realm of End Times prophecy. Olivier Melnick joins us next week to shed light on the significance of the Passover Seder and the undercurrents of rising anti-Semitism.
This week's dialogue with Dumasani Washington takes a hard look at the tangled web of cultural and legal issues, from the heated debates on abortion in Arizona to the striking statistics revealing America's spiritual orientation—or lack thereof. We grapple with the UK's CAS report's findings on children with gender dysphoria and the implications for society at large. As we probe these topics, we underscore the urgency for awareness and informed action in these transformative times.
Power dynamics shift as we explore the insatiable energy demands of AI development, juxtaposed with the military tech revolution manifesting in conflicts like Ukraine. We analyze Iran's missile and drone offensive against Israel, the prowess of the Iron Dome, and the strategic alliances shaping the Middle East's future. Through these discussions, we aim to equip you with insight into the prophetic signs of our times, urging vigilance, wisdom, and preparation for the challenges that lie ahead.
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Amen. Let's open our word of prayer. Lord, we thank you for this day. Pray that you'll bless our time together today. Pray that you'll help us to find useful information and the things that we share today and that we'll use those as a way to witness to those around us and share the gospel. Pray that you'll watch over us today In Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 1:So today I'm going to title this next move Just, this is sort of the grid that we use acceleration, convergence, logistics and understanding, and I've been over that many, many times. But things are happening very quickly. They're happening, they're accelerating, but there are some logistics things and I think you'll see that as we talk a little bit today, because there were a lot of people were telling me that they thought that what we saw going on with Israel and Iran this week was well, this is Ezekiel 38 and 39. I just don't think we're there, but we'll know when we're there. I just don't think this is it yet. I think there's some logistical things that need to happen yet and as we get further into this, we'll have understanding.
Speaker 1:So here's the sort of an operative verse that we use every week. It's this in Daniel, chapter 12. Daniel has gotten all these prophecies, these incredible things that he's written about the scope of world history, from his time to the time of the end, and he wants to know. He says, and I heard, but I understood not. Then said I, o my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said Go thy way, daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end things. And he said go thy way, daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, made white and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand. But the wise shall understand, and it says in Daniel 11 that those wise who understand will instruct many. So we want to be in that category of people who understand what's going on, because we're paying attention to the things that are happening Now.
Speaker 1:Another verse that we use quite a bit is that in Zechariah, chapter 12, and I will pour on the house of David and on the habits of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplication. Then they will look on me, whom they pierced. Yes, they will warn for me as one grieves for only son, and grief for him as one grief for firstborn. So we see that there's going to be this great redemption of his chosen people as things get closer to the end. And it also says Jerusalem will be a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem, or a cup that causes reeling is the way some translations read. So we see this that Jerusalem is going to be a cup of trembling. We also know that there are all these prophecies about the horsemen, the seals, the trumpets and the bulls of wrath, and so the question is you know, where are we on the timeline? I think we're getting closer, but I can't say that we're there yet.
Speaker 1:And it's interesting. I get a lot of email and I don't mind people sending me email. I do not have the time to respond to much of it. I do try to read most of it, but I don't even have time to read all of it. So I apologize if you're offended by that, but there are only so many hours in a day by that. But there are only so many hours in a day. And it's interesting because I see a lot of people who love to study Bible prophecy and they're working things out. How is this going to happen? And the interesting thing is, I see very little agreement among all the emails that I get. So we'll know when it happens.
Speaker 1:Until then, we're all engaged in righteous speculation and we need to be a little bit gracious towards others who might not including me, who may not be fully on board with where you are, as I will try to be gracious to you, since you're not fully on board with me sometimes. So we just need to be humble and gracious in the way we approach these things. So, as I get into this this week, I just want to give you a little bit of a heads up as to where we're going to go next week. On Saturday, olivier Melnick will be here. He'll be speaking at 3 o'clock here at Fellowship Bible Chapel. He's going to go through the elements Of the Passover Seder, since this is Passover week, and then he'll also give another short talk On Saturday, probably go from about 3 pm To 5.30 pm. Then Sunday morning, he's going to speak first hour, as I did today, and then second hour. He and I are going to stand or sit up here and have a conversation and talk about things that are going on in the world, and Olivier is very, very good on the issue of anti-Semitism, which is something that we see quite a bit. I also want to give you just a heads up. Please check our YouTube channel, our Rumble channel, which is RealFBC YouTube channel is Fellowship Bible Chapel. You can like, subscribe. I think there's a bell you're supposed to click on for notifications and we constantly get told by people that they get unsubscribed from our channel all the time. So go back, make sure you're subscribed, click on the bell and that sort of thing. So, at least for the time being, we've suspended comments, just because it's hard for us as a small group to manage the comments. Just because it's hard for us as a small group to manage the comments. So we're thinking and praying about what we're going to do with that in the future.
Speaker 1:I also did an interview this week with a man named Dumasani Washington. I would highly recommend that you go and listen to that interview. He is a very good thinker. We spoke on the issue of anti-Semitism. We spoke about concerns that we have among people that we thought would be allies with Israel in these times that are really turning against Israel, and what you're seeing is you're seeing a merger of people on the left, who hate Israel and are pro-Hamas with people on the right who are the same, and so Dumasani and I talked about that for about 30 minutes the other day. He's someone I would recommend that you find him on social media and follow him on Twitter. He has a habit of making very profound points. I think he's a very wise man. And the other thing that and I talked a little bit about this last Sunday is we're sort of seeing this merger happening in terms of political expediency, say, for example, on the issue of abortion.
Speaker 1:Now I'm pro-life. I don't think abortion should be allowed, and we can argue about whether life of mother is truly in danger, as to whether abortion would be appropriate at that time. I'm open to arguments on that very, very tiny, narrow issue. Otherwise, I think no, it's not good. It damages the culture, society. It creates a disdain for life. I think we see that playing out on our streets of our cities today in a big way.
Speaker 1:So what happened in Arizona? Just to recap, in Arizona they had enacted during the period of time that Roe v Wade was in place, it was very hard to get restrictions on abortion. So the pro-life community did the best they could. They had to compromise, so they said well, we'll have abortions banned after 15 weeks of pregnancy. That didn't even pass muster in some states, so sometimes they went back to 20 weeks or through the second trimester people could have abortions, and there was a big fight with the Planned Parenthood types and the pro-abortion crowd that they wanted unrestricted right access to abortion, even up to the point of birth. They would do these partial birth abortions, so statutes weren't enacted to allow that, including in Arizona, but then there was recent litigation, and the Arizona Supreme Court said well, I know what you did here, but there's this act from 1864, and since Roe v Wade has gone away, this 1864 act is now in place. So the 1864 act pretty much bans abortions, and immediately a lot of people on the right Kerry Lake, who's running for Senate, even President Trump and, I think, I'm pretty sure, charlie Kirk they said we need to compromise on this because we're going to lose the election if we don't, because the Democrats are making it an ultimate issue in the elections that are going on. So that's the status of that, and so what you're seeing, though, is you're seeing people on the right who we've always thought were pro-life are willing to compromise on it now that they have the chance to have abortion banned in one state because they think it will cost them the election and maybe it will. But maybe the Lord will bless and other things will happen. I mean, that's also possible if you take a right stand.
Speaker 1:Now there's a recent Barna survey, so I'm going to do a little bit about cultural things and some legal lawfare-type things and then I'm going to speak mostly about Israel and Iran, because that was a hot topic this week. But look at this, this is from a Barna research survey. He's from Arizona Christian University, george Barna, and he surveyed predominant worldviews in America and he's pretty good. He does pretty good surveys, has good sampling techniques, that sort of thing. But sometimes his findings are very troubling and I don't know off the top of my head what the name of the publication is, but you can find it out there Actually publication is. But you can find it out there Actually if you go to Midwest Christian Outreach. Don Vinoy wrote an article about it or a blog post about it this week, comparing it to Shakespeare and Lady Macbeth and the Macbeth play.
Speaker 1:But look at what Barnum found were the predominant worldviews in America 92%, he said, were syncretism. What's syncretism? It means you take a little bit from column A, a little bit from column B. Take this from that religion, that religion, mysticism, paganism, whatever, and kind of meld it into your worldview. That's not a biblical worldview. He does a pretty good job of breaking the biblical worldview down into some simple components. So he said in America 4% of the people have a biblical worldview, 92% are syncretism. And then you see the other ones at 1% Mormonism, nihilism, postmodernism and Secular Humanism. But most people sort of meld things together and one of those there was a book that I'm going to forget his name from North Carolina or Notre Dame wrote about. He concluded that a predominant worldview in the church was not really biblical Christianity but was a thing he called moralistic, therapeutic deism, which means you believe in God but you kind of meld a lot of psychology and as long as you're a good person you're okay. But that's not really a biblical worldview. The biblical worldview is that you believe that you're a sinner, you're saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, but that biblical worldview only is held by about 4%. Now this has a practical outgoing.
Speaker 1:This is a chart from the CAS report, c-a-s-s report in the UK. The CAS report came out it's kind of controversial and said essentially we've been failing children on the transgender issue by putting too many of them on puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and we don't even know the long-term results of those things. And I have to tell you, I've read some articles about what these surgeries are and I don't know how to say it is. If you've ever had surgery and things don't go right with surgery, one of the problems you can have is an open wound and it needs special care. The whole purpose of these surgeries in many cases is to leave people with an open wound that has to be cared for the rest of their lives as an open wound. The whole thing is just so cruel and inhuman. So here's what they found out Starting back in 2009, the NHS National Health Services in the UK were tracking people who were referred for transgender care and understand that the people who get referred for transgender care.
Speaker 1:A lot of estimates that I've seen is that a person who gets referred to go through this transition process is going to generate over a million dollars of medical bills in their lifetime At least a million dollars of medical bills in their lifetime At least a million dollars. So there's money involved Money for the drugs, money for the doctors, money for the surgeons, that type of thing. But do you see what you see here, with the increase in the number of people referred, there are like clusters of girls where everybody thinks they're transgender. Now what do you? What do you call that? You call it sort of a group hysteria. That happens. And look, I know there are people who wrestle with this and we should pray for them. God is gracious, god is good, god can heal people of these things. But the problem is that many people in the church are capitulating to the culture. They're not standing for what the Bible says, and that's a problem.
Speaker 1:One of the places that we see is the, the O'Biden administration. This week it's funny, I see more and more people referring it to as the O'Biden administration, so maybe I noticed other people doing it. I don't remember the first time I mentioned it called it O'Biden. It was a mistake, it was a slip of the tongue, but it kind of stuck and so I stand by it.
Speaker 1:But one of the things that the Biden administration is doing is they're changing Title IX, which was to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex. Well, they're turning the sex part into sex change. That's not what the statute intended. But just like with student loans, that the Supreme Court says Biden administration, you cannot forgive these student loans. So what does O'Biden do when he runs around the country campaigning we're going to forgive your student loans, and it's in the billions and billions and billions of dollars. They're just going to forgive the loans Even though Supreme Court says you can't do that. You have no legislative authority to do that and therefore you have no executive authority to do that. But that doesn't make any difference to these people. So Harmeet Dhillon, who's a good attorney on these areas, she was interviewed on a radio program the other day, sort of talking about the fundamental problem with what the Obama administration is trying to do on Title IX. Here's a clip of that. This is just audio, only. This is audio only. Let me back up. Can you get the audio?
Speaker 2:From title nine Title nine was a.
Speaker 1:Okay. I'm going to back it up and now start again. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2:What the Biden administration has done is eliminated the concept of biological sex from Title IX. Title IX was an important law designed to protect girls and their access to sports. It has been expanded over the years as a concept to allow them freedom from harassment and violence in educational institutions as well, and today that has been set upside down. So today a boy, under this rule, who says he's a girl or a woman, gets access to women's locker rooms, gets access to women's bathrooms, gets access to women's shower stalls, gets access to women's sports. And women, if they object like most normal women, will object across the political spectrum. They're the harassers, they're the ones violating the civil rights, they're the ones who will be put on trial. They're the ones who lose their freedom, their privacy, their dignity, their self-respect because a boy says he's a woman. So biological sex is thrown out of the window, and this is a very sad day for feminists and a very sad day for women's rights.
Speaker 1:And she's right. I mean, it's an unbelievable thing that we see happening, where it's what you see in Isaiah good becomes evil and evil becomes good. Everything gets turned upside down. This is something that I've mentioned a number of times about AI, and listen, I will acknowledge there are a lot of people who think AI is just a bunch of nonsense, it's not going to happen, and I think the big issue about AI is the growth of digital computer processing and lack of privacy control through the digitization of culture. I believe AI is accelerating that at an incredible rate. So I think it's a big deal.
Speaker 1:But here's this AI boom faces global electricity supply hurdles. These data centers there's a picture of one consume a tremendous amount of electricity, so much so that AI companies, as they're setting up data centers and processing centers, they're looking for places where there's extra capacity in the electric grid. You've seen in the UK, for example, you've seen a destruction of a large portion of the electrical grid. They've actually blown up coal-burning power plants, while China's building opening one or two a week on average, one or two new power plants a week because they see the need for more power and as their culture becomes more affluent, you do things that need electricity. So you want, you need more power. So how do you get more power? You get more power plants, but in the uk, for example, and then in europe and even here in the united states, everybody think it's going to come from wind and solar. Everybody thinks it's going to come from wind and solar, but you need a continuous baseload of electricity to protect the grid, and you can't do that through what they call renewables. It's absolute insanity, and so people think they're going to do this thing through net zeros. And so what you see is you see this incredible need for power as the world becomes more and more digital. As this article says, electricity consumed by data centers globally will more than double by 2026 to more than 1,000 terawatt hours, an amount roughly equivalent to Japan's annual consumption. That's two years it's going to double, and eventually I'll get back to some AI things, with Jason Wang, the founder of NVIDIA, who was speaking at a conference, telling about how these things have. The chip powers have increased, and so in a 10-year period, they're looking at chip power increasing by a thousand times over what it was, and that's before we even get the quantum computing, and when we get there, everything's going to radically change there, despite things like reason and sanity. This is an article from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1:Scientists resort to once unthinkable solutions to cool the planet. Now I saw a scientist speaking the other day and his view was that CO2 is actually a pretty good thing, that if you have more CO2, you'll have more plants. You have more plants, you have more vegetation. The plants will be able to help cool the planet, because CO2 is plant food. It's not a toxic substance, but these lunatics run around saying that it is. And so now you have people that had an article from the New York Times big article a week or two ago talking about how they're shooting things in the atmosphere to try to reflect sunlight to cool the planet.
Speaker 1:And people like Bill Gates are running around trying to do this. But at the same time, bill Gates is building not too far from here, like a 4,500 acre solar panel farm out in Madison County, just west of Columbus. And what's he going to do with all that? Microsoft is running around. They're trying to find more power. They're doing machine AI learning, analysis of regulatory documents so that they can cut the red tape, so they can build small nuclear power plants with their data centers and I'm not against nuclear power to go through and say how can we make the process more efficient and more time sensitive Instead of paying a bunch of lawyers to do that? And we don't like that. We don't like that at the Howler House, where the people are not paying lawyers a lot of money to do things. But this is by the way AI is coming. I get ads all the time for different types of AI products to help you do contracts and that sort of thing. So this is another interesting article.
Speaker 1:Massive US deficit poses significant risk to world economy, warns the International Monetary Fund. And so what did we do yesterday? We put in this big bill to give I don't know, was it $100 billion or close to $100 billion to Ukraine, israel and some other countries to help them out. Like we have all that extra money laying around and eventually this thing will, I guess, kind of collapse. So, excuse me, I'm not sure what happened there. Did you hear that? Anybody wake up yet? I'm not sure. Hang on a second here.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 1:The final thing is that the defense economic. And then somebody will say, gee, john, I don't understand why you have technology problems. Okay, well, I do 180 slides, nobody else does. Okay, so let's look at this. This is a I'll talk a little bit about this later because this is what's happening in Ukraine and in the Middle East right now. It's changing the face of warfare.
Speaker 1:We have development of drones, inexpensive drones that can only right now, be shot down with very expensive missiles and you'll see, michael Duran will talk about that in a little bit and one of the things in Ukraine that they've done is Russia has developed what they call glide bombs. So they take a conventional bomb but they outfit it with wings and guidance systems and that type of thing, and so what they can do is it used to be that when you dropped the bomb, the bomb would fall to earth by gravity. Now these bombs can be guided to very precise locations and they can be released by aircraft when the aircraft are 40, 50 miles away from the target. When the aircraft are 40, 50 miles away from the target, which puts them outside the range of air defense systems, so the plane can fly in, get within 50, 60 miles of the target release the glide bomb. The glide bomb can do its damage and you get a lot more damage from a glide bomb than you will from a drone. Drones have limited capacity, so this is changing the face of warfare and we'll see a little bit about how this will happen. In the Financial Times article where this is discussed, it says this glide bombs are so destructive that Ukrainian analysts with Deep State, a group close to the Defense Ministry, have called them a weapon for which Kyiv's forces have practically no countermeasures.
Speaker 1:Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Okhloba told the Financial Times that his country's soldiers are being massively, and I would say even routinely, attacked by guided aerial bombs that wipe out our positions. What's that mean? The soldiers get killed. The Russians have attacked Ukraine with around 3,500 such guided aerial bombs just this year, a 16-fold increase over 2023. In the third week of March alone, russia launched over 700 guided aerial bombs. President Zelensky said they're very simple in essence, so you cannot jam them, you cannot hide from them. The only way to protect yourself from them is to shoot down the bomber that carries the bomb. But they're out there, beyond the reach of your anti-aircraft systems, which causes a major problem the reach of your anti-aircraft systems, which causes a major problem. So this is how war is changing very, very quickly in this day and age.
Speaker 1:So let's talk a little bit about Israel and the situation between Israel and Iran. As I noted, this is the found this great graphic. I thought graphic, I thought that. So here's an article from I think this is from the Times of London Tehran threatens to rip up its nuclear playbook. Now, supposedly, the Ayatollah has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons, and if you think that that's actually being followed in Iran, I've got some beachfront property in the middle of the Iranian desert to sell you. It's not happening. It's happening very quickly. So this region is very, very volatile. This is the beginnings of a new graphic. I'm working on the Middle East chessboard, as we see. I'm just working on that.
Speaker 1:So last week, just before I spoke last week, iran had attacked Israel. They attacked with about 350 total drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Now this is an IDF graphic and I'm not sure that it's entirely accurate. It says 99% intercepted. But understand that about 30% of what they fired in terms of missiles didn't make it very far. They fell to ground and fell to earth and exploded within Iran, sort of like what happens sometimes at the local fireworks show on the Fourth of July not everything gets up there and explodes in a nice pretty way. It doesn't really go where you want it to go. And so Iran they didn't have a very good percentage, they had a much too high percentage. And so Iran they didn't have a very good percentage. They had a much too high percentage. I think most people would say of their stuff not working.
Speaker 1:But the stuff that got through the drones were all shot down. They were shot down by a combination of the. Israel, jordan, saudi Arabia and even the UK went and shot some of these down. They were 100 for however many. I think it was 180 drones. They shot down 180. And the drones are slow flying. It takes them, I don't know, six, seven, eight hours to get from where they're launched in Iran to get to Israel.
Speaker 1:And so understand they planned this attack. They wanted the drones to get there. The cruise missiles take a couple hours and the ballistic missiles take like 12 minutes, so they wanted everything to get there at the same time. So Israel had a lot of warning. Hey, the drones are on their way. If you were following this on social media and everything. You say, hey, the drones are coming, the drones are coming, when are they going to get there?
Speaker 1:And then there was a lot and it was. You know, I was talking to a friend as this was going on and it was. There were a lot of explosions in the sky because the missiles and drones were being shot down. Now the estimates I've seen today that 75% of them were shot down by Israel and then the other air forces or defense systems of Jordan, saudi Arabia, the US and the UK. They shot down the rest and, by the way, the UK has bases from the old British Empire days on Cyprus. They're like enclaves on Cyprus that are sovereign British territory and that's where their aircraft came from that were used to shoot these down.
Speaker 1:The drones were all shot down before they crossed the border into Israel. Some of them made it into Israel and fell. This is a picture of a guy standing next to a missile at the Dead Sea and there were a number of these that fell in Israel. So that's a big missile. As you can see, that's going to cause a lot of damage. There was one. The only person injured was a young Arab girl who's in critical condition. I heard fighting for her life as these missiles fell.
Speaker 1:So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to kind of go through some of the analysis of what this meant and Israel's response. Israel did respond the other day and just sort of the what does this mean? Because this was different. This is the first time in recent centuries that Persia, iran, had attacked Israel territory directly. Now they were not successful and it's interesting to watch the spin that's been put on this by all these different people and even within Israel. You know.
Speaker 1:Here's one from the Jerusalem Post IDF sets response to Iran, but not its timing. They had a bunch of meetings in Israel and the war cabinet said we're going to respond to this sometime. Just like when Israel took out the Iranian Revolutionary Guard people at that building in Damascus and I don't think it was an embassy, it wasn't a consulate, it was really sort of a military building where they're doing military planning. That's all they were doing there. They took that out and everybody knew Iran would respond in some way. People didn't know how Iran would respond. So that went from April 1st, when Israel took out that building. Iran never sent anything until April 13th, saturday evening the 13th. And so here in Haaretz, which is opposed to the government that's in place. Israel miscalculated once with Iran. Will do so again in its next move, so everybody's like got an opinion about how things are supposed to happen.
Speaker 1:At the same time, all this is going on while Israel's trying to decide to respond, hezbollah keeps firing rockets, mortars into northern Israel, and part of that is to continue to be a disruptive force within Israel. Know that 60,000 people roughly from northern Israel have evacuated their homes. Whole towns and villages are completely empty of people. Whole towns and villages are completely empty of people, and they did this because if they were there, there would be a lot more people being killed. And so I saw a video. I cannot remember where it was. I tried to find it again because I wanted to play a clip of it.
Speaker 1:A defense expert. She was interviewed and she said you know what? This is going to be a big problem if war cuts loose in the north. We could see 200 to 500 casualties, meaning dead people in the north every day in Israel. That's just in Israel. Know that in Lebanon, 120,000 people have evacuated southern Lebanon. Now I don't know how the estimates of potential casualties relates to the fact that they've already evacuated all of these people. But the interview I did with Avraham Levine of Alma Research, I asked him what happens if this war in the north breaks loose with Lebanon, hezbollah, and he said his estimate was no Israeli child will go to school for a year because it will be that disruptive.
Speaker 1:So right now everything seems to be pretty normal. I was talking to somebody in Jerusalem Friday people walking around, going to the restaurants, getting ready for Shabbat, getting ready for Passover, which I think is tomorrow. Life was pretty normal, but it can change very, very quickly. So here's an article in Haaretz which is talking about, for example, the Red Sea. There's this Iranian boat that's been down there hanging around for about three years. It's finally left. So that's sort of a good outcome from Israel's response to Iran. This boat which they believe kind of working down there for almost three years in different areas around Yemen and guiding missiles and rockets from the Houthis into Israel and other places. I think it's now disappeared from radar so nobody knows exactly where it's going to be.
Speaker 1:But here it says here in this article in Israel, hayom, according to a Bloomberg report, iran withdrew its spy ship from the Red Sea fearing it would be a target for an Israeli response. In the past it was reported that the ship was used by Iranians to direct Houthi attacks on vessels in the Bab al-Mandeb straits, there between the African continent and Yemen. So here's what happened. So Israel did respond. Friday, I think it was. They sent a missile towards Isfahan in Iran. It destroyed an air defense system.
Speaker 1:Now a lot of people are like well, I'm glad that's over, everything's solved. Israel took out these guys, iran responded, israel's responded and now it's over, right, everybody can sit back and relax, and I don't think that people are sitting back and relaxing. So here's a map. So Isfahan is in central Iran. It's probably, I'm gonna guess, 850 miles from Israel and it's sort of at the limits where the planes can get there. But they can't get back. They have to be refueling. So the refuelers in the air and a lot of people. They're just not sure how Israel actually pulled off this particular response.
Speaker 1:On Isfahan, where this nuclear facility is located for Iran, and here's an aerial view of it. There's an air base there and there's some indications that there was a missile system that was in one of these areas and it was taken out and destroyed. Remember, isfahan is where Israel destroyed some things a while back. This is a big deal for Iran. Iran has these posters. These are like on the side of buildings in Tehran. You know, this is how we're responding to Israel.
Speaker 1:Here's another one. Here's a lady walking by one and you see, this is Israel. Iran is firing its missiles. There was also another picture of a guy walking by the same sign and it said Israel is weaker than a spider web, was the thing that was talking. So everybody, every analyst in the world, is talking about. Okay, what does this mean? I think that the general consensus of all the intelligence reports and analysis analyses that I've read is that they think things have changed. Nothing will be the same and we're entering a whole different era. Where it's going to be, I don't know if it's a chess game, a 3D chess game or a poker match. You know it's like who's going to play the next card. So right now, it seems that it's in Iran's baton, if you will. Has been passed to Iran to respond or not. So the attack took out, it's believed, a Soviet-made, a Russian-made, s-300 air defense system that protected the air base there by the nuclear facility in Isfahan in.
Speaker 1:Iran. That is significant. I think the point of it was Israel didn't want to escalate the matter, but they felt they had to respond. So they responded. They took out this air defense system, which is an air defense system, which should be something that's used to defend against an attack from the air, but it didn't work. And so there's this belief that what Israel did was they used a glide bomb to respond. Now, so there's this back and forth.
Speaker 1:So here's a Bloomberg report that the entire IRGC command wing in Syria was eliminated in the strike on April 1st. That's a very big deal. Why all those people together in one place when they know that Israel attacks? So now some in Iran are saying well, it must be the Assad regime that told people that this was happening. And you wonder why haven't they taken out Nasrallah? Now, I think they probably had opportunities to take out Nasrallah in Lebanon, but they've decided that he's pretty predictable. He makes these fiery speeches every so often, gets a bunch of people and the belief is we could manage the problem. But they also thought they could manage the problem down along with Gaza and Hamas, and that did not work out. So one of the guys who took out was a guy named Zahidi. And what do you notice about Zahidi? This is the guy.
Speaker 1:So when people talk about Israel attacking Iran, there's a belief among some people I think it's a fantasy that if we attack Iran and do it hard enough, the regime will fall and we'll get a much better regime. But I don't think that's going to happen. I think that's a pipe. It's not a fantasy, it's a pipe dream because the IRGC is likely to take control. Because the way Iranian society is structured is, they sort of give a portfolio. It's like the mafia they give this, they give Brooklyn to this family and Staten Island to this family and then they fight over who's going to get the drug aspect. So the IRGC controls multi tens of billions of dollars of a fortune to fund its operations and they're committed to what they're doing. They're not doing it for the money. Khamenei has estimated the Ayatoll to control a fortune of about $100 billion, which would make him one of the richest people on the planet. But my understanding is he lives very modestly because he's committed to his radical Islamic ideas and that is focused on destroying Israel, same with the IRGC.
Speaker 1:So what do you notice about Zahidi? That is, I think, kind of predominant when you look at him as to what his ideology is, and then you say how can you figure that out? But look at his forehead. He's got the prayer bump on his forehead, which means he's a very devout, radical Muslim. And you'll see this among people, I think, haniyeh, the head of the political head of Hamas, he has it. Senwar has it. Soleimani had it before he was killed back in the day. So that's one of the things you look at is like who are the guys in charge? Who may come to power if these guys are gone? And they're all very radical Muslims who are committed to this religiously and ideologically.
Speaker 1:I thought this was a good picture of Khomeini, sort of the head of the snake, and I just I don't know where this was. It was. I found it in a newspaper someplace, so I ran. This is the Tehran Times from I think it's today, either today or yesterday, maybe it's I don't know sometime in the recent few days, and it says Arabs and Israel after April 14th, and so the way that? Well, april 14th was when Iran attacked Israel, and so they're spinning everything. It's all propaganda and you have to kind of spin through. So this is a front page iron lies. So the iron dome didn't work that well. It didn't fire things. It's not that great. Okay, that's what you think.
Speaker 1:So here's a tweet from Quantum Flux. It's a thing I started looking at. So New York Times this morning Israel strike, damage Iran's aerial defenses, but Israel's not talking about it. Iran's not talking about it. So you've kind of got to piece everything together. So there's some speculation. So this guy, jonathan Schanzer, who's a defense analyst this was his opinion as to what who's a defense analyst? This was his opinion as to what actually happened.
Speaker 1:So here is two Western officials and I think he's one of the ones that's referred to in the New York Times article, without being named said that a missile was fired from a warplane far from Israeli or Iranian airspace and that the weapon included technology that enabled it to evade Iran's radar defenses. I think this is true. Now, was it a glide bomb or not? Was it something that was unknown? And, believe me, I've seen like five different opinions just in the last two hours as to what it was.
Speaker 1:The two Iranian officials said that the military had not detected anything entering the country's airspace on Friday, including drones, missiles or aircraft. So when the initial reports came out from Iran. They were saying oh, this is a bunch of small drones. They were launched from within Israel, which means we have enemies living in our country that we have to go out and root out. Now they're saying well, we didn't really detect anything and we're really not sure where this came from, which is actually a pretty good thing for Israel. If this is exactly what happened, because it's got to make the Iranians think, are they going to do this again and will we be able to detect this happening again? So here's Jonathan Schnatzer on a little webinar that he did talking about. He thinks it's a glide bomb. Here's what he has to say.
Speaker 5:So now people start to ask what is going on. I've spent the last 12 hours or so, or longer, trying to figure out exactly what transpired, and what we can say is this that the Israelis deployed a new weapon, something that has not been seen in the Middle East up until now. It is likely something that is described as a glide bomb, but with a much longer distance. I think most glide bombs are believed to only have a 40-mile trajectory. This went apparently much further, fired somewhere either in Syria or Iraq, completely off the radar of the Iranians, and really what was hit in Iran was really the most important component of this. They took out radar, apparently on an air base that is in charge of defending against some of Iran's most sensitive nuclear facilities, and so the Israelis. Essentially, the message was we are able to hit you. You are not able to defend against us, and look at what we can hit if we wish to do so.
Speaker 5:And I think the big takeaway here was that the Israelis bared their teeth at the Iranians, showed them that you know they were basically bringing knives to a gunfight, that the Israelis have technology and abilities that the Iranians didn't know and that they don't want to mess with and I think that was the message delivered the deterrence established and now we wait and see whether the Iranians have the will to try to do this again.
Speaker 5:So the Israelis, I think, at this point have to be asking themselves okay, if we can prevent attacks from taking place, prevent the damage and we've got the pinpoint accuracy to be able to take out top generals, and we've got the pinpoint accuracy to take out air defenses, radar Russian-made equipment, by the way, which I'm sure the Russians can't be too pleased about. But then the question becomes what's the Israeli strategy? Is the strategy to just keep playing defense and fending off these attacks, or is Israel going to go on the offense, which I think at this point it's glaringly apparent that the Israelis need some kind of strategy that really forces the Iranians to halt this and to begin to call back their proxies, because this is unsustainable.
Speaker 1:And I think he's right. And so the question is what's going to happen? And so I think in the days, weeks and months ahead, you're going to see this back and forth, but it's always on the verge of erupting into a very wide war, including a world war. So you know people that I trust they were saying this is it, this is World War III, this is happening, but now everything seems to have calmed down a little bit. Everybody's kind of taking a breath, but nobody knows what the next response is going to be. So there's a lot of analysts. I'm just going to refer you to a couple of articles. This is Jonathan Spire writing in Friday's Jerusalem Post, and he says Iranian regional strategy moves forward while the West sleeps, and I think Jonathan is exactly right. He's one of the best military defense analysts on the planet, particularly on the Middle East. I think he's without peer in my opinion, and he concluded his article with this it's possible that the befuddled West may yet act to permit this. Like what permit Tehran to do these attacks every so often?
Speaker 1:The exhortations from various leaders following the April 13th attacks that Israel now seek to de-escalate would suggest that many in the West want to give the Iranians precisely what they see. In other words, they sort of have the upper hand. We'll do this, we'll do this big show and Israel will make this little, tiny, weak response and everything will go on. And while all this is going on, we have our proxies doing these low-level warfare attacks, mortars and that type of thing, from Lebanon into northern Israel. We've got 60,000 people evacuated. It's disrupting the economy. Israel's bond ratings are going down, so we're getting a lot of bang for our buck from mortars and drones that really aren't that sophisticated and they're cheap In Israel. When they responded on last Saturday evening, sunday morning, it cost them estimated about $1.5 billion of missiles, air defense missiles, iron Dome and that sort of thing and aircraft. You know, having the fuel for having your aircraft up in the air for seven or eight hours, refueling them, radar systems that was a big deal. By the way, it's also possible that the air defense system in Iran that was attacked and destroyed was jammed by Israel. They have this plane or planes that can go up and they can jam everything. They can make the radar systems completely blind.
Speaker 1:If you remember back, I think it was 2007,. I think it was 2007, so this is 17 years ago they had a plane that was manufactured at Grumman and Long Beach and they had equipped it with radar, and there was a nuclear reactor that was being built by Syria up along the Euphrates River later, in an area controlled by ISIS. So Israel decided we need to take that out. It was based on a North Korean design. It was very clear. There's videos online, that sort of reenact what happened.
Speaker 1:And Israel took a couple, a few planes I think two planes. They flew up the coast, the Mediterranean coast, along Syria. They turned into Turkey, at some point, dropped. They had extra fuel tanks on so they could get all the way there and back and they dropped their bombs and destroyed this nuclear reactor and they made it all the way up there, all the way back, and never had a shot fired at them by any of these air defense systems in all these different countries. How did they do that? Well, most people think that it was. This plane is designed to jam things, and so the technology is developing even more so. In fact, there's an article about the US has developed a technology I think it was in the Daily Mail According to a defense analyst, that the US has developed a technology where they have these bombs that will send out microwaves that can take out the ability for a nuclear facility to function, almost like a special EMP attack. So they could go, they could drop and nobody gets killed and the nuclear plant is shut down for a while so they can get things back online and it's just microwaves. I don't know if it exists or not, I'm just telling you this is what a defense analyst was saying in the Daily Mail today. So Spires right, you should follow him.
Speaker 1:Usually writes in the Jerusalem Post on Friday, also writes at the Middle East Forum. Here's another one. This is from Yoni. You hear me, bob from the Jerusalem Post, was strike on Isfahan the right move and everybody's saying this is the right thing to do. Did we do the right thing? Should we have done something else? David Weinberg, who is a pretty good defense analyst, geopolitical analyst, also a lawyer, and we love those here at Fellowship Bible Chapel, he wrote this article in the Jerusalem Post Watershed Moments for Israel. October 7th and April 14th, demanded Israel that Jerusalem free itself from state strategic paradigms. In other words, things have changed and we cannot do what we've always done. We have to change the way we're doing things.
Speaker 1:So he's talking about the attack that Iran launched on Israel. They didn't get anything out of it. There were some holes made around an air base. There was a young girl, unfortunately, who was critically injured, hit by a piece of a falling missile. None of them really got anywhere and exploded. Well, maybe a couple got into that base and exploded. And so Iran says, look, we had a major victory. Well, they didn't have a major victory. They had a couple get through and you lost 99% out of 99%. That's pretty good, but is it? And I think that these analysts are saying, maybe it's not as good as we think, because what if you're not? You're 99% this time, but what if you're only 80% the next time? A lot of people are dead, a lot of facilities are destroyed. So look at what he says. These are just some quotes from his article, david Weinberg, in the Jerusalem Post on Friday.
Speaker 1:The fact that the attack failed, with 50% of the missiles failing to launch or crashing before reaching their target and 49%, more impressively, being intercepted by Israel and its allies, is irrelevant from a strategic perspective. It's kind of interesting. You would think, hey, 99%. He says this. The screeching strategic reality is that Iran has catapulted its 40-year long war against Israel, a war that has been underway via proxies ever since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, to a new stratospheric plateau, literally so, with ballistic missiles flying from Iranian soil through space to Israel, and they get there in minutes. Remember that cover of the Tehran Times that I showed you last year when they were announcing this new missile? They said 400 seconds to Jerusalem from Iran. By the way, if you divide 400 by 60, comes out to 6.66 minutes. But I'm sure that's just an accident.
Speaker 1:That is why President Biden this is David Weinberg reported advice to Israel to take the win, as it were, to suck up its indignation. To rely on Western sanctions against Iran alone as a smart retaliation and to engage in, avoid and to avoid escalation is outrageous and dangerous nonsense. Nonsense. Biden has now added to the potential further collapse of any deterrence against Iran, declaring that he seeks no confrontation with Iran and will not participate in any Israeli retaliatory strike at Iran. This is strategic insanity of grandiose proportions. Exclamation point and he's right, it's insanity. And these pro-Iranian people in our government are pushing this. So he says this one can be certain that Tehran can and will build more successful strike packages in the future, designed to overwhelm Israel's defenses. It will try again and again, just as Hamas has launched repeated rocket wars against Israel over the past 20 years, each time with a larger number or longer range and more accurate rockets.
Speaker 1:Imagine if only one of the eight ballistic missiles out of 120 that managed to penetrate Israeli defenses last Saturday night had fallen not in and around a well-protected air base in the Beren Negev, but had fallen on a high-rise building in Tel Aviv. What if that one ballistic missile had hit the nuclear reactor in Dimona, which is near that air base? What if that one ballistic missile had been nuclear-tipped? What if Israel had no advance notice of another such Iranian attack? And it did this. Everybody was telegraphing it. By the way, there's some evidence that they told Turkey it was coming. Turkey told the United States and the word is that the Obama administration said okay, well, you know, go ahead. You know, just let us know when you're sending everything. That's our government. This is the lunatics, the pro-Iranian lunatics in charge of the our government. This is the lunatics, the pro-Radian lunatics in charge of the federal government. So he says Weinberg, remember that every single warplane in the Israeli arsenal was in the air for eight straight hours this past Saturday night, along with warplanes and flying intelligence platforms from four Western air forces and, reportedly, several allied Arab air forces. By the way, saudi Arabia shot down a couple of these. All reserve components of Israel air defense array Iron Dome, david's Sling, arrow 2 and Arrow 3 and the like.
Speaker 1:This is certainly not something that will necessarily be in place every time Iran decides to take a direct, unannounced poke at Israel in the future. Deterrence is a tricky task, a defense and diplomatic act that is hard to achieve. It is a construct that requires constant maintenance or else it dissipates. Psychologically. Deterrence is measured by subsequent behavior, meaning that the Iranian attack will be considered successful if it dissuades Israel from future attacks against Iranian leaders and assets. Very perceptive article. In general, I sense that Israel's strategic goals have become too limited in recent decades, hamstrung by the failed Oslo peace process with Palestinians and the failed Obama peace process with Iranians.
Speaker 1:And he's right. And so what's coming out of Washington? Negotiate a two-state solution with the people that are trying to kill you. Give them a state. Give them a state so they can build a standing army. It's crazy. It's just insane. As a result, at this very moment, israel is being pressed by its fainthearted friends to abandon its goal of liquidating Hamas to instead prioritize humanitarian provisions for the enemy population, to downgrade its rage over the invasion, murder, abuse and humiliation of its citizens. By the way, do you know that it's pretty certain now that the 134 hostages or so that Hamas is holding, that maybe only 20 of them are alive? And Hamas doesn't care? They still have 20 and they still have protests going on in Israel about it, and it could bring down the government.
Speaker 1:So let's see the last paragraph here the Biden administration's current campaign to delay, dissuade or eventually preclude further military conquest in Gaza and to delay, dissuade and eventually preclude further confrontation with Iran, accompanied by persistent threats to deny Israel diplomatic backing and weapons if Jerusalem does not heed Washington's warnings or formulas for grand defeat. As such, they must be resisted". He writes like a warrior. I like that, you know, kind of a long, complex sentence. Gotta love that. Seth Bransman, you can read his article Region of the Crossroads.
Speaker 1:With the Iran Attack Also, this editorial from the Wall Street Journal, iran's threat emerges into daylight. It's a big problem. Richard Kemp wrote in the Daily Mail the other day before Israel had responded to the Iran attack. He says this is Iran's fatal weakness. But it's also showing fatal weaknesses on the part of Israel that need to be addressed so well. I'll conclude with something here in just a minute, but this is from the Jordanian Al-Gad newspaper. This sort of shows the relative strengths of Israel military air force, bombs, missiles versus Iran Kind of sobering, I mean, for example, you see, but you don't know how much of the Iranian stuff works.
Speaker 1:That's the problem. It might be junk, but you know, 587,000 estimated in a standing army versus 169,000. But Israel can bring in a lot of reserves. Israel probably has the superiority in aircraft. They have a bunch of F-35s, f-16s, f-14s, and the Iranian stuff is really getting pretty old. There's some submarines, there's also missiles, and Iran has the upper hand there. So it's not a slam dunk by any stretch of the imagination. Wall Street Journal yesterday Iran's nuclear calculus has now become more dangerous because Iran's probably trying to get to where they have a nuclear weapon if they don't have it already. To where they have a nuclear weapon. If they don't have it already, it's a big problem.
Speaker 1:Now I'm going to look at just a couple more things. I've got a clip of Michael D'Ariana. It's about four minutes long, and then maybe I'll tie this up with a scripture reference that I thought somebody brought up, a Jewish rabbi brought up. That I thought was pretty thoughtful, using scripture. Who would have imagined, right, it happened? So Iran is trying to do this to break out.
Speaker 1:But one of the things and this is an article from the media line that was published in the Jerusalem Post Friday from Russia with Influence historic Iran-Israel confrontation reveals deepening Russian-Iranian ties, and so that's where we kind of get into this Ezekiel 38-39 thing Russia's involved. How involved, we don't know. They put a couple police posts in the Golan that they didn't have until recently, but they don't have a huge military presence. So here's one of the analysts that Media Line interviewed and he said this Russia is now asking both sides to exercise restraint as if it has always been a peace-loving nation, he said sarcastically. Another one said it is a standard hypocritical position that has not changed since the times of the USR and the Cold War.
Speaker 1:If you go and watch the interview I did with Dumasani Washington, he reiterated what we've tried to convey here is that the whole Palestinian thing was created by the Soviet Union back in the 60s. That's when they became known as the Palestinians. That was a Russian KGB operation to change the way people think and, by the way, has it been successful? 60 years later, does it look like a lot of the world said, hey, give them a state, there's no problem? So it says. You know this may be to get people Russians being involved more. They seem to be exercising influence.
Speaker 1:The Institute for the Study of War has a paper out why you Can't Be an Iran Hawk and a Russian Dove, and I think it's a pretty good analysis, you know. So look at some of the points they make here and look, we can argue about whether the Institute for the Study of War is a deep state operation or anything like that, but I think their analysis here is pretty good. A Russian victory is an Iranian victory. In Ukraine, moscow and Tehran have formed a military bloc with the aim of defeating the United States and its allies in the Middle East, europe and around the world. I think that's 100% true.
Speaker 1:The Russo-Iranian Military Coalition was formed in 2015 when Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Force Commander Major General Qasem Soleimani, who has assumed a very high temperature on his way out, went to Moscow to seek help in keeping Bashar al-Assad in power in Syria. Why did Iran want to do that? They wanted Russia to come to seek help in keeping Bashar al-Assad in power in Syria. Why did Iran want to do that? They wanted Russia to come in and help them because they wanted to use Syria as a base for their proxies to cause trouble for Israel.
Speaker 1:Iranian military cooperation has expanded dramatically since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and you can see the people. They have these meanings. I mean, here's a Wall Street Journal article that talks about Russia weapons help Iran harden defenses against Israeli airstrike and Russia's getting drones to use in the war in Ukraine from Iran. So it's kind of a thing. So it says here Russian-Iranian military collaboration very likely shaped the design of Iran's failed April 13, 2024 drone missile strike on Israel.
Speaker 1:Since the combination of drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, iran used mirrored packages that the Russians have developed to penetrate US and NATO-provided missile defenses in Ukraine. I think it's a very important thing. The Russians have, moreover, demonstrated in Ukraine that repeated attempts to find vulnerabilities in missile defense systems can ultimately succeed, and it's shown that they are willing to share their insights with Iran. So this is the issue it worked this time, but will it work the next time, and what are they going to do? Here is Michael Duran. You might want to turn the sound on in this, because I think the sound is a little bit Michael Duran and Gaddy Taub talking about the Iran strike and what does it really mean and what are some things we need to be careful of. And I think Michael Duran, who was with the Hudson Institute, has this to say the final thing is that the defense economics are really lopsided.
Speaker 4:So the Israelis spent on Saturday night $1.5 billion. So the Israelis spent on Saturday night $1.5 billion. The Iranians can launch missiles, drones and ballistic missiles at this tempo for weeks. They have a huge stockpile of these things. They can continue to supply the Russians for their activities in Ukraine and they can launch these at the Israelis for a very long time, and so the Israelis will have to spend $1.5 billion a night. It's not long before that turns out to be real money, and it's not long before the Israelis will be out of interceptors because they don't have the defense industrial base to keep up with it.
Speaker 4:Because this is what we've been talking about Gotti. This is an offense-dominant military regime. It's a regime that favors a balance of power, that favors offensive action by the Iranians. You cannot listen to me. This is defense science. You cannot counter an offense-dominant regime with purely defensive measures, which is what the Americans are arguing. You can do. You cannot counter an offense-dominant regime with purely defensive measures, which is what the Americans are arguing. You can do, you can't do it. It's basic science.
Speaker 6:So the other thing is. But since this is so crucial and I've heard it from you, mike since this is so crucial, a few sentences. Explain this phrase to those who haven't heard you in it yet.
Speaker 4:So, gadi, you have a Kevlar vest and I have a pistol. Your Kevlar vest costs $200. I shoot my six rounds into your Kevlar vest. Your Kevlar vest stops five of them. One of them gets through. Your Kevlar vest operated above the spec. It did better than it was supposed to by stopping all five bullets. It's a fantastic Kevlar Vest. The problem is you're dead because one of my bullets got through.
Speaker 4:If the Iranians don't telegraph their punches, throw everything they've got at the Israelis and keep throwing everything they've got at the Israelis, some of these ballistic missiles are going to get through sooner or later and there's going to be a lot of damage. That's it. That's number one. But number two your Kevlar vest costs $2,000. Each one of my bullets cost $2. So it costs me $12 to shoot and I ruin your $2,000 Kevlar vest. The defense economics don't work and sooner or later you're going to be hurt by what I'm doing. We had a great night on Saturday night. The Iranians are shooting.
Speaker 4:The Russians are shooting Iranian drones in Ukraine. The first time, the the first time, the the first. When the Russians first began shooting Shahids at the Ukrainians, the Ukrainians had a 90 percent or 95 percent interception rate. Today they have an 80 percent interception rate Because the Russians and the Iranians, with each one of these attempts, is gathering intel, as you said, and they're getting better and better.
Speaker 4:Here's something else to consider. Today, missile defense assets are not unlimited. They're very limited, and so Ukraine has to decide where to deploy its missile defense assets, and it has moved them to protect its major population centers, like the capital, kiev, and, as a result, they don't have enough to cover the troops on the front line. So the troops are exposed because they're using their missile defense to protect the population, and the next time, you know, the Iranians might decide to attack Americans and Israel at the same time. Does the US have enough missile defense assets to protect all its bases in the Middle East? I don't think so. I don't think so at all. So, if everything is concentrated on Israel, what's left open? The Iranians are studying this. They're studying all of it. There's got to be another round, because they took no punishment for what they did here. This great humiliation of having all of their missiles and drones shot down gave them a lot of information, so that next time that won't be the case.
Speaker 6:So you don't see them, uh, saying this is enough. You don't see them thinking that we've we've made the point, we've changed the rules and now we don't need to go, and when?
Speaker 4:when has that ever been true of the iranians? When have they ever said okay, we made our point, we're going to go home and have peace now?
Speaker 6:when, no, no, not have peace, but just wait for the other side to make a mistake, because what is true of the Iranians is that they are far, far more sophisticated than any of the other players in the scene.
Speaker 4:They're the most sophisticated in these matters. They are the most sophisticated players in the world, maybe, but certainly in the Middle East. They're more sophisticated than we are. They're more sophisticated than the Israelis. Even the Israelis used to be a lot smarter about these things.
Speaker 6:Yeah, when you said, even it just was in Hebrew we say it pricked me because we're no longer sophisticated.
Speaker 3:I don't know I don't know if you know but, but, but.
Speaker 6:Akiva bigman, on the mida website, exposed a document by hercia levy about how great our protection from gaza against gaza is, and you read it. It's a, it's a boy scout document with, with with no substance and no sophistication.
Speaker 1:And he's right. So let me just talk a little bit about what is Iran doing? Iran's operating on many levels. Michael Duran is exactly right. Iran is very sophisticated in these things. They've been at it for a long time and it's hard. What's the saying in the Bible? His heart is turned continually to evil. This is the Iranian regime. They think about this stuff all the time.
Speaker 1:So here is a tweet. This is from an Iranian guy, Vahid Beheshti. Now I would recommend go to JNS YouTube channel. Watch the 45-minute interview that Caroline Glick did with him Thursday or Friday. It's excellent. It gives you a lot of information. And why is he important. Here's what his tweet the other day said the elite top secret letter of the intelligence organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Well, what did this document say? April 15th, the launching of an economic blockade across four continents in solidarity with the Palestinians. And so it talked about. You know he released this letter. You can see the this is the English translation of it. It's in Farsi and what you saw? Remember the blockades that happened at the Golden Gate Bridge and other places? This was probably an Iranian-inspired or directed operation, and we have people in our country who went along with it and these protests are crazy.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to play you a couple clips of protests. One is a cop confronting a Jewish man at a protest in London. Look at this, this is just insane. Guy goes down to the Hamas protest. It's clear that he's Jewish, so people are telling him he needs to be killed. And so here's the cop response You're quite openly Jewish. This is a pro-Palestinian march. I'm not accusing you of anything, but I'm worried about the reaction. You will be escorted out of this area so you can go about your business, go where you want, freely, or, if you choose to remain here because you are causing a breach of the peace with all these other people, you will be arrested. So they're going to beat you up. But we're gonna arrest you because you're provocative. Columbia University is having these massive protests in New York City and, by the way, I think I edited any bad words out of this. But here's somebody in New York City protesting. Listen to what they say.
Speaker 3:this one might be kind of loud remember the 7th of october, never forget the 7th of october. So we're going to do what hamas did, not 10 times, not a hundred times, a thousand more times.
Speaker 1:So we're going to do what Hamas did not ten times, not a hundred times, but a thousand times or ten thousand times. To you? It's crazy. Here's a tweet from Open Source's Intel Al-Qassam. This is what they're saying in New York at Columbia University. You know the great, prestigious Ivy League. You make us proud. Take another soldier out. We say justice. You say how? Burn Tel Aviv to the ground. Hamas, we love you, we support your rockets too. This tweet says if Americans don't properly quell these absurd Hamas rallies at Columbia University, we can safely assume they'll take it as a proof of concept and we'll witness every woke university across the US US being shut down due to these protests. Columbia shut down. It's crazy.
Speaker 1:This is a picture of a in Pomona, new York, a Chabad, senegal that was set on fire in the early hours of Wednesday. Now I'm not sure that that's true. Gaddy Taub, who was in the interview with Michael Duran, says this the Hamas-Iranian doctrine of victory over Zionists rests on the idea of multi-arena exhaustion and on the assumption that Israeli society will not withstand it, and so he did an interview with this guy. I don't know if there's an English translation that's up, but this is what they're doing. This is the multi-level warfare that they're engaged in. So what happens if the war breaks out in the north? Interview analysis I saw was 200 to 500 dead Israelis every day. For weeks the north shut down even more than it is right now. People's lives totally disrupted, even more than it is right now. People's lives totally disrupted Because you saw what happened when they launched 300 drones, missiles, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Hamas has estimated they can fire 5,000 rockets a day and they have 200,000 in their arsenal. What's going to happen if that happens? I'm just telling you. I think a lot of this has very significant prophetic. It's very significant prophetically.
Speaker 1:This came out of Washington. Us reportedly intends to sanction an IDF unit. It's made up of what Orthodox Jewish people Settlers and they're bad and look. All these military units will have problems from time to time. This was dealt with, but now our government has said to Israel at least this is the indication they're going to sanction this IDF unit. Cut off their funding, cut off any funds that would come from the United States to help them defend things. This was reported by Richard Goldberg and JNS and a number of other organizations. And then this part of Richard Goldberg's tweet a report today suggests that Secretary Blinken is preparing to cross the Rubicon of political warfare against Israel in a way that not only delegitimizes a close democratic ally in wartime but also puts American service members at grave risk right now, before the supplemental has passed the Senate, and get a firm commitment that such a morally bankrupt and irresponsible action will not occur. Based on the leaks for months, we are well aware of this virulent anti-Israel sentiment inside the State Department, including clearly paid Iranian operatives operating in the Defense Department and defense establishment in our government. It's absolutely insane.
Speaker 1:This is an article in Israel Hayom Fire and maneuver. Gaza needs to be shaken again. Big article in the New York Times opinion this week is about how does this? You know this is Biden's problem now and then an editorial in the Jerusalem Post, an op-ed the day after Hamas conflict finishes looking dark for Israel and Gaza. Look at how this concludes. It says here.
Speaker 1:One analyst said this. I think Israelis are looking at a future that is dark, not grinding on a daily basis, but just dark. It will leave a lot of people pessimistic about the society's long-term future. It's psychological warfare. That's what we need to understand. So I mean, what do we do? I mean, do we just let it go, or is there some kind of way that people can respond.
Speaker 1:By the way, while this is going on in Turkey, the Turkish parliament speech by Erdogan. It was either the Turkish parliament or Erdogan's party shouting death to Israel. Everybody said, oh, you know, turkey's not as Islamic as they used to be. And who was Erdogan meeting with yesterday in Istanbul? Hania, ismail Hania, the political leader of Hamas. And here it is on the front pages of the Turkish newspapers, the front pages of the Turkish newspapers. Oh, by the way, it's interesting when they talk about this, both in Iran and Farsi and in Turkish, when they talk about the Palestinians. Look at how it's spelled Philistinians, philistines. That's interesting.
Speaker 1:Remember, I've showed you these pictures of this is from 2017, how Turkey this is one of Erdogan's mouthpiece newspapers, yenisefek put up this graphic, this map. There it is and I'm telling you, aside from including Saudi Arabia and everything, that looks like Ezekiel 38, 39. Right, as I was saying, as all the Bible prophecy guys, we all run around with our little maps and everything. Just go to Turkey and get the one, what they think. And Hania, he had three sons and three grandsons. Just go to Turkey and get the one, what they think. And Hania, he had three sons and three grandsons killed in an attack in Gaza this week, and his reaction was may God smooth their way or make their way smooth.
Speaker 1:Regarding the resistance of the Palestinian people, this is a Turkish news outlet Hania said that if the Zionist enemy enters into Rafah, palestinian people will not raise the white flag. The resistance fighters in Rafah are ready to defend themselves and resist attacks, and it's going to be a problem. At the UN this week, there was a vote to create a Palestinian state that was vetoed by the United States, and look at what happened when the Israeli ambassador was said that he's going to speak. Watch what happens. That's the Russians leaving. They're making a statement.
Speaker 1:They won't even sit in the room to listen to what the Israelis have to say. Thank you, madam President.
Speaker 6:Madam President with this.
Speaker 1:This is a good article at JNS. Caution Samson is Israel. I'm just going to pass this along because they're taking biblical principles and they're applying them. It says it's the biblical story of Samson in Judges 6, 13 to 16. And you can go look it up. And, by the way, where was Samson when all of this was taking place In Judges 16,? Where is he when he encounters this Delilah? He's in Gaza. And so the point that this makes the biblical story of Samson can help us understand Israel's current situation in world politics. As a redoubtable contemporary biblical scholar, edward Greenstein, said many years ago Samson is Israel. This is particularly apt today.
Speaker 1:The story is subtle and ironic, both in the choices made by its hero, samson, and the various interpretations open to the reader. Samson reaches out to the surrounding peoples even though their worldview is at odds with his own. The final act of the story centers on his relationship with Delilah. He loves her and she uses him. Samson feels secure in her arms, even though he knows that her commitment is unreliable. And he said this is what's going on. You're Israel, you're being seduced by these Delilahs in the world that are giving you arms and weapons and money and that type of thing and you need to resist that. They say this your enemy is willing to pull its punches so your beloved can dissuade you from confronting a nation dedicated to your destruction. Leave Hamas in place. Don't hit Hezbollah. Don't provoke regime change in Iran. Don't impede Iran's development of nuclear weapons. Just relax and tell me the secret of your formidable power. Just relax and tell me the secret of your formidable power. Delilah delivered Samson into the hands of his enemy, shorn of his power, blinded and left with only his nuclear option. And when you look at, when you analyze it, it's called the Samson option.
Speaker 1:I was talking to somebody in Jerusalem the other day and I said before I had even seen this. I said it seems like Israel's being backed into a corner and so people need to pray for their protection, that the God of Israel will protect Israel, however that happens. But they also need to prepare on a human level, on a military level, on an intelligence level, on a strategic level. So it's going to be very interesting to watch what happens in the days, weeks and months ahead, and I am out of time and I appreciate you listening and listening.
Speaker 1:We know how this all works out, but that doesn't mean it's a pretty bumpy ride until we get there. Okay, it's like it's the interstate in Indiana. Have you noticed? It's really bumpy on the interstate in Indiana. As a general rule, you get to Ohio and Ohio is like this is like the greatest road ever. It's the same interstate number but it changes when you get to Indiana and everybody notices it and we used to live in Indiana so. But it's going to be a bumpy road, it's going to be Indiana for a while, but God's in control.
Speaker 1:We know how this works out. But as people of God, we need to pray. We need to pray for the redemption of Israel, the protection and redemption of Israel, because they go hand in hand. So let's pray. Lord, thank you so much for your word, thank you for the blessing of allowing us to live at this time and, lord, we just pray that you will give us opportunities to share the gospel with those around us at this critical time, that this is the most important thing that we can do. Help us use the admonitions and things that we find in Bible prophecy to open people's eyes to the ways of the Lord and to prepare them mentally, physically and spiritually for the coming King Jesus. Pray that you'll bless us this week in Jesus' name, amen.